Speaker 1: I love it because there are no rules. You know.
Speaker 1: It's low necklines, yeah, high notes and trem ankles, and
Speaker 1: we're all going for it all three of the same times.
Speaker 2: Great. Welcome to Off the Cup my personal anti anxiety antidote.
Speaker 2: This week's guest is one of the funniest and most
Speaker 2: unique talents out there today. She says she actually produces,
Speaker 2: she's on TV, she's in film, she's on stage, she's
Speaker 2: in cabaret. Okay, you know her from Inside Amy Schumer,
Speaker 2: the hit HBO show Somebody somewhere. She might just be
Speaker 2: this generation's Bette Midler. I'm going I'm going with that.
Speaker 2: I am going with that, and she's hilarious. It's Bridget Everett.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Off the Cup.
Speaker 1: Hi, thank you for having me.
Speaker 2: I'm so glad you're here. I'm a fan.
Speaker 1: Thank you for that intro. Thank you it was so nice.
Speaker 2: I love what you do, I love the energy you
Speaker 2: bring to everything that you do. It's just how do
Speaker 2: you feel about being this generation's Bette Midller? Does that
Speaker 2: sound right to you?
Speaker 1: I mean that would that's Bette Miller is like a
Speaker 1: She's like the person I kind of idolized the most
Speaker 1: when I was growing up. So you know, you look
Speaker 1: at that, you hit a good one for me, A
Speaker 1: good one.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well it feels like you're really one of those
Speaker 2: like old school performers we don't see enough of these days,
Speaker 2: like a vaudeville, like a throwback. Do you do you
Speaker 2: see yourself in that way?
Speaker 1: Well, I think that I don't see a lot of
Speaker 1: people around me that do the same thing. So and
Speaker 1: that way, I feel like making something my own feels
Speaker 1: very of that generation and just kind of carving my
Speaker 1: own path. So yeah, I think a little bit. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I got started with in the cabaret scene,
Speaker 1: which is not as like a hip as everybody thinks
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 2: Well I love it. I'm a fan of theater, so
Speaker 2: I mean, I just love it.
Speaker 1: But you know, people that were around me, you know,
Speaker 1: are doing really well. Now there's like Cola Scola of
Speaker 1: doing overy on Broadway and like doing crazy things and
Speaker 1: justin Vivian Bonds is one that MacArthur Grant. So you
Speaker 1: know what it's like, all those people that were shaping
Speaker 1: me when I was in my start, my start of
Speaker 1: years are doing great things and they've always been their
Speaker 1: own person. So it's been pretty cool.
Speaker 2: I love it. I want to talk about your whole career,
Speaker 2: but can we start with a sweet spot for me?
Speaker 2: The Real Housewives. I'm a Bravo holic. I know I
Speaker 2: know every franchise, every every housewife and seeing you with
Speaker 2: Luanne and Sonya doing Cabret, it just made my heart happy.
Speaker 2: What was that like?
Speaker 1: Look, I I love the Housewives. You know, I'm actually
Speaker 1: filming watch it Happens live tonight Salt Lake City with Mary.
Speaker 1: I'm very I'm excited and I'm nervous. But you know,
Speaker 1: they're like their own sort of subset of celebrity and
Speaker 1: kind of yes, their whole their whole world is is
Speaker 1: just wild. It's like once you sort of get like
Speaker 1: an inner a glimpse of the inside, it's just it's
Speaker 1: so huge, it's so colorful, it's so full on. And
Speaker 1: Sonya and Luanne and all of them are they're real characters,
Speaker 1: but I think it's genuinely who they are.
Speaker 2: Yes, I mean, Luanne's really special. I've worked with her
Speaker 2: a little. I've had the job of trying to interview
Speaker 2: a number of housewives at like Bravo Khan and stuff
Speaker 2: like that, And when she's in one of those panels.
Speaker 2: I'll just say it's tough because she's really I mean,
Speaker 2: she just does her own thing and she wants to
Speaker 2: kind of be the you know, the spotlight. She loves
Speaker 2: being on stage, as she says she does.
Speaker 1: And you know, you have to give it to Luan.
Speaker 1: Is was she gifted with the textbook version of the
Speaker 1: voice of an angel?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: No, no, but she sells it.
Speaker 2: She's the voice of Marlborough is what she is.
Speaker 1: But what I said, I mean, I'm like, more power
Speaker 1: to her because people want to come see her and
Speaker 1: she has fun doing it. Good for her.
Speaker 2: Yes, And you gave a very diplomatic answer to Andy
Speaker 2: on another watch What Happens Live when he asked you
Speaker 2: to rate her singing. You just said what you just said,
Speaker 2: which was I give her credit. She's a ten out
Speaker 2: of ten, you said, because anyone who gets up there,
Speaker 2: I get it. But between us girls, she's got a
Speaker 2: great act. A girl cannot sing. And when I say that,
Speaker 2: I mean like hit notes.
Speaker 1: Well, she's got a good you know, four or five
Speaker 1: that she can dance around and that does it.
Speaker 2: You know, her act is great.
Speaker 1: I mean she looks incredible. She like she really like
Speaker 1: What I love about her is that she is aware
Speaker 1: of who she is and she has fun with it,
Speaker 1: and like she celebrates it. I think it's pretty pretty cool.
Speaker 2: It's incredible because she's been through some shit, and like,
Speaker 2: had I gone through one of the things she had
Speaker 2: gone through, be in a hole, yes, I would not
Speaker 2: be on television and I certainly wouldn't be putting it
Speaker 2: all in an act for everyone to enjoy. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's so ballsy and body and all all the things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, totally, I love it.
Speaker 2: I love it for her maybe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, go ahead.
Speaker 2: You grew up in Manhattan, Kansas. It's funny because for
Speaker 2: you know, I do like politics, and sometimes to make
Speaker 2: a point when I'm trying to make a point about
Speaker 2: like the rest of the country as opposed to the coasts,
Speaker 2: I'll say something like, you know, what matters to people
Speaker 2: in Manhattan isn't what matters to people, and I'll say Manhattan, Kansas.
Speaker 1: That is.
Speaker 2: It's sort of like, yeah, yeah, so that's you. You
Speaker 2: but you grew up in a political family, right sort.
Speaker 1: Of, well sort of, yeah, my dad was a state senator,
Speaker 1: state representative, and you know, my dad and my brother
Speaker 1: were both mayor of my hometown. So yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: it's sort of a we're sort of a small town
Speaker 1: political royalty.
Speaker 2: Are you like if you go back and people know
Speaker 2: your family from that?
