Speaker 1: Look man, oh I see you? Why why bow and
Speaker 1: look over there? How is that culture? Yes, goodness, culture
Speaker 1: is just calling oh baby, let me tell you there's
Speaker 1: going to be a really controversial thing that's going to
Speaker 1: happen at the end of this episode. I may have
Speaker 1: gone ahead and tease them. I don't think so, honey
Speaker 1: to Bowen and he he thinks he knows, but he
Speaker 1: doesn't know. But the fact of the matter is a
Speaker 1: large thing has happened in the culture, and I feel
Speaker 1: that it's created. Um, it's not what roadblock, It's not
Speaker 1: the large thing in the culture is not what people think.
Speaker 1: It's not like the top of mind thing, although it's
Speaker 1: it's top of mind, just in terms of culture in Core.
Speaker 1: I feel that this thing I'm going to talk about,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna you know what, this is ridiculous. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna say no, no, save it for later, SA no,
Speaker 1: I refuse. Okay. This thing that I have found is
Speaker 1: that I tried to listen to Fiona Fetch the bull Cutters,
Speaker 1: and I don't get it. I don't get it. You
Speaker 1: didn't listen to her old stuff, did you. I know? Criminal,
Speaker 1: Like I know, I know what I need to know.
Speaker 1: But and here's the thing that bothers me so much
Speaker 1: as I know I'm wrong, it's like one of those things.
Speaker 1: It's not that, it's just that I think you haven't
Speaker 1: had and this sounds so annoying, but I don't think
Speaker 1: you've had the supplemental materials to like close the gap
Speaker 1: in the understanding of the appreciation of this. See and
Speaker 1: this is the other thing. I knew this would bring
Speaker 1: this to light, which is along comes to me on
Speaker 1: with this album and everyone's saying they love it, and
Speaker 1: then I'm like, I don't know. And then everyone's like, well,
Speaker 1: it's because you don't have the tools to really enjoy
Speaker 1: if you're not with you know, we don't have the culturally,
Speaker 1: of course, you would say the same thing about someone
Speaker 1: who like was hitting on Kelly. You should like read
Speaker 1: the lyrics, you should read the you should look up
Speaker 1: the lyrics to all these songs on the lyrics. I've
Speaker 1: trust me, I have done everything I can do to
Speaker 1: try and understand not just liking it because I get
Speaker 1: liking it. I don't think it's bad. It's just that
Speaker 1: ten on Pitchfork and then like everyone universally being like,
Speaker 1: this is album of the year that the Pitchwork thing,
Speaker 1: I mean part of it was like to drive clicks
Speaker 1: or whatever, you know what it was they I know it.
Speaker 1: They did that to start this conversation. And then then
Speaker 1: you know what, They're trying to start a civil war
Speaker 1: in this country. But people have taste between people with
Speaker 1: taste and people with no taste, and they're gonna get it.
Speaker 1: They're gonna get it. They're gonna get a war. You're
Speaker 1: saying that Pitchwork give their first perfect ten score to
Speaker 1: an album in as many years, specifically to start a
Speaker 1: riff between you and I to compromise. No, I'm saying,
Speaker 1: we are but a microcosm, and we are always but
Speaker 1: a microcosm. Is actually rule Culture Number twelve were always
Speaker 1: a microcosm. And here's the thing is, I have to
Speaker 1: say that I actually have already death threats. I have
Speaker 1: death threats from our from our gay group chat. I
Speaker 1: have death threats from Jolkim Booster and Josh Sharp that
Speaker 1: if I didn't I don't think so honey today on Fiona,
Speaker 1: that I would be I would be dead and they
Speaker 1: would kill me. So just know that during this entire
Speaker 1: podcast episode, it's gonna be racing, absolutely racing. To the
Speaker 1: back of my mind is do I want to be
Speaker 1: so brave as to face death in order to give
Speaker 1: a truthful I don't think so, honey. So that's gonna
Speaker 1: be my internal narrative the whole time. Yeah. Wow, Well,
Speaker 1: let's see if there's an arc to that in this episode.
Speaker 1: If you end up somewhere different, I hope I do.
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe maybe our guests will be able to
Speaker 1: convince me, although I don't know our guests could convince
Speaker 1: could sell ice to Eskimos? Is that okay to say?
Speaker 1: I think that's actually gonna be okay to say, because
Speaker 1: I've bought whole blocks of ice from our guest and
Speaker 1: it's just like any other ice, but just the way
Speaker 1: she sells it by by ice e bean cocaine blocks
Speaker 1: of cocaine. Yea co girl, Laura Mapkis is my coke girl.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, am I here? Yeah? Hold on, hold on,
Speaker 1: hold on our guests, but first we have to fluff
Speaker 1: the guest. Let let me, let us fluff you. Let
Speaker 1: us fluff you fluff you trust us. No one wants
Speaker 1: to go in hard without a fluffer. Your please, So
Speaker 1: listen the podcast with Nicole Buyer that is now out it.
Speaker 1: You know. It goes through all the different Star Wars flicks,
Speaker 1: first timers, first timers, did newcomers and newcomers, and I'm
Speaker 1: happy you did for that. When I had no yeah,
Speaker 1: the titles newcomers, I was just saying their first timers
Speaker 1: to the Franchan, Yes we were getting there. Damn, I
Speaker 1: got it. Back out of this fluff, man, I gotta you,
Speaker 1: gotta back out of this sluff. Let us fluff you,
Speaker 1: let us, let us. It's so hard to me to
Speaker 1: let myself be fluffed, but I will, I will, you
Speaker 1: let yourself be fluffed. And we also have to say,
Speaker 1: I mean podcast, Queen podcast, Queen, true podcast, Queen and
Speaker 1: Queen of um, I'm sorry, but film and television, sorry,
Speaker 1: film and television, and get this new media, new media,
Speaker 1: my god, new media empress damn. And I have to
Speaker 1: say it's very brave of someone who was in the
Speaker 1: Jurassic World franchise to come out and say I don't
Speaker 1: know Star Wars. She could care less about nerd culture.
Speaker 1: She wants to start a civil war between the franchises,
Speaker 1: and that's I think what's happening. And I am actually
Speaker 1: if we're going to cause a war and she's going
Speaker 1: to cause a war. This podcast already has a title
Speaker 1: of EPP and the title of this has the title
Speaker 1: of up front Runner, and it's war. It's just war
Speaker 1: with our very special guests. Please welcome into your ears. Laura.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Oh my god. I can't believe I'm here,
Speaker 1: first of all, here being your own home as we
Speaker 1: do this here either, I can't believe that, but I
Speaker 1: can't believe I'm on this podcast because I wanted to
Speaker 1: be on this podcast for um. I would say many
Speaker 1: many months that would equal years. I would agree that
Speaker 1: it has been an anticipated event on our end as well.
Speaker 1: And we had such a fun time with you and
Speaker 1: Gabriel on Raised By TV. That was so fun, such
Speaker 1: a fun time. I really cherish it. And this is
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to bring it back to tie this to
Speaker 1: current events, but here's here's some perspective for all y'all. Okay,
Speaker 1: if you're like, oh god, I'm so anxious, like when
Speaker 1: is this gonna be over, it's it's gonna be as
Speaker 1: long of a time. If here, here's what I'll say.
Speaker 1: This is how going to frame it. If we could
Speaker 1: all wait for this episode to happen, for Lauren Latus
Speaker 1: to come on Last Culturalists for about the same amount
Speaker 1: of time as this thing is going to keep going
Speaker 1: on in the world. We can we can all do it, Okay,
Speaker 1: we can all wait. Hold on, yeah, you can hold
Speaker 1: on of like our resilience as people. It is it is.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, my words are kind of garbage. I'm a
Speaker 1: little stoned. It's we're recording this unfortuntly. Okay, I see,
Speaker 1: I was going to get stoned, but then I was like,
Speaker 1: I gotta talk on less culture stas. But I should
Speaker 1: have just done it. My thing is like I was
Speaker 1: thinking about getting say, now I actually have to start
Speaker 1: another fight, which is with my boyfriend. So my friend,
Speaker 1: oh my god, it happened. Um lucky me. I have
Speaker 1: to say, but he's in the doghouse right now because
Speaker 1: I just want to go. Look if I had any
Speaker 1: weed and he took it all, he took it back
Speaker 1: to his apartment. That is not okay. Essectially not okay,
Speaker 1: and I'm not that's actually illegal. It's actually a real
Speaker 1: crime here in California. And I have to say I
Speaker 1: have to put him on blast. There is no weed
Speaker 1: in the apartment. But that's probably for the better because
Speaker 1: I have smoked of all the minutes I've been in quarantine. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a necessity. I mean, you know, you've got to
Speaker 1: get through the day. For me, a lot of it
Speaker 1: is like just straight up television or podcast like noise
Speaker 1: at all times. And when he stops, I get scared. Yea, truly,
Speaker 1: when it's silent and dark, that's what it's sad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what are you indulging in? What are what are your
Speaker 1: things that you've been watching and um consuming in? People
Speaker 1: want to know, I've been consuming basically everything. I love television.
Speaker 1: It is my favorite thing to do all the time.
Speaker 1: But so this has been like a real deep dive
Speaker 1: for me. But um, there's been a lot of great
Speaker 1: things coming out. Did you watch Too Hot to Handle? Okay?
Speaker 1: This is the Yeah, this is the new one. And
Speaker 1: the whole thing is they basically bring like uh ten
Speaker 1: like essential sex addicts to live in a house together
Speaker 1: and then tell them they can't have sex and if
Speaker 1: they touch or kiss each other, the money from the
Speaker 1: one pot is decreased with every action, and let me
Speaker 1: tell you, they still hook up like they don't care
Speaker 1: that the money is going away. It's crazy that that
Speaker 1: is insane. You think that it would be the easiest
Speaker 1: thing ever, but like, is there like an amount of
Speaker 1: time they're gonna be there? Do they know how long
Speaker 1: they're gonna be there? But like it wasn't a day.
Speaker 1: There there's a couple that's like cocaine, like like they
Speaker 1: had taken that they just met and they're like we
Speaker 1: have to find and they just do it. Like it's
Speaker 1: just crazy. Are they releasing it week to week? Um no,
Speaker 1: it's it just was eight episodes. They just dropped all
Speaker 1: at once. You can just watch it and call it
Speaker 1: a day. Yeah, that is a really good That is
Speaker 1: a really good idea of for television for right now,
Speaker 1: where people are in char and it's top of mind
Speaker 1: that they're not able to touch, kiss or fuck, and
Speaker 1: then you just see these people just go like who cares?
Speaker 1: I mean I feel people doing that in real life anyway,
Speaker 1: So which is also disturbing. Um, I watched all of that.
Speaker 1: I've been watching god. You know. You know what's kind
Speaker 1: of been interesting about this time is like I have
Speaker 1: no memory of any day that's happened, and like I've
Speaker 1: been in quarantine for like five week services or more,
Speaker 1: and I like remember two days of it, Like I
Speaker 1: don't know like what's happening or what I'm doing with
Speaker 1: my time. It's the days fly in the weirdest way.
Speaker 1: Now they've said like it could be like for a
Speaker 1: really long time that we're doing this, and I'm like, Oh,
Speaker 1: that's just gonna be a real lost year, isn't it.
Speaker 1: Like that's crazy to think about, Like I thought recently,
Speaker 1: like I just was reminded about something that happened a
Speaker 1: little bit over a year ago, and I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: that feels like a lifetime ago. And then hearing that
Speaker 1: we might be in quarantine for that long is like
Speaker 1: truly crazy. It's truly crazy. But then I saw today
Speaker 1: that they were opening up Georgia Friday for like hair salons.
Speaker 1: I was like, that is literally insane, and I don't
Speaker 1: have that might be because the governor is an idiot.
Speaker 1: I was kind of picking up on that on Twitter
Speaker 1: a lot of my opinions. Oh, Brian the Walking Dead
Speaker 1: quote retweeted that and just had their hands on their
Speaker 1: heads like does that emoji of like oh doti emoji?
Speaker 1: So even the Walking Dead is like, Wow, this is
Speaker 1: so crazy, Like I feel like Twitter has changed that
Speaker 1: way where it's like shows have opinions about current events
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, Like Nestly is like this is us
Speaker 1: as fuck. Well, this is one of the things when
Speaker 1: this all started. One of the things my husband said,
Speaker 1: like right off the bat was like, I can't wait
Speaker 1: to see which brand jumps on this the fastest. And
Speaker 1: then it was like we were watching TVN Suddenly within
Speaker 1: days the commercials were like you want to stay at
Speaker 1: home with your family and you're missing everyone out there?
Speaker 1: How do you connect? And I was like, yeah, that
Speaker 1: was the quickest have it I've ever seen, truly, Like
Speaker 1: the toilet paper commercials, did you? I mean like there,
Speaker 1: They've always been around, but now it's just like we
Speaker 1: are this, We're gonna get We're gonna get there together.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, it's ennobling to be a toilet paper company,
Speaker 1: Like it's so respectable. I use you to wipe my
Speaker 1: poop literally in the toilet. Yeah, and you're telling me
Speaker 1: it's going to be okay, but no, but it's going
Speaker 1: to talk to you. It's the way that they're positioning
Speaker 1: selves to be like this amazing like charitable company, not
Speaker 1: charitable but it's like they're like doing good in the world. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: it's very funny. It is interesting. Well, corporations are people
Speaker 1: were really finding out and they are sent to it
Speaker 1: and they have emotions and they're actually okay, they're actually neutral.
