Speaker 1: This is Frosted Tips with Lance Bass and iHeartRadio podcast. Hello,
Speaker 1: my little Peanuts, it's me your host, Lance Bass. This
Speaker 1: is Frosted Tips with me Lance Bass and my wonderful, beautiful,
Speaker 1: handsome co host Turkey Turchin. I'm also married time, so
Speaker 1: step back.
Speaker 2: Well, way to expose all of our personal business.
Speaker 1: Now I reveal too much on this show. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: happy holidays everyone. Halloween is officially done and we are
Speaker 1: now creeping up on Funksgiving. For me, it's about your friends.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: Christmas is like the family to me, and Thanksgivings like
Speaker 1: the friends is what has become because I call it
Speaker 1: friends Giving now and it's the day, yeah, and it's
Speaker 1: the day that you really, you know, really care about
Speaker 1: your friends. Your straight friend you're straight friends. They can't
Speaker 1: go home for holidays with their families. Friendsgiving. Uh, We're
Speaker 1: gonna finally have one this year, which I we have
Speaker 1: one last year, but I took a break before that.
Speaker 1: Now I love having a little pot luck because I
Speaker 1: love all my friends that you can't go home for
Speaker 1: the holidays, they come over and everyone brings a dish
Speaker 1: that reminds them of what they grew up for. Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: and I think it's important to through food to experience
Speaker 1: like the different cultures that you grew up with, Because I,
Speaker 1: as you know, very small minded person growing up in
Speaker 1: the South, didn't even know that you could have lasagna
Speaker 1: for Thanksgiving. I thought that was like, what, that's stupid.
Speaker 1: I mean, like, oh, maybe Italians might like lasagna.
Speaker 4: We always had like a big platter of bagels and
Speaker 4: cream cheese and stuff during Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: Jewish people like Thanksgiving how dairy are Yes?
Speaker 2: We are also think, oh god, that's right.
Speaker 1: Well if it ain't turkey and dressing, don't come. No,
Speaker 1: it's uh. I do I like I like seeing through
Speaker 1: their culinary uh expe, especially their family recipes. If someone
Speaker 1: brings a family recipe, it really tells me a lot.
Speaker 5: About that when you try it and you're like, this
Speaker 5: is hard, this is horrible. Why do you put olives
Speaker 5: in this? You have a horrible for it. Olives, You're
Speaker 5: no longer my friend. You're not invited now, friend.
Speaker 1: But I hope everyone has a very fun and safe
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving today on the show. I am excited to have
Speaker 1: my friend Christine Taylor known this one for a very
Speaker 1: long time. One of my favorites because I watched Hey
Speaker 1: Dude as a kid Nickelodeon was like my jam Hey Dude,
Speaker 1: and just one of my favorite people. She and you're
Speaker 1: gonna love her. I mean, she is such the sweetest,
Speaker 1: the best person. And I did her show Hey Dude,
Speaker 1: her podcast, No, not the show, when I did Hey
Speaker 1: Dude when I was seven, So I just did he
Speaker 1: her podcast Hey Dude the nineties called she does that
Speaker 1: with her co host too, from the show, David. And
Speaker 1: it's so it was great catching up with her. And
Speaker 1: you know those people that you can go two years
Speaker 1: without seeing or talking to, but then you just catch
Speaker 1: right back up and it just feels like you've just
Speaker 1: never left. That's the type of person Christine is. To her,
Speaker 1: she's a great one. And then before we get to
Speaker 1: her interview, because I know this is gonna go long
Speaker 1: because I like to talk and she likes to talk,
Speaker 1: and you know, we have we have history. We have history.
Speaker 1: So but before that, okay, so I have to tell
Speaker 1: you about this Audible that I just did Audible Original.
Speaker 1: You know they do these fun stories I've done when
Speaker 1: I did the scripted series. So this one came across
Speaker 1: my desk and I'm like, well, this looks fun. I
Speaker 1: won't tell you exactly what the story is because you'll
Speaker 1: be spride. They don't come out to Next Fall. But
Speaker 1: I just recorded it yesterday and it was so fun
Speaker 1: because guess who I got to act with. I got
Speaker 1: to be the will to her grace well, but she
Speaker 1: was the mom version though.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It was awesome.
Speaker 2: That's cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I just wanted.
Speaker 2: To get I have a name dropping story. This morning is.
Speaker 1: Star Also Lucas Cage is in a Glenn Powell top gun. Yeah. Good,
Speaker 1: good people.
Speaker 2: Well I was at Starbucks this morning. What and Lily
Speaker 2: Tomlin next.
Speaker 1: I love Lily so much.
Speaker 4: You know, unassuming just in there the but where I
Speaker 4: get my hair cut.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not there before you took the car.
Speaker 1: And she's the best she you know, we've run into
Speaker 1: a few times her and Jane Fonda, which is like
Speaker 1: the best, like getting them together like that's seeing a unicorn, right,
Speaker 1: and we've seen that unicorn a few times because of
Speaker 1: charity events and all that type.
Speaker 2: Of Yeah, you had a good moment with them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, I had a great moment with them and
Speaker 1: Snoop Snoop dogg. Ye create your own story.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, you can see without.
Speaker 1: Moments with her, But I guarantee you Lily would have
Speaker 1: no idea who I am. I've met her so many
Speaker 1: times that if I went up to at Starbucks, You're like,
Speaker 1: so uh yeah, uh, but she can do no wrong.
Speaker 1: And it's still to this day. What's the movie where
Speaker 1: she played drink?
Speaker 2: Yeah, every time I put my hand, I think it's
Speaker 2: gonna turn on and murder.
Speaker 1: Me every time I go.
Speaker 2: And you're gonna say that the second you said, uh,
Speaker 2: it's it's a core memory for me.
Speaker 1: It scared me so much as a kid, and it
Speaker 1: still scares me every time I see a garbage because
Speaker 1: I see Lily Tompley in there shrinking and getting in
Speaker 1: the gards.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: I'm like, she's gonna get mutilated.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it just it's stuck with it.
Speaker 2: It's fun.
Speaker 1: Obviously I'm forty four and it's still still with me.
Speaker 1: Lily Tomlin, what do you do to me? All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a little break when we come back over
Speaker 1: lighting Christmas candles already in here. Oh thanks, queer candle spruce.
Speaker 1: That is nice I have if you obviously there's a podcast,
Speaker 1: but if you look behind me all of our Christmas
Speaker 1: boxes have come yeah, and I have a feeling they're
Speaker 1: going to stay in boxes for another two weeks because
Speaker 1: I just don't know when I'm gonna be able to
Speaker 1: open them and start decorating. But the trees are up,
Speaker 1: the trees are up off, the lights are working. But
Speaker 1: we'll see where this goes. But when we come back,
Speaker 1: Christine Taylor is gonna be with us exiety because he's
Speaker 1: the best person ever. Christine Joan Taylor Stiller is an
Speaker 1: American actress, writer, producer, director from Allentown, Pennsylvania. We love
Speaker 1: her as Marshall Brady and The Brady Bunch Movie and
Speaker 1: Very Brady Sequel, as well as roles in films including
Speaker 1: The Craft, The Wedding Singer, Zoolander, and of course, her
Speaker 1: television roles in Hey Dude, Arrested Development, and Search Party,
Speaker 1: Love Me Some Search Party Today. Christine is the host
Speaker 1: of the iHeart podcast Hey Dude the Nineties called which
Speaker 1: I might have done an episode on there. I might
Speaker 1: want to go check that one out. Christine Taylor, Welcome
Speaker 1: to Frost and Tims.
Speaker 6: Hi.
Speaker 3: What a great intro, What a great intro, and a
Speaker 3: little plug for for for you on our show. I
Speaker 3: love it. You got it all in there. You even
Speaker 3: got my middle name. You know.
Speaker 1: We cover everything, everything, everything, and I love that we
Speaker 1: have done U We've done where we did Zoolander and
Speaker 1: The Wedding Singer Together.
Speaker 3: Wait and Tropic Thunder and.
Speaker 6: Thunder.
Speaker 1: All right, So you're saying that the intro was correct
Speaker 1: because sometimes these things, you know, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: information that's just not right.
Speaker 3: The Wikipedia pages. Yes, yeah, Actually I didn't catch any
Speaker 3: glaring mistakes there. I think you got it all. You got.
Speaker 3: You hit the highlights, Okay, perfect the last decades of
Speaker 3: all I mean you have.
Speaker 1: You've been so accomplished in your career. What do you
Speaker 1: like to tell people. It's like if someone just made
Speaker 1: me like, hi, I'm Christine. What what would you like
Speaker 1: people to know, like, Oh, I did this. I'm most
Speaker 1: proud of this.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's so hard.
Speaker 1: And don't say your kids, because that's the no.
Speaker 2: We're talking about career.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, and my kids are old now too,
Speaker 3: so I really don't. Ye're like twenty one and eighteen
Speaker 3: and they want nothing to do with any of it.
Speaker 3: But I I will be very honest. What I'm most
Speaker 3: proud of and there's so many movies that I've been
Speaker 3: in with incredible people, but the one job and the
Speaker 3: one thing that I felt like, Okay, if I don't
Speaker 3: get this job, and I was twenty two years old
Speaker 3: when I auditioned for it, if I don't get this,
Speaker 3: then I might as well just pack it in and
Speaker 3: not do this anymore. And that was Marcia Brady. Because
Speaker 3: I grew up watching reruns of The Brady Bunch. I
Speaker 3: knew every episode, I knew every line. I did an
Speaker 3: impression of her since like elementary school, I worship Maureen McCormick.
Speaker 3: I love so I was like, I want to do
Speaker 3: this right. I want to people said I looked.
Speaker 2: Like I know physically.
Speaker 4: I remember when I first saw that movie because I
Speaker 4: was obviously the reruns when I was little and I
Speaker 4: met it was a birthday party. I was like, we're
Speaker 4: all went to see the movie, and I was like,
Speaker 4: at first I recognized from hey, dude, because from before
Speaker 4: that I was I was of the age, and then.
