Lauren Lapkus

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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 very fun to be uh watching her in 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.
And she was, she's a real sweet, sweetheart and very quick on her feet. And I'm glad you got to finally meet her.
She's yeah. She's incredibly likable.
and she put the

tour in force. I mean, that movie, David can't say it, but we talk about it was a smash.
It got to over a billion minutes globally. And we do talk about that.
And she just walked out onto the stage of Netflix and crushed it. Yeah.
Of course, you were her trusty sidekick. Yes.
Trusty sidekick slash 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 if you can put a movie together, just the wrong text, you're texting the wrong person. That turned into a funny premise, which they got a whole movie out of it.
And she's also, she has a podcast, which we talk about where they watch movies and they, they watch movies they've never seen. Like I personally have never seen the Lion King, but old movies, like Star Wars, like basic movies, Godfather, they watch it.
They give their first glance. First, what do you call it? Blink.
Blink. Yeah, blink.
Because that's from the book by Malcolm Gladwell called Blink. 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. You know, it's the subconscious molecules in your brain pan tell you things that you don't normally receive.
In your bed pan? It just sounded good to say brain pan. Brain pan, that sounds good.
Is that a real thing? That's an figure of speech, yeah. Your brain is essentially in a skull pan.
You could sizzle it up. I don't want to go there.
But anyway, Lauren Lapkus is someone you want to go with right now. I'm just into this dynamic.
So, like, did you guys know each other before Wrong Missy? Just a little bit? No, we met in Hawaii, right? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So then you do this movie, Global Smash. That's what I say, Global Smash.
Well, you know, wasn't it? It was like a billion minutes, you know? It was a billion minutes, yeah. I like saying Global Smash very casually.
Did this thing, Global Smash. I did this thing.
People watched it for a billion minutes. They never turned it off.
One person. Because it was a big, funny, silly comedy.
And they don't make them like that as much. They really don't.
That's a cigar. That's the problem.
That's this metaphorical cigar. But I find that in the 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.
I mean, so you guys are, 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.
It means so much to me. It means everything.
It's so fun. I love seeing you.
I'm you. I was such a fan of David forever.
And so I literally auditioned for the movie because your name was listed as being in a movie. I mean, not that I wouldn't audition, but I was like, I have to audition for that.
And so I was so excited when I got to work with you. Well, when they do this, it wasn't quite COVID yet, right? It came out during COVID.
It came out literally the first like month of COVID or something insane well you so what do you do you self-tape or you go in those days 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 but um 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 um 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 and we just do it in a black hole in our house and send it out and nobody watches it it's very weird your baby does the off camera yeah no but you know when we were doing wrong missy when it came up so i read it and i was like okay well i think adam was like this is really funny but i think you're more the straight man do you like i said i want to do that i want to try that because it's kind of fun to be that i always say like ben stiller and meet the parents or you know so funny there's crazy shit going on react someone just react because it's if you can get a laugh off her then a reaction then back to her like 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 No offense to Lauren, but you know, just someone that's not like, oh, it's for sure Isla Fisher because that's kind of that type of character. Yes.
Yeah. It was great, of course.
Yeah. Then there was someone from Ireland I saw, Lauren.
Did I tell you that? No, I don't think so. There was someone from Ireland that had a thick accent.
That would be good, honestly. Adam sent it to me and he goes, this one pretty funny and it was and i was like so wow really from ireland like people are getting their tapes in and uh at least something's working adam got it and was laughing at it and then uh they were like oh nope somebody just came in and did great and uh and it was you and then we went out to hawaii and you know the funny thing the first thing i noticed i mean you have to see the wrong miss you two really get this so everyone has to watch it real quick if they didn't but the first day i knew lauren was great because we had that i think it was our actual first date in the movie yeah we had the wrestler yeah what is it oh roman reigns who's turned out to be such a sweetheart yeah he's so nice and he was at the bar and then i come in and then you're being an asshole to everyone why i even like you is the funniest part of the whole movie it's so true like nothing good happens between us the red flag store went out of business within the first two minutes of the movie.
You're yelling. You're like, just talking to me.

