Lauren Lapkus

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Speaker 1 Dana, our guest today is Miss Lauren Lapkus, who is a good friend of mine, who you know from the Wrong Missy movie that we talk about on the show, who she was a tour de force.

Speaker 1 Very fun to be watching her and that and be a part of that movie. I remember reading it and saying, if this Missy is funny, we are there because it's already written funny.
She added so much to it.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 she's a real sweet, sweetheart and very quick on her feet. And I'm glad you got to finally meet her.

Speaker 3 She's, yeah, she's incredibly likable.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 3 she put the

Speaker 3 tour in DeForce on that. I mean, that movie, David can't say it, but we talk about it.
It was a smash. It got to over a billion minutes globally.
And we do talk about that.

Speaker 3 And she just walked out onto the stage of Netflix and crushed it.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 3 And of course, you were her trusty sidekick.

Speaker 1 Yes, Trusty sidekick slash

Speaker 1 date that went wrong. Dating gone wrong.
Movies are funny. Dating is funny already.
It's just a funny area to talk about when you're in comedy. And

Speaker 1 if you can put a movie together, just the wrong text, you're texting the wrong person.

Speaker 1 That turned into a funny premise, which they got a whole movie out of it. And she's also, she does a podcast, which we talk about where they watch movies and they

Speaker 1 watch movies they've never seen. Like I personally have never seen a Lion King, but old movies like Star Wars, like basic movies, Godfather, they watch it and they give their first glance,

Speaker 1 first, what do you call it? Blink

Speaker 2 blink, yeah, blink, because that's from the from the book by Malcolm Gloudwell called Blink.

Speaker 3 And it's like, trust your blink. If you're in an alley in the middle of the night in New York City and someone's walking toward you, what is your blink? And if it is to run, run.

Speaker 3 You know, it's the subconscious molecules in your brain pan tell you things that you don't normally receive in your bed pan. I it just sounded good to say brain pan.

Speaker 1 Brain pan, that sounds good.

Speaker 2 Is that a real thing?

Speaker 2 That's an figure of speech. Yeah, your brain is essentially in a skull pan.

Speaker 3 You could sizzle it up.

Speaker 2 I don't want to go there, but anyway,

Speaker 3 Lauren Lapkis is someone you want to go with right now.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I'm just into this dynamic. So, like, did you guys know each other before

Speaker 2 Wrong Missy?

Speaker 3 Just a little bit?

Speaker 7 No, we met.

Speaker 5 We met. Okay.

Speaker 2 We met in Hawaii, right?

Speaker 7 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 So then you do this movie Global Smash.

Speaker 1 That's what I say, Global Smash.

Speaker 2 Well, you know, wasn't it?

Speaker 3 It was like a billion minutes. You know how we did it?

Speaker 2 It was a billion minutes.

Speaker 1 I like saying Global Smash very casually. Did this thing, Global Smash?

Speaker 7 I did this thing. People watched it for a billion minutes.
They never turned it off.

Speaker 2 One person. Because

Speaker 3 It was a big, funny, silly comedy. And, you know, they don't make them like that as much.

Speaker 2 They really don't.

Speaker 4 That's a cigar.

Speaker 2 That's the problem. That's this metaphor of the cigar.

Speaker 3 But I find that in the

Speaker 3 kind of like war zone, it's like the army, not literally, save your letters, but how bonded you get when there's, you know, it's your 18th hour on the set.

Speaker 3 I mean, so you guys have a thing that you share. And so I'm just wondering what it's like to reconnect now for the first time since the premiere for Wrong Missing.

Speaker 7 It means so much to me.

Speaker 7 It's so fun. I love seeing you.

Speaker 7 I was such a fan of David forever. And so I literally auditioned for the movie because your name was listed as being in the movie.

Speaker 7 I mean, not that I wouldn't audition, but I was like, I have to audition for that.

Speaker 7 And so I was so excited when I got to work with you.

Speaker 1 Well, when they do this, was it, it wasn't quite COVID yet, right? It came out during COVID.

Speaker 7 It came out literally the first like month of COVID or something insane.

Speaker 1 Well, you, so what do you do? You self-tape or you go in in those days?

Speaker 7 No, I went in. That was nice.
I mean, that's the thing. I miss that so much because we don't ever go in anymore.

Speaker 7 But I went in and auditioned for Tyler, who directed it, and a room full of people that I didn't know. Grady was there, I think.
Oh, okay, good.

Speaker 7 Yeah. So, and I saw a bunch of people I knew there, which is always the fun, you know, part of going in these things.
And now we don't do that anymore.

Speaker 7 We just do it in a black hole in our house and send it out, and nobody watches it.

Speaker 1 It's very weird. And then your baby does the off-camera.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 No, but you know, when we were doing Rome Misty, when it came up, so I read it and I was like, okay,

Speaker 2 well,

Speaker 1 I think Adam was like, this is really funny, but I think you're more the straight man. Do you like it? I said, I want to do that.
I want to try that because it's kind of fun to be that.

