"CLOWNS" (w/ Ana Gasteyer)

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Speaker 95 I mean, it's a new era. And what do you mean by that?

Speaker 43 Christmas!

Speaker 97 It's officially

Speaker 98 It's officially the holidays.

Speaker 99 Officially the holidays.

Speaker 100 That's a fun spin on everything that's happened.

Speaker 102 It's holidays now.

Speaker 26 Do you think that the Christmas spirit can thrive under fascism?

Speaker 104 You know, that's an interesting.

Speaker 105 Well, the thing is, we're not officially in fascism yet.

Speaker 49 We still have a weekly fashion.

Speaker 106 You know, some people might argue with you.

Speaker 108 Your Noam Chomsky's might say, yeah, we've always been under, we've been in fascism for so long, which is, God,

Speaker 26 what a terrible, rancid tone to start this episode.

Speaker 109 What are we going to do?

Speaker 95 When you look around and the world's on fire, what are you going to say? Like, ooh, like, pass me my iced tea?

Speaker 113 That's what we, that's what we're meant to do as entertainers sometimes.

Speaker 114 Pass the iced tea.

Speaker 115 Is that, hey, pass me the iced tea?

Speaker 117 I mean, this is, it's, it's a complicated thing, people.

Speaker 118 It's our first episode recording since the election.

Speaker 119 Obviously,

Speaker 101 want to express to everyone out there that is feeling terrible that, you know, we are all in it together.

Speaker 122 Lots of avalanche of reasons why this may have happened.

Speaker 105 It's kind of neither here nor there.

Speaker 123 Certainly not going to get into it here on this episode.

Speaker 124 But just if you're feeling.

Speaker 26 Although we have the greatest political minds in one room.

Speaker 75 Yeah.

Speaker 10 I'm looking around and everyone here has something.

Speaker 4 Everyone has something to contribute to the solution.

Speaker 120 I mean it.

Speaker 109 We just want to say if you're feeling down that you have a hug from us.

Speaker 26 And I really appreciate you saying that, Matt, about being in this together.

Speaker 26 I think this is an easy time for people to start to go for individualism and say, well, as long as I'm taken care of, then it's it's the best I can do.

Speaker 4 And that's true and that's important.

Speaker 26 But also, I think I was talking to someone like a week before, just being like, God, but what if it happens? And then

Speaker 26 we were saying, like, I think the best thing to do is just to

Speaker 95 be there for each other, which sounds so.

Speaker 14 Saccharin, but I think it's the, it really is the only thing.

Speaker 118 I think it's actually kind of time to think about things in a way like that, to be honest, because again,

Speaker 131 more to come later

Speaker 105 when it's, when it feels like appropriate and things have died down a little bit, but community is going to be the way, and maybe some unexpected community.

Speaker 26 If you're in New York, New York Cares, great thing to do, just in terms of like a spirit of volunteerism.

Speaker 135 I really enjoy the times.

Speaker 26 The few times that I've done something New York Cares related, but it was during lockdown, and it was kind of like the only thing that made me feel good.

Speaker 81 Yeah.

Speaker 26 So I'm going to start doing that again.

Speaker 28 Tiny, beautiful things.

Speaker 10 Tiny, beautiful things.

Speaker 113 And we have a tiny, beautiful person.

Speaker 136 Tiny, beautiful.

Speaker 52 But here's the thing.

Speaker 129 Big, gorgeous talent.

Speaker 75 Oh, of course.

Speaker 137 A frontrunner for title of EP.

Speaker 98 Big, gorgeous.

Speaker 138 Talent.

Speaker 112 She's pointing to her talents.

Speaker 47 She's cupping her talent.

Speaker 35 I have like a confession to make.

Speaker 139 When I heard about Once Upon a Mattress being revived, I was a little bit like, really?

Speaker 105 Because it's one of those shows where I'm like, I just was surprised to hear that that was getting revived.

Speaker 95 I went to go see it.

Speaker 141 A delight.

Speaker 142 from start to finish.

Speaker 29 It is one of our great joyful shows.

Speaker 143 My first musical that I ever did in high school.

Speaker 49 Really?

Speaker 26 I was the jester's understudy. I had to learn the choreography for very soft shoes.

Speaker 116 And I know every song word for word.

Speaker 95 This is important to know. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 26 No, I mean, sensitivity is

Speaker 147 great.

Speaker 26 A plus.

Speaker 143 A plus villains.

Speaker 39 I think I just forgot how delightful it is.

Speaker 105 And combined with this really amazing, incredible cap

Speaker 112 by Amy Sherman Paul.

Speaker 100 Amy Sherman Palladino, who just like punched it up for all it's worth.

Speaker 42 I mean, it's so funny.

Speaker 12 It's like, really just like from start to finish, a great time at the theater.

Speaker 118 Here's the thing.

Speaker 49 It has a couple more weeks on Broadway

Speaker 85 when this comes out.

Speaker 42 And then from December 10th to January 5th, you can see it at the Amundsen in Los Angeles.

Speaker 23 This would be well worth your time.

Speaker 81 Absolutely.

Speaker 109 And it stars our guest who, among other things, is also Christmas royalty.

Speaker 118 Christmas royalty. Oh, I talked about this with her, actually.

Speaker 122 Of course.

Speaker 12 If Mariah is is the queen of Christmas and I'm the prince, we're actually speaking with the Duchess of Christmas, self-appointed.

Speaker 152 The only way to gain royalty in Christmas is to self-appoint.

Speaker 118 And so this person has done it and we're so grateful and happy.

Speaker 26 Sugar and booze, the at this point, I would say it's

Speaker 26 in the canon of Great Christmas albums.

Speaker 98 It's in the canon.

Speaker 146 Truly.

Speaker 26 She is going to do a few cities at the beginning of December. Lansing, Evanston, Illinois, Indianapolis.

Speaker 147 Please catch her.

Speaker 26 What a sublime time.

Speaker 47 That was a good time.

Speaker 101 I mean, of course, you know, and love her from being a true SNL legend.

Speaker 109 I mean, one of the greats of all time.

Speaker 101 We are absolutely fucking thrilled to welcome to this podcast, the one, the only Agastya!

Speaker 47 DA. It's too!

Speaker 99 Can you imagine when's going to come to the point where she comes out and does it and it sounds like that?

Speaker 101 We're like, oh, no.

Speaker 157 It drops down like four octaves.

Speaker 106 It's time.

Speaker 75 But it is time.

Speaker 49 It's time. It is time.

Speaker 160 Hi, thank you for mentioning my Christmas

Speaker 49 title. Yes, my status.

Speaker 47 Thank you, my title. My honorific.

Speaker 161 My honorific. Thank you for so much.

Speaker 28 Okay, self-appointed duchess.

Speaker 146 But there's a court we have to fill out, or there's a whole feudal system that's Christmas people.

Speaker 162 But I feel like I've earned it. I mean, I'm best known for Sweaty Balls in it.

Speaker 163 Yes. SNL, which runs in the Christmas episode.

Speaker 165 Martha Stewart's Topless Christmas.

Speaker 163 Yes.

Speaker 167 Then I wrote Cluster Fun Christmas, which was the Hallmark parody movie with Dratch.

Speaker 168 Yes.

Speaker 170 And yeah, lots of things have happened around holiday time. It's my favorite time of year.

Speaker 118 Did you seek out this Christmas canon status or do you think it happened happy accident?

Speaker 174 A good fit for who, like for my value system, if that makes sense.

Speaker 178 Not to say that I'm like really obsessed with Jesus' birthday as much as I do have a little bit of an old-fashioned traditional side.

Speaker 177 Do you?

Speaker 184 And just sort of more in like the domestic part and the kind of actually oddly referring to what you were talking even post-election, the sort of coziness and the, I love to cook.

Speaker 182 I love throwing parties and I love kind of domestic connection.

Speaker 161 And I do think that the holidays kind of allows us a little bit of an old-fashioned, broad kind of a moment.

Speaker 162 And that's why the album, the album felt so important to do, not just to like make a Christmas album, but rather that it fit kind of my style.

Speaker 184 You can be sort of throwbacky in a way that doesn't feel as kitschy or as annoying to people.

Speaker 49 Yes.

Speaker 116 Well, that's the thing.

Speaker 26 I feel like the cocktail lounge jazz aesthetic of Sugar and Booz is that it's like very, it's like the wink is so pretty. And like, that's such a nice sort of like comedy sensibility about it.

Speaker 175 That was sort of what we went for.

Speaker 194 Like, just, it should feel like an old-fashioned album, but not campy or not like

Speaker 157 kitschy, I guess is the word, like avoiding kitsch and making it more like, yeah, my biggest compliment that I like was so excited by was when the LA Times reviewed it, they said, like, Frank and Dino would have wanted to sing this song, which to me was like, as opposed to just like, someone doing a lounge act, like you're saying, you know, it feels a little more somewhere in between.

Speaker 181 And you're a real vocalist too.

Speaker 162 So it's like your Christmas stuff definitely resonates in that way as well.

Speaker 180 There's a coziness to the holidays, you know?

Speaker 142 There's a reason they play the standards at Banana Republic when you go in.

Speaker 41 And that's the most Christmas place of all.

Speaker 204 Oh, absolutely.

Speaker 165 It's a cozy Christmas.

Speaker 49 Hashtag.

Speaker 175 Dreamboard that.

Speaker 140 J.

Speaker 201 Crew is very, they, they kind of nail the Christmas.

Speaker 179 They love Christmas. I'm trying to get close.

Speaker 163 What's why I'm saying this right now, but I wear a lot of their.

Speaker 157 I always end up buying a lot of J.

Speaker 175 Crew to wear in my show.

Speaker 119 It really, honestly, you walk in J.

Speaker 100 Crew.

Speaker 207 It's hard to leave empty-handed.

Speaker 43 It is.

Speaker 52 Because you want to know what?

Speaker 42 Coziness, which is really what this is really about.

Speaker 79 We're not saying the word cozy, but it's about being cozy.

Speaker 134 It's huge. Huga?

Speaker 25 Hugger, Hooga, Higgins, Higga.

Speaker 190 That's a placement thing. But

Speaker 203 yeah, Hugges, that's all I'm saying.

Speaker 149 And it's placed here, right between the eyes.

Speaker 162 Yeah, I think anyone Scandinavian would place it right here.

Speaker 138 Yeah, in their upper.

Speaker 104 Which is really a hard place to find.

Speaker 103 Hard place to find.

Speaker 26 Now, are you on this sort of within your coterie of SNL people? Like, I feel like everyone is obsessed with Iceland newly because of Polar.

Speaker 49 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 26 She's loving Iceland.

Speaker 212 The last time I spoke to her, she was like,

Speaker 156 are y'all going to Iceland or Scandinavia and John?

Speaker 36 I'm glad that you said that.

Speaker 158 I mean, it's not high on our list.

Speaker 206 I do want to see, I mean, we're always sort of debating because we have these like reunions.

Speaker 127 The girls have all these reunions.

Speaker 200 And so we're always debating, you know, there's an East Coast, West Coast kind of conversation, and different places come up depending on what's happening.

Speaker 200 I mean, at the moment, I think everybody's just going to, you know, try to have dinner in New York together.

Speaker 85 Right. That's nice.

Speaker 41 Okay.

Speaker 26 Who's holding it down on the East Coast right now? It's you, Tina.

Speaker 49 Me, Tina, Paula. Drafts.

Speaker 175 Paula lives up in Westchester, Breastjuster.

Speaker 81 Westter, a million.

Speaker 26 Breastjusters.

Speaker 138 Her dogs on wheels.

Speaker 217 Yeah, her dog's on wheels.

Speaker 188 She just got another wheeled dog.

Speaker 47 This is the best.

Speaker 217 She like zooms around the apartment, the house.

Speaker 218 Yes.

Speaker 162 And Polar's here part of the time.

Speaker 191 And then Maya's in L.A.

Speaker 192 and Spivey's up in North Carolina.

Speaker 161 So down the

Speaker 121 Spivey.

Speaker 219 Yeah, so we sort of float.

Speaker 32 What's been the best vacation you guys have taken together?

Speaker 143 Was Traffic City?

Speaker 26 Was what Wine Country is based on?

Speaker 220 Yeah, Wine Country was really fantastic.

Speaker 200 I mean, it was actually in Wine Country, and we ate and drank to our heart's content.

Speaker 222 And literally the whole movie was like, basically, it's all we did.

Speaker 172 And then, you know, we like

Speaker 169 our night at the strip club was just like an antique mall, you know, like everybody's like, oh, look at this teapot.

Speaker 203 And then

Speaker 225 for my birthday, we did Palm Springs, and everybody wore really old-fashioned, we wore mumus and we wore really old-fashioned bathing caps that I bought everybody on the internet.

Speaker 174 And I made everybody wear like, dude, like gentle, don't ruin your hair swims.

Speaker 95 Yeah yeah yeah

Speaker 47 that is an important image.

Speaker 227 Hair up like okay okay okay neck up

Speaker 206 totally neck up late but lately we've done more cozy things we've gone to fire island or we've gone to

Speaker 43 people's where do you go fair harbor

Speaker 219 basically Saltaire yeah

Speaker 12 Fair Harbor area yeah gay audience these are the notes

Speaker 190 they're not I get a lot of gay cred when I say fire island and then it immediately evaporates by the vague white supremacy of my area don't don't worry no you should take the gay cred.

Speaker 98 I try.

Speaker 103 Because you have plenty from

Speaker 217 so many things from your life.

Speaker 47 Yeah, I try. You're announcing.

Speaker 195 Oh, before I go any further, my daughter said to tell you, and I quote, on air.

Speaker 169 Okay.

Speaker 234 And she's a huge fan, and so are all her gay friends.

Speaker 210 Hello.

Speaker 166 But I wasn't going to get cred if I said it off air.

Speaker 234 She was like, you have to tell them on air.

Speaker 105 So I guess that she's a Katie.

Speaker 41 Yes, I believe.

Speaker 101 I would imagine.

Speaker 143 Yes, of course, of course.

Speaker 80 And a Katie is kind of

Speaker 43 gay friends. She has a lot of gay friends.

Speaker 118 So we have some subsects of our fandom, and Katie's, I think.

Speaker 23 She's a Katie.

Speaker 207 I believe a Katie would be like me and all my friends.

Speaker 175 I don't know how she could be my child and not be a Katie.

Speaker 170 Well, of course.

Speaker 166 Because I have a number of gusbunds, which is G, apostrophe, style, and age.

Speaker 156 Sure.

Speaker 211 Who's the top guzband?

Speaker 174 My top cousin's my friend Tony, who I've lived with on and off, who's my first director at the Ground Links.

Speaker 202 My actual husband named him my gusban because I lived with him throughout a bunch of TV shows I did in LA.

Speaker 179 Yes, right.

Speaker 157 Because as you know, everybody in L.A.

Speaker 1 has like a second bedroom.

Speaker 166 So I, for years, just had pajamas and things there.

Speaker 195 So people have more space.

Speaker 191 My next cousin is my friend Ryan, who is my, what was the name of that character?

Speaker 175 It's too old to reference that, Murphy Brown, that guy that lived in her house and did all her work.

Speaker 201 Anyway, he's like my carpenter.

Speaker 127 He's a former Broadway boy, now super talented contractor.

Speaker 157 And he just, he helps me fix that fire island.

Speaker 162 He does my Ikea run and my Costco run with me.

Speaker 177 He's really done a lot for my actual marriage with my straight husband.

Speaker 49 That's wonderful.

Speaker 23 Did you acquire a lot of Guzmans and Guzman types during your run as Alphaba?

Speaker 162 I mean, I've always had Guzbins.

Speaker 138 You've always had Guzzbanna.

Speaker 23 You didn't need to be Alphaba to have Guzman.

Speaker 228 No, but it certainly helped.

Speaker 37 Yeah, I'm sure. Yes.

Speaker 186 As soon as the news of the belting got out, it had my gay cue went way up.

Speaker 104 I do remember

Speaker 207 obviously loving you forever on Saturday Night Live and then hearing that you were belting on Broadway as Alpha Bud did make

Speaker 72 something like your shoulders drop as a gay person.

Speaker 156 Oh, it was a relief.

