Speaker 1: Look man, oh, I see you my own line and
Speaker 1: look over there is that in the culture.
Speaker 2: Yes, goodness, lost culture.
Speaker 1: Ding dong, lost culture calling tactile tactile.
Speaker 2: Hey, hey, we're in strike mode.
Speaker 3: We're in strike mode, and we're checking in with each
Speaker 3: other and you out there.
Speaker 4: People are asking what you can do to support the
Speaker 4: w G a strike that is officially happening.
Speaker 3: We're where it's.
Speaker 4: As of twelve oh one am C S T E T. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we're on strike.
Speaker 2: What can you do to support?
Speaker 4: Well, I guess you can be like missus Betty Gilpin
Speaker 4: and destroy AI for one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we need to get rid of AI once and
Speaker 3: for all.
Speaker 1: And this is what's really making me see that finally,
Speaker 1: it wasn't it wasn't clear to me by Centennial Man,
Speaker 1: because that was a parable that movie.
Speaker 2: Can we wait, hold on, we don't talk about bi
Speaker 2: centennial Man.
Speaker 1: We literally don't talk about bi Centennial Man enough. And
Speaker 1: we'll get back to the writer's strike. But but first
Speaker 1: we have to just touch on Bisentenia Man, which speaking
Speaker 1: of writing.
Speaker 4: Speaking of writing, Oh, fabulous writing. This was an epic
Speaker 4: space film.
Speaker 1: This was fantasy, it was drama, it was comedy, it
Speaker 1: was it was science fiction, which is another word for technology.
Speaker 1: It's actually real. Coach are number nineteen. Sci fi is
Speaker 1: it another word for technology? That movie never forget the iconic
Speaker 1: Celendion song at the end, I'm forgetting. Then you look
Speaker 1: at me and I always see I'm so close to about.
Speaker 2: What I have been searching. Fun gag. Listen to it.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, and the Celene Dion belt are tities off.
Speaker 4: Why didn't that movie sort of hit more? I guess
Speaker 4: is what is my question? You had, Robin Williams. You
Speaker 4: had a Celine Dion song.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it had all the makings.
Speaker 1: I had Mbeth David's Mbeth David's period. Children are not
Speaker 1: called embth anymore. That's actually really culture number nine. Children
Speaker 1: are not called anymore. And we have an announcement. One
Speaker 1: of the nominees for oh my God, our best name
Speaker 1: that people are not named and will not be named
Speaker 1: going forward anymore, is mbeth.
Speaker 4: I think we took that category out. Oh my god,
Speaker 4: can we just say. On the flight back from Orlando,
Speaker 4: Matt and I sat, our flight was extremely delayed. We
Speaker 4: sat on the plane. We wrote out the entire list
Speaker 4: of new categories and old ones remaining categories for cultural awards.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned because you are in for some old favorite
Speaker 1: categories and also new categories that are sort of more
Speaker 1: newer than the older ones.
Speaker 2: Yes, and we did do that.
Speaker 1: But anyway back to the strike, So, yes, the Writer's
Speaker 1: Guild is on strike. And basically what happened was the
Speaker 1: studio's response to us was, in a word, pathetic.
Speaker 3: It's very demoralizing to see where we're sort of at.
Speaker 1: I guess I thought that it was going to be
Speaker 1: way easier than it seems like it's going to be.
Speaker 1: I had heard from my sources, which I now confirm
Speaker 1: we're bullshit, that like there was like one hold out
Speaker 1: or like that we were almost there on every issue
Speaker 1: except one or two, and like it seemed like it
Speaker 1: was feasible we'd reach a agreement. But then the response
Speaker 1: was just pathetic.
Speaker 4: It was very much giving the thing of like, well
Speaker 4: I heard from someone in the know, and then in
Speaker 4: the next breath going, well, no one really knows anything.
Speaker 1: And then one in Hollywood is a fucking liar and
Speaker 1: also stupid. So why would you turn to your friend
Speaker 1: who's involved in Hollywood or or the entertainment industry, which
Speaker 1: is another word for Hollywood. It's a real coachure number eight.
Speaker 1: Hollywood is another word for entertainment industry. They're the dumbest
Speaker 1: people in the world, so why would they know what's happening.
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding me, really, but we need them pretty dumb.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, like, if you have like what you
Speaker 1: think is a good source, stop saying that.
Speaker 2: Check your sources. Not one of your sources has been
Speaker 2: good in this or any issue.
Speaker 1: When a sort of gay guy comes over to you,
Speaker 1: like shaking their shoulders and doing their gay guy thing,
Speaker 1: because gay guys, I don't know if you've noticed, they
Speaker 1: shake their shoulders, they move it sort of gaay way,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Like sometimes I'll be at a bar and a gay
Speaker 3: guy will sort.
Speaker 2: Of gay up to me and I go, what are
Speaker 2: you gay?
Speaker 1: And like hit me with justice here it's just like this,
Speaker 1: like explain to the readers what I'm doing.
Speaker 2: Okay, Matt just hit me in a sort of gay
Speaker 2: almost faggy way.
Speaker 1: And I sort of say and I say something like
Speaker 1: this new Ari album Wednesday, and you're like, gay guy,
Speaker 1: get out of here, because you're a liar, first of all.
Speaker 2: And then Wednesday rolls around and then it's like, oh,
Speaker 2: you meant Zora Larson.
Speaker 1: No, missus, Zora Larson has been dragged because her name
Speaker 1: is Zara Larson.
Speaker 2: Zara, That's what I meant. But now it doesn't matter
Speaker 2: at all.
Speaker 1: We actually loved Zara Larson. We love Zarah Larson. Yes, wait,
Speaker 1: that's a good one. What's a good song We've been
Speaker 1: listening to and you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4: There's a's a tie between two Go Ahead both by
Speaker 4: Mazy Peters period It's Lost, the breakup and Body Better
Speaker 4: the way I became so proud to see literally Bowen
Speaker 4: become like amazing Peter Stam like in hours.
Speaker 2: We're seeing her at Radio City, Yes we are.
Speaker 3: You should all come, speaking of live performance before we
Speaker 3: bring our guests in, and we're lucky to have the guests.
Speaker 2: We're so lucky.
Speaker 1: The Tony nominations were announced. We want to say congratulations
Speaker 1: to many of our friends who have been on the
Speaker 1: podcast who earned nominations today.
Speaker 2: Ben Platt, Bonnie Milligan, Amber.
Speaker 1: Ruffin, Amber someone Yes, I mean just shout out to
Speaker 1: and like other people we don't know and have never
Speaker 1: met and may never meet, or have you met you've
Speaker 1: met Sarah Burrellis.
Speaker 2: I've not met Sarah Burrellis.
Speaker 4: Oh oh we know, Oh my gosh, of course I've
Speaker 4: met Sarah Burrellis. But it was in such I met
Speaker 4: Sarah Burrellis at Elsewhere because that's what we shot our
Speaker 4: episode of Girls by Eva, and it was very much
Speaker 4: I was like, what am I?
Speaker 2: I was like. It was also my first time back at.
Speaker 4: Elsewhere since since Lockdown, and I was like, god, I
Speaker 4: remember all the parties that used to happen here. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and it was like Sarah Burrells being so chill, cool, normal,
Speaker 4: cool girl, Sarah Burrellis. Okay, can we spoil a category.
Speaker 4: There's a category called Alison Williams Cool Girl Award.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, are you saying that Sarah Brellis isn't
Speaker 1: any Williams Cool Girl Award?
Speaker 2: Absolutely?
Speaker 1: That is so amazing and I can't wait for the awards.
Speaker 1: I also want to say shout out to fucking Julia
Speaker 1: Lester who slad a little red and into the woods
Speaker 1: and they remember her, and also Ruthie and Miles did
Speaker 1: the Begger Woman and let me say this as a
Speaker 1: sort of Asian guy, me, yeah, And that was like
Speaker 1: a sort.
Speaker 2: Of gay guy me. Ruthie is our queen. Ruthie.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's amazing.
Speaker 2: It's amazing. We intersected, Ruthie, you.
Speaker 3: And I, You and I. It's great to have something
Speaker 3: in common.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Cool Girl Award, Speaking of Cool Girl Award
Speaker 1: and people having things in common.
Speaker 2: Our two guests study hosts a podcast.
Speaker 1: They hosted the podcast on the huge, major, huge betches
Speaker 1: platform betch'es up This up.
Speaker 2: It's where you get politics, pop culture.
Speaker 1: News, topical queendom. The vibe is group chat. It's giving Hey, everyone,
Speaker 1: gather around, we're talking.
Speaker 4: Hey everyone, I'm changing the group chat pick and I'm
Speaker 4: adding a couple more folks to this.
Speaker 2: And you're gonna want to add to contact.
Speaker 1: Whenever I see someone be so bold in the group
Speaker 1: and I'm on record on this, oh yeah, to change
Speaker 1: the picture, I go go off or just add people,
Speaker 1: I say, Okay, my god, I can't imagine being so
Speaker 1: confident something to leave the house. And I think I'm
Speaker 1: not the person who's going to add people to the.
Speaker 2: Group chat today.
Speaker 1: Our guests are our guests do it all the time.
Speaker 1: This is the Betch's Sup Podcast. And you know and
Speaker 1: love our guests from their other work as well. And listen.
Speaker 1: One of them is even a return guest on the
Speaker 1: podcast and the other had the Janellis j Show on
Speaker 1: the Clown Parade, And I'm telling you that shit made
Speaker 1: me laugh so funny.
Speaker 2: Really really really really well, well I laughed.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, we were in Disney and we kept saying, wow,
Speaker 1: we ate Well I laughed, Well, I laughed. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Janella's together. They are a force, absolutely, and actually they're
Speaker 1: a threat to us.
Speaker 2: Threat. Well, we're very excited they're here, though, very.
Speaker 3: Excited they're here.
Speaker 1: And there is a category at this year's Cultural Awards
Speaker 1: it can spoil, which is biggest current threat to us. Yes,
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're nominated, but I think there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of sort of let's call it,
Speaker 1: you know, comedy comedians podcast are definitely threats to us, definitely.
Speaker 1: Can we have our eye on them and we'll see,
Speaker 1: we'll see, and we're watch the space, watch the space.
Speaker 2: We're so happy they're here. Everyone welcome atlic morale.
Speaker 5: Goodnesseration.
Speaker 2: I you've threatened us in the past already.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was just off handedly, like I can't remember
Speaker 4: exactly when, but I'm sure like individually and as a duo.
Speaker 4: You threatened us like I'm gonna come to your house Bowen.
Speaker 6: Do you not remember our first artistic collaboration with me?
Speaker 4: And yes, yes, yes it was Rally Williams were to
Speaker 4: play about the Chilean Miners that we did at the
Speaker 4: Annoyance Theater.
Speaker 6: Latino cast who was the director.
Speaker 4: When directed a show with an all LATINX cast. But
Speaker 4: it was so so funny and.
Speaker 6: It was an interactive like sleep, no more like play
Speaker 6: at the Annoyance.
Speaker 2: It was an immersive play.
Speaker 4: We took over every room and then in the end
Speaker 4: we all got out through like the hatch door.
Speaker 6: Yeah. So we would re enact the Chilean my collapse
Speaker 6: every night for every second.
Speaker 1: So let's sort of shift the conversation to why you
Speaker 1: thought you why you thought that it was a good
Speaker 1: idea for you to take on that responsibility of leading
Speaker 1: that show.
Speaker 2: That's an amazing valid question. Yeah, I know my answer.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: Rollie Williams came up to me said, I have this
Speaker 4: show in mind.
Speaker 3: I love when a conversation starts like that.
Speaker 4: It's about this, It's about the Chilean miners, And I go,
Speaker 4: my dad works in mining, I'm the perfect director.
Speaker 3: For it, and he said, you're the gay guy to
Speaker 3: director And that.
Speaker 4: Is my only that is the only time I've like
Speaker 4: really had nepotism work in my favorite you know.
Speaker 6: And that's what I'm saying, you know, and that's part
Speaker 6: of my I don't think so, honey.
Speaker 3: She launched into it now.
Speaker 6: No, it's like I'm the nepo baby of Dominican hair
Speaker 6: salons and.
Speaker 2: Exactly, yeah, comedy entertainment.
Speaker 6: No, but if you want to open a Dominican hair
Speaker 6: salon cal Florida, I'm your fucking there's royalty in that head.
Speaker 6: And that's what we're not talking about. No, Stiller, and
Speaker 6: that's your example. Well, because okay, because the neo babies
Speaker 6: I'm coming in, come on, we're not ready. They're like, oh,
Speaker 6: it's the same thing, like oh, if your parents a doctor,
Speaker 6: then you're a doctor. And it's like, well, first of all, no,
Speaker 6: second of all, yes, yeah, you know, definitely, my dad's
Speaker 6: a miner. I should direct this thing, like go off.
Speaker 5: And I remember you bringing that. It's the hatch.
Speaker 7: I was the one who opened that, and no one
Speaker 7: else could have done that.
Speaker 4: If only someone with a father who works in mining
Speaker 4: could have done.
Speaker 1: That, would even know how to hold the call it
Speaker 1: the lever on the hat.
Speaker 6: But we did that show every fucking Saturday for like
Speaker 6: a year and half, like.
Speaker 2: A year and a half.
Speaker 4: Crazy, how there are more stories of people falling in
Speaker 4: those hatches on the street.
Speaker 2: Those are everywhere, but one of my topears falling.
Speaker 3: Through like one of the greats. Yeah, it's really crazy
Speaker 3: to think about that. It could happen at any time,
Speaker 3: and it's something.
Speaker 1: The city is full of holes. The city is full
Speaker 1: of holes. Actually, Ruler coachure number fifty one, this.
Speaker 2: City is full of hole.