Speaker 1 I always say like Ben Stiller and meet the parents or, you know,

Speaker 1 there's crazy shit going on.

Speaker 2 Reaction. Someone just react.

Speaker 1 Because it's, if you can get a laugh off her, then a reaction, then back to her, like you you can get double yeah and of course everyone's nervous because i'm like this is all riding on missy and uh i saw some stuff some tapes and then there were some names talked about like and adam was really about like let's get someone that's not just a total household name no offense to lauren but you know hey no just someone that's not like oh it's for sure isla fisher because that's kind of that type of character yes yeah who's great of course uh yeah

Speaker 1 then there was someone from ireland i saw lauren did i tell tell you that?

Speaker 2 No, I don't think so. There was someone from Ireland that had a really accent.

Speaker 7 That would be good, honestly.

Speaker 2 Adam sent it to me, and he goes, this one's pretty funny.

Speaker 5 And it was.

Speaker 1 And I was like, so wow, really? From Ireland? Like people are getting their tapes in. And

Speaker 1 at least something's working. Adam got it and was laughing at it.
And then

Speaker 1 they were like, oh, oh, nope, somebody just came in and did great. And

Speaker 1 it was you. And then we went out to Hawaii.
And, you know, the funny thing, the first thing I noticed,

Speaker 1 I mean, mean, you have to see The Wrong Missy to really get this. So everyone has to watch it real quick if they didn't.

Speaker 1 But the first day I knew Lauren was great because we had that, I think it was our actual first date in the movie.

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 1 We had the wrestler. Yeah.
What is it? Oh, Roman Reigns, who's turned off. He's such a sweetheart.

Speaker 2 Yeah, he's so nice.

Speaker 1 And he was at the bar. And then I come in.

Speaker 1 And then you're being an asshole to everyone. Why I even like you is the funniest part of the whole movie.

Speaker 2 That's true.

Speaker 7 Like, nothing good happens between us.

Speaker 2 The red flag store went out of business within the first two minutes of the movie.

Speaker 1 You're yelling, you're like, just talking to me. You're like, hey, sorry.

Speaker 2 Quit. I fucking me.

Speaker 1 She's like screaming to someone across the room. And I'm like, hey, hey, hey, don't yell at me.

Speaker 1 And then it's like, charming.

Speaker 3 What is your character?

Speaker 2 Yeah, you're like broken.

Speaker 3 You're playing yourself, basically.

Speaker 1 I'm myself. She's herself.
And then I try to sneak off into the bathroom and climb out the window. And then I think that was the first night because I fall out of the window and break my

Speaker 1 ankle or leg. And then I'm laying in a puddle.

Speaker 7 And that was the worst.

Speaker 1 We're shooting it. I'm like, God damn, I forgot.
I don't really like doing movies. It's so fucking hard.

Speaker 2 The first day?

Speaker 2 I'm lying.

Speaker 1 I'm doing a nice shoot on the first day. And then everyone's above me.

Speaker 1 You know, when you're laying on the ground, you're like, don't step on my head or something because no one's paying attention to me. I'm like, guys, first team.

Speaker 7 You are so funny, though, when you're upset, which is maybe a problem.

Speaker 2 That is a thing that we discovered. Well,

Speaker 2 I'm in a puddle

Speaker 2 and I'm like shaking.

Speaker 2 And they're like, hey, did they put a blanket on you?

Speaker 7 It was like freezing cold.

Speaker 2 I'm like, why is it cold?

Speaker 7 I'm in fucking like a dumb foot on that was like fake so I could snap it. Oh, yeah.
But there was something weird about that too.

Speaker 1 Like it was like, oh, I knew you had to take my fake legs, stuck up my jeans and my wang, and then she's like breaking it. I'm in a puddle, I'm freezing, and they're like, You're shaking on camera.

Speaker 2 I'm like, I cannot, I'm a

Speaker 2 person, and I'm freezing.

Speaker 2 I'm a person.

Speaker 3 Were you number one on the call sheet initially, and then they moved Lauren's name up to number one?

Speaker 2 No, it was Lauren at that point.

Speaker 7 They did that in post.

Speaker 1 She was number one. I got to the set that day, and I go, Hey, can I call a quick meeting? And then suddenly hear a typewriter

Speaker 1 white out.

Speaker 3 You could do a better typewriter sound effect than that.

Speaker 2 He's the king, but you all want

Speaker 3 from old Hollywood that at a given point, I think some old Hollywood guy said to me, You gotta see this girl.

Speaker 2 It's like that.

Speaker 4 She's like, Jim Carrey had a baby.

Speaker 2 She's fucking great, this girl. That's so nice.

Speaker 7 Yeah, it's like Jim Carrey had a baby just alone.

Speaker 2 Just sick with no one else.

Speaker 2 Oh,

Speaker 1 they had a baby with just some weird person.