Speaker 1: Good are true neutral? Neutral corporations aren't true neutral? I
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, um well, Lauren, I feel like you
Speaker 1: because I feel like I'm in a different You're in
Speaker 1: a different camp than I am right now in terms
Speaker 1: of the way that I'm like unwinding or killing time
Speaker 1: where I can't sit through shows or movies, like I'm
Speaker 1: having a really hard time. So okay, So what have
Speaker 1: you been Do you like flip around or you just
Speaker 1: not watch things. I just watch things and I lose
Speaker 1: I lose interest within like ten minutes, and then I
Speaker 1: go to something and then I know, because I've been
Speaker 1: doing video games, I'm thinking all my time and play
Speaker 1: Animal Crossing. I just started paying animal Crossing, so oh
Speaker 1: my god. Yeah, I saw yeah, I joined that and
Speaker 1: that's been very fun. That's been my whole quarantine. Oh.
Speaker 1: I have to say I have signed on kind of
Speaker 1: mentally to watch a few shows that come on every
Speaker 1: week as like sort of Markers of Time. So I
Speaker 1: now watched the Masks Singer and I really love it.
Speaker 1: But it's now they've been playing like reruns for some reason.
Speaker 1: I don't know, do they not get to finish their season?
Speaker 1: Because I might be really devastated if we don't get
Speaker 1: the ending of that. Oh shoot, well, I don't think
Speaker 1: they did not finish. I don't think because isn't it
Speaker 1: isn't it live? Isn't it? Sort of like, yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: it is. Maybe I've been watching reruns and I don't
Speaker 1: know what's going on. Who has been on? Who has
Speaker 1: been on that? You've been like, oh my god? Sometimes
Speaker 1: multiple people in the thing and been right Joe I
Speaker 1: called it like right away, and I was like, why
Speaker 1: do I know this? Yeah, well she's like that so
Speaker 1: and she's really tall, I can tell. And she was
Speaker 1: like kind of dressed like her like an insane tall toddler.
Speaker 1: She is a fascinating creature. I'm like so intrigued. I
Speaker 1: watched like a few well now, probably a year ago.
Speaker 1: I watched a bunch of YouTube videos of her like
Speaker 1: giving a tour of her room, and then her room
Speaker 1: she like redid it again and like gave a tour
Speaker 1: of that, and she has pictures of herself plastered everywhere,
Speaker 1: Like on her sheets there's pictures of herself, and her
Speaker 1: car is all pictures of herself on the outside, and
Speaker 1: I don't really understand that well. She feels like a weird,
Speaker 1: like throwback kind of famous kid star type thing, like
Speaker 1: where it's like, hey, guys, come on, and it's just like, wait,
Speaker 1: this feels like it was something from like the mid nineties,
Speaker 1: like some sort of Rugrats adjacent Yeah, that shouldn't be
Speaker 1: viable now, but very much is. It is like she's
Speaker 1: like a Rugrats character that came to life. That feels
Speaker 1: really accurate. Definitely that there's an element of Gypsy there though,
Speaker 1: like Gypsy the show. Like I think I think she
Speaker 1: has a stage the musical. She's a roma. I feel
Speaker 1: doesn't she have a stage? Mom? Isn't like, isn't she
Speaker 1: from she is? She is? She is right right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I feel like I shouldn't know this. I feel honestly.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you. She had to recently be explained to me.
Speaker 1: I felt like I was like way out of touch
Speaker 1: with it. But She's one where I really did not
Speaker 1: know her deal and then I saw her. I had
Speaker 1: heard the name a bunch jo and then I saw
Speaker 1: what she was and I was like no, and people
Speaker 1: were like no, this is something people like. And I
Speaker 1: was like, because she's like the part that stops me
Speaker 1: is it that she's an adult? Right? The that I
Speaker 1: find confusing. I'm like, wait, she's like grown up? Like
Speaker 1: what it would be hard to keep the keep going
Speaker 1: with the act. But you know, when the money rolls in,
Speaker 1: I guess yeah. I wonder if we'll see her like
Speaker 1: ex Tina Miley phase of her JO like raw. Well
Speaker 1: that makes me want to ask you how you feel
Speaker 1: about Amanda Bindes is Instagram's lately when she's back on
Speaker 1: what's the deal? Tell us, well, I might be a
Speaker 1: few weeks behind in terms of the content, but she
Speaker 1: she is pregnant. She announced that she was pregnant. She
Speaker 1: posted a picture from the ultrasound. She got a tattoo
Speaker 1: of a heart on her face. I'm looking at for
Speaker 1: the first time. Oh my god, Oh it's really interesting,
Speaker 1: and she put she deletes a lot of videos, but
Speaker 1: she'll post them and they're when you catch them, they're
Speaker 1: really good. Like she'll be like, thank you all for
Speaker 1: your appreciation of my time here. After my situation with
Speaker 1: my probate, I am doing everything I can with my
Speaker 1: conservation ship to figure out what I need to do next.
Speaker 1: And like she just says that kind of stuff to
Speaker 1: her fans. Very interesting. Wait, whoa, I'm looking at it
Speaker 1: not too so. She is not verified on Instagram, but
Speaker 1: it does say Amanda Binds real and she has four
Speaker 1: hundred seventy one thousand followers. I'm guessing this is her,
Speaker 1: and she looks she looks completely different. Well, it looks
Speaker 1: like it's a relatively new Instagram, like her first post
Speaker 1: from September ten to nineteen, and it's her with pink
Speaker 1: care accept and piercing and like what looks like to
Speaker 1: be a whole new head and she's going to fit
Speaker 1: them the Fashion Institute whatever it stands. Right, Wow, that's
Speaker 1: crazy because it correct me if I'm wrong. Wasn't she
Speaker 1: like um in some way coming back like it wasn't
Speaker 1: she trying to make a comeback of a few years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was some interview where she Um just like had
Speaker 1: her wits about her. It seemed I'm not that Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, we can't really tell. I don't know, I
Speaker 1: don't want but no, I agree I'm saying, like, I've
Speaker 1: just been kind of fascinating popping into her Instagram and
Speaker 1: seeing this whole new look and a whole new deal
Speaker 1: she has grand and then she did announce her pregnancy
Speaker 1: and then deleted it, so I know about that. Wow,
Speaker 1: the hardest hard tattoo is like a little drawing. Getting
Speaker 1: a face tattoo is such a move. I don't know,
Speaker 1: Like I couldn't. I mean I could never. I feel
Speaker 1: like I would never. I can't even get a tattoo.
Speaker 1: I couldn't decide on anything for my body. No, I
Speaker 1: mean Bowen has a couple. This is but this is
Speaker 1: how stone I got last night was I just was
Speaker 1: like looking staring at my tattoos and being like, oh,
Speaker 1: I can't get this off. Not that I even want to,
Speaker 1: but it's like if I wanted to, I can't get
Speaker 1: this weird. No, that's actually something I told you would happened. No, no,
Speaker 1: but no, I'm not saying that I want them off.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that I want them, but like the
Speaker 1: stoner realization of like, yes, oh it's forever, yeah yeah
Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah, I know that you have beautiful, tasteful
Speaker 1: tattoos about but you get. I feel like I've heard
Speaker 1: you talk about them. You had one that's like a
Speaker 1: red square up here, and then I've got a little
Speaker 1: I've got like my parents last names in the specific
Speaker 1: seal script Chinese. Well that's meaningful, it's it's it's it's nice.
Speaker 1: But I but I did just but Matt just pounced
Speaker 1: on my ass real quick right there, and you were
Speaker 1: like yeah, And I told you to get no. Because
Speaker 1: whenever anyone, whenever anyone in my life is like I'm
Speaker 1: getting a tattoo, my instinct is to always, I don't
Speaker 1: know what this is about. My instinct is always to
Speaker 1: be like, yeah, right, Like I never really believe they're
Speaker 1: going to get it. It's like when I see it's
Speaker 1: like one of my seeing my friends like Yang smoking cigarettes,
Speaker 1: I'm like, but we're kids, right, I have this thing
Speaker 1: in my head it's like, we're too young to do that.
Speaker 1: And it's like, so when people are out there having
Speaker 1: fretty will and inking their body up and smoking like
Speaker 1: a damn chim, I'm like, well, we're what do you mean, Like,
Speaker 1: I feel like it's not a possibility for me. There
Speaker 1: was a time when my sister and I I think
Speaker 1: I've told this on the pod. My sister and I
Speaker 1: were at Universal Studios, Florida, and we were like away
Speaker 1: from our parents. They let us like go to the
Speaker 1: parks by ourselves, and we were like, let's get tattoos,
Speaker 1: and we couldn't decide what to get. And we went
Speaker 1: all the way to the tattoo place and we we were like,
Speaker 1: we don't know what to get. And we're in Orland, Indo.
Speaker 1: So maybe not this was there's a tattoo place in
Speaker 1: Universal Studios in City Walk. There at least was a
Speaker 1: tattoo crazy move to have that there. Yeah, do you
Speaker 1: think people go in and just get like Daffy Duck
Speaker 1: or whatever, Like they're just like impulsive. I'm sure Ms
Speaker 1: Daffy is in the book whatever? Yeah, or actually, wait,
Speaker 1: Daffy Duck. She's Disney, right, Okay, so that whatever the
Speaker 1: Universal Daffy Damn. Of course, Daisy Duck, miss Duck, the
Speaker 1: other Miss Duck Duck. I was recently asked who my
Speaker 1: favorite Disney character was, and I did say Donald Duck. Donald.
Speaker 1: That's like literally no one's ever said that, no one
Speaker 1: ever but I, But I like I like that he's
Speaker 1: like Donald Duck to me. Is like the queer one
Speaker 1: because Mickey, I feel like it represents like the majority heterosexuality.
Speaker 1: And then then there's Donald's always like always kind of
Speaker 1: just like being the comedic relief and always getting pushed decide,
Speaker 1: and I feel that he is like, this is very emotional.
Speaker 1: Where do you put goofy? Goofy is like stoner, which
Speaker 1: is a sexuality? Yeah, which which is it's actually it's
Speaker 1: actually real culture number thirty three. Goofy is at which
Speaker 1: is a sexuality. I do have to say really quick, um,
Speaker 1: I have I stopped smoking the day before quarantine, before
Speaker 1: I started quarantining myself, and that's been a perfect way
Speaker 1: of like keeping count of the days for me. It's
Speaker 1: actually also a very convenient way to commit smoking because
Speaker 1: no one can see you. Well, it's also like I
Speaker 1: don't want no damn co morbidit ease, honey. So are
Speaker 1: you claiming Matt that he didn't really quit? He's just
Speaker 1: saying he didn't. Yes, that is my claim at this time.
Speaker 1: That is my claim sustained, thank and honestly I would
Speaker 1: testify against him on the on the charge of smoking. Yes,
Speaker 1: you are guilty, and you know one time. But what
Speaker 1: Bowen Young said to me, He's like, I'll stop smoking
Speaker 1: when you start therapy, and I said that is not
Speaker 1: the same thing. WHOA and I to go, well, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: this is not this is not about me. I said
Speaker 1: to him. I was like, you quitting smoking and me,
Speaker 1: um not going to therapy isn't a life or death situation.
Speaker 1: And then he said to me, well it is. Wow,
Speaker 1: I did not therapy. Therapy is very um rejuvenating and
Speaker 1: life giving in many ways, like if you if you
Speaker 1: have any I mean, I think even if you don't
Speaker 1: have a solid issue that you're working through, you'll find
Speaker 1: plenty of stuff to talk about in there. I mean
Speaker 1: I started going like a year ago. I haven't been
Speaker 1: since quarantine. I need to, like skyper or something, but
Speaker 1: I really want to. But it was so amazing, like
Speaker 1: the things that come out, Like you go in for
Speaker 1: one reason and you end up talking about something else.
Speaker 1: For the days you think you have nothing to say,
Speaker 1: you go on and start crying about something and it's crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would actually be really interested to see what, like
Speaker 1: what what made me emotional? I guess there's an interesting
Speaker 1: thing that's happening now, at least among my friends where
Speaker 1: were like, is there really a point to going to
Speaker 1: like even doing these like like skype sessions, um, And
Speaker 1: I think there are, but like a lot of therapists
Speaker 1: are saying that, like yeah, it's just that we talk
Speaker 1: about the same things with every single patient client, and
Speaker 1: so I feel like, so my therapist did a nice thing,
Speaker 1: I think, which is she was like, um, we can
Speaker 1: just reduce them to every other week and we can
Speaker 1: just do them half hour sessions and that would reflect
Speaker 1: in the in the right And I was like, great,
Speaker 1: that's nice. Yeah, but it's it's it's this thing now
Speaker 1: where it's like I am at the same emotional place
Speaker 1: as I was for the most part, like ten days ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel that too, Like I think the first week
Speaker 1: or so I was like a complete wreck and then
Speaker 1: I've kind of leveled out in this weird way. But
Speaker 1: I have a friend who's a therapist and she said
Speaker 1: her clients is the same thing where everyone's talking about this,
Speaker 1: of course, but she has some teenage clients who are
Speaker 1: like still just talking about like their drama with their
Speaker 1: boyfriend or whatever. And I'm like I kind of love that. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's great, that's great, and it's good Matt. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just good for like, um, the pedestrian stuff, which sounds
Speaker 1: like which is an all relative Now it's like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know. The thing is like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like I I can't start now because also
Speaker 1: my mood is so violently different every single day. I
Speaker 1: don't know how you guys feel with the way that, like,
Speaker 1: my my emotions are responding to the situation. Is like
Speaker 1: I'll wake up one day and I'll be like just
Speaker 1: another day, and you know, it's fine, I mean, like whatever,
Speaker 1: and then the next day I'll literally be catatonic. Well,
Speaker 1: I have those moments where I'm like I'll just be
Speaker 1: like playing animal crossing and I'll be like I'm actually
Speaker 1: doing really well, and then like I'll like look above
Speaker 1: myself and see how sad it is, and then I'll
Speaker 1: want to cry. I'm like, wait, this is actually so dark,
Speaker 1: Like it'll just turn weirdly on a dime. But here's
Speaker 1: the thing about you, Lauren. You actually get to have
Speaker 1: a hashtag hot husband with you. That is true. That
Speaker 1: that's actually that's actually the tea, my castle, my castle.