You're like, hey, sorry.

Quit eye-fucking me.

She's like screaming to someone across the room.

And I'm like, hey, hey, hey, don't yell at me.

And then it's like charming to me.

Yeah, what is your character?

Yeah, you're like broken.

You're playing yourself, basically.

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 my ankle or leg and then i'm laying in a puddle and that was the worst we're shooting it i'm like god damn i forgot i don't really like doing movies it's fucking hard. The first day.
I'm doing a night shoot on the first day. And then everyone's above me.
You know, 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. You are so funny though, when you're upset, which is maybe a problem.
That is a thing we've discovered. Well, I'm in a puddle day and i'm like shaking and she and uh and they're like hey did they put a blanket on you shaking camera like freezing cold i'm like why is it cold i'm in fucking no one told me foot on that was like fake so i could snap it oh yeah there was something weird about that too like it was like attached to 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 i'm like i can't not i'm a person and i'm freezing i'm a person were you number one on the call sheet initially and then they moved Lauren's name up to number one No it was Lauren They did that in post Retroactively She was number one I got to the set that day And I go hey can I call a quick meeting And then suddenly you hear a typewriter White out You could do better typewriter sound effect than that.
I bet. King.
King. He's the king.
From old Hollywood, at a given point, I think some old Hollywood guy said to me, you gotta see this girl. It's like that.
She's like a Jim Carrey had a baby. She's fucking great, this girl.
That's so nice. Yeah, it's like Jim Carrey had a baby just's fucking great this girl that's so nice yeah it's like jim carrie had a baby just alone just sits up with no one else oh had a baby with just some weird person but yeah so from that first day when i think you know lauren i'll speak for her for the rest of podcast but that Yeah, that'd be great.
She, if I'm right, Tyler, the director, would come in and say like. Tyler, that sounds like a rapper.
This is like Tyler, the creator. Yeah, he comes in and goes.
Tyler, the director? Is that what you refer to? That's his rap directing name. Yeah.
And he'd go, hey, 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, fuck, she's good.

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 1,000 takes.

I'm like, fuck, she's going to burn out.

This is tough because she's ad-libbing 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 she was really bringing it though i'm just saying letting me talk because it's compliments thank you i love it no i'm like thank you so much that's so nice no i mean it was it was it's pretty phenomenal i just wonder from your point of view and you've done a lot of stuff but you obviously you're in a big adam sandler produce show happy madison you got david spade and the whole whole thing but from your point of view when you started being directed by tyler the director yeah yeah tyler the creator he's gonna love this tyler spindle tyler i know i i met him i think in dc 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 you're not getting fired are you going back to the monitor and checking yourself no i don't think so but i think on the first day i felt good because i because the character's so big and i have to like go i you have to commit so hard.
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 I was still nervous that day. But like the feeling of I have to just fully commit takes over.
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. And it's getting laughs.
Well, yeah. And getting laughs is amazing.
Of course, that feels so good. And then you feel like, okay, it's working.
But when she gets a big laugh, I go, no more of that. He pinches me really hard under the table.
And I go, hey, come on. There she gets a big laugh, Dane.
And then I go, maybe, maybe I could say that on this take and she's like i'm sorry what well that was me uh walkie talking with dex during the production you know all i'd hear was like i don't know man oh yeah that's me i'm like i don't know i mean i know 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. Jackie Sandler.
It's totally fun. So it's, it's definitely fun.
It's hard to be in Hawaii, but I was finding ways to complain. Shockingly.
Why is it hard to be in Hawaii? Well, I'm saying it's a sarcastically we're in Hawaii. We're doing a movie every, every dream situation But then toward 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.

But I go, we still have this threesome scene.

We still have her falling off the cliff.

I go, I think we are in pretty good shape.

