Lauren Lee

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Wait, let me okay, I got something.
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Ready?
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Three, two, one, frame.
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Brown frame.
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Um, okay.
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Uh oh.
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Three, two, one.
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Wooden.
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Did you say wooden?
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Yeah.
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I think that counts.
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I do, I think.
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Wooden, wooden.
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I've actually been good with the like, this is the set the third time I think I've played where I've gotten it on the second go with a person.
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Ugh, I wanted to feel special.
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Oh no, that doesn't mean you're special.
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Oh my god, Ross.
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You're actually the special one.
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Oh, thanks, Lauren.
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You too.
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Thank you.
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Welcome to working class axe.
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As I talk over you.
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I'm like, yeah, you're special too.
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Hello, and welcome to the Working Class Acts Podcast.
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I'm your host, John Mattalone.
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I'm never doing that again.
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I scared myself doing that.
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Comedic timing was perfect.
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Oh, you heard her just now.
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You might even see her depending on how you're looking at this or taking in this medium.
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Um, but I am here with such a lovely human being and an extraordinary actress.
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You can catch her right now on an episode of Ellsbeth on CBS.
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And if you were around last year, she was part of a fundraiser for the New York stage and film, yes, uh, in which she got to act alongside John Traturro, Rose Byrne, and Bobby Canavale, yes, uh, which is fucking awesome.
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She did that at the Music Box Theater on Broadway.
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And I'm here with Lauren Lee.
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Hello.
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Oh my god, Lauren Lee has arrived.
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Hey, how are you doing?
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That was really good.
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Thank you.
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Thank you so much for having me.
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Absolutely.
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I'm so happy you're here.
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It's been a little while.
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I know.
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I mean, we saw each other at NYU.
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Oh, she's also an NYU grad.
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That's where we met.
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Yes.
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Um, we saw each other the other month.
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Yeah, it was after Angels in America, I think.
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It was actually after the other show.
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Oh, oh no, it was after which, yes.
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Oh, wait, but did you see in America?
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Oh, yeah.
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My my girlfriend uh assistant directed it.
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Right, that's right.
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Yes.
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And I loved it.
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Incredible.
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I thought the set in particular was really fucking cool.
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Amazing.
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Um, but just great performances by everybody.
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That's the class is really strong.
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Really strong.
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Um, Lauren!
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Hello! How have you been?
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I've been really well.
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Good, good.
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I've been really well.
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How is your time?
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Oh, what?
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It's a full moon.
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Okay.
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What do you mean by that?
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Had to say that.
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The moon is full moon.
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It's a full moon right now?
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Yes.
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Wow.
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It's a hundred percent full moon in Libra.
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Libra.
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Sorry, everybody.
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What does that mean?
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Are you are you into uh every want it mean, John?
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Okay, but are you into that sort of uh are you into astrology and stuff like that?
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Or only as much as it benefits me.
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Only as much as when I notice the moon is full.
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Only as much as when I read something and I'm like, that is happening to me right now.
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No, I feel that.
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I love that.
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Yeah.
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So if you're feeling crazy, oh it's because of the full minute.
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Yeah, it's also Rabbit Rabbit.
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Rabbit Rabbit.
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April 1st.
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Oh, yes, it is April 1st right now.
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Or is it?
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Oh, yeah.
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April Fools?
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Do you hate pranks?
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I hate pranks.
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Do you really?
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I really hate pranks.
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Oh my god.
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I grew up with two older brothers.
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Oh, I was just gonna say, me and my brother used to like to play pranks on each other.
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We tried to like prank our dad every year because he would be like unfazed by anything.
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You couldn't scare him.
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And we got pretty close to getting him.
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What was the close time?
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It was a really weird prank.
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It was a really weird prank, and my brother had this trick pen that when you opened it, it snapped.
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Like it popped.
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You had to put like a little it was it was actually like a a weapon.
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It was like you'd have to put in this little, like, if I remember correctly, like uh like a little bit of it's not gunpowder, I don't want to say, but you didn't say that.
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You remember those poppers like on 4th of July, and you'd throw them on the ground and they'd explode.
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Oh yeah.
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It was like something.
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We call them snappers.
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Oh, snappers.
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We call poppers is probably not great.
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Poppers.
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Remember those snappers.
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We were doing poppers on July 4th.
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We were kids.
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Um But it was like a thing like that, but in like smaller form.
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You put it in the pen and when you pull it apart, it would just it would pop.
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That's horrible, I think.
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But here's the thing we didn't just give this to our dad and he opened it or whatever.
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We set it up in his walk, he had a walk-in closet, um, and we tied it to the door and uh some something else so that when you open the door, it would pull apart on its own.
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And then we set up a camera inside of the Oh my god, you're like impractical jokes.
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Oh, yeah, we really were.
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Um me and my brother would film like everything.
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We would love making little like fun movies together.
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We did parodies of like The Matrix.
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Is that kind of where your love came from?
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Oh yeah, absolutely.
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Definitely it was a lot of fun.
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Um love you, brother.
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Um and uh yeah, so we filmed him, and we I'm sure my brother still has this somewhere.
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Uh my dad opened the door, it went and he just went, Jesus.
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And then was looking around, saw the camera, and then was just like, oh god.