Speaker 1: He's very cute, spending so much of time. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a mixed bag. Yeah. Yeah, we mainly are doing well
Speaker 1: and not getting on each other's nerves, but we have
Speaker 1: moments but then you know, go in the other room
Speaker 1: a little bit or something. But yeah, it's been Do
Speaker 1: you know how I met Mike Castle. I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I met him when we both auditioned for the lead
Speaker 1: of the other two, which drew But that's that's where
Speaker 1: I met him, and I loved him instantly because he's
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put him on blast, I'm gonna throw him
Speaker 1: under the damn bus. He somehow had the list of
Speaker 1: everyone that was auditioning for that part, like, and I
Speaker 1: was like, how did you get that? And he's like
Speaker 1: I can't say what? Do you want it? And I
Speaker 1: was like yes, and so we we fully like I
Speaker 1: was like, I was like, I love her and we
Speaker 1: left and I was like, oh of course, like he's
Speaker 1: of course one of the most gorgeous straight oh yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, but we we were auditioning for a gay
Speaker 1: part and I was like, I never know s Yeah,
Speaker 1: it gets to just throw you a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: especially that he was like do you want the list
Speaker 1: of everything? And I was like, okay, girl, hious, I
Speaker 1: love that, and then I loved looking at the list
Speaker 1: and being like, oh, her, her again, her, see all that,
Speaker 1: we see all the same girls that I love it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sure. I'm sure that was great. That Drew got that.
Speaker 1: That was so cool. Yeah, I mean he's he's so
Speaker 1: good in it. Yeah, he's one of the damn best.
Speaker 1: He's so funny. Do you improvise with him a lot
Speaker 1: um from time to time? We do. I We've done
Speaker 1: a lot of podcasts together, more than live shows. But
Speaker 1: he just kills me. He's so funny. I feel like
Speaker 1: he's so surprising with the things his characters say. I
Speaker 1: love teachers lounge. Ah, yes, I mind a group of minds. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take a quick break, and then when we're
Speaker 1: back we will be talking more with Lauren LAPKZ. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're back. Yeah, and we're actually back. And here's the
Speaker 1: thing that we're gonna do. One is that we're going
Speaker 1: to say we forgot to mention up top that you're
Speaker 1: actually part of the iconic improv group Wild Horses, and
Speaker 1: we want to exalt the horses, and we have to
Speaker 1: say the Horses are actually improv culture because one of
Speaker 1: the one of the renowned improv groups. Thank you, thank you,
Speaker 1: and you know who. I actually um loving a door
Speaker 1: very much as well all the girls, but Mary Holland.
Speaker 1: I've run into Mary, and that is an icon. Mary
Speaker 1: is one of the sweetest people in the world, and
Speaker 1: she's so funny. But she's just the best, isn't she?
Speaker 1: So I can never imagine someone disliking Mary. I feel
Speaker 1: I I don't know who does, but I feel confused
Speaker 1: at the idea that someone could. She isn't that like
Speaker 1: Darcy Cardon, Betty Gilpin Pantheon of like people where it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: so I found out someone doesn't like her. Just kidding, No, never, right, totally.
Speaker 1: I loved her absolute Betty by the way, that was
Speaker 1: a while ago now, but that was such a good episode.
Speaker 1: She was so awesome. I don't even know described, but
Speaker 1: I was like, she was so open and like vulnerable,
Speaker 1: and I loved all the stuff she said about acting
Speaker 1: and she was great. It was like a life coach vibe, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was schooling. Did you watch The Hunt? The Hunt? No,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen that yet. I remember it kind of
Speaker 1: got that big. There was kind of news around it
Speaker 1: because it was going to come on at a weird
Speaker 1: time and then they now they so they put it
Speaker 1: out now, Yes, they canceled the release in what November December,
Speaker 1: like it was like even earlier in the year, like
Speaker 1: I think it was September October. It was supposed to
Speaker 1: come out and then She's controversial. Um, so you know,
Speaker 1: they put the kai bosh on that, and then they
Speaker 1: were going to release it again in theaters and then
Speaker 1: Quarantine happened. So it just had a lot of bad
Speaker 1: luck coming out. But it's now demands. I will say, yes,
Speaker 1: it's good because, like The Hunt was one of the
Speaker 1: few films, the few exceptions in my Quarantine viewing that,
Speaker 1: like I was able to sit through the whole thing
Speaker 1: and I just like had a glass of one. It's
Speaker 1: like having fun. Yeah, it's not too long either, It's
Speaker 1: truly like it's like two minutes. It feels like, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I really love a short movie. I've had because of
Speaker 1: Star Wars. I've had to watch every fucking Star Wars movie,
Speaker 1: which are aged two at the best. Yes, these are
Speaker 1: the longest films in reported history. They're the longest films
Speaker 1: of all time. I just can't believe it. Every single one.
Speaker 1: I like wait, every single one is too over two hours,
Speaker 1: two and a half hours, even even this last one.
Speaker 1: I think they came out and they were like, it's
Speaker 1: actually not going to be two and a half hours,
Speaker 1: and everyone was like, great, I have to watch that
Speaker 1: one this week. So that's good news for me. So
Speaker 1: you have wait, you have not yet watched that last one. No,
Speaker 1: that's the one I have to watch. I respect that
Speaker 1: one the most, okay, because I feel like it's the
Speaker 1: most camp and the most drag. Oh, We've liked things
Speaker 1: that have that element. I mean, like, have you seen
Speaker 1: The Holidays? A show on YouTube? So Nicole was talking
Speaker 1: about this too, like she like her favorite piece of
Speaker 1: Star Wars film has been the Holiday Special. Yes, I mean,
Speaker 1: and and it's really bad, but it's really good, Like
Speaker 1: it's just funny and weird. It's too long. If it
Speaker 1: was like forty five minutes would be amazing. But they drag.
Speaker 1: But I mean, what I love about it is like
Speaker 1: it's Chewbacca's family story and they don't speak English and
Speaker 1: they don't have subtitles. They just it's just talk to
Speaker 1: your interpretation. So very interesting. I have a question for
Speaker 1: you because I actually am a big star Wars person, I,
Speaker 1: I it's stocking to me that you like hadn't watched
Speaker 1: them before because you you like love movies, television. I
Speaker 1: feel like you're such like an absorber of culture. It's
Speaker 1: very true, but I feel like I just decided I
Speaker 1: didn't want to see that, and I, um, I just
Speaker 1: I was thinking of Valerie Cherish, which is why I
Speaker 1: got distracted this but I don't want to see that.
Speaker 1: But I just didn't want to watch him. And I
Speaker 1: think also being the Empire of Community, where like a
Speaker 1: lot of annoying boys like love that stuff and want
Speaker 1: to referenced all the time. It was almost like an
Speaker 1: act of defiance to like just not know what they
Speaker 1: were talking about. It just like I don't care and
Speaker 1: I don't know, and I'm not going to know. But
Speaker 1: you know you mentioned that. It's like and you're joking
Speaker 1: a little bit, but like that it's like risky to
Speaker 1: say you don't like Star Wars or whatever, but it
Speaker 1: kind of is like it is like it feels like
Speaker 1: you can't say you don't like anything, Like I don't
Speaker 1: want to say I don't want to have a negative
Speaker 1: opinion of like a show because I would like to
Speaker 1: be on most shows and like, I don't want to.
Speaker 1: You know, it's kind of a tough spot when you're
Speaker 1: in the entertainment industry, but I felt like it's it's
Speaker 1: been kind of liberating, I think for me Nicole to
Speaker 1: say we don't like it, because then we've been finding
Speaker 1: things to like and we've been wanting I've seen it all,
Speaker 1: you know. It's like and the fans of Star Wars
Speaker 1: often hate Star Wars and they like are mad so
Speaker 1: many things about it, so it kind of kind of
Speaker 1: fit in. Yeah, well that's kind of like where I
Speaker 1: think that the conversation is with Star Wars right now
Speaker 1: is just kind of damned if you do when damned
Speaker 1: if you don't. If you do like it, the taste
Speaker 1: police will attack you and be like even people even
Speaker 1: within the Star Wars fan community, it's like, oh, this
Speaker 1: one sucked. What are you talking about? They end up
Speaker 1: ruining these movies, legacy is ruined, etcetera. And then if
Speaker 1: you don't like them, you feel crazy because these movies
Speaker 1: are i'll say, four kids, and they're also fun and
Speaker 1: passionately made, and like if you actually compare them to
Speaker 1: the old ones, they are like acted better and they
Speaker 1: are so much blood, sweat, and tears goes into them,
Speaker 1: and it's just to entertain you. So it's like to
Speaker 1: shoot on them feels cuckoo, and they are fun to watch.
Speaker 1: So I feel like it's almost become that thing of
Speaker 1: like I'm equally scared to say my opinion about Star
Speaker 1: Wars as I am about like the Democratic politicians, because
Speaker 1: it's like, truly, even if your hard is in the
Speaker 1: right place, like or if it's not, you're fucked either way.
Speaker 1: It's it's actually very it's a really good analogy. It
Speaker 1: does feel like that because I feel like Star Wars
Speaker 1: as a franchise is this like smooth surface that everyone
Speaker 1: is project their shot onto. But then it's also like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's funny that you're comparing it to like Democrats, because
Speaker 1: it feels like it's also this committee to it's like
Speaker 1: not even like it's not even like like a a
Speaker 1: joyful thing. I don't know. I mean, like the original
Speaker 1: trilogy is like a beautiful like piece of storytelling. I
Speaker 1: don't know about the the Last Jedi. I love the
Speaker 1: Last Jedi. Everyone was shooting on it. Everyone was like,
Speaker 1: the Last Jedi sucks, it sucks. And then I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but I prefer this one over The Force
Speaker 1: Awakens because it doesn't just regurgitate the plot trilogy. And
Speaker 1: not only that, but also it took really bold stances
Speaker 1: and choices like spoiler alert for anyone that hasn't seen
Speaker 1: The Last Jedi, but like, the big reveal in The
Speaker 1: Last Jedi is that Ray is not special, that she's
Speaker 1: not actually related to anyone, that her identity is she's
Speaker 1: just some girl. And then I won't say because you
Speaker 1: haven't seen it yet, but um, the Rise of Skywalker
Speaker 1: sort of makes an addendum or a choice on that,
Speaker 1: and it's like I didn't like it. I thought, oh,
Speaker 1: you really tried to do fans service here and it
Speaker 1: doesn't work for me. But that being said, I did
Speaker 1: like so much else about the movie, and ultimately I
Speaker 1: understand why that choice is the right one to make,
Speaker 1: because essentially what we have here is a soap opera
Speaker 1: in space. So why wouldn't you go can't be and
Speaker 1: big and stupid like that? That makes sense to me
Speaker 1: because they're supposed to be that, that's the fabric of
Speaker 1: their identity, is Luke, I am your father, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Like they we're not talking about like
Speaker 1: grounded ship. Even even the line Anakin, You're breaking my
Speaker 1: heart is so camp iconic, stupid my heart. It's so funny,
Speaker 1: on the same level as Luke I Am your Father.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh my god, this is so melodramatic, so dumb.
Speaker 1: You don't need to know. It's like you don't need
Speaker 1: to watched the last two movies to like understand how
Speaker 1: dumb that is. I don't know. I love Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: I'm finding that even watching them doesn't help me understand
Speaker 1: what I'm now seeing. You. It's like I'm like, I wait,
Speaker 1: I've seen that, and yet I still don't know who
Speaker 1: these people are, what's happening. But I've been and I've
Speaker 1: been talking about it at length. But anyway, well, there's
Speaker 1: also a million characters and also, not for nothing, a
Speaker 1: lot of them look alike. So their names are all
Speaker 1: like blue blah, blu blah blah, blue black, and I
Speaker 1: can't remember it. Yeahs ms. Miss Gluna Bay comes in
Speaker 1: and she I'm supposed to know she's different from Miss
Speaker 1: Tina Sun. I don't know, girl. I think I saw
Speaker 1: both these girls on the Jedi Council, both these girls.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna say it. There's not enough women on
Speaker 1: the Jedi Council and it's a rural culture. Yes, there's
Speaker 1: no the Jedi Council. Um, Lauren, it's time for us
Speaker 1: to ask you the question we ask all of our guests. Yes, um,
Speaker 1: and that question is, Lauren lapkis, what is the culture
Speaker 1: that made you say cold t is for me? Matt
Speaker 1: explain it, well, you know, this is the culture that
Speaker 1: made you say, okay that it really does clear it up,
Speaker 1: you know, Um, I was thinking about this question and
Speaker 1: we actually touched on it briefly. The thing that made
Speaker 1: me say culture was for me is the early nineties
Speaker 1: Nickelodeon line Rugrats, dug Double edare Guts. Clarissa explains it all. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: all of it, all of it. I feel like that
Speaker 1: was like my brain and like ren and stimpy, like
Speaker 1: all of that stuff. Like I feel like that was
Speaker 1: where like I feel like I started to form my
Speaker 1: personality and like neon colors and and and slime and
Speaker 1: ghack and like all that fun stuff like that was
Speaker 1: like it in its own visual language. Is it's it's
Speaker 1: it's its own aesthetic, and it's it's its own sensibility
Speaker 1: and like it really did like shape it for a
Speaker 1: lot of us. Yeah, that green splatter is like so
Speaker 1: iconic with It's like you can remember I never what
Speaker 1: do they call it? Ghak or Google? What was that
Speaker 1: time like that? I never knew what it smelled like,
Speaker 1: but I always knew what it smelled like, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Have any I don't think so, Oh
Speaker 1: my god it I had it and I had floam.
