Speaker 1: Are you leaving?
Speaker 2: I you wanna way back home?
Speaker 1: Either way, we want to be there. Doesn't matter how
Speaker 1: much baggage you claim and give us time and a
Speaker 1: terminol and gay. We want to send you off InStyle.
Speaker 1: We wanna welcome you back home.
Speaker 2: Tell us all about.
Speaker 1: Ity scared her? Was it fine? Malborn? Do you need
Speaker 1: to ride? Do you need to ride? Do you need
Speaker 1: to ride? Do you need to ride?
Speaker 3: To ride.
Speaker 2: With Karen and Chris? Welcome to Do you need to ride?
Speaker 1: This is Chris Fairbanks And this is Karen Kilgaraff. Hello,
Speaker 1: my friend, Hello Chris Fairbanks.
Speaker 4: I just got done laughing at something I realized, which
Speaker 4: is the whole.
Speaker 2: Time I was on a little tour for a week.
Speaker 4: I wanted my watch because I've been I've gotten used
Speaker 4: to this I watch. When I first got it, I
Speaker 4: thought it would just be another voice in my head
Speaker 4: and I wouldn't like it telling me to, you know,
Speaker 4: walk around. You've been idle for too long. But you
Speaker 4: can swim with it. You can turn it off and
Speaker 4: swim with it and then push a button and water
Speaker 4: extracts from it.
Speaker 2: Did you know that?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 2: Didn't it's become very handy. But I missed.
Speaker 4: I missed it the whole time, and then I I
Speaker 4: got home and it's not at home. So I looked
Speaker 4: at up you can it's sitting on the runway in Dallas.
Speaker 4: Oh no, it's like you can find it and then zoom.
Speaker 4: You can zoom in on the map. It's not in
Speaker 4: the airport. It's not on the tarmac where one gets
Speaker 4: in the plane. I don't remember ever rolling down my window.
Speaker 1: How is this possible.
Speaker 4: It's driving me crazy to the point where I had
Speaker 4: to laugh about it.
Speaker 2: But then it was time to reach Okay.
Speaker 1: Can I can I do a comedy admission to you?
Speaker 1: I was waiting to say to you because as they
Speaker 1: as you were winding that story up, I was like,
Speaker 1: I can't wait to go. I can't wait to say
Speaker 1: you were laughing at that because this is boring or
Speaker 1: something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how.
Speaker 1: That's the most thrilling story I think you've told on
Speaker 1: this podcast.
Speaker 2: It's a slow build. That's how my comedy is.
Speaker 1: It's true.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just ten minutes, a snooze fest and then punch
Speaker 4: you right.
Speaker 1: In the gut fucking boom.
Speaker 2: It was maybe a luggage person handler.
Speaker 1: You're a cueing them a stealing.
Speaker 2: Yes, I for it, Yes I am.
Speaker 4: And I'm accusing them of ruining my zipper on an
Speaker 4: old bag.
Speaker 1: But it's uh was your zipper broken? For real? Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: You remember those SAMSONIT commercials where they had like a giant,
Speaker 4: you know, gorilla throwing the bags around. Yes, and They're like,
Speaker 4: this is what they do to your bags, And I'm like,
Speaker 4: well that's a bit much.
Speaker 2: I was not. I was a child back then, so
Speaker 2: I didn't know.
Speaker 1: You didn't know.
Speaker 2: They Yeah, they've put my way bag through some damage.
Speaker 1: But can I sorry real quick? Yes, you didn't you
Speaker 1: put your Apple watch into a zip pocket on your suitcase?
Speaker 2: Well that's where some of the blame might be falling
Speaker 2: on me.
Speaker 4: I do not recall if I maybe put it. I
Speaker 4: maybe put it in that loosely in that mesh side
Speaker 4: pocket on my backpack.
Speaker 1: You just handed someone of your backpack and you're like,
Speaker 1: could you put this down in the worst place you
Speaker 1: could put?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 4: But I think it was just my wrist and the
Speaker 4: band on it is one of those oh stretch it
Speaker 4: and put the little knob into a hole, and it
Speaker 4: just something pulled it off, and maybe it was as
Speaker 4: I was doing last looks on the wing, because.
Speaker 2: A lot of that.
Speaker 4: I don't know how it ended up in the runway truly.
Speaker 1: It's like the what you just explained is step one
Speaker 1: of then what would have been an eight step process
Speaker 1: to get it on the fucking runway.
Speaker 2: I do not know.
Speaker 4: I mean, they didn't have me de icing the plane.
Speaker 4: I don't know why it's on. It's so funny to
Speaker 4: zoom in, I have to. I wish you could just
Speaker 4: show the visual. It's the middle of a runway watching
Speaker 4: no denying, far from all buildings.
Speaker 2: I love it anyway.
Speaker 1: Pretty great. Okay, so you said Dallas Fort Worth Airport DWS.
Speaker 1: If you're in the Dallas or Fort Worth area and
Speaker 1: you'd like to go down and sneak on to the
Speaker 1: runway to grab Chris's watch for him, he would. He's
Speaker 1: got some swimming and some exiting of water to do.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: And if you're a baggage handler, I meant no offense.
Speaker 4: But someone you work with has sticky fingers. Yeah, keep
Speaker 4: your eyes peeled, like from the group Onyx. Sticky fingers,
Speaker 4: full credit, full credit. All right, there's my opening story.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, well, let's introduce our guests today.
Speaker 2: I think we should very exciting.
Speaker 1: She plays clubs and colleges all over.
Speaker 2: So many colleges.
Speaker 1: She just sort of had like what you may have
Speaker 1: seen her on the New Faces show Jess for laughs.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a person whose career has been
Speaker 1: deeply affected by COVID. Let's just say that she's get
Speaker 1: killing it will continue to kill it soon once Omicron
Speaker 1: dies down and everything gets back to normal. And also,
Speaker 1: you also may have seen her on one of the
Speaker 1: most hilarious and awkward moments on The Price Is Right,
Speaker 1: which I can't wait for her to tell us the
Speaker 1: story because it's incredibly epic. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome
Speaker 1: Danielle Perez.
Speaker 2: Dead Hurry, hooray.
Speaker 5: I'm good. I'm so happy to see you both.
Speaker 1: We're so happy to see you. What's been going down?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Man, you know, well, comedy is back. I guess kind
Speaker 3: of is it back? I don't know, it's not January anymore.
Speaker 1: True, You're true.
Speaker 4: I was confronted by it the whole time because it
Speaker 4: is back outside of the place we live.
Speaker 5: Yeah right, it's been back. Yeah for Chris, it never closed.
Speaker 2: No, it did.
Speaker 4: Oh man, trust me, I was indoors. People know it,
Speaker 4: but I'm back out there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess we're doing it.
Speaker 3: So I'm doing shows in LA just being back trying.
Speaker 1: And do you feel a different ference and can you
Speaker 1: describe that difference in any way it?
Speaker 3: I mean, okay, well, audiences in LA are I think
Speaker 3: pre COVID it was a lot of like hmm, okay,
Speaker 3: I'm considering what you're saying. You know, a very like well,
Speaker 3: I'm a writer, you know, like energy from your audience.
Speaker 3: And now it's like people are just so grateful to
Speaker 3: be outside and in a space.
Speaker 5: They're just like enjoying comedy. It is.
Speaker 1: It's kind of disturbing, but it's great almost like violent,
Speaker 1: violently positive reaction.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: It's like, oh, is this toxic positivity?