Speaker 1: Uh so was I and I'm older than you. I
Speaker 1: love you did yes, I was such a Nickelodeon kid.
Speaker 4: But I just remember being like, wow, like she looks
Speaker 4: exactly like Marcia Brady. It was just like, how did
Speaker 4: they find? Like it was the most uncanny thing I've
Speaker 4: ever seen?
Speaker 3: Well and almost, I would say it was so like almost,
Speaker 3: and thankfully I did get the job. Thankfully I did
Speaker 3: my homework what I had heard after the fact, because
Speaker 3: they I auditioned. I think I may may have auditioned
Speaker 3: a second time and then I got I got it
Speaker 3: fairly easily. Went whereas the rest of the cast, the
Speaker 3: ones who played all of my siblings, that we had
Speaker 3: them on our podcast and they told their audition stories
Speaker 3: where they were like seven auditions, eight auditions, nine auditions,
Speaker 3: and they were like, you basically strutted in and got
Speaker 3: the job, but they I didn't feel like that because
Speaker 3: it was so high stakes for me. But I almost,
Speaker 3: I think, to a fault because I still to this
Speaker 3: day get mistaken for being the original Marsha Brady. That
Speaker 3: people will say, I grew up watching your show. They
Speaker 3: think I'm Maureen McCormack. They really.
Speaker 1: You just gotta go with it, though I do.
Speaker 3: I tried making corrections at the beginning. No no, no,
Speaker 3: she was in I was, and I realized why why
Speaker 3: it's an honor to think like let them think that.
Speaker 3: I mean, I still like, I just love Maureen, so
Speaker 3: it's like, let's be interchangeable. I'm sure she gets it
Speaker 3: every now and again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I've met Marine a few times because she's
Speaker 1: one of my Dance with the Stars buddies and she's
Speaker 1: just such a lovely, lovely, lovely person, she seems.
Speaker 3: I follow her on Instagram. I I sort of think
Speaker 3: I'm her friend from Afar. We met at the sequel,
Speaker 3: the premiere of a very Brady sequel. But I just
Speaker 3: think she's delightful. I think everything about just love her.
Speaker 1: I love her such a bond between someone that gets
Speaker 1: to play the same character, I mean, you have to
Speaker 1: be like sisters at that point.
Speaker 3: And honestly, I think she was a good sport about
Speaker 3: it too, because she I think she knew. When we
Speaker 3: shot the first movie, all of the original cast members
Speaker 3: did cameos except for Marine.
Speaker 2: Oh really Yeah, and e.
Speaker 3: Plump, Marcia and Jan they didn't do cameos. And I
Speaker 3: understand because I'm sure for them at that point it
Speaker 3: was like we've moved on. And also are they making
Speaker 3: fun of us?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 4: I remember seeing interviews with Eve Blond just being like
Speaker 4: I'm over it like I don't care anymore, Like I'm
Speaker 4: not Jan Brady, just like leave me.
Speaker 1: But this movie was so great because it was supposed
Speaker 1: to be camped and it was supposed to be just
Speaker 1: I fund it was amazing joke, you know, an elevated
Speaker 1: version of the Brady.
Speaker 4: Specifically, you and Jennifer Cox were just so good.
Speaker 2: I mean, did you have two fansies?
Speaker 3: We were the two big Brady fans, so we.
Speaker 4: Were killed me and everything, but the two of you
Speaker 4: were just like so spot on perfect killed it was.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And how strangely we've become like memes and things like.
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean over the years.
Speaker 4: The Marcia memes like with your hair, I use it all.
Speaker 4: Surchan is like I used that every You are literally
Speaker 4: sure ch ann like you are part of an iconic moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we use that like daily daily.
Speaker 1: Sure, it does bring up a little bad memories because
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this, but I had
Speaker 1: the Brady Bunch House in my hands for about twenty
Speaker 1: four hours before they ripped it away from me.
Speaker 3: Ye wait, stop it.
Speaker 6: This was the.
Speaker 1: Recent yell, the one before the one before.
Speaker 3: They did the renovation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right before I.
Speaker 1: Had this great idea, Christine that I want. I was gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, produce the show where every season you take
Speaker 1: an iconic film or television house that we know, the
Speaker 1: Home Alone Movie House, the Brady Bunch House, the Golden
Speaker 1: Girls House, and you go in and you redo it,
Speaker 1: just like you know the TV show, and I don't know,
Speaker 1: you show the whole making of the rebuilding of it.
Speaker 1: And so I wanted to start that with the Brady House.
Speaker 1: And you know, it came up for something like I've
Speaker 1: always said, if this goes up for sale, I need
Speaker 1: this house, like it was such a part of my childhood. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then it was a fun little bidding war, and
Speaker 1: then we ended up winning it. And then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, the next day they called. They're like, oh,
Speaker 1: so a g TV has come in and said that
Speaker 1: they're just gonna buy it from anyone. So it's like, sorry,
Speaker 1: we're taking the house from you.
Speaker 2: After they already said you got it. It was so mean,
Speaker 2: it's insane.
Speaker 3: That's very upsetting. I understand that there.
Speaker 2: Are a blessing.
Speaker 1: It would have been fun. It would have been fun,
Speaker 1: but but the girl just bought it recently was a
Speaker 1: little upset. She's like, wait a minute, so you're saying
Speaker 1: that the kitchen is not even a functional kitchen because
Speaker 1: they built it as a TV set.
Speaker 2: It was crazy, though, how realistic it was.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: It was magical going in that house.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: It was something. Yeah, but no, I have no hard
Speaker 1: feelings for she TV anymore.
Speaker 3: I still have to watch that.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 3: I haven't watched that. I've been saving that for Oah.
Speaker 1: It was okay, you had notes, I have notes. Well, Christine,
Speaker 1: let's not talk about Brady anymore, which I could all
Speaker 1: day long, but let's let's start at the beginning. I
Speaker 1: love having my teen idols on this show, and especially
Speaker 1: our female teen idols, because we always get these boy
Speaker 1: banders on the show. It's great, but like to have,
Speaker 1: like Legit, one of my first teen idols to be
Speaker 1: on the show with me is so exciting. So take
Speaker 1: us back to the beginning before we get into your career.
Speaker 1: Where are you from?
Speaker 3: I am from Allentown, Pennsylvania, grew up there very, you know,
Speaker 3: Middle America.
Speaker 6: Very.
Speaker 1: Is that where Joe Biden's from or somewhere there. I
Speaker 1: don't know if.
Speaker 3: He's from not from Alan Town, although Billy yes, he's Delaware,
Speaker 3: I think, but I think there's some Pennsylvanias. Okay, they're
Speaker 3: neighboring states. But he uh, I he's from Scranton. He's
Speaker 3: from Scranton. Oh see that I should I should really
Speaker 3: know that. That's I think I must have too. But
Speaker 3: I still think of Scranton as the office. There's always
Speaker 3: things that just override. But I and also Billy Joel
Speaker 3: was the one who sort of put us on the
Speaker 3: map for better.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: From the song, and it was you know, so it
Speaker 3: was very sort of Middle America suburba growing up. But
Speaker 3: I loved plays. I love doing the theater. I love
Speaker 3: musical theater. And I remember in second grade at our
Speaker 3: at our church, seeing a production of Godspell and it
Speaker 3: was like I'm eight years old, and I was like
Speaker 3: I have to do that, Like I wanted to meet
Speaker 3: these teenage kids who were like superstars to me. I
Speaker 3: went to twelve years of Catholic school and I just
Speaker 3: got into doing you know, school plays, and that's really
Speaker 3: how it started. And then when I was in high
Speaker 3: school and doing some and then I did some community
Speaker 3: theater and a local manager, talent manager who had a
Speaker 3: daughter who had done some work in La who had
Speaker 3: been on a TV series, and she was trying to
Speaker 3: sort of do some you know, kid child management out
Speaker 3: of Allentown by way of New York City. And she
Speaker 3: saw me at a show and said, would you ever
Speaker 3: be interested in auditioning professionally, like for commercials or And
Speaker 3: at that point I was sixteen, So and I went
Speaker 3: in and auditioned for a Burger commercial and got the
Speaker 3: commercial and it was like a big national two Burgers
Speaker 3: for a buck campaign. I could still recite it.
Speaker 1: We don't.
Speaker 3: Sure they sure that dates me. That tells you how
Speaker 3: old I am too, but that yeah, that was like
Speaker 3: in the late eighties. And then yeah, it was like
Speaker 3: I was sixteen years old and in high school and
Speaker 3: it was a big deal in Allentown, like you know
Speaker 3: Lance when you're like from a little town. It happened.
Speaker 1: I just remember when they started coming down to Mississippi
Speaker 1: to cast some things, and uh, my friend Denman Anderson
Speaker 1: was which I went to junior high with, got cast
Speaker 1: as one of one of the people.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: Oh what was that? It was?
Speaker 2: Uh the War movie?
Speaker 1: Well there it was. The War was the other one
Speaker 1: that I auditioned for. It like It was so funny
Speaker 1: because the first movie I auditioned for it was called
Speaker 1: The War and they came to Mississippi because they needed authentic,
Speaker 1: you know, Southern sounding people. It was what's the the
Speaker 1: book about on the Mississippi River? Hook Finln Hugleberry Finn.
Speaker 1: So whatever movie that was. He was cast in that,
Speaker 1: and I was so jealous that he got to be
Speaker 1: in a movie, like, Oh, he's gonna go off and
Speaker 1: be a huge star and he's gonna leave us behind.
Speaker 1: Did he He did a few more movies? Okay, he did?
Speaker 1: He did? Yeah? Uh so your first thing was a
Speaker 1: burgerhing commercial. Yes, what I used to do back in
Speaker 1: the day. I have not done this in a while,
Speaker 1: and I think we should. Is I like to bring
Speaker 1: my entertainment friends over, like at a party or a
Speaker 1: game night. But you have to bring your very first
Speaker 1: thing you ever did, and we all have to watch it.