Speaker 1: No, No, I think I just I just laugh at
Speaker 1: it because you know, being a politician in a small
Speaker 1: town in Kansas, it certainly doesn't have the same you know,
Speaker 1: we're not the Kennedy's. Let's just put it out and
Speaker 1: nobody cared. Like when I started, nobody cared. Yeah, exactly, exactly,
Speaker 1: thank god.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you were very popular in high school.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're not supposed to admit that, but I
Speaker 1: guess I was. I mean I was homecoming queen, So
Speaker 1: you know, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2: You were most likely to be Ruler of the World
Speaker 2: and most likely to win an Academy award. Yes, you
Speaker 2: were in the Pops Choir, the Chamber Choir, the Fellowship
Speaker 2: of Christian Athletes, SAD Student Council, Vice President, Tribe Council,
Speaker 2: MC of MHS, Live Winter Homecoming Queen and Maggie Jones
Speaker 2: in forty second Street. Did you ever go to class bridget?
Speaker 1: How did you find this out? This is that is
Speaker 1: like such a deep diveh.
Speaker 2: This is bridget For people who can't see, this is Bridgete.
Speaker 2: She's homecoming queen. Who's your gentleman, who's your squire?
Speaker 1: Uh? That's Jason Kastner, it is. I saw. It's the crown,
Speaker 1: by the way, it's in my bastomook.
Speaker 2: Amazing.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Yeah, my mom made me get that real.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody had the claw like the bangs, but
Speaker 1: you know I had a bob and like you know,
Speaker 1: I was trying to like real timeless in my senior picture.
Speaker 2: Class in nineteen ninety man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there you go. Oh my god, I.
Speaker 2: Got your yearbook? Is how I know all this? I
Speaker 2: got your yearbook?
Speaker 1: That is incredible. I don't I'd like a copy of
Speaker 1: my yearbook done that thing.
Speaker 2: Speaking of Amy, Jones said of your performance in forty
Speaker 2: second Street, I liked bridget ever at the best because
Speaker 2: she was funny and acted crazy. Was that your first review?
Speaker 1: That's my first pull club, my first poll quote, and
Speaker 1: probably still the best one. It's so good because I
Speaker 1: was so pissed that I didn't have a bigger part,
Speaker 1: and I had my friend Rachel. My friend Rachel, and
Speaker 1: if you go to the cast photo, we're like because
Speaker 1: we thought we should have the two leads, and we
Speaker 1: were sitting in the in the group photo just with
Speaker 1: a scowling on our face. So when I got the
Speaker 1: pull quote in the yearbook, I was like, okay, okay, right.
Speaker 2: See I told you Sol you were wrong.
Speaker 1: That's so funny.
Speaker 2: No, but really you did a lot. What what was
Speaker 2: tribe council bridget Oh.
Speaker 1: Tribe council got It's so this has been like, you know,
Speaker 1: thirty blah blah blah years ago before. I can't remember
Speaker 1: what I mean. I remember tribe council, but I can't
Speaker 1: remember what it was. I've just just too many years
Speaker 1: of shardonnay to washed it away.
Speaker 2: Well, it looked like you had like I hated high school.
Speaker 2: I was not popular in high school. Looked like you
Speaker 2: had a great high school experience, at least according to
Speaker 2: your senior year photos.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, you know, I had, you know, the
Speaker 1: issues that linger with you through life, you know, But
Speaker 1: but as far as like friends and activities, and I
Speaker 1: enjoyed it. I you know, growing up in Kansas is
Speaker 1: a good place to be, you know, you can it
Speaker 1: was pretty safe, you could walk places, we had keg
Speaker 1: parties by the lake. You know, there's still still all
Speaker 1: the drama that goes with high school, but it was
Speaker 1: in general, it was it was fun. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I can't believe I said that it looked.
Speaker 2: Like it looked like you killed it. Like it looked
Speaker 2: like like my husband always talks about how great high
Speaker 2: school was, and I'm like, I don't know what planet
Speaker 2: you were on. High school was torturous for me, but
Speaker 2: like he killed it. He was like in all the
Speaker 2: sports and had all the friends, and I just always
Speaker 2: wondered what that must be like.
Speaker 1: Well, you know my brother who was the I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess a six with my brother Brock, who was
Speaker 1: number five out of six. He was very popular. And
Speaker 1: it wasn't because he was like he just was. He
Speaker 1: He was curious about other people. He was nice to
Speaker 1: other people, and he was very funny and and I
Speaker 1: like that too. I mean, I'm not like that anymore
Speaker 1: at all. But I was used to be very curious
Speaker 1: about people. I like to talk to all different groups.
Speaker 1: You know. I thought it was sit by different people
Speaker 1: in class. I liked it. Yeah, Now I'm not like
Speaker 1: that at all. I mean, I'm like, just leave me
Speaker 1: in my apartment. I'll be I'm a fine leave me alone, right.
Speaker 2: If you're not one of my people, I don't want
Speaker 2: anything to do with you.
Speaker 1: Well, it just takes so much energy to get in
Speaker 1: people at this age.
Speaker 2: You know. So we're you go to ask you on
Speaker 2: a full scholarship for music and opera. You were you
Speaker 2: were set on being a performer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I wanted to be a singer. And I
Speaker 1: also just wanted to get out of Kansas, even though
Speaker 1: I loved it, I wanted to see other things. And
Speaker 1: and my one of my best friends at the time,
Speaker 1: her older brother was like, oh, Arizona States of party school,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, it is turned out he
Speaker 1: was right, and I had a real good time, and I.
Speaker 2: Had a fake I d take in there once by too.
Speaker 1: I think it's a rite of passage. No did you
Speaker 1: did you get put in the back of the car?
Speaker 1: Do they just know?
Speaker 2: He just let me walk away, which was very kind.
Speaker 1: That's good. I got because I got put in the
Speaker 1: back of a car at a high school keg party.
Speaker 1: And it was because I had this like this like
Speaker 1: squeezy refillable thing that used to take my you know,
Speaker 1: my like I'd stop at quick shop and get SODA's
Speaker 1: every day and before school and then anyway, I took
Speaker 1: it to this keg party because I loved it so much.
Speaker 1: You could just like squeeze. It was like sort of
Speaker 1: like a boxer thing, you know, had boxes on the
Speaker 1: corny squeze shoots in your mouth. And I took it
Speaker 1: to a keg party. I filled up with beer and
Speaker 1: the cops came, and I didn't want to lose my
Speaker 1: little squeeze thing, so I held onto it and I
Speaker 1: emptied it out. But they came and they could still
Speaker 1: smell the beer. So they put me in the back
Speaker 1: of the car and my mom had to come pick
Speaker 1: me up at the police station, and she was not happy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they took your squeeze thing.
Speaker 1: They took my squeeze thing. I sucked on a penny
Speaker 1: because I'd heard that that would like get rid of
Speaker 1: the smell of alcohol. Mom. Yeah. And then but my
Speaker 1: mom when my mom picked me up, she had so
Speaker 1: much booze on her breast she couldn't tell. It's perfect
Speaker 1: small town living.