Speaker 1 But yeah, so from that first day, when I think, you know, Lauren, I'll speak for her for the rest of the podcast.

Speaker 2 But that'd be great.

Speaker 1 She, if you're, if I'm right, Tyler, the director, would come in and say, like,

Speaker 2 this is like Tyler, the creator. Yeah, he comes in and goes, Tyler, the director? Is that how he's referred to that?

Speaker 1 That's his ramp directing name.

Speaker 1 and he'd go,

Speaker 1 Hey,

Speaker 1 I just want the audience to know that it is the director. And he'd go, Hey, Lauren, maybe on this one, a little drunker or something.
And then she'd do it, and I'd be sitting there going, She's good.

Speaker 1 And then he'd go, Maybe a little sexier, and then maybe a little, and then just take after take. Plus, we're doing wide, medium, close-up, over the shoulder.
So she's got to do like a thousand takes.

Speaker 1 I'm like, fuck, she's going to burn out. This is tough because she's ad-living her ass off.
We have a funny script she's doing. And then once you get that okay to do whatever, it's the best.

Speaker 1 She was really bringing it, though. I'm just saying, letting me talk because it's compliments.

Speaker 2 Nice, thank you. And so you probably will.
Thank you. I love it.

Speaker 7 No, I'm like, thank you so much. That was so nice.

Speaker 3 No, I mean, it was, it was, it was pretty phenomenal. I just wonder from your point of view, and you've done a lot of stuff, but you obviously are in a big Adam Sandler produced.

Speaker 3 You know, Happy Madison, you got David Spade and the whole thing. But from your point of view, when you started being directed by Tyler, the director?

Speaker 1 Yeah, Tyler, the creator.

Speaker 2 He's going to love this.

Speaker 1 Tyler Spindel.

Speaker 4 Tyler, I know. I met him

Speaker 2 in DC.

Speaker 3 Incredibly humble guy. So you're probably, when are you feeling really comfortable? Like, okay, I'm really, I'm getting to do stuff.
Are you, when are you feeling good? Like, you know, you're landing.

Speaker 1 You're not getting.

Speaker 3 Are you going back to the monitor and checking yourself?

Speaker 2 No, I don't think so.

Speaker 7 But I think on the first day, I felt good because the character is so big and I have to like go,

Speaker 7 you have to commit so hard.

Speaker 7 Once I was like yelling in the restaurant, like you were talking about, like I feel like that, I felt good because it's like, you have to just feel like I have, like, I was still nervous that day, but like the feeling of I have to just fully commit takes over.

Speaker 7 And then, so I feel like it made me feel confident because also Tyler is so open to, you know, adding your own humor and stuff, which was great.

Speaker 1 And it's getting laughs.

Speaker 7 Well, it's great. Yeah.
And getting laughs is amazing, of course. That feels so good.
And then you feel like, okay, it's working. People are.

Speaker 1 But when she gets a big laugh, I go, no more of that.

Speaker 7 He pinches me really hard

Speaker 1 under the table. And I go, hey, come on.

Speaker 2 There she gets a big laugh, Dane.

Speaker 1 And then I go, maybe, maybe I could say that on this take.

Speaker 2 And she's like, I'm sorry, what?

Speaker 3 Well, that was me walking talking with Dex during the production. You know, all I'd hear was like,

Speaker 3 I don't know, man.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 5 That's me. I'm like, I don't know.

Speaker 1 I mean, I got, no, but I remember about halfway through because Lauren was doing this every day and we were having a good time. And like dopey Johnny Farley's there and Swartzen is there.

Speaker 1 Jackie Sandler. It's totally fun.

Speaker 1 So it's definitely fun. It's hard to be in Hawaii, but I was finding ways to complain.

Speaker 3 Shockingly. Why is it hard to be in Hawaii?

Speaker 2 Well, I'm saying it's sarcastically. We're in Hawaii.

Speaker 3 We're doing a movie.

Speaker 1 Every dream situation. Yeah.
Yeah. But

Speaker 1 I see. But then toward like the middle, actually toward about two-thirds way through, I was looking at what we had left and I'm like, I think this might be funny because you're doing it out of order.

Speaker 1 But I go, we still have this threesome scene. We still have this.
We we still have her like falling off the cliff. I go, I think we are in pretty good shape, but you just never know.

Speaker 7 No, it's so scary making something and then you just have no idea how it'll turn out. I mean, I'm so happy it's funny.

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Speaker 1 But tell us about the time when

Speaker 2 you were wrapped in quotes and then

Speaker 1 they said, can you stop by?

Speaker 7 Well, because by the end, I felt pretty beat up. Like, I mean, because it was a lot of physical stuff and like waterboarding myself in the hot tub or whatever.

Speaker 2 And like, yeah, that was a hard day.

Speaker 2 Remember when you couldn't sink in the tub? No, I couldn't sink.

Speaker 7 I couldn't stay down.