Speaker 241 It was a relief.

Speaker 189 And she can support

Speaker 162 sustain, and she does vibrato at the end.

Speaker 75 Yeah, all of those things got me very far.

Speaker 244 A long, straight tone with a little vibrato at the end.

Speaker 43 Yeah. Well, you know, I mean,

Speaker 149 it took me a second, but I'm like, oh,

Speaker 204 that's it. Wow.

Speaker 98 I was going to say, you know, the sketch that really hooked me when I moved to the U.S.

Speaker 26 was Gemini's Twin.

Speaker 75 Oh, my God. Thank you.

Speaker 26 And the line read that even rang in my ears today. No, no, no, you're going to love it.

Speaker 26 It was, it was whack, whack.

Speaker 43 You're a big man, the flapjack.

Speaker 26 And then at one point, this is the Charlize Thair episode.

Speaker 47 This is like the first episode of FSNL I ever saw.

Speaker 103 Oh, my God.

Speaker 26 And then you had a line where someone's Carson Daly, it's TRL. And then they're like, you know, what's the song about? And then Maya has a line.
It's about, or Maya or Charlize has a line.

Speaker 26 You know, it's about like when you're done with a man and then it's you and you say, no.

Speaker 227 It's also about a pancake breakfast.

Speaker 138 It's about a what?

Speaker 149 It's also about a pancake breakfast.

Speaker 149 Wasn't it like flapjapjack?

Speaker 23 Flapjack.

Speaker 149 Whack, whack, flapjack. It's about a pancake breakfast.
It's also about a pancake breakfast.

Speaker 23 It's also about a pancake breakfast.

Speaker 95 And like that and that, I belly laughed as a fucking stupid 80.

Speaker 144 It's the funniest line.

Speaker 225 I wish that they would, you know, they never re-air any of this.

Speaker 186 One of my great sadnesses because music rates are so expensive.

Speaker 205 So many of my sketches don't re-air in a regular way, which is sad because, you know, we wrote so many dumb things.

Speaker 247 And Gemini's twin, like, we wrote this ridiculous thing with Lucy Lou about airplane.

Speaker 115 And that's my favorite Gemini's Twin because Lucy Lou at one point bends over and like

Speaker 156 kind of fingers her own product. She's so dirty.

Speaker 95 It's so shocking.

Speaker 162 And it was, I don't remember, it was about airplane. I think it was about airplane safety.

Speaker 96 I don't even know what it was about.

Speaker 187 And then we did one with

Speaker 232 Pierce Brosnan.

Speaker 224 Oh.

Speaker 249 That all I remember.

Speaker 250 Oh, it was actually good.

Speaker 251 Anita Mann.

Speaker 248 Anita Mann.

Speaker 251 Anita.

Speaker 96 God.

Speaker 162 It was so dumb. It was like with a something credit card and a central pay 10.

Speaker 252 Anita man. It was a real man.

Speaker 180 It was a man.

Speaker 206 Anyway, he, for some reason, we did like a Frankenstein.

Speaker 197 This is a bad story.

Speaker 243 You should just watch it.

Speaker 220 But it doesn't air because of the music rights.

Speaker 178 He had like, you can find that.

Speaker 220 Somebody sent it to me.

Speaker 187 He's doing like a Frankenstein thing.

Speaker 167 Oh, yeah, because we were like doctor eviling it.

Speaker 236 And I don't even remember what the premise was, but I remember writing for him.

Speaker 254 Like, he was like, I'm alive.

Speaker 251 I'm all up in it. Alive.

Speaker 204 It was so dumb.

Speaker 223 Anyway.

Speaker 98 Why are the music rights so tricky with that when it's like an original song?

Speaker 103 I don't know.

Speaker 142 Because

Speaker 142 the

Speaker 255 pass cap rights or whatever.

Speaker 210 There's that.

Speaker 26 But the Britney Spurs one, too.

Speaker 47 I think that was super politically incorrect.

Speaker 163 Didn't we do like a Dixie number?

Speaker 141 Oh, but it was like

Speaker 256 we were holding on to the corner.

Speaker 98 You guys worked on

Speaker 26 like Monticello or something.

Speaker 211 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 138 Monticello.

Speaker 163 I thought it was more like Gone with the Wind kind of vibes.

Speaker 179 Or maybe it was.

Speaker 195 It might have been Tara. It might have been.

Speaker 158 Oh, Tara.

Speaker 162 I don't remember, but I was so, yeah, it was so fun because it was Maya.

Speaker 257 I mean, it was, again, like those,

Speaker 100 those nights with Maya and with like Will on Bobby and Marty were like, those are my most like truly treasured nights because they were James Anderson and Paula Pell and like the greats.

Speaker 181 I mean, and I'm a terrible procrastinator.

Speaker 209 We would stay up.

Speaker 175 Bobby and Marty, we were like super famous.

Speaker 47 Like when people would start something late, they would be like, no, I mean, famous for how much we dicked around, where they would be like, we're Bobby and Marty ain't like starting at six or whatever.

Speaker 160 It was just, because we would sit and do bits and talk,

Speaker 218 light farts, like all of the worst, you know, until like four in the morning.

Speaker 158 Oh, wow.

Speaker 41 We talked about six in the morning on Wednesday.

Speaker 164 On Wednesday. Holy moly.

Speaker 257 All the way up to the line. And then we would write it.

Speaker 174 And then many times we would go to McDonald's and get a Night McMuffin on the way home at like eight.

Speaker 206 Or often Will, because Will famously, so this is another, Will dressed as Jerry Reed from the Smokey and the Bandit series.

Speaker 158 Okay, bear with me, please.

Speaker 162 So, Norm McDonald and Will did Burt Reynolds.

Speaker 163 It was a Burt Reynolds.

Speaker 160 They were writing to the Burt Reynolds impression at the time, and they did these Smokey and the Bandit commercials.

Speaker 193 And Will, it was like a pre-tape, and Will was dressed as Jerry Reed, but he had to keep going into blocking.

Speaker 185 And he, so he never got out of his outfit of Jerry Reid, which just was like a like not famous, you know, like a 70s trucker costume, basically, like really like kind of high bad pants and like a western thing and a big trucker hat.

Speaker 260 And Adam, it was like a bit.

Speaker 162 And somebody was like, are you not gonna, are you not gonna ever change out of that?

Speaker 214 And so then he didn't.

Speaker 162 And it became this like, what's the term?

Speaker 190 Like a bellwet, like a lightning rod, like a thing where you could tell who was fun and who wasn't by who would be like

Speaker 183 certain people in the front office were like, why are you still wearing that outfit?

Speaker 193 You know, like, and meanwhile, he was just like, I'm gonna, I'm gonna wear this all season.

Speaker 172 So he proceeded to wear it from before, it was like around Thanksgiving all the way.

Speaker 220 If you go back, it would have been the 1997-8 season.

Speaker 162 He wore that costume.

Speaker 239 Tom Broker would just go and like clean it at every break.

Speaker 120 Oh, blast.

Speaker 159 And because he, of course, got it.

Speaker 163 He was like, well, he's comfortable in it.

Speaker 180 So, you know, just like immediately like, oh, yeah, Tom Broker always gets it.

Speaker 190 Also gets it.

Speaker 248 And exactly.

Speaker 235 And then anyway, many, many times writing about Marty, Will would fall asleep on the sofas in the old research area, which is now offices, which was like across the hall.

Speaker 160 And

Speaker 179 because back in the day, like we just had a million VHSs.

Speaker 23 We didn't, we couldn't internet there was no internet yeah so i know crazy did you ever meet chip kudreau no so this i guess was uh will's character of lisa kudreu's brother brother

Speaker 206 no but he also did yes i remember chip kudrea he also did um jim signorelli's former dp

Speaker 219 that started a party a zipper boot party at my house where everybody had to wear zipper boots and harper steele and he and all those people

Speaker 248 all wearing zipper boots oh wow and then like 70s boots zipped and then he wore like a red pants suit with an ascot.

Speaker 214 And then he just

Speaker 47 went to the corner. And then Ron.

Speaker 190 Did you ever hear about Ron? No. No, wait a minute.
That was Ron.

Speaker 174 Ron was Jim Signorelli's fired DP who was still trying to get jobs. And so he was coming around.

Speaker 162 And he's dressed as Ron.

Speaker 186 And then famously, when P.

Speaker 93 Diddy came,

Speaker 245 we're getting into it.

Speaker 220 Yeah. I got to find this tape because I have it.

Speaker 162 He, of course, like shut down the whole building.

Speaker 162 Like, you know, SNL, it's like you can tell like the five assholes in the six years that I was was there when they would be like, so-and-so's in the building.

Speaker 244 Everybody stay in your dressing rooms.

Speaker 180 You know, like, and you're like, which is applicable if you're a presidential candidate.

Speaker 239 But apart from that, really, it's my house.

Speaker 156 And they did it for P.

Speaker 264 Diddy?

Speaker 187 For P.

Speaker 49 Diddy, he demanded a totally closed set.

Speaker 75 Oh, no, no.

Speaker 169 Cool. Sean Cohn.

Speaker 47 Sean Cohn.

Speaker 186 Yes.

Speaker 252 And he was doing cashmere.

Speaker 199 Do you remember that?

Speaker 47 Danana. Oh, of course.

Speaker 156 Danana.

Speaker 132 And I remember that performance well.

Speaker 245 Right.

Speaker 181 Okay. And they brought in like the New York Phil.

Speaker 135 Oh, wow.

Speaker 197 And they had them in there, and they were sealed off on Thursday.

Speaker 257 And we were in the writer's room on 9.

Speaker 162 And Will, and typically McKay or somebody was like, It would be so if he was dressed as Ron because he would stay in character for like the whole week.

Speaker 49 Like Anna Kyoto.

Speaker 202 So he was dressed as Ron at the table.

Speaker 199 I think we were rewriting Bobby and Marty.

Speaker 180 And he went down.

Speaker 195 They were like, Wouldn't it be so funny if Ron just went in?

Speaker 158 And he did.

Speaker 218 He went on down the stairs and he marched right in.

Speaker 160 And I have the video from the control room.

Speaker 250 He goes on stage where Sean Combs is like rapping with like,

Speaker 180 behind him.

Speaker 75 And he's just like Ron's like walking around looking really like really disoriented and looking for Jim Sini.

Speaker 189 He's like, have you seen Jim Sinorelli?

Speaker 81 Fearless.

Speaker 203 Jim Sinorelli, to be clear to your listeners, was the

Speaker 265 OG

Speaker 49 pre-tape guy.

Speaker 256 So he was like the director who did all of the commercial parodies, all of the Gemini's twin videos, all of the videos that you would do before Lonely Island came.

Speaker 160 It was like you would go and they were shot on film by this guy, Jim Sinorelli, who was a character in his own right.

Speaker 210 Yeah.

Speaker 49 So, yeah. So

Speaker 181 it is the greatest thing that's ever happened because what a deserved person to have their cashmere moment interrupted by Ron.

Speaker 75 Oh, God.

Speaker 232 And he really did not, he did not roll with it.

Speaker 138 He was very uncomfortable.

Speaker 241 But it was so also just like the artifice of all that faux

Speaker 162 importance. Like, what's going to happen?

Speaker 173 True. Yeah.

Speaker 206 You're going to walk into the studio and you're going to be like, I'm in the studio.

Speaker 172 I work here.

Speaker 75 Yeah.

Speaker 105 What's crazy about the P.

Speaker 119 Diddy of it all is it's like you look back his time of being like when he was huge huge huge in pop culture it was always weird like if you go back and watch like making the band the way that he treats people i know is so crazy the way he talks to these especially like i think it was the second season where they were making danity kane uh-huh the way he talks to these girls is absurd you wouldn't believe how they talked to us in the 90s i mean it's really like the bend the mind bend is like every now and then i look back and i'm like wow like the things that we sort of endured but i I mean, whatever, like it all evolves.

Speaker 176 And thank God for you guys and your generation.

Speaker 216 And, you know, we didn't do it.

Speaker 164 No, you didn't do it.

Speaker 159 You didn't do it.

Speaker 164 You weren't born.

Speaker 220 No, but that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 214 Like, it's just been, I really do want to speak to what you said about community at the beginning of your show because I'm old enough now that I've endured a few of these like bumps.

Speaker 174 And I was telling you right before we went on, like, the first time the election didn't go, you know, our way, I had to do a reshoot the next day of the Goldbergs where a chandelier fell on me.

Speaker 218 And it's literally like.

Speaker 144 How did it fall on you?

Speaker 96 Oh my God. I'm sorry.
Sorry.

Speaker 173 But all I'm saying is. Did the character die?

Speaker 104 Were you killed on the Goldbergs?

Speaker 47 I wish.

Speaker 47 Very special Goldbergs.

Speaker 165 No, I don't remember.

Speaker 203 I just pretended all that.

Speaker 187 Yeah, this year I had to wake up and dress up as Martha Stewart and go be with Martha Stewart on the Drew Berrymar show.

Speaker 225 And it did really, and then doing Mattress, which is this extraordinarily joy-oriented show.

Speaker 74 It really is.

Speaker 263 Full of people who are just of the best, sweetest intentions.

Speaker 187 Everybody who did Mattress did it in high school or at camp.

Speaker 169 Wow.

Speaker 168 And there's like this real kind of collective, I do have this weird moment of gratitude in this time

Speaker 175 that there are so many of us who love making joy and who will take care of one another and will take care of our community.

Speaker 235 I have more faith oddly enough than ever in that.

Speaker 175 And I do feel like whatever, even in this terrible scenario, no matter how we want to parse it, there's still half of us.

Speaker 214 I mean, it's a lot of people.

Speaker 174 And, you know, it's a lot of people.

Speaker 252 It's millions and millions and millions of people.

Speaker 176 And you guys know because you tour, like I'm going to Indiana, which is a red state.

Speaker 174 And these people show up with tears in their eyes at my show sometimes.

Speaker 162 I mean, it's like the joy.

Speaker 175 And that's an, I don't mean to be arrogant about that and whatever.

Speaker 162 Like, I just, I feel like we have one move left.

Speaker 163 And that is literally send in the clowns.

Speaker 169 This is your job.

Speaker 188 Literally.

Speaker 215 And have a good time doing it and take care of other human beings because church is gone for a lot of people.

Speaker 195 And as a singer, the corny part of me.

Speaker 183 That is the closest I've ever felt to God.

Speaker 170 And I'm not a religious person

Speaker 1 at all, like at all.

Speaker 186 I went to like a Quaker school, like, you know, that's like as close as it got, which is not saying very much, you know, so service, as you mentioned, reaching outwards towards others when you are feeling desperate is very helpful.

Speaker 228 Yeah.

Speaker 256 And singing with others, like there are these like pop-up one-day choirs.

Speaker 174 Have you read about that?

Speaker 136 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 75 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 95 You don't have to audition or do anything.

Speaker 195 People just get together to make music together.

Speaker 174 And I do think when you sing and when you join, that's why I went back to do musicals after all was said and done, because sharing that, it's outside of your control whether you can sing, you know?

Speaker 195 And so like being able to share that with other people not to be corny but like no i don't think it's corny at all i actually think especially after like doing something

Speaker 12 and we love snl and you know there's lots of amazing memories as you were saying but it does feel like by nature of the show a lot is out of your control so when you leave you want to run towards the joy yeah and i feel like do you think that that is a direct correlation that you can see in looking back like that's such a cool way of putting it i've never thought about it that yes absolutely and even with regards to my gender and my whatever all those specific things to each of us that are, we felt have impacted who we became or whatever.

Speaker 177 I do find, especially in this chapter, which I guess is my third chapter of five, let's say,

Speaker 183 total,

Speaker 208 I definitely.

Speaker 96 We're on three and there's two more.

Speaker 47 We got two more. Okay.

Speaker 165 Yeah, we got two more.

Speaker 149 Thank you.

Speaker 192 Well, listen, you know, but I do in this chapter, so many, like, actually, literally, when I got the offer for a mattress, and I hadn't worked for a while because I've seen your parents, I was dealing with them, and some stuff was going on and after the strike and all that.

Speaker 204 So I literally looked at the offer and I saw the cast.

Speaker 166 I saw Daniel Breaker.