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And then that was it.
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So it was like the closest we ever got was him saying Jesus.
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I like that, actually.
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It was quite fun.
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It's really beautiful.
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Lauren.
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Hi.
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Where are you from?
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Where did it all begin?
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Take us back.
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Let me set the scene.
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Yes.
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It's a little town, not so little, called Burke, Virginia.
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It's about 20 miles south of DC.
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Okay.
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Um if you would like a sort of uh, I don't know, vibe representation.
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Sure.
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David Lynch once said about this particular northern Virginia suburb that it had a poison seeping deep within.
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And it was like infesting the town.
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Oh my god.
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Wait, what do you mean by he thought there was a po like a literal?
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I mean, I don't deny it.
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You're talking you came in hot with the uh what it's the full moon.
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It's the full moon.
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Ever seen Scooby-Doo?
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Know what that means?
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Okay, that's wild.
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Do you think he was like inspired to to make what uh didn't he have like a sort of a horror film that was about like suburbs, the like sort of the blanking of blue velvet.
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Oh, blue velvet, yes.
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Yeah.
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Do you think he was sort of cut that out?
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No, no, I'll be able to get it.
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But I think it is yeah, replace that with what it actually is.
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Someone else's voice.
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It's gonna be a terrible dub over the it was blue velvet.
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Perfect.
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Well wow.
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What did you feel that pose?
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Oh yeah.
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Oh, did you really?
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Oh yeah.
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What do you think it was?
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I think that it was not to get political.
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I think that it was being so close to DC.
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Oh, a lot of men working in politics had families who lived in the suburbs outside of DC.
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Sure.
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And the pressure to keep up, it's very much keeping up with the Joneses, while also being like really haunted by the realities of the country.
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Yeah.
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And the expectation for men to be powerful and successful.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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But no, I feel that.
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That's a thing.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Wow.
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So did you like growing up there or was it?
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Not particularly.
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Did you feel that a lot?
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Yeah, I think, yeah.
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Especially, you know, growing up as you know, in I was doing kind of arts.
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I was doing everything.
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I was doing anything that would keep me busy.
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My mom was so terrified that I would there's also a lot of drugs, you know, there's a lot of like wealth.
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Yeah.
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And so there's wealth and drugs behind the scene.
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And so like hiding the realities not to get so dark.
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But it's true, like it no matter what community going, if there's if there's ultra wealth, there will be ultra poverty and there will be other things going on.
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Absolutely, yeah.
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And I think, you know, growing up, my mom was both my parents, uh my dad worked in the government, and so he was.
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Oh, I was gonna say, was he was one of those?
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And uh and my mom was desperate to keep me busy, and so I was I played every sport, I did every program, every hour of my day was spent doing something.
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Yeah.
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Uh and so I think there was a lot of pressure on me to be on on a lot of young people growing up in that area to be something.
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Yeah.
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And it fell a lot of times on women, on girls.
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Gotcha.
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Oh god.
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Well, I'm so sorry.
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Yeah.
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Um No, it's okay.
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Yeah.
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I don't know how this got so No, it's okay.
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It's less than that.
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That's kind of like why I turned to the arts, was because I mean it didn't feel healthy the other thing.
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Yeah.
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No.
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And my mom watched Carol Burnett every night.
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Oh hell yes.
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So Carol Burnett is the queen.
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She's a god.
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Yeah.
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And so that was sort of you know on m you know, the the soundtrack of of my life growing up.
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Do you feel like she inspired you a lot to get into the arts?
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Like, did you really watch a lot or is that more like your mom and yeah, I think that I think I think female comedians really, you know, from from that time especially were so rare.
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Oh yeah.
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And um I think it's really hard to to even discern what a comedy like that is when you're young.
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Yeah.
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And um and Carol Burnett was so direct.
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Yeah.
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And she was like, This is actually the purpose of it is to make you laugh before you go to bed.
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Yeah.
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And to maybe like close your day out with a smile and instead of the worries, a tummy pain from laughing so hard.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Instead of yes, the woes of life.
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Yeah, yeah.
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They'll get you done.
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I love it.
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I love it.
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They'll get you done.
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So where do you feel like your bug, the proverbial bug, bit you in terms of performing and becoming a well trigger warning, I grew up in the church.
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Me too.
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Yeah.
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Wait, which one?
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Or or like Southern Baptist.
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No.
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Wait, did you really?
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Did you?
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No.
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Oh, yes, I did.
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Oh no, I'm sorry.
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I was thinking of the Westboro Baptist.
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Holy shit.
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I was like, wait, I need to do like another interview with you because I would be fascinated to learn what there.
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Hey, darkness.
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Oh, they're definitely a darkness there.
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Yes, yes, yes.
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Um my god, okay.
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So did you feel uh And so I played the angel in the Nativity.
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Oh, there you go.
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That was their your first like ever performance.
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That was my first ever performance.
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Everyone was looking at me and you're like, I love it.
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I oversaw Jesus being born.
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Oh, there you go.
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Yeah, and I fully believed it.
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That you saw Jesus being born.
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Yeah.
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And it was a classmate of mine.
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So did you pick that up and and go?
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Like, were you like, oh, I love this.
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I want to like join your drama club or something like that.
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No, I didn't do drama club.