Speaker 2: I've heard a lot about it on Twitter.
Speaker 5: I feel like I'm experiencing it.
Speaker 2: Irl.
Speaker 1: What's toxic positivity? I've never heard of that.
Speaker 3: It's like, you know, like all those kind of like
Speaker 3: spiritual gurus kind of like you just like manifest and
Speaker 3: like be your best self, like oh, like you know,
Speaker 3: like you remove toxic people from your life. But it's
Speaker 3: like you're being toxic, but.
Speaker 4: Like where you're they're where they're laughing and you're they're
Speaker 4: laughing so hard that you think, are they making fun
Speaker 4: of me right now?
Speaker 2: Is that a sarcastic laugh?
Speaker 1: Is it kind of like when people on Twitter call
Speaker 1: you besty but they're actually trying to get you canceled somehow?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, it's that.
Speaker 1: Sorry, Bestie, you need to delete this. It's just like,
Speaker 1: wait to hold on. I don't know you.
Speaker 5: This is a directed time.
Speaker 1: We're not friends, we're not even acquaintances. Well we're bestie's bestie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well I have to see that. I the last I
Speaker 1: went to a comedy show right before, right as the
Speaker 1: Omocron surge crested, but no one really saw it coming,
Speaker 1: and I went to It was Permanent Records Roadhouse okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: which I love. It's the coolest place, and Brian Cooke
Speaker 1: did covered Olivia Rodrigo's entire album and it was hilarious.
Speaker 2: Oh how fun?
Speaker 3: Oh I remember I saw I saw like posters for that.
Speaker 1: That looks really fun. It was well because it was
Speaker 1: actually like a music show. But then you were like,
Speaker 1: wait a second, I know that song like it was
Speaker 1: it was really good, but I realized as I was
Speaker 1: sitting there. I was in the back of the room.
Speaker 1: I wore a mask in and for like ten minutes.
Speaker 1: But then you do that thing where you're like, well,
Speaker 1: no one else is wearing mask, I'm gonna take it off.
Speaker 1: This must be fine. Then there's a couple people who
Speaker 1: are still wearing a mask right because they're like and
Speaker 1: in the after math, you go, geniuses, why didn't I
Speaker 1: do what those rare few were so brave in doing?
Speaker 1: And I went home. I left early because I was like,
Speaker 1: I am truly too old and from quarantine to do
Speaker 1: this for hours at a time. I left early, and
Speaker 1: the next day I got text from four different people
Speaker 1: being like so and so tested positive.
Speaker 5: So and so had it so oh my god, oh so.
Speaker 1: It was yeah. So it was one of those things
Speaker 1: where I thought I was like, I'm socializing again. And
Speaker 1: then the second yeah, you know, the second I woke
Speaker 1: up in the morning, it was like, mistake.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I are you getting these I don't know who
Speaker 4: they're coming from, but they're almost like a CDC government
Speaker 4: text that says someone you know has tested positive for COVID.
Speaker 2: They don't mention names.
Speaker 5: Oh not really.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So it's like I don't know, I don't know
Speaker 4: how it's being surveiled, you know, or.
Speaker 3: Is it real or is it like a fishing Now
Speaker 3: that feels like so scammy it is.
Speaker 4: I'm getting them to day you know, yeah, the day
Speaker 4: after I go somewhere where they but they're not scanning
Speaker 4: your vax card. They're not putting you into some database.
Speaker 4: I don't know why. Or it's someone that says, oh
Speaker 4: I got this. I saw Chris Fairbanks last night. I
Speaker 4: better put him on this list. Maybe there's a protocol if.
Speaker 1: You okay, Well, that person's a coward because everybody else
Speaker 1: has to just call up their aunt and be like, hey, sorry,
Speaker 1: I exposed you. I understand that you're eighty five. We
Speaker 1: shouldn't have had that dinner party like that was all
Speaker 1: of Christmas and New Year and my family. It was
Speaker 1: just like my cousin Stevie exposed all of us, but
Speaker 1: only like no one got it, but he had it.
Speaker 1: And then we had a party like three weeks later,
Speaker 1: and my niece Nora had it and didn't know, so
Speaker 1: she exposed everybody. And then I was like to my sister,
Speaker 1: was like, aren't you so glad? Because Stevie did it first,
Speaker 1: and now we don't have to feel guilty that like
Speaker 1: it was that kind of weird thing where it's just like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is this is this variant. It's just happening to everybody.
Speaker 1: You have to text them, you have to call them.
Speaker 1: So whoever's hiding behind this, I don't see DC text
Speaker 1: go to hell.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's pretty cowardly.
Speaker 4: I think I'm a coward because it harkens back to
Speaker 4: the time I had a friend who had very bad,
Speaker 4: clinically bad breath, and I thought, and I got this
Speaker 4: email that said, does someone you know have bad breath?
Speaker 4: And I said yes, and they sent an anonymous message
Speaker 4: with also solutions. It's probably selling something, of course, but
Speaker 4: I said that anonymous you have bad breath email. I'm
Speaker 4: not gonna I but someone has to tell this person
Speaker 4: that smells like copper wire and.
Speaker 2: Blood and stuff. And I'm not.
Speaker 4: Even gonna go down the list, but it was bad breath.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say it. I'm a coward. I know
Speaker 2: what I've been.
Speaker 1: I have been the person with bad breath because I
Speaker 1: take a medicine that fucks up my gums, so it
Speaker 1: literally is painful to flast my teeth. But I'm like,
Speaker 1: you have to do it. But then I know, every
Speaker 1: once while I'll catch myself and I'll get like a
Speaker 1: whiff of my own breath and then like keep my mouth. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because you're just like if you don't flyaw us on
Speaker 1: the rag, Like it doesn't matter who you are, you
Speaker 1: will have the worst breath. It's just the truth.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got a water pick. I'm very paranoid about it.
Speaker 4: But you put on that mask and it bounces up
Speaker 4: your nose, you find out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you realize real quick.
Speaker 2: If it's a consolation. Karen, I've been near you. I've
Speaker 2: never smelled it.
Speaker 1: Never.
Speaker 4: Thank god, I will never send you an anonymous Well
Speaker 4: maybe I will.
Speaker 2: You won't know. It's me see coward for life.
Speaker 1: See, I actually have to say that's kind of a hilarious.
Speaker 1: It's a hilarious concept. Whoever thought because they're pulling people in,
Speaker 1: it's not it's just like you're it's slightly victimy. But
Speaker 1: then also it's like, well it's sales. So it's like
Speaker 1: someone said you need this, and so then you should
Speaker 1: buy this thing. Like it's really emotionally manipulated.
Speaker 3: It's like xoxo, gossip girl, it is hey, bestie, I
Speaker 3: heard your breastings.
Speaker 1: I want to buy this flaws.
Speaker 4: Well that everyone would say, oh my god, why didn't
Speaker 4: you tell me? Because no one knows you can't smell yourself.
Speaker 4: We all know that from a Sarah Silverman joke. So
Speaker 4: it was if someone sent me that, I'd be like, oh,
Speaker 4: thank god, I will I'll try this because I'm horrified
Speaker 4: that I'm giving that sort of impression or odor and
Speaker 4: not not knowing it.
Speaker 2: That terrifies me, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I grew up with such a mean older sister that
Speaker 1: she would be like, get away from your breath, is
Speaker 1: discussing why don't you brother? Like she would fucking let
Speaker 1: me know it every church stop chewing like that. It's disgusting.