Speaker 1: That is so good, it could be so embarrassing. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, we did that with with my friend Emmanuell Shrieky.
Speaker 1: We did. My very first movie I did was with her,
Speaker 1: and so I had, you know, my significant other and
Speaker 1: her significant other, like you know what for funies? We're
Speaker 1: gonna watch this. You know, I've not seen it since
Speaker 1: the premiere, but you know, let's let's do this mortifying more.
Speaker 1: I thought it was just funny to watch.
Speaker 2: It was just it was hilarious, and the sexual between
Speaker 2: you two, it.
Speaker 3: Was just just off the screen. I thought, it is
Speaker 3: such a funny idea. Though. We had that idea of
Speaker 3: way back when, not that specifically, but when all like
Speaker 3: in the you know, I would say like a late nineties,
Speaker 3: early two thousands, all of our friends who had done
Speaker 3: tons of pilots that just never saw the light of day,
Speaker 3: and we all had like VHS copies or a DVD
Speaker 3: copy of it, and we kept trying to get failed
Speaker 3: pilot night put together where like everyone would put in
Speaker 3: because some of them were so like you said, like
Speaker 3: you think it'll be funny, and some are just what
Speaker 3: was I thinking? And you're deb of course, we're devastated
Speaker 3: at the time that it didn't get picked up, But
Speaker 3: you know, those a pilot is that thing you put
Speaker 3: your blood, sweat and tears into you think it's going
Speaker 3: to be this big series, and most of them never
Speaker 3: that's it. It's for you, like they would never see
Speaker 3: the lights.
Speaker 1: They've done six or seven pilots, none of them. None
Speaker 1: of them when yeah, you're showker, I'm a pilot.
Speaker 3: No, I can rival you. I'm a pilot killer. I
Speaker 3: am too. I really am hate dude. Was not because
Speaker 3: we didn't really shoot a pilot. We just sort of
Speaker 3: they sort of knew they were going to have a series,
Speaker 3: so I didn't kill that one. But most after that,
Speaker 3: I think I did one other pilot that got picked up.
Speaker 1: The rest dead and I hear these stories all the time,
Speaker 1: but yeah, you do start taking a little personally like, well,
Speaker 1: am I the bad luck of all this? Because you
Speaker 1: go through the pilot after pilot and then there's shows
Speaker 1: that I would join and then they would in the
Speaker 1: next season. I'm like, am I a show killer now too?
Speaker 1: I mean literally, the last pilot I did last year
Speaker 1: was La Law, Like the La Law with Blair and.
Speaker 2: The Blair under would bring it all bad.
Speaker 3: It's a slam.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, this is you know, and they already
Speaker 1: had the merchandise made and like like this is gonna
Speaker 1: be a reoccurring character, this is gonna be awesome. That
Speaker 1: didn't even.
Speaker 2: Get picked up.
Speaker 1: No, I think I should maybe just like hang up
Speaker 1: my hat hobby, Oh my gosh. But yeah, but you
Speaker 1: can't take it. So personally, I think you really can't.
Speaker 1: The older you get, the more you just say, okay,
Speaker 1: I can take this. This happens everyone has.
Speaker 2: The same and then you literally ask every single one
Speaker 2: of your friend and they're like.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so let's give a frosted tip right now.
Speaker 1: What do you tell these new actors coming into this business?
Speaker 1: How do you warn them that things like this will
Speaker 1: probably happen?
Speaker 3: Well, I think, you know, here's the thing, because I
Speaker 3: have a twenty one year old daughter and an eighteen
Speaker 3: year old son who both want to go into the business.
Speaker 3: Our daughter and both our seniors right now, our daughters
Speaker 3: graduating college drama major Juilliard right, Juilliard drama major. She
Speaker 3: is such senioritis. She's so ready to be done. But
Speaker 3: and then my son graduating high school and he wants
Speaker 3: to go into a theater program somewhere too, And so anyway,
Speaker 3: they're both just like what are you know? You? You
Speaker 3: and dad had its like you got you guys got
Speaker 3: so lucky you guys got And so there is there
Speaker 3: is an element of luck. There's no question of like
Speaker 3: I look at where I was in Allendown, Pennsylvania. I
Speaker 3: didn't come from a show business family. I did some plays.
Speaker 3: It was the coincidence of right yep, right time, right place.
Speaker 3: You know, it's it's having those little mini moments. But
Speaker 3: now I feel like this generation, because of social media,
Speaker 3: because of YouTube, because of all there's so many platforms.
Speaker 3: All I say to young talent and actors and my kids'
Speaker 3: friends is create your own content, like make something, record it,
Speaker 3: because now there's ways to get it seen. There's way
Speaker 3: Like I was not, we didn't have that. I mean
Speaker 3: I played like pretend in my like I remember the
Speaker 3: TV series this predates you guys. There was a TV
Speaker 3: series based on the movie Fame, and it was like
Speaker 3: it was on in the eighties and they had soundtracks,
Speaker 3: and my friends and I would after school, like fifth
Speaker 3: sixth grade, we'd all get together go in the base
Speaker 3: and play the songs and like just like we didn't
Speaker 3: have video cameras to shoot it. We were just doing
Speaker 3: it for fun and singing along. But the technology now,
Speaker 3: I mean, anyone can be you know, their own director
Speaker 3: or own writer, their own creators. So I always just
Speaker 3: say write, create, don't sit around waiting. Don't sit around waiting.
Speaker 4: You got to always just keep creating and keep moving.
Speaker 4: Otherwise there's a million others are you doing the exact
Speaker 4: same thing. It's like a double edged sword now because
Speaker 4: you have now so many people, there's so many more avenues,
Speaker 4: but there are literally thousands.
Speaker 2: Of times more people now doing the same thing you're doing.
Speaker 3: And so many people just want to be.
Speaker 4: Famous, right, and that's the other You're focusing on just
Speaker 4: the fame and not actually working on being good at something.
Speaker 2: And that's how you really make it. If you want
Speaker 2: an actual career, you've got to be good at what
Speaker 2: you do.
Speaker 1: And there is a difference between those and I think, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the real entertainers out there, especially on you know,
Speaker 1: TikTok and all that, the ones that are really you know,
Speaker 1: great at creating content and great actors, great musicians, they
Speaker 1: kind of get a little poop pooed on because of
Speaker 1: these ones that just are there to be famous. And
Speaker 1: you know, it's like, okay, what can I do to
Speaker 1: get attention just right?
Speaker 3: But have no some sort of viral moment and there's
Speaker 3: instant success, instant overnight, and it's that you can't chase
Speaker 3: that to me is what.
Speaker 1: Did you Your kids are obviously probably on social media,
Speaker 1: were you scared about them, you know, getting like just
Speaker 1: putting their lives on display like that. We didn't have
Speaker 1: to do that as a kid.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: If you wanted to learn about us, you read magazine,
Speaker 1: you know, and half of that probably wasn't true, but
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: Exactly my favorite red.
Speaker 3: And also it felt like it was a big moment too,
Speaker 3: if you I remember for for you know, our little show,
Speaker 3: and hey dude, because we were Nickelodeon, it wasn't sort
Speaker 3: of this huge network platform. If we ended up in
Speaker 3: one of those magazines, it was so cool for us.
Speaker 3: We were like, oh my gosh, like we we somebody
Speaker 3: found us, somebody saw us somewhere. We had a very
Speaker 3: different sort of teen experience.
Speaker 1: And you guys Land, well you did. We talked about
Speaker 1: this on your show, Hey dude, Yeah, you know, because
Speaker 1: where did y'all film that? Y'all from then Arizona and Tucson, Arizona. Yes,
Speaker 1: so you were out of Hollywood, you know, your you're
Speaker 1: teenagers doing the show for Nickelodeon, and I was talking
Speaker 1: to you about how you know, our experience was, you know,
Speaker 1: when I was sixteen, I joined this band, and you know,
Speaker 1: you had, you know, this management around you. You didn't
Speaker 1: know if you were being taken advantage of at all.
Speaker 1: We felt like we had, you know, guardians around us,
Speaker 1: but we probably didn't. But you felt protected on your show.
Speaker 3: Strangely, and I think because it was Tucson, Arizona, and
Speaker 3: because it was such a it was this small production company,
Speaker 3: which strangely was from Knoxville, Tennessee. So it was like
Speaker 3: this these southern love bugs. You were kind of taking
Speaker 3: care of us, and and but yet very lax, like
Speaker 3: we just happened to be fairly good kids who weren't
Speaker 3: like pushing the envelope. We were so like David and
Speaker 3: I like, we were all like sort of sixteen, so
Speaker 3: we just sort of were in awe of having this
Speaker 3: experience and kind of rule followers like we were.
Speaker 1: Definitely, But did y'all play spin the bottle? I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure I'll played spin ball at some point.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm sure. I'm sure we played a few of those,
Speaker 3: but we know we did. We did feel a little
Speaker 3: I think protected just because of even just geographically like
Speaker 3: where we were. We were not in the heart of
Speaker 3: the pulse of show business, and we were not getting
Speaker 3: you know, our picture taken by paparazzi or anything like that.
Speaker 3: It really wasn't until like the show had been on
Speaker 3: for a couple of years and we had moved to
Speaker 3: la and then we saw that we had a little
Speaker 3: bit of a fan base. Who you know now it's like,
Speaker 3: you know, grown people who are like I watched you
Speaker 3: growing up and like it's amazing because we just didn't
Speaker 3: really know. Oh, at the time, were your.
Speaker 1: Parents super supportive? Are you wanting to become an actress?
Speaker 3: I mean so supportive in the most I think, like
Speaker 3: blind faith way you could ever imagine, like new absolutely nothing.
Speaker 3: Like this woman came along and was like, hey, do
Speaker 3: you there's an appointment if you want to go, and
Speaker 3: my mom, you know, my mom drove me into New
Speaker 3: York City and like we parked the Parking Girl on
Speaker 3: Manhattan Parking Plaza right out of the Lincoln Tunnel and
Speaker 3: hailed cat like we had no idea what we were doing,
Speaker 3: but it just seemed like a fun opportunity. And I
Speaker 3: never remember having to push my parents and say like please, please, please.