But you just never know.

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.
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But tell us about the time when you were wrapped in quotes and then oh my god they said can you stop by well because at the by the end i felt pretty beat up like i mean because it was a lot of physical stuff and i like waterboarding myself in the hot tub or whatever and like yeah that was a hard day remember when you couldn't sink in the tub no i couldn't stay i couldn't I couldn't stay i was like gonna cry i was supposed to be floating under the water it's not which is impossible to do we found out and she's coming up with that shit on her face for hell's story every time i walk in like lauren we can see your nose lauren you're not totally submerged oh my god she's like well i'm dying i know and i really hate being underwater which i didn't tell anyone 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 like i'll just do i'll just suffer you know quietly but then i was like texting you like i'm crying um but it was hard but yeah at the end again 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 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 but um and i had like four stunt doubles who were amazing by the way remember i walked back i walked this at my one half day i wasn't working and i go let's go to sandy beach and watch her get pummeled by waves and then they go i get there i 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 of where going, do not walk any further. And they're like, let's get Lauren in.
It literally had like cones all over the beach. They were like, from the city.
It wasn't like our cones. And then I see a stunt man, a stunt woman walking up going, I'm out.
And they're like, what do you mean I'm out? Or like, get somebody've had they did have to tap out i mean because it was they were doing like a million times and yeah yeah yeah you know they can take it but yeah no but it was totally fine at the end um what you were talking about though is that like i saw i'm like i'm done finally yes and they're like oh you just have one more day uh just some like quick little special effect thing and then i get there and on the way to in a, in like a, it's like a circle and I'm holding on with like, I'm holding on to all sides. Like I don't know what the fuck.
And then they started spinning it and they were just getting up. Like they wanted to get my face when I'm flying off the cliff and going around in circles.
And so they were spinning me in circles, head over feet. So I would like make crazy faces and I was going to barf.
I mean, it was crazy. And I was so grumpy because I was just like, I was like celebrating being done.
And then I had to get in this thing and get sick. Can you buzz by and just do like five seconds of you falling off the cliff and hitting the wall? And you're like, sure.
And then it's like three and a half hours later. Yeah.
Yeah. I remember going,

Oh my God.

Cause I would try to stick up for Lauren cause I knew she wasn't going to

say anything.

And I'd be like,

I think maybe we're pushing her too hard,

but you know,

listen,

when all the dust settles,

it was all worth it.

It was all worth it.

And then I didn't get to do anything cause of the pandemic.

So,

you know,

I was happy it happened.

I didn't even fucking celebrate.

I lit a,

I know.

I lit a,

I lit a tea light. Did it, did it open to a million minutes and build from there? You know, Dana.
Or was it, how did it, or did it slowly get to the billion minutes? I think it was pretty fast to the billion minutes. Well, they go, well, you know, you can tell because Scott Stuber, who was running the studio, called, because he called me on

Father of the Year.

And it's, you know, when the guys, the high ups call, they don't call you with bad news.

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.

And he just goes, it's doing great.

I go, it is?

Is it started?

And they go, yeah, it started this week. I go, oh, okay.
It started. Because oh okay because of netflix i didn't know you know there's no weird just i'm a reason and then with with wrong missy and then ted called and said it looks like it'll be number one in the world by tomorrow i'm like what and then i get people sending me a photo on dms like number one in italy like from their tvs And I'm like, holy shit.
So cool.

It's so cool.

It was fun.

It was the best.

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

I did some stuff on zoom,

but I feel like my internet was like 1% working.

And I'd be like,

like,

I don't know that like anything actually televised.

Spade.