Speaker 1: By right here, you'll notice that I didn't say New
Speaker 1: York City is full of holes. Every city is full
Speaker 1: of holes. You have to watch out for where you
Speaker 1: are stepping or standing and hearing on this podcast right now,
Speaker 1: because you don't think about this in other cities necessarily
Speaker 1: as much as New York.
Speaker 3: But there are holes everywhere.
Speaker 6: And you know what, and that's why we're all desensitized
Speaker 6: because constantly showing hole on timeline that doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 4: I know, I could see this walking outside my apartment.
Speaker 6: Excuse me, and guess what. That hole ain't gonna kill me?
Speaker 2: Well, you don't know. Wow, well you don't know.
Speaker 6: You're right, You're right, coachre blind spots.
Speaker 3: Some of these holes are out to kill.
Speaker 2: I know firsthand. Well have you ever had hole?
Speaker 7: Ever?
Speaker 3: Have you ever seen that hole?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 6: You know what. I just read too many revenge ports.
Speaker 6: I don't play those games. I have pictures and literally anything.
Speaker 4: I think like maybe the four of us all before,
Speaker 4: like I think we all had the sense early on
Speaker 4: that we were like, let's not let's not pass these.
Speaker 3: Oh I didn't have that sense. I was sending a lot.
Speaker 6: Of can I say I was not into pictures to
Speaker 6: the pandemic, And then you know, it was very much
Speaker 6: a game of like what can I say to this
Speaker 6: guy to get him to send me a picture of
Speaker 6: his day?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 2: And then he's like sort of that.
Speaker 3: The whole is like what you have in your cards
Speaker 3: of death.
Speaker 6: But I never do it.
Speaker 2: See.
Speaker 7: That's the thing though, I don't want a return image.
Speaker 7: Like whenever I sent photos, I just was like, gaze
Speaker 7: upon me. I don't need anything in return. And I
Speaker 7: remember one time a guy sent me something in return,
Speaker 7: and I was like, yeah, I guess.
Speaker 1: The ideal thing is to send a picture of yourself
Speaker 1: and have the response be somewhere along the lines of
Speaker 1: like fuck or like fuck babe, like wow, or like
Speaker 1: holy shit. And then if you get send something back
Speaker 1: from a guy, what you're getting is a dick.
Speaker 2: Pic right right.
Speaker 3: And I'm not blown away by dick. I've never really
Speaker 3: been like.
Speaker 6: A There's some good ones, but I'll say this. One
Speaker 6: time I set a picture of me in a bra
Speaker 6: and the guy friend zoned me.
Speaker 2: So because.
Speaker 6: No, He's like, you know what, you're a really great friend.
Speaker 6: And I'm like, okay, I'm never doing this again.
Speaker 2: Picture of you and a bra. Like it was just
Speaker 2: the bra and nothing else.
Speaker 6: It was my face and me and a nice bra,
Speaker 6: and he was like, hey, we're good friends. The thing
Speaker 6: about being friend zoned by a straight man is that
Speaker 6: when you're friend zoned by a straight man, they'll still
Speaker 6: fuck you. But that is what friendship is straight men.
Speaker 6: It is like, we're still go in a bug. You're
Speaker 6: just my friend. And also it's so hard dating straight man.
Speaker 6: We can go into that, but it's just the whole thing.
Speaker 4: I would like to go into it because I feel
Speaker 4: like I've lost touch. I genuinely want to get back in.
Speaker 3: Well, you've been with for many.
Speaker 7: I know I'm married to one here, I committed myself
Speaker 7: to one, and I was just thinking that I have
Speaker 7: like one ancient nude on my phone and the person
Speaker 7: who receives that nude is now my husband.
Speaker 3: So there you go with that.
Speaker 1: You will, So you're saying if I'm just sort of
Speaker 1: like excavate what you're saying here, you've sent nudes to
Speaker 1: only one man.
Speaker 5: No, I've sent I've sent nudes before, but I only
Speaker 5: have one nude on.
Speaker 7: My phone that I keep because I really thought it
Speaker 7: was a good one and I angles are great and
Speaker 7: check it out.
Speaker 1: The flashing of it really is good.
Speaker 3: Emerald band reader, it's beautiful. This one's for you.
Speaker 7: Actually, we got it off Jared dot Com previously used
Speaker 7: collections WHOA.
Speaker 1: And you know.
Speaker 7: Someone either died or divorced and now it's mine.
Speaker 6: And I'll just say this, you know me in a lease.
Speaker 6: Two Latina women, really funny, know a lot about the news,
Speaker 6: really well informed. Our only toxic trait is that we're straight.
Speaker 8: Unfortunately, but even toxic when you know how to handle it.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, We know how to handle
Speaker 1: being straight. I don't find it to be toxic.
Speaker 2: At all.
Speaker 6: So how does someone not know how to handle being.
Speaker 4: Straight the same way that someone can bear? A gay
Speaker 4: guy can barely handle being a gay.
Speaker 1: Guy because like I imagine, imagine you saw me out
Speaker 1: of the bar, you didn't know who I was, and
Speaker 1: I'm sort of moving over to you.
Speaker 2: Like a gay guy.
Speaker 6: Because then is that the Babba duke?
Speaker 1: That is, when gay men are acting like the Baba duke,
Speaker 1: they're like okay, they can't handle it, and when stray
Speaker 1: people are it's like the opposite, right, So the gay guy,
Speaker 1: he's sort of coming over to you like this, just
Speaker 1: get to the point and get over here and say
Speaker 1: what you need to say.
Speaker 6: So much like, first of all, well, first of all,
Speaker 6: I'm in a gay club. They're like okay, Jennifer Hudson,
Speaker 6: and I'm like, okay, God, okay, Jennifer Hunt. Listen, that
Speaker 6: is happened. It's happened.
Speaker 2: This is what we're saying. Gay guys don't know. So
Speaker 2: then tell me about the streets. Straight this is what
Speaker 2: they do.
Speaker 1: They come in and amble over and they take up
Speaker 1: a lot of immediately, at least gays know to like
Speaker 1: only take up some rooms.
Speaker 2: Gay guys are baba dukes. Straight guys are like the.
Speaker 7: Minions, so many of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very Can we talk about the Minions phenomenon
Speaker 1: because I don't think we ever have.
Speaker 6: Okay, the minions are only men. The guys that created
Speaker 6: the Minions are like, there are no female minions because
Speaker 6: minions are stupid and women would never This is literally quotable, like,
Speaker 6: fucking look it up.
Speaker 7: There are no Minion reproduction, I guess, Or does that
Speaker 7: guy just.
Speaker 1: Create that guy created No, it's okay.
Speaker 4: I think we all have this blind spot in different ways,
Speaker 4: but like, how do they get created? Well, the Minions
Speaker 4: movie is a prequel to Despicable Meat before Groo finds.
Speaker 2: Them, he finds before they go to groove?
Speaker 7: Is it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it basically is. But they're all men.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, Wait you know what I just realized?
Speaker 1: Minions is ripped off from the Yep, guys, Wait a second.
Speaker 6: Yep, let's talk about it.
Speaker 1: Let's fucking got the guy who created Despicable Me is.
Speaker 4: His name is Sinko Paul. He's wonderful, created schmigger dude.
Speaker 3: So what you're saying is we have to walk this back.
Speaker 2: No, no, don't walk it back. We walk what back
Speaker 2: mallans is.
Speaker 4: It is an interesting thing because I guess it's one
Speaker 4: of those things where it's like Republican, No, it's Facebioper,
Speaker 4: it's Facebook, where it's like I created it, No, I
Speaker 4: created it.
Speaker 1: What we need is we need to get to typing
Speaker 1: again so we can have the Minions social network.
Speaker 2: What's dominions?
Speaker 6: What's the monologue for the Minion social network?
Speaker 5: Moawyer up, asshole?
Speaker 1: Yes, well you know it's like it's not Rooney Mara
Speaker 1: but Kate Marra and a scene like dumping him by
Speaker 1: being like and all you're ever going to be is
Speaker 1: been not a loving freak.
Speaker 3: And so he's like, how do I take.
Speaker 1: This banana in salt and make it into sorry but
Speaker 1: a franchise frand.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and then like hearing somebody speak Spanish, not understanding
Speaker 6: what they're saying, it's like what if there were mine?
Speaker 6: Because half of the half of the little when the
Speaker 6: minions are mumbling, half of those words are Spanish. And
Speaker 6: I'm like, really, is this racist? We can't unpack, we
Speaker 6: can't unpack, we can't go there.
Speaker 4: God, I have you and I have let's just say
Speaker 4: been racist? No, no, no, I'm sure, thank you but
Speaker 4: but Matt and I have done. I don't think so
Speaker 4: Honey's in different city. I don't think someone shows in
Speaker 4: different cities. There was someone who, unfortunately did I don't
Speaker 4: think so many minions. So it is a well meaning,
Speaker 4: I guess, white woman who said, we all know that
Speaker 4: they're supposed to be Asian people. And I was like,
Speaker 4: wait a minute, they're seeing an Asian language, aren't they.
Speaker 4: And I'm like, oh, okay, I don't think we all know.
Speaker 6: But you know what, I don't want a victim blame here,
Speaker 6: but trying to find fifty unproblematic comedians in each major
Speaker 6: city a challenge.
Speaker 4: It wasn't that she was, it's her interpretation of minions
Speaker 4: was like, wait, no, they're not supposed.
Speaker 2: To be.
Speaker 7: I do love a well we all know, and I'm
Speaker 7: saying something completely fucking nuts like that is.
Speaker 2: That's happy TikTok.
Speaker 6: That is half a TikTok. Really the dumbest person you
Speaker 6: ever met, putting on makeup, saying the dumbest shit you
Speaker 6: ever heard in your fuck.
Speaker 1: And then they're also proud of that because they're like
Speaker 1: the thing about TikTok is people just really respond when
Speaker 1: you just don't care and it's like, here's the thing
Speaker 1: about creating content when you hashtag just don't care, is
Speaker 1: that you're gonna say some shit that like you're barely
Speaker 1: thinking about and but you are still responsible for, and
Speaker 1: then it gets tiktoked out into the world and there
Speaker 1: you go.
Speaker 6: Well, that's the thing about like, that's the thing that
Speaker 6: sucks about Twitter being dead is that like it's just
Speaker 6: like it's so much easier to type of you fucking
Speaker 6: words and someone might screenshot it, but it's just less.
Speaker 6: It's just like, Okay, now, if I want to make
Speaker 6: a joke or something, I'm gonna have to fucking make
Speaker 6: a video editing on fifty filters, have some guy call
Speaker 6: me a fat hoo eight times, and.
Speaker 3: Then like have a gig guy be like, okay, Jennifer
Speaker 3: HUD's okay.
Speaker 6: Jennifer Hudson. And then it's just like this is so
Speaker 6: much effort. So it's like for you to keep up,
Speaker 6: the way that you keep up with the algorithm is
Speaker 6: you have to make a lot of shit. And then
Speaker 6: after I make a lot of shit, it's like the
Speaker 6: hashtag just don't care. But then you just don't care.
Speaker 6: You're gonna say some dumb shit shit, and then while
Speaker 6: you know, you know, you're like, let me tell you
Speaker 6: about this girl's like, let me talk about the worst
Speaker 6: fucking date I went on. He let the door close
Speaker 6: in my face, and I'm like cool. And then it's
Speaker 6: like there needs to be trigger warnings of like if
Speaker 6: you're under twenty four, I need to know before yeah.
Speaker 2: Fucking TikTok or just pop up on.
Speaker 6: Because I'm listening, like you're making sense, and then then
Speaker 6: I find out at the.
Speaker 2: End of the video that you're twenty two. Yeah right.
Speaker 7: I was very disturbed the other day because I, you know,
Speaker 7: I'm scrolling through TikTok and I got a girl. I mean,
Speaker 7: she was clearly twelve years old because it was get
Speaker 7: ready with me to go to a bat mitzvack, and
Speaker 7: I was just like, I can't.
Speaker 5: I can't because.
Speaker 1: Ohso the fact that like a person of bot mits
Speaker 1: for age is like a makeup experts, I know. I
Speaker 1: guess that's the That's another thing for me is like
Speaker 1: when you peek into TikTok and you peek into like
Speaker 1: gen Z or like super young culture, it's like they
Speaker 1: look so much older than they are. I think because
Speaker 1: like and That's why the twenty two year old of
Speaker 1: it all sneaks up on you is because oh, these
Speaker 1: are kids, like young kids, but they look thirty two.
Speaker 2: What age is everyone trying to look like? Twenty nine?
Speaker 3: That's actually a really cool.
Speaker 6: I would say twenty seven.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that twenty seven, that's yeah. True.
Speaker 6: There's a girl who this is I mean, and this
Speaker 6: is like symbolism to everything, symbolism. Ready this girl. I
Speaker 6: was watching her get ready for her little fucking tryouts
Speaker 6: for this Alabama like dance team for a college. And
Speaker 6: I'm seeing her get ready. She's like doing her hair,
Speaker 6: doing her makeup, beat beat beat, like multiple things, and
Speaker 6: then you're seeing her with the outfit change and she's like,
Speaker 6: this is Margiella, like super super expensive because first or
Speaker 6: first they do like the actual like interview because it's
Speaker 6: kind of like they want everyone to be like the
Speaker 6: Southern Belt, so they interview people that you have to
Speaker 6: answer questions, and then you do the actual dance part.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So I'm watching this bitch get like beat her face,
Speaker 6: talk about this weary outfits whatever, and then someone's like
Speaker 6: show us the tryout like you know whatever, and each
Speaker 6: thing is getting like three hundred thousand likes. When you
Speaker 6: finally see this bitch dance, You're like, girl, spend an
Speaker 6: hour less the pat you.