Speaker 190 I saw Brooks Ashbanskis.

Speaker 234 I saw Sutton. I saw Michael.

Speaker 183 I saw like the people lined up.

Speaker 162 And I said to my husband, oh my God, this cast is so fun.

Speaker 177 And he was like, stop.

Speaker 195 Don't even tell me anything else about it. Go do it.

Speaker 183 Because for me, backstage is everything.

Speaker 192 It's much more fun.

Speaker 271 Each person is different.

Speaker 181 But SNL, my favorite was never Saturday.

Speaker 175 My favorite was always.

Speaker 168 the rewrite table, which is weird because the writers hate the rewrite table, but I loved it.

Speaker 180 Like I love the idea that you could be with all these funny fuckers.

Speaker 254 Yeah.

Speaker 239 You would make your thing better.

Speaker 81 You're in a lab and you're just just like

Speaker 127 clocking on Thursdays, fun.

Speaker 197 And the joy of the community is ultimately for me what makes a thing real.

Speaker 261 And Alphaba to that point was a hard job.

Speaker 245 Yeah.

Speaker 186 To follow up SNL with Wicked was stupid.

Speaker 272 Yeah, you didn't give yourself a break.

Speaker 243 I mean, it's really hard, especially that early.

Speaker 94 I was like the whatever.

Speaker 165 Third, fourth, third or fourth Alphabet replacement.

Speaker 180 So I mean, I was the, yeah, because it went 2006.

Speaker 123 Dina, Shoshana, Dina and Shoshana.

Speaker 1 So I was in that audition round, which is how I got Chicago.

Speaker 170 So it was me, Shoshana, and Eden.

Speaker 236 Well, Eden and Shoshana had been standbys on Broadway.

Speaker 219 So usually those people get bumped because the costumes are already made.

Speaker 165 Right. But also because they're amazing.

Speaker 47 And they've been on.

Speaker 74 They are fantastic.

Speaker 236 And then Stephanie, who had been in San Francisco, went on First National, and then I did Chicago.

Speaker 272 Yes, yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 174 So arguably I was the first person outside the family.

Speaker 93 Yeah.

Speaker 218 Wow. It was great.

Speaker 168 But it was super hard work.

Speaker 43 And it was your Glinda.

Speaker 233 Kate Rinders.

Speaker 174 Oh, and so what I was starting to say is that Kate, everything's funnier from a Glenda, by the way, because they're also, they talk literally like this.

Speaker 205 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 179 And like, even when she was angry about something, she would be like, he looks old for 40.

Speaker 156 You know, like, whatever.

Speaker 106 It was always made me laugh.

Speaker 229 But she said, she was like, we're probably best friends.

Speaker 213 So we just, we should just probably be best friends.

Speaker 164 And we were.

Speaker 203 And we still are.

Speaker 175 Like, she's a really good girl.

Speaker 258 And we've always been very close.

Speaker 243 We just took care of each other.

Speaker 201 And again, as number one, and you said all the tones, I was like, we can gossip and we can talk shit, but only to each other.

Speaker 138 To each other.

Speaker 26 But you guys really, I think like people talk about that cast when you were alphabet, of just like that was setting this model for the future on like how like this is the tone setting that we want.

Speaker 26 This is the environment that we want. It's not toxic.

Speaker 49 No, it's not that anything before was like

Speaker 93 noxious, but you know.

Speaker 181 But no, it really wasn't.

Speaker 186 It was a really sweet group of humans.

Speaker 253 And part of it was Chicago too.

Speaker 256 We had a lot of steppe and wolves.

Speaker 191 Like Ronnie Reed was like a Tony winner from the Steppenwolves production of August Osh County.

Speaker 209 Like incredible people were there.

Speaker 179 Heidi Kettenring, who I went to college with, like she played Nessa forever.

Speaker 274 So there was this real gratitude amongst a lot of the Chicago locals that were, this is a good equity gig for a long time, you know, people bought houses and stuff.

Speaker 163 So there was a nice feeling.

Speaker 179 And we did Thanksgiving together and we didn't, and mattress is, I mean, next level.

Speaker 227 We have a book club.

Speaker 168 Yeah, the company.

Speaker 242 We play Traders.

Speaker 211 You play Traders.

Speaker 197 Yeah. I mean, all of it, like all of the things.

Speaker 156 It's so cute.

Speaker 180 Daniel Breaker is like an incredible chef.

Speaker 206 So he's like, every other day, they'll be like, oh, there's Jambalaya in the green room that Daniel made, you know, pulled pork.

Speaker 158 He made pulled pork the morning after the election.

Speaker 112 You can tell.

Speaker 236 You actually can tell that it's like that when you see the show yeah it's really fun and yeah you get the sense too that while all of the amazing physical comedy is incredibly well blocked and everything it feels improvisational there's a lot of it yeah and the ensemble is really really engaging it's a small ensemble we're close it's nice yeah yeah it's just a fun show that there's those songs are really well the music is fantastic and that's actually probably the most important part and nothing outside of our control but because that stuff gets when you do a musical get stuck in your head yeah i've been living with it for some time.

Speaker 222 So,

Speaker 222 what else? What else?

Speaker 108 Wait, but was singing first or was it violin first for you growing up?

Speaker 157 So, violin, theoretically, and truly, I love that you know that, but I really hated it.

Speaker 174 That's a lonely ass instrument.

Speaker 80 Do you play the violin?

Speaker 26 I played growing up, yeah.

Speaker 91 And I have neutral, complicated feelings about it.

Speaker 49 It's complicated, I was good at it and I enjoyed it.

Speaker 26 I was also, I was better at it than piano for sure.

Speaker 159 But the perfectionism fact is really, if you're a little OCD, as I imagine all, everybody, everybody in our community is, 100%,

Speaker 229 is really dangerous.

Speaker 258 And it's lonely.

Speaker 197 Like, I mean, I mean, the sad part is like, so I was playing violin.

Speaker 160 I was good.

Speaker 75 Yeah.

Speaker 238 Same exact like you.

Speaker 193 Like, if I had really loved it, that would have been the thing.

Speaker 188 Yeah.

Speaker 175 Went to like camps for it and stuff like that.

Speaker 261 And then I went to Interlocken.

Speaker 47 Oh, wow, sure.

Speaker 270 Cedar Camp Break. And I went as a violin major.

Speaker 188 And I went and I was like, I want to do plays.

Speaker 254 Like, I saw.

Speaker 256 So I came back and immediately booked

Speaker 229 in my middle school, Helen Keller and the Miracle Worker.

Speaker 49 You were Helen? Were you Annie?

Speaker 95 You were Adam.

Speaker 97 I was Helen. You were Helen.

Speaker 127 I mean, yes.

Speaker 49 Go off.

Speaker 106 I love it.

Speaker 106 Go off. And

Speaker 49 even as

Speaker 190 Blind, Deaf, Mute, Helen Keller, I was like, I'm home.

Speaker 159 I found my thing.

Speaker 220 Yes.

Speaker 168 And from then on, I was like, oh, I think this is my, it was, honestly, it was all backstage people.

Speaker 178 It was people doing bits backstage.

Speaker 260 Even like in seventh grade, I was like, oh, this is what I want to do. Like the bits.

Speaker 157 But I didn't know that they were bits then. I just thought, you know, talk about it.

Speaker 49 Or being as funny as But then was it college?

Speaker 26 Was it Northwestern where you were like comedy?

Speaker 162 Yes, because then I switched to voice.

Speaker 192 I bargained out from violin because my family was very classical music, very training-oriented.

Speaker 191 So my mom, there was not going to be not doing an instrument or training of some sort.

Speaker 258 So I bargained into a classical vocal program.

Speaker 219 I did some roles in the Washington Opera as a kid.

Speaker 17 Wow.

Speaker 219 Like Labo M Children's Chorus, Ghost and Macbeth, like about Barry Macbeth, whatever, which I also hated.

Speaker 248 And then again, community.

Speaker 193 I liked the kids, but that was it.

Speaker 195 And then when I got to North, I sang my way into Northwestern.

Speaker 202 I never would have gotten in without my audition.

Speaker 197 And then I was the worst music student on earth.

Speaker 257 I mean, I don't.

Speaker 118 Because you lost interest or I just,

Speaker 195 I mean, I did not want to be an opera singer.

Speaker 127 Got it. Sure.

Speaker 160 And then I found improv.

Speaker 49 there. Titanic players?

Speaker 93 Was it?

Speaker 229 It was called Meow Show.

Speaker 202 And like Seth was in it. And I think Sarah Sherman was in it.

Speaker 162 And yeah, it's a very like all the improvisers.

Speaker 49 Legacy. Yeah, Julie Louis Dreyfus.

Speaker 37 Yeah.

Speaker 49 All the Josh Myers.

Speaker 162 But that's how I did it. I just found the people.

Speaker 225 And I'm sure when you start doing improv, you're like, oh my God, my mutant friends.

Speaker 228 Yes.

Speaker 202 Yeah.

Speaker 270 And then that's why I went to LA and went into TV.

Speaker 157 And I didn't do anything vocally.

Speaker 182 I kind of part, I was like smoked a bunch of cigarettes and did comedy and then did the groundlings, but I was always like going back to singing

Speaker 175 because it's in the toolkit.

Speaker 234 And then after SNL, I sort of wanted to like, it was reaction formation, all the chaos and the sort of, the thing I started to feel at the end of SNL was

Speaker 142 I was sort of always just not failing, if that makes sense.

Speaker 127 Like I was sort of

Speaker 205 not like just pulling it off.

Speaker 234 Whereas with theater, like you have the opportunity to constantly refine and make it better and better and better.

Speaker 49 It's so ephemeral.

Speaker 17 It's so ephemeral doing it at SNL. Sorry.

Speaker 114 Yes, exactly. Yeah.

Speaker 162 Exactly.

Speaker 234 And especially if you're one-shot Saturday night and you're like, I kind of, you know, didn't love how it went at air.

Speaker 190 I went, you know, whatever.

Speaker 42 Yeah, that is a feeling, I guess, you never get to correct anything.

Speaker 81 Never. Never.

Speaker 150 Which is kind of beautiful, but also frustrating.

Speaker 254 Yes. Yeah.

Speaker 4 I'm at the frustrating point of it.

Speaker 178 It's frustrating.

Speaker 263 It's a weird feeling because the stakes feel very high, which they are.

Speaker 232 But also what I will say is, not that you're asking, but

Speaker 232 you know, 22 years out, the part I remember is the creative part.

Speaker 214 The part I remember is the people and the community and the making things.

Speaker 36 And those skills never go away.

Speaker 270 They never go away.

Speaker 239 And the community never goes away.

Speaker 225 I mean, I've worked with so many people across so many generations of SNL that I wasn't even on the show with.

Speaker 176 But the shorthand of understanding one another.

Speaker 232 I mean, Rachel and I never wrote together at the show, and she's like my writing partner now.

Speaker 49 So it's like,

Speaker 215 you know, Yorma, I've done things with, Fred Armiston and I have done things, like people who, because you know the shorthand, you know the mutant skin.

Speaker 49 Sure. Yeah.

Speaker 26 It's mutant skin and also, but I feel like what you've done with SNL sort of like, I don't know, I guess like holding some kind of like weight on the tablescape of it is like so like it is your own specific tableau of things like like no one else from SNL has been that kind of vocalist and has like used their specific talent in that way the way that you have.

Speaker 26 And I feel like that's just what's kind of incredible about

Speaker 254 everything sent.

Speaker 161 You kind of, you know, whatever.

Speaker 219 What is it?

Speaker 174 Necessities of mother of invention.

Speaker 214 I mean, just what things that you love and that you do.

Speaker 127 And it gives you, I mean, it really does give you the freedom to go a lot of places.

Speaker 214 I mean, it's insane.

Speaker 157 I couldn't even get generals as a girl on SNL in the 90s.

Speaker 179 Like coming out.

Speaker 197 And then now, like, it's just, you know, the legacy of the place is such a gift.

Speaker 157 Like, it's unreal.

Speaker 151 It's so crazy because I feel like that was the time when everyone was talking about the women of SNL, the women of SNL.

Speaker 179 We definitely got a lot of attention.

Speaker 162 We definitely did. And I don't mean to deserve that in any way.
Like, especially the beginning with Molly, Sherry, and I, just because it was coming, like, when I got the show, I'm not making this up.

Speaker 170 It was a reset.

Speaker 279 People came up to me and they were like.

Speaker 195 oh, you're so funny. I'm so bummed that you're going on SNL.

Speaker 225 You're going to be squandered.

Speaker 174 Like the idea of being a woman on the show was not a good idea. Right.

Speaker 263 Because they had just fired Janine Garofilo.

Speaker 164 Do you remember that?

Speaker 169 And Sarah Silverman had fired.

Speaker 165 Sarah Silverman had been fired.

Speaker 176 Like all these really kind of interesting girls had just sort of been eaten up and chewed out. Right.

Speaker 180 Or chewed up and eaten out.

Speaker 174 Let's stay away from this metaphor.

Speaker 97 They got mawed and shit out.

Speaker 75 And

Speaker 180 it was hard, you know, it was hard to navigate.

Speaker 163 But for whatever kind of cosmic reasons, the three of us kind of powered through.

Speaker 175 And then by the time I left, there were a lot of women.

Speaker 157 There was like Amy and Tina and all these kind of dominant women.

Speaker 114 It did feel watershed.

Speaker 101 And then all of a sudden, almost like ever since then, it's like, who are the women of SNL?

Speaker 26 I love it this way.

Speaker 26 No one's really ever talked about the guys since and i'm like that's totally fine i think even now it's like the women of snl are killing it it's like i i love that kind of bowen the women in bowen the women and this gay guy

Speaker 166 you that's not true you cut right through my friend

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Speaker 62 Okay, so you know how the world is a chaotic, swirling ball of total stress right now?

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Speaker 306 There's pressure systems moving in Bo in the form of cuffing season.

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Speaker 308 Here you can have the space to change, to be honest, and to always be curious.

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Speaker 26 One of my fondest SNL memories ever was doing my most random update ever. I don't even want to mention it because it was just mention it though.
It was bottle boy.

Speaker 26 It was a total like, let's just fucking write it. It was fine.

Speaker 26 And then I just like went into my dressing room and then I was kind of like, I had like a light show. I had nothing else to do.

Speaker 26 And I just sat in my dressing room and then I hear a knock at the door and I think it's like a page dropping off like Chris Red's lunch or something. And I'm like, come in.

Speaker 120 Nothing.

Speaker 103 Another knock. Come in.

Speaker 26 And then I finally like open up the door and then it's you, Drash, and Tina.

Speaker 202 It was your aunties.

Speaker 47 It was my auntie's. I was

Speaker 47 awesome.

Speaker 104 That has to be their depth you.

Speaker 155 We wanted to meet you. I was

Speaker 211 it was so exciting.

Speaker 97 It was the show. I like it.

Speaker 203 I love it.

Speaker 98 But the three of you at the same time

Speaker 47 screamed at the door.

Speaker 140 I'm like, come in.

Speaker 116 But I was like, oh, and I couldn't believe it.

Speaker 103 And we talked about Fire Island.

Speaker 149 We talked about

Speaker 75 Saltaire. That's what we do.

Speaker 26 And that was just such a, I will never forget.

Speaker 149 He texted me when you guys did that.

Speaker 322 It was so exciting.

Speaker 207 I mean, you have to know, like, for gay boys who grew up with SNL, like, you guys are legends.

Speaker 105 I mean, like, I'll never forget, like, I mean, we talk about Gemini's twin, talk about Shreddy Balls, all these things are like in the fabric of our comedic upbringing.

Speaker 110 You know, and that, yeah, that, it's not just that.

Speaker 75 I mean, meeting girls, I mean, like, all these things.

Speaker 235 Yeah, so many of the things.

Speaker 47 So many of the things.

Speaker 207 I'll never forget, like, watching the intro to Diva's Live.

Speaker 203 Okay, I can't believe you just said that.

Speaker 206 Well, I'm saying, no, you want to know why?

Speaker 162 Because when you, your question about what the cultural moment is, like, I'm just really chewing on it.

Speaker 43 We're going to get there. We'll get there.