Speaker 1: Did you ever have floam? No? Oh my god. Floam
Speaker 1: was like the beady probably is like killing whales like
Speaker 1: permanently right now. It was like micro beads that you
Speaker 1: could like move into shapes and stuff. It was so fun.
Speaker 1: Where did you grow up? I grew up in Evanston, Illinois,
Speaker 1: right outside of Chicago. Okay, this is of course famous
Speaker 1: story parts culture. It is I don't know, will to
Speaker 1: we'll we'll touch on that a little bit later. But
Speaker 1: this is that's so funny because I feel like any
Speaker 1: suburban kid that grew up with Nickelodeon. I just picture
Speaker 1: myself when I was that age, like drinking so much
Speaker 1: soda because because like that was so I just remember
Speaker 1: drinking so much soda in my basement, like running around
Speaker 1: in circles and like waiting for the next show to
Speaker 1: come on. Like it was so nineties culture to be like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, there's a lot of soda in the house
Speaker 1: with the kids watch Nickelodeon. We don't even care the
Speaker 1: kids running around? Why was it okay? Like I drink
Speaker 1: coke more than I drink water for sure, Like I
Speaker 1: don't remember drinking water. It was like there was always
Speaker 1: coke and sprite on the table when I was going
Speaker 1: he had cokes, right, you might have minute made in
Speaker 1: a can concentrate. Yeah, yeah, dr Pepper you off no
Speaker 1: Mountain Dew. I mean, you know, I had phases like
Speaker 1: Dr Pepper was like a summer, like Mountain Dew was
Speaker 1: a summer. Like there were just like moments where you like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try this new one and then it was everything.
Speaker 1: But like it was fully like that all the time,
Speaker 1: watching TV all summer long. I don't know. It's just
Speaker 1: the best spinning ever. It feels so good, like I mean,
Speaker 1: and now we have to do it and it feels bad.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I know. It's so funny because if
Speaker 1: you went back in time and told like little kid me,
Speaker 1: like hey, like when you grow up, you're gonna write
Speaker 1: for TV and sometimes it's even gonna be animated. Isn't
Speaker 1: that cool? Like he'd be like fuck it, And now
Speaker 1: I'm like I have work. But see on the other
Speaker 1: side of that, it's like every people are like mentioning this,
Speaker 1: are like commenting on this thing where it's like it
Speaker 1: does feel like we're all like adolescents in a way,
Speaker 1: or like we're like right now, yeah, we're like latch
Speaker 1: key kids were like home alone before our parents are
Speaker 1: or whatever. It's like we just gotta like kill time
Speaker 1: the same way as we did, like when we were
Speaker 1: like twelve year olds in summer. No, it's so true,
Speaker 1: and I think I actually have gone through like waves
Speaker 1: with this. We're like at first, I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I watched TV all day, I smoke weed, I do
Speaker 1: whatever I want at all hours, and I stay up
Speaker 1: all night on my phone like I can do whatever
Speaker 1: I want. And then like a couple of weeks and
Speaker 1: I was like this is probably not good. And then
Speaker 1: like a couple of weeks later, I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: now I'm gonna have a schedule like I just like
Speaker 1: I was. I think it's what my kids self would
Speaker 1: do to like you guys, just because mom and Danna
Speaker 1: and hear thee we have to be bad all the time,
Speaker 1: like actually get done. Wait, you know what I think
Speaker 1: is a good idea for you? Did you see and
Speaker 1: and also like and this is on idea for us
Speaker 1: as well. Did you see that they are rebooting Legends
Speaker 1: of the Hidden Temple on Quimby? I did see that. Wait,
Speaker 1: what is the story with that girl? I think it's
Speaker 1: just that they are literally kids and it's not kids,
Speaker 1: it's for adults, and it's gonna be like more adult challenges.
Speaker 1: I think that they're specifically catering to the kids that
Speaker 1: grew up with that, which is I think so smart.
Speaker 1: And it's gonna be like essentially, it's gonna be like
Speaker 1: Survivor esque, like real physical challenges, like not like you
Speaker 1: have to spit its head. It's like, you know, you
Speaker 1: have to do like crazy stuff. And so I think
Speaker 1: you and your husband should go on it. Literally love that.
Speaker 1: I would love that so much. Wait, did you say
Speaker 1: that they have a rebootive? Say by the Bell Coming
Speaker 1: and Tracy Wigfield wrote it and it like looks good,
Speaker 1: it looks like edgy and cool. I'm sure it's going
Speaker 1: to be good. It looks like funny. I'm so excited
Speaker 1: of course that I was like trying to figure out
Speaker 1: who wrote it because it was so funny, and I
Speaker 1: was like I had to Google after I saw the
Speaker 1: trailer because I was like, this is hilarious and all
Speaker 1: the like original people are coming back and being like
Speaker 1: cool now, like as actors, like they had to do
Speaker 1: like a kind of funny version of their old character.
Speaker 1: But see No, but this is a specific thing that
Speaker 1: not enough people are doing, which is to reboot kids
Speaker 1: game shows from the nineties or the odds, but have
Speaker 1: the contestants aged to have aged up like you do,
Speaker 1: like a bad example, bad Pitch, but like adult We're
Speaker 1: in the world is Karmen san Diego, But it's like
Speaker 1: edgy and sexy or whatever. I don't know that they're
Speaker 1: reboot they are rebooting Carmen san Diego, and you know it,
Speaker 1: who miss Gina Gina David Gina Davis. Honestly, I would
Speaker 1: gag Karmen san Diego. No, that's amazing. Way is it
Speaker 1: a show or what is it? Like I think it's
Speaker 1: a Netflix thing. I don't know if it's a movie
Speaker 1: or that's finger on the pulse. No, but you need
Speaker 1: you need game shows. I agree with you. It's it's
Speaker 1: not like oh Edgy Sebreed to chet and Twitch. It's
Speaker 1: not that. It's like you need game shows where the content.
Speaker 1: It's like this legend of the Legend of the Hidden
Speaker 1: Temple thing is brilliant because it's a kid's game show
Speaker 1: from the nineties with adult contestants. Now, like that's what
Speaker 1: you need more of. And do you think if, like
Speaker 1: was Carmen san diegoga geography show, like it's questions where
Speaker 1: you have so it's not super sexy, but like like
Speaker 1: something where like you can repurpose the container. Well, I
Speaker 1: think it'd be really funny to watch adults like get
Speaker 1: geography wrong, Like I would be horrible in it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what is that show? Are you smarter than
Speaker 1: a fifth grader? Still on? That's a funny show. That
Speaker 1: is a funny show. It was hard. Well, I'm on
Speaker 1: this upcoming season, this current season of Who Wants to
Speaker 1: Be a Millionaire? Wait? Talk? I was on a Millionaire too?
Speaker 1: You are you? Are you on like a celebrity verst
Speaker 1: it is? Yeah? Yeah, I don't know how I got
Speaker 1: into this situation. I was I was on a normal
Speaker 1: person version and it was like it was like two
Speaker 1: years ago, and I was Chris Harrison, Okay, I'm freaking out,
Speaker 1: Wait is it online? Yeah? I watch. I always loved
Speaker 1: to spill tea about this. So I went to go
Speaker 1: do it, and I literally I was I was able
Speaker 1: to pick a friend to come with me, to come
Speaker 1: be my plus one. So Sudie and I went to
Speaker 1: go do it in Las Vegas. They fly you out
Speaker 1: and yeah, it was insane. We stayed at the Mandalais
Speaker 1: bay Um and it was like it was this whole
Speaker 1: thing and so we go in and Chris Harrison is
Speaker 1: the host and you can just tell he's like, check
Speaker 1: the funk out. He has been hosting for twenty five years,
Speaker 1: like straight up NonStop, truly The Bachelor. I was saying,
Speaker 1: if anyone out there you might have fans who would
Speaker 1: be willing to do this. I really want like somebody
Speaker 1: to do a supercut of Chris Harrison saying every name
Speaker 1: of every person has been on The Bachelor Bachelor, like
Speaker 1: like every just every single name. Yes, that's what someone
Speaker 1: needs to do that. Also, you watching The Bachelor is
Speaker 1: very funny on and staff. It's my favorite thing. I
Speaker 1: started watching Listen to Your Heart and now I'm doing
Speaker 1: um watch along on my Patreon where you can sink
Speaker 1: it up and hear my commentary on the show. Because
Speaker 1: I was doing like a trillion Instagram Live stories and
Speaker 1: I was like, this is killing me. Okay, wait tell
Speaker 1: me the about Millionaire. Here's the t is, like you
Speaker 1: can watch it. It is it is online like you
Speaker 1: can find it. I ended up winning five thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: I was on two episodes because like Sudie and I
Speaker 1: like answered a question and like it was at the
Speaker 1: end and it was a whole like TV moment. We
Speaker 1: were like, are they gonna get it? And then they
Speaker 1: they ended it after we got it. So I came
Speaker 1: on the next episode. So what they make you do
Speaker 1: is it's not actually the next day obviously, you just
Speaker 1: change your outfit and then you go offset and you
Speaker 1: walk on. And they didn't really go through with me,
Speaker 1: like what the cues were going to be for me
Speaker 1: to walk on. So I ended up coming on like
Speaker 1: a little earlier whatever, and I guess, I guess I
Speaker 1: turned to the audience and made like a face and
Speaker 1: they laughed, and Chris Harrison didn't like that. And so
Speaker 1: I did my entrance and he did that thing when
Speaker 1: he shook my hand of like shaking your hand and
Speaker 1: pulling you in like sort of like not not for nothing,
Speaker 1: but like how Trump does like like is he like
Speaker 1: was he trying to like assert dominance and like I
Speaker 1: think that's what was happening. And so I kind of
Speaker 1: got like knocked off my feet a little bit, and
Speaker 1: you can even see in the video I'm like a
Speaker 1: little thrown off by it. And then I wheel around
Speaker 1: to my podium and I can see on my face
Speaker 1: I was like not happy, and I remember like he
Speaker 1: really pulled my hand like to try to make me
Speaker 1: feel like a little boy, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Like he was definitely I think it was maybe like
Speaker 1: the end of a long day for him, and he
Speaker 1: was just not hiding it well, like you could tell
Speaker 1: that he was really not happy that I had even
Speaker 1: for a second slowed things down and it was Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he doesn't he doesn't exude a joyful presence, let's
Speaker 1: just say that. But he has to present his like
Speaker 1: a blank slate like all the time. Funniest way to
Speaker 1: put it, he does slate. He has to be invisible
Speaker 1: in some way he's letting the action happen around him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you compare him to someone like Jeff Probes. He's
Speaker 1: not even in the league now, like Survivor is Jeff Probes.
Speaker 1: The Bachelor is not what's his face? I don't even know,
Speaker 1: you know, but they're in some ways. It is like
Speaker 1: I feel like the people on the show make it
Speaker 1: as though he is the point of the show, like
Speaker 1: when they leave, like he is their center, Like he's
Speaker 1: kind of like the nucleus, and like everyone returns to
Speaker 1: him after the show, after they're off the show, and
Speaker 1: it's the way to stay attached to the show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're always like, well, you know, if Chris shows up,
Speaker 1: you know it's bad news and it's like oh God.
Speaker 1: And then on Survived where they're like, oh, here comes Jeff,
Speaker 1: and you as the viewer are like, Jeff's here, Jeff's
Speaker 1: Here's something's going down. But for me, when Chris Harrison comes,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't care about this. You're a mouthpiece
Speaker 1: for the producers. For me, I always believe it's Jeff.
Speaker 1: That makes sense. I see. I don't watch Survivor, but
Speaker 1: I've been told I need to. I'm gonna Stait Lauren,
Speaker 1: you you and I should start like on similar timelines,
Speaker 1: because I've been getting all sorts of information, like you
Speaker 1: should start with this season, this season, this season, and yeah,
Speaker 1: we should find out what the best one is. I
Speaker 1: can tell you it's it's my favorite thing that I
Speaker 1: have done for myself is getting to Survivor during quarantine.