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I I did choir a lot, and I performed like every child in the living room.
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Oh, of course.
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Yeah.
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And that's like sit down, I've got something really important to say.
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And it was You're like, pull my finger.
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Look at this pen.
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It's really funny.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Don't tell them it's snaps.
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Oh shit.
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Um, yeah, and it was mostly like lip syncing to Hillary Duff.
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Oh, hell yeah.
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Was a huge my performative upcoming um upbringing, I should say.
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And yeah, I I caught the bug then and I did choir, you know, all through I did choir and band.
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Um I played the flute.
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You play the flute.
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I played the flute.
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I play trumpet.
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That's so true.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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My grandpa played it, my dad played it, my brother played it, I play it.
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That's great.
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I got trumpets in my bedroom.
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I um was obsessed with Lord of the Rings.
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Hell yeah, who isn't?
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Still am.
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And um the flute is just very elfish to me.
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Yeah.
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Elfish to you, yeah.
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I love it.
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Um, pan flute would be even better, but they don't have those in the band for some time.
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Oh, do you know how to play it though?
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The pan flute?
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Yeah.
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No, I'm sure I could.
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Do you have one?
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No, I don't.
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I've got some harmonicas laying around.
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Then I definitely can play it.
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And I'm really good at it.
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I feel like everyone's really good at the harmonica, but also you really?
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Well, it's like one of those things that it's like it's hard to play it out of tune because it's like no matter what you play, it will be something.
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Um, but to play it well, like genuinely proficiently, is very difficult.
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Super hard.
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Very difficult.
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I feel like my lips have only touched a harmonica a handful of times.
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And was that weird the way I said it?
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It was like I had my mouth has only a handful of times, and I was about a foot away from it when knee deep.
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Um and every time it's been really unenjoyable for me to hear.
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So not a Bob Dylan fan, I take it.
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I didn't watch that movie.
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Oh, I haven't seen it either.
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Um, yeah, no, I I'm not kidding.
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I actually didn't watch that movie.
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Yeah.
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But you know, I saw a picture of his fingernails and it really put me off.
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His fingernails?
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Yeah.
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Bob Dylan's or Timote Chalomet.
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Both of them.
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I think gnarly stay true to the character.
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He like grew them out really long.
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Oh, oh, oh, because he was playing guitar.
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I think that was a thing.
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Yeah.
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That's a lot of guitarists do that, I suppose.
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The nails are the picks.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And that's a pole quote.
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And that's the quote.
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The nails are the picks.
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Uh of the hand.
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I love it.
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They are.
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Oh my god.
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What?
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Yeah, the nails are the picks of the hands of the hand.
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The nails are the picks of the hand.
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Yeah.
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Oh my god.
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So anyway, how did you get into theater?
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When did you really start pursuing it?
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Did you feel?
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I was cast in eighth grade in my I went to a secondary school, which is seventh through twelfth grade.
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Oh, okay.
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And I was cast in our um.
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That's interesting.
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You call it a secondary school for seventh through twelfth grade.
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Yeah.
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We call it middle school, then high school.
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What are you from England or Europe or whatever?
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I hear and I validate what you're saying.
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What are you not Americans?
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Are you saying that you went to one school, one building that was seventh through twelfth grade?
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Yeah, actually.
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Yeah.
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They had built a wing onto our.
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We didn't call it a school.
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We called our the wing that they call that they added onto the high school, the middle school.
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And then the high school, which was it you were just attached to it.
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So uh maybe my my distinction of it is different, but nobody calls it secondary school.
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Um agree to disagree.
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Maybe you're out east.
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Um they did, they called it a secondary school.
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And um in eighth grade, I was cast in our production of uh high school musical.
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Oh I was not yet in high school.
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Oh, so did you feel like really hip that you're playing?
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Of course.
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Wait, who'd you play?
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Did you play?
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No, like a thespian.
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Oh, oh, just like it was I I wasn't sure if you were playing oh, what's her name?
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Uh which one?
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Gabriella Sharpay.
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Sharpe.
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Sharpe.
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I'm like, I know I'll know it when I hear it.
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Sharpay Evans, Ashley Tisdale Extraordinary.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Um no, I did not.
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I I I definitely had dreams of auditioning and being the eighth grader that they were like, How did she get here?
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Oh my god, is she Sharpay?
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And I was like, you're welcome.
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Yeah.
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But um, I'm not like a great singer, so I got ensemble.
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There you go.
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And that was it.
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History was made.
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I can tell you a very funny quick story, right?
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Tell me.
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So when I first started acting, I don't think I've told this yet.
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So this is a new story.
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Oh my god.
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This is actually a little embarrassing at the ego that I think I had.
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It's okay.
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Which was so a lot of people told me that it was very funny, and I did impressions all the time.
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So I was just like, thank you.
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Um thank you so much.
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And then you're welcome.
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Um, and so people were like, You should try out for the drama club.
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And I was like, okay, and I finally said yes to it.
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This was like, I was in middle school at the time.
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I think it was in like eighth grade, maybe at the time.
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Okay.
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Uh, and they were doing Annie.
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And I was like, Oh, this is a great one.
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Is it classic, good one to start on, or whatever?
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Um, but I was like, oh, who should who should I play?