Speaker 2: So how how did you did you enjoy college?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean it was college was like a little
Speaker 1: you know, I sort of got lost because it's such
Speaker 1: a big place. Arizona State is so huge, and I
Speaker 1: have fun because I could be by the pool, I
Speaker 1: could get a tan. I was on the swim team
Speaker 1: for a little bit. And like I said, I was
Speaker 1: a party school. But I wasn't like getting any parts.
Speaker 1: I wasn't you know. And then shows really it just
Speaker 1: but I did find karaoke at the end of my
Speaker 1: and I started singing it like a professional at spring
Speaker 1: training baseball games, which was fun. So I met a
Speaker 1: lot of athletes because I used to work at PF
Speaker 1: Chang's in Scottsdale, the original PF Changs.
Speaker 2: That is my favorite PF Changs.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's the one that was the original. And
Speaker 1: I used to wait on like Charles Barkley and and
Speaker 1: he came in a lot, and I waited on a
Speaker 1: lot of the baseball players so they'd be there for
Speaker 1: spring training, like I said, and Mark McGuire and Dusty
Speaker 1: Baker the old and they like would have me come
Speaker 1: and sing at their spring training games. I was singing
Speaker 1: the national anthem, so I don't know.
Speaker 2: I was like, that's right. I uh, well, I covered
Speaker 2: sports for a long time. And then also I was
Speaker 2: a kid. As a kid, I grew up in Arizona,
Speaker 2: in Scottsdale, and so when that PF Schangs.
Speaker 1: Came, you know what, I might have been your waitress
Speaker 1: at some point. You have been.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's such a that's the o GP of Chang's
Speaker 2: is the best pe of Chang's. And yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I wonder if it's still there.
Speaker 2: It's still there?
Speaker 1: Oh wow, amazing, it's still there.
Speaker 2: I was just there in April because we went for
Speaker 2: spring break to visit family. And it's a must. It's
Speaker 2: a must every time I'm in Scottsdale.
Speaker 1: Gotta go. You gotta get up the chicken letus wraps
Speaker 1: and a glass of arden. That's got right there?
Speaker 2: Got it? That is it. My very close friend Megan McCain,
Speaker 2: daughter daughter of Arizona. Obviously, the lettuce wraps a p
Speaker 2: of Changs are her all time favorite. I love it
Speaker 2: all she wants on a special occasion, I love it. Yeah. Okay,
Speaker 2: So where do you go from college? After college? Do
Speaker 2: you go to New York?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I was spending my summers in Maine at this
Speaker 1: place called quist Asana, which is sort of like a
Speaker 1: dirty dancing kind of resort. And and so you would
Speaker 1: you know, wait, tables during the day and you do
Speaker 1: shows at night. And so they would bring people from
Speaker 1: performing art schools all over the country that would go there.
Speaker 1: So that's where I met some of my friends from
Speaker 1: New York. And I was like, you know what, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna I'm just gonna go. So the last summer
Speaker 1: I worked there, I worked there seven summers. I just
Speaker 1: packed up my car, my Nissan CenTra, and I drove
Speaker 1: to New York and I found a place to live
Speaker 1: and I just was like, I think this is where
Speaker 1: I want to be and I haven't left.
Speaker 2: Was it scary?
Speaker 1: Not so scary because I knew all these people and
Speaker 1: they were all singers and yah and performers, and I
Speaker 1: think there's no way I could have done it without
Speaker 1: meeting all those people first. And they and they were
Speaker 1: like just so confident in themselves, like, no, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go to New York. I'm gonna be on Broadway and
Speaker 1: uh then I'm gonna do TV, some film and you know,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe a little time in LA but mostly New
Speaker 1: York because I'm more about theater, and you know, just
Speaker 1: like I was like, and then I came here and
Speaker 1: I got my equity card, right away. I did like
Speaker 1: a traveling show off off Broadway and that's it's I
Speaker 1: And it was like, you know those little bus and
Speaker 1: track things. We were all like in a little van
Speaker 1: together essentially, and there was five five of us driving
Speaker 1: around and it was absolute hell. I hated it. I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, this is what And so I was
Speaker 1: like when I ended up waiting tables for years, I
Speaker 1: was like, well, at least I'm not doing theater right right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: where'd you work?
Speaker 2: What restaurants did you work in New York?
Speaker 1: I worked at Rain, which was on the Upper west Side,
Speaker 1: and then I worked at PF Chang's for not p Changs,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, we got a Ruby Foos. I worked at
Speaker 1: Ruby Foo's on the Upper west Side from the day
Speaker 1: it open until the date closed.
Speaker 2: I love Ruby Foos.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was and I got hired there because I
Speaker 1: saw PF Chang's on my resume and they're like there.
Speaker 1: They were like, oh, we have a star and I.
Speaker 3: Was like yes, So what's your first break?
Speaker 2: What's your big break?
Speaker 1: God, it's such a it's interesting to think of like
Speaker 1: things in terms of a big break. I guess like
Speaker 1: in two thousand and six, I met Michael Patrick King,
Speaker 1: who is behind Sex and the City, and just like that,
Speaker 1: they come back and everything, and we did a show
Speaker 1: at Ours Nova called at Least It's Pink and the
Speaker 1: and that was and I thought that was gonna be
Speaker 1: my big break. But in a way, it was like
Speaker 1: an off off Broadway show that got great reviews, but
Speaker 1: just kind of came and went and I was back
Speaker 1: at Ruby Foo's. But the good part about that was
Speaker 1: that I met Michael and he sort of set things
Speaker 1: in motion for me because he gave me a part
Speaker 1: in the original Sex in the City movie and it
Speaker 1: was just a.
Speaker 2: It is a very memorable short but memorable scene. Gassi. Okay, okay, Kasi.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, it is a great scene.
Speaker 1: Are you drunk a little bit? In fact, like their
Speaker 1: their rap gift I think for the Sex and the
Speaker 1: City movie was like things said a little bit on it.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, oh my god. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I just I uh, that was kind of just started
Speaker 1: things because I met Michael and you know, we did
Speaker 1: a pilot together, and then you know, Amy Schumer took
Speaker 1: me on their road with her and that was a
Speaker 1: really big thing. But you know, god, I didn't start
Speaker 1: stop waiting tables until like ten years ago. I think
Speaker 1: it was almost just ten years ago, so it was
Speaker 1: maybe someday somewhere has been my big break. I don't
Speaker 1: know all it's hard to say.
Speaker 2: Well, and how did you meet Amy?
Speaker 1: At the Montreal Comedy Festival? Have you ever been to that?