Speaker 1: It is so good. It's such a good show. And
Speaker 1: you forget because I'm sure it was this like thing yea, truly,
Speaker 1: it's wasn't like this thing in your culture that you
Speaker 1: always knew was there. It's been on for forty seasons,
Speaker 1: so it's like it's been on there our whole like
Speaker 1: childhood and adult life, and you forget. But it is
Speaker 1: so good, like even the weaker seasons, like it's always
Speaker 1: so compelling. That's so awesome. Yeah, Mary loves Survivor. She's obsessed.
Speaker 1: I'm going to contact her about it. Well, you really
Speaker 1: find out people come out of the woodwork, Like when
Speaker 1: I when I said I was watching Survivor and I'm
Speaker 1: actually I can announce right now I'm doing us an
Speaker 1: online Survivor, Like it's going to start soon. What do
Speaker 1: you mean it's this thing called Survivor Quarantine. I don't
Speaker 1: know what it is, but I'm I'm on that quote
Speaker 1: unquote second season of it, and I will keep everyone
Speaker 1: informed just like what that means, Like I am doing
Speaker 1: I don't want to watch that. I was essentially cast.
Speaker 1: They were like, hey, would you want to do this?
Speaker 1: We see that you love Survivor and I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: I love that. I'm really excited. But um, it's true.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I was into it, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, these people I had no idea were like,
Speaker 1: I'm obsessed with that. I've watched it for twenty years,
Speaker 1: Like like like I didn't know you were into it,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I'm really not. But this whole
Speaker 1: community like is hiding in the shadows but come out
Speaker 1: into the light. That's like all I'm seeing on like
Speaker 1: the socials now, it's like people, this is the thing
Speaker 1: I do feel like from this quarantine, like everyone is
Speaker 1: sharing a lot more of their personal life, like not
Speaker 1: even necessary on a super deep level, but stuff like
Speaker 1: that where it's like they normally wouldn't tweet about that show,
Speaker 1: but now they're like looking to engage with people about
Speaker 1: it because they want connection, which is nice. It is nice.
Speaker 1: I do think it's a nice side of fact of
Speaker 1: our social media addiction. At least we have this right now.
Speaker 1: So like, I do think it's helping me feel more
Speaker 1: connected to people, but where normally it might feel bummed
Speaker 1: about it. But totally there's there's a couple of friends
Speaker 1: in l A that I think I see more now
Speaker 1: than beforehand because we're like playing games on Zoom every
Speaker 1: now and then. Like you know, it's like you you
Speaker 1: feel like you're compelled to keep up with people, um,
Speaker 1: whereas before you kind of took it for granted. And
Speaker 1: I do think there was something. You know, my boyfriend
Speaker 1: reposted something that I thought was really an interesting way
Speaker 1: to um say this. I'm going to read it out
Speaker 1: loud because I thought it was really interesting. It was.
Speaker 1: It was the tweet that he posted today in his story.
Speaker 1: He said, it's it's a tweet from Ashley Seaford, who
Speaker 1: you can follow at ice. I smash fizzle um and
Speaker 1: she said, you are watching people go through withdrawal from
Speaker 1: the emotional addiction to the myth of certainty. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: have to think about that. I actually had to walk
Speaker 1: it back for a second too, But it's pretty interesting.
Speaker 1: Like we all really take for granted that there's gonna
Speaker 1: be more time. It's so true. I mean I think, like,
Speaker 1: you know, when you're living your life, it's so easy
Speaker 1: to forget about that, and then you'll see something like
Speaker 1: I always think about Chris Kelly's movie other people because
Speaker 1: I just think that title is the movie is amazing,
Speaker 1: but the title is so relatable that you think these
Speaker 1: things happen to other people. And this is the first
Speaker 1: thing we've had in our lifetime where it's happening to
Speaker 1: everyone at the same time, and we're like, oh, ship, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm interested to see down the road what it
Speaker 1: has done to the consciousness for sure. Totally. Chris Kelly
Speaker 1: another survivor, watch him too. I want to say something
Speaker 1: really quick about Jeff Probes, and this is just my
Speaker 1: general theory about like what makes a good reality show host. Okay,
Speaker 1: Jeff probst Pad Malakshmi, like Rupaulic, these are people who
Speaker 1: like embody what the what the show is about, and
Speaker 1: like like the goal is to try to impress and
Speaker 1: please the host. Like these people as the host, whether
Speaker 1: or not their judges or whatever is like kind of
Speaker 1: not relevant. But like Chris Harrison. You're like, no, like
Speaker 1: the women aren't there to like impress or please Chris Harrison,
Speaker 1: and so that he does not feel like a vital
Speaker 1: part of these like athos is. It's just like, oh,
Speaker 1: like these hosts that are like like even like Heidi
Speaker 1: Klum and Tim Gun It's like, oh, these are like
Speaker 1: people that you respect that You're like, like, we have
Speaker 1: to they they they embody what the show is about.
Speaker 1: And you either have you either you either have gravitas
Speaker 1: or you don't sure, but above that and that's the
Speaker 1: rule of culture, you either have thief. Now, I feel
Speaker 1: like Chris Harrison. People can make the argument that he
Speaker 1: does have gravitas. I feel like he is a blank slate.
Speaker 1: He presents a blank slate. Well, those people shouldn't become lawyers.
Speaker 1: And that's what I'd say. It's a royal culture number twenty. Honey,
Speaker 1: if you think lawyer, I just threw my socks. Now,
Speaker 1: before we take another break, I do want to just
Speaker 1: get from you the true intel on television shows of
Speaker 1: that time. So could you maybe rank two shows from
Speaker 1: that time, Like I'm talking the animated shows that everyone
Speaker 1: was watching from Nickelodeon. What are your favorites. What what
Speaker 1: ones do you think never really found it? Like, what
Speaker 1: are the shows that that you feel are the most
Speaker 1: culturally imperative from that time period? I would say I
Speaker 1: always feel Running Stimpy is one of them because it's disgusting,
Speaker 1: it's beautifully drawn, it's funny, and the characters are very clear.
Speaker 1: I love that show. Um, that one, and it's it's
Speaker 1: also like the art is you can kind of stand
Speaker 1: alone as like beautiful pieces of art, which is very
Speaker 1: well done and very interesting. Um. I would say Doug
Speaker 1: comes in with the storytelling, has heart. Doug is like
Speaker 1: Doug is like Arthur before there was Arthur. Like Doug
Speaker 1: is like a meaningful, relatable but he's very sappy and
Speaker 1: he's very like emotional romantic. Um, well drawn emotionally and physically. Yes, um,
Speaker 1: rug rats. That's one that I actually I think is
Speaker 1: like very um pleasing in its chaotic energy. It's kind
Speaker 1: of has a frenetic sort of style to the drawing. Um.
Speaker 1: It's it has perspective of the so when you're watching
Speaker 1: it as a child, it's funny because it's like your
Speaker 1: perspective and like how babies like you know, It's like
Speaker 1: that's what the babies are thinking, which is basically what
Speaker 1: I am when I'm five or six or seven, right,
Speaker 1: and then as you get older you can watch it
Speaker 1: from the parents perspective and it's funny in that way. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I love that. No, sir, I was just pointing just
Speaker 1: to emphatically agree, keep going. Um, I would say, though Arthur.
Speaker 1: I did mention Arthur, and it's not from Nickelodeon. That
Speaker 1: is one that I would rush home to watch after school,
Speaker 1: and I said, pss, that's just a sweet show, and
Speaker 1: like I could still quote it, and I love how
Speaker 1: they would also do that kind of thing where they
Speaker 1: would go to like kids schools in real life and
Speaker 1: show like a clip from the kids school and then
Speaker 1: they would like have a moment on Arthur, and that
Speaker 1: was very sweet. Those are my tops, I think, actually,
Speaker 1: I think those are my faves. But do you have
Speaker 1: anything you would add? See? Honestly? For me, like, I
Speaker 1: feel like the one that really exists in my mind
Speaker 1: still is um Rugrats and I. But but every now
Speaker 1: and then I will get flashes back to Rocco's modern
Speaker 1: life and I remember, like just the broad comedic choices
Speaker 1: I thought were so funny at the time. And it's
Speaker 1: interesting because me as a child would not have said
Speaker 1: that was one of my favorite shows. But I think
Speaker 1: me as an adult, what what stuck with me that
Speaker 1: must in something is the fact that I still remember
Speaker 1: like he would like this is insane, but Rockle got
Speaker 1: like flung from one house to another one time and
Speaker 1: landed and like his neighbors like huge tits and the woman,
Speaker 1: the woman just goes, oh damn. And I was just like,
Speaker 1: that is so funny. Today, just so many things like
Speaker 1: I feel like I don't I don't. I don't watch
Speaker 1: children's shows now really, so I can't really say, but
Speaker 1: it feels like we were in a time where like
Speaker 1: they were doing edgy or stuff like that. Like peace
Speaker 1: was another thing I was going to say as my
Speaker 1: culture because it was like it's kind of got a
Speaker 1: whole like undertone to it that you just don't get
Speaker 1: as a kid, And it's so funny for the adults,
Speaker 1: like there's something weird happening at all times for everyone
Speaker 1: in the room. Like I love that there was there
Speaker 1: there was like a sense of danger to those shows
Speaker 1: that like you don't really get, like stuff now might
Speaker 1: be a little too sanitized. Again, I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: not watching this, but it feels like that, like I
Speaker 1: think we'll run and stimpy, like they would like zooming
Speaker 1: on someone's ass and they on their butt and it's
Speaker 1: like no one's doing that. There was so much there
Speaker 1: was butt crack in every show. This is my This
Speaker 1: is my theory. No, this is my theory on why
Speaker 1: we were able to get away with a lot and
Speaker 1: see a lot as kids because our parents were the
Speaker 1: Baby Boomer generation and the baby Boomer generation. The way
Speaker 1: they like played and the way that they did things
Speaker 1: is they just went out on their bike and rode
Speaker 1: around like like my dad when he was young in
Speaker 1: the early sixties, like he would ride his bike from
Speaker 1: his house on Long Island to say stadium and like
Speaker 1: seriously like and ride ride like bike back or I
Speaker 1: don't know exactly where they lived, he moved around a lot.
Speaker 1: But they were so much more free as children that
Speaker 1: I don't think it was top of mind for them
Speaker 1: to be like monitoring and watching what we as children
Speaker 1: were consuming as much as gen X parents and millennial parents,
Speaker 1: especially millennial parents are now and maybe parents are a
Speaker 1: little bit more lenient. I don't know. I think it's
Speaker 1: just I think it's just the way you learn two parents,
Speaker 1: the way you were parented, and you're you're gonna like
Speaker 1: either be overcorrective or do the same thing. I remember
Speaker 1: my my parents, like I was down in the basement
Speaker 1: watching whatever the fuck, and then every now and then
Speaker 1: they would come down and it would be like MTV
Speaker 1: and they'd be like, turn it off, and you're forbidden
Speaker 1: to watch this. So of course they're going to think,
Speaker 1: I'm fine with like Nickelodeon. But I don't think they
Speaker 1: knew and or cared about the rampant butt crack. They didn't.
Speaker 1: They didn't have the media literacy to like draw the
Speaker 1: lines in any like defined way, so like it was
Speaker 1: just a very arbitrary and rainow. They'd be like, Matt,
Speaker 1: stop watching Real World or whatever. Well, I guess it
Speaker 1: was have been weird too, because the TV was like
Speaker 1: suddenly more and more things were available as we were
Speaker 1: growing up, Like we didn't have cable for a bit,
Speaker 1: then we had cable, and then that spends the whole
Speaker 1: another thing. No no, no, no no, But that's that's
Speaker 1: that's my point. It's like now you have you have
Speaker 1: jen X and millennial parents who are like who understand
Speaker 1: what's out there, and like how of a pretty like
Speaker 1: um macroscopic view of like all the crazy garbage that's
Speaker 1: out there that could potentially like that they kind of
Speaker 1: clutching your pearls at like if I was a kid,
Speaker 1: and like god, there were so many butt cracks and
Speaker 1: running stimpy, like I better, I better make sure that
Speaker 1: my kids aren't watching butt crap. Well, I mean it's
Speaker 1: true when you think about us all getting the Internet
Speaker 1: at a certain point and then like the things you
Speaker 1: saw and did on there that were unsavory, and then
Speaker 1: we were children doing these things, and so as you
Speaker 1: as you have kids of your own, it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I know what's on the Internet, so I definitely don't
Speaker 1: want you to go look at the insane porn or whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember, I remember the day like parental controls were invented.
Speaker 1: Like it was like I was like I was like
Speaker 1: eight or nine years old, and it was like this
Speaker 1: thing now on a o L where it was called
Speaker 1: parental controls and you're remember really trying to keep it
Speaker 1: from you read the press release like it was like
Speaker 1: one day there wasn't and then one day there was.
Speaker 1: And I was like oh, I have to keep this
Speaker 1: from my parents so they don't stopped me from going
Speaker 1: in like any old chat room, which I now know
Speaker 1: looking back, had oh thousands of petals in it, probably,
Speaker 1: but I know, did you ever watch to Catch a Predator?
Speaker 1: That show is so disturbing dark I kind of loved it,
Speaker 1: but it's so disturbing, and you know that. I was
Speaker 1: thinking about how, uh like that that sort of programming
Speaker 1: that was for quote unquote four kids when we were younger,
Speaker 1: Like I didn't talk down to the kids, and like, um,
Speaker 1: that's I think why we enjoyed it, and also parents
Speaker 1: could enjoy it. It sort of does remind me of
Speaker 1: Story Pirates, which you are also a story pirate. We
Speaker 1: all have Story Pirates legacy, yes, And I was just
Speaker 1: thinking about how that was something I don't know about you.