Speaker 1: So I think I have a self consciousness. But every
Speaker 1: once in a while, you know, like especially back when
Speaker 1: I drank, if you wake up in the morning and
Speaker 1: you're like I was like one of those people. I
Speaker 1: was like, I wake up hungover and be like, first
Speaker 1: I need to smoke a cigarette. Yeah, then I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go three SIPs of coffee, and then I'm gonna go whisper.
Speaker 1: And someone's here like just the grossest we've all done it.
Speaker 1: Everyone's guilty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, every one of my high school teachers for real.
Speaker 2: Coffee and SIGs.
Speaker 1: Danielle, do you have a story from high school? An
Speaker 1: embarrassing story like that but that not too painful because
Speaker 1: we know there's all those But like, h you have
Speaker 1: bad breath type of story?
Speaker 5: Na, you have bad breath?
Speaker 3: Like no, one really spread like a rumor like not
Speaker 3: about me in high school, well, but definitely like in
Speaker 3: middle school. Like people, I mean, I know, middle school
Speaker 3: pretty hardcore. No, people like would call me donkey booty
Speaker 3: and then like winny around me like what I don't know,
Speaker 3: like like a hoarse sounds.
Speaker 1: What, like she had a big butt, yes, which is.
Speaker 3: Like insane because by the time I got to college.
Speaker 5: It was like j Loo booty.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm like in San Francisco going to the barn
Speaker 3: castro and everyone's.
Speaker 1: Like jealous here, yeah.
Speaker 5: What a what a journey?
Speaker 4: And Karen, you know, I don't lost after farm animals,
Speaker 4: but they're oftentimes I will see a donkey or a horse.
Speaker 2: And I'm like that donkey has a nice.
Speaker 4: Ass, like a muscular horses ass, not in a sexual
Speaker 4: way in a symmetrical, shiny mud round.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they appreciate it. You thank you. I think it
Speaker 2: was a compliment.
Speaker 1: I had the same thing in junior high. My butt.
Speaker 1: It was like part of part of going through puberty
Speaker 1: or whatever. Was all of a sudden, my butt was big,
Speaker 1: and people would tell me constantly, and it was humiliating
Speaker 1: because I couldn't see it. So I'd be like, really,
Speaker 1: it doesn't seem like it. But like my mean older
Speaker 1: cousins or who you know what I mean, you just
Speaker 1: get that feedback or people in your class. And it
Speaker 1: was the eighties, which you were supposed to be anorexic blonde,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like there were they're very
Speaker 1: narrow rules for being attractive or whatever. So when I like,
Speaker 1: big Butts came out in the nineties, which was you know,
Speaker 1: obviously it's like ten years ten fifteen years later, when
Speaker 1: that song came out, it would make me cry because
Speaker 1: I'd feel like, finally my redemption.
Speaker 3: But you like seeing sir mix a lot stand on
Speaker 3: a giant ass, it just right. It relieved me of
Speaker 3: so much. I was able to let go of pain
Speaker 3: and trauma.
Speaker 4: The old wams are healed, and my favorite part was
Speaker 4: he's telling people he couldn't lie about it, right honesty, Yes,
Speaker 4: he could.
Speaker 1: Genuine He was like, look, I know you want me
Speaker 1: to everything in that song was like, that's right. It's
Speaker 1: like you like these skinny, weird models, I like big butts,
Speaker 1: and then we're going to drop this beat that actually
Speaker 1: like moves your internal organs, and then everyone's going to
Speaker 1: fucking agree. Like that's all I was looking for.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he did also require an itty bitty waste, though.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's true. That's part of the whole problem.
Speaker 1: It is about. Yeah, it's it's kind of a a
Speaker 1: measurement situation.
Speaker 2: I think I've mentioned this before. Been in middle school.
Speaker 4: I found a note in the playground that said between
Speaker 4: two girls and it says sure like Chris Fairbanks he's
Speaker 4: so cute and I was like, oh boy, and then they're.
Speaker 2: Like, too bad. He picks his nose so much. Yeah,
Speaker 2: back and forth.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I saw him eat it once. Oh god, it's getting worse.
Speaker 2: Do I have to change schools? Maybe I'll change schools?
Speaker 3: Six great, you like showing up to cos be like,
Speaker 3: just so you guys know, don't pick my nose and
Speaker 3: eat it.
Speaker 5: I want to get out.
Speaker 2: I knew exactly when they were talking about it.
Speaker 4: I'm like, I know the exact day I Cavalierly was dagging.
Speaker 2: Oh god, yeah you did.
Speaker 1: You just not think about it before and you were
Speaker 1: just doing it. It was like just not an unconscious
Speaker 1: habit ca I.
Speaker 4: Think when I was young, I just I was. I
Speaker 4: would just be myself, you know, I wasn't too worried
Speaker 4: about well.
Speaker 3: I knew a kid when I was like in first
Speaker 3: second grade.
Speaker 5: His name was Zach.
Speaker 3: He would literally pick his nose, put the booger on
Speaker 3: the like monkey bar, and then puts sawdust on it
Speaker 3: and eat it.
Speaker 2: Like that was oh my.
Speaker 5: He was top chef junior and a snack.
Speaker 1: It's like, we have.
Speaker 5: No that literally in an hour.
Speaker 4: Like what are you doing to put sawdust on it?
Speaker 4: He learned that from watching his dad change the cars oil.
Speaker 4: I think, why would you put sprinkle it with sawdust?
Speaker 1: I guess texture or maybe he was like do you
Speaker 1: Was he one of those gross out kids where he's like,
Speaker 1: I got you screaming, but now watch this. Now I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna blow your mind.
Speaker 2: Yeah? Was he like, hey, everyone gather around, You're.
Speaker 1: Not gonna was it? Did you go to grammar school
Speaker 1: with Steve O something like that.
Speaker 3: He's like, honestly, it would be really funny if Steve
Speaker 3: O went to like Montosauri squad.
Speaker 2: That he came from.
Speaker 1: Ye.
Speaker 2: I loved the idea of that's a kid's performance.
Speaker 4: He's like, hey, everyone, it's showtime, and he puts on
Speaker 4: a top hat and then just starts picking his boggers
Speaker 4: and wiping them on things, clapping his hands together and
Speaker 4: then eating them.
Speaker 2: And everyone's like.
Speaker 4: Well, but they also they tip his guitar case afterwards.
Speaker 1: That's yeah, grammar school, playground busking. Yeah, yeah, but it
Speaker 1: always has to bulver. I think the idea of finding
Speaker 1: a note written about you is intent. I mean I
Speaker 1: think that's like, that's very girl, it's very girl action,
Speaker 1: and it would be my ultimate fear.
Speaker 4: And also the disappointment of it starting like I share
Speaker 4: like Chris Fairbanks, he's cute and I'm like, wow, I
Speaker 4: didn't know this, and then it went down yeah, really hard.
Speaker 1: But see here's the thing. The cute thing is the
Speaker 1: comment on that is who you are, and the booger
Speaker 1: picking thing is just a bad habit that you can
Speaker 1: absolutely curb, if not eliminate, entirely.
Speaker 2: Right right, and I started working on it way back then.
Speaker 2: It's been you know, it's been a lifelong battle. You know.
Speaker 2: I occasionally let one slip, but.
Speaker 3: He has Sometimes you know, you need a snack and
Speaker 3: you need to way.
Speaker 2: Eating is a whole other that, you know.
Speaker 4: I haven't done that since my late twenties. I'm an adult.