Speaker 1 I walk in and she's supposed to be floating under the water, which is impossible to do, we found out. And she's coming up with that shit on her face for Hellstar.

Speaker 1 Every time I walk in, like, Lauren, we can see your nose.

Speaker 1 Lauren, you're not totally submerged.

Speaker 2 Oh, my God.

Speaker 5 She's like, well, I'm dying.

Speaker 7 I know.

Speaker 2 And I really hate being underwater, which I didn't tell anyone.

Speaker 7 I just was like, I'm fine. Like, I don't want to tell anyone because it makes me feel more pressure if people are aware that I don't like, you know what I mean? Like, it's just like the whole thing.

Speaker 7 Like, I'll just do it. I'll just suffer, you know, quietly.
But then I was like texting you, like, I'm crying.

Speaker 2 But it was hard.

Speaker 7 But yeah, at the end, I had to get in the ocean and the ocean almost drowned me. Like, I had to like be knocked over by the waves.
It was getting dangerous.

Speaker 7 I was being swept down, and there were two guys who would like catch me on either side to make sure I didn't like fly off into the distance.

Speaker 7 But, um, and I had like four stunt doubles who were amazing by the way.

Speaker 1 Remember when you're I walked back, I walked to the set my one half day I wasn't working and I go, let's go to Sandy Beach and watch her get pummeled by waves.

Speaker 1 And then they go, I get there, I go, you know, I used to go when I was in Hawaii, this is like a shore break, dangerous beach. And there's signs everywhere going, do not walk any further.

Speaker 1 And they're like, let's get Lauren in.

Speaker 7 They literally had like cones all over the beach that were like from the city. It wasn't like our cones.

Speaker 1 And then I see a stunt man walking, a stunt woman walking up going, I'm out. And then Yeah, I didn't.
What do you mean, I'm out? Or like, get somebody else.

Speaker 2 I've had they did have to tap out.

Speaker 7 I mean, because it was, they were doing it like a million times. And yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, they've been taking money. But yeah, no, but it was totally fine.
At the end,

Speaker 7 what you were talking about, though, is that like, I, so I'm like, I'm done. Finally, yes.
And then like, oh, you just have one more day, just some like quick little special effect thing.

Speaker 7 And then I get there and then on the way to the airport. Yeah, yeah.
They put me in a, in like a, it's like a circle and I'm holding on with like, I'm like holding on to all sides. Like I'm

Speaker 2 I don't know what the fuck.

Speaker 7 And then they started spinning it. And they were just getting off, like, they wanted to get my face when I'm flying off the cliff and going around in circles.

Speaker 7 And so they were spinning me in circles head over feet. So I would like make crazy faces.
And I was going to bark. I mean, it was crazy.

Speaker 7 And I was so grumpy because I was just like, I had, I was like celebrating being done. And then I had to get in this thing and get sick.

Speaker 1 Can you buzz by and just do like five seconds of you falling off the cliff and hitting the wall?

Speaker 2 And you're like, sure.

Speaker 2 And then it's like three and a half hours.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
I remember going, oh my God, because I would try to stick up for Lauren because I knew she wasn't going to say anything.

Speaker 1 And I'd be like, I think maybe

Speaker 1 we're pushing her too hard. But you know, listen, when all the dust settles,

Speaker 2 it was all worth it.

Speaker 7 It was all worth it. And then I didn't get to do anything because of the pandemic.
So, you know, I was happy it happened.

Speaker 1 I didn't even fucking celebrate. I let a

Speaker 2 flare in my house.

Speaker 2 I let a tea layer.

Speaker 3 Did it open to a million minutes and build from there?

Speaker 2 You know, Dana.

Speaker 3 Or was it, how did it, or it's, did it slowly get to the billion minutes?

Speaker 2 I think it was pretty fast to the billion.

Speaker 1 Well, they go, well, you know, you can tell because Scott Stuber, who is running the studio, called,

Speaker 1 because he called me on Father of the Year. And it's, you know, when those, when the guys, the high-ups call, it's, they don't call you with bad news.

Speaker 1 They call and go, hey, wrong Missy is already number one. And I was like, oh, because they just started putting one through 10 at the bottom.
Oh, yeah. So with Father of the Year, I didn't know.

Speaker 1 And he just goes, it's doing great. I go, it is?

Speaker 1 Is it started? And they go, yeah, it started this week.

Speaker 2 I go, oh, okay.

Speaker 1 Because Netflix, I didn't know. You know, there's no real

Speaker 1 slime or reason. And then with, with Rong Missy, and then Ted called and said, it looks like it'll be number one in the world by tomorrow.
I'm like, what?

Speaker 1 And then I get people sending me a photo on DMs, like number one in Italy, like from their TVs.

Speaker 5 And I'm like, holy shit, right?

Speaker 2 It's so cool.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that was fun. It was the best.

Speaker 3 So you didn't have to do a press tour because of COVID and so forth.

Speaker 5 I did.