Speaker 1: You probably knew everyone from from way back, but I didn't.
Speaker 1: Actually I moved to New York and joined Story Pirates. Um,
Speaker 1: I guess someone must have recommended it to me. I
Speaker 1: can't remember who the initial connection was, but then Duke
Speaker 1: Doyle was a part of it, and we went to
Speaker 1: high school, but I didn't know that he was a
Speaker 1: part of it, so it's kind of this like, and
Speaker 1: then I didn't go Northwestern, so I didn't know any
Speaker 1: of those people, so it was all, you didn't go
Speaker 1: to Northwest. No, No, I'm just I just grew up
Speaker 1: down the street from it, but I like joined and
Speaker 1: then everyone had lived in Evanston. So it's kind of
Speaker 1: a nice connection to have with people where you feel
Speaker 1: like you're sort of from the same place. Yeah, when
Speaker 1: did you meet Laura Ashley Smith? Well, for everyone that
Speaker 1: doesn't know, Story Pirates is a group. It's in New
Speaker 1: York in l A. And what they do is bowen.
Speaker 1: Myself and Lauren are all in it, and um, it's
Speaker 1: like hundreds of actors and comedians and singers and dancers, etcetera.
Speaker 1: Who take stories that are written by kids, and then
Speaker 1: we pick some of them and stage them as like
Speaker 1: little sketch comedy shows, and we go to the schools
Speaker 1: and perform those stories for the kids. And it's a
Speaker 1: surprise they don't know that there are some of their
Speaker 1: stories are going to be performed in front of their eyes,
Speaker 1: and it's just like encouraging them to write and be
Speaker 1: creative and it's really really fun. And so that's what
Speaker 1: we're talking about I just wanted to come out of
Speaker 1: school shows, where some of my favorite shows to do,
Speaker 1: because because we would do some at like theaters and
Speaker 1: other places as well, but like the school shows were
Speaker 1: so touching because the kids have such a heartwarming reaction
Speaker 1: to and they and just even being excited for each other,
Speaker 1: like if it wasn't their story but it was their friend.
Speaker 1: Like they're so excited. They are all supportive, they're they're
Speaker 1: like there's no like maybe there is and we just
Speaker 1: don't see it, but like there's no like air of
Speaker 1: jealousy or like contempt when whenever you were like we
Speaker 1: would announced the kid's story was being staged, right, No
Speaker 1: one's going like, oh man, it's not mine, Like yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's I think what helps is it's
Speaker 1: like there's like four kids watching and we do like
Speaker 1: five and it's not like okay and yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah exactly. My story with how I met Lauren Ashley
Speaker 1: Smith is kind of interesting because I had joined story
Speaker 1: Parrots and then at the time I was really into
Speaker 1: using Tumblr, so I searched story parrots on Tumbler and
Speaker 1: I found her blog and her name was Lauren and
Speaker 1: she was in story parrots, and I was like, my
Speaker 1: name is anything, but I hadn't started, so I hadn't
Speaker 1: met you one. So I followed her and we started
Speaker 1: following each other and we would message a little bit,
Speaker 1: and then we finally got to meet, like at a
Speaker 1: story parts rehearsal thing, and really lifelong friends ever since
Speaker 1: it was I met some very good friends from that,
Speaker 1: and that's why I'll remember. I always remember a couple
Speaker 1: of things from it, which is how good it felt
Speaker 1: to do those stories for the kids, and you know
Speaker 1: that that feeling of empowering them, and you know the
Speaker 1: teachers that would come up after with tears in their
Speaker 1: eyes and being like you guys picked you, guys picked
Speaker 1: exactly the right kid. It felt like it always happened,
Speaker 1: um that, So I always remember that, and I always
Speaker 1: remember the great people that I met doing it, and
Speaker 1: everyone you know, always on the same page because it
Speaker 1: didn't pay much money, but it was just some really
Speaker 1: good community and always I always knew when someone was
Speaker 1: the story parts that I already liked them. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel the same way. It was my first like little
Speaker 1: comedy community outside after college, like before you see be
Speaker 1: even because I was I was just saying from and
Speaker 1: I was just like, oh, you know, I'm just meeting
Speaker 1: people here and there through classes, but like Story Pirates
Speaker 1: just felt like there was like this purpose in direction
Speaker 1: and like around getting better at performance, because they really
Speaker 1: do drill into you, like in the training is like
Speaker 1: basically committia del arte principles and like really like fundamental
Speaker 1: things about performance that like no one ever really tells
Speaker 1: you out right. Yeah, it was really helpful with like
Speaker 1: being super clear and like yes, having a point of
Speaker 1: view and and just like sticking to one thing. Like
Speaker 1: it's really helpful with all stuff. Yeah, I always forget
Speaker 1: about how like fundamental it was in my education as
Speaker 1: a performer. You're right about the clarity because it's kids
Speaker 1: watching it, and so even though some of the content
Speaker 1: is just goofy and sometimes like they don't even know it,
Speaker 1: but the kids have written an edgy thing, and we
Speaker 1: as adults performing for kids, are like we're going to
Speaker 1: do this and say, well the kid wrote it, um,
Speaker 1: But it really was because kids are watching it, you
Speaker 1: essentially have to perform as like a two dimensional character
Speaker 1: on stage, which I'm sure for the three of us
Speaker 1: is kind of a thrill. As people who have the
Speaker 1: ability to be super perhaps even too big. Um. But yeah,
Speaker 1: while we're saying this, I do want to say like,
Speaker 1: in this time of quarantine, you know, they're not doing shows,
Speaker 1: so you could definitely donate to worse places than story
Speaker 1: pirates dot com if you have Oh my God to
Speaker 1: get cast if you're home with your kids, they have
Speaker 1: a podcast that's obviously safe for kids to listen to.
Speaker 1: Two albums on Spotify to Spotify They're wonderful, Lauren, what
Speaker 1: was your favorite story to perform to your do you
Speaker 1: do you have one? Oh? Wow, oh oh, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to remember. I did one. I remember doing one. Um
Speaker 1: that I was very exciting for me because I was
Speaker 1: like the lead of the story and it was like
Speaker 1: Ballerina and Angelica Houston was in the audience, Like yeah,
Speaker 1: so that was cool. Um. I always like, there was
Speaker 1: this one song that was cars crashing into robots. Do
Speaker 1: you know that one? Yeah? Yeah, it's It's a song
Speaker 1: I had a dance and I always liked. I always
Speaker 1: loved because you know, the in story parts, Like, some
Speaker 1: people are really good singers and I wouldn't put myself
Speaker 1: in that category, but I love performing with really good
Speaker 1: singers and they just like crush it. And like there's
Speaker 1: something about like singing this like simple children's song but
Speaker 1: like really well and like doing a dance, it's like thrilling,
Speaker 1: Like it's like it's like showmanship. It's like you're you're
Speaker 1: all like working towards some common goal together. Um so
Speaker 1: I feel like you wait what I was gonna say.
Speaker 1: There was one where that I was directing and you
Speaker 1: were in the cast, and we went to Austin, Texas.
Speaker 1: And I used to go to Austin, Texas every year
Speaker 1: with story parts. In fact, one time I got chased
Speaker 1: out of a bar because someone. It was after the show.
Speaker 1: We all went out in Austin and someone we went
Speaker 1: to a taco truck and I felt the guy took
Speaker 1: my money from me, and of course I was like
Speaker 1: two drunk, so that I got like I had to
Speaker 1: be like kicked out of this bar in Austin on
Speaker 1: story fin strip. Well, we might have to cut that out.
Speaker 1: Maybe not um, but anyway, UM, I remember the story
Speaker 1: that we did was I wrote it or adapted it
Speaker 1: based on what the kid had written, and it was
Speaker 1: called when You See Me Dance, But it was about
Speaker 1: this like, um, little girl who the mother was very mean,
Speaker 1: and the mother was like, you can't dance, like that's
Speaker 1: not what we do. Now do your homework. And she's like,
Speaker 1: when you haven't even seen me dance, and when you
Speaker 1: see me dance, I know you'll change your mind. And
Speaker 1: like I made it into this song and Bowen played
Speaker 1: the mother. At the end, I had to run through
Speaker 1: the aisle. I had him come through. There was like
Speaker 1: the stadium seating in this elementary school for some reason,
Speaker 1: and I had him come all the way down the
Speaker 1: stairs watching Chrissy Shappeleford like dance. And he was like,
Speaker 1: I'm watching her dance and I'm changing my mind. And
Speaker 1: do you remember the song Bowen, It's it's like tucked
Speaker 1: way like as soon as you see in the first
Speaker 1: two notes, like it was when you see me dance,
Speaker 1: it will change. When you see me dance, You're gonna
Speaker 1: change you up. Waity wow. I mean, it was a
Speaker 1: beautiful story and I'll just never forget Bowen singing it.
Speaker 1: That sounds beautiful when you see me dance sounds like
Speaker 1: a movie that wins Sundance or something like. It just
Speaker 1: is like a cool, interesting title for something I remember,
Speaker 1: like I was reading it like the kid wrote it,
Speaker 1: and it was so like purposefully written. She was like,
Speaker 1: my mother wouldn't let me dance. And I thought to myself,
Speaker 1: when you see me dance, you will change your mind.
Speaker 1: And I was just like, this is it? Like this
Speaker 1: is jumping off the page. It's so good. Bow and
Speaker 1: what's yours? My favorite stock story is apple Land, which, um,
Speaker 1: you are so good at apple Lands? Lauren? Did you ever?
Speaker 1: Did you ever see apple Land? Laura? Actually? Yes, did
Speaker 1: did it a couple of times? I don't know if
Speaker 1: I know that one? How did it go? Okay? So
Speaker 1: basically it's it's so crazy, it's um this whoever introduces
Speaker 1: is like this next story is written by someone named
Speaker 1: Sianni and it's called apple Land. And then I come out,
Speaker 1: let's just say, I'm I'm driving it, and I go, hey,
Speaker 1: what's up you guys? My name is Sianni, and I
Speaker 1: am going to tell you guys about the most amazing
Speaker 1: apple field place. It's called apple Land. Okay, do you
Speaker 1: guys want to know how to get there? Oh? No no?
Speaker 1: And then I bring up my three best friends to
Speaker 1: tell them how to get there, and I'm getting them
Speaker 1: hyped up about apple Land, and then I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: it's basically this like this like Beckett play, where like
Speaker 1: I'm screaming, amazing, it's amazing, and I'm screaming at my
Speaker 1: friends for not getting it right, for not following my directions,
Speaker 1: and then like you never get to apple Land, and
Speaker 1: I fully have a nervous breakdown in the story. It's
Speaker 1: it's truly, it's so good in it. I remember like
Speaker 1: it was like a legend. I thought I knew like
Speaker 1: I thought I knew what Bone could do, and then
Speaker 1: I saw performed apple Land. I was always that kid
Speaker 1: that the kid. I was always that one that was
Speaker 1: doing wanted to do the musical stories. And even though
Speaker 1: apple Land was not a musical story, I love that one.
Speaker 1: It was a funny that one. I mean that sounds
Speaker 1: so funny. It sounds it's like the way you describe
Speaker 1: it is the perfect story. Pirates sort of set up
Speaker 1: like it's just one person's got a whole thing. They
Speaker 1: bring in their friends, they tell each friend, and then
Speaker 1: they do the next thing. It's like very fun, it's
Speaker 1: very satisfying, so good. I I missed Story Parents a lot.
Speaker 1: It's so sweet. Yeah, it's a great little, great little cump.
Speaker 1: And that's a company. Um, it's a great little cump,
Speaker 1: the little cump that could. Um. So listen, here's what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do. We're gonna take a little break and
Speaker 1: we're gonna be back with Laura Leptis And we're back
Speaker 1: with Laura Lebkuz And here's the deal. We're rolling around
Speaker 1: on that time where it becomes time for I don't
Speaker 1: think so, honey, Before we do, I want to tell
Speaker 1: you something. I thought that there were many failings of
Speaker 1: the second Jurassic World. Number the number one failing was
Speaker 1: that you were not in it. I can't believe that.
Speaker 1: I have questions myself, but you know, you were the
Speaker 1: stand out part of Jurassic World. And I was like you, honestly,
Speaker 1: the joke can you tell us? Was that joke in
Speaker 1: the script? That thing of Jacob and I have a boyfriend? No,
Speaker 1: So it was like we kind of there. We we
Speaker 1: shot two versions, so we shot one where we kissed,
Speaker 1: and it was kind of like the underdogs getting their
Speaker 1: moment of you know, the nerd moment of like because
Speaker 1: initially I believe what it was was that initially, um,
Speaker 1: Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt did not kiss in
Speaker 1: the script, but then they had a passionate kiss within
Speaker 1: that was improvised. But great, this is my understanding. I
Speaker 1: could be incorrect, but I think that's true. And so
Speaker 1: we shot both ways because they weren't sure if they
Speaker 1: were going to use that because that was intended, or
Speaker 1: if we would have because initially it was supposed to
Speaker 1: be funny that we were the ones who have the
Speaker 1: kiss because that's unexpected. And then then we shot a
Speaker 1: version where we improvised the boyfriend thing of like let's
Speaker 1: just go back and forth with like what you would
Speaker 1: say if you know I don't want to kiss you
Speaker 1: and you know. So that was very fun. The standout
Speaker 1: moment of the whole film number one, best part of
Speaker 1: the movie, Well, I that's a lie. The best part
Speaker 1: of the movie is Dallas Howard outrunning a t Rex
Speaker 1: in in heels, and of course Bryce SaaS Howard's hair,
Speaker 1: but yes, but she's she is like perfect in the
Speaker 1: whole thing. But I mean, I love Bryce Dallas. I'm
Speaker 1: a Bryce Hollis Doward stand and I stand Bryce Hallis Doward.