Speaker 162 But it's funny because I was like, do I bring up Diva's Live?

Speaker 168 Because I do, that was speaking to the power of the women on the show.

Speaker 180 That was a moment where I think, you know, you have these moments when you're like a nobody and then suddenly you're on, and it must be so intense now because you guys are all over social and whatever.

Speaker 168 We were just like

Speaker 190 quietly, I mean, I, you know, the day I got the show, I think I had on my OG answering machine, like 36 like messages.

Speaker 174 At the time, I was like, and it's also funny because it's a lot of assholes.

Speaker 248 Like the agents who didn't sign you and stuff.

Speaker 218 Like, you know, we're like, I just wanted to say congratulations.

Speaker 218 We had such a sense and you've landed where you deserve.

Speaker 155 You had such a sense.

Speaker 181 Even though we told you you weren't wouldn't work unless you look like Courtney Thorne Smith.

Speaker 209 Deep cut, but true.

Speaker 166 Twice. I had that had said to me twice.

Speaker 219 No, I didn't.

Speaker 96 I went to LA.

Speaker 203 Isn't that crazy? Terrible.

Speaker 203 I know.

Speaker 229 Well, Tina and I have a saying, which is ethnic in the 80s, because we both had like super turtle Greek hair.

Speaker 173 We were ethnic in the 80s.

Speaker 211 Tina's Greekness.

Speaker 47 My mom is Greek.

Speaker 210 So it was literally like, I was.

Speaker 47 I was also Greek. I played free.

Speaker 272 Yeah, so ethnic in the 80s.

Speaker 186 And now, because literally my school was like, you know, wanted me to, you know, whatever, the West Side's tourists.

Speaker 189 Like, now you're like, my daughter is scandalized when I tell her.

Speaker 210 She's like, you can't do that.

Speaker 230 You can't be annoyed up.

Speaker 12 But you, so you were Celine Dion.

Speaker 42 Molly was Shania.

Speaker 56 Right.

Speaker 137 And Sherry was Mariah.

Speaker 49 Mariah.

Speaker 95 And it was the three of you, like, all discussing.

Speaker 115 It was a sketch with the three of you before the show started.

Speaker 156 Do you know who this showed?

Speaker 222 It opened with you guys.

Speaker 180 It was Destiny's Child.

Speaker 262 We were introducing Destiny's Child.

Speaker 188 Isn't that crazy?

Speaker 47 Wow.

Speaker 43 After you'd already done Jump.

Speaker 98 No, no, because Maya hadn't been at the show yet.

Speaker 276 Maya wasn't on the show yet. He wasn't on the show yet.

Speaker 127 It was 96, I think, or seven, early seven.

Speaker 167 That was my first moment where I was like, oh, this is a thing.

Speaker 274 And the first paper to mention it, the first paper of record was Playboy.

Speaker 143 Wow.

Speaker 174 Playboy did like a little story on the girls of SNL popping.

Speaker 156 Wow. Isn't that weird?

Speaker 276 It used to be, my husband has a plan, by the way.

Speaker 219 Playboy's for sale.

Speaker 166 He's like, I think we should buy Playboy and we should just quietly talk to all the white straight boys who don't know how to vote.

Speaker 198 And

Speaker 47 they do need to be spoken to.

Speaker 276 And give them a place

Speaker 229 that isn't like

Speaker 162 such, like, it's only semi-toxic masculinity.

Speaker 81 Exactly.

Speaker 112 No, there's a way to get it.

Speaker 237 Give him a grayscale. That's right.

Speaker 81 Give him grayscale.

Speaker 75 Yeah.

Speaker 95 So I think we'll...

Speaker 219 I mean, I have a sweet straight boy, so I want it to be a little bit more.

Speaker 47 And like, listen, they're not all bad.

Speaker 112 No, they're not all bad.

Speaker 47 But

Speaker 103 how'd you get him that way?

Speaker 235 How'd you get him?

Speaker 258 He has an anxiety disorder.

Speaker 174 That's the so he just runs constantly. Oh, great.

Speaker 136 So he's healthy.

Speaker 160 He runs like constantly.

Speaker 138 Running, like,

Speaker 257 he's running.

Speaker 201 Like, he ran the Brooklyn half as a sophomore in high school.

Speaker 234 Like, he's, so that's how he handles his despair without the funny.

Speaker 67 Looking back, I know that was why I was a runner too. And I, because I was also a heavy track athlete.

Speaker 121 Yeah.

Speaker 264 And I bet you were. Looking back, I'm like, it was my anxiety.

Speaker 75 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 47 It's so good for anxiety.

Speaker 127 I ran across country in high school, too.

Speaker 75 Did you?

Speaker 43 Look at you. Badly.

Speaker 187 Badly? But I liked it. It was the only thing that kept me sane because it was, you know, very sure.

Speaker 172 It was pre-diagnosis times.

Speaker 23 Right, right, right.

Speaker 237 I keep aging myself.

Speaker 47 In my day, my mother bought me dexatrim.

Speaker 241 Dexatrim.

Speaker 213 My mom bought me dexatrim. Can you imagine?

Speaker 265 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 245 Like, you know what?

Speaker 172 You should probably, we all did the Scarsdale diet.

Speaker 47 It was like,

Speaker 256 it was so gross. It was like.

Speaker 205 Half a, I can't imagine having an adolescent in my house being like, here's your half a grapefruit and black coffee.

Speaker 155 Yeah, yesterday coffee.

Speaker 253 It was black coffee, half a grapefruit, and then hilarious 80s pasta for dinner.

Speaker 96 But in Benedict All sets it with the grapefruit.

Speaker 195 And we were all on Dexterum anyway, so it didn't matter.

Speaker 42 Yeah, but you know what, though? There was a pasta.

Speaker 75 We were as high as a kite.

Speaker 225 And Judy Garland, Jesus.

Speaker 105 We were told, like, you can't eat enough pasta, the runners.

Speaker 24 You know what I mean?

Speaker 12 Like, it was a cargo load all the time.

Speaker 159 That's actually still a thing.

Speaker 223 Well, yeah.

Speaker 72 I remember I would go for pasta party dinners at Appleby's, and I would fuck myself up because I would just have the three cheese chicken penne, and I would run my race the next day and chicken penning.

Speaker 97 But you were bad.

Speaker 95 There was a day where I had to stop and shit, which is like horrible.

Speaker 36 No, I just read an article about it.

Speaker 143 Yeah, like it's out there. It's happening.

Speaker 67 We're kind of existing in this area where I think we should ask the question.

Speaker 136 Yes, I think we should.

Speaker 43 Because we're sort of back in time.

Speaker 12 So Anna Gastire, what was the culture that made you say culture was for you?

Speaker 174 Okay, so I'm going to be, this is, I'm not going to be as fun on this answer as I might want, but we are existing in this time.

Speaker 163 And it is the only thing I can think of, and it's going to sound really humble braggy, but it is about SNL and it's about the importance of laughter.

Speaker 243 I can't believe I just said that.

Speaker 174 No, my friend Tony and I have a bit where we always make fun of people who use the word humor.

Speaker 216 Oh, of course.

Speaker 80 It's so humorous.

Speaker 243 It just

Speaker 188 sucks all comedy from their humor.

Speaker 178 Yeah, people who call that out.

Speaker 204 Exactly.

Speaker 36 I love how you use humor. Humor.

Speaker 143 Someone calls themselves a humorist.

Speaker 47 A humorous.

Speaker 210 Dunge.

Speaker 142 I love how you use humor to diffuse awkward situations. Yeah.

Speaker 195 Just destroying it, ruining everything.

Speaker 224 Ruining it.

Speaker 249 Random humor.

Speaker 159 What I was going to say is, so this is a weird thing to throw throw out there, but as a kid,

Speaker 201 I was friends with Amy Carter, President Jimmy Carter's daughter.

Speaker 127 I grew up in Washington.

Speaker 218 Okay, so for starters, let me just start with culture.

Speaker 175 Like, I grew up in a totally black neighborhood.

Speaker 1 I was a little white girl who played the violin and I had an eye patch.

Speaker 132 Wow. So

Speaker 194 due to blindness.

Speaker 80 Oh.

Speaker 195 Due to permanent, just whatever, legal blindness in my writing.

Speaker 237 So I was always patched.

Speaker 158 They patched me for like ever.

Speaker 162 So I would go to like my all-black elementary school with my violin and my eye patch.

Speaker 175 And as you can imagine, I developed a sense of, I used humor a lot to get through the situation.

Speaker 215 Okay, so anyway, but then weirdly, I was in this after-school program, like this GT kind of thing.

Speaker 179 And I got, I became friends with Amy Carter, Jimmy Carter's daughter, and we became really good friends.

Speaker 175 And she played the violin.

Speaker 186 She was like a reader.

Speaker 256 And so I weirdly had this like.

Speaker 197 whole childhood life in middle school where I would go and like sleep over at the White House and like go to Camp David.

Speaker 181 Like I went to Camp David during the camp, during, during the Camp David course.

Speaker 162 I played, if you research it, if you go to

Speaker 189 the violin for Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin, just me and it's such a weird for the Middle Eastern leaders.

Speaker 186 Yes, for the Middle Eastern.

Speaker 166 I watched Star Wars with the Sadats.

Speaker 245 Insane.

Speaker 245 Okay.

Speaker 45 So we're just to make this clear, this is while he was president.

Speaker 201 100%.

Speaker 190 Okay, so all this kind of weird fact about my life, just by this accidental biography, okay?

Speaker 97 Yeah.

Speaker 190 To say that I was in the White House sleeping over at Amy Carter's.

Speaker 201 And now remember, Saturday Night Live started in 75.

Speaker 200 Yes.

Speaker 162 And it was everybody, like liberal parents, all the people on my block, everybody was aware that this kind of like radical piece of television had come out.

Speaker 175 And again, I know for your audience, like, it's hard to imagine, but

Speaker 323 nobody had made fun of the news.

Speaker 162 Nobody had made fun of like basic sort of tropes that we're accustomed to.

Speaker 253 The onion, like that was so radical.

Speaker 49 And I was a kid, I was little, but I was aware that they were like edgy and cool and making choices that were strange and wearing costumes and funny.

Speaker 186 Like we knew it was cool and hip.

Speaker 107 It's right after Watergate.

Speaker 81 It's right afterwards.

Speaker 93 Right after Watergate. The last chopper leaves.

Speaker 142 And basically what we watched was, which was great.

Speaker 163 It was like Carol Burnett and Bob Newhart and like what was on TV when it was scheduled.

Speaker 162 So you just kind of like consumed television idly, if you will.

Speaker 181 Shot it.

Speaker 138 So, and again, also, I remember I was 10, 11.

Speaker 205 So I'm in the White House and it's after dinner.

Speaker 175 It's late.

Speaker 209 It's a sleepover.

Speaker 225 And we go to this little like kitchenette in the, in the living quarters.

Speaker 175 And President Carter was like never there because he was the president.

Speaker 200 And we were usually just with her nanny and her, maybe Rosalind Carter was around a little bit.

Speaker 226 Wow.

Speaker 175 And we went to get a snack and we came out and sort of in the middle of the White House living area,

Speaker 180 President Jimmy Carter was sitting in a chair with a burgundy v-neck

Speaker 174 and a beer.

Speaker 162 And he was watching Dan Aykroy play himself on Saturday Night Live and he was laughing hysterically.

Speaker 223 Oh my God.

Speaker 209 And it like imprinted in my brain of the, well, obviously the surrealness of like, whatever, there's this person dressed as this person imitating this person, the president, leader of the free world.

Speaker 215 And also, I just think he's the most amazing human being.

Speaker 176 Obviously, we all know he went on to do incredible acts of humanity and humanism.

Speaker 197 But

Speaker 263 it has stayed with me so much in the last 12 years, our lack of empathy and understanding.

Speaker 161 Like when, as soon as the president-elect, I'm not even going to say his name, was not able to laugh at anything about himself.

Speaker 183 In fact, arguably ran for president because he was a laughing stock, right because seth made fun of him yeah it's so the the ability to laugh at things and the ability to pull yourself out of situations and to find what's funny about it and i can't even believe i'm saying this but like the like the gift that humor does actually give us as a piece of sort of like storytelling and political commentary as much as like i really hated dressing as martha stewart the day after the election and i hated doing the goldbergs and having um a chandelier a chandelier follow me it's more important than i thought you know and i feel like we're gonna have a lot of places in this new era where whatever news has proven itself to be untrustworthy and social media has certainly proven itself to be un like maybe we idiotic performers will be able to tell the truth a little bit it's starting to get all deep and go no no that's no that's really important and what a special memory to have yeah that is wild and even my 10-year-old brain was like oh he's so good at he's laughing at himself like i understood it on some profound level and like

Speaker 26 you understood what was being shown on television was this like purposeful lampooning.

Speaker 191 I mean, I don't think I like, was, I was a kid, so I wasn't like dialed into like the nuance of the politic, you know, but you saw him laughing.

Speaker 98 You just, you just understood that he wasn't.

Speaker 235 I understood that it was an impression of him that he was, we were in the White House, and that he was watching this Saturday Night Live, the still and yet that one of the cooler pieces of cultural reflection in our, in our society, and that he understood that it was funny and that there was a power to that.

Speaker 116 Yeah.

Speaker 26 It's like the Ron thing, or it's like, it's like, whatever.

Speaker 98 It's like, it's like, either you, Bellwether, either you get it or you don't.

Speaker 81 Yeah.

Speaker 4 And, like, right now, you got to get it.

Speaker 204 We got to get it. I mean, it's really hard.
I don't get it.

Speaker 237 I don't think anything's funny right now, except for you and all of the work that you do.

Speaker 258 But it's like, but you know what I'm saying? Like, those things.

Speaker 49 Yeah.

Speaker 162 And whatever.

Speaker 187 Sometimes that means we just need something light and fluffy and joyful.

Speaker 180 And it's whatever the moment calls for.

Speaker 175 I just, the irony of anyway, that's supposed to be fun.

Speaker 26 It's about humility. It's about

Speaker 118 it takes you out of solipsism.

Speaker 26 It takes you out of like thinking that your own reality is the most important one.

Speaker 33 I've definitely been thinking a lot about like, because as we, as we have like this platform where we're expected to comment on culture and everything, it has been, I don't know how, if you feel this way, but it sometimes can be confusing about like, do we come on here and like

Speaker 85 say, this is what I think and like, da, da, da, and react in real time, or are we supposed to be clowns?

Speaker 110 And I think it's sort of a mix of both.

Speaker 109 It's been an interesting walk.

Speaker 105 And, you know, I would imagine that like it feels probably very similar when you are on Saturday Night Live.

Speaker 12 It's like.

Speaker 67 We do have to speak to real issues, but also at the same time, like

Speaker 49 what we do and what our talents are are being funny and being the jesters.

Speaker 100 And the literal role of the jester is to point to the king and say, This is what's crazy about the king.

Speaker 141 I mean, and it feels that's like where humor, that's like where comedy is birthed from.

Speaker 79 That's literally the job of the comedian is to do the very thing.

Speaker 105 Yeah, but it can sometimes feel, I think, and this is where I think we can, as comedians and as people in the arts, check ourselves, is it can become very self-important and

Speaker 112 didactic.

Speaker 100 I'm gonna I want to get in there didactic but when people I sometimes I like for example I've really been thinking a lot about like the celebrity endorsement right yeah and like how it didn't I mean it literally didn't matter at all in one sense like of course it's great to be able to speak out against like fascism and these like objective evils and to let people know like hi women i see you i'm sticking up for you i'm standing up to this but at the same time it feels like we've been given a clear message that like the public, I think across the board wants entertainers to be entertainers

Speaker 150 and not scolds and also to not feel like they can control culture because I think we've seen that they don't.

Speaker 54 You know what I mean? I'm not saying like, don't speak up, but I am saying

Speaker 245 I do see some fault.

Speaker 232 at the feet of those who have characterized it as such.

Speaker 195 I do feel like, yes, stay in your lane to a certain degree, but we also are what we're made of, right?

Speaker 184 Yeah.

Speaker 157 So finding common ground as human beings is part of what comedy is, like finding the things that we share in common.