Speaker 7 I did some stuff on Zoom, but I feel like my internet was like 1% working. And I'd be like, actor, character.
Like, I don't know that anything actually

Speaker 7 televised it.

Speaker 5 Spade.

Speaker 2 Wrong spade.

Speaker 2 What? You hate spade?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 How many minutes did you do in Thailand?

Speaker 2 I mean, what was the total amount?

Speaker 1 I don't even know what minutes are good, to be honest. I just

Speaker 3 saw some chart. You were top

Speaker 7 time or something. Right.
It was so simple.

Speaker 1 Minute-wise, we're all appreciate the minutes.

Speaker 7 We're all just looking for our next me and David Spade movie now.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Well, if it wasn't, okay, two questions.
One is, if it was a sequel to The Wrong Missy, what would be a pithy title rather than just Wrong Missy 2? Yeah. Like The Wronger Missy.

Speaker 3 Or if they put you to,

Speaker 3 I'm just thinking out loud because I used to be a studio executive. We put you to, we put these two buttes, these two cutie pies in another film.
They play different characters.

Speaker 7 Yeah, I think we should reverse roles and you just do Missy and then that's it.

Speaker 1 I think one of the

Speaker 1 ideas was

Speaker 2 we get married and then

Speaker 1 you've calmed down.

Speaker 1 And in the first scene, we're having sex and we and we realize that you're having a sex.

Speaker 3 Don't whisper where it's your sex.

Speaker 2 It's your

Speaker 2 twin sister who

Speaker 1 came came in. So now you're normal, but you're blind.

Speaker 2 Your sister says it's the same movie again.

Speaker 5 But I like that idea.

Speaker 7 But it's crap, but she's crazier. And then

Speaker 1 she puts a hex on me, and then I spin out and go act like you. And then that gets crazier shit.

Speaker 7 And then we should have like, we have like four quadruplets who are all like me, and they're all crazy.

Speaker 3 That's it. A twin, the wrong missies.

Speaker 5 And it's two.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 3 And one is very cool and one is even crazier. All right.
Let's do it.

Speaker 1 Or I cheat and it's the wrong mistress.

Speaker 1 And then she's crazy.

Speaker 7 But it was me and I had a mask on.

Speaker 2 Yeah, exactly. I mean, there's so many ways to start.
There's just so many.

Speaker 3 Or you work in a Vegas hotel in the summertime and you have a mister and you go around for

Speaker 2 a mister?

Speaker 3 Missed him by the pool.

Speaker 2 I'm just like,

Speaker 2 okay.

Speaker 3 We're going to start with MIS.

Speaker 7 It has to be familiar. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I feel, you know, because you give me a pitch and then I can tell my head how many million minutes it is.

Speaker 2 That'll be good.

Speaker 7 A million minutes.

Speaker 1 minutes yeah yeah i see instead of box office you got to think minutes yeah it's great okay you know all right that was that's about the missy

Speaker 2 chunk you know lauren

Speaker 7 does a show lauren called newcomers i do we thought this was if i was not doing this podcast i'd want to do a podcast like yeah it's so fun we so it's me and nicole beyer who's a comedian who's hilarious and she hosts nailed it if you've ever seen that cake disaster show um and we watch movies we've never seen that are very popular.

Speaker 7 So we did, we started with Star Wars because we had never seen any of it. And we've now seen all of it.
And then we did Lord of the Rings.

Speaker 2 Wait.

Speaker 1 And we've seen all of one Star Wars or all of the things?

Speaker 2 All of all of the things that can possibly be no.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 It's a lot.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Every movie, every Star Wars movie?

Speaker 7 Every movie. I think we did.

Speaker 7 Something like 20 episodes or something. There's a lot.

Speaker 1 Jesus Peasel.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 7 I know. I couldn't believe all the things.
But now I get every reference to Star Wars. So it's really nice because I, you know, doing improv forever, like guys just love to reference that shit.

Speaker 7 You just go along with it for years, and then now I understand.

Speaker 3 Okay, let me give you a pop quiz. Oh, God.

Speaker 3 Star Wars was this from? Yeah. Chewy

Speaker 2 get us out of here. Sorry.
I think that's my first one.

Speaker 2 I can't do it.

Speaker 2 Chewy, get us out of here. Chewy, get us out of here.
Yeah, that sounds awesome. I think it's where this one from.

Speaker 1 Ready? I love you. I know.

Speaker 7 First one.

Speaker 2 Oh, first one.

Speaker 2 What about where Chewie gets rabies?

Speaker 7 What about the one where the holiday special, where Chewie's dad is like jerking off to like a movie or something?

Speaker 2 I don't know if that's a real Star Wars. I don't know if I've seen that one.

Speaker 2 Laura. It's real.

Speaker 2 It's real. Chewy.

Speaker 7 There's like a grandpa, Chewy, and he's like watching something like titillating.

Speaker 2 And he's like,

Speaker 2 it's real.