Speaker 4: But sometimes what's better it just leaving it there for
Speaker 4: everyone to see, or privately while driving or at a
Speaker 4: stoplight with your windows spurled down, taking care of it,
Speaker 4: chicking for goals, yeah, and then just waving it the
Speaker 4: person next gent and peeling out like wait, was that grosser?
Speaker 2: Cool as shit?
Speaker 1: Is that the new trend in Los Angeles? Boger flicking
Speaker 1: out out of car window?
Speaker 2: It's just being yourself, That's what I call it.
Speaker 4: I just, like Karen said at the beginning, Danielle, I
Speaker 4: don't know. I have not seen this prisis Right episode.
Speaker 1: Please what really flip? Please tell the whole story from
Speaker 1: the beginning of this day. And I know I did
Speaker 1: not know hilarious, Tell it like, tell it for the
Speaker 1: person who's never heard one word of it. Please, Okay?
Speaker 3: So okay, So I was with Wendy Starling. She was
Speaker 3: in LA Comic. Now she's in New York. But she
Speaker 3: was like leaving La to move to New York to
Speaker 3: doing all these LA things. And she was like, I
Speaker 3: want to go to the Prices, right, And I was like, Okay, cool,
Speaker 3: I'll go. I've never been and I'm like born and
Speaker 3: raised in Los Angeles. So I get there. Literally, I
Speaker 3: I'm late. You know, it's early. It's an early call
Speaker 3: times like nine am, all the way out like on
Speaker 3: Beverly and Fairfax, very.
Speaker 1: Far all the way out. That's all the way out.
Speaker 2: That is the center of all the way to the middle.
Speaker 1: But the like.
Speaker 3: Man is like kind of like lets me in, and
Speaker 3: I like meet up with her in her big group
Speaker 3: and she has like a bunch of family because like
Speaker 3: you came up from Long Beach and stuff. And so
Speaker 3: we're in line and we're going through and everyone gets
Speaker 3: like interviewed at the Prices right, Like every audience member
Speaker 3: is like talk to and ask questions by like the staff.
Speaker 3: And so we were in a big group, and so
Speaker 3: we got put in front of this guy who's like
Speaker 3: walking down the line just like asking different questions. And
Speaker 3: he gets to me and he's like where are you from?
Speaker 3: And I'm like la, and he's like are you a valley?
Speaker 3: Girls like totally, and and then he's like onto the next.
Speaker 5: I was like, that was just a very brief interaction.
Speaker 3: We continue on and then like they move our group
Speaker 3: to kind of the next like we're all, you know,
Speaker 3: just like in a line at Disney Line and like
Speaker 3: a holding pen, and then moving us inside now. And
Speaker 3: some person comes up to me and is like, if
Speaker 3: your name gets called, just to follow the person in
Speaker 3: the red jacket. And I'm like okay, and everyone like
Speaker 3: is like, oh my god, they're gonna pick him. Like literally,
Speaker 3: they're just being nice to me because I use a wheelchair,
Speaker 3: Like that is just being kind and wanting me to
Speaker 3: feel included.
Speaker 1: You're like, let me explain to you how this works
Speaker 1: being nice.
Speaker 4: So they're saying, and then just get yourself up there.
Speaker 4: They weren't paying attention.
Speaker 3: They just thought, no, it's just you know, people are
Speaker 3: I get a lot of like bless yous and.
Speaker 5: Like you go girls like you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Like I'm like people just like taking time to just
Speaker 3: be like if you need help, like is not abnormal.
Speaker 3: So I'm like they're just being nice and they're a
Speaker 3: corporation and like so so we continue like going through
Speaker 3: until we get to the audience and they sit me
Speaker 3: in the back.
Speaker 5: There's like a wheelchair accessible seats and the show.
Speaker 3: You know, they're playing like Black Eyed Peas and stuff,
Speaker 3: like we've been deprived of food and water for hours.
Speaker 3: Like everyone is fucking pumped and amps just old ladies
Speaker 3: doing cartwheels. It's it's like it's so much and I'm
Speaker 3: just taking it in like this is wild.
Speaker 5: I did not know this was going to be my
Speaker 5: day to day, but like I.
Speaker 3: Had moved my uh, someone like came, I guess, like
Speaker 3: I like everyone gets a name tag and I guess
Speaker 3: somehow I like put mine in the middle or whatever.
Speaker 3: Like I was so just kind of not engaged with
Speaker 3: like what was happening. Like everyone has to keep it
Speaker 3: on the left side, and I'm just like, what do
Speaker 3: I put it on my like my leg, you know,
Speaker 3: because I'm cool. I'm just hanging out here. But some
Speaker 3: production some pa came up to me, gave me a
Speaker 3: new name tag, put it on my body, and told
Speaker 3: me to move my hair out of the way.
Speaker 1: I was like, what, Oh, that's a good sign.
Speaker 5: I was like, they're just being nice.
Speaker 2: They start doing hair and makeup on you.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Literally, I was the first name called down to contestant Brow.
Speaker 5: It was crazy. It was like Junielle, come on, dude, and.
Speaker 3: Like I go down and it's like, you know, little
Speaker 3: stadium style kind of studio. So I rolled down. I'm
Speaker 3: in like contestant Row. This is crazy they call other people.
Speaker 3: I literally played every game. I was there the entire show.
Speaker 3: I couldn't get on stage. The very last chance to
Speaker 3: get on stage, everyone overbids, so we have to play
Speaker 3: the game again and then I win, and then I
Speaker 3: get on stage.
Speaker 5: And then I'm like, where's the person in the red jacket?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Really, I was gonna say, because thinking of that from
Speaker 1: that way, do they don't have accessibility for a stage? Right?
Speaker 1: If it's built up, there's a stage.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's built up, and it's literally just stairs. So
Speaker 3: I am looking around, like where's the person in the
Speaker 3: red jacket? They're behind me and it's like, oh, we
Speaker 3: got to go back up the ramp. We have to
Speaker 3: go all the way around and going through the backstage area,
Speaker 3: I see like Drew Carrey's like fancy little hydration station.
Speaker 3: It's just like a bottle of Perrier like in ice,
Speaker 3: like a champagne bottle. I was like, okay, fancy, And
Speaker 3: so then I get on stage, I like try to
Speaker 3: fistbal car.
Speaker 5: Awkward.
Speaker 3: He's being like truly just like kind of nice, just
Speaker 3: business as usual, no big deal. I play this game
Speaker 3: where it's like, uh, the announcers like you're playing for
Speaker 3: a treadmill and a walking sona like it was everyone
Speaker 3: was like, oh no, that was audience. Like everyone was
Speaker 3: like because the curtain opens and like this is what
Speaker 3: it is.
Speaker 5: And yeah, everyone was like why is.
Speaker 1: A well because all those things Okay, So if I
Speaker 1: could just say for a second, as a person who's
Speaker 1: had to produce daily television that and especially with shit
Speaker 1: like that, they're big prizes, their preset that stage rotates,
Speaker 1: doesn't it So like if like you know, the thing
Speaker 1: closes and it comes back up and it's like here's
Speaker 1: your new Chevy Tahoe or whatever, and then it closes
Speaker 1: and it comes back up and it's like a boat
Speaker 1: or whatever. So those things they don't have the control.
Speaker 1: But also you would think that they would like stop
Speaker 1: down for twenty seconds somehow put it together.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not a live you know, yeah, we got it.
Speaker 4: This is going to be embarrassing.