Speaker 3: Know, and you gotta go to nursing school.
Speaker 6: Yeah, not even nursing school. Just rehearse the dance more
Speaker 6: and do less makeup. And I feel like that's that's
Speaker 6: half of the thing with TikTok and me and Alsa
Speaker 6: have been in the game for a while and we
Speaker 6: talk about it. No shade, you know, this is now.
Speaker 6: We're gonna keep it real.
Speaker 2: But keep it, keep it fucking real.
Speaker 6: You know, there are people that you know, the pandemic happened,
Speaker 6: and then you get out of the pandemic and I'm
Speaker 6: doing shows and I've been fucking doing comedy, doing comedy
Speaker 6: over ten years, yep. I get somewhere pack fucking theater
Speaker 6: and this person just bombs. And I'm saying this person
Speaker 6: because it's like like this is a multiple people bombs,
Speaker 6: and I'm just like, yo, what the fuck looks great?
Speaker 6: Looks great, feet, feet, banging face, beat, whatever looks great?
Speaker 6: Bombs And then I'm like, what the fuck, Like, why
Speaker 6: the fuck like this? But then I go home and
Speaker 6: I look at their Instagram TikTok five hundred thousand followers, this,
Speaker 6: this and that, and I'm just like WHOA, like that
Speaker 6: is what's up.
Speaker 5: Young comedian who's listening to this?
Speaker 7: It's done a show with Melee sweating bullets.
Speaker 1: I And the thing is, though, like I've reserved my
Speaker 1: eye or less for them and more for like the
Speaker 1: fact that like it has become like sort of acceptable
Speaker 1: enough to be like, well, they cut their teeth on TikTok.
Speaker 1: We know that they're a certain level of influencer. But
Speaker 1: then it's like, yeah, I guess that's good for the
Speaker 1: show because it puts butts in seats, are good for
Speaker 1: whatever because it gets attention. But also then that person
Speaker 1: is not ready, And then I feel like it's easy
Speaker 1: to get demoralized and get really inscurre because and I
Speaker 1: don't take it for granted because we've also been doing
Speaker 1: this a very long time and like those years, those
Speaker 1: like hard yards of like going out and doing you know,
Speaker 1: three shows in a night, you know, five plus shows in.
Speaker 3: A week, like it's it makes you good at it.
Speaker 1: And so these people that had to come during the pandemic,
Speaker 1: like I'm actually even more blown away when they actually
Speaker 1: are good because yes, they don't have stage time.
Speaker 3: They don't they don't have the hours.
Speaker 6: And I don't have ire for them. I'm just like
Speaker 6: and like people do like a copy pasting of like,
Speaker 6: oh this thing with this person, Like they're good at Instagram,
Speaker 6: They're going to TikTok. I'm gonna copy them and do
Speaker 6: this myself. And it's like you still have to do
Speaker 6: the thing, honey, Like you still have to show up
Speaker 6: and do these like three shows or at least like
Speaker 6: put a little bit into the art.
Speaker 5: Pay four grand for improv lessons we did go up
Speaker 5: every week. Don't get paid?
Speaker 2: Do sol?
Speaker 1: You know? That an interesting question though, that aren't we
Speaker 1: also let me did that because like I don't I.
Speaker 2: Don't don't regret it. I kind of threw that away,
Speaker 2: but I don't regret it.
Speaker 4: But I do think like there wasn't I don't know
Speaker 4: that it was set up the best way and that's okay.
Speaker 7: Well, I don't regret it, but I do look back
Speaker 7: on it and go like it's fucking nuts that we.
Speaker 5: Were doing so much for free.
Speaker 7: And and once it actually shifted to people starting to
Speaker 7: put up their own shows where it's like, oh, you
Speaker 7: can get a cut at the door, like just once
Speaker 7: that like mental shift happened. It's so wild to think
Speaker 7: back on the time where it's like, no, but it's
Speaker 7: right that we're doing all of this for free and
Speaker 7: the shows are sold out.
Speaker 5: But no, it's good, it's good.
Speaker 6: I guess I have a different experience with it because
Speaker 6: I think that it wasn't set.
Speaker 1: Up in a way we're talking about the way and
Speaker 1: then pay it like theater schools and.
Speaker 6: The theater system, but it's just like it was set
Speaker 6: up in a way that made you think that if
Speaker 6: this place doesn't fuck with you, and if and if
Speaker 6: you didn't make it here, you'in't you ain't shit. And
Speaker 6: the thing that I personally had a problem with as
Speaker 6: a performer is like a lot of those people did
Speaker 6: not get me. They didn't get what I was putting down.
Speaker 6: They didn't get my energy. It was like a thing
Speaker 6: that they never see.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 6: A lot of the people making decisions were white men,
Speaker 6: white women, and it was like I was coming with
Speaker 6: a different energy and all that stuff, and I didn't
Speaker 6: fit into what they thought, you know, so I just
Speaker 6: was never like fostered into the you know, it wasn't
Speaker 6: like let I see who you are, and I'm gonna
Speaker 6: make you into the best version or like the funniest version,
Speaker 6: or here's the fundamentals, or this is a place where
Speaker 6: you can learn these fundamentals of comedy that you can
Speaker 6: go and apply to your own self. It was like, no,
Speaker 6: this is this place like if we say you're not
Speaker 6: fucking it, you ain't it and then maybe after a
Speaker 6: while we'll tell you to go do something else. So
Speaker 6: for me, that's like a thing where I'm like, thank god,
Speaker 6: I didn't listen to like you know what I mean.
Speaker 6: But yeah, like for people who like they never really
Speaker 6: fucked with or are really true you know, it was
Speaker 6: just like and then I see the people that they celebrated,
Speaker 6: you know, knowing that like actively like hating on me
Speaker 6: or like saying that listen, you care too much about
Speaker 6: you know, stuff like that. Like literally, yeah, that's the
Speaker 6: part of the system that can be so difficult is
Speaker 6: because like if it was framed as a way of
Speaker 6: like listen, this is a place because the education is good,
Speaker 6: Like learning the fundamentals and the rules of comedy is important.
Speaker 6: And I mean I think that's like that thing of
Speaker 6: like I don't regret it and I learned, and I
Speaker 6: met and I networked. But it's kind of like college
Speaker 6: where it's like you do have to like go explore
Speaker 6: and do something else or whatever.
Speaker 4: It's not like this thing anyway, the developmental track is
Speaker 4: not guaranteed or it's like if you can't clear a
Speaker 4: certain stage gate, then like you kind of are left
Speaker 4: to like your own devices. And I think, like, at
Speaker 4: least with someone who like went off on her own
Speaker 4: and like started her own shows.
Speaker 3: And you were always doing, We're always doing, you were.
Speaker 7: Well a lot of it was because of some of
Speaker 7: the stuff Milly was saying, because I like I got
Speaker 7: to a certain place within the UCB system. Lloyd Knight,
Speaker 7: thank you so much. That's junior varsity improp. And but
Speaker 7: then like I started pitching to the theater and they
Speaker 7: would never put my like original ideas up really, so
Speaker 7: then I was like, Okay, well I'm gonna start putting
Speaker 7: my shows up elsewhere. And then I was like, oh,
Speaker 7: I'm actually getting money.
Speaker 1: Even if it was a little bit of money, it
Speaker 1: was something and like literally saying at least your dinner
Speaker 1: and cab could have been paid for that, which was
Speaker 1: so you know, it felt really bad.
Speaker 2: It did, it did.
Speaker 7: And one nice thing that I will say is that
Speaker 7: I've done a couple improv shows in the post pandemic environment,
Speaker 7: and I think the vibe is really good.
Speaker 5: Good and it's because the hierarchies have been burned down.
Speaker 7: Well, yeah, they are trying to come back, but in
Speaker 7: right now, right now, there's like I think, a good
Speaker 7: energy where it's like no one's trying to get on,
Speaker 7: like yeah, there's no you're not really trying to get
Speaker 7: anything out of it.
Speaker 5: It's all it's all love of the game.
Speaker 1: And also the thing is when you say they're trying
Speaker 1: to come back, I feel like, you know what good
Speaker 1: try and come back. But also with knowing what you
Speaker 1: know as an organization, like whatever organization you're at, if
Speaker 1: you're some if you're rebuilding now in the Year of
Speaker 1: Our Lord twenty twenty three, like understand that you need
Speaker 1: to build from a diverse and like welcoming and like
Speaker 1: well rounded place and not just like restore what was
Speaker 1: because look like, of course the pandemic was a huge
Speaker 1: reason why these things went down. And it's always sad
Speaker 1: whenever like a business like that takes a hit, and
Speaker 1: like ultimately like needs to completely rebuild.
Speaker 3: But also I don't think that was the only reason.
Speaker 3: I honestly think like.
Speaker 6: There's a lot of reasons.
Speaker 2: Yeah, tons of reasons.
Speaker 1: And like we all started feeling like power in numbers
Speaker 1: for people who felt like they were talented but not
Speaker 1: feeling like they had a place in a certain area,
Speaker 1: and they were amazing people.
Speaker 4: That are like I can say, like I think the
Speaker 4: people that are like Coterie Millia whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, everyone was so good. So may people are doing
Speaker 2: so well.
Speaker 1: Like whenever I realized like the first place that I
Speaker 1: met like Darcy Carden, you know what I mean, like
Speaker 1: was when she was hosting like Backyard Brawl at Midnight,
Speaker 1: which was the sketch competition u s B. That was
Speaker 1: I believe on like a Monday at midnight or something
Speaker 1: or like yeah whatever our Friday maybe it was a
Speaker 1: Friday or Saturday night, but like a late night show.
Speaker 1: Like and what what is really cool is like you
Speaker 1: see people both that were involved in that system and
Speaker 1: where good people go on to success and also people
Speaker 1: that were flat out rejected by that system and gone
Speaker 1: on to huge success. I'm sitting next to Bow and Yang,
Speaker 1: I mean, like never made it on a house team
Speaker 1: like et cetera. That was of my general it was,
Speaker 1: but it was that was a joke that people were saying, like,
Speaker 1: you know, Abby and Alana never made it on a
Speaker 1: house team, and it became.
Speaker 2: Like lol, like a bit.
Speaker 1: But then like also they did it, they did, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, And then they also went on
Speaker 1: to become iconic.
Speaker 7: And I do think that that that Abby and Alana
Speaker 7: never made it on a house team, yeah, is why
Speaker 7: our improv grade ultimately generation was so like personally motivated
Speaker 7: to do other stuff and start other shit and do
Speaker 7: this and that and the other thing because we had
Speaker 7: this like big example, well yeah.
Speaker 5: And not needing to make it in the hierarchy exactly.
Speaker 5: And I mean I think that like they get on
Speaker 5: university and practic I.
Speaker 6: Well, I think it's just like with the energy of
Speaker 6: like these people do not fuck with me, These people
Speaker 6: don't see me. What can I do? Can I kill
Speaker 6: myself to try to like make fit in their mold,
Speaker 6: or can I just go do my own thing or
Speaker 6: start my own shit. And it's a lot of people
Speaker 6: are like, you know what, I'm just gonna do my
Speaker 6: own shit. I'll get money, I'll get twenty dollars at
Speaker 6: the end or like I'll create it, you know. I
Speaker 6: mean that's like half of my shit is like how
Speaker 6: can I make it easier for other people? And like
Speaker 6: when I became a teacher, because I taught a BCC
Speaker 6: for a while, and it's just like the energy that
Speaker 6: was given to me the people who bottleneck me and
Speaker 6: a last were talking on the way over here of
Speaker 6: like some people just live and their goal is.
Speaker 2: To gatekeep right, and there's people talking about us.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, we're talking about you guys.
Speaker 5: How are we going to handle this?
Speaker 6: How are we going to handle that? They just want
Speaker 6: to gate keep so much, I know, but it's like,
Speaker 6: you know, my whole ethos is like how can I
Speaker 6: make it easier for the people after me? And also
Speaker 6: like as a teacher, it's like I'm not going to
Speaker 6: try to change anybody's shit. I just want to make
Speaker 6: see what people are giving me and and make that better,
Speaker 6: like you know, like bring out what you're trying to say,
Speaker 6: you know, in this stand up set and see if
Speaker 6: you can say it more efficiently or something like that.
Speaker 6: And I feel like I can't do anything about the
Speaker 6: past or anything. But it's just like having that pain
Speaker 6: and the thing it's like, well, first of all, like
Speaker 6: keep you going, and also like I'm sure both of
Speaker 6: you know, being naturally talented and being naturally funny isn't enough.
Speaker 6: It's so much. It's just you gotta be like producing
Speaker 6: your shit.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm pretty to the question it's a full
Speaker 1: time job exactly. And then especially when that comes to
Speaker 1: the time and this is okay. I always felt a
Speaker 1: certain type of way about people that did not have
Speaker 1: to work as a rival job or I did not
Speaker 1: have to be.
Speaker 3: Grinding, because I was just like oof, like it's and
Speaker 3: it's it's no one can.
Speaker 2: Whatever, Like I don't know what this even means.
Speaker 4: No one would, no one would like avoid that kind
Speaker 4: of thing of like, oh gosh, I'm in a cushy situation.
Speaker 2: Let me actually like reject you.
Speaker 1: Let me foss away this privilege and this like blessing
Speaker 1: I've been given, which is all this time, but it
Speaker 1: is different. And I also I just remember the idea
Speaker 1: that we had to constantly pay and obviously like this
Speaker 1: is part of the cutting teeth of it all, which
Speaker 1: is just like I would work all my shifts at
Speaker 1: the restaurant so I could make sure I could pay
Speaker 1: rent and pay for a UCP class and then my
Speaker 1: bank account would go down to like twenty dollars and
Speaker 1: I would start again that literally.