Speaker 2 Oh, that's what I do. Jeez.
First comes chewing, then comes jerking off.

Speaker 1 Landed on me, no.

Speaker 2 The force not happy, yes. Yes.

Speaker 3 Yeah, he always adds the yes or no at the end.

Speaker 2 It's very funny. The force is strong, no.

Speaker 2 No, I know. Everyone did yoda.
Classic Yoda.

Speaker 4 Yeah, well, we just.

Speaker 7 I've never tried it.

Speaker 7 I think it's like. Clear.

Speaker 2 Go ahead.

Speaker 2 What does he talk about?

Speaker 2 Is no try only do.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 4 Is no try only do.

Speaker 7 Is no try. You know what? We did just watch a, we did a whole sports season, and we just watched Rocky.
And I like, I understood for the first time why everyone did Sylvester Stallone Impression.

Speaker 7 I always knew his voice was fun, but I wanted to do it all the time. Like I after watching that.
See?

Speaker 2 So fun.

Speaker 1 Not even anything like it.

Speaker 2 After all, the only movie.

Speaker 2 Okay, ready?

Speaker 4 The only movie I've ever seen.

Speaker 3 Okay, get that ready.

Speaker 5 Okay, better. The tongue was fun.

Speaker 3 Yeah, Apps after he's beaten up, right?

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 7 And like, he's screaming and she's one inch away from him. I'm like, she got it, man.

Speaker 1 Okay, I've got an under impression, ready? This is Rocky 2.

Speaker 1 Paulie's in jail.

Speaker 1 She walks in. Silence.
And he goes,

Speaker 2 Paulie.

Speaker 2 That's it. Paulie.

Speaker 1 He says it really under, because I think he was so, everyone's doing impression something. So he goes like.

Speaker 2 So now he's like, I actually don't talk like that anymore. Yeah.
Paulie. You know, I ain't.
hey, that's the worst wine ever. I was going to borrow anything.
I don't know why.

Speaker 1 Well, you bring that, you bring that turtle in here.

Speaker 2 I don't know what that

Speaker 2 is.

Speaker 7 He had two turtles named Cuff and Link.

Speaker 2 Cuff and Linkis.

Speaker 7 He kept them for years and years. I think they just died like the other day.
Like they actually were like 35 or 40.

Speaker 1 I saw them at Comic-Con.

Speaker 4 Cuff and Link are like,

Speaker 3 they were 50 when they did the movie.

Speaker 2 They died. They were selling shit at Comic-Con.

Speaker 3 Yeah, they're 150.

Speaker 3 You can buy a turd, a tortoise that might have known Abraham Lincoln right now today on

Speaker 1 eBay. Owned by Abraham Lincoln.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I'm Abraham Lincoln. I got me this here, too.

Speaker 1 Did you guys do The Godfather? That's a big dude movie.

Speaker 7 Did we do that? No, I've seen that. Oh, yeah.
I actually watched that, yeah.

Speaker 7 We did all of Scorsese movies for a season, which I had never seen like anything.

Speaker 7 Wow. And that was good.

Speaker 4 That was fun. Which one rocked your world of the Scorsese the most?

Speaker 7 Goodfellas. It was the best.
Oh, really? We loved it.

Speaker 7 Who do you think it should be?

Speaker 1 I was thinking of Serpico, Dogged Afternoon. Are those all?

Speaker 2 I haven't seen those.

Speaker 2 Am I like some kind of clown to amuse you?

Speaker 3 Just that scene alone

Speaker 3 could go forever.

Speaker 7 Yeah, Nicole wants to marry Joe Pesci right now.

Speaker 1 Oh, she loved him awful.

Speaker 2 Yeah, she loves him so much.

Speaker 7 From all the movies, she's like, I want to marry him now. I don't care.
But yeah.

Speaker 1 They were allowed to ad lib as long as you said, fuck.

Speaker 2 Is that true?

Speaker 1 I don't know. It seems like it.

Speaker 2 It feels like it.

Speaker 5 He's in the middle.

Speaker 1 Is that the, no, that's Cassina. We're in the desert.

Speaker 8 And Joe's like, where do you get off getting on fucking TV? You're on fucking TV every day.

Speaker 1 And he goes, you got to keep things quiet. He goes, me, you're on TV.

Speaker 8 You fucking.

Speaker 1 And they're just screaming at each other. Yeah.

Speaker 3 That's what a fun thing to do, just to see all these movies. I mean, Te Niro's underplayed, neurotic guy is so funny and good.

Speaker 7 It's very satisfying because it's all stuff that like is just so much in pop culture that I've just missed because I watch reality TV every day. And so to be like, oh, I'm watching.

Speaker 7 And then it always feels really good when you're watching a good movie. You're like, oh, it's so nice to watch like a good movie.

Speaker 7 I just watched so much Bachelor and stuff. And I'm like, oh, there's a story here.
Like, it's so calming.

Speaker 1 You watch 90 days.