Speaker 5: I mean I was.
Speaker 3: The first name called. This was the very last game.
Speaker 3: Like the odds are like they just were not in
Speaker 3: my favor.
Speaker 2: All we have left, all we have left is this treadmill.
Speaker 2: Oh no, so.
Speaker 1: Wait sorry because when those you know, that show has
Speaker 1: been on since the Dawn of Man, So when those
Speaker 1: like things open or when the announce her says the prize,
Speaker 1: people automatically go crazy. And it could truly be like
Speaker 1: a side table, you know, as everyone's while there's those
Speaker 1: ones where it's like the work where you're like, oh
Speaker 1: that sucks and people are still going nuts.
Speaker 3: Yea.
Speaker 1: Could you feel people being like weed?
Speaker 3: It was like some it was like half like super
Speaker 3: excited and the other half like I'm concerned. Yeah, it
Speaker 3: was definitely. And like Wendy Starling's like standing up and.
Speaker 5: Like cheering and just.
Speaker 3: Excited because she's like this is a Hilary shit. And
Speaker 3: I'm looking at you know, because like I'm aware enough
Speaker 3: of like I understand the game is like the more
Speaker 3: excited you are, Like that's how it works. If everyone's
Speaker 3: just like hopped up on like cash and prizes, and
Speaker 3: so I'm like, oh wow, I'm like they look expensive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like you're gonna sell.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at it like, yeah, you know your job,
Speaker 1: Your job is to be the contestant, no matter.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just I'm excited and I'm grateful.
Speaker 5: I have gratitude for being here.
Speaker 2: Did they send the treadmill to your house?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: What did you do with it?
Speaker 5: It's like in a box still in my.
Speaker 3: Don't have it, okay, but like so yeah, so I
Speaker 3: won the treadmill.
Speaker 5: It was like insane.
Speaker 3: And the thing is like when it aired, it like
Speaker 3: went so viral that like Jimmy Kimmel asked me to
Speaker 3: be on Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 5: Live yep, and it was like what is happening? This
Speaker 5: is crazy.
Speaker 3: So I literally had a full segment where Jimmy Kimmel
Speaker 3: had me on talking about all of this, joking with me,
Speaker 3: and he like asked me to guess the price of
Speaker 3: peanut butter.
Speaker 5: I guessed wrong, but he was like, doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: You in a wheelchair accessible cruise with wheelchair accessible accommodations.
Speaker 5: And it was really cute. Are you that's so kind? Yeah?
Speaker 3: It was like really kind and funny, and it was like,
Speaker 3: you know, he got like he got that. I like,
Speaker 3: you know, I was making jokes about literally I took
Speaker 3: a screenshot of like my face when I saw.
Speaker 5: The prizes, just like a poor the big eyes.
Speaker 3: Just mouth of gape, and like tweeted it when you
Speaker 3: win a treadmill on the price is right, but don't
Speaker 3: have they?
Speaker 4: So now I remember seeing that photo of you with
Speaker 4: the with your.
Speaker 2: Name tag and everything, but I just didn't know the story.
Speaker 2: That's just so insane.
Speaker 3: But so yeah, no, so I still have the treadmill,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, I'll bring it back to Jimmy Kimmel
Speaker 3: Live when I when I do something that do something
Speaker 3: on purpose, yes, really funny.
Speaker 1: The first time you actually do is set on that show.
Speaker 1: I don't think do commics still do.
Speaker 3: Stand up on think they're still doing comedy there because
Speaker 3: he has like a club in Vegas now, But I
Speaker 3: don't think he's like really doing stand up.
Speaker 1: But I bet you some but he probably at Kimmel
Speaker 1: knew you, knew you did stand up or knew you
Speaker 1: and was like this happened, It's amazing, And she would
Speaker 1: be a really good talker to tell this story honest people.
Speaker 3: I mean no, like when I told them I did
Speaker 3: stand I was literally at that time I had been
Speaker 3: doing stand up for maybe six months. That was that
Speaker 3: was like part of it where it's like I don't
Speaker 3: even have like a clip I can throw up on
Speaker 3: the internet to.
Speaker 1: Be like I'm a stand up.
Speaker 3: I was like telling the production They're like, pre interview,
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm a stand up.
Speaker 5: They're like, that's adorable. We needed to be a real
Speaker 5: human being.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's genius. I had no idea. I assumed it
Speaker 1: was recently. Oh that's amazing.
Speaker 3: It was like literally, yeah, it was like my first
Speaker 3: year of stand up, which is like crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is unbelievable. I love that they booked you
Speaker 1: on that show.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was really wonderful.
Speaker 3: It was I mean, like honestly, looking back at its
Speaker 3: like I can't believe so much of it is like
Speaker 3: I just had no idea of like stakes in any
Speaker 3: of it, or I was like, I'm just having fun.
Speaker 1: This is really cool. Yes, that's so good.
Speaker 2: So when you're yeah, when you're on prisis right.
Speaker 4: You just you're there in the audience and there's always
Speaker 4: a chance for everyone to just be pulled up on
Speaker 4: the show.
Speaker 2: That's why people want to go right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean and there are people like I
Speaker 3: was in line with, like these old people who have
Speaker 3: like I've been here six times. Every time we come
Speaker 3: to La we come to the prices, right, it's like
Speaker 3: their mecca.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, it's serious, like because there's people. I think
Speaker 1: there's people who well, first of all, it truly is.
Speaker 1: I think they have a very I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know anything about the system through which they choose people,
Speaker 1: but I think it is fair enough that people like
Speaker 1: that know, it's like it's like a lottery, like anything goes. Sorry,
Speaker 1: this dog is being so crazy. Look at Oh my god,
Speaker 1: it's so adorable. He's the cutest. I got her two
Speaker 1: days ago. She's the sweetest dog.
Speaker 2: What is her name?
Speaker 1: Her name, her name's Blossom. Oh my god, bloss And
Speaker 1: she is really sweet. But she doesn't I think she
Speaker 1: doesn't like because we I just shut the door because
Speaker 1: my dad's visiting me, so he's in the other room,
Speaker 1: so I just shut the door. So she's kind of like,
Speaker 1: I've already been in here for twenty minutes now, I
Speaker 1: don't know what's going on, and she Frank is just
Speaker 1: my other dog's just totally asleep. And she yeah, she
Speaker 1: also for a little while was biting the cord to
Speaker 1: my headset and I was trying to open her mouth
Speaker 1: and it was like locked like a like a pit bull.
Speaker 1: But she's this tiny dog. Okay, anyway, sorry.
Speaker 2: Sorry, she'll get shot.
Speaker 3: The Blossom's gonna Blossom's gonna learn about the podcast game soon.
Speaker 5: She'll she'll get it to it.
Speaker 1: She needs to adapt to my schedule. But anyway, my
Speaker 1: point is I think a ton of people like it's
Speaker 1: that thing where yeah, you go, any this could anybody
Speaker 1: could win and you could get to that fucking final.
Speaker 1: I mean I would, even though I would I hate
Speaker 1: to like sit in an audience for hours at a time,
Speaker 1: there was nothing I would love more than to spin
Speaker 1: that big fucking wheel. Oh yeah, yeah, did you get
Speaker 1: to spin the big wheel?
Speaker 5: I got to spin the wheel.
Speaker 1: Wait can you talk about that for a little bit.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, Oh I totally for Oh my god,
Speaker 3: you brought up the wheel and I totally forgot so
Speaker 3: like in the like pre interview, you know, like where
Speaker 3: they interview everyone in line said like, yeah, I'm a
Speaker 3: valley girl.