Speaker 1: Like this is the just for last Montreal Comedy Festival,
Speaker 1: and it's it's you know, hundreds of comedians, all comedians,
Speaker 1: you know, TV and film executives, and everybody goes down.
Speaker 1: They stay at the Hyatt and they all party every
Speaker 1: night at the big in this big Hyatt lobby bar.
Speaker 1: And I was like, no, thank you, I will be
Speaker 1: in my room and that's where you can find me.
Speaker 1: But Amy, I think knew me from Ours Nova and
Speaker 1: you know, at Lisa's Pink and some of this stuff.
Speaker 1: So you know, she was like, why do you come
Speaker 1: down and meet me, you know, down at the bar
Speaker 1: for a glass of chardenay? And I was like, I'm not,
Speaker 1: I'm not going down there. She's like, what's you know,
Speaker 1: what's the worst that can happen? And so I went
Speaker 1: down and we just became like sharp. We'd have the
Speaker 1: same kind of you know, similar sense of humor. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we both love chardonnay and yeah, and she's very confident.
Speaker 1: She'll talk to anyone, you know, she's all you know.
Speaker 1: And I'll just I'll just sort of sit back and
Speaker 1: watch her and be like, oh, yeah, I'm Bridget and
Speaker 1: you know, I've met people, and she she helped get
Speaker 1: me out of my shell, you know, bring me back
Speaker 1: to nineteen nineties Tribe council. Bridget Ever, the one that
Speaker 1: you know, you know, like the high school girl.
Speaker 2: Right MHS MC of MHS Live, Yes, exactly. Amy found
Speaker 2: that that Bridget in you did you guys ever like
Speaker 2: write material for each other?
Speaker 1: Well, she she Yeah, she's put me in stuff, you know.
Speaker 1: She put me in train wrecks. She rode a little
Speaker 1: part from me. She wrote apart from me in another
Speaker 1: movie and I didn't end up getting it. I ended
Speaker 1: up reading with uh to play the part of Bridget Everett,
Speaker 1: and I read with Jedd Apatow and I didn't get.
Speaker 2: Apart Wait, someone else got the part of Bridget Everett.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it was I can't I can't remember which
Speaker 1: movie it was, but it got the whole storyline got
Speaker 1: cut out. It might have it might have been trained Wrek,
Speaker 1: it might have been. There was like originally going to
Speaker 1: be like she was doing a story on like a
Speaker 1: you know, a killer, and I was going to play
Speaker 1: the killer and and I think when I when I
Speaker 1: read with him, he you know, he ultimately said to Amy,
Speaker 1: He's like, Bridget doesn't seem like she would kill anyone.
Speaker 1: So I didn't get the part, but I got another
Speaker 1: part to stay in the movie, so it worked out.
Speaker 2: Okay, how do you come to cabaret at this point
Speaker 2: in your career?
Speaker 1: Well, because I was doing a lot of when I
Speaker 1: was waiting tables, I was just singing in karaoke bars
Speaker 1: and like going wild, like getting on top of the bar,
Speaker 1: are ripping my shirt off, like you know, taking flaming
Speaker 1: zambuka shots while I'm singing a piece of my Heart
Speaker 1: and like, you know, you know, just absolutely out of
Speaker 1: my skin crazy. And my friend Jason Egan who's now
Speaker 1: my friend, saw me performing performing a karaoke bar, singing
Speaker 1: at a karaoke bar, yes, and he was like, I
Speaker 1: think you should do a show, and so he he
Speaker 1: was the one that got me to perform it Ours
Speaker 1: Nova his show and this is theater and yeah, and
Speaker 1: I've just it's honestly, it's so such a huge part
Speaker 1: of who I am. I love singing. It's the love
Speaker 1: of my life. There's nothing that makes me happier, and
Speaker 1: it makes me connect to people. But in a way
Speaker 1: that I can be in charge. I had the microphone,
Speaker 1: I sort of control the temperature.
Speaker 2: Of the room totally.
Speaker 1: But I love it because there's there are no rules,
Speaker 1: you know, it's just it's low necklines, yeah, high notes
Speaker 1: and trim ankles and we're all going for it, all
Speaker 1: three at the same time. Great.
Speaker 2: How does one like if I want I don't, But
Speaker 2: if I wanted to go into cabret, how does one
Speaker 2: because you're just like seeing at a karaoke bar. I
Speaker 2: know how this happens to luwan? How does one? Are
Speaker 2: there agents for cabaret?
Speaker 1: No? No, it's not.
Speaker 2: Like it's not like a I don't know how one
Speaker 2: gets to cabaret if one wanted to, I would one
Speaker 2: go about trying to get to cal I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just fell into it, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And Murray Hill was another person who plays Frederick Coco
Speaker 1: on My show. He's, you know, a big legend in
Speaker 1: New York City. And he asked me to you know, anytime,
Speaker 1: anytime anybody ever asked me to sing or perform anywhere,
Speaker 1: I'd be like, yes, yes, even if it was in
Speaker 1: the back room and a sex club, you know, Like
Speaker 1: I was always honestly like I've seen it all and
Speaker 1: I've done it all, and I performed at weddings, birthdays, clubs,
Speaker 1: you know, everything I could get my hands on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And and I think that's kind of the way that
Speaker 1: you do it. You just you keep singing until someone listens.
Speaker 2: That's what it seems. Yeah, that's what it seems like.
Speaker 2: There's not like a direct route from A to B
Speaker 2: if someone wanted, you just have to be like talented, hungry, lucky,
Speaker 2: we'll be places, be seen kind of thing and not.
Speaker 1: Care about you know, having health insurance or money or.
Speaker 2: Success retirement account yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, or acceptance by your family for us.
Speaker 2: Right, tell me about the tender moments and how did
Speaker 2: you meet Adam Well?
Speaker 1: I so I had been doing this show at Joe's
Speaker 1: Pub called Our Hit Parade, which is we we would
Speaker 1: cover downtown performance artists in cabaret people. That's where I
Speaker 1: met Cole School and some other folks. And like you
Speaker 1: would take a pop song and you would do your
Speaker 1: own spin on it. And it was a wild, really
Speaker 1: fun show and we did it for a number of years.
Speaker 1: And then so he Adam I think you're talking about
Speaker 1: ad Rock, the King ad Rock from Dacy Boys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he and his wife Kathleen Hannah were big fans of
Speaker 1: the show and they they would come and and eventually I,
Speaker 1: you know, and we became friends. I joined his softball team.
Speaker 1: My friend Murray took me to be on the softball
Speaker 1: team Team Pressure, because I was depressed and Murray's like,
Speaker 1: you gotta get some vitamin D, kid, So he went
Speaker 1: outside to play and that's when I found out Adam
Speaker 1: was a fan, and we became friends. He's so funny.