Wrong. Spade.
What what you hate spade yeah how many minutes did you do in thailand i mean what was the total i don't even know what minutes are good to be honest i just don't know what's good that's some i i saw some chart you were top it was special it was a special time or something right it was something that uh minute wise we're all appreciate the minutes we're all just looking for our next me and david spade movie now yeah well if it wasn't okay i two questions one is if it was a sequel to the wrong missy what would be a pithy title rather than just wrong missy two yeah like The wronger Missy. if they put you two i'm just thinking out loud because i used to be a studio executive we put you to we put these two butes these two cutie pies in another film they play different characters yeah i think we should reverse roles and you just do missy and then that's it i think one of the the wrong mister one of the uh ideas was we get married and then oh yeah you've calmed down and in the first scene we're having sex and we and we realize that you don't whisper we're having sex twin sister who came it came in so now now you're normal but you're playing your sister so it's the same movie again but I like that idea but she's crazier she puts a hex on me and then I spin out and go act like you and then that gets crazier and then we should have like we have like four quadruplets who are all like me and they're all crazy that's it it.
A twin. The wrong missies.
And it's two. And one is very cool and one is even crazier.
All right. Let's do it.
Or I cheat and it's the wrong mistress. And then she's crazy.
But it was me and I had a mask on. Yeah, exactly.
I mean, there's so many ways to go. There's just so much to do.
Or you work at a Vegas hotel in the summertime and you have a mister and you go around the wrong mister missed them by the pool okay words to start with m-i-s people want it has to be familiar yeah i feel you know because you give me a pitch and then i can tell my head how many million minutes it is instead of a million 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 chunk you know lauren 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 byer 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 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 wait and we've seen all of one star wars or all of all of the things that can possibly be no yeah it's a lot yeah every movie every star wars movie every movie i think we did something like 20 episodes or something there's a lot jeez oh peezo yeah 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 you just go along with it for years and then now I understand okay let me give you a pop quiz oh god oh god Star Wars was this from yeah Chewie get us out of here I think that's from the first one I can't too Chewie get us out of here yeah that sounds like the first one. I can't too.
Chewy, get us out of here. Chewy, get us out of here.
Yeah, that sounds like the first one. Where's this one from? Ready? I love you.
I know. First one.
Oh, good one. What about where Chewy gets rabies? What about the one where, the holiday special where Chewy's dad is like jerking off to like a movie or something? I don't know if that's a real Star Wars.
I don't know if I've seen that one. Lauren.
It's real. Chewy jerks off.
There's like a grandpa Chewy and he's like watching something like titillating and he's like, like it's real. That's what I do.
Jeez. First comes Chewy and then comes jerking off.
Landed on me, no. The Force not happy, yes.
Yes. Yeah, he always adds the yes or no at the end.
It's very funny how they wrote Yoda. Force is strong, no.
I know. Everyone did Yoda for a while.
Classic Yoda. Yeah, well, we just- Do you do a Yoda, Lauren? Yes.
I've never tried it. I think it's like- Clear.
Go ahead. What does he talk like like is no try only do oh yeah is no try only do you know what we did just watch us 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 i always knew his voice was like fun but i wanted to do it all the time Like I After watching that Like Let's hear it So fun Adrian Not even anything like it After all that No I can do it I can do it I can do it I can do it Okay ready The only movie I've ever seen Okay get that ready Adrian That's it Okay better The tone was fine That's the AFSAC He's beating up right Yeah Adrian He's like Adrian And like, he's screaming and she's one inch away from him.
I'm like, she got it, man. Okay, I've got an under-impression.
Ready? This is Rocky II. Pauly's in jail.
And he walks in. Silence.
And he goes, Pauly. That's it.
Pauly. He says it really under.
Because I think he was so, everyone's doing impressions's doing impressions So now he's like I actually don't talk like that anymore Yeah Pauly You know I I'm too smart or anything I don't know what it is Well you bring that You bring that turtle in here I don't know what He Is it a turtle? He had two two turtles named Cuff and Link Cuff and Link he kept them for years and years I think they just died like the other day like they actually were like 35 or 40 I saw them at Comic Con Cuff and Link are like they were they were 50 when they did the movie they died they were signing shit at Comic Con they got 150 there's to 150. You can buy a tortoise that might have known Abraham Lincoln right now, today on eBay.
Owned by Abraham Lincoln. Yeah, I'm Abraham Lincoln.
I got me this here turtle. Did you guys do The Godfather? That's a big dude movie.
Did we do that? No, I've seen that. Oh, yeah.
I actually that. Yeah.
Um, but we did all of Scorsese movies for a season,

which we,

I had never seen like anything.