Speaker 5: Whatever. He's like he came back, and he was like,
Speaker 5: what's your favorite game?
Speaker 3: And I kind of panic because it's like, I know
Speaker 3: what the price is, right is, but I don't know.
Speaker 4: Yes, when I said something from the seventies, the yodeling thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the little yodeling guy, yeah, names, and then I said,
Speaker 1: I just want to spin the wheel.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, Okay, good save, good save.
Speaker 5: That was my good save.
Speaker 3: So I got to spin the wheel and I spun
Speaker 3: it and it landed on like seventy five nice, and
Speaker 3: then I spun it again. I asked you, I was like,
Speaker 3: should I spin it again? And he's like, you're not
Speaker 3: allowed else. I'm like, I can't tell you what to do,
Speaker 3: and so I spun it again, and a bunch of
Speaker 3: like prices right super fans were like, why'd she spin again?
Speaker 3: It's like, because what are you gonna have another chance
Speaker 3: to spin the wheel?
Speaker 1: Like That's all I wanted to do was spin it.
Speaker 3: I was like, if I win this wheel and then
Speaker 3: I have to go to the next part, what am
Speaker 3: I going to do with a party boat?
Speaker 1: Like you know already don't.
Speaker 5: Know what to do with a treadmill.
Speaker 4: My biggest fear with that wheel, I always thought I
Speaker 4: would spin it if I was ever on the show,
Speaker 4: I'd spin it and stumble and fall and get caught
Speaker 4: under the wheel.
Speaker 2: I thought it would suck me in.
Speaker 1: It's very low, there's very low clearance underneath.
Speaker 5: I can't get sucked under that. I don't think you
Speaker 5: have that force.
Speaker 2: I mean, you don't know how excited I get.
Speaker 1: Is such a good the way they built that thing,
Speaker 1: Like you can tell it's easy and hard to spin
Speaker 1: it at the same time, So there's like a real
Speaker 1: kind of there's like a power to it where you're like,
Speaker 1: you do have to get the what do you call it,
Speaker 1: like the momentum going. But I can love that. You
Speaker 1: were just like, who cares? I want two spins as
Speaker 1: opposed to winning. It's just like the prize is spinning.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm on stage, I'm spinning the wheel.
Speaker 1: I'm won. It's better than a boat.
Speaker 2: It really is.
Speaker 4: Really Our friend Brendan Waltsch who I started stand up
Speaker 4: with in Austin, he had a birthday party and he
Speaker 4: used to open for Drew Carey.
Speaker 2: So the party was at Drew Carrey's.
Speaker 4: House and he he was very nice, but he had
Speaker 4: he's like a kid. He had trampolines. I'm like, do
Speaker 4: you have children that live here? There was an arcade,
Speaker 4: like he had a room at his house that was
Speaker 4: all pinball machines, and then he had a viewing room
Speaker 4: and he's like, we all have to watch this concert.
Speaker 4: And it was that famous concert. It's like the Beach
Speaker 4: Boys and the Rolling Stones, but everyone has to follow.
Speaker 4: James Brown just melting the audience's faces. I think there's
Speaker 4: it's in a the movie about the Rolling Stones where
Speaker 4: their manager like shut everything down so the crowd would
Speaker 4: settle down because the Rolling Stones had to. And he
Speaker 4: was just like, look at that, and see who was dancing.
Speaker 4: That's Terry Garr with the I Want Candy Girl. They
Speaker 4: were just in the background.
Speaker 2: Or he was so.
Speaker 4: Excited and about this that I was like, oh, you're
Speaker 4: like an innocent. It was like hanging out with an
Speaker 4: excited kid. And then he's like, do you want to
Speaker 4: see my bedroom? And it kind of inspired my bedroom.
Speaker 4: He has a room that was all grass and stained
Speaker 4: glass on the wall behind the bed. The ceiling was
Speaker 4: just painted clouds and there was flowers lining the base
Speaker 4: of the walls and you turn on the light and
Speaker 4: church music would.
Speaker 5: Play about that, and I like the chapel, Oh my god.
Speaker 4: And he was like, I was like, are you religious,
Speaker 4: and he's like, no, no, it's just it's weird, isn't it.
Speaker 4: It's kind of funny and weird. I'm like, yeah, that's
Speaker 4: funny and weird. And he's like, I don't know. I
Speaker 4: just thought i'd be funny to have a bedroom. I
Speaker 4: don't I don't really sleep in here every Yeah, it
Speaker 4: was just anyway, I'm just bragging that I went to
Speaker 4: a famous person's house house that was a humble brag.
Speaker 1: I have a Drew Carrey bragg. We all do. I'll
Speaker 1: do the trifecta Drew carry brags. So in the when
Speaker 1: I very first moved to LA, my first acting job,
Speaker 1: I was Ryan Style's girlfriend on The Drew Carrey Show.
Speaker 1: It was like my second acting job, and I was
Speaker 1: on I think two episodes, and I was at the
Speaker 1: time on fen Fen because I was trying to be
Speaker 1: skinny to be on TV, of course, and so at
Speaker 1: the time it was before Fenn came out, it was
Speaker 1: just Fen so it was like the only the upper
Speaker 1: and no downer.
Speaker 4: So I was you know, Karen, chances are you are
Speaker 4: owned a settlement. That's the only reason I know, friend Fenn,
Speaker 4: that's from the commercials.
Speaker 1: That say that's right. Yeah, I'm positive it's the reason
Speaker 1: I have seizures to this day.
Speaker 4: Oh but.
Speaker 1: I was on this crazy drug and I got this part,
Speaker 1: and it truly was like I was someone's girlfriend. So
Speaker 1: I would be there, you know, one scene, one maybe
Speaker 1: two scenes in an episode, and in the second, like
Speaker 1: I think I was supposed to be recurring kind of
Speaker 1: in general. But the second episode, I got to rewrite
Speaker 1: a script rewrite and it you know, the one that
Speaker 1: like comes at six in the morning or whatever. And
Speaker 1: I looked and like the part I had a bigger part,
Speaker 1: and then it got rewritten, and so I'd only had
Speaker 1: like one or two lines after the rewrite. So I
Speaker 1: just went on a walk and I didn't go to
Speaker 1: rehearsal because I was just like, I just was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't and it was almost like I can't explain
Speaker 1: the thinking it was. I mean, it was my addictive
Speaker 1: and self sabotage insanity and also having no experience where
Speaker 1: I was like, they probably don't need me. And I
Speaker 1: just went on like a really long, crazy, like fucking
Speaker 1: drugs walk.
Speaker 5: He don't need me.
Speaker 4: That sounds like something I would do. This doesn't seem
Speaker 4: like Karen behavior.
Speaker 1: And when I got back it was pre cell phones,
Speaker 1: I think. So when I got back, like my roommate
Speaker 1: was out the front door going, they're all calling you.
Speaker 1: And I basically got fired off that show for being
Speaker 1: a like just a dipshit on drugs. And I saw
Speaker 1: him at like some big I went to some taping
Speaker 1: of something, you know, with someone that was actually working
Speaker 1: at the time, and I ran into him and I
Speaker 1: was so embarrassed because it was like, oh, I just
Speaker 1: seemed like the most ungrateful asshole, like I kind of
Speaker 1: just didn't know what I was doing. And I saw
Speaker 1: him and he was like, I'm I'm so sorry, you
Speaker 1: know He's he basically apologized to me. I'm like, no, no,
Speaker 1: I fucked this up, like on the biggest scale.