Speaker 1: He's such a great guy. And at one point I
Speaker 1: was just like, you know, I think I'm going to
Speaker 1: start a band, and he's like, well, can I be
Speaker 1: in it? And I was like, you want to be
Speaker 1: And you want to be in my cabaret act ad
Speaker 1: Rock King ad Rock of the Easy Boys, right, He's
Speaker 1: like he's like yeah. And so he was the you know,
Speaker 1: the first person that signed up to be in my band,
Speaker 1: and then everybody, you know, I got Mike, Mike Jackson,
Speaker 1: Carmen Covelli and Matt Ray and then we all and
Speaker 1: we we decided to call it the Tender Moments because
Speaker 1: that's when I when I used to hang out with
Speaker 1: my nieces and nephews, I'd be like, come, come sit
Speaker 1: with me, Let's have a tender moment, and we would
Speaker 1: just sit there very quietly. And I don't know, I've
Speaker 1: always kind of love that.
Speaker 2: So that is cute. That is cute. What is your
Speaker 2: what's your connection to Janice Joplin? You you famously sung
Speaker 2: a number of her songs, Yeah, on Jimmy Fallon and.
Speaker 1: Because she's like one of the you know, the way
Speaker 1: I connect with anybody is when they're their their own thing,
Speaker 1: like she her voice is very unique sounding. She seemed
Speaker 1: like she just was her own and her own special
Speaker 1: little planet. But her voice to me is like just
Speaker 1: ripped from the heart, just so raw, so like full.
Speaker 1: It's a full force. It's like it's a it's a
Speaker 1: punch of energy, emotion and vitality. And I just she
Speaker 1: lights me up. Man, I can't help it.
Speaker 2: Oh she's great, and you're so great, you know singing
Speaker 2: her songs? You've made you did Me and Bobby McGee
Speaker 2: with Patti LuPone at Carnegie Hall. How does that happen?
Speaker 1: She saw me at a show that I was doing downtown,
Speaker 1: and I remember her. She was she's good friends with
Speaker 1: my friend Scott Whitman, songwriter with Mark Seaman for like
Speaker 1: Hairspray and Smash and and all these other great shows.
Speaker 1: And anyway, they called me while I was at my
Speaker 1: bank depositing tips from the shift of my shift from
Speaker 1: the night before at us at Ruby Fuz or something,
Speaker 1: and and Patty was like, I was wondering if you'd
Speaker 1: want to sing with me at Carnegie Hall. And I
Speaker 1: was just like putting in my two hundred dollars into
Speaker 1: the things like beep, beep beep, and I was like,
Speaker 1: let me think about it. I'm like yeah. And because
Speaker 1: Connie Call is a place I never thought that I
Speaker 1: would ever get to walk across that stage. And and
Speaker 1: so she you know, so they had me on the
Speaker 1: show and I was, you know, to me, Patty is
Speaker 1: like the great broad living diva for me, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's so many great Broadway performers and stuff,
Speaker 1: but to me, she's like a diva. But she's also
Speaker 1: like a and really cool and just does not give
Speaker 1: a shit about any Yes, she's and I just love that.
Speaker 1: You would think that somebody like her, with her Tony's
Speaker 1: and her you know, and her Julliard background and all this,
Speaker 1: that she would just be kind of buttoned up, her
Speaker 1: stuffy or something. That is absolutely not true. She is
Speaker 1: like throw down, lay down fun. She's so fun. She's
Speaker 1: very funny, and she really cares about, like, you know,
Speaker 1: she's taught me a lot about like performance because she
Speaker 1: cares about every little detail after all these years of performing,
Speaker 1: it's important to her. And I don't know, I just
Speaker 1: think that I think she's pretty magical.
Speaker 2: She's incredible, And it was.
Speaker 1: Incredibly jenous of her to bring me like this sort
Speaker 1: of whatever cabaret singer at the time and and bring
Speaker 1: me on to the stage. And she basically stopped the
Speaker 1: show and gave me such an effusive introduction, like she
Speaker 1: was like sort of anointing me in a way or something.
Speaker 1: She's like, get down at Joe's Pub. You have to
Speaker 1: see Bridget everythre's oh my god, there's nobody else like her.
Speaker 1: And people did like I was doing shows and I
Speaker 1: was like, my audience looks a little different tonight.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's so cool.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm like, what are you doing here? Because
Speaker 1: I talked to the audience a lot, and like Patty
Speaker 1: sent me, I was like, oh, okay, well welcome shit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have goosebumps. Oh my god. Listening to her
Speaker 2: talk about Andrelaid Webber gives me life, Like the way
Speaker 2: she shits on Andreloyd Webber with reckless abandon like, well.
Speaker 1: Don't don't shit on Patty because you're gonna get shit
Speaker 1: on right back exactly.
Speaker 2: Oh I would. I would never.
Speaker 1: No, I know, not you. I'm just saying in the
Speaker 1: and the you know, that's what happens. Like she does
Speaker 1: not care, Like she's like, I don't care if it's andre.
Speaker 2: Lloyd Webber, Like I don't like Andrelaid Webber's musicals for
Speaker 2: the most part either. Yeah I'm a little overrated. But
Speaker 2: I interviewed fran Leebowitz once, who also is not a fan,
Speaker 2: and the way she talks about Andrelaid Webber is very
Speaker 2: similar to the way the Paddle Up talks about Angelaid Webber,
Speaker 2: which is just I just want one day to have
Speaker 2: so few fucks to give that I can talk about legends,
Speaker 2: living legends, the way that she talks about Madonna and
Speaker 2: Angelaid Webb with like no cares.
Speaker 1: In the world, does not care her. I mean, Patty
Speaker 1: and I are developing something right now for for Broadway.
Speaker 1: I hope it because it is along road where we're
Speaker 1: you know, it's been ruin for us, and we're developing,
Speaker 1: and we've had a little we just had a workshop
Speaker 1: and and you know, I told them like day one,
Speaker 1: I was like, like, is there anything anything wants to
Speaker 1: say to sort of, you know, kick things off. And
Speaker 1: I was like, I'll start. I'm scared to work with
Speaker 1: Patty because because first of all, she she brings her
Speaker 1: a game to everything, Like she's not resting on anything.
Speaker 1: She is always showing up and and I can, I
Speaker 1: can be a little lazy, but I'm also just like
Speaker 1: I don't want to. I don't want to disappoint her
Speaker 1: because I don't want to. You know, she'll tell you right,
Speaker 1: And I just want to have to be able to.
Speaker 1: I want to be able to show up, do a
Speaker 1: good job, and uh so Patty can be proud of me.
Speaker 1: I'm not disappointed.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she's very she's very intimidating. And when she
Speaker 2: she did this whole thing years ago where she talked
Speaker 2: about how like the standing ovation at theaters has become
Speaker 2: so overdone and like very few people actually deserve a
Speaker 2: standing ovation in the theater, and like they're just handing
Speaker 2: them out. Now.