Um,

and that was good.

That was fun.

Which one rocked your world of the Scorsese's the most?

Good fellas.

It was the best.

Really?

We loved it.

What do you think it should be?

I was thinking of Serpico,

Dog to Afternoon.

Are those all,

those just Pacino.

I haven't seen those.

What,

what am I like? Am I like some kind of clown to amuse you? Just that scene alone could go forever. Yeah.
Nicole wants to marry Joe Pesci right now. Oh, she loved him all the time.
Yeah. She loves him so much.
From all the movies, she's like, I want to marry him now. I don't care.
But yeah. They were allowed to ad lib as long as you said fuck.
Is that true? I don't know. It seems like it.
It feels like it. He's in the middle.
No, that's Casino. We're in the desert.
And Joe's like, where do you get off getting on fucking TV? You're on fucking TV every day. And he goes, you got to keep things quiet.
He goes, me, you're on TV. And they're just screaming at each other.
Yeah. 20 minute takes.
That would have fun thing to do just to see all these movies. I mean, De Niro's underplayed neurotic guy is so funny and good.
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, and then it always feels really good when you're watching a good movie and you're like, oh, it's watch like a good movie yeah i just watched so much bachelor and stuff and i'm like oh there's a story here like it's so calming you watch 90 yeah 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 they have so many spinoffs what's the one that you watch that you hated oh we need it we need a trender oh yeah no we yeah you want to put something in it on instagram we um we we don't like everything but we try to see the good in things because people you know get defensive love them so much yeah that's true 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 defensive.
I love them so much. Yeah.
That's true. 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 are positive.
Well everyone's good in it so you go it's Scorsese and it can't be horrible. Of course.
It's great acting 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 i do that on my instagram you know when you look at that you just would 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 yeah i'll sit in the back oh yeah get in the front seat so i can kill you yeah it's always a wire around the wire is not the way to go yeah are they surprised when the wire is coming over their head going back to their neck i didn't see it what is it is it goodfellas where they take pesci into a room no they take him out and bury him in that oh my my God, that's the saddest part when he walks in the room and he doesn't realize it's happening. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then there's like a sound like, oh, or something. And then he gets shot and you're like, oh, so sad.
Nicole Cross. Okay.
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? No, but I'm scared of them yeah i'm so it's so creepy would you get in one i know people who've gotten in san francisco and they're

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 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 it's harder to get raped i couldn't i

It's harder to get raped.

I couldn't,

I saw one where they say,

here's a carless car,

whatever it is,

driverless car.

And it goes up and people,

people in the back and then they floor it and it floors itself and hits a car in front of him.

I'm like,

Oh my God.

Oh,

I don't want to hear about the glitches.