Speaker 7: In checking so much and like well, first of all,
Speaker 7: I was also hopping the turnstile at First Avenue.
Speaker 5: Great turnstyles, the MTA, the great one. You still do that,
Speaker 5: and I do it just for the thrill.
Speaker 7: I worked, so, I mean most of my jobs were
Speaker 7: like after school programs or like nannying, because they gave me,
Speaker 7: like the mourn. It was like a good time period
Speaker 7: to be working because you're just it's in the afternoon,
Speaker 7: but you get out in time for shows.
Speaker 5: But I also worked crazy weird side hustles.
Speaker 7: I worked for this like company that sold Broadway tickets
Speaker 7: and it was just now they're like a legit company,
Speaker 7: but I was there when they were like in their
Speaker 7: startup era, and they would hand me two thousand dollars
Speaker 7: in cash. I would go to Time Square. Oh, I
Speaker 7: would go to Times Square. Someone would use the app
Speaker 7: and like I think the person who was using the
Speaker 7: app would think like a purchase was automatically being made,
Speaker 7: but what would actually happen? So one would go to
Speaker 7: me and I would go to the theater and buy
Speaker 7: the tickets in cash and it.
Speaker 5: Was really really crazy.
Speaker 7: And I remember one time, like the CEO was in
Speaker 7: the office and he started grilling me, being like, what
Speaker 7: are you going to say if they ask if you're
Speaker 7: with our company? And I'm like, I don't know. Am
Speaker 7: I supposed to say I'm not with the company? Like
Speaker 7: I guess it was a secret for some reason. And
Speaker 7: then I ultimately did have to quit that job because
Speaker 7: they made me work on Thanksgiving, which you know happens.
Speaker 7: But then they were like, we need you to go
Speaker 7: to Rockefeller Center and get tickets and I was like, Okay,
Speaker 7: I can't because the Macy's Day parade is occurring and
Speaker 7: it's actually in between me and where the tickets are,
Speaker 7: and they were like you need to figure it out.
Speaker 7: I'm like I'm literally looking at Santa right like I
Speaker 7: cannot get. I cannot go. And then they were angry
Speaker 7: with me and I said, I'm done with this job.
Speaker 7: And I told you they wanted me to like run
Speaker 7: across the Macy's Day bride.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 6: My crazy Times Square job is that I worked at
Speaker 6: Dave and Busters Square as a photographer.
Speaker 5: So he was a creative.
Speaker 6: So I would go up to tables. I would work
Speaker 6: David Muster's Time Square, Dallas BBQ, Times Square and the
Speaker 6: Dallas BBQ and Chelsea Ratchet as hell, go up to
Speaker 6: tables and.
Speaker 2: Be like, oh, I'm doing a promotion.
Speaker 6: Can I take your picture? Take the picture, print it
Speaker 6: onto a keychain? And then I try to hustle them back,
Speaker 6: like get money, and like there were so many rules
Speaker 6: and like I couldn't say this cost to start, there
Speaker 6: was like a way because basically, if you say this
Speaker 6: for tip, people will just give you a dollar. And
Speaker 6: I have to from whatever I make that day, I
Speaker 6: have to give somebody a cut. This woman I've never
Speaker 6: met gave me the camera, who gave me the printing, surprise, whatever.
Speaker 6: So you try to hustle, not hustle people, but it's like, YO,
Speaker 6: give me five dollars for a fucking keychain, or like
Speaker 6: I'll put you ten for thirty or something like that.
Speaker 6: Like you know, whatever, I did get good. I did
Speaker 6: get good, but it took a fucking minute because before
Speaker 6: that job, I was working at a grocery store and
Speaker 6: that shit. I remember I worked overtime during Herricane Sandy,
Speaker 6: overtime overtime during Hurricane Sandy at a grocery store and
Speaker 6: my check was one hundred and eighty three dollars, which
Speaker 6: is time and a half. So then I got this
Speaker 6: like random ass job and Time Square during the holidays
Speaker 6: in like twenty twelve, and I was coming. I was
Speaker 6: riding the train every night at like three in the
Speaker 6: morning to the Bronx with five hundred dollars in my pocket,
Speaker 6: Like yo, what the fuck. But by the end, like
Speaker 6: even when I had my first day job where I
Speaker 6: was making thirteen dollars an hour working for this corporate receptionist, shit,
Speaker 6: I would make like I would go in on a
Speaker 6: Saturday afternoon and I could make like a like one
Speaker 6: hundred and fifty dollars, like in a at the.
Speaker 1: Time, Yeah, isn't funny. It's like it's like that gets
Speaker 1: you like a margin into what your rent is. But
Speaker 1: like I'm thinking back to it, that would have felt
Speaker 1: like one hundred dollars would have been like actually, yeah.
Speaker 6: No, that was like all my extra ship. So that's
Speaker 6: what I'm doing right, I'm working nine to five in
Speaker 6: a fucking office, people treating me like shit. Then I
Speaker 6: go to a fucking Time Square on Saturday and worked
Speaker 6: the stupid ass job. And then after work once a week,
Speaker 6: I would do these improv practices and I'm paying, paying
Speaker 6: the coach, paying the place, and the people I'm with like,
Speaker 6: I'm like, oh, what'd you do this week? And they're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 6: you know, just hung out.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And then and then like I'm like, yoh wait, how
Speaker 6: does this girl pay rent?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: And then it's like they don't. Oh, her dad copyrighted. Yeah,
Speaker 6: a term that's used to her dad copyrighted and march madness, and.
Speaker 2: I'll just never forget.
Speaker 1: Like going to n Yu, yeah, literally going especially going
Speaker 1: to NYU were like I guess I didn't understand because
Speaker 1: growing up like very working class on Long Island, like
Speaker 1: I wasn't around just like wealthy people. Yeah, and like
Speaker 1: like I would have friends that lived on like the
Speaker 1: South Shore of Long Island that like had money, and
Speaker 1: you knew it because you could see their homes. Then
Speaker 1: you go to school and you can't see people's homes
Speaker 1: where they come from. Like, yeah, I kind of like
Speaker 1: figure it out with how they dressed. But I wasn't
Speaker 1: looking at that. I was far too concerned with what
Speaker 1: was going on with me, very in my head and
Speaker 1: then I remember meeting people like freshman sophomore year of
Speaker 1: NYU for the first time and having a conversation and
Speaker 1: then going over to their apartment and it's like, whoa
Speaker 1: millions and millions of dollars of value and like literally
Speaker 1: like the best parts of the city. I'm like, oh
Speaker 1: my god. And it was so many people. It felt
Speaker 1: like I'm like, wow, there's a lot of like wealthy people.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and like how many rich people are in Ohio?
Speaker 6: Like right, I like it, just like how does everyone fuch?
Speaker 1: And You're like, I mean, I guess if this is
Speaker 1: all you know, then it's all you know. But like
Speaker 1: I'm seeing it and I'm calling it out. And whenever
Speaker 1: I found someone at that school that was also like
Speaker 1: from a background like me, we always connected about it totally.
Speaker 4: But like, I guess that's part of coming up in
Speaker 4: comedy and a place like New York where it's like
Speaker 4: it is kind of this big like hodgepodge of like
Speaker 4: people from different classes and mocks and like all this stuff,
Speaker 4: and you're like, oh, it is sort of an eye
Speaker 4: opening thing. I feel like there was an awaking for
Speaker 4: me after college once I started taking UCB classes where
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, like yeah, there's a whole other yeah,
Speaker 4: of people who like live completely different lines, right.
Speaker 2: I would overdraft constantly, yeah yeah, all the time. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: And it was such so shameful, like to have to
Speaker 1: like go to someone and ask for money or like
Speaker 1: you know, ask for like it's just like I remember
Speaker 1: my parents, Like I think it was two times I
Speaker 1: allowed myself to like go back and ask them for
Speaker 1: money because I was always my I always wanted to
Speaker 1: do it myself because duh, like you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like you want to feel like, especially in your mid
Speaker 1: to late twenties, like even though you know you picked
Speaker 1: something that's atypical and there are no guarantees, like you
Speaker 1: want at least feel like you can support yourself. And
Speaker 1: those times when you couldn't was so frustrating, which also
Speaker 1: broke my heart about the pandemic because I thought about
Speaker 1: people like us yea, you know who literally needed those
Speaker 1: opportunities and jobs. And what makes me really sad is
Speaker 1: knowing that like kind of an entire generation of comedy
Speaker 1: or people that could have like cut their teeth doing
Speaker 1: live stuff and like maybe couldn't figure out the TikTok
Speaker 1: or Instagram of it all, like that they like either
Speaker 1: had a lot more hardship or that they probably just
Speaker 1: didn't even totally pursue it.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I genuinely do feel bad for truly anyone even
Speaker 7: slightly younger than us going through the pandemic. Like I
Speaker 7: feel so bad for college kids who had to go
Speaker 7: If I had had to go fucking home and live with.
Speaker 3: My mom and during that time college, forget.
Speaker 5: I would have gone insane.
Speaker 7: And then in those first years, yeah, where it's like
Speaker 7: I needed a like service job, I was nannying or whatever,
Speaker 7: like I couldn't just lose my job. Talking about all
Speaker 7: this reminds me that I when I first moved to
Speaker 7: New York, I got a stupid credit card that it
Speaker 7: should never have been given to me, and I cash
Speaker 7: advanced my rent for like a while, and I just
Speaker 7: paid that bit job.
Speaker 5: Ten years in the making.
Speaker 6: So god, well, and.
Speaker 2: That's normal or abnormal, you know.
Speaker 6: Well, I'll just say that, like during the pandemic, I
Speaker 6: was teaching virtually like comedy classes, and a good thing
Speaker 6: was Like what you're saying is there were people I
Speaker 6: don't know. I'm just like, yeah, I think that they're missing.
Speaker 6: There was something they missed out on, which is like
Speaker 6: the community, which I think that is what the theater
Speaker 6: system brings up, is the community of things. But I
Speaker 6: will say that, like there are people in my classes
Speaker 6: from Seattle, Baltimore for this stuff, and instead of them
Speaker 6: all having to move to LA or New York, they
Speaker 6: were able to access these things virtually from wherever they
Speaker 6: were and we had like recitals and all this stuff.
Speaker 6: And I mean that's like the cool thing about social
Speaker 6: media and all that stuff is like it is this
Speaker 6: lower barrier of entry, but it is just a different
Speaker 6: skill than like live performance, and it's coming back, like
Speaker 6: that whole thing with the theaters and everything.
Speaker 7: I mean back and like these young girls out here,
Speaker 7: any young girls, I think that like what I observe
Speaker 7: of them is that they have like a very tight community. Yeah.
Speaker 7: I feel like I watched over them. I'm on Instagram
Speaker 7: store and I'm.
Speaker 6: Like God, and they're all like starting and again they're
Speaker 6: starting from a place. I mean, in some ways I'm like, oh,
Speaker 6: they missed, But in another way, it's like, oh, they're
Speaker 6: already starting with like this consciousness of like I don't
Speaker 6: need this old white guy to tell me that I'm
Speaker 6: not funny. I'm gonna make my own shows and I'm
Speaker 6: gonna do my own ship, and I'm gonna dress pretty
Speaker 6: and I'm gonna look nice, and I'm gonna do my
Speaker 6: comedy about how guys suck and all this ship. And
Speaker 6: they're starting already from like this place of benefit where
Speaker 6: I was like I was told in comedies like you
Speaker 6: haven't watched Star Wars, like why would you even do
Speaker 6: stand up?
Speaker 3: Or you don't know this episode of The Simpsons I'm
Speaker 3: and it's.
Speaker 2: Like, oh, this is you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: Name the sex and the City girls, name.
Speaker 6: Fu living single girl, name any Latino like you don't
Speaker 6: give a ship about when talking about culture, that's like
Speaker 6: my barrier of entry to be able to do this
Speaker 6: comedy formed this art form that has nothing to do
Speaker 6: with specifics.
Speaker 2: There's literally just like a plus peak.
Speaker 6: We'll see. That's the comedy formula. And all I needed
Speaker 6: to know was that. And you're telling me I have
Speaker 6: to know white male culture to be able to engage
Speaker 6: with it, but you don't have exactly I have to
Speaker 6: read the Hobbit and Jack out to the Lord of
Speaker 6: the Rings, but you don't have to know any of
Speaker 6: my ship. You don't have to know anything about South Florida.
Speaker 6: You have to go anything about the Caribbean or Latin
Speaker 6: America or anything like that. That was the thing that
Speaker 6: and then instead, you know, and that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: I'm like, what's really cool about this younger generation is like, Oh,
Speaker 6: I'm just gonna do my own thing over here.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: This is the perfect segue into asking Millie because we've
Speaker 4: not asked me, and then we do hear at least
Speaker 4: once in adendum.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, million, what is the culture that made
Speaker 2: you say cultures?
Speaker 7: For me?
Speaker 6: I'm sure someone said this, but the Muppets.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, we were just talking about the Mappets when
Speaker 2: we were in Orlando.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we were in Hollywood studios and we were walking
Speaker 4: by a sculpture of a fountain of Miss Piggy dress
Speaker 4: as the statue, which.
Speaker 3: Is exactly how she deserves to be immortal.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well, so my parents, my dad, I mean, I don't
Speaker 6: have to get super into this, but I'm one of
Speaker 6: six kids. I'm number five. So when my four brothers
Speaker 6: and sisters were all living in Harlem, in East Harlem,
Speaker 6: it was like the eighties and it was not great
Speaker 6: in New York City, so my mom and my dad
Speaker 6: did long distance. My mom went back to Dominican Republic
Speaker 6: with my four siblings, and my dad lived in New
Speaker 6: York because he made really good money as a graphic
Speaker 6: designer and he would record VHS's. This is like he
Speaker 6: would record VHS's of HBO and like the Simpsons episodes
Speaker 6: and like American TV and would send it to my
Speaker 6: mom and to my siblings to so like one of
Speaker 6: my like formative things that I would engage with. This
Speaker 6: VHS from like nineteen eighty nine or something of like
Speaker 6: recorded TV and one of its uppets, Take Manhattan.