Speaker 1: It's actually rolal culture number thirty one. It's dowar Um,
Speaker 1: what is she like? She was so nice, She was
Speaker 1: really cool, and she showed me that she can cry
Speaker 1: out of whichever I you tell her to. She did.
Speaker 1: She she was like, she was like, yeah, tell me
Speaker 1: what John and I was like that one and she
Speaker 1: was like and then a tear just popped out. I
Speaker 1: was like, so jealous to me. That's also an iconic
Speaker 1: part of Dressic World is when the Dominus rex is
Speaker 1: like has its face coming around the thing and she
Speaker 1: just turns to one she turns to one side and
Speaker 1: a single tear rolls down her eyes. Come on, she's
Speaker 1: giving it everything to this film. I want to do that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It was literally Boone and I said to each other
Speaker 1: like that, we couldn't believe we respected that movie so
Speaker 1: much that they did that joke of oh I have
Speaker 1: a boyfriend, Like it was well. The director, Colin Trevor,
Speaker 1: he like he has like a comedic background. He did
Speaker 1: like a that Indian movie Safety Not Guaranteed with right
Speaker 1: right right, That was like his bigger Like that was
Speaker 1: like the movie he had done right before he to
Speaker 1: Drastic World. So um. He has a sense of humor
Speaker 1: and that was great to be able to do something
Speaker 1: funny in that movie. Yeah, that rocked, And I thought,
Speaker 1: I think that Jurassic World sometimes gets gets an unfair
Speaker 1: shake because I think it's really fun. And my my
Speaker 1: number one problem with Jurassic Park is I felt like
Speaker 1: you didn't see enough of the theme park, like when
Speaker 1: you say, like Donna's dinosaur theme park, like, I want
Speaker 1: to see that. Well, so I think that that movie
Speaker 1: Jurassic World has a lot of great like the mastodon
Speaker 1: eating the thing eating the thing or whatever. You know,
Speaker 1: It's like I don't, but it's so shocking. It was drag.
Speaker 1: It was drag, which is what I want from those
Speaker 1: movies like Jurassic World, Fall in Kingdom. It wasn't drag.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like camp. Like that's why I like Rise
Speaker 1: of Skywalker is because it was drag and camp and
Speaker 1: for the young gay girls. I'm actually excited now that
Speaker 1: you said that, Oh it's for the young gay girls.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you we got we got Carrie Russell
Speaker 1: in a fucking skin tight uh, the bounty hunter outfit.
Speaker 1: We got a little little guy named Babu Frick. Oh girl,
Speaker 1: it's it's for the it's and and then honestly it
Speaker 1: goes down with Kylo Wren and Misrae and so really,
Speaker 1: on my god, Nicole and I are going to cringing out.
Speaker 1: We wrote we wrote fan fiction that's like literally porn
Speaker 1: about that. Oh my god. Literally when it goes down
Speaker 1: between when it goes down between Misrae and Kylo Wren,
Speaker 1: I screamed. I was with Matt Wittaker. We saw it
Speaker 1: in for the X. Our chairs were spinning. It was honey.
Speaker 1: It was basically it was basically at theme park ride
Speaker 1: the chair is moving. Anytime this water you get fully
Speaker 1: sprayed in the face. It's iconic. And when they and
Speaker 1: the big the best special effect is what has the
Speaker 1: chemistry between Miss Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver And when
Speaker 1: it went down between them, I literally screamed in the theater. Yes,
Speaker 1: I was like, sot it okay, good, that's well, and
Speaker 1: we're like, this is the horniest movie. The Last Jedi
Speaker 1: is so horny. They're like so bad and then nothing
Speaker 1: really happens. It's really disappointing. But I haven't seen it either.
Speaker 1: I I got now I'm like, I'm going to decide
Speaker 1: between Survivor and Start and Last Jedi or tell both
Speaker 1: great epic pieces of content. Maybe maybe, well maybe you
Speaker 1: should start Survival with Lauren and then also virtually watch
Speaker 1: rides at the same time as you need to say,
Speaker 1: like what what Survivor we need to watch? Because I
Speaker 1: don't want to just waste my time with some season
Speaker 1: that's not that good. So here's the deal. I would say. Ordinarily,
Speaker 1: I would say you should start with an early season
Speaker 1: um to sort of get acclimated to what the rules are.
Speaker 1: But you know what the rules are as sixteen people
Speaker 1: on an island or wherever, they split up into two tribes.
Speaker 1: The tribes compete and like one wins and they have
Speaker 1: to vote and the other team must have vote someone out.
Speaker 1: It whittles down to so you get that. So what
Speaker 1: with that being said, and this is for all the
Speaker 1: readers as well, I would start with season seven, which
Speaker 1: is Pearl Islands. This is what I would do, Season
Speaker 1: seven Pearl, then season which is Cook Islands, and then
Speaker 1: person only for me, I would follow the Journey of Poverty,
Speaker 1: the character of Poverty or the contestant Parverty She is
Speaker 1: Real um, which is season seventeen Micronesia, and then we'll talk. Okay,
Speaker 1: that feels like enough homework yeah, that's she did write
Speaker 1: it down. We can we can improve she wrote it down,
Speaker 1: and um, that's what I'll say about that. But listen,
Speaker 1: it's actually in fact time for I don't think so honey,
Speaker 1: it's time. It is time in Matt's coming in hot
Speaker 1: with an already controversial one that he's given away, but
Speaker 1: I can't wait to to hear the points around it.
Speaker 1: So do you wanted to start? I'll start, okay, all right,
Speaker 1: Satt Rogers, I don't think so honey. As time starts now,
Speaker 1: I don't think, so honey, fetch the bolt cutters. I
Speaker 1: just I try so hard. And I also really don't
Speaker 1: think so honey that I know I'm wrong, and the
Speaker 1: attitude around it, but I'm sorry. This is the same
Speaker 1: reason why I don't like Wes Anderson, because I don't
Speaker 1: so honey, west Anderson. I don't want to listen to
Speaker 1: a song that was obviously inspired by the way a
Speaker 1: cracker dissolved in my hot Hot soup. It's like this
Speaker 1: tweet stuff that I really don't like. Honestly, I don't think,
Speaker 1: so honey that people are so obsessed with this album
Speaker 1: because I saw girls in Brooklyn do this same kind
Speaker 1: of music the same type of way. I don't understand
Speaker 1: what's so new and special about it, beside the fact
Speaker 1: that it's you, obviously, miss Fiona Apple. Honey. I saw
Speaker 1: Two Yards do this eight years ago in Bolan, and
Speaker 1: I guess what I did take it then, and it
Speaker 1: almost led to the breakup of my then relationship because
Speaker 1: I was like, I can't even pretend to like this,
Speaker 1: and he got mad at me. And he is one
Speaker 1: of you, the people out there who act superior because
Speaker 1: I don't get this feeling Apple thing. But it's a
Speaker 1: bunch of nickels in a jar getting shaken around and
Speaker 1: someone singing like a rabbit over it. I don't think so, honey, Okay,
Speaker 1: and that's one minute. I just don't get it. I
Speaker 1: haven't listened to it yet. I think I can't weigh in.
Speaker 1: I don't know yet. I feel like, Matt, the only
Speaker 1: thing that I will agree with you on is that
Speaker 1: it is very similar to early two Yards, where it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: it's like it's not fully novel. Mean, the thing that
Speaker 1: people are like freaking out about it is like the
Speaker 1: novelty around like what she's doing with like instruments and
Speaker 1: how like she like basically like produced it from home,
Speaker 1: and like you know, like there's there's there's, there's all
Speaker 1: this like fun lord to it. That's very like on
Speaker 1: the nose Fiona Apple likes topping on it. She's topping
Speaker 1: on the box with with her dog bones in it.
Speaker 1: Like it's like stuff like that. It's like the mythos
Speaker 1: of Fiona is like suffused to the whole thing, and
Speaker 1: so people are like loving it, which like me, if you,
Speaker 1: if you like have followed her album to album, it's
Speaker 1: very satisfying. But I get like for someone who hasn't
Speaker 1: really like lots John do it ever at any point,
Speaker 1: Like I get how that feels. I get how that
Speaker 1: feels like inaccessible, but but I don't. I think it's
Speaker 1: a little reductive for you to call it twee though
Speaker 1: I mean maybe maybe maybe it's a misuse of the word.
Speaker 1: But for me, it's just like I understand that there's
Speaker 1: like powerful lyricism happening, Like I read the lyrics and
Speaker 1: I understand, I get it. But for me, it's like, um,
Speaker 1: I just I knew that when you when you rub
Speaker 1: two nickels together, it makes a sound, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Like that's not like a revolutionary tent on
Speaker 1: Pitchfork for me, and so for me, I guess what
Speaker 1: I'm really I don't think so honeying at the core
Speaker 1: is this sort of like embellishment and hyperbolic, like insane
Speaker 1: praise the album is getting because I think it's you know,
Speaker 1: exactly what Joanna Newsom has done her entire career. It's
Speaker 1: it's not quite okay whatever, this is my now. But
Speaker 1: now I sound like a jerk, and I'm like, see,
Speaker 1: but this is what I and this is the war
Speaker 1: that they're trying to start. The war is they're trying
Speaker 1: to start a war between high and low class, and
Speaker 1: and they've been trying to do that with me and
Speaker 1: Bowen because I'm famously low class and Bowen is famously
Speaker 1: high class. Bowen is the Atlantic where I am us weekly,
Speaker 1: and that's actually Pacific. I was like, how does the Pacific, well,
Speaker 1: you know, the Pacific has all the big sharks anyway,
Speaker 1: you know they don't. Um, I did a shark claw. Um. Anyway,
Speaker 1: that's what I think, and I'll give it another shot.
Speaker 1: But I really tried, guys, I really tried hard to
Speaker 1: like this one. This is this is the thing, okay,
Speaker 1: And I also want to respond just um to to this,
Speaker 1: to this whole thing, like I've seen girls in Brooklyn
Speaker 1: do this, but like like the thing is like Fiona
Speaker 1: like basically invented like having like like being on keyboards
Speaker 1: and like truly like having a full on meltdown in
Speaker 1: front of the piano. Did she invent it? I didn't realize.
Speaker 1: I feel like I feel like she kind of did.
Speaker 1: And just in terms of like culturally, how we like
Speaker 1: assigned meaning to um an artist like performing that, Like
Speaker 1: I think that's like that trope is I think like
Speaker 1: something that I respect her, I really respect her, and
Speaker 1: I would welcome her looking at me in my eyes
Speaker 1: and saying fuck you. I like, I would love it.
Speaker 1: I'm a fan. It's just that it's the hyperbolic response
Speaker 1: to it, which I'm god, you would think you were
Speaker 1: a fucking idiot for not liking this, and it's just
Speaker 1: it's cuckoo. Sure, sure, okay, but it's honestly, maybe that's
Speaker 1: what I should go to therapy about. Maybe it's my
Speaker 1: own problem, but I just like the difference of opinion.
Speaker 1: I think it's fair. I'm sure there are people who
Speaker 1: agree with you, but it's just where it's that thing
Speaker 1: where you're like, I don't want to say it, yeah scared, Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: I get it, I get it. I get it well.
Speaker 1: And here's the thing. Now is the time since my
Speaker 1: I don't think so Honey has ended. Now is the
Speaker 1: time that we pass it on to Bowen Yang and
Speaker 1: he does one and I don't think, so Honey, that
Speaker 1: is um And I'm actually just stalling because I might
Speaker 1: get my stop watch. Okay, here we go. This is
Speaker 1: Bowen Yang's I don't think so honey, and his time
Speaker 1: starts now. I don't think so Honey plans. Yes, I'm
Speaker 1: coming after plants on for twenty but I have a
Speaker 1: beautiful monster sitting in the corner. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I'm watering it too much or not watering it enough.
Speaker 1: I look it up on the internet. It says water
Speaker 1: it once a week, but it seems like that's not
Speaker 1: enough because the plants are the leaves are yellowing, and
Speaker 1: I'm leaving it in like a decently lit corner. I
Speaker 1: don't know what. I don't know what to do here.
Speaker 1: I don't know what. I don't know what it means
Speaker 1: to have a damn green thumb in this world anymore?
Speaker 1: How do you intuit any of this ship No plants,
Speaker 1: it's it's a scam for people like me to feel
Speaker 1: bad about themselves for not being able to stay in
Speaker 1: life this way. And plants, you're busted, You're done. I'm
Speaker 1: done with you. And you know what, So what if
Speaker 1: the earth rots? And if it means that you guys
Speaker 1: are gone and out of this world, then five good reddance,
Speaker 1: good reddance plants. While we're talking about I'm going to
Speaker 1: talk about weed. Indica, You're not working for me any anymore.
Speaker 1: No Indica is helping me fall asleep. I still feel
Speaker 1: a little too Five seconds on Indica and plants in general,
Speaker 1: including marijuana, your trash. And that's one minute wowow. And
Speaker 1: he thinks he could just live without plants. It's so funny.