Speaker 3: It was always just like what a great opportunity I
Speaker 3: don't think they ever expected it to snowball the way
Speaker 3: it did. And I just feel like they, oh, and
Speaker 3: you know, I will say, because my dad is sort
Speaker 3: of like my mom is the more the extrovert in
Speaker 3: the family. My dad was sort of like the quiet
Speaker 3: teddy bear type. And I remember I had been living
Speaker 3: in LA for a couple of years after Hey Dude,
Speaker 3: and it was hard. It was like I would get
Speaker 3: a job, like i'd get an episode of Saved by
Speaker 3: the Bell, and then I would not work for months,
Speaker 3: and then I would get a little like but not
Speaker 3: nothing regular. I had some money in the bank from
Speaker 3: Hey Dude, so I didn't have to wait tables at
Speaker 3: that point yet. But it was getting sort of I
Speaker 3: feel like I was just sort of starting to lose
Speaker 3: steam and just like I don't know if I'm like,
Speaker 3: I don't know if this is for me, Like I
Speaker 3: don't this is hard, this is hard between jobs. I
Speaker 3: have some good friends, but what am I doing? Should
Speaker 3: I get a real job? Should I go back to college?
Speaker 3: And I remember my dad came out to visit, and
Speaker 3: a man of few words, and he just said, I
Speaker 3: believe in you, and I like that's all I needed
Speaker 3: to hear. It was like, if you want to stay,
Speaker 3: you have our full support it give it a couple
Speaker 3: more months, and you know, it's like those moments that
Speaker 3: I remember. I really look back on that moment because
Speaker 3: if my dad at that point had said, you know what,
Speaker 3: because he's a businessman, I mean he was like a
Speaker 3: ran his own small business in Pennsylvania, and he could
Speaker 3: have been very easily said it's not practical. You know,
Speaker 3: you're gonna run out of money soon, You're gonna need
Speaker 3: to get a real job. But he didn't say any
Speaker 3: of those things.
Speaker 1: Because in most cases that is what happens. You know,
Speaker 1: it's like absolutely and you hear all these horror stories.
Speaker 1: I mean, I see so many friends going through this,
Speaker 1: and you know, people moving out for pilot season, which
Speaker 1: there is not anymore. It's right, yeah, you know it's
Speaker 1: and especially it's such at that age too, like having
Speaker 1: to deal with such an adult problem at such a
Speaker 1: young age. You were a kid still trying to figure
Speaker 1: out this this profession, and then you have all the
Speaker 1: people around you that you know, you don't know who
Speaker 1: you can trust.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean I feel like you when you talked
Speaker 3: about that on our you know, the episode you came out,
Speaker 3: I mean the amount. I think the takeaway for us
Speaker 3: was how hard you guys were working, Like when you
Speaker 3: said you did not have a break, it was like
Speaker 3: they kept going. They kept going, And you're on your
Speaker 3: touring and you're recording music and you're doing choreography and
Speaker 3: you're showing up here and your disappearance that like who
Speaker 3: was looking out for you? And you guys were riding
Speaker 3: the wave too, right, so you were you felt like
Speaker 3: the answer would have to be yes.
Speaker 1: All right because you're always told out of side, out
Speaker 1: of mind, out of.
Speaker 2: My right, being rob blind during the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they keep you busy enough so that you don't
Speaker 1: see them lay out pickpocketing.
Speaker 2: And how many times did you stay at your house
Speaker 2: in Orlando?
Speaker 1: I mean I lived there. I don't know how many years,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean less than twenty times. I think
Speaker 1: I've slept in my bed you were there. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: we're just we're always on the road. But that also
Speaker 1: was a different time. As a musician back then, you
Speaker 1: had to you had to be on the road twenty
Speaker 1: four to seven. You had to go to every single
Speaker 1: radio station around the world, and it would take you
Speaker 1: sometimes months to get through them, and then you just
Speaker 1: the whole process over. Now kids are like, okay, I
Speaker 1: uploaded my song. I'm going to take a two month
Speaker 1: vacation right now, thanks guys. And now it's number one
Speaker 1: on iTunes and two hours yay.
Speaker 2: And now we can dis zoom every interview.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we just zoom every interview perfect.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean the kids will never understand.
Speaker 4: We'll never understand walking twenty miles in the snow every
Speaker 4: day will up.
Speaker 2: My dad used to always say that.
Speaker 4: To me, and I believed it for so long, and
Speaker 4: then finally, I'm from Miami beat.
Speaker 2: So I was not very light as a young kid,
Speaker 2: and I'm finally.
Speaker 4: I was like, Dad, there are no hills or snow here.
Speaker 4: You've been lying this whole time. I was maybe eight when.
Speaker 1: I figured out, Oh that's a little too old. Ye yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's okay. So you know those Miami Miami private schools
Speaker 1: don't do.
Speaker 2: So wet now clearly not.
Speaker 1: Well as someone who may people laugh, who are your
Speaker 1: comedian icons?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: Who did you love?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, that is such a great question. I
Speaker 3: mean I feel like I grew up loving like I
Speaker 3: loved all John Hughes movies like I just felt like
Speaker 3: that sense of humor and sensibility, and those all have
Speaker 3: such heart as well too, you know. But I think
Speaker 3: of those movies and I think of Steve Martin's and
Speaker 3: the John Candies, and you know, Ben will correct me
Speaker 3: and said that those were got like the Martin Schworts
Speaker 3: and the John Camp they all came from SCTV, which
Speaker 3: is what was Ben's comedy training, which I didn't even
Speaker 3: know of st TV until Ben and I got together
Speaker 3: and he started showing me, you know, the the all
Speaker 3: these like that, those people, the Catherine O'Haras, the.
Speaker 2: It's so good.
Speaker 1: I mean, you crazy, how many It's like what came
Speaker 1: out of Mickey Mouse Club. It's just like this.
Speaker 3: These unreal, unreal I look at the movies like to me,
Speaker 3: when I saw uh, Waiting for Guffman and like Christopher
Speaker 3: Guest and that, it's like there's that movie is comedy perfection.
Speaker 2: It is next level.
Speaker 4: It is next level and so brilliant that like this,
Speaker 4: the tiniest things you laugh at like it's just I.
Speaker 1: Love things like I love when there's groups of actors
Speaker 1: that do movies like Waiting for Gufman. That whole Guffman crew.
Speaker 1: They've done so many movies together. I'm waiting for that
Speaker 1: a new crew like that, yea to start me and
Speaker 1: I yeah.
Speaker 3: I felt like even you know, when Ben and I met,
Speaker 3: I was a fan of Bence, Like I had watched
Speaker 3: the Ben Stiller Show and I knew like I knew
Speaker 3: like like flirting with disaster. This was before Something about Mary.
Speaker 3: He did this movie that was like a David A.
Speaker 3: Russell movie with patricihark Head and Tayloni and Josh Brolin,
Speaker 3: and it was like that to me was comedy genius,
Speaker 3: like Alan Alda and Willie Tomlin were in that. So
Speaker 3: when I met Ben and like got a glimpse into
Speaker 3: his world and at the time, like his Ben Stiller
Speaker 3: showcast was Ginny and Garoffalo and Bob Odenkirk and Andy Dick,
Speaker 3: and they were like they were a version of that
Speaker 3: for me too, where I was like, these people are
Speaker 3: geniuses together and they're sort of like they were a
Speaker 3: little older than me, but my generation like that. I
Speaker 3: yet I couldn't. I was not like a sketch comedy.
Speaker 3: I was not trained in sketch comedy. I mean, I
Speaker 3: feel like I lucked into comedy because I had I
Speaker 3: loved it growing up, and I had a funny family.
Speaker 3: But then it was really just doing that Marsha Brady
Speaker 3: impression that people suddenly felt like I was. You just
Speaker 3: had trained in comedy.
Speaker 1: You have that comedic timing, which is really hard. It
Speaker 1: is just you just have to naturally.
Speaker 2: You can't force it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 1: Well, tell my listeners how you and Ben met.
Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh, Ben and I met at an audition.
Speaker 3: I went into audition for him, so, like what I
Speaker 3: just spoke about, like being a fan of his, So
Speaker 3: I get this call for this an audition for a
Speaker 3: pilot Ben. That did not get me up. And let
Speaker 3: me tell you the cast too. It was a pilot
Speaker 3: that Ben Stiller was directing, that and that, and at
Speaker 3: this point something about Mary had come out, like Ben
Speaker 3: had sort of like hit stratospheric levels as an actor.
Speaker 3: But he was directing this, and I knew he was
Speaker 3: a director. I loved Reality Bites and Cable Guy, and
Speaker 3: so he was directing this pilot and Jack Black was
Speaker 3: the star of it. And Owen Wilson was going to
Speaker 3: be the voice of Jack Black's talking motorcycle because It
Speaker 3: was a pilot called heat Vision and Jack, and it
Speaker 3: was about a man, Jack and his talking motorcycle. So
Speaker 3: it's sort of like a send up of like night
Speaker 3: Rider meets Star Trek meets It's very it was very
Speaker 3: side fi, really ahead of its time. Like that's one
Speaker 3: of those failed pilots that you can find because you should.
Speaker 1: Just bring that back out now because that I feel
Speaker 1: like that would get picked on Netflix tomorrow. Now.
Speaker 3: This is this is I say, this is what this is.
Speaker 3: This is my husband. I feel like he's he's always
Speaker 3: ten years at his time. Yeah, with certain things, sometimes
Speaker 3: they hit right, but literally, yes, right.
Speaker 1: So many shows that I've pitched like fifteen years ago
Speaker 1: and they're now, oh there's there's my show.
Speaker 3: That there's that idea that I had to pick up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's hard.
Speaker 3: You have to just know that it all comes back,
Speaker 3: it's all going to collide and it will all work.