Speaker 7 I do. I, you know, I was really into 90 Day for a while.
I had to pull back. I only have so much time, you know, but if somebody's been off.

Speaker 3 What's the one that you watch that you hated?

Speaker 2 Movies you hate most of them?

Speaker 4 Oh, we need a we need a trender.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah, no, we yeah, you want to put something on Instagram.

Speaker 7 We don't like everything, but we try to see the good in things because people, you know, get defensive.

Speaker 2 I love them so much. Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 7 So even, you know, The Irishman, which I knew was like a million hours long, I actually liked it. It was just really long.
But, you know, so we try to find things to say that.

Speaker 1 Everyone's good in it. So you go, it's scores a day and it can't be horrible.

Speaker 7 Of course, it's great acting.

Speaker 7 So, you know, but I think the funny thing with that was like the de-aging that they did, like all that CGI where then like Robert De Niro or Joe Pesci was like calling Robert De Niro kid for like half the movie.

Speaker 1 I do that on my Instagram.

Speaker 2 You know, when you look at that, you just.

Speaker 3 Would any of you ever, like under nervous circumstances, get in the front seat of a, of like an Oldsmobile with a guy behind you. You know, get in the front seat.

Speaker 5 I'll sit in the back. Oh, yeah, get in the front seat.

Speaker 2 So I can kill you.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it's always a wire around the neck.

Speaker 2 The wire is not a ready to go.

Speaker 3 Are they surprised when the wire is coming over their head, going back to their

Speaker 5 what is it?

Speaker 1 Is it goodfellows where they take Pesci into a room? No, they take him out and bury him in that.

Speaker 7 Oh my god, that's the saddest part when they, when he walks in the room, he's with his brother, he doesn't realize it's happening.

Speaker 7 Oh, yeah, yeah, he, and then there's like a sound like, oh, or something, and then he gets shot, and you're like, oh, so sad.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 7 Have you, just because you were talking about getting in the front seat, have you seen those Waymo cars that are with no drivers? Have you talked about this?

Speaker 2 No, but I'm scared of them.

Speaker 2 It's so creepy.

Speaker 7 Would you get in one?

Speaker 3 I know people who have gotten in San Francisco and they're very nervous for the first few blocks and then you get kind of used to it. But I'm not in a hurry to get into one.

Speaker 7 I know. It seems weird, but then sometimes I think it's safer than like a random guy on Uber.
I'm like, well, it's just nobody.

Speaker 1 It's harder to get raped

Speaker 1 by women. I couldn't.

Speaker 1 I saw one where they say, here's a carless car, whatever it is, driverless car, and it goes up and people are in the back, and then they floor it, and it floors itself and hits a car in front of them.

Speaker 2 I'm like, oh my God.

Speaker 1 Oh, I don't want to hear about the glitches.

Speaker 3 No, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 It's not supposed to do that. Well, you know, no shit.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 3 It will all be driverless cars very soon.

Speaker 2 Probably.

Speaker 3 10 years.

Speaker 2 Oh,

Speaker 3 good lord.

Speaker 1 No one's not going to like that.

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Speaker 3 Listen, I'm going to ask you, have you seen Three Days of the Condor with Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway?

Speaker 2 What is that?

Speaker 3 Put it on your list.

Speaker 7 All right. We got to do a whole Faye Dunaway season now.

Speaker 4 Probably.

Speaker 1 Do a Robert Redford season because he's a stud.

Speaker 3 Yeah. If you take Redford, you could go from Butch Casting a Sundance killer.
The way we were with Streisand, Three Days of the Condor, Max Van Cito was also in that. Sidney Pollock directing.

Speaker 3 All the President's Men is also surprisingly great.

Speaker 3 And, you know,

Speaker 3 we'll just start with those.

Speaker 7 I think you said about 10 movies that I should do. So I'll just start.

Speaker 3 Well, have you seen Alien?

Speaker 7 I have seen Alien.

Speaker 2 Yes. Okay.

Speaker 1 That's awesome. I just saw Alien Romulus.

Speaker 1 And I liked it the first time when it was called Alien.

Speaker 2 It's the exact same.

Speaker 1 They go up.

Speaker 1 some people come back and they go we're gonna go on this planet we got to grab some stuff and I'm like there's gonna be aliens on they go they're all gone don't even worry about it they get there and there's the eggs I'm like this is exact exact

Speaker 3 exact but way more cringy when she gives birth to the alien and it's half human and half alien

Speaker 2 and it's no

Speaker 4 don't see it it's 10 feet tall and then it's going back over the mother was it trying to have sex are you talking about

Speaker 2 disgusting Yes.

Speaker 2 That's not like,

Speaker 1 I think I tapped out by this

Speaker 3 too much gooey eggs.

Speaker 1 Oh, it's gross.

Speaker 7 That's sick.

Speaker 1 Lauren, I have a real question.

Speaker 2 All right.

Speaker 1 What is the haunting? And tell me about it right now.