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And I was like, oh, that would be fun if I was like the the villain or whatever.
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Rooster?
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Yes, Rooster, what's his name?
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I almost said Cogburn, but I don't think that's right.
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I think that's from uh Rooster Cogburn?
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I think that's from Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth.
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Whoa.
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Um Rooster, but yeah, Rooster.
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Rooster Hannigan, right?
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Because they're brother and sister.
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Yes, I think so.
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Yeah, the Hannigans, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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The Hannigans.
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I guess I mean if if we're wrong, roast us, I guess.
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Um I wanted to play Rooster.
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I was like, oh, that'll be fun.
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I'll play the villain or whatever.
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So I go to the I'm like learning the line.
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I'm like, easy street, easy street.
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I'm like trying to learn the song.
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Yeah.
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Um is my first time singing publicly.
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Oh.
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I get to the audition.
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We all we it's a it's group auditions.
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We do them together.
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Okay.
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And I remember this, and uh to his credit, he did a very good job.
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John Lopez, who is our director at the time, he was like the king of the drama club uh at the time, uh before he moved on to uh I think he got another job somewhere else.
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Um was that I said the next one.
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No, he's still around.
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Long live John Lopez.
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But uh we all came in.
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There was like five of us.
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We all sat down and he was like, all right, we're just gonna like go down the line and we'll sing a little bit of the songs or whatever, and was like his way of like get getting us to like, you know, sing a little, see what it's like to sing publicly.
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Yeah.
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Everyone goes, and then it's my turn, and I'm like, it's tone deaf.
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It's tone deaf all over.
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I'm forgetting the words.
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You know, in the moment.
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Oh, yeah, it's ha it's it's a car, it is it's a car wreck into a train wreck into like a zeppelin falling on top of the train.
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Really bad.
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That's what it felt like to me.
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Um, oh god, this whole wall falls down.
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Um and like I it I am so embarrassed.
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And he like he's he stops and he was like, let's everybody sing with John.
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And I know he was trying to just like help me feel less uh whatever.
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Um we finished that, and then we had to fill out a little form saying like, you know, just basic information.
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Yeah.
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Uh and one of them was like, if you don't get the part that you want, would you be willing to be an ensemble?
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Classic question.
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I wrote, no.
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Amazing.
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I was like, it's rooster or nothing.
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Yeah, that's a that's a boundary.
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That was sad.
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That was no, it was it was overconfident, is what it was.
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And uh he gets to that on my form and he's like, John, I just want to make sure I'm reading He's like, I don't know if you're but um you don't want to be in the ensemble if you don't get the part.
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And I was like, correct.
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Mortified.
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I'm like, correct.
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Yes, I read that.
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Uh yes, sir.
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And he's like, okay.
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And then we left, and I just felt like shit, and I didn't start acting for like another couple of years.
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Oh my god.
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I was so mortified.
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I was so mortified.
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Okay, but can I really say that is really beautiful that you knew what you wanted.
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Oh, well, thank you.
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And you said, I deserve this.
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Here's and I won't be your little playing, dancing, little troll.
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John Lopez.
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But the thing is, is like ensemble is fine.
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Like, I should have done that to a channel.
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You definitely should have that was a wrong choice you made.
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It's like, I'm just commending you for the fact that you made the wrong choice.
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It was your wrong choice.
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That was crazy.
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I wouldn't have done it, but never.
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Here's what I found about my life.
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It usually takes the second time around for me to get it.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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It took me two years to get into NYU, and like I do feel like there are times when I look back on things and I'm like, why didn't I know that?
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And sometimes I get in my head a little bit about uh the notion of like, am I could I be further along had I just known these things that to other people seemed obvious for some reason.
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Um Yeah, it's a weird thing.
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But then I look back and I'm like, no, because if I was where I was then and I knew where I'd be now, I'd be very happy.
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Um, even though I'm still Like trying to figure it out and I'm still trying to find that like consistent livelihood.
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Yeah.
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Uh there is a part of me that's like, no, if I I have to remember that my past self would be like, Oh, finally, good.
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I'm glad I'm I'm there.
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John, that's so nice.
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Oh, thanks, Lauren.
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I mean, it's such a lesson in like that learning is so important, and that maybe missing something and knowing what you missed, being able to recognize a mistake, a failing, a redirection, something that you thought was right, but in hindsight is maybe not the right thing.
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It's it's a really beautiful lesson in learning.
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Totally.
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And at any age, you can my favorite thing about life is that we're constantly making mistakes and learning and learning from it.
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Yeah.
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And then in in that same context, too, I'm like, okay, well, if that's how I felt, if that's how I would have felt back then, then my current self, when I'm in the future doing the stuff that I want to be doing, I'm gonna look back on this and be like, it was all worth it.
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Totally.
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You know, yeah.
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Um the editing that's a lot of people.
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This is about you learn Yeah, oh my god, uh donate.
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Um, please.
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Anybody got a million dollars?
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But what about you?
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Have you ever had that experience where you like like an experience where it was like you look back and you're like, I am making strides.
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I know I'm like moving forward.
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Even in this moment, I may not be happy with where I th thought I should or shouldn't be or whatever.
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Oh, every day all the time.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I mean, I I think back on my my years in between undergrad and grad school, and I was I was like in a race for nothing.