Speaker 1: I'm just waiting for it. I'm just waiting for it now.
Speaker 3: So we Anyway, the point was we met. I auditioned
Speaker 3: for him. I was really nervous and I also really
Speaker 3: felt like this was one of my like comedically, I
Speaker 3: was like, there's nobody funnier than Ben Stiller right now.
Speaker 3: And he was so serious in the audition, like I
Speaker 3: was like, oh my god, I've worked I had already
Speaker 3: worked with Adam Sandler and the wedding singer, and you know,
Speaker 3: like Adam's like a like he's singing, he's doing funny thing.
Speaker 3: Ben was like total eye contact talk, looked you right
Speaker 3: in the eye when you were talking. It was not
Speaker 3: cracking jokes. He was like, Okay, try this and it's
Speaker 3: really it was a comedic show. But he was so
Speaker 3: into the directing and so and I was like, oh
Speaker 3: my god, he's so serious and he's really like you know,
Speaker 3: that was the real deal. And then it turned out
Speaker 3: he didn't want to cast me because he felt like
Speaker 3: he only saw Marsha Brady when she came out.
Speaker 1: When I felt like that type cast you a lot
Speaker 1: going after that. Yes, really do I get it because
Speaker 1: people can't look at me as the non eighteen year
Speaker 1: old and sync guy. You know, it's like they can't get.
Speaker 3: Sweety Pie right exactly like that. They people still see that,
Speaker 3: and I do. I mean I don't think now obviously,
Speaker 3: but I do feel like right after the movie came out,
Speaker 3: it was almost like she's just a really good Marsha
Speaker 3: Brady impressionist. She looks too much like Marsha Brady. And
Speaker 3: I didn't like dramatically change my luck either. I didn't
Speaker 3: like cut my hair.
Speaker 1: But it was such a huge movie. When you do
Speaker 1: something so huge and so iconic, people just get stuck
Speaker 1: with you right there, you know, which is great to
Speaker 1: be a part of something like that, but yeah, going forward,
Speaker 1: you're like, Okay, now look at me like this.
Speaker 4: Especially when that's like your first big break or something
Speaker 4: like so iconic, almost like like Napoleon Dynamite.
Speaker 2: You know, he exactly.
Speaker 4: It was such this iconic, nuanced, specific role that after
Speaker 4: the fact, you couldn't really see him in anything else.
Speaker 3: I know, it's real and it's so true. I felt
Speaker 3: like the initial when it first came out, it was
Speaker 3: it was tough to kind of break through and have
Speaker 3: people see me for something else, and you know, And
Speaker 3: what was funny was at the time, like Ben didn't
Speaker 3: want to cast me, and then the studio did want
Speaker 3: to cast me, so they ended up kind of forcing
Speaker 3: me on him, and so then he was yes, and
Speaker 3: then we did a lot like it was funny. We
Speaker 3: laughed a lot and said, and he told me the
Speaker 3: whole story. I don't think I even knew the story
Speaker 3: that I didn't get hired at first, and then he
Speaker 3: told me. I was like, oh my god, that's even worse.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Also, the first movie I was talking
Speaker 1: about with Manuel Shrieky, one of my co stars was
Speaker 1: Jerry Stiller. I was going to say that, yes, I mean,
Speaker 1: he was such a lovely, lovely man. We had so
Speaker 1: much fun on set together. His wife was so incredibly
Speaker 1: because she was she was a yeah, I mean she
Speaker 1: scared me, she really did. I remember the first day
Speaker 1: that we were filming, she comes up, she's like, lance
Speaker 1: this stuff for my husband.
Speaker 3: Yes, I didn't know if you meant like the who
Speaker 3: played No. Oh, yes, that sounds like an as soon
Speaker 3: as you said it.
Speaker 1: She's always like joking like that, but so like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, this moment is really going to kill me.
Speaker 2: She was so great too, and everything she was she
Speaker 2: was amazing.
Speaker 3: Well that was the thing. That was her sort of
Speaker 3: way of disarming. That was her lead in. And then
Speaker 3: she became mush because she's like this, you know, she
Speaker 3: was like, but that is that. I could hear her
Speaker 3: voice say l.
Speaker 2: I will kill you. It was great. It was great.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I love you, you are the best. But yeah,
Speaker 1: one of my favorite scenes in the movie was with Jerry.
Speaker 1: It was, you know, finally the moment that you know,
Speaker 1: the heartfelt moment it was. It was with him, and
Speaker 1: I don't know, I just I just loved it. We
Speaker 1: had a great time together. And it must be I mean, look,
Speaker 1: I mean, and you're in a family full of these legends.
Speaker 1: I mean you and Ben and Jerry and Ann, I mean,
Speaker 1: are your were your holidays just always laughing. I feel
Speaker 1: like it would just be like the funniest thing ever.
Speaker 3: Yes, And because I think Ben's parents were so different
Speaker 3: than my parents. I mean, they're Upper West Side liberal,
Speaker 3: like I grew up in very conservative Bens.
Speaker 1: I feel like our parents are the same parents. Like
Speaker 1: everything you said about your family.
Speaker 2: And the same with mine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then his family, I'm from Miami beats very
Speaker 4: liberal Jewish family and the Mississippi Southern Baptists not that right.
Speaker 3: And yet something magical about that was I think the
Speaker 3: magic of Anne and Jerry also was that they didn't
Speaker 3: see any of that. Like when when Ben and I
Speaker 3: met and we did the whole family gathering, and we
Speaker 3: did it in Pennsylvania, and I remember Anne and Jerry
Speaker 3: show up at my parents' house in Allentown. You know,
Speaker 3: my parents hosted this thing in Allentown for family and
Speaker 3: we had just gotten engaged and the door bell rings
Speaker 3: and Anne and Jerry showed, you know, the driver had
Speaker 3: brought them in from the city. And Jerry immediately was like,
Speaker 3: is trexler Town near here? Because I bought stock in
Speaker 3: a mall in Trexlertown. I was like, Jerry, that's literally
Speaker 3: like walking distance from so he was immediately like, I
Speaker 3: want to go see the trexlertem in and we went
Speaker 3: in a little dry. I was like, I don't know
Speaker 3: if it was the greatest investment. It's not doing it's
Speaker 3: not really. But they were just such love they they
Speaker 3: just embraced my family in such a way like and
Speaker 3: Yes Holidays, Thanksgiving tables. Some of the stories.
Speaker 1: That when they first dropped the F bomb in front
Speaker 1: of your family, well.
Speaker 3: It was so funny because you know, my Catholic mother
Speaker 3: and she fell in love with thatn though that's what
Speaker 3: I love is it sort of brought out like they
Speaker 3: just bonded immediately. But the funniest was when they became
Speaker 3: like Grandma Annie and Grandpa Jerry for the kids. And
Speaker 3: that was where we finally had say, like, Ann, you
Speaker 3: gotta dial it back, dial it back. They were like
Speaker 3: two and five, and we don't want that to be
Speaker 3: the their lead word when they walk into preschool and kindergarten,
Speaker 3: but they you know, it was great. We moved from
Speaker 3: LA to New York when the kids were eight and five,
Speaker 3: and Anne and Jerry like so they got to still
Speaker 3: have some really great quality time. Like if we had
Speaker 3: stayed in LA, they would have missed a lot of
Speaker 3: the best times with their grandparents, and so they have
Speaker 3: great memories. They have so many. We're really lucky.
Speaker 1: You're happier more on the East Coast, don't you.
Speaker 3: I love it. I love the changing of the seasons. However,
Speaker 3: LA is still my home away from home. Like I
Speaker 3: haven't been there in a year. This is like the
Speaker 3: longest I have gone without a trip back, and it's just,
Speaker 3: you know, it was just obviously like the life stuff
Speaker 3: and kids and my full time job right now is
Speaker 3: getting these kids out of their respective schools in one piece.
Speaker 3: Because as I said, so, we haven't traveled there in
Speaker 3: a while, but when I go, it's like all the
Speaker 3: old haunts that are still around. I just have memories
Speaker 3: of you know.
Speaker 1: Like core son well at our age, you know, growing
Speaker 1: up here, you know as teenagers. It is the core
Speaker 1: memories that you create here, and it will always feel
Speaker 1: like home. I've been in and out of here for
Speaker 1: twenty years, and I you know, I call La home.
Speaker 3: Yes, you know, it will always be that to me,
Speaker 3: and my my dearest friends are still there, and I
Speaker 3: so it's it's we live here, but I still I
Speaker 3: still kid.
Speaker 1: Yes, Okay, So now that the kids are going to
Speaker 1: be out of school, what are you wanting to do
Speaker 1: now that you don't have the responsibility of a high
Speaker 1: schooler anymore? Right?
Speaker 3: Right? Oh my god. I first of all, I hear
Speaker 3: people talk about like I hear people say the word
Speaker 3: boredom or lonely, Like I don't even know what those
Speaker 3: yeah are. I was like, give me boredom and loneliness
Speaker 3: for like a day, all just being a solitude. Like
Speaker 3: when I got COVID last summer, not was it lot
Speaker 3: not this past summer, the summer before we had taken
Speaker 3: a trip. We got it. We tested like I wasn't
Speaker 3: feeling great, and I got COVID and got you know,
Speaker 3: isolated into like another section of the house. Greatest five
Speaker 3: days of all great single, greatest five days of my life.
Speaker 3: I didn't have to make a meal, I didn't have
Speaker 3: to do laundry. I got to watch I just watched
Speaker 3: Game of Thrones. I loved it. I loved it. That's
Speaker 3: exactly I think I need to do this every year.
Speaker 1: That's when I've gotten COVID twenty times.
Speaker 3: I was going to say, especially where you guys are
Speaker 3: so in it right now, you are so in it.
Speaker 1: Yes, two year olds are I couldn't imagine. I mean,
Speaker 1: they were born, you know, during COVID, but it wasn't
Speaker 1: the craziness of like the first couple of years, right,
Speaker 1: I could not imagine having well what there was one
Speaker 1: time you got COVID and I had to have the
Speaker 1: kids for by myself for lace.