Speaker 1: She won't stand up. She won't stand up, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: and I I love it. Like that's another thing, like
Speaker 1: that's Patty's like she's I love it. She does not
Speaker 1: care And I want to be like Patty me too,
Speaker 1: because I stand up. I'm like, oh god, I got it.
Speaker 1: You know, your body's all tight. After two hours, it's
Speaker 1: like all right, here we go.
Speaker 2: All right, we're doing this.
Speaker 1: And then you know whoever's up there, who's just phoned
Speaker 1: in their performances, like oh thank you, thank you. They've
Speaker 1: they've never been awake for the two hours they've been
Speaker 1: up on stage. But when they get through their bow
Speaker 1: and receive all the love there, they're finally there's there's
Speaker 1: a twinkle in their eyes. It's like, no, if you
Speaker 1: don't give it to me. From the moment, it's like action,
Speaker 1: like get off the stage.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, uh okay, Well when you when you see her,
Speaker 2: just tell her, tell her, don't don't I love her.
Speaker 2: I'll never say anything bad about her. I don't ever
Speaker 2: want to be on Patty's outside. I love her so much, none.
Speaker 1: Of us do. But you know there's I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't think you know she If you're great, she loves you,
Speaker 1: and that's that's that's good enough for me.
Speaker 2: Well, then you better be great, you better are great.
Speaker 1: Exactly, you are great.
Speaker 2: You're lucky, you're great. You're great. She loves you, but
Speaker 2: not everyone's great, Bridget, but Donna's not great, according to
Speaker 2: Paddle the Pone and Pattle the Pone is right about
Speaker 2: about the way she talks about Madonna. But I mean, yeah,
Speaker 2: you gotta be great, talk about somebody somewhere, talk about
Speaker 2: how that came to be and how how how autobiographical
Speaker 2: it is, because it's sort of well.
Speaker 1: I got a deal with HBO a number of years ago,
Speaker 1: and and I I remember when that happened, because that
Speaker 1: did feel like this feels like it's a big deal.
Speaker 1: That feels like a big deal. And so I called
Speaker 1: up Carolyn Strauss, who is who i'd met through Michael
Speaker 1: Patrick King. So all the you know, everything sort of
Speaker 1: leads to what it's supposed to lead to. But I
Speaker 1: was like, I just got the seal with HBO, and
Speaker 1: I'm I was wondering if you would want to work
Speaker 1: with me, and like, and if you don't know who
Speaker 1: Carolyn is, she is behind some shows like Game of Thrones,
Speaker 1: Last of Us, she was, you know, running HBO. It's
Speaker 1: you know, during the Sex and the City in Soprano days,
Speaker 1: you know, so she's she's the the the the deal,
Speaker 1: not just a big deal, she is the big deal.
Speaker 1: And so she was like because she'd see my cabaret
Speaker 1: show and and she's like, yeah, I'd love to work
Speaker 1: with you. And I was like, oh, the look, my
Speaker 1: job is like smacking on the floor. And anyway, she
Speaker 1: was like, I think we should, you know, talk to
Speaker 1: Paul and Hannah. Paul three and Hannah bus who she
Speaker 1: you know, they're they're sort of from the similar community
Speaker 1: as I am in the city and in New York,
Speaker 1: and they came up with this idea for somebody somewhere
Speaker 1: and we have you know, it's been a very collaborative
Speaker 1: process over the three seasons, and but as we've gone
Speaker 1: into it more and more I've put more and more
Speaker 1: of myself into it, more of my own story, more
Speaker 1: of like my feelings and my feelings about grief and
Speaker 1: about the love of singing and music and about and
Speaker 1: and about self worth and all these things, and and
Speaker 1: we we all sort of had the same way that
Speaker 1: we wanted to tell a story that felt not like
Speaker 1: document not documentary document documentary style, but like that felt
Speaker 1: that felt natural, that felt lived in and that felt
Speaker 1: slice a life. E and I remember watching the pilot
Speaker 1: and I cried first because I was like, I was
Speaker 1: moved that we did it. And then I cried because
Speaker 1: it's like, nobody is going to like this, because this
Speaker 1: is not a cool show, and Carol and Carolyn was like, no,
Speaker 1: this is there's something special about this. And then we
Speaker 1: and our probably got picked up. We shot our first season,
Speaker 1: second season, and now third season which is wrapping up.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's if you know me from the
Speaker 1: cabaret world, you know you've it's I'm sort of like
Speaker 1: a wilder beast or something like a real wild like
Speaker 1: sort of unhinged. But this is a different side of me.
Speaker 1: And I mean I do saying and stuff in the show,
Speaker 1: but it's more about like the human side of me,
Speaker 1: like the things that make me me laugh and that
Speaker 1: make me cry and the and the I've learned through
Speaker 1: the experience of doing the show that other people see
Speaker 1: themselves in it, and that's been great. You know, it's
Speaker 1: been really rewarding.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you love being on stage so much. Did this
Speaker 2: like scratch a part of your brain you didn't know
Speaker 2: you would love so much?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean I just didn't think I could do it.
Speaker 1: I'm not a trained actor. I've never written a TV
Speaker 1: show before, I've never produced. But you learned very quickly,
Speaker 1: and luckily because Paul and Hanna and I had Caroline
Speaker 1: is like a reference, Like she was such a great
Speaker 1: sort of like a coach and a mentor and a
Speaker 1: champion and like never treated us like she was above us.
Speaker 1: She just kind of lifted us up, helped us grow.
Speaker 1: And we all learned so much during the filming of
Speaker 1: the show. And now I know I can I can
Speaker 1: do a.
Speaker 2: TV show, you know, I do it all. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you just for people like me. I'm not somebody
Speaker 1: who's like and I'm going to do this one day
Speaker 1: and I'm going to do that one day. It's like
Speaker 1: I sort of fall into it and I try to
Speaker 1: rise to the occasion and for the best. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: that's and this time it just happened to be a
Speaker 1: TV show for HBO's to be right, yeah, if you know,
Speaker 1: just say it out loud, like when I want to
Speaker 1: sit down and watch the show, I'll usually watch it
Speaker 1: by myself. And I turned on the TV and it's
Speaker 1: got that HBO logo, the you know that goes that.
Speaker 2: I know, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Every time, I'm like and I'll continue to be you know,
Speaker 1: for a long time as long as I keep running it,
Speaker 1: you know somewhere I'm deep on the.
Speaker 2: Channel or what yeah, I should say for honesty full disclosure.