Speaker 2: Is my favorite, one of the great and.
Speaker 6: Honestly though we're talking about like that was a thing
Speaker 6: where it was like wow. You know, as a kid,
Speaker 6: you're like, I like puppets and all this stuff, and
Speaker 6: as an adult you watched that movie and it's literally
Speaker 6: about making it in New York City. They think that
Speaker 6: they're gonna they're like, oh, they're the best in their
Speaker 6: college and they come to Manhattan and they're like we're
Speaker 6: gonna be on Broadway in two weeks and they're like
Speaker 6: eat shit, they and it's just like wow. And you know,
Speaker 6: of course, like miss Piggy. I mean, why wouldn't really
Speaker 6: be without mistake? Where would any of us spe where
Speaker 6: would any of us speed?
Speaker 1: And the thing too is just like it was such
Speaker 1: smart sketch comedy in that it was so simple and
Speaker 1: that also like the characters never exhausted, like they were
Speaker 1: always funny, like because they all had very clear specific
Speaker 1: games that they were playing, like loll game. But it
Speaker 1: was just very fun every single time. And so even
Speaker 1: to this day when I hear like friends of mine
Speaker 1: that are going up for jobs to work on like
Speaker 1: a Muppets project, I'm like, that really would be like
Speaker 1: a really fun environment, or you would hope at least.
Speaker 1: And also everyone I talked to it seems to get
Speaker 1: those jobs seems to be like really smart, and like
Speaker 1: there's just something like that brings us all together about
Speaker 1: the Muppets.
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, the guy who you know, Jim Henson. Yeah,
Speaker 6: like the Muppets for a while had like one season
Speaker 6: where they did SNL so like yeah in the seventies,
Speaker 6: and then he like absorbed all the SNL and then
Speaker 6: they went to London and made that Muppets Tonight show, yes,
Speaker 6: which is like, yeah, it is like literally sketch comedy.
Speaker 6: You know, it is very smart and it's like whatever,
Speaker 6: so I thought, and you know, just the origins of
Speaker 6: it being like Sesame Street and but like again bringing
Speaker 6: in these pop culture people and like, you know, a
Speaker 6: lot of like black people, yeah, a lot of queer people,
Speaker 6: a lot of things that you just wouldn't see in
Speaker 6: any other thing. I don't know, I just and of
Speaker 6: course a fat, fabulous blonde woman who beats the shit
Speaker 6: out of her husband and how did you not fad.
Speaker 7: I did one episode of Helpsters, which is a Jim
Speaker 7: Henson production, and it was so cool to see like
Speaker 7: the actors who do the buppets like they're in character
Speaker 7: the entire time in a way that's really really awesome.
Speaker 7: And it was like the most amazing environment. I worked
Speaker 7: with a live parrot named Sarah. Live parrot was real
Speaker 7: and her name was Sarah, and.
Speaker 5: She was wonderful.
Speaker 7: They like brought her to my trailer so that we
Speaker 7: could get to know each other, and like I put
Speaker 7: her on my shoulder and we walked around and I
Speaker 7: was like, all right, Sarah.
Speaker 5: Is no joke, Pavy actually on your shoulder.
Speaker 7: And I did actually need the practice walking around with
Speaker 7: the parrot, and I did feel very like I felt
Speaker 7: like I was walking very slowly and deliberately.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, because if you're on TV not holding the
Speaker 1: animal correctly or like that, that really makes a lot
Speaker 1: of people just widely nervous. I remember like when I
Speaker 1: hosted Hot Dog and Beyond that same built into the
Speaker 1: schedule before we would shoot time for me to like
Speaker 1: hold the dogs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, be with the dogs.
Speaker 1: It was literally like Matt plays with the dogs for
Speaker 1: twenty minutes so they would understand who I was and
Speaker 1: I would learn how to hold them because if you're
Speaker 1: on TV holding an animal, crazy the audi.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Well, also I did this show, this pilot that never aired,
Speaker 6: but it was like so crazy and they needed like
Speaker 6: three people on staff. I'm sure like you're saying, working
Speaker 6: with animals is no joke, Like the three people like
Speaker 6: the animal experts, right, that have to be there because
Speaker 6: it was like kind of a Disney shoot and there
Speaker 6: was like horses. There was like live horses racing and
Speaker 6: then one of the horses fell and we had to
Speaker 6: stop production and it was like such a crazy and
Speaker 6: it was just like, yeah, like people don't get like
Speaker 6: working on TV with the animals is so fucking crazy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think so hony like war scenes and
Speaker 4: like fantasy shows or whatever, or any show where it's
Speaker 4: like the horses have to fall, Oh my god, like
Speaker 4: how do you.
Speaker 1: I also feel that way with like babies hysterically crying. Oh,
Speaker 1: whenever a baby is hysterically crying in a movie, I'm like,
Speaker 1: all right, what you'll have to do? At what point
Speaker 1: are we like that's a little human or any living
Speaker 1: being that's in distress.
Speaker 3: You know, some actors won't do movies at all where
Speaker 3: there's where there's animals.
Speaker 1: Yeah, animals or yeah, I don't know about children, but
Speaker 1: animals like people like.
Speaker 2: They're like, yeah, I kind of get that, that kind
Speaker 2: of like ruefully.
Speaker 6: No, Well, my whole thing, my whole philosophy is that
Speaker 6: there are no child prodigies. They're just mentally ill adults
Speaker 6: pushing their kids to fucking act because that shit is like,
Speaker 6: I mean, there are kids who are naturally talented blah
Speaker 6: blah blah, but you really do need like a every
Speaker 6: fucking autobiography from a child actor is like my mom.
Speaker 1: Myself fucked up, like she is just there is just
Speaker 1: like that's that's another thing I think about in terms
Speaker 1: of like the privilege of it all. It's like you
Speaker 1: also had to be if you're someone who came to
Speaker 1: college ready with an agent or something and god bless whatever.
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying, like my my I was a
Speaker 1: little kid who was like interested in acting, Like I
Speaker 1: always wanted to do this, but my.
Speaker 3: Parents didn't have time to take me.
Speaker 1: I didn't have time to like, you know, be involved
Speaker 1: in things because everyone was just doing their best to.
Speaker 6: Like, dude, day we barely like we're talking about doing
Speaker 6: self tapes and all this shit balancing like it's so hard.
Speaker 6: I had a nephew who, like there was some online
Speaker 6: thing and he, you know, he was seven at the time.
Speaker 6: He lived in the Bronx, and he got cast for
Speaker 6: like a gogurt commercial thing or something for like new media.
Speaker 6: And what did that involve? That involved me leaving Bushwick,
Speaker 6: going to the Bronx, getting him from after school, taking
Speaker 6: him to Harlem to get a ride, to go to
Speaker 6: the studio, to get him in makeup, to get him
Speaker 6: in hair, this and this and that. He did great,
Speaker 6: he was great, he was naturally like whatever. But I
Speaker 6: had to watch and he was like trying to play
Speaker 6: around too much, and I was like, hey, let's go,
Speaker 6: you know, and he would whatever straighten up, but he
Speaker 6: did really great. All the people after were like, he's
Speaker 6: so good, he should keep acting, and he really wanted
Speaker 6: to keep acting, but like my and my sister was like,
Speaker 6: are you gonna keep putting him?
Speaker 2: Like no, I have my own dreams, and then later.
Speaker 6: And then I dreams and then like now he's twelve
Speaker 6: or thirteen, and he brought up casually, like over this holiday.
Speaker 6: He was like, yeah, I really liked acting, but I
Speaker 6: guess I wasn't good enough to do it. And I was, well,
Speaker 6: I was a little high, so I was like I
Speaker 6: was laying down in the bed because I got too
Speaker 6: high for my cousin's vabe And he's like yeah, and
Speaker 6: we had like this heart to heart and I'm like, no, honey,
Speaker 6: like it's not because you're not good enough. It's because
Speaker 6: like you need a parent with disposal or somebody with
Speaker 6: disposed to income and puts everything into you to like
Speaker 6: be able for you to show up on time, and
Speaker 6: you're not gonna have a normal childhood, right, That's why
Speaker 6: I mean, like mentally ill adults, like because you do
Speaker 6: need somebody who was like really putting everything.
Speaker 4: Into until yeah, you can make your own sacrifices. Yeah,
Speaker 4: like that's when, Yeah, it's a weird, weird line.
Speaker 6: Yeah, in some way.
Speaker 7: A little known part of my origin story is that
Speaker 7: I lived in la until I was twelve, so and
Speaker 7: while I was out there, I was a little kid
Speaker 7: who was really interested in acting. So I went to
Speaker 7: like Lee Straussberg, Yeah, and we did the Hobbit as
Speaker 7: a play so I am familiar. And then I did
Speaker 7: this like kids Comedy Connection thing that was like an
Speaker 7: improv thing for kids and all that people would come to.
Speaker 5: It all the time.
Speaker 7: I was just thinking about it, and the big thing
Speaker 7: that like I personally was like Mom, you should like
Speaker 7: make me do it. Like there were like other kids
Speaker 7: who was like parents had agents and we're doing all
Speaker 7: this stuff, and my parents were just like, no, we
Speaker 7: have lives, right, We're not Like my mom was like
Speaker 7: I work, your dad works.
Speaker 5: We're not spent.
Speaker 7: Like we'll send you to these after school things because
Speaker 7: you like them, but we are not gonna be hustling
Speaker 7: you all over downtown and doing all this shit, like
Speaker 7: we don't have that kind of time.
Speaker 6: Well, even like after school things I used to do baton.
Speaker 3: Oh I love it, Come on, you know, were you good?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 6: I think I was good at the dancing thing, but
Speaker 6: not like the actual baton, But like even to do
Speaker 6: like after school things. Your parent has to pick you
Speaker 6: up from school, drop you off. The competition that this,
Speaker 6: and not the disposable income to get you the new universe.
Speaker 6: It's just like there's a lot of things, a lot
Speaker 6: just to even be the basic like whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember watching all that and like Disney Channel
Speaker 1: and everything, And we were just in Disney World last
Speaker 1: week and I was thinking to myself, like they would
Speaker 1: shoot there, they would out which I think got lost
Speaker 1: and like I feel like when I was little, I
Speaker 1: always thought like, oh, these kids they live at like
Speaker 1: Universal Studios or ny World.
Speaker 3: That must be so fun.
Speaker 1: And then you see like the backstage of those places,
Speaker 1: and it's just like this is not really a place
Speaker 1: for a kid, which is really the whole thing with
Speaker 1: those theme parks, right, they project all this stuff for tourism,
Speaker 1: and then when you get there, it's like either a
Speaker 1: working studio or a very workplacey environment. So I'm not
Speaker 1: surprised that they get involved in things that like they
Speaker 1: probably shouldn't be getting involved in like I'm talking about
Speaker 1: like you know, drugs or whatever, or just like you know,
Speaker 1: getting bored and like fucking with each other in ways
Speaker 1: because and it's just so crazy to read some of
Speaker 1: these autobiographies that come out or whatever and like hear
Speaker 1: their takes because it's like, you know, their life was
Speaker 1: not as advertised to us, and so part of me
Speaker 1: is just like, while I was that kid that wanted
Speaker 1: that so bad, you can't help but be grateful that
Speaker 1: things turned out the way that they did because you
Speaker 1: were not making conscious decisions for your own life.
Speaker 3: It's complicated to child.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 6: Yeah, also I like to think that like we're all
Speaker 6: gonna make it. I mean, we all have great careers.
Speaker 6: But it's like then now you have this experience of
Speaker 6: like hustling and working hard that you can relate to,
Speaker 6: you know, and then also like grit, which is like
Speaker 6: you do need grit even if like that's the thing too,
Speaker 6: is like I used to get really jealous of like people,
Speaker 6: you know, like we're talking about people who didn't have
Speaker 6: to work for their rival jobs people whatever. But I
Speaker 6: you know, being in this industry, you know, even on
Speaker 6: the sidelines for so many years. Like I see my
Speaker 6: friends whose parents pay their rent or this and that,
Speaker 6: and like the first obstacle or the first disappointment they
Speaker 6: give up or they're like whatever, I didn't really like it,
Speaker 6: and it's like, oh honey.
Speaker 2: Like constantly eating shit you have always, which.
Speaker 6: Is just something. And then also like yeah, like I
Speaker 6: know what it is to work in an office or
Speaker 6: this and that or whatever, like I have these steaks
Speaker 6: so I'm able to write, perform whatever from this place
Speaker 6: of wanting yeah, wanted it bad, but also like having
Speaker 6: this universal experience which not a lot of people were,
Speaker 6: like grew up in this industry, is like don't know that,
Speaker 6: like what it's like to have a real job or
Speaker 6: not care.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what makes Alison Williams and her name's like
Speaker 1: for the cool girl the world because she did the
Speaker 1: one thing that I wish more people would do, which
Speaker 1: is just to be like when she's confronted with the
Speaker 1: NEPO baby of it all, she's like.
Speaker 3: Yes, and I love what she said.
Speaker 4: The one Happens Live. She was like, look like totally
Speaker 4: I had advantages. And the way I think about it
Speaker 4: is she was like I started on third base. Yeah,
Speaker 4: other people started her home base like that's the thing.
Speaker 1: It's like yeah, she literally and she also said this
Speaker 1: line which I thought was good, which was I get it.
Speaker 1: It's less fun to root for me than other people.