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Yeah, you know, and I I was yeah, I I was so concerned with the time that I was losing that this isn't groundbreaking by any means, but I that I was missing the time that I was living.
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No, but I I I totally feel that.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And and then I got to grad school, and I mean, I'm sure a lot of people have said this on this podcast, so I won't, you know, take too long, but just fucking say damn it.
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Wait, I also just want I I want to say really quick.
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I recently figured out I'm a I'm a very slow talker.
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Oh, that's fine.
00:25:07.920 --> 00:25:10.080
And as I'm like, fucking talk!
00:25:10.320 --> 00:25:19.360
I know I'm totally joking, but um but and so bear bear with my slow it or put it on really nice 1.5.
00:25:19.519 --> 00:25:20.800
Have you ever thought about doing audiobooks?
00:25:21.039 --> 00:25:22.160
I have thought about doing audiobooks.
00:25:22.720 --> 00:25:23.360
You've got a great voice.
00:25:23.440 --> 00:25:25.120
It's like the you have a great pace for it.
00:25:25.360 --> 00:25:25.920
Thank you very much.
00:25:26.080 --> 00:25:26.880
That's kind.
00:25:27.200 --> 00:25:33.120
Um yeah, what I I got into NYU and it was the best thing that ever happened to me.
00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:33.600
Yeah.
00:25:33.840 --> 00:25:35.680
Um bar none.
00:25:35.840 --> 00:25:49.519
I mean I had no idea that I could be an artist and cultivate community uh in the way that I have and been able to learn from the people that I've been able to learn from.
00:25:50.320 --> 00:25:51.200
You included.
00:25:51.440 --> 00:25:52.800
I learned a lot from you.
00:25:53.039 --> 00:25:53.440
Thank you.
00:25:53.680 --> 00:26:07.360
Um and that came with at NYU, even though the pacing was quick and it was, you know, like every second of every day was devoted to something.
00:26:07.920 --> 00:26:44.160
It taught me to stop and and look this thing, you know, right in the face and look at this thing that I love so much, that I want so much, that I see as sort of the the building blocks of my whole life and be able to like swim in it and and not have to paddle to shore to take a break and focus on something else, or like, you know, lift my head up out of water just to be able to make a uh some money to be able to, you know, grad school really let me it's three years of just one thing.
00:26:44.400 --> 00:26:44.880
That's what you do.
00:26:45.120 --> 00:26:45.600
It's one thing.
00:26:46.000 --> 00:26:46.640
And it's really great.
00:26:46.800 --> 00:26:48.480
It's fucking tiring as hell.
00:26:48.800 --> 00:26:49.120
Yeah.
00:26:49.360 --> 00:26:59.600
Um and you came in at a time, I mean, we both went through this with the pandemic and stuff like a shifting program, a constantly shifting program.
00:26:59.840 --> 00:27:00.240
Yeah.
00:27:00.400 --> 00:27:04.240
Um, but I actually I'm so glad we went through it during the pandemic.
00:27:04.320 --> 00:27:09.200
I'm like, I learned so much, especially this, being on camera doesn't scare me anymore.
00:27:09.759 --> 00:27:10.320
At least not as much.
00:27:10.560 --> 00:27:16.960
Or like I don't get like I don't take notes to heart anymore about it because I'm like, oh okay, yeah, it's just a matter of framing.
00:27:17.039 --> 00:27:17.200
Yeah.
00:27:17.360 --> 00:27:19.360
This has nothing to do with like my performance.
00:27:19.440 --> 00:27:21.279
It's just like we need to see you.
00:27:21.600 --> 00:27:23.279
So just tilt your head or whatever the fuck.
00:27:23.440 --> 00:27:26.560
No, literally, it's those little things though, but like you can really go.
00:27:26.880 --> 00:27:31.279
I know before grad school I had that, I was always terrified of the camera.
00:27:31.519 --> 00:27:32.160
Yeah, me too.
00:27:32.400 --> 00:27:32.960
Froze.
00:27:33.279 --> 00:27:33.519
Yeah.
00:27:33.759 --> 00:27:37.039
Yeah, but it's like I I was really happy for that.
00:27:37.120 --> 00:27:37.279
Yeah.
00:27:37.519 --> 00:27:38.960
It was a really unique experience.
00:27:39.279 --> 00:27:39.680
Me too.
00:27:39.840 --> 00:27:45.440
I also think, you know, just in terms of the state of the world, it was Oh yeah.
00:27:45.680 --> 00:28:01.920
It was really I I I feel very grateful that I was able to be in community during that time and like around people, even if we were distanced and masked and maybe the the program was slightly altered.
00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:03.039
I I don't care.
00:28:03.440 --> 00:28:05.759
But the thing is you don't know what the program is until you're going through it.
00:28:05.920 --> 00:28:07.519
So it's like, no, this is my program now.
00:28:07.680 --> 00:28:08.800
This is how I'm gonna go through it.
00:28:09.200 --> 00:28:09.360
Yeah.
00:28:09.600 --> 00:28:18.000
Um, yeah, going through it during that time with like, you know, Black Lives Matter, yeah, and also like self-care becoming a much more prevalent topic.