Speaker 200 And actually, I do think it gets harder and harder and harder as we're more and more sort of forced into these tribal lanes.

Speaker 219 It's really, it's really tricky.

Speaker 270 But, you know, whatever. Like, I love, that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 162 Like, I love doing shows in Kansas and Red States and, you know, places where I can just share a love of the holidays and try to find a place that's like a little less lightning roddy for people.

Speaker 184 But there are fewer and fewer places to do that.

Speaker 219 The holidays is one, but

Speaker 162 just the things that we all kind of universally share.

Speaker 161 But I do feel like, I guess what I was really trying to say is that people are like, shut up, you entitled libs.

Speaker 195 I think that that's very activating for me too, because

Speaker 258 in many ways we share the same values.

Speaker 157 And I think for women in particular, it's heartbreaking.

Speaker 177 I mean, Beyonce, Taylor Swift, like those people showing up

Speaker 219 to people like my daughter, who are 22, it meant a lot because it's very...

Speaker 161 It's a very hopeless feeling to be a young woman right now in this country, not just from the tactical standpoints of reproductive care, but also, you know, they've now, in their very short lives, seen misogyny really run the

Speaker 47 warning.

Speaker 194 Now, pull the camera back.

Speaker 262 We've run two candidates in 12 years.

Speaker 191 That's not bad.

Speaker 225 I never thought a woman was even an option for a president, let alone a person of color.

Speaker 174 Like it was not even in there.

Speaker 162 So whatever.

Speaker 194 In 50 years, yeah, we're probably going to have both of those boxes checked.

Speaker 225 You know, it just feels very immediate right now.

Speaker 216 Right.

Speaker 26 And this is the thing that I've learned from like Mike Shoemaker via Seth.

Speaker 81 Yeah.

Speaker 26 I don't know if this gives me pause or if this like puts me into more despair.

Speaker 10 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 26 I'm just like, anytime Seth wanted to have it out with someone at SNL, like Shoemaker would be like, it's a long life.

Speaker 107 It's a long life.

Speaker 41 And if you wait, whatever you're feeling about these particular people is going to go away and then they'll be at your wedding.

Speaker 279 Well, that is true about SNL.

Speaker 81 Totally.

Speaker 43 And I don't know how I can apply that to the greater living.

Speaker 179 I don't think Trump is going to come to any of my children's Christmas.

Speaker 191 She might. She might.

Speaker 47 She might.

Speaker 47 I don't know.

Speaker 232 You were friends with the Carters. That's true.

Speaker 237 I was friends with the Carters.

Speaker 264 But I.

Speaker 202 And he turned out to be the best president ever.

Speaker 246 Oh my God. Did you ever go to Georgia or Atlanta?

Speaker 157 No.

Speaker 162 I mean, they literally moved back and that was sort of that.

Speaker 75 And again, this was like pre, it was like long distance phone calls cost something, you know, but

Speaker 258 I mean, we had some friends in common over the years and President Carter did a pen and whatever.

Speaker 179 This is just humble bragging now, but somebody told me that a book on tape editor

Speaker 174 had also worked on his memoirs.

Speaker 188 And I don't know how it came up, but he mentioned, he was like, oh, the comedian, Ana Gastier, she was a friend of age, which was such a weird feeling that he knew who i was but like of course like i was on television yeah but not of course but but no but at a time when everyone but it seemed that was monoculture snl was monoculture yeah and the thing about christmas sorry to go back to this but yeah

Speaker 47 you can

Speaker 26 so braggy you know but you two kind of going across the country performing these shows about christmas having it be so resonant and people loving it it's like it's because christmas feels like the holidays feel like the last kind of bit of they do they're the last safe space that we can all get in and also because they are so just admittedly pagan at this point it's not like you know i kind of know what's funny about it i know it is kind of funny because i just feel like people like need a fucking break

Speaker 192 like they just can i say fucking yeah um that they like people are just tired and they want to be it's it's a funny time for programming like it also gets really because i've done so much now like with cluster funk with our christmas movie and lifetime and hallmark and like we're developing the cluster funk into a musical actually for the stage but i know so fun but um everyone's always like well yeah it's such a weird time to program because nobody thinks about it.

Speaker 245 And then everybody's trapped in the house and they're all watching Hallmark movies because all they want to do is comfort food.

Speaker 146 Because they just want something new because the old stuff kind of like, why don't we visit the old stuff as much as I can?

Speaker 36 There's not that much.

Speaker 98 But many people do. I know many people do, but I'm like.

Speaker 195 Like, I do White Christmas.

Speaker 190 I do, it's a Wonderful Life.

Speaker 94 Yeah. I do Rudolph.

Speaker 254 I do, what do you do? Charlie Brown.

Speaker 164 Charlie Brown.

Speaker 47 Rudolph's dog.

Speaker 43 Frosty's good.

Speaker 171 Yeah.

Speaker 95 There's no solid.

Speaker 43 Yeah, the heat miser, those are bops, by the way.

Speaker 112 I'm Mr.

Speaker 95 Heatmiser.

Speaker 123 Whatever I touch starts to melt melt in my clutch.

Speaker 112 Yeah, I'm too much.

Speaker 237 Rankin and Bass, right?

Speaker 201 That's what it is. That would be.

Speaker 56 Yeah, that was good.

Speaker 24 You know what's funny, though?

Speaker 109 Like, you're talking about going to like red states.

Speaker 12 And I remember I was looking at, because I'm going on the road

Speaker 43 for all of December, and

Speaker 264 the

Speaker 24 by far slowest markets, like the tour is selling great, but like the slowest ones were Philadelphia and Atlanta.

Speaker 105 And I asked my agent, I'm like, why are these so slow?

Speaker 67 And they were like, oh, because those cities are like, the anxiety is so high

Speaker 210 the election.

Speaker 34 And like, as he said, across the board, like those are any swing state is like tough.

Speaker 105 And now it's kind of like, I really do hope people like come out because I think that the amount of anxiety that had to have been felt well they were also getting like that.

Speaker 321 Think about how they got

Speaker 274 Robocalls exactly.

Speaker 95 Oh, yeah, spending a lot of money, I bet, too, like at different events.

Speaker 101 And because people that were really activated in those areas are spending a lot of money, like in the way that other areas may not have been.

Speaker 302 Also, just, I mean, we were in Pennsylvania recently, and it's tense.

Speaker 85 Yeah, like it is tense.

Speaker 12 You look around at people and you're like, How are you looking at me?

Speaker 207 And I think that, you know what I'm saying?

Speaker 177 I know we were just preparing for that the next day after the election.

Speaker 49 It was rough.

Speaker 174 No, I had people like in canvassing say, like, I'm afraid to vote because I'm afraid what my neighbors will do.

Speaker 214 I mean, it's, you know, people are scared.

Speaker 49 Yeah, it's tough.

Speaker 37 That's why we're going to continue to need a little Christmas right this very moment.

Speaker 250 Need a little Christmas.

Speaker 158 Hey, baby, hey, bring in the clowns.

Speaker 156 I feel this.

Speaker 43 This End of the Clowns theme is really, really trenchant.

Speaker 81 Or trenchant? Yeah.

Speaker 165 I don't know what that trends are.

Speaker 75 I like it.

Speaker 49 We need to find out in real time. Well,

Speaker 47 favorite Christmas on a cover.

Speaker 41 Favorite Christmas on a cover.

Speaker 120 On the album or off the album?

Speaker 116 Off Sugar and Booze.

Speaker 47 Favorite Chris. Favorite Christmas song to cover.

Speaker 103 I'm so sorry.

Speaker 94 To cover.

Speaker 169 Well, I love the version on my album is a Slay Ride.

Speaker 146 Slay Ride. It's a great Slay Ride.

Speaker 248 Nobody like it.

Speaker 170 It's not that popular. Nobody listens to it.

Speaker 235 But I love it.

Speaker 215 It's like the Sort of Basa Nova cover, and I love it.

Speaker 143 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 132 You're so at home in that style.

Speaker 215 Yeah, we have that Secret Santa song that I wrote.

Speaker 202 Yeah.

Speaker 181 Maya's so funny on it.

Speaker 174 You know where we recorded that, which is so crazy because Maya's like knows everybody.

Speaker 162 We recorded that in Joni Mitchell's studio

Speaker 103 in LA.

Speaker 215 Because her friend runs that studio.

Speaker 160 Oh, it's amazing.

Speaker 229 And actually, Pharrell, they snuck us in just do it really fast because apparently Pharrell had it for the day.

Speaker 190 So Pharrell doesn't know

Speaker 174 that he paid for my studio time for that song, which is kind of excellent.

Speaker 163 He's good for it.

Speaker 112 Yeah.

Speaker 106 He's good for it.

Speaker 150 Trenchant means vigorous or incisive in expression or style.

Speaker 133 And what did I say was trenchant?

Speaker 101 The point that Send in the Clowns point.

Speaker 26 Send in the Clowns is trenchant. I would say vigorous and incisive in expression or style.

Speaker 47 Send means.

Speaker 249 Send in the Clown. Yeah.

Speaker 120 Send in the Clowns

Speaker 278 is trenchant.

Speaker 47 That's a rule of culture.

Speaker 26 That's rule of culture number 75.

Speaker 210 Send in the Clowns is trenchant.

Speaker 45 Good.

Speaker 24 You would do a great rendition of that song.

Speaker 204 It's kind of a downer.

Speaker 223 Yeah, but that's a problem.

Speaker 103 There's an ounce of triumph to it.

Speaker 49 Yeah, a little bit.

Speaker 75 Yeah.

Speaker 151 I think it's beautiful and how sad and resigned.

Speaker 169 I know.

Speaker 175 Now that I'm in my third chapter, I don't feel anything.

Speaker 1 I try to shut down feelings as fast as possible.

Speaker 215 You know what? I know.

Speaker 103 The fourth chapter is going to be about getting the

Speaker 201 fourth chapter.

Speaker 228 A lot of people are going to start dying.

Speaker 248 And so then I'm going to have to cry a lot.

Speaker 183 But then by fifth chapter, be like, well, we were good friends.

Speaker 274 And then I'll be it.

Speaker 67 It is crazy. Like,

Speaker 105 I was watching, like,

Speaker 91 Hillary was obviously doing the rounds a little bit, and a lot of her friends are dead.

Speaker 96 Hillary,

Speaker 138 sorry.

Speaker 73 Well, Kelly, she's always talking about, well, this is my friend who died, and this is my friend who died.

Speaker 101 And I was like, oh, God.

Speaker 251 I mean, it happens.

Speaker 223 It happens.

Speaker 75 I know.

Speaker 175 My friend Kelly, she was like, we were talking about when certain people were going to die that might die that maybe were just elected.

Speaker 243 And we were talking just loosely about that. Right, right, right.

Speaker 47 And she was just in theory, you know, just how that might go.

Speaker 181 And she was saying, she was like, the people who feel die more.

Speaker 26 Right. No, no, no.

Speaker 28 Someone was saying this.

Speaker 26 Like, people who are that disgusting tend to live so long.

Speaker 164 Guys, I know, because they're not troubled.

Speaker 162 They don't get cancer from being sad.

Speaker 90 Two questions. What are you doing right now?

Speaker 280 And why aren't you on a Virgin Voyages Caribbean cruise?

Speaker 269 Well, obviously you were listening to us. Smart use of your time.

Speaker 134 True.

Speaker 280 But you could also be on a Virgin Voyages Caribbean cruise at the same time.

Speaker 38 That's just brilliant time management.

Speaker 18 Very true.

Speaker 282 This gives me an idea.

Speaker 145 Let's do a quick cruise quiz. Ready?

Speaker 283 First, cruise dining.

Speaker 135 Do you prefer a buffet or a curated dining experience with access to 20 distinct restaurants?

Speaker 44 Curated dining.

Speaker 284 Next. Okay, good choice.

Speaker 145 That's what Virgin Voyages offers.

Speaker 29 Second question.

Speaker 25 Would you rather have an overstuffed itinerary or the freedom to explore stunning Caribbean?

Speaker 110 Oh, I want the freedom to explore stunning Caribbean destinations.

Speaker 11 Again, I think I see where this quiz is going.

Speaker 286 Virgin Voyages is amazing.

Speaker 287 Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 5 The cruises are kid-free.

Speaker 288 From sunrise yoga to late-night cocktails, every moment is made for grown-up fun.

Speaker 289 Nothing against kids.

Speaker 143 Kids are awesome, but sometimes it's nice to be kid-free.

Speaker 4 And there's so much included value, over $1,000.

Speaker 291 Right.

Speaker 77 Over $1,000 of awesomeness all included.

Speaker 109 Wi-Fi, soda, top-tier entertainment, over 20 restaurants, and even group fitness classes.

Speaker 54 No hidden fees, no surprise charges.

Speaker 72 Virgin Voyages gives you the kind of luxury you actually deserve.

Speaker 277 And you know what?

Speaker 27 I deserve luxury.

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Speaker 29 Yes, there's always something happening on board. From wellness-focused sailings to epic holiday voyages, live music, DJs, themed parties, and more.

Speaker 5 Boredom doesn't board the ship.

Speaker 76 And there are so many amazing stops.

Speaker 14 You leave from Miami and sail to places like Grand Cayman, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic.

Speaker 56 Virgin even has their own private beach club in Bienni.

Speaker 133 And they're adding stops in 2025 and 2026.

Speaker 26 Yeah, like Aruba, St. Lucia, and Curacao.

Speaker 134 But it's not all go, go, go.

Speaker 28 Right, you can totally go into relaxation mode too.

Speaker 38 Your cabin is a full-on sanctuary private terrace ocean views and their signature red hammock just waiting for you to swing oh and did i mention virgin voyages is launching a new ship the brilliant lady brilliant name by the way she's bigger bolder and packed with even more virgin wow factor book now at virginvoyages.com or contact your travel advisor that's virgin voyages.com okay so you know how the world is a chaotic swirling ball of total stress right now well We have a new Hulu show from Ryan Murphy that will give you the much-needed break from reality.

Speaker 132 And whether you know it or not, you are already completely obsessed.

Speaker 86 It's called All's Fair, and Ms.

Speaker 48 Kardashian plays Allura Grant, the most in-demand divorce attorney in Los Angeles.

Speaker 89 Get it? It's All's Fair, as in All's Fair in Love and War, and she's a divorce attorney.

Speaker 38 Love it.

Speaker 298 Now let's talk ensemble because Allura does not go it alone.

Speaker 58 She breaks off from a crusty male-dominated law firm to start her own legal coven with some absolute forces of nature.

Speaker 15 Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash-Betts, Tiana Taylor, and Glenn Close.

Speaker 300 Yeah, hello, Glenn Close.

Speaker 64 And of course, you need a villain, so say hello to Sarah Paulson as the nemesis.

Speaker 33 And these ladies are brilliant, complicated, fearless, and when they all come together, nothing can stop them.

Speaker 34 I'm talking about the lawyers on the show and the actresses playing them, by the way.

Speaker 61 But hey, if you're thinking this will be all courtroom drama and no drama drama, relax.

Speaker 53 Allura, that's Kim's character, has plenty of twists and turns in her personal life.

Speaker 303 Her professional life crashes into her personal one and uh-oh.

Speaker 39 So how does this super lawyer fix her own mess?

Speaker 23 With a little help from her besties, of course.

Speaker 15 So, this series has it all: scandalous secrets, high-stakes courtroom drama, more shifting alliances than Kim's other shows, some OMG twists, and friendships that rise above it all.

Speaker 50 And of course, everything is going to look amazing.

Speaker 54 It's got some unapologetic glam, a work-hard, play-harder lifestyle.

Speaker 55 Every scene just sparkles.

Speaker 50 Everybody makes compromises in their lives.

Speaker 63 Lame men, underpaying jobs.

Speaker 304 Well, stop. Just stop.

Speaker 32 And never settle for anything less than fabulous when it comes to your next streaming obsession.

Speaker 132 All's fair now streaming on Hulu and on Hulu on Disney Plus for bundle subscribers.

Speaker 62 Terms apply, drama guaranteed.

Speaker 306 There's pressure systems moving in Bo in the form of cuffing season.