Speaker 1: I completely understand that, but I do work hard and
Speaker 1: so whatever. And so I was like, yeah, good, don't
Speaker 1: be annoyed that people are pointing out the fact that
Speaker 1: you started out. It's how it's how the world works.
Speaker 1: Just acknowledge it. That's really all people are asking.
Speaker 2: And that's for me.
Speaker 7: Acknowledge me is just like just to say like, yeah,
Speaker 7: I did, I did have all this stuff, but like
Speaker 7: I do work hard, and a lot of those people
Speaker 7: do work hard or like are talented. Like it's not
Speaker 7: necessarily about talent or whatever, it's just about like the acknowledgement.
Speaker 6: Well, I think that when a system makes it seem
Speaker 6: like it's a meritocracy or the people who work the
Speaker 6: hardest or the whatever are the ones that get it,
Speaker 6: And it's like really not, you know, I think that's
Speaker 6: what people are coming to terms with. Yes, when they
Speaker 6: like pointed out, but again it is honestly, there are
Speaker 6: so many people with so much privilege that fucking squander
Speaker 6: the bag fumble the bag, like you know that, like
Speaker 6: props to the people who fucking have a bit, because
Speaker 6: I'm just like, damn yo, if my parents had all
Speaker 6: this fucking money and they they would fucking fund whatever
Speaker 6: I want, and I still which a lot of fucking
Speaker 6: people do ye Like, yeah, it's just acknowledgment that people want.
Speaker 6: But it's also like I'm kind of sick of the
Speaker 6: nipple baby conversation because it's like, Okay, let's ask Alison
Speaker 6: Williams and like try to get you know, because a
Speaker 6: lot of people are asking like, hey, nipple baby, what
Speaker 6: do you think about being a nipple baby? They're gonna
Speaker 6: be like, man, when it's like, why don't you name
Speaker 6: five people who aren't nipple babies and fuck with them?
Speaker 6: Why is no one buy tickets to my ship?
Speaker 2: You know what it is?
Speaker 1: It's like it's like, you know what it is, Like
Speaker 1: the entertainment industry is so publicly merit based or pretends
Speaker 1: like we have the Oscars or all these award shows,
Speaker 1: and we talk so much about what does well or
Speaker 1: doesn't do well, and so we have this idea out
Speaker 1: there that like this is a business that rewards the
Speaker 1: best in its field.
Speaker 3: Extremely publicly.
Speaker 1: And when that is true, that would be fine if
Speaker 1: every industry was like that, but obviously not all industries
Speaker 1: are as public as this one. And so because this
Speaker 1: industry is just like other industries, which is like, oh,
Speaker 1: it was a family business, et cetera. Like the reason
Speaker 1: why it's annoying for the entertainment industry for these people
Speaker 1: who are nepple babies to be like, well, it's a
Speaker 1: family business. And no one says anything about doctors who
Speaker 1: go into you know, that profession. That's because they're not
Speaker 1: publicly rewarded and given merit again and again and again.
Speaker 6: And it's also like the people who are voting like
Speaker 6: publicly awarning you are your dad's best friends. And also
Speaker 6: like it's on a board of white people that are
Speaker 6: like only care well, like you know, again the whole
Speaker 6: Andrea Risebarrow of it all, you know what I mean
Speaker 6: of like five white people have to say that you're
Speaker 6: great for you to even be concerned, you know what
Speaker 6: I mean? And it is not it's not a meritocracy,
Speaker 6: and that's fine, that's what it is. But it's like,
Speaker 6: don't play it off like.
Speaker 7: It it is.
Speaker 5: And I think that's don't play in our faces, don't
Speaker 5: play in our faces.
Speaker 2: Before we move on and think so money, I think
Speaker 2: we need to give the word too. We need your okay, okay.
Speaker 7: So I have an addendum to my original answer because
Speaker 7: when we did this part the podcast like seven years ago,
Speaker 7: my answer was, Harry Potter, you guys actually didn't even
Speaker 7: ask the question.
Speaker 2: We just don't know.
Speaker 4: That was in the day when we were like like okay,
Speaker 4: So I guess we went into the episodes being like
Speaker 4: we're going to talk about.
Speaker 7: This, yes, And while that is still true, I cannot
Speaker 7: be officially associated with the franchise any longer.
Speaker 5: So it's tough. It's tough. It's a long conversation show
Speaker 5: about I.
Speaker 1: Wonder like how because we've talked about this as this
Speaker 1: has become a progressing story, the jk rowling of it all,
Speaker 1: and Joanna Kathleen is of course sort of growing more nefarious.
Speaker 2: By the day.
Speaker 7: Yeah, she aligns herself with the forces of darkness more
Speaker 7: and more every single statement. It's very, very, very upsetting,
Speaker 7: and it is genuinely like it is something that has
Speaker 7: coused me genuine emotional pain, right of course, because you
Speaker 7: know they're like whatever the kids on like TikTok and
Speaker 7: Twitter or whatever will be like read another book, and
Speaker 7: it's like, totally, I can read another book.
Speaker 5: I can't read another book as a nine year old, right,
Speaker 5: you can't.
Speaker 2: You can't. I can't.
Speaker 5: Like, that's just that lives where it lives.
Speaker 7: And at the end of the day, like I do
Speaker 7: still think the books themselves are a beautiful piece of work.
Speaker 7: I think that there is really explicit messaging in there
Speaker 7: about acceptance and loving people. It doesn't have a very
Speaker 7: like nineties ethos behind it, yes, but like, yeah, that's
Speaker 7: what that's where, Yeah, exactly, like it lives in the nineties.
Speaker 5: That's when it was made.
Speaker 7: It's not gonna progress or change from there, because it's
Speaker 7: a written down book. But the fact that the creator
Speaker 7: has refused to progress or change, and actually I think
Speaker 7: has regressed as a person, Yeah, that is extremely unfortunate.
Speaker 7: And it is as much as like, I will never
Speaker 7: not love the books. No one can take that from me.
Speaker 7: Daniel Radcliffe had that great like what about it? He
Speaker 7: put it perfectly, But her constant behavior has made it
Speaker 7: harder to just like enjoy this thing that honestly I
Speaker 7: would have loved to just have an uncomplicated relationship with
Speaker 7: this wizard book from my childhood, Like that would be
Speaker 7: fucking great, but she's made it complicated for everybody, and
Speaker 7: she's committed herself to making it complicated.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 7: So with that said, my addendum, my new answer, I decided,
Speaker 7: I said, Okay, what is something that affected me before
Speaker 7: Harry Potter even got into my little brain? What is
Speaker 7: a piece of media that really got me before I
Speaker 7: even had gone dog or yeah.
Speaker 1: Before before that envelope, even a ride by owl to
Speaker 1: private Drive?
Speaker 5: And the answer is be.
Speaker 6: I get that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, was owner Writer an iConference?
Speaker 5: Absolutely?
Speaker 7: Yeah, when that moment where she's just like I myself
Speaker 7: strange and unusual, just like something has changed within me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she really was, Like between that movie between Heathers,
Speaker 1: like someone recently mentioned, like her back in the day
Speaker 1: when Wena was exploding, as like the thing about it
Speaker 1: is it's like it's one of those things that's like
Speaker 1: film entities like or types of performer that just arrives
Speaker 1: and you sort of assume like that they were always
Speaker 1: there or like there was always a blueprint for that,
Speaker 1: Like no writer was an original girl interrupted.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I also was a big little women that one
Speaker 7: really me and my mom would watch it every Christmas.
Speaker 6: I love Little Women in Atlanta or.
Speaker 5: So, yes, that is my answer.
Speaker 6: Beetlejuice. Okay, I think Beetlejuice is a Valentine's Day movie.
Speaker 7: You do?
Speaker 6: It is the ultimate love story, the red recip the end. Well, no,
Speaker 6: it's like the couples like they love each other so much.
Speaker 6: They're like fucking going through Helen back and all this stuff,
Speaker 6: and they lived and they whatever, and they stay in
Speaker 6: the house and they're together, and I'm like, this is
Speaker 6: a Valentine. This is a love story.
Speaker 3: Alec and Gina and of course Icona Catherine O'Hara.
Speaker 6: Yes, and her outfits. That's how I want to dress.
Speaker 7: I was like kind of a Macobs little child, and
Speaker 7: like everything about it imprinted on me. My mom went
Speaker 7: into labor with my little sister while we were watching
Speaker 7: Beetle Juice as a family.
Speaker 5: Wow, she's the beetle baby, but she also well I
Speaker 5: do remember like.
Speaker 7: Not really understanding what was going on and being like, well,
Speaker 7: it was the part where he turns into a snake,
Speaker 7: which is a really really scary part where he's the
Speaker 7: banister and he's a snake.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and my Mom was like, Felix, we have.
Speaker 3: To go to the hospital, and I was like, you
Speaker 3: associated it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yes, Like that moment is like seared into my brain.
Speaker 7: And also I was like, well, but the movie's not over,
Speaker 7: and this is a really good part of the movie.
Speaker 7: And I guess I've always wondered, like if we started
Speaker 7: watching Beetle Juice because my mom was already in labor
Speaker 7: but didn't know that she need, like, but it wasn't
Speaker 7: time to go to the hospital yet, like I won't
Speaker 7: Actually yeah, I'm not actually sure and I have not
Speaker 7: asked her, but I do know that Beetle Juice was
Speaker 7: interrupted and we were watching it as a family when
Speaker 7: my sister made her appearance.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is gonna stick in your head. Yeah, when
Speaker 1: mom's having the baby during bedle.
Speaker 6: And you know what's cool, it's like creative new. I
Speaker 6: p like, they don't do that anymore. It's all fucking
Speaker 6: they don't even try. They don't even try, you know,
Speaker 6: it's just like fucking new. And then now there's a
Speaker 6: show and there's like it's just I don't know, it's.
Speaker 3: Just like you must have been horny for this. Michael
Speaker 3: Keaton come back.
Speaker 7: Then, I mean I wish him all the best always
Speaker 7: I do best, best beetlejuice.
Speaker 6: Batman, best beetle Juice.
Speaker 2: There was a cartoon.
Speaker 6: There was a cartoon. There was a best bird Man,
Speaker 6: Best Batman. I guess what you know, Guy Fieri? I think, listen,
Speaker 6: you're at a are No, no, no, let me set
Speaker 6: the scene. Let's see set the scene, because I know
Speaker 6: everyone has an answer for this, okay, but it's like,
Speaker 6: who's the person who you know? Not necessarily like, oh,
Speaker 6: this guy's so sexy, but I'm like, this guy tucks game.
Speaker 6: I know, if you're at a bar and you're talking
Speaker 6: and Guy Fieri's spitting game, I'm going home with him,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean, like an unconventional But she's like,
Speaker 6: you know, this guy has game. Michael Keene has game.
Speaker 3: You know who's mine?
Speaker 6: Who's yours?
Speaker 1: Adrian Brodie he's cute though, but yes, but you know
Speaker 1: what he's got that like big old nose. He's got
Speaker 1: like the weird he's very skinny, like you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, you can tell he's like not really someone
Speaker 1: that like is classically handsome, but there's something about him
Speaker 1: I find so hot.
Speaker 6: But okay, this might be too explicit, but he has
Speaker 6: that pussy nose where it's like when the nose is
Speaker 6: big like that, You're like.
Speaker 2: Great, this is great for eating.
Speaker 6: That's straight man, that's straight culture, a big ass, You're
Speaker 6: like pussy nose.
Speaker 8: I mean, I have a good bu all that you're
Speaker 8: knows him. It's not quite the same, not the same,
Speaker 8: but key but okay, Adrian Brodie. But you know Adrian
Speaker 8: Brody has Game. You know he has definitely spitting game.
Speaker 6: Somebody who has Game?
Speaker 5: Who is game?
Speaker 2: Boeing. I can't think of someone, I really can.
Speaker 7: I know, I'm like trying to rack my brand for
Speaker 7: who I would say that's on the level of guy here.
Speaker 6: Tomorrow you're gonna text me. But there's some Yeah, some
Speaker 6: people have Game, and I'm like, guy, here is game?
Speaker 2: Damn right.
Speaker 3: I never thought about that, but now I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: stop thinking.
Speaker 6: He gives like pretzel machines to different high schools to
Speaker 6: like raise. Instead of like giving a school two thousand dollars,
Speaker 6: he buys them a pretzel machine so like at all
Speaker 6: their like events, they can like fundraise.
Speaker 4: And he's very smart about the way he likes quote
Speaker 4: unquote gives back in terms of like food and in
Speaker 4: terms of the things that he clearly loves.
Speaker 2: Yes, he's an amazing person.
Speaker 6: So I'm saying, if he's like spinning game at a bar,
Speaker 6: I'm going to flavor.
Speaker 2: To speaking of it, speaking of his time.
Speaker 3: I don't think so, honey.
Speaker 1: This is our sixty second segment where we take some
Speaker 1: time to enjoy the view, just kidding, rail against something
Speaker 1: in culture that needs it, that needs to be railed,
Speaker 1: like all over us, and then we'll go, yeah, let's
Speaker 1: start with natural.
Speaker 3: So I have something that I witnessed in Disney World.
Speaker 2: And I just feel like I have to speak on
Speaker 2: it on the last day.
Speaker 1: On the last day, you know, you know, because I
Speaker 1: pointed it out and I said, this has been I
Speaker 1: don't think, so, honey, don't let me forget, and I haven't.
Speaker 2: I didn't remind you, but I'm glad you didn't forget.
Speaker 2: It is Matt Rodgers. I don't think so many time
Speaker 2: starts now.
Speaker 1: I don't think so, honey, mothers and their sons being
Speaker 1: too sexual. Like if I see you standing in mine
Speaker 1: a Disney World and you're looking like a couple and
Speaker 1: you're a mother and a son, stop like stop separate
Speaker 1: and just literally, we need like that junior prom rule
Speaker 1: of like between mothers and sons, like you need there
Speaker 1: needs to be two bodies between you.