Speaker 2: HBO is also my parent company. I'm at CNN, but
Speaker 2: uh I pitched a pilot to HBO and years ago
Speaker 2: and it was coming right out. They had just stopped
Speaker 2: FEEP and the pilot I pitched was for a sitcom
Speaker 2: set in a newsroom, like deep in a newsroom, and
Speaker 2: and I had a great meeting, and I was so excited.
Speaker 2: I couldn't believe I was in like HBO offices and
Speaker 2: like that this was happening. And I had a great
Speaker 2: meeting and there was some interest, and then someone said
Speaker 2: it was a little too close to BEEP and they
Speaker 2: were moving to a new direction, and that new direction
Speaker 2: was eventually Game of Thrones, and they wanted that was
Speaker 2: not what I was very different, so they were becoming
Speaker 2: something a little different, kind of getting away from the
Speaker 2: sort of the sitcom y content. But it was even
Speaker 2: just getting close, Like even just having a meeting at
Speaker 2: HBO was thrilling for me. So I can only imagine,
Speaker 2: just like life changing, that you have a show there,
Speaker 2: and a successful one.
Speaker 1: It's still exciting to go on to their offices and
Speaker 1: to feel like, yeah, you're like a part of even
Speaker 1: though our show is very small and our audience is small,
Speaker 1: loving and loyal, but small, Like yeah, I'm a part
Speaker 1: of the fabric of HBO. Now, Like there's no, you can't.
Speaker 1: You can't take that. I cannot take that away from myself.
Speaker 2: Like that, this can't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this happened, and and and it's not the first
Speaker 1: time I've been on HBO, and I hope to be
Speaker 1: on HBO again. And it's yeah, it's to me, it's Mecca.
Speaker 1: Is that where it's like yeah, to me, HBO was
Speaker 1: like the yes, the Pinnacle, Yes it is. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying I wouldn't work for other networks Sti't get me wrong.
Speaker 2: Of course, of course in Netflix, we love you too.
Speaker 2: But but you.
Speaker 1: Know, as far as it's like television goes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you didn't just make up a pilot, which
Speaker 2: in and of itself incredible. You got picked up season
Speaker 2: and another season like, yeah, you made it, you made it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess, so I guess when you put it
Speaker 1: that way. Yeah.
Speaker 2: After the break, it's the Lightning Round with Bridget Everett.
Speaker 2: I make her choose her favorite musical before we get
Speaker 2: to like a little lightning round. I just want to
Speaker 2: talk to you about isms I'll explain and the isms
Speaker 2: you might have faced in your career, because for me,
Speaker 2: I love talking to two women in this business. For me,
Speaker 2: there was a lot of sexism early in my career
Speaker 2: in the news, of course, men not taking you seriously
Speaker 2: or of course hitting on you or even sexually assaulting
Speaker 2: you like on camera. But now as I get older,
Speaker 2: it's agism and it is so wild, Bridget. For women
Speaker 2: in my business, it is like you hit forties and
Speaker 2: it's suddenly you are no longer good at your job,
Speaker 2: and you're like, I've done nothing differently. I'm doing the
Speaker 2: same thing. But I have so many friends and colleagues
Speaker 2: who are no longer in work. Suddenly their contract is
Speaker 2: not renewed. They are shown the door and hung out
Speaker 2: to dry. And it's crazy and it's such a mind
Speaker 2: fuck because you're like, I'm still me. I'm doing the
Speaker 2: same work, if not better work than I've ever done.
Speaker 2: And thanks to modern skincare, I look better at forty
Speaker 2: six than Barbara Walters did it twenty. What the fuck
Speaker 2: is going on?
Speaker 1: But what are you using? I want to know that
Speaker 1: is a oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, ialuronic acid and retinal but no, that ism, the
Speaker 2: ageism is such a mind fuck and I obviously hate it.
Speaker 2: I'm wondering what isms you have faced as a woman
Speaker 2: in your career.
Speaker 1: Well, I think like my size. You know, I'm a
Speaker 1: I'm a what I like to call a post athletic build,
Speaker 1: but you know, I'm a plus sized woman. I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm I'm in middle aged, which is wild
Speaker 1: to say, but like, you know, like people would, people
Speaker 1: were flocking television executives, you know, people were flocking to
Speaker 1: my show, like my live show, but they're like, we
Speaker 1: just can't see her on television. And I do, ultimately
Speaker 1: feel like it had a lot to do with my
Speaker 1: body in the way that I looked. I'm not conventionally
Speaker 1: like cutie little girl, you know, I'm not like attractive
Speaker 1: in that way, and like, how can you make that person?
Speaker 1: Can you put them on the poster of a TV show?
Speaker 1: And I have to give HBO a lot of credit
Speaker 1: that they they wanted me to be me. But I'm
Speaker 1: telling I can't tell you how many meetings I went
Speaker 1: into and people were just like nothing, like just checked out.
Speaker 1: And then and also like there's the stuff online, like
Speaker 1: I did a talk show and I wore this dress
Speaker 1: and like, you know, I can't find a bra for
Speaker 1: my boobs, you know, because I'm, as I said, I'm
Speaker 1: a plusize woman and I think boobs, and so I
Speaker 1: tape them and anyway, I sat down on the couch
Speaker 1: for the thing, and my dress sort of flipped open
Speaker 1: in a certain way, and the way I taped them
Speaker 1: was very sloppy, and so you know, it's so it
Speaker 1: just sort of have its like weird look at whatever. Anyway,
Speaker 1: the clip is on the internet and it's like been
Speaker 1: viewed by you know, thirteen million people or something, and
Speaker 1: there's thousands of comments about my body and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm like, you are missing the point. I'm I'm wearing
Speaker 1: this dress. I'm if you came seeing my show, like
Speaker 1: I try to make everybody feel good about who they
Speaker 1: are in their own skin, and like people just they
Speaker 1: can't see past my what my what I'm walking around
Speaker 1: in the skin I'm walking around in. Yeah, and that's
Speaker 1: you know, that's that obviously is you know, can be
Speaker 1: different for different people. You know, however that looks about
Speaker 1: how you look. But my point is just like I
Speaker 1: had to kind of whatever I've done, I've always had
Speaker 1: to force myself in the room. I've always had to
Speaker 1: thrust myself upon people. I've had to make it happen
Speaker 1: for myself because people can see it because it didn't
Speaker 1: look like what they thought it should be. So I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's the right, Yeah, if that's sort
Speaker 1: of what you're talking about, but yeah, that's for me,
Speaker 1: that's what it's been.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know a woman who hasn't dealt
Speaker 2: with an ism somewhere over the course of her life
Speaker 2: or career. And yeah, I mean it's just sort of
Speaker 2: how you move through them.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And also, you know another thing is like, because
Speaker 1: some of my stuff I got me night, let me up.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Another thing is like, I I want
Speaker 1: to Arizona State, but I'm not like a scholar, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not like a smarty pants person. But I so
Speaker 1: I've worked with people who have looked down on some
Speaker 1: of my blue humor, like that it's not smart, so
Speaker 1: it's not valid and like and I think if something
Speaker 1: makes people laugh and it makes them feel good, and
Speaker 1: you're and you're not hurting anybody. But I've I've literally
Speaker 1: worked with somebody who was like, you know, that's you know,
Speaker 1: your your lyrics aren't smart, you're whatever. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: but I go out to you know, now thousands of
Speaker 1: people come to see me sing and I may saying
Speaker 1: a very simple lyric, but it's but what's everything that
Speaker 1: I am? Body that it works? It works for them,
Speaker 1: it works for me. Yeah, but you know, maybe I'm
Speaker 1: just not smart enough for some people. And to them,
Speaker 1: I say, I don't know if I can say this,
Speaker 1: just bleeve it fuck off?