Speaker 2: There were still very young.
Speaker 1: They weren't moving, yeah, at least they weren't going to
Speaker 1: roll off the couch.
Speaker 3: At that point, right, But yeah, it's when they start
Speaker 3: to move, that's when things get crazy.
Speaker 1: And I still don't think you really had COVID, But
Speaker 1: you know what, that's that's good.
Speaker 2: That's right, I think growing up.
Speaker 3: God. Yes, in an answer to your question, I would
Speaker 3: like to the just the thought of being able to
Speaker 3: sort of on a whim, do something fun with a
Speaker 3: girlfriend or Ben and I getting to go away and
Speaker 3: do something without having to worry about the kids' schedules.
Speaker 3: That sounds amazing. But you know, a lot of the jobs,
Speaker 3: like a lot of the things I haven't even put
Speaker 3: in the mix of a possibility for me now that
Speaker 3: especially now that I'm living in New York. Like I
Speaker 3: would love to do a play. I would like an
Speaker 3: off Broadway play, like because that's a different that's a
Speaker 3: night schedule that you can't do when you've got kids
Speaker 3: at home, And I would love to do something like that.
Speaker 3: So I feel like it there's like a next like
Speaker 3: a next chapter that I am.
Speaker 1: Would you ever join a musical because I know you
Speaker 1: did musical theater as.
Speaker 3: I just the voice, the voice Land.
Speaker 1: Look, there's there's plenty of people that don't like back
Speaker 1: then radial voice. It's just you know, it's about how
Speaker 1: you use the voice.
Speaker 3: True, it would it would be very daunting. It would
Speaker 3: be the thing that I would immediately want to say
Speaker 3: no to because I just pure fear. But but know
Speaker 3: how much I would love it so and you can
Speaker 3: work with like it's there, I can carry a tune.
Speaker 3: It's not not been.
Speaker 4: I mean, look at multiple real housewives that have been
Speaker 4: on Broadway at the Troy exactly, and let me tell you, yeah,
Speaker 4: and look at people like I love like Josh gad
Speaker 4: to Me is one of my favorites because he does.
Speaker 1: Such great plays but also musicals. Doesn't have the best
Speaker 1: voice world, but he he uses it in a way
Speaker 1: that just works perfectly for broad and even Olf and
Speaker 1: all that.
Speaker 3: No, no, you won't. Yeah, you need you definitely need
Speaker 3: to act. You need to be able to act it too,
Speaker 3: before you can just have the voice. So I I
Speaker 3: never say never, never say never. But and I'm really
Speaker 3: trying to just say yes to more things, like I'm
Speaker 3: at that stage in my life too.
Speaker 1: Well, let's not say yes to the same pilot.
Speaker 3: Let's you and I will not ever say maybe a
Speaker 3: double negative might turn positive, so you actually have to
Speaker 3: do it. Two pilot killers cross each other out and
Speaker 3: make a pilot.
Speaker 2: I think it's just birth a pilot.
Speaker 1: It's basic math.
Speaker 2: Really, it is gay and women math.
Speaker 1: It's gay math.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Success.
Speaker 1: Speaking of music, what did you what did you grow
Speaker 1: up with? Who did you love musically? And do you
Speaker 1: remember your first concert?
Speaker 3: Okay, this is this is where I really get nerdy
Speaker 3: and it goes right back into musical theater. It was
Speaker 3: all show tunes, all show tuns. Then it was Michael Jackson.
Speaker 3: That was my first concert, The Jackson five, that was
Speaker 3: my first concert one. It was although going way back,
Speaker 3: I think my real first concert was Donnie and Marie
Speaker 3: when I was like eight at the Allentown Fairgrounds.
Speaker 1: Did you ever get to tell the Jackson five?
Speaker 3: I did not get to. I don't know them.
Speaker 1: I feel like run into each other because they had
Speaker 1: that Donnie Marie show for a while.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, no Donny Marie. I was like, as a
Speaker 3: little I love Donnie Marie, but no, my music taste
Speaker 3: was so like it was so bad. I think because
Speaker 3: Billy Joel put Alan Town on the like I love
Speaker 3: Billy Joel. You can't not love Elton john like some
Speaker 3: Barb streisand Barry Manilo Like this is this is the
Speaker 3: world I was living in. There was no rock. Really,
Speaker 3: this was very just to the point where when I
Speaker 3: and this is like, I don't think I've ever publicly
Speaker 3: said this, But I was dating a a musician in
Speaker 3: la in like the early nineties, and he was struggling musician,
Speaker 3: great songwriter, like he would play different clubs and stuff,
Speaker 3: and this is really bad. I cannot believe he didn't
Speaker 3: break up with me. And this is like nineteen ninety one.
Speaker 3: And in the conversation it was somebody said something about
Speaker 3: Eddie Vedder, and I said, who's Eddie Vedder at the
Speaker 3: peak of pearl Jam? At the heat not at the
Speaker 3: like beginnings of the spark of it? Yeah, peak of
Speaker 3: Pearl Jam. And I had no idea. So he gave
Speaker 3: me a real serious education. He stayed with me and
Speaker 3: then gave me a real serious music education. So my
Speaker 3: horizons got broadened a bit.
Speaker 1: But how long did that rehip last after that that?
Speaker 1: Because I think he gave me a window He's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I can't do it.
Speaker 3: I was going to say it did kind of end
Speaker 3: fairly soon after, and we did get back together a
Speaker 3: few years later. I think after he schooled me a
Speaker 3: bit and then we did get back together for a
Speaker 3: little But yes, I always credit him for.
Speaker 1: This was not.
Speaker 3: Oh God love.
Speaker 2: It was it. Neil Patrick Harris on your Wikipedia.
Speaker 1: Okay, can we talk about Neil Patrick Harris because that was.
Speaker 2: Your attention palpable to you?
Speaker 3: You know how, guys, you know how when you because
Speaker 3: listen Neil, that never would have been public knowledge. I
Speaker 3: never went around telling people that. But he he Howard
Speaker 3: Stern got it out of him because he was, you know,
Speaker 3: talking about coming out and he said he was dating
Speaker 3: girls and and so I will tell you. With Neil
Speaker 3: it was such friendship. It was literally like him asking
Speaker 3: me out. We went to the Magic Castle, like we've
Speaker 3: just loved hanging out, and it was clearly it became
Speaker 3: very evident to me very early on because we also
Speaker 3: had another friend, a guy friend of mine who he
Speaker 3: Neil was obsessed with.
Speaker 1: Friends.
Speaker 3: Three of us hung out like we went like I remember,
Speaker 3: we took him thrifting because he was auditioning for rent.
Speaker 3: It was like really early Neil moments and and it
Speaker 3: was just this, It was a just this. Yes, it
Speaker 3: was a beautiful friendship. We laughed a lot.
Speaker 1: Did you make out a lot? Because that's what I did,
Speaker 1: like with Danielle, Yes, that's Danielle. It was just like
Speaker 1: such a we made out so much to make up
Speaker 1: for the nonst part of it, right, That's.
Speaker 3: What it is a lot of like just handholdings. She feely,
Speaker 3: but that's like like I like, minus the making out.
Speaker 3: I'm so touchy feely with my gay besties too, So
Speaker 3: it all like was making sense to me in real time.
Speaker 3: But you also, it wasn't on me too to bring
Speaker 3: it up, so it was a very natural drift apart.
Speaker 3: And he's just.
Speaker 1: A gay man or gay boy. You do, You're you're
Speaker 1: confused on what love really feels like because I know, Look,
Speaker 1: I knew I was gay since I was very, very
Speaker 1: very young, but I never you know, I knew I'd
Speaker 1: have to hide it my whole life. I knew I
Speaker 1: wasn't supposed to act on it. So the love feeling,
Speaker 1: you didn't know what that felt like if you weren't
Speaker 1: in love yet. So with my ex, I thought that's
Speaker 1: what love was, and I really but I didn't realize
Speaker 1: that I loved her as my best friend. Like this
Speaker 1: is like just I'm in love with you because you're
Speaker 1: my best friend, but I had.
Speaker 3: You're my soulmate in that way. But there's not there's
Speaker 3: that the other part of it is not there at all.
Speaker 3: But you don't know that when when it's so new
Speaker 3: in that way.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's like your meme, hey girl, let's just
Speaker 2: be friend.
Speaker 1: Let's just be friend.
Speaker 2: Like, hey girl, let's just be friend.
Speaker 3: Oh it's genius.
Speaker 6: I love it.
Speaker 1: All right, So you said your kids are getting the
Speaker 1: acting bug right now? Now with all this the phrase
Speaker 1: nepotism in the acting world, do y'all get a lot
Speaker 1: of that? And do you fear that they're going to
Speaker 1: get a lot of flag for just being in a
Speaker 1: in an entertainment family.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, it's really interesting because that the whole nepo
Speaker 3: baby that, like it was almost a year ago when
Speaker 3: that article came out, that New Yorker article, and I
Speaker 3: remember it was a hot topic because it came out
Speaker 3: like right around the holidays, and we were we were
Speaker 3: all getting together over the holidays, and because you know,
Speaker 3: Ben's an original netpo baby. His parents are still are
Speaker 3: and mirror like when you we had this real sort
Speaker 3: of like honest conversation because we were all sort of
Speaker 3: offended by the cover. It was just sort of the
Speaker 3: snarkiness of that article with everyone and baby bonnets and
Speaker 3: holding bottles.
Speaker 1: It's like, look, you know, Sanford and sons. Okay, so
Speaker 1: we're going to be mad at him handing over the
Speaker 1: business to a son or.
Speaker 3: Well, you know that's yes, that's what that was. What
Speaker 3: this conversation sparked was us saying, like, my dad owns
Speaker 3: a security company in Pennsylvania and my brother like it's
Speaker 3: a family owned business. Like why is nobody everybody?
Speaker 2: Every business?