Speaker 2: A couple of these mothers and sons.
Speaker 1: I saw like the son would have his hand around
Speaker 1: his muther there's waste, and she would have her hands
Speaker 1: around like his neck. And I'm like mother and son,
Speaker 1: I understand, we're like close, and like I understand the
Speaker 1: contest of mommy's boy, like I get it, like I
Speaker 1: was a MoMA's boy when I.
Speaker 3: Was little and still identify as that.
Speaker 1: But like when you're being romantic with your mother or
Speaker 1: you're in a position that's romantic, it has to stop.
Speaker 1: I also, I'm sorry, don't love kissing on the mouth
Speaker 1: between parents and children. I understand this is their own thing,
Speaker 1: but it's just like I'm not ascribing any weird value
Speaker 1: to it. I'm just saying, it's just like the mouth
Speaker 1: feels like it's for lovers. I think we should save
Speaker 1: the mouth for lovers and romance and sexuality. Mothers and
Speaker 1: sons separate.
Speaker 2: And that's one minute.
Speaker 6: I don't think, no, no, no, it's getting Matt Rogers
Speaker 6: does not Oedipus, not here.
Speaker 1: No, I just it's something that just like I don't
Speaker 1: know what it is. It's just like I feel and
Speaker 1: people should express, you know, affection whatever. I love that
Speaker 1: And maybe this is me just responding to I think
Speaker 1: as I get older, like being less and less of
Speaker 1: a tack dial person. But I'm just like, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I see it in some situations and I'm like, that's
Speaker 1: your son. I think you don't need to be touching
Speaker 1: like the small of his back. I know, and I
Speaker 1: noticed it several times.
Speaker 6: And talk about another challenge of dating straight men. They
Speaker 6: love their mommy, and everyone's looking for mommy and mother
Speaker 6: a mom they can cheat on, that's what they're.
Speaker 1: Looking I really, I really like when a parental relationship
Speaker 1: is too close.
Speaker 6: I get the.
Speaker 7: Yeah they kiss on the mouth, will lose me every time. Yeah,
Speaker 7: I don't understand real.
Speaker 6: Chill when people like what about like people who would
Speaker 6: like tell their parents like, oh I just had sex
Speaker 6: less like like like you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 6: even in high school people would drink with their parents
Speaker 6: like oh the cool mom.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I feel like when we were younger too, like probably
Speaker 1: when we were all in high school or middle school
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, like was really a thing that
Speaker 1: felt very taboo. Now I feel like there's a different
Speaker 1: wave of parenting or maybe people have always feeling this,
Speaker 1: but it feels more common now where it's just like
Speaker 1: it's more open we talk about sexuality or I'm establishing
Speaker 1: at a very young age, but even that has to
Speaker 1: be a boundary with that, like and of course, like
Speaker 1: as a parent, like you know, if you're normalizing sexuality,
Speaker 1: I do think that's great, and I think that we
Speaker 1: shouldn't be having the shame that we probably all grew
Speaker 1: up with and like probably as as our generation and
Speaker 1: ones before us are still dealing with, like the shame
Speaker 1: around sex.
Speaker 6: But it just I crossed the shame.
Speaker 1: I crossed a line that like y'all embracing in this
Speaker 1: way where it's like, you know, bodies fully facing each other.
Speaker 2: Like I don't know, I think in.
Speaker 4: The lobby we checked out of the hotel that day,
Speaker 4: it was the sun had his arms up around how old,
Speaker 4: how old he was?
Speaker 2: Thirteen? It was tough. It was tough. I read it
Speaker 2: the same way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, And it's like, I guess that has to
Speaker 1: be a weird transition, right from like you're the mother
Speaker 1: of this child, you like obviously clean the baby, like
Speaker 1: you know, you're holding the baby, you're rearing the baby, You're.
Speaker 3: Like obsessed with the baby.
Speaker 2: That's the baby.
Speaker 3: But then like as it gets older, it says like,
Speaker 3: I don't know, once.
Speaker 7: He's old enough to get a boner, yeah, there has
Speaker 7: to be something has to change.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yes, just something I noticed bowen Yang, Devin,
Speaker 1: I don't think so, honey.
Speaker 4: They do, and it is a little self indulgent, but
Speaker 4: I have to say this because it really really bothered.
Speaker 1: I don't think so, honey, met ye, I know, right,
Speaker 1: I think you've done me before I have all right, well,
Speaker 1: this is bowen Yang's I don't think so, honey, it's
Speaker 1: time starting out.
Speaker 2: I don't think so, honey. Peacock, you know, I love you, Peacock.
Speaker 4: But Peacock on May first, the first day of a
Speaker 4: PI Heritage month, put me front center on their AA
Speaker 4: p I Voices collection or whatever, next to Crystal Kung
Speaker 4: Minkoff in the Rock. And then I found and people
Speaker 4: are sending me photos all day like look, look, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 4: that's so nice.
Speaker 2: Then I find out that there is.
Speaker 1: A Bowen Yang collection on people that features you know,
Speaker 1: my skepches or whatever. Then I'm like, I had no
Speaker 1: input in and what was featured in this, and not
Speaker 1: that they had to like consult me.
Speaker 2: But I go, I don't want. I don't want people
Speaker 2: seeing that sketch. And it's the thing where I'm like,
Speaker 2: you know, not all sketches are gonna be hits.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get some DUTs no matter who you are,
Speaker 1: no matter what fifteen theory we were on in the show.
Speaker 6: But I don't want.
Speaker 2: And there's some sketches that I'm like, why is that
Speaker 2: above the fold? Why is that in this row or
Speaker 2: that row? And I go, yeah, yay.
Speaker 4: Collection sounds like a Bad Coals clothing line for gay boys.
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't think so, honey. And that's a minute.
Speaker 3: First of all, I love the Bonyang Collection, but I
Speaker 3: do understand.
Speaker 4: I love Peacock, and everyone over at NBC knows that
Speaker 4: I'm a company man. I will keep we love but
Speaker 4: the Bony Collection to shock me.
Speaker 2: On it's real close number one.
Speaker 1: But I will say I did go on Peacock last
Speaker 1: night to watch vander Pump, your face popping up immediately
Speaker 1: you were the It's so jarring sometimes where I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's him right away.
Speaker 4: And We've been at least four different conversations this past week.
Speaker 4: I've been like, Peacock's my number one streamer, Peacocks the
Speaker 4: streamer I used the most.
Speaker 3: I mean the other day, Oh yeah, she.
Speaker 6: Said, she said, but you know, how else do we
Speaker 6: celebrate a A PI.
Speaker 2: There are no other Asians on the network on Bravo
Speaker 2: on like, you are one of the most prominent ones.
Speaker 6: Would Crystal.
Speaker 4: For the first time ever? Yeah, let's actually put the
Speaker 4: light on Crystal Kong mink Off for once. Yeah, And
Speaker 4: I'm like, do it literally on the show.
Speaker 6: Well, that means Kyle has to let her talk first yeah,
Speaker 6: boo Blue Blue blo. But second of all, it's like,
Speaker 6: how else are they going to celebrate API heritage went
Speaker 6: without giving an Asian person any agent.
Speaker 2: No, let's listen, it's not.
Speaker 4: Actually it does just make me feel because I had
Speaker 4: the same thing I put on Peacock last I.
Speaker 2: Was like, oh my god, yeah, and you were like,
Speaker 2: there's me.
Speaker 7: I was like, you know, I want the heads up
Speaker 7: an email that's like, hey, by the way, you're going
Speaker 7: to be the face of Peacock tomorrow.
Speaker 5: And also we're doing not usable.
Speaker 6: Yeah that's what I'm saying an email and then be
Speaker 6: like do you and like, oh, I would love these sketches.
Speaker 4: I don't even have to, I just I would have
Speaker 4: loved like a little of a head, I will say, though,
Speaker 4: pretty cool to have a collection, Yeah, like you basically
Speaker 4: you basically could have one of those DVDs like the
Speaker 4: Best of Amy Polar DVD.
Speaker 2: Which is my favorite DVD that I ever.
Speaker 1: Read DVD, the Best of al the Best of a
Speaker 1: Polar DVD was like formative.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh god, it's cobble something.
Speaker 3: Because you do have a lot of stuff. And I'm
Speaker 3: saying like, like as someone who's been there for.
Speaker 2: Four years for seasons on camera, Yeah yeah, so that's like.
Speaker 6: You got a collection, girl, you got a collection on us.
Speaker 2: That was I did not mean for that.
Speaker 6: No, no, no, no, that's your life though, that is
Speaker 6: your I mean, that's the reality is that, like people
Speaker 6: are gonna oh diversity. Listen. I someone who went to
Speaker 6: college and every time I was in the cafeteria, I
Speaker 6: get this campus photographer like get in that.
Speaker 2: Picture, you know what I mean, ye hold the chery smiling.
Speaker 6: It's like yeah, we get it.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 6: It is it's truly like the diversity campus, like photographer
Speaker 6: of the industry.
Speaker 5: All these months, my thirteen year old son and I
Speaker 5: wore matching and collection.
Speaker 2: It was so horny.
Speaker 6: Well, the thing about mothers and their sons is like,
Speaker 6: then you're dating these guys. These guys don't know how
Speaker 6: to wipe their own house because mommy did it for them.
Speaker 2: That's like literally what I'm saying, so.
Speaker 6: So boeing collection.
Speaker 1: Or they have weird because they were too close with
Speaker 1: their mom. And then they're like, every time they fuck
Speaker 1: a woman, it's their mom and they get in their
Speaker 1: head and then.
Speaker 6: You know, let me tell you, well, that's how Millie
Speaker 6: is with six two guys. And somehow every time I
Speaker 6: wake up, I'm big Spoon. I'm like, how am I
Speaker 6: big spoon again? And it's like these guys.
Speaker 2: Want mommy look at spoon every time, Like I.
Speaker 6: Attract a small spoon energy, which is fine, But I
Speaker 6: don't want to be big spoon every time.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, because you have a big spoon personality.
Speaker 1: Are they misinterpreting both?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Both.
Speaker 1: I don't have big spoon personality, but that doesn't mean
Speaker 1: you want to be bigspoon all the time.
Speaker 6: To change, change up.
Speaker 5: Everyone has a big spoon and a little spoon inside
Speaker 5: of them.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, And with that profound comment, I'm we're
Speaker 1: ready to hear you elaborate and be even more profound
Speaker 1: with at least your I don't think so, honey, I
Speaker 1: got it. Yes, this is yeah, I mean a competitor,
Speaker 1: competitor in the past, at least morales.
Speaker 3: This is your I don't think so, honey. Her time
Speaker 3: starts now.
Speaker 7: Okay, And I think this is important to say on
Speaker 7: the eve of the writer's strike. I don't think so, honey.
Speaker 7: Spelling and grammar. Listen, there are so many words, so many,
Speaker 7: and I am supposed to know how to spell all
Speaker 7: of them, and also the little symbols that go in between.
Speaker 5: I don't think so. I don't think so, honey. Okay.
Speaker 7: I believe I believe it was Matt Rogers who once
Speaker 7: said I may not know my words, but I do
Speaker 7: know my heart. And if you really can understand what
Speaker 7: I am saying, let's move on.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay what I have said.
Speaker 7: If you know what I am typing, we can move forward.
Speaker 7: We're understanding each other. And as an addundum to that,
Speaker 7: if you are a person who cares about someone using
Speaker 7: the word literally when they actually mean figuratively.
Speaker 5: Okay, I want you to take that thought. I want
Speaker 5: you to hold it, I want you to choke on it.
Speaker 2: Just stop, just stop.
Speaker 5: It's it's a figure of speech. The word has evolved.
Speaker 5: The word has evolved, and.
Speaker 2: Thank you for saying it.
Speaker 1: And I also want to say that in addition to that,
Speaker 1: we've had two people on this podcast do I don't
Speaker 1: think so, honey, when people say the word like a
Speaker 1: lot that.
Speaker 2: Night freeze, it's so chilly, we're just like.
Speaker 6: Homophobic, groundbreaking cares. One time, this girl was like, I
Speaker 6: sat one time and counted how many times you said like,
Speaker 6: and it was like one hundred times in like five.
Speaker 4: Every language has filler words, yeah, every And it's part
Speaker 4: of the huge like the human brain operates in a
Speaker 4: way where like we have to take breaks in between
Speaker 4: our words as we express them.
Speaker 2: That's just having filler words.
Speaker 6: When you're used to being interrupted a lot, you use
Speaker 6: more filler words. That's why women queer people use a
Speaker 6: like about young girls.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but anyway, Spelling and grammar, first of all, dating apps,
Speaker 6: when people are like like people who look they're there
Speaker 6: and they're or like they know the difference, it's just
Speaker 6: like fuck you.
Speaker 3: No, it's just superiority.
Speaker 1: And there's I have always said elitism, superiority, the idea
Speaker 1: that you are better than someone else. There is no
Speaker 1: more unattractive quality than those things. Yeah, superiority is.
Speaker 3: The least attractive, least fun thing to be.
Speaker 2: And I will say I will put myself on blast.
Speaker 4: You can grow out of that because I used to
Speaker 4: be someone who is like, you're not using literally right, yeah.
Speaker 2: But when I was like I'm sorry nineteen.
Speaker 4: Yeah right, and when that was a hierarchy, yeah, when
Speaker 4: there was a higher when like the thing you have
Speaker 4: control over was like, oh, like the way you like
Speaker 4: write words?
Speaker 2: Who cares?
Speaker 4: I'm texting lowercase, I'm not putting spaces between my emojis
Speaker 4: or afterwards, and there are no rules anymore.