Speaker 58 Potential heavy clouds of nostalgia around the necks, windstorms from a current situation ship, and light drivels of you up, techs, are incoming.

Speaker 5 It's the chill in the air that brings about this behavior.

Speaker 126 In the midst of cuffing season, there's one place where the microclimate is clear communication, radical honesty, and open-mindedness, and that's Field.

Speaker 58 It's a connections app that asks you to show up and articulate your desires as clearly as you understand them now. And if you don't understand them, say that.

Speaker 29 The Field community is made up of so many different kinds of people ranging in experience, interests, and desires.

Speaker 308 Here you can have the space to change, to be honest, and to always be curious.

Speaker 109 Wondering what that looks like?

Speaker 296 Here's a snapshot of Field.

Speaker 129 There's no fast swipe culture.

Speaker 124 Sometimes attraction takes time.

Speaker 295 Here, you don't have to make a split decision in order to see another person.

Speaker 51 Skip profiles, go back, and take the time you need to decide if you really like someone.

Speaker 2 You can expand your curiosity.

Speaker 29 There are over 20 sexuality and gender identities listed on Field.

Speaker 307 In this space, you can explore who you are, Sans judgment.

Speaker 65 And there's no pretending.

Speaker 33 There's no need to write your profile like a job application and pretend to be what someone else wants.

Speaker 309 Within the Field community, the cultural norm is to be radically honest.

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Speaker 21 Good wipes, because butts deserve better.

Speaker 23 The point I was making earlier, I'm a little self-conscious about because it's not really what I believe about celebrities and the celebrity endorsement of it all.

Speaker 165 No, I'm glad you said that.

Speaker 43 What I'm talking about

Speaker 33 is like standing up for issues is important.

Speaker 152 And I think standing up for women is important.

Speaker 33 I just think all of that is important.

Speaker 119 What I'm saying is, though, when a celebrity is at a certain privilege level, we all are.

Speaker 207 Some people are not listening and they feel patronized for it.

Speaker 12 And I think there's something to learn from that

Speaker 19 and maybe how comfortable we all felt.

Speaker 225 No, listen, I want to say, my husband, just, he's an advertising, but he just did this huge research project on the heartland because he also feels, as we all do, I think correctly, that many people in rural America feel patronized.

Speaker 162 And that is an understandable point of view.

Speaker 94 That is, I I think, very real.

Speaker 191 And it is incumbent upon us to find common ground when people feel that marginalized.

Speaker 195 And what's interesting is that this is common ground that he discovered.

Speaker 163 First of all, community is really important in rural America.

Speaker 191 That was like the number one thing.

Speaker 174 Your community is almost more important than.

Speaker 188 Politics. Yeah, other things.

Speaker 215 And the second is making and doing, which was really, really interesting in the research.

Speaker 174 So we may be making and putting on a, you know, putting on a show or whatever, like putting on our wigs and, you know, getting a barn together decoratively.

Speaker 259 But it's funny because Martha Stewart, bringing back to her, one of the reasons she appeals is making and doing, there's like a lot of time spent with sort of crafts and taking care of your property and taking care of your car and sort of mechanical uses of your time, literally.

Speaker 193 But what we have in common with that is we also make things.

Speaker 226 That's what we do.

Speaker 193 And so somehow finding the way to communicate the two of those things.

Speaker 213 So it's not just arrogant fucking didactic entertainment and it's not just like, you know, mud races.

Speaker 195 Like, there's got to be somewhere where those two things do overlap slately, and it doesn't have to be as divisive as it is.

Speaker 157 Exactly, totally.

Speaker 26 You know, exactly, because a lot of the messaging might have been from the left, like be more like us.

Speaker 49 Yes, exactly.

Speaker 26 There's a level of disdain that's implied, yes, completely.

Speaker 128 And there's something about like redistributing respect or something.

Speaker 190 It's really hard, it's so hard.

Speaker 142 It's hard when you don't feel respected. Totally.

Speaker 232 You know, it's understandable as a gay person in America or as an ethnic woman in the 80s.

Speaker 245 Yeah.

Speaker 47 Agree

Speaker 47 in the 80s.

Speaker 158 I have to flat iron my hair.

Speaker 140 See me.

Speaker 141 Yes, but I mean, so

Speaker 49 I don't know how

Speaker 144 it came to me.

Speaker 229 Disney, let's talk about Disney. Yeah.

Speaker 81 Disney.

Speaker 136 Our listeners hate us.

Speaker 47 We've been talking about Disney so much.

Speaker 112 Our listeners are so gummy. I'm so adorable.

Speaker 36 Well, we're going to hopefully go December. Oh, I'll tell you when.

Speaker 1 But no, because there's this one thing that I have done done over the years that is so incredible, which I'm going to type.

Speaker 200 I'll type it off camera. What is it?

Speaker 105 Just that.

Speaker 36 You can't do it. Just a second.

Speaker 37 Candlelight processional have you ever heard of it.

Speaker 49 Oh, you've done it.

Speaker 80 I've done it. Wow.

Speaker 109 That's one of my dreams. I want to do that.

Speaker 237 You absolutely have to do it.

Speaker 225 First of all, like I said, not a religious person, but boy, does Jesus flow through me when I do that?

Speaker 185 Because there are 350 voices behind you.

Speaker 231 Your spine shakes from the bass of the singers.

Speaker 160 There are 56 pieces in that orchestra with those Disney arrangements.

Speaker 192 There are eight heralding trumpets.

Speaker 250 It is so spectacularly magnificent.

Speaker 260 And you read the story of Christmas, and it's very hard not to cry.

Speaker 98 Yes, that's beautiful. This is it.

Speaker 26 Like, like, there's no church anymore, but like, what needs to be replaced is like meaning.

Speaker 10 And that's.

Speaker 162 Oh, my God.

Speaker 167 And also, a big part of the meaning is the fact that my family gets the guide the whole time that I'm there.

Speaker 140 Oh, yeah, that's huge. It's very meaningful.

Speaker 105 Shout out to RVIP guide, Matt.

Speaker 47 We'll see you soon, babe.

Speaker 49 Matt and Sam. Do you have Matt?

Speaker 173 I have Matt. I have Sam too.

Speaker 149 Sam was because Sam has Tina.

Speaker 75 Sam has Tina and Mariah Carolyn. Mariah.

Speaker 26 But then Matt is

Speaker 185 like spit out of like a Disney sort of 3D printer, right?

Speaker 143 Are we talking about the same person?

Speaker 276 He's the most lovely. Young guy.

Speaker 47 Yes. Yes, this guy is great.

Speaker 144 He's delightful. Oh, we love Matt.

Speaker 162 Do you take in a show when you go to Disney?

Speaker 263 I like to take in a show just to cool my jets.

Speaker 177 What do you mean take in a show?

Speaker 93 Like, go with the show.

Speaker 178 Like, I'll go take in a show.

Speaker 197 Yeah, I'll sit down and enjoy that year's Beauty and the Beast or whatever.

Speaker 149 I'll take in a show.

Speaker 115 What did we see?

Speaker 43 Did we go into the Frozen show?

Speaker 72 I think we stayed till Let It Go and left.

Speaker 93 Yeah.

Speaker 203 That's fair.

Speaker 276 I mean, Aladdin, nice little 45 minutes. Oh, I love

Speaker 242 Beauty and the Beast. We saw

Speaker 242 that.

Speaker 245 We saw Torrell.

Speaker 238 Yeah, fantastic. I mean, all of it.

Speaker 180 I enjoy taking a show for a break because it's often air-conditioned.

Speaker 198 Of course.

Speaker 138 Oh, that's the thing.

Speaker 220 And you can settle in. Yeah.

Speaker 274 And what's your favorite place to eat?

Speaker 172 Wait, you like, do you like Walt Disney World or Disneyland?

Speaker 26 I love World. I love Tiffins, Animal Kingdom.

Speaker 101 Tiffins and Animal Kingdom. I haven't been to Tiffins.

Speaker 114 Oh, you should go to Light.

Speaker 41 It's good.

Speaker 236 No, so Jeff and Tina turned us on to the Cars one.

Speaker 159 Do you ever go to not Cars World?

Speaker 184 Do you ever go to the old-timey

Speaker 166 sci-fi movie?

Speaker 254 Oh, the sci-fi drive-in.

Speaker 203 Yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 188 Also, really good for, again, a lot of our thoughts are around the kids.

Speaker 175 Yeah, my kids are old now.

Speaker 258 But early on, these taking a show and sitting in the drive-in, those are like, it's hot, everybody's overstimulated.

Speaker 183 Let's sit in the dark for a few minutes.

Speaker 26 Yes, that's important.

Speaker 34 Where we went for lunch this last time was the space restaurant.

Speaker 30 Remember that?

Speaker 47 Oh,

Speaker 28 space 220. Space 220, which is the rest of the day.

Speaker 143 But that's

Speaker 162 admission space, but it's they pretend it's like they pretend it's an elevator that takes you.

Speaker 168 Yeah, I think it was booked when we were there.

Speaker 163 We tried to get in.

Speaker 100 It's kind of goofy, but it was good, but it's fine.

Speaker 188 I do OG blue bayou.

Speaker 75 Oh, come on.

Speaker 47 Of course.

Speaker 156 So you can have a cocktail.

Speaker 93 God damn it. I mean, why not? Yeah.

Speaker 203 It might glow in the dark.

Speaker 118 It might. It just might.

Speaker 95 It just might be too sweet.

Speaker 43 That's the thing.

Speaker 85 Now, whenever I go drink there, I always drink beer because everything is so sweet.

Speaker 37 Everything's so sweet.

Speaker 262 Now you're in your sugar watching times.

Speaker 173 Yes.

Speaker 49 But but also

Speaker 236 monitor times.

Speaker 117 Sweet cocktails, like it's really tough.

Speaker 228 You can get wine over in California Adventure.

Speaker 164 You sure can.

Speaker 181 So your listeners are tired of hearing it.

Speaker 221 Anyway, well, no, this is.

Speaker 238 So we have a game in my family.

Speaker 163 It's called Nervous Breakdown Job.

Speaker 202 Go ahead.

Speaker 162 It's what you're going to do after your nervous breakdown.

Speaker 99 Oh, great.

Speaker 122 What's yours? What's yours?

Speaker 262 Well, mine is going to be, and it's kind of a cheat because it is a job at Disney, but we have different versions of it.

Speaker 219 My main one is that I'm going to work at Trader Joe's on the Fearless Flyer, where I write up reviews of new Trader Joe's products.

Speaker 47 That's good.

Speaker 162 But if I have a nervous breakdown and I end up in disney i'm going to try to audition to be the wicked stepmother meet and greet lady oh my god

Speaker 174 lady tremaine they're so funny those women are so funny so i'll just yell at people yell at children it's not unlike my character actually in mattress um no actually

Speaker 174 my husband's nervous breakdown job at walt disney world is

Speaker 165 it's all disney he wants to turn bananas

Speaker 274 he's sorry everybody he's going to manage the tiny barge trip from the yacht you're kidding to epcom oh that's wonderful you know they get on and they're like, oh, aboard.

Speaker 47 Oh, that's perfect. You know what those simple jokes are.

Speaker 272 You're taking people off and then,

Speaker 188 all aboard.

Speaker 100 Yeah, you just go right back.

Speaker 162 He's going to do that all day and find it soothing.

Speaker 79 You know what?

Speaker 105 The culture that made me say culture for me in many regards was, this is not Disney, but it was Universal Studios, the Jaws Ride, the boat, the Skipper.

Speaker 95 I actually am off book on it.

Speaker 104 And I'm not kidding you.

Speaker 72 I did a show years ago at UCB called a one-man show called You Will Get wet

Speaker 137 which actually doesn't really qualify as where my character's biggest dream was to be that the skipper on the jaws and bow and yang played the shark i played

Speaker 72 i see where this is going if you're in your future career so you did i staged the ride and there was water effects and everything i did it in the basement at ucb chelsea actually is there is a youtube video of it i don't know if i've taken it down that sounds fantastic it was good it was good shannon o'nil did not give me a run but it was an excellent show It was almost a week.

Speaker 210 Honestly,

Speaker 156 one of these days.

Speaker 156 One of these days.

Speaker 43 Isn't that a great title?

Speaker 246 You will get wet.

Speaker 107 Yes.

Speaker 243 So good. It's really good.
Bring it back.

Speaker 222 I'm going to use it for something else.

Speaker 183 Listen, there's going to be a lot of Disney times in the coming years for a lot of America. For a lot of Americans.

Speaker 209 If they drop their prices, because it's gotten very expensive.

Speaker 281 Can I say, this is the thing, though?

Speaker 79 It's like, after the results came in, I was like, you know.

Speaker 118 It's the separation of wealth because families can't even go to fucking Disney anymore.

Speaker 75 You're absolutely right.

Speaker 141 Like, that's what it is, is it's like, we talk about the separation of wealth.

Speaker 47 We talk talk about wealth inequality ad nauseum.

Speaker 150 And then it's like the Democratic Party decides to put someone up who doesn't make that a forefront issue, at least enough for people. And we're surprised.

Speaker 12 I mean, the separation of wealth is the number one thing that we have to fix.

Speaker 33 Money has to come out of politics.

Speaker 136 There needs to be some redistribution.

Speaker 43 Like, I mean, a billion dollars.

Speaker 309 It's crazy.

Speaker 150 And meanwhile, this, like, whatever.

Speaker 105 I'm just saying, it's like you talk about these things and then it is sad because families can't experience it anymore.

Speaker 222 That's ridiculous.

Speaker 229 Yeah.

Speaker 156 The prices are

Speaker 221 why we start a fund?

Speaker 91 Maybe.

Speaker 157 I was going to start a community college fund, but you know what?

Speaker 47 Let's start a Disney fund. Disney fund.

Speaker 80 Disney fund.

Speaker 93 For everybody.

Speaker 138 For everybody.

Speaker 187 It's for the community.

Speaker 49 It's just a.

Speaker 246 Everybody gets a guide.

Speaker 31 Everybody gets a guide.

Speaker 136 Honestly, I should be a guide.

Speaker 104 I really should be a guide.

Speaker 159 Well, that's a good nervous breakdown job for you.

Speaker 244 Get your steps.

Speaker 93 Perfect. Get your steps.

Speaker 114 Get your steps.

Speaker 26 This is my nervous breakdown job. So when you get a guide, when you arrive at each park, there's someone waiting there with a wicker tray full of like Lara bars,

Speaker 26 Luna bars, and I want to hold that tray.

Speaker 47 You know what?

Speaker 187 You know what I really want to do?

Speaker 168 Because when they, okay, this is cutting deep, but when they give you the guide for candlelight processional, they give you VIP housing.

Speaker 47 Oh, wow.

Speaker 36 So the housing is unbelievable.

Speaker 181 Okay. So we stay in like Yacht Club or you said, we stayed in like the Polynesian, in the apartment where the Beatles broke up.

Speaker 37 Yes, yes, all the things.

Speaker 47 The Beatles broke up at Disney World?

Speaker 188 I know, go figure it.

Speaker 206 Well, John Lennon was there with his family.

Speaker 138 Anyway, he was like, standing.

Speaker 183 I love it. He was like, oh, fuck it.

Speaker 326 I'm out.

Speaker 262 But in the nice, like, fancy, you know, like there's club levels or hotels.

Speaker 167 So they would have, and my family always gets so excited about this because you'll have like a little breakfast spread.

Speaker 172 Not a big one, because it's like the club level.

Speaker 231 Like you, you're still expected to go to breakfast, but there's some like, you know, a little like croissants and whatever, and they come out throughout the day.

Speaker 162 And it always, it tells you the times of the day.

Speaker 197 And every time my husband's like, are the desserts and cordials out yet?

Speaker 47 Dessert dials.

Speaker 165 We always get excited.

Speaker 166 We're like, let's check out the desserts and cordials.

Speaker 197 Like, oh, and we always get excited.

Speaker 230 You were doing a service, a candlelight professional service, and you deserved all those desserts.

Speaker 49 I want a cordial.

Speaker 144 I want a cordial.

Speaker 122 It's the dessert.

Speaker 148 It's Christmas season, damn it.

Speaker 43 I want to eat fresh fruit with y'all in the morning.