Speaker 3: It's everything, every school, everything, you go back into history,
Speaker 3: I mean to the point where my son got so
Speaker 3: he had a project last year as a junior in
Speaker 3: high school. They call it this sort of like passion
Speaker 3: project and you have to sort of just pick a
Speaker 3: topic that you want to really do a deep dive
Speaker 3: and research and answer questions and it's like a month
Speaker 3: month's long, uh you know project. And he sparked it
Speaker 3: from that article and from the conversation we had, and
Speaker 3: he kind of like faced it head on of like listen,
Speaker 3: just because of who my parents are, like, does that
Speaker 3: mean I should not go after what I love doing
Speaker 3: because people are gonna and and it was it was
Speaker 3: such it was a great project that Ben you know,
Speaker 3: helped him kind of craft into this fun like script
Speaker 3: and one man show, and it was so cool that
Speaker 3: as a family. We got to really talk about it
Speaker 3: because the reality is like it like you said, it's
Speaker 3: it's it's throughout history, family businesses. It's just because in
Speaker 3: the entertainment industry, everybody's in front of the spot.
Speaker 1: That's what you grow up with. If your dad is
Speaker 1: a doctor, you might go into the medical field because
Speaker 1: that's what. Okay, so this is what I think you
Speaker 1: and Ben should do. You know, Adam he had his
Speaker 1: daughters in the last movie, which they were so incredible,
Speaker 1: and it was also.
Speaker 2: They were so cool.
Speaker 3: I mean, well, that family we love. We love them.
Speaker 3: Ben and Adam are very very close and we love them.
Speaker 3: Like Adam put Ella in qub Halloween High School. Like
Speaker 3: Adam is such a family guy and he's like, get
Speaker 3: everybody in it. So tell me what you're thinking.
Speaker 1: Well, and if it won for Adam and Ben, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be in some of the most iconic movies ever.
Speaker 1: I mean, they they have given me some great gifts.
Speaker 1: For sure. You need to write Nepo Baby. You need
Speaker 1: to just go right into it, just like Adam did
Speaker 1: with his Bob Mitzvah. You do Neo baby, and we
Speaker 1: just lean in. Yeah, you just right into it and
Speaker 1: just make them fun of it all. Yeah, and we.
Speaker 3: Should talk about it more in ten years, because we're
Speaker 3: ten years ahead of it right now exactly.
Speaker 2: I'm just started. Now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's just get that ip down because yeah, it's
Speaker 1: going to be stolen and we'll.
Speaker 3: Have secret meetings about it behind closed doors and in
Speaker 3: ten years.
Speaker 1: And then in ten years our kids can be in
Speaker 1: it and they could be like super nepos.
Speaker 3: Exactly do you guys think about it? Like do you
Speaker 3: think about like do you is do you want to
Speaker 3: put them in music lessons and singing? I think I
Speaker 3: think parents do that anyway, you're a musician everything.
Speaker 1: I want them to experience everything and everything, you know.
Speaker 1: I want you to touch that piano, touch the guitar.
Speaker 1: I want you to have a singing lesson. I want
Speaker 1: you to kick that soccer ball. I just want you
Speaker 1: to just experience everything and see which one they gravitate to. Yeah. Now,
Speaker 1: if I had a wish, I would not want them
Speaker 1: to be in front of the camera because I just
Speaker 1: know how much pressure that comes with And it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter how thick of a skin you have, still hurts,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, just like what we were saying
Speaker 1: we joke about all the pilots that we don't ever
Speaker 1: get picked up. But it stings, my gosh.
Speaker 3: And as it stings, especially in real time, those that
Speaker 3: we laugh about it now because look at look at
Speaker 3: us now. But at that time when you get that call,
Speaker 3: you're like, oh my god, oh my god, and you
Speaker 3: do search like you said, is like it's got to
Speaker 3: be me, Like I just am not so I hear
Speaker 3: that now.
Speaker 1: I would love want to tech them. I would love
Speaker 1: to be like if they wanted to go into like
Speaker 1: film television, I would love them to be a director. Right,
Speaker 1: you'd be a famous director. But I still feel like
Speaker 1: there's so much less pressure of people following you around
Speaker 1: and like wanting to know every little thing about you,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're in music, you know, I would
Speaker 1: love to be the guitars, be the drummer, you know,
Speaker 1: just you know, be a part of the band. But
Speaker 1: don't be like the front guy.
Speaker 3: And just you wait, yeah, I'm looking at how like
Speaker 3: how gorgeous and electric you guy? Like there just something
Speaker 3: tells me, something tells me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, especially our son he is an entertainer. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: And you know them when they're that like I remember
Speaker 3: our kids that that little they would walk into the
Speaker 3: room and put on a show and have everybody stop.
Speaker 1: And he just knows he knows how to make you laugh.
Speaker 1: At two years old, he knows exactly how to come
Speaker 1: in a room and make you laugh.
Speaker 3: It is captivate.
Speaker 1: And knows he's cute, like he's it'll be trouble because
Speaker 1: he's yes, yes, he knows exactly what he's doing, exactly
Speaker 1: what he's doings if you can create a dream project, okay,
Speaker 1: because a lot of you know, a lot of us
Speaker 1: entertainers we have these dream projects we've been sitting on
Speaker 1: for years and we're like, God, if I ever had
Speaker 1: the opportunity or finance person came as like here's a
Speaker 1: million dollars to make you know this film or this
Speaker 1: TV show pilot that you've always wanted to do? Is
Speaker 1: there a project that you've always wanted to do?
Speaker 6: God?
Speaker 3: I mean the short answer to that is no, because
Speaker 3: I you know, like the band like the bandwidth for
Speaker 3: me in these last like you know, child rearing years,
Speaker 3: that's like I just haven't even allowed myself to go there.
Speaker 3: Like the closest I've gotten would be like I want
Speaker 3: to do a like theater. I want to do the
Speaker 3: like thinking that but not exactly what right, So now
Speaker 3: that's my next that's the next step of like, because
Speaker 3: I really also do believe that once you put it,
Speaker 3: you start putting it out there. I'm a really firm
Speaker 3: believer that that energy, not that it's like manifests into
Speaker 3: what it is, but it's moving. It's moving. You're sort
Speaker 3: of moving yourself in a direction of taking action, even
Speaker 3: if it's just thought, even if it's just putting it
Speaker 3: down of like, this would be amazing to do. Now,
Speaker 3: on the flip side of that, I have a husband
Speaker 3: who is has ideas for things and is writing scripts
Speaker 3: all the time and is so you know, what I
Speaker 3: would say to going back to the NEPO baby thing
Speaker 3: is like I A in a in a perfect world,
Speaker 3: I would love to some point somewhere down the line,
Speaker 3: have all four of us being something that it doesn't
Speaker 3: even have to be starring in. It could just be
Speaker 3: like I'll walk through a scene.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you it's happening. It's happening.
Speaker 3: But Ben, you know, Ben always did that with his
Speaker 3: parents and even with his sister's an actor and she
Speaker 3: you know, like he it's like, if you go through
Speaker 3: the archives of the Ben movies over the years, you'll
Speaker 3: see lots of our friends, lots of our family, even
Speaker 3: my brother who's not an actor. Ben loves to throw
Speaker 3: Brian in a movie.
Speaker 1: That's great that I love that.
Speaker 3: So yeah, so, but I thank you for asking me
Speaker 3: that question, because why not, why not start to actually
Speaker 3: dream bigger? Because my dreams have been all about Okay, okay,
Speaker 3: I'm dreaming about getting these kids out of.
Speaker 2: The exactly into that next chapter.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, you got to start focusing on yourself
Speaker 1: after this, your kids would walk that.
Speaker 3: Yes, better, mom, to take care of yourself.
Speaker 1: That's what we always say, tell ourselves, like we have to.
Speaker 2: Go out tonight. We have to because of it. You're
Speaker 2: still a human being.
Speaker 1: You don't like you've lost your life, your whole as much.
Speaker 3: It's true, It's really true. Especially when they're little, you
Speaker 3: really need some space and you need to be around
Speaker 3: adult humans. Yes, exactly, Yeah, you need to have some
Speaker 3: adult human action because talking like the potty talk and
Speaker 3: everything like you start you realize, like the language you're
Speaker 3: speaking when you go out is like not.
Speaker 1: And every time we go out, because most of our
Speaker 1: friends don't have kids, right, All we do is talk
Speaker 1: about our kids and show pictures and everything. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: are they just completely bored of our conversation, because like.
Speaker 4: I was probably bored with our friends and shld me
Speaker 4: they're kid. After a while, I'm like, Okay, Like I
Speaker 4: see it.
Speaker 2: That's amazing. They're cute.
Speaker 3: I don't need to hear every que I don't need
Speaker 3: forty of them.
Speaker 1: Yesterday she read her first word. It said da da.
Speaker 1: She said, all right, so since it's the holidays, what's
Speaker 1: the holidays look for you guys? What does it look like?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I love like I love the holidays.
Speaker 3: I love we host thanks Giving. We do like a
Speaker 3: big Thanksgiving dinner.
Speaker 1: And how many speople.
Speaker 3: It's not gigantic, but like sixteen people. Like during COVID
Speaker 3: it didn't happen. It didn't like we dialed it back.
Speaker 3: It was like immediate family and my mom and brother
Speaker 3: and a few extras. But so yeah, it's gonna be
Speaker 3: about sixteen seventeen people. But and like just the most
Speaker 3: buttery rich recipe, like just cooking for days leading up
Speaker 3: to it, even to the point where I don't even
Speaker 3: on the day enjoy it. I just love the company
Speaker 3: because I mean everything leading up to it, but I
Speaker 3: love it. I love baking. I love because I really
Speaker 3: only do that kind of like cooking once a year,
Speaker 3: like I'm more of a short order cook otherwise. But
Speaker 3: then it's Christmas and I love Chris like I love
Speaker 3: the decorating. I love this. I'm such a candle person.
Speaker 3: I love like the scent, the evergreen candles.
Speaker 1: In the we just got sent. There's a new company
Speaker 1: called Queer Candle and it's transomed and there's a spruce
Speaker 1: one and it's the best one I've ever smelled.