Speaker 2: That's what you told him.
Speaker 1: No, no, No. I like I saw him and just
Speaker 1: kind of sheepishly said hi, and he immediately was like, hey,
Speaker 1: sorry to maybe we'll find another part for you later
Speaker 1: on or so. He was so nice where no one
Speaker 1: would ever be that. First of all, he could like
Speaker 1: ignore me and I would have been like yeah, that's
Speaker 1: probably normal, you know what I mean, Like, he's such
Speaker 1: a I think somewhere in his mind he made the
Speaker 1: decision like I am becoming incredibly successful, incredibly rich, incredibly powerful.
Speaker 1: I'm absolutely going to remain a good person.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I did a backflip on his trampoline because someone asked
Speaker 4: me to and I can do that, and I and
Speaker 4: he acted as if I had cured a disease.
Speaker 2: He was like, well, that was spectacular.
Speaker 4: He was clapping, and I think I think he made
Speaker 4: other people clap, like, let's give him what that.
Speaker 1: Deserves, a backflip.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I, you are nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's just he's the nicest person. Yeah, yeah, except
Speaker 1: for when he wouldn't give Danielle advice on the big wheel.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: Well they're not and like that's the thing they tell
Speaker 3: you is like Drew is not allowed to tell you
Speaker 3: about spinning, so don't ask him.
Speaker 5: And then I did, and.
Speaker 3: It was like you've been told, you've been warned about that.
Speaker 1: You should be like, excuse me, do you remember seven
Speaker 1: minutes ago when you fucking tried to give me a treadmill.
Speaker 4: I love that you still have it, and i'd like
Speaker 4: you to try and sell it just for a rainy day.
Speaker 1: You know, you should sell it as the treadmill from
Speaker 1: that Prices Rest episode so that you get like double
Speaker 1: triple the amount.
Speaker 2: Sign it that treadmill.
Speaker 3: That treadmill is safe for Jimmy Kimmel alive.
Speaker 5: When I got a show.
Speaker 3: Or something great to be like full Circle, we made it.
Speaker 1: That's a great book an idea. Or if yeah, you
Speaker 1: ever tape like because you haven't done an hour special, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: if you ever get that like Valhalla fucking you know
Speaker 1: TV special, that can just be the you know, sometimes
Speaker 1: people they have props where it looks like a weird
Speaker 1: little shack or something's behind them, or it's a chain
Speaker 1: link fence. I don't know why that's always the decor
Speaker 1: in stand up specials.
Speaker 5: Yours can just bet it's uncensored.
Speaker 1: But that's right, we're out in the alley doing comedy.
Speaker 2: You're about to tape a special though, right.
Speaker 3: I'm about to tape for Comedy Central there, yeah.
Speaker 2: The featuring thing. Yeah, yeah, that'll be fun.
Speaker 3: That's great, So I'm really excited. Yeah, that's on March
Speaker 3: first at the Lodge, and.
Speaker 4: You'll love it because it's a normal show. And you'll
Speaker 4: be on it with friends and it don't it won't
Speaker 4: be scary. I did that and it was It was
Speaker 4: not you think you're gonna be nervous for something like that,
Speaker 4: And I was just like, oh, this is just fun,
Speaker 4: as opposed to with TV audience and you got.
Speaker 2: Out in New York and you get all scared. I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, No, it's like real people who really like Yeah,
Speaker 5: so it'll be fun.
Speaker 1: That's congratulations. That's awesome, Thank you, thank you. Do you
Speaker 1: have any do you want to talk about? Just for laughs?
Speaker 1: New faces?
Speaker 3: I mean, sure, it was weird because it was in
Speaker 3: the pandemic and usually everyone goes to Montreal for JFL,
Speaker 3: but they did it virtual.
Speaker 1: Oh god, so you're exactly where you are right now,
Speaker 1: wearing exactly the same outfit.
Speaker 2: Truly.
Speaker 3: No, they like taped it at Dynasty Typewriter okay, oh,
Speaker 3: which is like okay, our green room was the alley
Speaker 3: because it's still like I just kind of kept being like, wait,
Speaker 3: we're still doing this, even though COVID like it was
Speaker 3: like everyone was trying to be like precautions, but also
Speaker 3: we are fully suspending belief in order to make this happen.
Speaker 1: And it was a was it a full audience? It
Speaker 1: seemed like a full audience.
Speaker 5: It was like.
Speaker 3: It was like, so Dynasty is like, you know, there's
Speaker 3: seats far stage right, far stage left, and then the center,
Speaker 3: but because they were taping everything, the stage right and
Speaker 3: stage left seats were all xd out to accommodate the camera,
Speaker 3: so it was just like the center. So in my mind,
Speaker 3: and also because like I had to prep for New Faces,
Speaker 3: I was like, I need to run my set somewhere,
Speaker 3: and Maria had been doing hours at Dynasty, and so
Speaker 3: she let me open for her. And so it's like
Speaker 3: I heard what like a full audience sounds like, and
Speaker 3: so I was like, oh, this isn't the sound of
Speaker 3: a fulla It was just like very it was just
Speaker 3: like it was weird and surreal and like but it
Speaker 3: was cool, like I'm thankful, like you know, I did it.
Speaker 3: It's like one of those things you hype something up
Speaker 3: in your mind so much like this is the goal,
Speaker 3: this is the dream.
Speaker 5: And because I started in LA, like.
Speaker 3: I knew what New Faces was right away, like my
Speaker 3: first year, it's like everyone's losing their mind about New Faces,
Speaker 3: and so I very much had that like I want
Speaker 3: to get to that point and then it's like, oh.
Speaker 1: Okay, we yeah, on the next thing.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 3: I know, it's it's like it's it's nice and it's great,
Speaker 3: but it's like, how's that going to help me get
Speaker 3: like the real things I want?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 1: But here, can I just say this. I watched I
Speaker 1: watched that said it was great.
Speaker 2: It did.
Speaker 1: It seemed like a completely full audience, and you seemed
Speaker 1: so comfortable. Your material is so funny and so good
Speaker 1: that like it there was no there were no seams
Speaker 1: for me. I completely thought you were in Montreal. I
Speaker 1: thought you were in one of those big fucking theaters,
Speaker 1: Like none of that showed at all, and that set
Speaker 1: was fucking rocking, like you really killed it.
Speaker 5: They really thank you. That means so much, Karen, like
Speaker 5: thank you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think of the alternative of going there, uh, staying
Speaker 4: up late with Chad Daniels, getting.
Speaker 2: Your your pocket picked by.
Speaker 4: An off duty French clown and showing up late and
Speaker 4: hungover and during your set forgetting your last joke because
Speaker 4: you were still drunk.
Speaker 2: I mean, there are.
Speaker 4: Different experiences, and you you took the very controlled, safe route,
Speaker 4: and I think that that sounds better than than what
Speaker 4: I do only eat it in Canada.
Speaker 2: No, I did not do well.
Speaker 1: No, Chris, you always do well and you can't hear
Speaker 1: the audience.
Speaker 5: Chris, Yeah, embrace that you do well.
Speaker 1: He can't know you.
Speaker 2: I do well. I do sometimes.
Speaker 4: That night I was doing well and then I forgot
Speaker 4: my joke and I said, do you guys ever get
Speaker 4: so drunk the night before an important set with Chad
Speaker 4: Daniels that you forget your last joke?