Speaker 6: Let me tell you something too. As a bitch with acrylics,
Speaker 6: I'm gonna spell ship. It's gonna be all over the
Speaker 6: fucking la. You know, the if you and he's the
Speaker 6: producer knows because you're you look like you pull some
Speaker 6: bad bitches. And let me tell you, bad bitches with
Speaker 6: the crylics are not gonna spell things correctly, and it's
Speaker 6: not because we don't know.
Speaker 2: It's because the nail my nails, my fat fingers.
Speaker 6: Bitch, you know the first three letters of the word.
Speaker 6: You fucking know what the don't try to tell me,
Speaker 6: and that is exactly what I wanted to com exactly.
Speaker 4: Wow, bitch, wow, bitch. Now on that it's time for millies.
Speaker 4: I don't think so much. Yeah, militarymaries, I don't think so, honey,
Speaker 4: for time starts now, I.
Speaker 6: Don't think so honey. Sliding into my d MS asking
Speaker 6: me for favors and you don't even follow me to Hello, Hi,
Speaker 6: I love you, I loved you on blank.
Speaker 1: You know what.
Speaker 6: We all can agree that grooming is wrong, but you
Speaker 6: know if you want me to do something for you,
Speaker 6: you better groom me.
Speaker 2: Bitch, four or five weeks.
Speaker 6: You better have liked everything on my fucking you better
Speaker 6: have bought a ticket to all the shows that I've
Speaker 6: got coming up before you come into my DMS.
Speaker 2: I have two non three thirty seconds that help people of.
Speaker 6: Color get careers and marketing and entertainment. You better have
Speaker 6: donated before you come into my DMS talking about oh,
Speaker 6: put me on or this and not who the fuck
Speaker 6: are you?
Speaker 2: Who the fuck am I?
Speaker 6: You're spelling our names because me and Elis.
Speaker 5: You spell my name wrong in the DM and you're
Speaker 5: asking your name not fucking thing.
Speaker 2: Who the fuck are you?
Speaker 6: Like my shit? Guess me up, please before you come
Speaker 6: through that and try to ask me for some shit. Okay,
Speaker 6: that is just tacked.
Speaker 4: Okay, and that's one minute because guess what not everything
Speaker 4: is tran actional. But if I don't know you, then
Speaker 4: it kind of.
Speaker 6: Has to be what is my benefit on helping you out?
Speaker 2: You want me to get you a job? Doug?
Speaker 6: Who the fuck are you? And then then I look,
Speaker 6: I look at your profile. You're not even following me.
Speaker 6: You want to eat? You're sending me a damn word
Speaker 6: an email being like, hey, can you help me get
Speaker 6: a job at this one place that basically only hired
Speaker 6: you because you're a diversity higher.
Speaker 2: And then and then it's just like, oh uh, you
Speaker 2: don't even follow I know?
Speaker 1: Do you?
Speaker 2: Guys? Also?
Speaker 1: Do you guys have those people that come in and
Speaker 1: like your photos but don't follow you, Like there's one person.
Speaker 2: There's one person who keeps.
Speaker 1: Returning to my profile to like photos or like and
Speaker 1: I see it because the person is verified and an
Speaker 1: actor that I know but doesn't follow me, and I'm
Speaker 1: just like, what I will tell you, and it's just
Speaker 1: like for me, I'll tell everyone, but my thing is
Speaker 1: just like, why wouldn't you just follow?
Speaker 2: It's like a weird power move that's not really a
Speaker 2: power move.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't believe situation, but Millie knows that. I
Speaker 7: get all the time people emailing me, d ming me
Speaker 7: asking me for ship and they spell a lease looking
Speaker 7: there And I've said on my close friends story, the
Speaker 7: only misspelling of my name that I will.
Speaker 5: Accept is slide because that's what it autocorrects.
Speaker 2: Slide milky milk, slide that side. But wait, that's actually
Speaker 2: really hot.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the company, and honestly I don't The only one
Speaker 6: that I don't even call out is the Russian lady
Speaker 6: that does my laser hair removal because she has all
Speaker 6: the power. Talk about money, I mean mother, but exactly
Speaker 6: no spell my name wrong. Mother. Listen, Irena, she she's mother,
Speaker 6: and she's seen my booty whole.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm talking. That's showing hole. You talk
Speaker 2: about showing hole first of all, the dangerous hole.
Speaker 6: And let me tell you first time I was laser
Speaker 6: hair removal, completely open. I'm like, this pussy price gone up?
Speaker 6: You know what I mean. But we'll talk about it.
Speaker 6: But no, well she ice is it?
Speaker 7: So no?
Speaker 2: But I.
Speaker 6: You know my pussy before. So if she calls me milky, fine,
Speaker 6: you bitch. I don't fucking know you and you don't
Speaker 6: follow my there's a there's a whole other thing about peers.
Speaker 6: I'm talking about industry peers who don't follow you back,
Speaker 6: and then they do the like shows like okay, fuck off.
Speaker 6: But it's just like if you're asking me for a favor,
Speaker 6: asking me to put you on her, asking me blah
Speaker 6: blah blah, you want me to get coffee. This one
Speaker 6: guy's like can we get coffee and talk about things?
Speaker 6: And I'm like sure because he was a friend of
Speaker 6: a friend. He's like, doesn't call me, no, this is
Speaker 6: listen to this. He's like, come to Astoria and I'm
Speaker 6: like a story. I'll go there once a year when
Speaker 6: I have sad sex. Like not because when I when
Speaker 6: I call the ex, fucking get would you? When you're
Speaker 6: asking me to.
Speaker 4: Get coughe like the follow and the follow back that's
Speaker 4: like the handshake yes and like you kind of that
Speaker 4: is like this weird formality. It's weird that it yes,
Speaker 4: and that it's it's part of it, but it is like,
Speaker 4: unfortunately the way you like initiate that kind of conversation, well,
Speaker 4: that's funny, is like.
Speaker 1: We just brought up like the Beverly Hills Housewives. Remember
Speaker 1: that they're they're constantly obsessed with who's unfollowing and following.
Speaker 4: I guess what, Crystal Coff doesn't follow me, so I'm
Speaker 4: there therefore, I'm like, wow, well, why is she.
Speaker 6: Next to you in the aa P I voices?
Speaker 2: Why why is she taking me into? Why is she
Speaker 2: dm me? I mean, exactly did she?
Speaker 4: I don't think she's like seen my stories and stuff.
Speaker 4: And I'm like Crystal, Crystal, she doesn't have.
Speaker 2: To do the seeing of the s.
Speaker 1: But not following is a power move, and I'm just like,
Speaker 1: don't you know we could be more powerful together.
Speaker 2: It's a very wicked. It's unlimit if you.
Speaker 1: Followed me back together, think of all we could do well,
Speaker 1: dream the way.
Speaker 6: But people people, but people again, you're talking about competition.
Speaker 6: They get scared.
Speaker 1: They don't what Alphaba and Glinda were so much better
Speaker 1: as sisters than they were as enemies, and it's a
Speaker 1: rule culture number six. Alphaba and Glinda were so much
Speaker 1: better as sisters than the enemy. And when Alphabet I'm
Speaker 1: gonna started following each other, uh huh, that's when I
Speaker 1: was ready to follow them.
Speaker 6: Well, and you know some say they only follow God,
Speaker 6: but no, not here. No, you know what, And I
Speaker 6: I won't get petty, like, if I really do believe
Speaker 6: that we are peers, you play that ship, I'll call
Speaker 6: it out.
Speaker 2: I'll be like, do you call it out?
Speaker 6: Asked Jared Goldstein. Ask Jared, we were at somebody's birthday, Kiki, Well,
Speaker 6: because I saw, you know, we did a show together
Speaker 6: three years before, you know whatever, He's really nice.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have him on to respond exactly.
Speaker 6: No, but I you know this and that we were
Speaker 6: kekey and then follow this motherfucker did not follow me back,
Speaker 6: and I was like, okay, motherfucker. Three years later, at
Speaker 6: Ja Cornell's birthday, I was like, he blather you talked
Speaker 6: about in I'm like, oh, that's funny you brought up
Speaker 6: into because you don't follow me back. You don't follow
Speaker 6: me back. And then he's like and I'm like, listen,
Speaker 6: I really do feel like we're peers. We have a
Speaker 6: lot of the same friends. We're doing the same ship. Okay,
Speaker 6: let's get let's get the follow back. Let's get the
Speaker 6: follow back. And it was three years I know whatever now,
Speaker 6: but I'm like, three years ago, you could have followed
Speaker 6: me back to Jared.
Speaker 1: Also, it's just like the thing too, I think that
Speaker 1: people get a little obsessed with when they get a
Speaker 1: little bit bigger followers, like their ratio. It's just like
Speaker 1: that doesn't matter. And then I'm like, but if you
Speaker 1: do think that matters, then like maybe you need to
Speaker 1: check that I understand the ratio of like photos of posts.
Speaker 1: Like sometimes I am like, let me clear some of
Speaker 1: these pictures.
Speaker 5: I love the archives.
Speaker 2: Love archives.
Speaker 3: I don't even know what.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I love looking back at me, like what
Speaker 5: was I doing? That's archive is good because you can
Speaker 5: go there archive.
Speaker 3: But the public doesn't know.
Speaker 2: Archives.
Speaker 6: You know why because I look back and I'm like,
Speaker 6: oh yeah, because before Instagram Stories, we were using Instagram
Speaker 6: grid as Instagram stories. I'm here today, blah blah blah
Speaker 6: blah blah. But this is what I'm saying though about
Speaker 6: the people that ask me for favors. There's some Honestly,
Speaker 6: I call them the ukulele white girls, who like the
Speaker 6: white girls who do musical comedy with ukuleles. Yep, So
Speaker 6: they'll follow me. They'll follow me, just ukulele white girl.
Speaker 6: And I'm telling you, like, there's at least forty of
Speaker 6: them will follow me. And I'm like, oh, I feel
Speaker 6: like I might have met her once a pit ten
Speaker 6: years ago. Let me follow her back. They immediately unfollow me.
Speaker 6: That has happened so many times. I'm like, uh uh,
Speaker 6: not you ukulele white girl with two hundred followers. Who
Speaker 6: the fuck do you think you are?
Speaker 7: Me?
Speaker 6: But that's what I'm saying, ukulele white girl. There's a
Speaker 6: lot of you know who I'm you know what I'm
Speaker 6: talking about? I do you know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 2: Anyway, Well, we're gonna have.
Speaker 6: No. He did really well and then he did follow me.
Speaker 3: But that's why I brought him up, because because you know,
Speaker 3: you know it was an oversight.
Speaker 1: Yes, you felt comfortable bringing it up, and I feel
Speaker 1: comfortable calling this a landmark.
Speaker 3: This has been incredible.
Speaker 1: Follow Slide and Milky Milky Slide, Milky and Slide host,
Speaker 1: that's just up.
Speaker 6: We talk to politician and you know, we're talking about abortion.
Speaker 6: We're doing a lot of ship.
Speaker 4: But it's like it's the way in for like it's
Speaker 4: for me. It's like, oh, let me like, let me
Speaker 4: understand this. Yeah, way that like my friends would let.
Speaker 2: Me understand this. Finally, Yeah, well, we love you so much.
Speaker 2: Thank you guys for thanks for having.
Speaker 3: Course, we love you back. I mean, this is this
Speaker 3: is just the beginning.
Speaker 5: I've been so excited.
Speaker 2: I I know you, and you know when I.
Speaker 1: Realized I was like the way I've known you for
Speaker 1: like thirteen a long as you've known like I remember
Speaker 1: like when I went to like u D for like
Speaker 1: like Improv festival.
Speaker 2: This was like two thousand and nine. I know, Wow, Wow,
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 7: Wow.
Speaker 1: And then for seven years ago, which is probably have
Speaker 1: that time for you to come on here and say,
Speaker 1: Harry Potter, for you to come on here today and
Speaker 1: denounce that.
Speaker 2: Is the growth exactly from at least an improv.
Speaker 1: Who did not know what was coming to at least
Speaker 1: the last coach seven years ago who said Harry Potter
Speaker 1: writes to now at least saying no, Potter.
Speaker 6: That's evolutions, progression.
Speaker 4: I could never yes, And then meanwhile sucking Bellas Strange, Voltemore,
Speaker 4: fucking Helena and Ray for the ones who are keeping
Speaker 4: for joe Ane.
Speaker 2: You're like, wait a minute, are they like by her?
Speaker 6: I'm not surprised Helena was miss Johnny Depp and also
Speaker 6: Helena tim Burton is a little problem my cheek, but.
Speaker 2: You know whatever, villains looking a little like she don't
Speaker 2: vaccinate and no, wait, can I say something?
Speaker 1: Luna Love Good sucks. I don't like Lunda love I
Speaker 1: never liked Luna Love Good, not like actually talk about.
Speaker 2: Ye, that's what libertarian.
Speaker 1: Yep, yep, yeah, give me libertarian and guess what, Actually,
Speaker 1: it's a real culture.
Speaker 3: All raven Claus were libertarians.
Speaker 2: Number thirty three libertarian.
Speaker 6: But you know it's a genre of white like when
Speaker 6: they're talking about like white people don't wash their legs.
Speaker 6: I don't believe that.
Speaker 2: But Luna Love Good type people, they don't watch it. Well,
Speaker 2: now you sound like Luna. Al Right, I have to
Speaker 2: go to therapy.
Speaker 1: We had diver episode with the song un limited Together.
Speaker 2: We're live together, will be the greatest team. There are
Speaker 2: bad Glena dreams the way we plan if we were good.
Speaker 1: If you want to hear more about that, you can
Speaker 1: listen to the Wicked original Broadway cast. You can go
Speaker 1: on YouTube and YouTube in Wicked define Gravity my tutorial.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, fe