00:28:18.240 --> 00:28:32.640
And like these conservatory programs, they they tell you right off the bat, or at least this was uh conveyed to me, and I was like, I get that, that makes sense, which is they're like everything you're gonna do in grad school is way fucking more than you will ever have to do in the real world.
00:28:32.720 --> 00:28:32.880
Yeah.
00:28:33.039 --> 00:28:35.360
So that when you get in the real world, it doesn't seem that hard.
00:28:35.440 --> 00:28:35.840
Yeah.
00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:40.320
Um, when you're in grad school, it's like hellish, or it can feel hellish.
00:28:40.480 --> 00:28:40.560
Yeah.
00:28:40.800 --> 00:28:45.120
But if you keep that at the back of your mind, it's like, oh yeah, that the that's there's a purpose for that.
00:28:45.200 --> 00:28:55.519
Yeah, there's a lot to get through, and also it's like it's meant to be difficult because they want you to sort of just get out of your head and make instinctive decisions and choices.
00:28:55.840 --> 00:29:42.080
Well, yeah, and like around those conversations in 2020, you know, George Floyd, Black Lives Matter, like I was able to have those conversations face to face with other human beings that weren't like maybe my partner at the time that I was living with, you know, who like if I were if I weren't in school and it obviously we would have been like quarantined or not not out as much, and I would be having these conversations with one person or you know, hopefully more people, but I was able to to have conversations and to, you know, make small changes in my life because I was surrounded by community.
00:29:42.160 --> 00:29:42.480
Yeah.
00:29:42.640 --> 00:29:46.400
And that's something that I don't take for granted, and that I never will.
00:29:46.480 --> 00:29:49.680
I think probably before grad school I did take community for granted.
00:29:49.759 --> 00:29:52.400
I didn't really understand the aspect of community.
00:29:52.560 --> 00:29:52.960
Yeah.
00:29:53.360 --> 00:29:58.240
Uh until really until COVID hit and I we didn't have you didn't have community.
00:29:58.560 --> 00:29:58.880
Community.
00:29:58.960 --> 00:29:59.120
Yeah.
00:29:59.279 --> 00:30:07.279
And then I mean, I was so lucky that that cov that I got into grad school essentially right after March of 2020.
00:30:07.519 --> 00:30:12.960
And so I had this community just built in that I got to join.
00:30:13.200 --> 00:30:14.960
I and that's such a gift.
00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:15.519
Yeah.
00:30:15.759 --> 00:30:24.080
It was something too about like I was so thankful to have school to go to during that time simply to keep myself busy.
00:30:24.160 --> 00:30:24.400
Yeah.
00:30:24.640 --> 00:30:37.519
Because I knew when when I was home alone, dealing with like I was going through a breakup at the time too, and just like that it was just like really difficult to go through the day just being like in a room alone.
00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:47.039
Um, but also going back to like the Black Lives Matter of it all, uh, is like it was the first time I grew up in a very white town.
00:30:47.200 --> 00:31:08.320
It was the first time that I was able to like have conversations about race and build a vocabulary around how to talk about race that wasn't um you know offensive or like like stepped on people's toes or just like learning the basics of how to ask people about their experiences or not.
00:31:08.480 --> 00:31:15.039
Yeah, you know, like because at the end of the day, there is like the education is on me, you know.
00:31:15.279 --> 00:31:45.039
Um and that being said, because I developed such wonderful relationships with my class and uh a lot of my my very dearest friends, this is gonna sound so white what I'm about to say, but I have a lot of black friends, but it's like I am so thankful that I have these friends who I could have really honest and sometimes hard discussions with about my privilege and uh their experiences and they were willing to share those with me.
00:31:45.200 --> 00:31:45.680
Yeah, yeah.
00:31:45.920 --> 00:31:47.440
Even when it was difficult for them.
00:31:47.920 --> 00:31:51.680
Um and being able to gauge when I could and couldn't ask those questions.
00:31:51.920 --> 00:31:52.400
Absolutely, yeah.
00:31:52.560 --> 00:31:55.600
Uh that I think that's where a lot of people get mixed up.
00:31:55.759 --> 00:31:57.200
Yeah, because I've gone through that myself.
00:31:57.519 --> 00:31:59.600
Yes, yeah, I I feel the same way.
00:31:59.759 --> 00:32:18.320
I think uh yeah, I think NYU gave me at a really specific time in the world, gave me this vast like ocean, this like worldwide ocean of people that like got to grow with me.
00:32:18.480 --> 00:32:31.279
And I mean, my my dad was uh quite a bit older, and he was from like a tiny town in West Virginia, a tiny, very white town in West Virginia.
00:32:31.440 --> 00:32:36.880
But he was mama uh exactly, yes, and that that song was actually based on my dad.
00:32:37.600 --> 00:32:39.840
My dad is the mountain mama, yeah.
00:32:40.080 --> 00:32:41.519
Um I'm sorry.
00:32:42.800 --> 00:32:43.600
No, I love that.
00:32:43.759 --> 00:32:52.160
Um, but he talked about race a lot, and he worked in the government, and he was just he was an extremely political person.
00:32:52.320 --> 00:32:52.640
Yeah.