Speaker 3: Yes, like right now because we're in November, I'm in
Speaker 3: a pumpkin spice candle happening in that. Like I'm a
Speaker 3: candle person. I love the stre like getting the house
Speaker 3: filled up. So you know we do we don't have
Speaker 3: third what did you say, thirty six trees?
Speaker 1: Thirty five?
Speaker 3: Sorry, we do two trees, well two trees. And then
Speaker 3: we have this big tree outside that we like light
Speaker 3: up like like I try to call it like we
Speaker 3: light it up like Rockefeller Center. But it's because it's
Speaker 3: a big tree, a big sad tree that only looks
Speaker 3: beautiful like for a couple months of the year because
Speaker 3: we all string it with multicolored lights.
Speaker 1: I've been wanting to do that. In my front yard
Speaker 1: there's I have three pine trees that grow together so
Speaker 1: it looks like a huge Christmas tree. Yeah, okay, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, I want to I want to make
Speaker 1: that just one huge Christmas tree. Put lights all over
Speaker 1: the top so the whole neighborhood is joyous to be like, wow,
Speaker 1: that's so cool. I got a quote on that like
Speaker 1: two years ago. It was just to put lights and
Speaker 1: these pine trees. It was like ten thousand dollars. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, and you didn't even own the lights. They
Speaker 1: come and take the lights back.
Speaker 3: What Yeah, And then it's yeah, that's that's that's nuts.
Speaker 1: That's yeah.
Speaker 2: They don't deserve it.
Speaker 3: They don't deserve that gift. We don't need to get
Speaker 3: the neighborhood that.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It is really sad because I'm the only house that
Speaker 1: really decorates during Halloween and Christmas, you know, but like
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm the only one. We don't even get
Speaker 1: one trigger treater. I have candy out there waiting, but
Speaker 1: no one ever comes. It's like really sad. But then
Speaker 1: a quarter mile down the street is thousands and thousands
Speaker 1: of kids trigger treating, So I don't.
Speaker 4: Hill.
Speaker 1: I mean we are not on the hill, but you
Speaker 1: know the kids exercise.
Speaker 2: That's a great place to go hiking.
Speaker 3: I know it depends on where you are, like what
Speaker 3: nook you're in. I remember La could feel like that
Speaker 3: in different neighborhoods. So like we happened to be in
Speaker 3: a neighborhood where it was everybody met at one person's
Speaker 3: house and the whole group like to this, to to
Speaker 3: the you know, to this day, I still get texts
Speaker 3: from friends who are still there.
Speaker 1: What neighborhood was that?
Speaker 3: Because we go it was outposts like yeah, it's super.
Speaker 1: To Luca Lake, which is of course that's so family.
Speaker 1: They bust in kids, I mean thousands of kids. And
Speaker 1: then this year we did and Sino, which was just
Speaker 1: as crazy.
Speaker 3: I was going to say, that's super like the super.
Speaker 1: Family there, But to Luca Lake, I have to say
Speaker 1: his best because they literally everyone gives full sized candy
Speaker 1: bars and then does the fun size.
Speaker 3: But that's okay, yeah, I we love like that was
Speaker 3: that was kind of like I want liked that being
Speaker 3: our claim to fame. It's like doing full size because
Speaker 3: he did it once a year. I was like, come on,
Speaker 3: we gotta do it, we gotta but you know, and
Speaker 3: everybody kind of went around at the same time, so
Speaker 3: it wasn't like you had to open keep opening the door,
Speaker 3: and everybody just kind of left stuff out, and and
Speaker 3: all the parents dressed up, like everybody dressed up. It
Speaker 3: was so fun. Like we got to New York and
Speaker 3: I remember some of the my kid because they were
Speaker 3: so little at the time, eight and five, and I
Speaker 3: remember some of the parents, like we showed up to
Speaker 3: the event, we were the only press, and then we
Speaker 3: got them on board a couple of years later.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, people, these actors always character Oh god, yourself,
Speaker 1: damn it. Well Christine, Okay, I'm gonna let you go now,
Speaker 1: because again I could talk to you for hours and hours.
Speaker 1: I I hope you have an incredible holiday season too.
Speaker 3: I can't wait to see photos of everything. I'll like,
Speaker 3: you know, social media, I'm sure.
Speaker 1: To you post Hello, we're big posters.
Speaker 3: I am there. I'm a private but I'm a good follower,
Speaker 3: like I'm a.
Speaker 1: Good social I okay, well, then after we well, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: you need to send me your definitely, because why am
Speaker 1: I not following your private account? Christine?
Speaker 3: You can get a Lance Bass follow I can get
Speaker 3: a Lance Michael.
Speaker 1: You know people have to pay big money for that
Speaker 1: big money you money. I got you, I got you. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm super excited for everything for your future. I can't
Speaker 1: wait to see you on Broadway because we're manifesting right now.
Speaker 1: Uh Neo Baby twenty six on Netflix, the musical for
Speaker 1: the musical.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 1: It's first the Netflix film, then it turns into a musical.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna have the next ten years of your
Speaker 1: life are going to be all about nepotism.
Speaker 3: I'm booked.
Speaker 2: I'm booked.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we're skipping the pilot. We're going straight to series.
Speaker 3: You and I will end up on some will cancel
Speaker 3: each other. We've got it all. We're going to spark
Speaker 3: this behind the scenes.
Speaker 2: I love this.
Speaker 1: Figure this out. Thank you, thank you. It's it's it's
Speaker 1: about time.
Speaker 3: You are delightful. Thank you. I'm not kidding. I feel
Speaker 3: like I feel like I just want to hang out
Speaker 3: with you. This was so much fun.
Speaker 1: Well we are when we get to New York. We
Speaker 1: should be there at some point in the next one month.
Speaker 3: Vice versa too when we're because Ben said sends his love.
Speaker 1: And we did give my love to him. And the
Speaker 1: fam are the best. We really are so much. All right, Christine, well,
Speaker 1: I will talk to you very soon and you have
Speaker 1: the best holiday ever. All right, by my love? All right,
Speaker 1: text me your private account. I will by miss Christine Taylor.
Speaker 1: Everyone told her she was nice.
Speaker 2: She's so great.
Speaker 1: I can't wait for y'all to hang. When we get
Speaker 1: to New.
Speaker 2: York, I know, I already feel like we're good friends.
Speaker 1: That's where we actually met, was in New York because
Speaker 1: I was doing Zoolander and I met Ben you know,
Speaker 1: before that, and he wanted me to be at zoo Lander.
Speaker 1: He sent me this grip, but he wanted me to
Speaker 1: come over to see them film something. And you know
Speaker 1: the scene in Zulander where they're the gas pumps and
Speaker 1: their spray and the guy dies whatever, that's yeah, so
Speaker 1: that's in the meatpacking district. And I was there when
Speaker 1: they filmed that, and so I read the script after
Speaker 1: that scene because I'm like, what am I? What is this?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: What the hell is this movie? And I remember thinking.
Speaker 5: This is horrible, Like what you didn't see the vision
Speaker 5: well it was either I didn't know that it was
Speaker 5: supposed to be super campy and just like over the top.
Speaker 1: So when first read I was like whoa, Like this
Speaker 1: is how is it?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 1: How did this get made? This is so silly? But
Speaker 1: of course it became.
Speaker 2: I mean it's Ben Stiller. Hello, what do you expecting
Speaker 2: to be good?
Speaker 1: But yeah, just reading it, I'm like, oh my, what
Speaker 1: am I getting into?
Speaker 4: You think it was like a Meryl Street like draw well, no,
Speaker 4: from the brilliant minds of the Cable guy and something
Speaker 4: about Mary.
Speaker 1: But you admit, Letter is like the most over the
Speaker 1: top movie he's ever done. I mean it just it
Speaker 1: really went. There's such a good movie. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it's incredible. It is a classic. So yeah, that was
Speaker 1: fun and that's how I got to meet them, and
Speaker 1: then we had like a game night.
Speaker 2: Even I didn't even talk to Christine about the craft.
Speaker 1: Oh why didn't we talk about Why don't we talk
Speaker 1: about the craft? All right? Get Christine back on the line.
Speaker 1: We gotta talk about the craft? All right? All right,
Speaker 1: Well that is all the show I have for you today.
Speaker 1: Have a wonderful holiday season. I'll be safe out there.
Speaker 1: Don't drink and drive because I know, a Thanksgiving sometimes
Speaker 1: you gotta tip it back because the family kind of
Speaker 1: gets on your nerves. If that's the case, you uber
Speaker 1: uber or get a d D, make one of your
Speaker 1: kids drive you home. Be safe out there. Remember take
Speaker 1: care of those animals too, because they need.
Speaker 2: Us, specially getting cold, and we need them.
Speaker 1: Yes, sure there a little sweater on them, all right.
Speaker 1: No fireworks into years, but you know when that happens
Speaker 1: to plug their ears up, it's cool.
Speaker 2: That's just a little dislammer for July.
Speaker 1: Yeah, New Year's it's right around corner. Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: they do fireworks there too. Yeah, we get two big
Speaker 1: firework moments in the year. I know, it's my favorite.
Speaker 1: I love fireworks, I do. They have these new fireworks
Speaker 1: now that they blow up and then they just they
Speaker 1: turn into shapes.
Speaker 2: And things like, what the hell we are you gonna
Speaker 2: think of next?
Speaker 1: And I'm not seeing one of these in person, but
Speaker 1: a drone.
Speaker 2: Show those are crazy, right, Yes.
Speaker 1: How the I mean, I guess I know how you
Speaker 1: just program it, but but I've never seen one go
Speaker 1: dead or fall out or they always go off perfectly
Speaker 1: that I've seen. I'm sure there's been mishaps, but I
Speaker 1: just it's it's I love it. It's like I'm intrigued.
Speaker 2: So you can go google one of those if you
Speaker 2: don't know what.
Speaker 1: All right, guys, I am gonna let you go right now,
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