Speaker 7 Haunting is a podcast that I host where I play a dead influencer.

Speaker 2 Of course, you do.

Speaker 7 Right.

Speaker 7 Named Teresa, who is trapped in between heaven and hell because she hasn't gotten verified.

Speaker 7 So she

Speaker 7 is trying to get verified. And so on each episode, you hear about my life as a dead influencer and my current struggles.
And then you hear real stories from people calling in with ghost stories.

Speaker 7 So it's like

Speaker 7 my part is scripted and then the other part is unscripted. And it's real ghost stories that are very chilling.

Speaker 2 Oh, ghost stories are good.

Speaker 1 Dana has one, but yeah. Do you have one?

Speaker 2 Tell me a ghost story.

Speaker 7 Tell me a ghost story.

Speaker 3 This is pretty quick. San Yosidro Ranch with my wife.
Never had any encounters. So I just

Speaker 3 feel like I awaken and I have this weight on me, you know, nightmare, like a horse on me. I didn't think horse.
I didn't know that was relatable.

Speaker 3 And it was just holding me down. My wife's asleep and it felt not good.
But I

Speaker 3 got up and I thought, okay, that's a waking dream state.

Speaker 2 Okay.

Speaker 3 Didn't happen. Use the restroom, come back, feel like I'm as awake as I am now, get back in bed, and then it comes back.
And I'm totally, this is not, in my mind, this is real.

Speaker 3 And it's, then it's like pounding on me. It's like springing on me and finally lets me go.
And then I just turned to my wife, five-star hotel, middle of the night. We got to go.
And she said, okay.

Speaker 2 Oh, I love that. She's so supportive.

Speaker 3 Pretty good. Pretty good wife.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 Do you ever think I taught that after that?

Speaker 1 That's so scary. God dang.

Speaker 3 No, I've had another one where in the house, God, why does it? Why is everyone still sleeping?

Speaker 3 There was a boom box in another room, and it sounded like, and I didn't know about white noise, but it sounded like it was between channels and it was really loud. Like,

Speaker 1 I go, why?

Speaker 2 God, no one hears this. I hate it.
So I get up so much.

Speaker 3 I get up, I go into the room, and then it stops.

Speaker 2 No,

Speaker 2 I hate this.

Speaker 7 That's scary.

Speaker 3 So those are my two, but I'm not as nervous about it. I did actually

Speaker 3 have,

Speaker 3 I saw an aberration in my room in the hotel in New York recently.

Speaker 7 You're having a lot of these. This is like, you have like a bunch of.

Speaker 3 Well, these are my greatest hits.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 This is span. This is over his 90 years.

Speaker 3 Well, can I ask you, have you had any sightings or anything?

Speaker 7 Well, we have one story in my family that's kind of crazy that

Speaker 7 we, when I was a kid, we got a voice or an answering machine message on the you know answering machine you press play and it was it's it was a collect call and it said you have a collect call from grandpa joe it literally was grandpa joe which was my great my great grandpa who had passed and you could hear a bar behind he worked he owned a bar so you could hear like glasses and like things like it was a bar and my mom and my aunt I remember this so clearly.

Speaker 7 I was like eight or something. And they were like screaming and like, like, oh my God, like freaking out.
It was the craziest thing.

Speaker 7 i mean i i don't know but it was was it ever explained it was never explained and maybe it was someone in my family pranking but we have we you know we have like

Speaker 7 we when you say something's not you know if you're not lying we say we say seti troitza which means i'm not lying 100 i swear to god and so it's like

Speaker 1 no one ever said it was a prank so i don't know well wow it's called the haunting uh we have to let lauren go now which uh i like it talked to her forever um i know uh haunting Where do you get that?

Speaker 2 Where do you see it?

Speaker 1 Where do you hear it?

Speaker 7 Where do you see it? You get it at iHeartRadio or iHeartPodcast app or wherever you get your podcast. It comes out every Tuesday.

Speaker 7 It's really fun. I love talking to you guys.
I'm so excited I got to meet you, Dana. I'm like, I really wish I could talk much longer because I'm such a fan of yours.
I always have been.

Speaker 7 And I'm just so happy I got to meet you.

Speaker 3 It's such a pleasure. I mean, just keep on doing whatever you're doing.
Thank you. Incredibly talented.
Thank you so much.

Speaker 3 I'll just say it's super likable.

Speaker 2 Oh, thanks.

Speaker 7 I'll take that.

Speaker 2 I miss you, Laura.

Speaker 2 I miss you too. I hope we get to see each other soon.

Speaker 1 We will do a sequel.

Speaker 2 All right. We have to.

Speaker 1 Okay, bye, guys. Bye Dana.
I miss you too.

Speaker 3 Thank you.

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Speaker 1 Fly in the Wall is executive produced by Dana Carvey and David Spade, Jenna Weiss-Berman of Odyssey, and Heather Santoro. The show's lead producer is Greg Holtzman.