00:32:52.960 --> 00:33:08.000
Um and he talked about race a lot, but he was really the only person in my life like growing up um that was was uh like telling me that those conversations were really important.
00:33:08.400 --> 00:33:08.640
Yeah.
00:33:08.960 --> 00:33:20.000
And so then when I got to grad school and those conversations were happening and the train was moving, whether I was gonna get on it or not.
00:33:21.279 --> 00:33:26.560
And I feel grateful that like someone was conducting the train.
00:33:26.880 --> 00:33:27.120
Yeah.
00:33:27.680 --> 00:33:28.000
You know?
00:33:28.080 --> 00:33:28.320
Yeah.
00:33:28.640 --> 00:33:34.640
And that space is just very sacred in a lot of ways, and I'm really grateful for it.
00:33:34.880 --> 00:33:35.120
Yeah.
00:33:35.440 --> 00:33:37.600
A lot of great books came out of that time too.
00:33:37.920 --> 00:33:41.600
If you're if you're if you're ever interested, there's a really great one that's sort of like a workbook.
00:33:41.680 --> 00:33:43.759
It's called White Supremacy and Me by Layla F.
00:33:43.920 --> 00:33:44.400
Saad.
00:33:44.480 --> 00:33:45.600
It's excellent.
00:33:45.759 --> 00:33:46.000
Yeah.
00:33:46.240 --> 00:33:53.279
A lot of introspective questions about white privilege and race, and it's really worth giving a read.
00:33:53.440 --> 00:33:53.759
Yeah.
00:33:54.000 --> 00:33:57.360
Um what was it like coming out of the grad program?
00:33:57.440 --> 00:34:00.720
You're now, as we mentioned earlier, I cannot believe it.
00:34:00.800 --> 00:34:05.120
You're three years out, and I'm coming I'm on four years out, which is really weird.
00:34:05.360 --> 00:34:05.680
It's okay.
00:34:05.759 --> 00:34:06.800
You can say coming up on.
00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:08.159
Coming up on, yes.
00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:10.079
We're coming on, you're coming up on three.
00:34:10.960 --> 00:34:11.840
I'm coming up on four.
00:34:11.920 --> 00:34:12.880
So I'm still within three.
00:34:13.279 --> 00:34:14.320
It's not it's not actually.
00:34:14.800 --> 00:34:15.920
Yeah, it's not yet actually.
00:34:16.559 --> 00:34:17.679
It's in a couple of months, though.
00:34:17.840 --> 00:34:18.800
Yeah, we're fine.
00:34:19.039 --> 00:34:20.639
But once it's there, we'll fall apart.
00:34:20.960 --> 00:34:21.759
Yeah, no, I won't be okay.
00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:24.800
By the time this comes out, we'll be upset.
00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:28.400
If you find this, we're both dead.
00:34:29.679 --> 00:34:34.159
Um yeah, my time at well, I mean, here's the thing.
00:34:35.119 --> 00:34:38.239
I got into school right after COVID hit.
00:34:38.400 --> 00:34:42.400
I graduated when the strikes were announced.
00:34:42.719 --> 00:34:43.360
Oh my god.
00:34:43.599 --> 00:34:48.000
So many So trials and tribulations really abound.
00:34:48.480 --> 00:34:50.800
But but it was okay.
00:34:50.960 --> 00:34:51.119
Yeah.
00:34:51.280 --> 00:34:54.000
I mean, I again, I don't know anything different.
00:34:54.159 --> 00:35:09.840
I was never repped before grad school, and so my auditions before grad school were me scouring backstage and actors access by myself and sending in maybe tapes or like driving to go to I was living in Los Angeles, and so it I was driving.
00:35:10.079 --> 00:35:11.039
Were you right out of grad school?
00:35:11.119 --> 00:35:11.920
You went to Los Angeles?
00:35:12.079 --> 00:35:12.480
No, no.
00:35:12.559 --> 00:35:12.720
Oh.
00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:14.240
Um I'm sorry.
00:35:14.400 --> 00:35:15.280
It's it's complicated.
00:35:15.519 --> 00:35:15.920
I'm so sorry.
00:35:16.159 --> 00:35:16.639
No, no, no.
00:35:16.720 --> 00:35:17.519
Never apologize.
00:35:17.680 --> 00:35:19.920
I'm just sorry for the way that this is gonna go.
00:35:20.159 --> 00:35:21.519
I was like, when the hell were you in LA?
00:35:21.840 --> 00:35:23.680
I graduated undergrad.
00:35:24.240 --> 00:35:28.639
I moved to New York with two of my very good friends.
00:35:29.280 --> 00:35:34.079
We lived in a three-bedroom apartment by the water in Astoria.
00:35:34.240 --> 00:35:36.720
I had to walk 17 minutes to even get to the train.
00:35:36.880 --> 00:35:41.039
Oh, I don't know who was guiding me, but nobody knowledgeable.
00:35:41.760 --> 00:35:42.000
The moon?
00:35:42.240 --> 00:35:43.440
Hey, Jesus.
00:35:43.840 --> 00:35:46.000
Care to help the moon.
00:35:46.240 --> 00:35:48.559
Um, and wait, what did you study in undergrad?
00:35:48.639 --> 00:35:50.079
Did you study theater and or acting?
00:35:50.400 --> 00:35:51.840
I studied theater, yeah.