Speaker 241 You bet. You can come.
We always have extra beds.

Speaker 192 I haven't done it for a long time.

Speaker 155 You got to go. I've got to go.

Speaker 49 Why not this year? I guess you're going to be a little bit more.

Speaker 37 Don't blame me.

Speaker 97 Every year I'm like,

Speaker 158 next year, next year.

Speaker 177 We went during COVID, and we all discovered we had COVID the last morning because obviously we got it.

Speaker 162 Because with Florida, nobody's masked.

Speaker 193 It was like that weird little omicron break.

Speaker 274 Okay.

Speaker 168 And as as we landed at Orlando, I received three calls from the Department of Health and my son.

Speaker 37 Like, he has been exposed.

Speaker 306 He has been, I was like, no, no, it's even fine.

Speaker 149 We're going to Disneyland. Have you been around a lot of Florida people?

Speaker 160 Yeah, and then literally everybody in Florida, no mask, narrowly a mask to be found.

Speaker 236 And then the last morning, and my mom, my old mom, had shared a room.

Speaker 186 I mean, granted, it was a big Disney room. So it was like two queen-size beds, and he was in one with literally my mom from the other room.

Speaker 183 She's like, what does two lines mean?

Speaker 106 And it's like, get out of the door.

Speaker 211 God, can you imagine eating?

Speaker 28 They're like all these public health officials taking sewage water from Orlando and going, oh my God, it's a lot of COVID and turbulent.

Speaker 174 Poor Sam. I was like, Sam, my man, because we've all masked.

Speaker 75 We're down.

Speaker 210 We're down bad.

Speaker 156 I was like, sorry.

Speaker 201 We're down bad.

Speaker 215 But also, it was, I, and I'm not a good person.

Speaker 175 I got on a plane.

Speaker 162 I double masked everybody.

Speaker 206 I was like, no one even on the plane had a mask.

Speaker 266 Sure.

Speaker 158 I was like, we're going home.

Speaker 248 I'm not going to spend a week at Disney quarantine with a child.

Speaker 47 No, you're not going to be able to do it.

Speaker 49 That's Christmas.

Speaker 163 We double masked and we got home.

Speaker 118 We also, we were also on vacation.

Speaker 100 Then we got, we got COVID.

Speaker 243 well you had just had covid yes i we thought we were in the clear and then i got covid gnarly in mexico city oh yeah lonely and i and i it was crazy because i was in a hotel well in a hotel in mexico city and i i was starting to feel a little weird like two hours before we had to get on the plane was this early or i took a test and it was like and it said i was negative but i was starting to feel weird so i like triple masked it and i got on the plane and i went and but you weren't sure what you weren't sure if it was like some like a water that you drank or something it was it could have been anything and so I was like I'm gonna test and it said I was negative masked up got on the plane because

Speaker 181 then what was I gonna do like be I would have had to be there for a while I think a lot of people did that and that is why we had an epidemic anyway um

Speaker 195 you're right ever heard of patient zero that little girl was me

Speaker 75 keeping it light this post-election special That's true.

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Speaker 77 This is I Don't Think So, honey.

Speaker 95 this is our segment where we take one minute to rant and rail again something in culture that we don't love yes do you have something you'll go first I do have something I do have something

Speaker 49 okay this is Matt Rogers

Speaker 322 we all have something yeah very good this is Matt Rogers I don't think so honey's time starts now I don't think so honey so the Beatles song, the new song now and then is nominated for record of the year.

Speaker 105 And the way that they got John Lennon's voice on it is by AIing his voice out.

Speaker 119 Like they had to bring his voice out so they used AI on it to make it a real vocal.

Speaker 149 I don't think so, honey.

Speaker 148 I don't think so, honey, the AI like recreation of people that have been long dead.

Speaker 140 He's been dead for 40 plus years.

Speaker 322 I don't think so, honey, the Whitney Houston holographic.

Speaker 43 I don't think so, honey, the Elvis holographic.

Speaker 111 These people actually can't consent to releasing music. And this is not just John Lennon.

Speaker 109 This is also George Harrison.

Speaker 295 And I get that his wife says, you know, George would have been on board for this.

Speaker 322 I don't know what Yoko is saying, but I don't think so, honey.

Speaker 140 If I ever die,

Speaker 137 no AI lost cultureistas.

Speaker 150 I'm telling you, I don't care how much money Bowen Yang needs because he's talking about pivoting to holding a wicker tray at Disney.

Speaker 104 I don't care how south his career goes.

Speaker 285 No AI lost coach after I am dead.

Speaker 150 No AI Beatlesong now, especially not nominated for Rucker of the Year at the Grammys.

Speaker 12 Where was Ariana Grande?

Speaker 26 And that's so hard. Where was Ariana? And that's one minute.
No way, especially if it's going to suck up all the power that could be used to, you you know, power a small town.

Speaker 95 That's another thing is like how harmful AI was for the environment.

Speaker 112 I know that. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 93 I'm really glad that you're not. There's a lot of water to cool down, all of the whatever stuff.

Speaker 138 Like, I never hologram or AI voicing.

Speaker 49 Well, AI.

Speaker 75 All of it, I guess, is part of it.

Speaker 26 Now it's all kind of blending together. It's like anything generative is AI, but for anything AI, it has to be derivative by default, too.

Speaker 26 So it's like, I don't know, weirdly, I'm like, about it, because I'm like, it will always be derivative by definition.

Speaker 138 Correct.

Speaker 81 That's correct. And so I'm like, oh, you're right.

Speaker 174 As a comedian, that's such a like a weird sort of almost constitutional stance.

Speaker 47 You know, you know,

Speaker 143 what's the word? Constitutional.

Speaker 4 I don't know. I mean,

Speaker 237 trenchant.

Speaker 178 Is it constitutional?

Speaker 181 Like, you have to take shit after you're

Speaker 149 if it references your constitution.

Speaker 181 Like people say, like, let's take a constitutional.

Speaker 180 They mean like a gentle law or a massacre.

Speaker 47 Do you guys take shit together?

Speaker 321 Let's think.

Speaker 47 Anyway, and you can. Communal constitutional.

Speaker 162 Comedians don't like the people who copy them.

Speaker 219 There you go.

Speaker 245 There you go. No.

Speaker 17 It's so trenchant trenchant that we've said this.

Speaker 26 There's no worse thing.

Speaker 207 I don't know.

Speaker 42 The AI of it all, like, no one, because now I get really wary of people that are like, yeah, but about AI.

Speaker 111 I'm like, I don't think so.

Speaker 47 I really think that's so helpful.

Speaker 253 I mean, maybe, okay.

Speaker 178 Oops, I just did it.

Speaker 261 But

Speaker 142 medical research or like quick research. Sure.

Speaker 182 But isn't that just like a computer?

Speaker 49 I'm just like, yeah.

Speaker 167 I don't want an AI operation, but I wouldn't mind somebody saying this cancer cure is this effective based on your vitals.

Speaker 26 Like, absolutely. I'm just thinking, like, the everyday uses of it, people are still trying to figure out.

Speaker 81 Even Apple's kind of like, I know, I know. You can write your emails with it.

Speaker 98 It's like, I know how to, like, I know how to write an email.

Speaker 41 Totally.

Speaker 47 We need to stigmatize this idea of like, if you need AI to write an email for you, that's fucked.

Speaker 162 I mean, by the way, yeah, whatever happened to like plagiarism being bad?

Speaker 190 Like, no, you can't.

Speaker 203 Truly, you can't.

Speaker 205 I just get in trouble for reading Cliff Notes back in the day.

Speaker 262 It's the same idea.

Speaker 133 I'm just not a fan of it. Read the book.

Speaker 206 I'm not a fan of anything that like if we participate in it to enough of an extent makes us lazier and dumber correct you know what i'm saying it's by the way and that's like the google maps of it all i don't know if you ever do this but you just turn it off every blue moon and try to go somewhere can't it's well also it's a really important piece of your the navigational piece of your brain affects other things you do yeah in life so if you don't want to just turn into a total you know rube yeah like in la every blue moon i will just not it's so instinctive to just plug it in.

Speaker 182 If I'm driving, like, right, I know how to drive there.

Speaker 171 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 95 I haven't even thought about that.

Speaker 138 Like, just

Speaker 118 allowing myself to have enough respect for my navigational ability.

Speaker 237 Exactly.

Speaker 26 Because otherwise, you do feel like a soul adrift in space, and it's like you're just being told where to go.

Speaker 162 Look how easy it's like a bad Blade Runner movie where we could all just be programmed to drive to the same place to be bombed.

Speaker 92 God. I went there.

Speaker 266 Don't bring in the clown.

Speaker 49 Okay, this.

Speaker 276 I messed to leave.

Speaker 75 Oh, that was so fast.

Speaker 47 That was too far.

Speaker 47 You finally went there. You went too far.

Speaker 327 Why'd your mother bring Blade Runner and Google Maps and a bomb?

Speaker 49 Oh, my God.

Speaker 154 Is Bo and Yang.

Speaker 12 Do you have anything you want to do?

Speaker 75 Do you want a rail?

Speaker 137 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 49 Okay, this

Speaker 131 is Bo and Yang's.

Speaker 281 I don't think so, honey.

Speaker 118 His time starts now.

Speaker 26 I don't think so, honey, putting little stickers over the hole in coffee cups that you're supposed to drink out of because I got to take the sticker off and guess what?

Speaker 273 Now I'm drinking sticker juice instead of coffee and now my lips are sticking together and I go,

Speaker 28 no, I just want to enjoy my iced black coffee.

Speaker 273 That's it. I'm not asking for much.

Speaker 273 I just want iced coffee in a cup and I understand that it's to prevent spillage and I understand that you're taping over the bag so that there's no tampering and it's all security theater.

Speaker 273 But sometimes I just want something without all this, literally all this red tape or this white circle of tape over my drink hole i just want an unencumbered drink hole so i can sip sip sip suck suck suck guzzle guzzle guzzle the caffeine into my system because i need it to get through this damn day in this damn year of this damn world

Speaker 273 get the sticker and the adhesive off my coffee otherwise i'll be drinking five seconds oxy for god's sakes when i just want a gorgeous cup of dunkin' donuts

Speaker 42 that's one minute good timing that was great I will also say you said so many words and didn't even touch on what I think is the most annoying part, which is when you have to peel the sticker off.

Speaker 267 You have stickery on

Speaker 104 your finger on this part of your finger is very bad.

Speaker 178 Seed gravity.

Speaker 323 Like, this is higher.

Speaker 155 Why?

Speaker 47 We don't need it. You don't need it.

Speaker 187 It's not coming out much of the top.

Speaker 253 It's only spilling. Let me paint.

Speaker 250 Yeah.

Speaker 206 Just add it, which is a peeve of mine. It's only spilling if the fucker filled it too high.

Speaker 203 Right?

Speaker 262 So that it's coming out the sides.

Speaker 47 it's not coming out the top.

Speaker 188 I blame that little barista shithead.

Speaker 43 Lid culture is in a state of disarray.

Speaker 137 Like, no one can figure out what lid to put on anything.

Speaker 49 Like, and sometimes it's like you go to a certain coffee place because you know they're not going crazy with their lids, and they'll have changed.

Speaker 201 Like, I don't know.

Speaker 205 And you know what? I take it.

Speaker 183 I love a barista. And I have like a five-year-old.

Speaker 197 And I really love, I love coffee.

Speaker 162 I love coffee so much that I've actually had this thought.

Speaker 259 I'm not proud.

Speaker 166 If I went to prison, I'd be super sad because the coffee situation would be so bad.

Speaker 140 Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Speaker 95 What is the coffee situation?

Speaker 143 I'm sure it's non-existent.

Speaker 197 It's not great. So I love coffee.

Speaker 162 I will never, I didn't give it up when I was pregnant. I didn't give it up.

Speaker 205 I will never, ever, ever give up coffee.

Speaker 26 Should we start a fund for prison coffee? Yes.

Speaker 49 What would it be called?

Speaker 159 Doesn't it sound terrible?

Speaker 49 It doesn't sound good.

Speaker 47 No.

Speaker 274 What would the Joe behind bars?

Speaker 165 Joe behind bars.

Speaker 26 Bruce behind bars.

Speaker 101 Why is my brain going to we did it, Joe?

Speaker 47 We really did it on the Joe. We did it.

Speaker 321 We didn't do it.

Speaker 74 We didn't do it, Joe, at all.

Speaker 112 Joe, we didn't.

Speaker 62 Joe.

Speaker 62 What did you?

Speaker 47 It's Joe.

Speaker 41 It is so much over. It's so much over.

Speaker 112 Well, what's begun?

Speaker 171 Joe, Joe, Joe.

Speaker 122 Now, are you ready? Because this is your moment.

Speaker 245 Okay. Okay.

Speaker 26 This is Anna Gastars. I don't think so, honey.
Her time starts next.

Speaker 222 Now, this is what?

Speaker 272 What? Are we starting out? No, sorry.

Speaker 136 Her time starts next.

Speaker 75 Oh, no.

Speaker 136 Oh, Kelly's going to pass.

Speaker 43 Oh, her time starts next.

Speaker 149 Commercial break.

Speaker 117 This is Anna Gastars.

Speaker 49 I don't think so, honey.

Speaker 26 Her time starts now.

Speaker 190 Okay, so my I Don't Think So Honey is about TikToker POV

Speaker 237 videos and Instagrams.

Speaker 162 Nobody understands that it has to be an actual point of view that is something new.

Speaker 206 So here's what it has to be a new take.

Speaker 168 It has to be observational.

Speaker 172 It has to be something that I haven't thought of that's a witty use of humor.

Speaker 231 For example, I just saw one that was POV, you get to the airport, find your gate, pee, and get a snack.

Speaker 326 That's not a POV.

Speaker 189 That is just going to the airport and doing what people do when they go to the airport.

Speaker 142 There's no pithy observation therein.

Speaker 231 That's not, oh my God, my dad got a dog. He didn't want it.
And now he's carrying it around in a baby born. I get it.
That's a POV. That's funny.

Speaker 162 What's not a POV is POV.

Speaker 189 I took a shower before I went to work.

Speaker 117 What is wrong with people?

Speaker 187 You have to have some kind of a take.

Speaker 231 And if you're not doing that, you know what? Put your phone down and go to the airport and get a magazine and piss and get on your plane.

Speaker 175 plane.

Speaker 227 And if you open up Google Maps, you're dead.

Speaker 47 And that's one minute.

Speaker 12 You know, I hate to break it to you, but I think that they know this and willfully aren't doing it because I'll be shocked.

Speaker 112 Do something.

Speaker 75 You want your phone then?

Speaker 323 Just live your life for four seconds, just being a human.

Speaker 42 I guess the thing is, though, they're more interested in virality than humanness.

Speaker 205 Who is going to like or comment on POV?

Speaker 202 You find your gate and get a sandwich.

Speaker 150 So many people, that's what I'm telling you.

Speaker 95 It's like,

Speaker 49 when I have worked with social media people, if I ever had to do like a TikTok or something, like for my album, I'll be shocked sometimes when you realize what's trending.

Speaker 141 It's like, hey, so you have to walk from here to here and this song is going to play.

Speaker 247 You got on the elevator.

Speaker 42 Yeah, but literally it's like, no, it's not a thing.

Speaker 155 It's POV.

Speaker 158 You're nailing a letter.

Speaker 101 The appetite is for everyday mundanity.

Speaker 187 Well, that's fine.

Speaker 328 At least if you're going to be pithy about it, like I don't mind something that's like, I don't know.

Speaker 156 Something new or

Speaker 261 observational.

Speaker 263 Like that, it's

Speaker 248 the Seinfeldian moment of it all.

Speaker 175 Like of like, oh my God, you know.

Speaker 28 But the POV thing is even so stupid because they don't understand what POV stands for.

Speaker 132 No, they haven't been.

Speaker 26 And it's not from the first person point of view at all. It's just like, POV, I'm going to the airport and then they're in the frame.

Speaker 26 You know what I mean? That's what these kids are doing, too.

Speaker 75 Right.

Speaker 326 Right. And I don't.

Speaker 26 At the airport, it's them.

Speaker 107 POV.

Speaker 152 POV, me with my friend.