Speaker 2: Yeah you can say it, Yeah, glad I did. People
Speaker 2: are the worst. Yeah, people are. It's really hard to
Speaker 2: become and remain a confident woman and in this in
Speaker 2: this world, there's always something coming at you, well, what
Speaker 2: is next for you?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm just like taking a look at
Speaker 1: my phone to see and to be called, and they
Speaker 1: have not, so I don't know. See I truly, I mean,
Speaker 1: I hope the same with Patty comes together. I have
Speaker 1: a lot of faith that well, because that'll be cool. I'll,
Speaker 1: you know, I'll keep I'll keep performing live and I'll
Speaker 1: and I hope to dream up a new un show
Speaker 1: because I've loved doing it so much. I don't want
Speaker 1: it to end, so I gotta figure out a new
Speaker 1: way to do it.
Speaker 2: You will, you will, all right, let's get to a
Speaker 2: lightning round. Okay, what's your favorite musical? I know I
Speaker 2: know a.
Speaker 1: Sound of music because it's got a lot of good
Speaker 1: memories as a kid.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's a good one. What musical role would you
Speaker 2: most like to play?
Speaker 1: I really wanted to when they did The Little Mermaid,
Speaker 1: I really wanted to play Ursula in some shape or form.
Speaker 2: That would have been so good.
Speaker 1: I know they really missed the mark. I mean, Mlissa
Speaker 1: McCarthy is incredible, But you know what, I think I
Speaker 1: could have had something wonderful to offer as well, So
Speaker 1: keep that in mind for the future.
Speaker 2: And that's that is a role for a singer. I
Speaker 2: mean that song. Her song is really good and big,
Speaker 2: and it's a big it's a big song.
Speaker 1: But when I say I like to sing, I like
Speaker 1: to sing from my tits up through my toes, me white,
Speaker 1: my toes up tits. Yes, And I think that I could.
Speaker 1: I could give Ursula something, something real, meaty, something real special.
Speaker 2: I love that. I hope that happens someday me too,
Speaker 2: Sonya or Luanne.
Speaker 1: Oh man. You know it's different every day. But today
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give it to Louis because I just saw.
Speaker 1: I know she's been on that cabaret life and you
Speaker 1: know I got I love them both. I love them both,
Speaker 1: but today Loui Anne.
Speaker 2: I love it. If you were a real housewife, what
Speaker 2: would your tagline be?
Speaker 1: Big, tiss trem ankles, come at me? What would yours be?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I've thought about this obviously, but probably
Speaker 2: something some pun on the news, like you know, I
Speaker 2: read the news, but I'll read you or something. I
Speaker 2: don't have something something like that. But I could never
Speaker 2: be a housewife. I am so boring, Bridgett. I'm so
Speaker 2: like a verse to to conflict I mean I thought
Speaker 2: with a friend, like ever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm like I've been watching you know, Salt Lake City,
Speaker 1: just getting up to speed on what's going on. I'm
Speaker 1: like this, this is I mean, I always feel like
Speaker 1: I have to lay down after I watch a lot
Speaker 1: because it's yeah, so much just back and forth, and
Speaker 1: I'm conflicted versus well, so yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah it is for when they do that, it's for
Speaker 2: a certain kind of person, and yeah, God bless them
Speaker 2: because that's given me so much entertainment. But I could
Speaker 2: never what's your favorite movie?
Speaker 1: I love Ordinary People, I love Rudy. Those are probably
Speaker 1: my two favorites. So good, Yeah, I love my friend
Speaker 1: got me an autographed Rudy Rudiger jersey when I started
Speaker 1: doing the show.
Speaker 2: So that's amazing. I cry every time I see that movie,
Speaker 2: like every time, and I know what's gonna happen, and.
Speaker 1: More than once, by the way, I.
Speaker 2: Like, yes, when he finally gets in on like the
Speaker 2: fourth time, I am ale so good. That movie is great. Yeah,
Speaker 2: do you have a favorite opera?
Speaker 1: You know I used to sing this are two Katie
Speaker 1: Jel from Turn Dot and so I love that Katie
Speaker 1: got it. Just cut that out. But like that that's
Speaker 1: probably it's just because it's like you know, it's a
Speaker 1: lot of power, a lot of power.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, this is the last question. It's very important
Speaker 2: to me. When is iced coffee season.
Speaker 1: Well, I feel like I'm gonna get this answer wrong,
Speaker 1: but for me, I think it's always ice coffee season.
Speaker 2: That is the correct answer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because look, I like to you know, you can't
Speaker 1: have your hot coffee in the morning, but in the afternoon,
Speaker 1: I would have that.
Speaker 2: One year round is the right answer, Bridget, It's the
Speaker 2: right answer. You survived.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's a lot of pressure. God, I
Speaker 1: didn't know that was gonna happen. Oh my god. I'm
Speaker 1: glad I got it right.
Speaker 2: It's why we end with it.
Speaker 1: Oh how many people get it right?
Speaker 2: You'd be surprised how many people get that question wrong,
Speaker 2: either by saying I don't drink coffee, which is like
Speaker 2: get the fuck out of my podcast, yes, or or
Speaker 2: like well it's from like June to shut the fuck up. No, No,
Speaker 2: it is this. It is one hundred percent year round.
Speaker 2: But a lot of people have gotten it right. We
Speaker 2: have lots of friends. We have lots of friends, all right,
Speaker 2: as coffee family. Thank you so much, Bridget This will
Speaker 2: be really great and fun.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Next week on Off the Cup, I sit down with
Speaker 2: the Summer Houses Carl Radkey. When you first started the show,
Speaker 2: what did you think you were getting yourself into?
Speaker 1: Just having fun and partying with my friends.
Speaker 2: They're just gonna follow us a little bit, and yeah,
Speaker 2: maybe something could come of it, But I never knew
Speaker 2: in a million years it would turn into what it
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