Like,

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Why don't you have no shit? Yeah. It will all be driverless cars very soon.
Yeah, probably. Ten years.
Oh, mm-hmm. Good Lord.
Lauren's not going to like that. David, I don't know if you know this about me, but I've always been a fan of exploring new places.
Not like you kind of, you know, no offense. And one of my best trips, listen up, is when I stayed at an Airbnb.
Felt like I was living like a local with all the space, comfort of home. You know, hotels can be a hassle.
Room service and then the housekeeper. It's a hassle.
So then you go to Airbnb and you can get whatever you want, a little cottage, this and that. It's fantastic.
You have your own separate space. So it's a great product for people who travel.
David? Yes, I have friends doing one of these right now. If you have a home, you can airbnb it it's fantastic i mean um to to monetize your home when you're not there seems like a good idea i mean look i'm on the road a lot i could probably do it it's it's something that people can do when they travel they have extra space or you're at a place not full-time you come in the winter you leave in the summer.
That's something you should think about. It's a way to get some extra money, and it's a cool experience.
Your home might be worth more than you'd think. Yep.
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That's what Peyton Manning used to yell out. Oh, yeah.
Omaha Steaks. Did he yell steaks, too? I don't know.
Maybe. I don't know.
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Oh, yeah. They can almost say biannual.
Doesn't that mean twice? Am I crazy? Yeah. Biannual.
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Alright, we got to do a whole Faye Dunaway season now. Probably.
Do a Robert Redford season because he's a stud. Yeah.
If you take Redford, you could go from Butch Cassidy to Sundance Kid the Way We Were with Streisand Three Days of the Condor Max Van Cito was also in that Sidney Pollack directing All the President's Men is also surprisingly great and you know well just start with those I think you said about 10 movies that i should do so i'll just start well have you seen alien i have seen alien yeah okay that's i just saw alien romulus and uh i liked it the first time when it was called alien it's the exact same they go up 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 exactly exact but way more cringy when she gives birth to the alien and it's half human and half alien. Did you see it?

No.

Don't see it. It's 10 feet tall

and then it's going back over the mother.

Was it trying to have sex with the son of a homeless?

Yes.

Oh my God.

That's not like the first alien.

I think I tapped out by then.

Too much gooey eggs and mutations.

Oh, it grosses me out.

That's sick.

Lauren, I have a real question. All right.
What is the haunting and tell me about it right now? Haunting is a podcast that I host where I play a dead influencer. Of course you do.
Right. Named Teresa, who is trapped in between heaven and hell because she hasn't gotten verified.
So she 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. So it's like my part is scripted.
And then the other part is unscripted. And it's real ghost stories that are very chilling.
Oh, ghost stories are good. Dana has one, but yeah.
Do you have one? Tell me a ghost story. Tell me a ghost story.
This is pretty quick. San Ysidro Ranch with my wife.
Never had had any encounters, so I just 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. And it was just holding me down.

My wife's asleep and it felt not good, but I got up and I thought, okay, that's a waking dream

state. Okay.
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. And 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.

Oh, I love that.

She's so supportive pretty good pretty good wife yeah do you ever think about that after that it's so scary god dang no i've had another one where in in the house god why does it why is everyone still sleeping there was a boom box in another, 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... I go, why? God, no one hears this.
I hate this so much. I get up, I go into the room, and then it stops.
No! I hate this. That's scary.
So, those are my two, but I'm not as nervous about it. I did actually have, I saw an aberration in my room in the hotel in New York recently.
You're having a lot of these. This is like, you have like a bunch.
Well, these are my greatest hits. Yeah.
This is Span. This is over his 90 years.
Well, can I ask you, have you had had any any sightings or anything well we have one story in my family that's kind of crazy that um 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 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 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 i mean i i don't know but it was it ever explained it was never explained and maybe it was someone in my family pranking but we have we know we have like we when you say something's not you know if you're not lying we say we say set the trojda which means i'm not lying 100 i swear to god and so it's like 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 to talk to her forever um i know uh where do you see it where do you hear um where do you see it you get it at i heart radio or you know i heart podcast app or wherever you get your podcast comes out every tuesday um it's really fun i love talking to you guys i'm so excited i got to meet you dana i'm like i could i really wish i could talk much longer because i'm such a fan of yours i always have been and i'm just so happy i got to meet you uh it's such it's such a pleasure i mean just keep on doing whatever you're doing thank you incredibly talented thank you so much. I'll just say it's super likable.
Oh, thanks. I'll take that.
I miss you, Lauren. I call it super likable.
I miss you, too. I hope we get to see each other soon.
We will do a sequel. All right.
We have to. Okay.
Bye, guys. Bye, Dana.
I miss you, too. Thank you.
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