Speaker 43 It's just

Speaker 156 me. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 104 POV, I'm hanging out with my friend.

Speaker 245 My friend isn't there.

Speaker 172 Again, I'm just like, I don't, my, I really, you have to develop some semblance of an observation.

Speaker 256 If this is supposed to be funny or engaging in any way, like I

Speaker 96 this is my theory.

Speaker 26 This is my like

Speaker 26 almost like, I'm going to say like boomer take, which is like, oh, language is breaking down.

Speaker 4 Like no one knows.

Speaker 28 No one knows how to communicate with each other.

Speaker 26 And therefore, and here we are.

Speaker 162 I mean, but that's also like secondary.

Speaker 168 All of the application, I mean, of life.

Speaker 190 Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 142 Like you're, we early on tried to like address phone usage with our kids or whatever.

Speaker 201 And everybody was like, the only way they communicate is to take and picture of themselves on Snap and send it to one another.

Speaker 200 Yeah.

Speaker 219 Nude or otherwise.

Speaker 225 But it's just even like if there's courtship rituals and my 16 year old,

Speaker 203 you're right. Absolutely right.

Speaker 162 My 16 year old, you'll see him do that.

Speaker 259 And you're like, what are you doing? He's like, oh, I just snapped something.

Speaker 181 I have to stop my phone.

Speaker 162 Like, there's no, there's no, hey, I'm at a restaurant with my folks.

Speaker 163 Or like, there's no, even texting is one iteration too boring and bloated for them.

Speaker 201 It's interesting.

Speaker 26 It's this, this has infiltrated being at dinner with your pit with your family.

Speaker 28 Like it, like nothing is sacred anymore.

Speaker 209 But also, this is why we are where we are. We are sheep.

Speaker 24 Totally.

Speaker 105 Did you see that Australia wants to do a ban on social media until the kids are 16?

Speaker 165 Well, I think it's actually, well, this is boring to talk about to our audience, but I mean, I actually think it's coming.

Speaker 219 I do. I really do believe the tide is turning because that is actually a purple state.

Speaker 162 issue.

Speaker 163 People across the board are understanding that attention spans aren't, you know, also the algorithm just screaming.

Speaker 180 Now, what is this?

Speaker 162 It's a third election that we're just screaming at Facebook.

Speaker 186 Like, that's all we're doing.

Speaker 234 So, or, you know, into Instagram, or none of us are actually engaging or having conversations that are face-to-face or human-to-human.

Speaker 219 And it's not going to get any better.

Speaker 101 Or with anyone that would challenge an opinion that you may have.

Speaker 34 I mean, that's, I watched AOC's live like the day or two after the election.

Speaker 101 The chandelier day.

Speaker 114 Yeah.

Speaker 210 The chandelier day.

Speaker 155 The chandelier day.

Speaker 136 The crashing chandelier.

Speaker 75 The market day.

Speaker 72 And the big pull she said, she was like, sectarianism has to stop.

Speaker 207 Like, that's why I'm so kind of blown away by people being like, unfollow this person.

Speaker 104 If you follow me and you're this, that, that, that.

Speaker 23 I'm like, I understand where this comes from.

Speaker 324 But if you can't see the forest for the trees, that this is the problem, the fact that we were so shocked that it went that way, if you were shocked, like that is because we are siloed off

Speaker 12 from one another.

Speaker 95 And if we want to be a country, which I think is a question, it seems like,

Speaker 43 if we want to be a country, we cannot silo off.

Speaker 257 We're in like an algorithmic echo chamber.

Speaker 26 All of us, you know, except for to pop out and troll people that's literally it right not me no never bowen you aren't trolled or you don't troll i'm not in an echo chamber oh really yeah

Speaker 103 he has incredible outside honey okay that's not indoors that's crazy i love it

Speaker 199 i love it and you you you power down for 48 hours every every week right just for your mental health i'm looking at maps he paid for

Speaker 106 old school triple a i miss those honestly

Speaker 275 pretty I know, I know. So, so cute.

Speaker 209 But, I mean, even those little, everybody, we're all addicts. We're all.

Speaker 10 We're all addicts.

Speaker 26 Thoughts on the on the Martha Stewart doc?

Speaker 222 Oh my God, I loved it. I loved that.

Speaker 49 I loved it, actually.

Speaker 211 I love her.

Speaker 155 I think she's good on this show.

Speaker 26 She'd be great on this show.

Speaker 256 She would be great on this show.

Speaker 260 She, especially in her sixth chapter,

Speaker 195 is extraordinarily enjoying all the things she's been through and she's letting herself soften.

Speaker 228 I mean, I've known her now. Right.

Speaker 169 Right.

Speaker 174 My impersonation was 30 years ago

Speaker 184 28 or whatever and she always been a great sport and all that Jimmy Carter

Speaker 165 but she's been Jimmy Carter she allowed even though she's not like a terrifically funny person but she's very easy she understood she's a good business person

Speaker 159 but mostly I have to say this is my fifth chapter take on her eighth chapter sixth chapter is that my third chapter take on her fifth chapter right six for sex is that um she really is like

Speaker 162 I don't know, there's something to be said for this, like old people wisdom.

Speaker 186 Yeah.

Speaker 188 Like you get your heart broken a lot in a life.

Speaker 180 And she kind of buckles down.

Speaker 195 I love that whole thing that she says about, like, I don't want to deal with feelings all the time.

Speaker 138 Like, I just, I like guys that do stuff.

Speaker 36 I want to go places.

Speaker 202 I want to take in the world.

Speaker 232 Her boyfriend, Charles, that she had for a while, he's just a doer.

Speaker 270 Like, we would do stuff.

Speaker 168 And I get that.

Speaker 1 Like, there's so many, I do, of course, I validate feelings and, of course, I want, but there is a point at which we have to get up and put our shoes on and not POV.

Speaker 41 We're at the airport, but rather just go get the sandwich and pee and like have plans and do things and

Speaker 167 water Disney and water the garden and make a party and invite your friends over.

Speaker 256 And I don't know, there's just something very, granted, she lives deeply within privilege, but she, I love that she's just a, she doesn't sleep at all.

Speaker 258 Right. That's a true thing about her.

Speaker 229 I know her assistant.

Speaker 225 That's really true.

Speaker 190 She's never, all of her businesses were born of insomnia.

Speaker 127 That was early on.

Speaker 167 And the fact that she was doing crafts with those ladies in the prison and like growing, working on the garden and like, she just is a doer.

Speaker 215 And there's something deeply inspirational to me about that.

Speaker 26 That garden thing is what kind of cracked something open for me where she was like, If you want to be married for a year,

Speaker 49 if you want to be happy for a year, get married.

Speaker 98 If you want to be happy for a decade, get a pet, get a dog. If you want to be happy for a lifetime, get a garden.

Speaker 81 Plant a garden. Plant a garden.
And I'm like, oh, that's it.

Speaker 47 Yeah.

Speaker 26 Or any kind of garden, any size. You just have to do something.
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 80 Literally

Speaker 101 mold the earth with your hands.

Speaker 258 And she's doing that every day in different ways.

Speaker 190 I mean, and she's endlessly creative from a business standpoint, but also, let's just say, OG feminist, because

Speaker 258 she turned domestication on its ear and became a billionaire.

Speaker 160 Yeah, she took, she somehow understood Purple State.

Speaker 168 Early on, people were very shitty, including me on SNL, about her selling that brand to Kmart.

Speaker 195 And she was like, Why wouldn't people at Kmart want nice things?

Speaker 260 And it's, she just would say that on like Letterman.

Speaker 41 She's like, it's, yeah, makes total sense.

Speaker 188 I love that.

Speaker 157 I love that she, you know, again, I mean, it's insane.

Speaker 183 Like, when you look at like whatever, let's have Cornish hens for 100 in that catering company.

Speaker 179 It was insane.

Speaker 36 It It was totally insane.

Speaker 162 I mean, like, you know, you're just looking at her stuff, like, what, that's impossible.

Speaker 258 She was just making it happen.

Speaker 181 And then she was like, this is a business, this is a business.

Speaker 170 And she's been very open-minded about lots and types of all kinds of people across our, you know, culture.

Speaker 237 I think she's

Speaker 214 realized that Andy Stewart, her husband, was a cheating, was so like that.

Speaker 81 But then that story about her in the cathedral.

Speaker 222 I know. So beautiful.

Speaker 49 So beautiful.

Speaker 143 But that was so random.

Speaker 10 She's like, I got so overwhelmed by being in a cathedral that I made out with an Italian story.

Speaker 112 I love her, though.

Speaker 41 That's such a gay guy thing.

Speaker 47 It really was. It was the power.

Speaker 209 She was so deeply relatable.

Speaker 241 I mean, she was like, it wasn't cheating.

Speaker 106 I was in a basilica.

Speaker 115 A basilica is a, you can't judge yourself.

Speaker 98 Everybody's God in that space.

Speaker 49 Yeah. Everybody's God.

Speaker 178 And that's what she really is.

Speaker 162 She's like an instrument of beauty.

Speaker 218 Like she loves beautiful things and she wants everyone to experience.

Speaker 162 I mean, and they are, like, I don't know.

Speaker 189 Like, there's a big part of me that's like, it's so cheesy, but like, Paris is my favorite city.

Speaker 168 And like, I've gone and it's like, you have a, re you're like, I just can't stand how every single thing here is perfect.

Speaker 256 I'm so happy. Like, it's, you're, it's, you vibrate with beauty.

Speaker 26 And it reminds me of the Will and Harper thing where at the end, like, he gets Harper those earrings.

Speaker 128 I know.

Speaker 49 It's like, it's okay to nice. It's okay to like nice things.

Speaker 112 That was beautiful.

Speaker 26 It's okay to like lovely things. I know.

Speaker 162 And I'm like, and it doesn't have to be the most expensive.

Speaker 142 Like, that's what's so cool.

Speaker 107 Garden.

Speaker 81 There you go. Plant a garden.

Speaker 26 A plant a garden, a flower, a vegetable, a fruit. It's a lovely thing that you made.

Speaker 229 I know.

Speaker 161 And she was so cool when I was on Drew.

Speaker 219 She was so like, I mean, we quote unquote surprised her, which I was always like, again,

Speaker 195 just a nightmare because, you know, it's not a person who loves a surprise.

Speaker 270 And she like, you know, I did.

Speaker 274 And I'm like sailing in dressed as her.

Speaker 321 And she was so sweet.

Speaker 47 She was like,

Speaker 106 she just kept sailing in.

Speaker 178 She kept like great grabbing my hand.

Speaker 195 And she was, you know, ruining it by talking through the font.

Speaker 49 Like, oh, you look so much like me.

Speaker 262 But it was still like so charming.

Speaker 248 And she hugged me after.

Speaker 186 And her assistant was like, it's so great to see you.

Speaker 175 We should should do more together.

Speaker 263 It was just very, she gets it.

Speaker 178 She's always gotten it.

Speaker 188 Totally.

Speaker 200 We were mean on Saturday night, and she always got it.

Speaker 258 Actually, everybody on SNL, Celine Dionne, same thing.

Speaker 205 So graceful about it.

Speaker 219 And I, you know, well, partially, I think she thought I had a bad voice, which helped, but because she said that to me, she was like,

Speaker 172 she goes, your voice is so horrible to hear.

Speaker 181 Which I was like, this is a language barrier thing.

Speaker 37 I'm going to choose to believe this.

Speaker 47 Your voice is so horrible to hear your voice is so horrible to hear okay they're saying we gotta wrap up which means

Speaker 12 it's time to say one more time that you can see once upon a mattress at the amundson in la from december 10th to january 5th and you should and also if you can catch it in the last i guess couple weeks on broadway do that

Speaker 153 it really is it's joyous it's fun sugar and booze you better be streaming it and checking out the shows in the midwest and in la what day on that december 16th one night only yeah love but mostly just listen to it because it really did make it to bring people joy.

Speaker 213 And listen to it while you're wrapping your presents and you're shaking your drinks, and you're shaking your eyes,

Speaker 259 and you're shaking your everything.

Speaker 19 Yeah, shake and jiggle.

Speaker 49 Shake that ass, shake that ass when you're listening to sugar and booze.

Speaker 72 We are so happy you're here.

Speaker 156 This has been so much.

Speaker 49 You guys are the best.

Speaker 199 Thank you for having me.

Speaker 167 And my daughter and her fellow gays say thank you.

Speaker 49 We say hi to all the gays and the guzbins and everybody out there.

Speaker 148 We want to say hello to you.

Speaker 115 And we end every episode with a song:

Speaker 134 Have yourself a merry little Christmas.

Speaker 120 Let your heart be light.

Speaker 47 We'll work on it.

Speaker 49 Why didn't we sing? Why didn't we sing?

Speaker 198 From now on.

Speaker 189 Why'd you start so high, goddamn tennis?

Speaker 127 Oh no, no.

Speaker 47 See, this is the next row.

Speaker 156 We're not tennis.

Speaker 20 This is the second time in a row, our third time in a row, that someone's called us after a while.

Speaker 230 I just clapped me for the key.

Speaker 260 No, it's a nice prayer. It's your song.

Speaker 39 It's your show.

Speaker 75 And

Speaker 106 have you

Speaker 92 a merry little

Speaker 106 Christmas

Speaker 106 now?

Speaker 106 Good.

Speaker 106 Damn!

Speaker 28 Lost Coles Races is the production by Will Farrell's Big Money Players and I Heart Radio Podcasts.

Speaker 207 Created and hosted by Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang.

Speaker 105 Executive produced by Anna Hosnier and Hans Sani.

Speaker 26 Produced by Becca Ramos. Edited and mixed by Doug Babe and Mini Laborde.

Speaker 112 And our music is by Henry Kmirsky.

Speaker 82 Hey, everybody, it's me, Matt Rogers, letting you know tickets are on sale now to see me on tour.

Speaker 83 The Prince of Christmas tour, that is.

Speaker 87 I'm doing my whole album, Have You Heard of Christmas, plus a lot more with the whole band all throughout December.

Speaker 83 Go to www.mattroogersofficial.com to see me in a city near you.

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Speaker 22 Well, Ford and Google Maps just trekked over 5,900 miles to put the Trans-America Trail on Street View so every adventurer can explore the trail.

Speaker 25 How'd they do it?

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Speaker 30 So challenge yourself. See what you're capable of.
Let your Ford handle the rest.

Speaker 4 Find the Trans-America Trail on Google Maps and hit the off-road.

Speaker 31 Ready? Set Ford.

Speaker 305 The cuffing season storm is rolling in with potential heavy clouds of nostalgia for your ex, windstorms from a current situation ship, and some light drivels of you up techs.

Speaker 60 You know them, you love them.

Speaker 124 But amidst this emotional weather, there's one place with a refreshing microclimate of clear communication, radical honesty, and open-mindedness, and that's Field.

Speaker 113 Field is a connections app that asks you to show up and articulate your desires as you understand them. And if you don't understand them, say that.

Speaker 113 The Field community is made up of so many different kinds of people ranging in experience, interests, and desires.

Speaker 308 With Field, you have the space to change, to be honest, and to always be curious.

Speaker 131 So expand your curiosity.

Speaker 295 There are over 20 sexuality and gender identities listed on Field.

Speaker 126 And you can change. On Field, who you were yesterday may not be who you are today.

Speaker 307 62% of Field members evolve their sexuality, interests, and desires within the first year on the app.

Speaker 66 See what you have in common with everybody else on Field.

Speaker 309 Know what you're looking for?

Speaker 54 Field just rolled out their shared desires feature that immediately shows you what you have in common with someone else.

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Speaker 317 As a special offer for Lost Culture listeners, Goodwipes is giving you your first pack free. Buy any package, text them your receipt, and get reimbursed almost immediately.

Speaker 41 For more details, head to goodwipes.com/slash culturistas.

Speaker 320 Again, that's goodwipes.com/slash culturistas to snag a free pack of good wipes.

Speaker 21 Good wipes, because butts deserve better.

Speaker 312 You can't spell culturistas without R-I.

Speaker 31 That's right. Rhode Island is the perfect place not just for the culturistas of the world, but all the other Easters too.

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Speaker 31 So start packing those bags and be the best Easta you can be.

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