Speaker 2: Good night? That is exactly how I ended.
Speaker 4: And then my manager, David Aftis was standing right next
Speaker 4: to Chad Daniels and he's like, oh, cool, thanks, thanks. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's a fun place to be, but you know, it's not.
Speaker 4: It doesn't help in performing stand up well to be
Speaker 4: in a big, fun city with fun things to do
Speaker 4: till five in the morning's.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I appreciate that, you know, the pandemic has I
Speaker 3: you know, still kind of go off the rails every
Speaker 3: now and then, try to be a.
Speaker 5: Little more controlled about it.
Speaker 3: But the fact that I'm not out every night at
Speaker 3: shows and venues where alcohol is freely biled, right, it
Speaker 3: is helpful.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we real Yeah, by today standards, you and I
Speaker 4: had all night, or just because we.
Speaker 2: Stayed after a show and had a glass of wine.
Speaker 3: I was like, I.
Speaker 4: Remember in that moment we're both like, well, it's almost midnight,
Speaker 4: we better get home.
Speaker 2: To our apartments.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's probably good for us all.
Speaker 1: Maybe just as a little bit of a reset. Because also,
Speaker 1: I think, like you were saying at the beginning, I
Speaker 1: think there's an appreciation Like when I went to that
Speaker 1: Permanent Record show, Like I walked and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, a checkered floor. Like I was looking
Speaker 1: around like it was the most unbelievable place I've ever been.
Speaker 1: And granted it's a great bar, everyone should go there,
Speaker 1: but it was that feeling of like, oh, this is
Speaker 1: how you know, what we do is magical and we
Speaker 1: give people laughter and shit that like you just can't
Speaker 1: maintain for yourself when there's no pandemic. It's just too
Speaker 1: hard to keep it in perspective, I think.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, I feel like, yeah, there's like a shift
Speaker 3: where it's like I'm really grateful and thankful I get
Speaker 3: to perform and like I want to have fun doing it.
Speaker 3: Like before the pandemic, I definitely was very like shows, shows, shows,
Speaker 3: every night, all the time, yes to everything, just like
Speaker 3: you know, a bullet train. And it was exhausting, you know,
Speaker 3: but it was like I felt like I can't take
Speaker 3: a break because if I do, then I lose momentum
Speaker 3: and like you can never get that back, and so
Speaker 3: like you know, to go from that to just nothing
Speaker 3: and like mourning that.
Speaker 5: Just like having a complete Stockholm syndrome.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like I can't do shows.
Speaker 3: But now kind of it's like, oh, you know, I
Speaker 3: want to have like a healthier relationship with stand up
Speaker 3: and like do it at a pace that is healthy
Speaker 3: and that like fulfills me and like it's okay to
Speaker 3: say no, it's okay.
Speaker 5: To you know, just do what, like you just don't
Speaker 5: have to say yes to everything.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's been my thing every year, my resolution resolation
Speaker 4: I resolved to to you know, what I'm saying, my
Speaker 4: razzle dazzle is to say start saying no to shit,
Speaker 4: just you know, because I'm like that too.
Speaker 2: I'm like, where is this show on a roof? And Irvine?
Speaker 2: I'm there? Yeah why not?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Also, well, because it is such a high and because
Speaker 1: there's really truly no replacement for standing there alone doing
Speaker 1: a set and killing and having people adore you. Like
Speaker 1: that's the other piece of it where it's like then
Speaker 1: pandemic hits or whatever goes on in your life where
Speaker 1: you're just kind of like, why do I need this
Speaker 1: so vadly? Like you know, it's sometimes we don't stop
Speaker 1: because we don't want to reflect. But then it's like
Speaker 1: if you're forced to reflect, it's all not a bad thing,
Speaker 1: and it's also good for your comedy. Yeah right, yeah,
Speaker 1: nor your mouth is saying yes for you both have
Speaker 1: dead eyes trying to be philosophical. Well, do you have
Speaker 1: anything to plug, Danielle or anything like you want people
Speaker 1: to know about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can see me on the latest season of
Speaker 3: Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Speaker 1: Wow, amazing.
Speaker 3: I'm in the first two episodes, so watch that.
Speaker 5: It's a really great season. It's an arc.
Speaker 1: Two episodes is an arc.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really fun. Larry David is so, I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, just it's incredible.
Speaker 2: So you showed up, So you showed up to run
Speaker 2: your lines and everything. You didn't go on a.
Speaker 4: Walking care we like a roast each other.
Speaker 1: You didn't just decide to kind of lightly blow it
Speaker 1: off because you didn't think they needed you. Because you
Speaker 1: on so many drugs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's only a couple episodes.
Speaker 2: I'm going to check out this neighborhood.
Speaker 5: No fun, fun, just let's brow.
Speaker 2: That's great, congrats. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: And then I am also in a romantic comedy that's
Speaker 3: available on iTunes called Just Wipe. It stars Jodie Sweeten, Yes,
Speaker 3: and I play her best friend, and Alex MAPA's in it.
Speaker 5: It's very cute.
Speaker 1: Love Alec Mapa so much.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, so it's very cute. It's called Jess Swipe. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you can go on iTunes and find it.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: That's right. These are big acting gigs. Was that even
Speaker 2: your goal? Are you? Did you consider yourself an actor before?
Speaker 3: I well, like at the very beginning of twenty twenty,
Speaker 3: I did the CBS Showcase, so it's like the big
Speaker 3: sketch comedy live show, kind of like SNEL and so
Speaker 3: it was like I was trying to audit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, of course.
Speaker 3: And because of the pandemic and no stand up, I
Speaker 3: was like, well, I guess I'll just like really be
Speaker 3: serious about taking acting classes. So I've been doing this
Speaker 3: is okay, I'll say this, and this is like very extra,
Speaker 3: but I am very proud of myself.
Speaker 5: I made it.
Speaker 3: I got a producer session for the George Lopez pilot,
Speaker 3: but I did not. But I got the producer session,
Speaker 3: and that's pretty and I am happy.
Speaker 1: It's huge. So it's huge.
Speaker 5: I know that like to be there, like to get there.
Speaker 5: That's a win. So I'm happy.
Speaker 1: That's so great that you got basically to the final
Speaker 1: stage out of thousands of people. Thousands of people, that's huge.
Speaker 1: So it's really great.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: Fingers crossed for the next one.
Speaker 1: I just want to say this though, is the movie
Speaker 1: called Just Wipe, Karen.
Speaker 3: It was originally titled Will You Be My Quarantine?
Speaker 1: It had a rebrand okay plants, so.
Speaker 5: Now it's called just Swipe, which is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I thought it was still about quarantine. It's
Speaker 4: just like when you bring things home, you have to
Speaker 4: wipe them down if you web them down.
Speaker 5: Original title fabulous, so we couldn't get the right.
Speaker 1: I love fabuloso so much. It's smells so god. It's
Speaker 1: how you know things are actually clean. Yes, that's the
Speaker 1: only way. Well, this was delightful. It's great to see you.
Speaker 1: I feel like I haven't seen you in yours so
Speaker 1: it's nice to see your face.
Speaker 5: So good to see you guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you've been listening to Do You Need a Ride?
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Speaker 2: This has been an exactly right production.
Speaker 1: Produced by Casey O'Brien, mixed by Ryo.
Speaker 2: Boun Theme song by Karen Kilgareth.
Speaker 1: Artwork by Chris Fairbanks.
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