Speaker 1: It's so funny. But I really relate to that because
Speaker 1: I've never kept a plan alive and I have a
Speaker 1: fake plant behind me. It's gorgeous. It doesn't matter perfect.
Speaker 1: I can tell you just aren't getting the right plants.
Speaker 1: You know who bought me a plant from my housewarming,
Speaker 1: Jilkin Booster, And he got me a very good plant.
Speaker 1: And the reason why it's very good is because it's
Speaker 1: I don't know what it really is. The deal with
Speaker 1: it is maybe it's a firm because you barely have
Speaker 1: to water it. That's what I need. I need something
Speaker 1: where like I need something where it never needs water
Speaker 1: and then when it does, it goes, hey can you
Speaker 1: water me? Yeah? Like, I can't guess I have a succulent.
Speaker 1: I've killed succulents before. We're gonna have joking. Booster reach
Speaker 1: out to you with the plant that he got me,
Speaker 1: because I think that you would enjoy this particular type
Speaker 1: of girl. Okay, I think it's nice when people have
Speaker 1: plants in the house. I feel like it looks like, oh,
Speaker 1: I think it's it's the difference between nice decor and not.
Speaker 1: Hold on, I don't know some minimal damn throat over
Speaker 1: that the minimalists. The minimalists can come for me. Okay,
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. This is this is the thing
Speaker 1: about watering plants. You don't water a plant and the
Speaker 1: plants like, hey, come water me, and the leaves start
Speaker 1: to go a little bit and you're like, okay, I'll
Speaker 1: water it, and I keep water and the leaves don't
Speaker 1: get better. It's it's they're not like wolverine where they
Speaker 1: start to regenerate. It's you never you can never win.
Speaker 1: You never can wait with the plant. So there you go.
Speaker 1: You're damned if you do, damned if you don't. It's
Speaker 1: like having an opinion, truly, and in this country, in
Speaker 1: this country, Okay, Lauren laps I think it's time to
Speaker 1: I don't think so, honey. Are you ready? I am okay,
Speaker 1: this is Lauren Lapty is. I don't think so, honey.
Speaker 1: Her time starts now. I don't think, so, honey. Me
Speaker 1: not dusting under my bed for many months at the time.
Speaker 1: I don't know what I think I'm doing by not
Speaker 1: dusting under my bed. I think in my mind it's
Speaker 1: kind of a if I don't see it. It's not
Speaker 1: their sort of situations. But I will dust everything else
Speaker 1: around my men. But then time comes, when quarantine is time,
Speaker 1: and that's who I am inside now, and I am
Speaker 1: realizing I will do a deep clean and I go
Speaker 1: under the bed and I realized there is a full
Speaker 1: animal made out of dust that lives under the bed.
Speaker 1: And let me tell you, I had my allergies a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, and I don't think so, honey.
Speaker 1: The only allergy I really have being dust my So
Speaker 1: why did I not does? What is wrong with me?
Speaker 1: Why don't I respect myself? I think it's a real
Speaker 1: It shows a real low self esteem that I don't
Speaker 1: feel like to under the bed once a week and
Speaker 1: get all that stuff out from two pets. And I
Speaker 1: don't know what dust is, but it does make me
Speaker 1: feel really really gross when I pull a huge pile
Speaker 1: of gray out of my bag. I am a gross
Speaker 1: human being. I am an adult, and I do not
Speaker 1: clean every enough, and I don't think so honey, And
Speaker 1: that's very good. Can I say, You've got to give
Speaker 1: yourself a break, because let me tell you what's hard
Speaker 1: to get to that's based under your bed. It really is.
Speaker 1: You have to get down in your stomach with a
Speaker 1: swift or on a thing and start pulling. It's not easy,
Speaker 1: no way. And and like I gotta ask, what's the
Speaker 1: what's the distance, what's the height? We're talking about less
Speaker 1: than a foot's still not enough? Yeah, still not enough?
Speaker 1: Still still tight. It's tight. It's tight. They also form
Speaker 1: so quickly, Like I just moved to a new apartment
Speaker 1: and so I'm trying to at least in my beginning
Speaker 1: months being here, like making a habit of vacuum ming,
Speaker 1: and I'll be shocked sometimes like I'll have just vacuum already.
Speaker 1: They'll be like and he's like, I don't know. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's like where the way the light comes into my
Speaker 1: room or what. I don't know, but it really like
Speaker 1: you gotta be on it to have a totally dust
Speaker 1: free apartment. Do you sometimes think that vacuums like create
Speaker 1: their own dust within them, because sometimes like I'll see
Speaker 1: the thing and then I'll that again it's full, and like,
Speaker 1: how is it full? There wasn't that much on the ground.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know. I don't believe. It's also shocked.
Speaker 1: It's shocking when you vacuum and you see how much
Speaker 1: dust is in there from just like a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1: I was living with this all around, Like this is
Speaker 1: like in the air. It's kind of like when you
Speaker 1: drive in l A and like like that during the
Speaker 1: fire season in l A. When you see what happens
Speaker 1: to the outside of your car, Yes, all the ashes
Speaker 1: and everything. Yeah, sick, You're like, this is what we breathe.
Speaker 1: I know it's bad, it's bad. Truly not good. I'm
Speaker 1: happy that everyone heard that so that now they can
Speaker 1: know it's time to fucking va ume. You gotta get
Speaker 1: under there. It's not easy, but it's you gotta do it.
Speaker 1: I can't believe that, like things that we can't even
Speaker 1: see are like fucking up the world right now, including dust,
Speaker 1: including dust. I know, I know, Well it's that's what it's.
Speaker 1: It's so crazy this time. I'm not saying anything new,
Speaker 1: but like the idea of going outside and just being like,
Speaker 1: is it gonna be here? It's just so crazy. It
Speaker 1: makes everyone feel unsettled. It's wild. And I say dust,
Speaker 1: I say, you can't see dust, But you can't see it.
Speaker 1: But in terms of like a single speck of dust
Speaker 1: it's got to collect, No, you can't. You can't see it.
Speaker 1: I don't keep it on my rug. And then I
Speaker 1: vacuum and it's the biggest pile of gray that anyone's
Speaker 1: ever seen inside there, And I'm like, excuse me, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like it's like a damn crypt. It's a damn crypt.
Speaker 1: You could tell me that I wasn't living in a
Speaker 1: damn crypt. It was remember Legends of the Crypt or
Speaker 1: what was that show? Called Tales from the Crypt. From
Speaker 1: the Crypt, where is the crypt keeper bringing him? That
Speaker 1: good good movie recommendation is Tells from the Crypt Demon Night.
Speaker 1: This has Billy's aim, This has Jada Pinkett, and this
Speaker 1: has cc cc H Pounder and this is a movie
Speaker 1: that people should seek out. It is absurd. It is
Speaker 1: Tales from Their Crypt Brandon Horror, and it is ku
Speaker 1: coo Lulu. That sounds good. Check that out. I love Jada.
Speaker 1: I love Red Table Talk. I know we're like wrapping
Speaker 1: it up, but I just want to know. I've watched
Speaker 1: some Red Table Talk too, and I'm going to say,
Speaker 1: those ladies go there. I love it. I love it.
Speaker 1: They really go there. It's like my favor. Yeah, yeah
Speaker 1: they do, they do. Yeah any time. Any time the
Speaker 1: kids are on what can we talk about? Quimby and
Speaker 1: how I just got it the other day and I
Speaker 1: started watching Games Show and it's so funny. Congratulation you
Speaker 1: have to be on the second Susan as a woman
Speaker 1: who I would love to Oh my god, I love it.
Speaker 1: And Gabraels was so funny. It's so good. He is
Speaker 1: a Game Show winner of the live version. It didn't
Speaker 1: go his way on Game show on Quimby. But he
Speaker 1: is a very game partner. He's a veteran. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's so great. He's awesome and he's the best. And
Speaker 1: it was it was fun. And by the way, it's
Speaker 1: out now forever. All those readers who haven't yet watched it,
Speaker 1: and Quimby has a ninety day free trail and I
Speaker 1: don't work for Quimby. I'm just telling you this. And
Speaker 1: also there's a show in there that I got into
Speaker 1: that was called, um it's called Murder House Flip or something,
Speaker 1: and it's like it's like houses where there was a
Speaker 1: horrible murder that people bought and then they have to
Speaker 1: flip it so they don't think about the murder all
Speaker 1: the time. And it's really good. Yeah, that's a really
Speaker 1: good show. And I couldn't believe what it was about.
Speaker 1: It kind of felt like like a lot of the
Speaker 1: criticisms that the reviews of Quimby shows have been getting.
Speaker 1: It's like it feels like a dirty rock joke. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, but those dirty rock jokes, it's fun.
Speaker 1: They are you would watch all of them. Yeah. Like,
Speaker 1: and there's another show called Dishmantled, which is Titus burgess
Speaker 1: host where it's like they literally rock it out of
Speaker 1: a cannon like a dish at these two chefs, and
Speaker 1: then the chefs have to like taste what's just been
Speaker 1: shot at them and they have they have like thirty
Speaker 1: minutes to make that dish and whoever is closer wins
Speaker 1: five thousand dollars and it's so and it's it's literally
Speaker 1: five and a half minutes long. They have they have
Speaker 1: like Erica Jane guest judging it. It's like fun. It's sod.
Speaker 1: I like how short that things are for this weird
Speaker 1: time that we're because I know it's kind of meant
Speaker 1: for being on the go, but I wanted to try
Speaker 1: it out and I've been using it while I do
Speaker 1: like a chore. I'll be like, Okay, I'll watch one
Speaker 1: Quimby while I do my stup and I'll watch one
Speaker 1: Quimby while I did this, I think, And so it
Speaker 1: kind of breaks things up. Wait, you know it would
Speaker 1: be fun. Which I'm just realizing is we should have
Speaker 1: you and you should be paired with my castle. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, I love that. I love a good marital moment.
Speaker 1: On the Live show, we had Naomi Kerrigan and Andy
Speaker 1: Beckerman and that couple, and I think they're so funny together.
Speaker 1: And Naomi is also like one of the she needs
Speaker 1: to like skyrocket. I'm like waiting for this moment. She's
Speaker 1: one of the funniest people to the Naomi. Naomi is
Speaker 1: my boyfriend's favorite comedian from from way before we met.
Speaker 1: He was like, oh my god, oh my god, do
Speaker 1: you know Naomi Pergan. She's not a comedian, and like,
Speaker 1: she's so funny. I love her her just her perspective.
Speaker 1: She's just so unique. And my boyfriend doesn't does impressions
Speaker 1: of Naomi. And I said, hold on now, hold on now.
Speaker 1: And then I told Naomi that I have a Jubu.
Speaker 1: You do have a Jubo. I do I have a
Speaker 1: jew Bo. But it's you can do an impression Naomi.
Speaker 1: She goes quite women. Yeah, well that was good. That's
Speaker 1: that's my tracy is my Amanda's don't go jogging after tusk.
Speaker 1: It's such a beautiful, timeless like like whatever, like Cadence
Speaker 1: or something like. Yeah, it's majestic, majestic and real. Yeah.
Speaker 1: She is the best, Yeah, the funniest of off you
Speaker 1: know who else is the funniest and best ever is
Speaker 1: Thank you guys are the best. I'm so happy I
Speaker 1: got to do this. This was so fun. And the
Speaker 1: thing is like we had Ego WoT him on the
Speaker 1: show last week, and I was like, we keep having
Speaker 1: these great remote episodes, but you've got to come back
Speaker 1: so we can be in the flesh. I'd love to
Speaker 1: do that to ye Oh my god, I love Ego,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, and I want to last Weekend with
Speaker 1: some from Home. I thought it was so funny. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of really good stuff. Yeah, there's good stuff.
Speaker 1: We might do it again. We'll see. I was thinking
Speaker 1: like last week and I was like, wait, where is it?
Speaker 1: But it's a lot. It's a lot to produce in
Speaker 1: one week from home. I'm sure it was crazy with
Speaker 1: like getting people all the props and cameras and things.
Speaker 1: I think I think that Saturday Night Live will be back.
Speaker 1: I really do. I really did. I think they're going
Speaker 1: to figure out a way to come back with that SNL.
Speaker 1: It's a dumb bit, oh, I see it's I was like,
Speaker 1: what do you mean, of course, seek out all of
Speaker 1: Lauren Lefcus, not that you really need to because the
Speaker 1: woman is everywhere and watch me on good Girls, and
Speaker 1: I have a movie coming out called The Wrongs Plugged,
Speaker 1: the Netflix movie. We're doing it now. It's on May thirteen,
Speaker 1: wrong thirteen, Yes, and watch You're on Good Girls, which
Speaker 1: I love. I love. It's really fun. It's on NBC.
Speaker 1: I love. What did you get to work with Christina Hendrix?
Speaker 1: I did? I did. She's so nice. She had her
Speaker 1: cute dog on set and the dog was so sweet.
Speaker 1: She's great. Love call. We called her a gay icon
Speaker 1: to her face, Matt remember it was. And she was
Speaker 1: so great and she was like, well that's nice and
Speaker 1: I was like, no, it's it's important. Um. All right,
Speaker 1: well this has been an absolutely stunning episode and it's
Speaker 1: called War. And you know, you know the way we
Speaker 1: end every episode is of a song. All right, what
Speaker 1: because I was and I need to be redeem again.
Speaker 1: Go off a