00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:55.519
And but I also studied uh medieval and renaissance history.
00:35:55.840 --> 00:35:56.639
Yeah, of course.
00:35:56.880 --> 00:36:00.000
So what did you think you were gonna do with that?
00:36:00.639 --> 00:36:04.400
I don't know why I said that so contradictory or so critically.
00:36:04.720 --> 00:36:07.440
But I'm also like that sounds fucking rad, actually.
00:36:07.680 --> 00:36:10.079
Medieval and Renaissance that history, that sounds really cool.
00:36:10.400 --> 00:36:12.400
It was the coolest thing, and it was mostly literature.
00:36:12.480 --> 00:36:13.680
It was mostly Oh, okay.
00:36:13.840 --> 00:36:16.639
Um, and I mean it was incredible.
00:36:16.720 --> 00:36:17.760
I I loved it a lot.
00:36:17.920 --> 00:36:21.519
Yeah, um, it was a lot of studying Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
00:36:21.920 --> 00:36:25.440
Oh, that's fucking like yeah, you I'm totally applicable.
00:36:25.920 --> 00:36:26.400
Yeah.
00:36:26.800 --> 00:36:31.200
Um and maybe museum curator, but not a lot.
00:36:31.920 --> 00:36:33.119
That's maybe the only thing.
00:36:33.440 --> 00:36:33.599
Yeah.
00:36:33.840 --> 00:36:34.079
Yeah.
00:36:34.240 --> 00:36:34.720
At the Met.
00:36:34.880 --> 00:36:35.840
Yeah, catch me at the Met.
00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:36.800
Catch me at the Met.
00:36:36.880 --> 00:36:38.720
Um then catch me at the Met.
00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:39.200
Hey.
00:36:39.599 --> 00:36:40.079
In a show.
00:36:40.960 --> 00:36:42.559
You know, that's that was what I was doing with it.
00:36:45.360 --> 00:36:45.760
Sure.
00:36:46.159 --> 00:36:46.800
Sure, yeah.
00:36:47.039 --> 00:36:48.000
I meant Lincoln Center.
00:36:48.159 --> 00:36:49.680
You know, it's the Met, the Lincoln Center.
00:36:50.079 --> 00:36:50.400
Yes, of course.
00:36:51.119 --> 00:36:54.240
They're two separate entities, I suppose, but they're on the same property.
00:36:57.519 --> 00:36:59.119
Uh what was the question?
00:36:59.280 --> 00:37:01.599
So you you studied at undergrad in uh Medival.
00:37:01.840 --> 00:37:05.840
I was just wondering because I was like, I don't know if she did uh if you were doing acting before.
00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:09.519
I was doing acting, yes.
00:37:09.840 --> 00:37:15.200
And then I moved to New York, and then it was hard.
00:37:18.079 --> 00:37:18.720
Yeah.
00:37:19.039 --> 00:37:22.960
And to be honest with you, I saw La La Land.
00:37:23.519 --> 00:37:25.760
And were you like this is phenomenal?
00:37:26.000 --> 00:37:29.280
I was like, oh, of course.
00:37:29.680 --> 00:37:31.920
It's not working because I'm in New York.
00:37:32.320 --> 00:37:34.720
Oh my god, you were swayed by La Land.
00:37:34.960 --> 00:37:36.320
Yeah, La La Land.
00:37:38.079 --> 00:37:38.480
Yes.
00:37:38.720 --> 00:37:39.360
Oh my god.
00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:40.079
That's so funny.
00:37:40.240 --> 00:37:45.680
That movie had an impression on me too, and then a week went by and I went, oh yeah, it's not that great.
00:37:45.920 --> 00:37:47.440
Oh yeah, no, I don't work that way.
00:37:47.680 --> 00:37:47.840
No.
00:37:48.000 --> 00:37:49.119
Oh, did you do you still love it?
00:37:49.280 --> 00:37:52.079
No, if I get like no, I I think it's just a no, no, no, it's okay.
00:37:52.480 --> 00:37:54.079
I should I shouldn't yuck people's yum.
00:37:54.159 --> 00:37:56.159
I think the sound editing is terrible on that film.
00:37:56.320 --> 00:37:56.639
Sorry!
00:37:57.039 --> 00:37:57.360
Okay, great.
00:37:58.079 --> 00:38:00.880
I probably if you pointed it out to me, I would agree with you.
00:38:01.360 --> 00:38:04.240
If you watch it again, you'll notice how egregious it is.
00:38:04.480 --> 00:38:04.720
And I will.
00:38:04.800 --> 00:38:05.840
I'll hate watch it now.
00:38:06.480 --> 00:38:09.360
Um no, I I love everyone in it.
00:38:09.599 --> 00:38:10.240
Very good.
00:38:10.480 --> 00:38:11.119
Very good.
00:38:11.599 --> 00:38:28.000
I just like when I get an idea and I see a potential outcome, and I see a potential missed opportunity if I don't follow through, I have to follow through.
00:38:28.240 --> 00:38:28.400
Yeah.
00:38:28.720 --> 00:38:29.680
So you were like LA.
00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:31.599
And so then I moved to LA.
00:38:31.920 --> 00:38:35.760
So you were in New York City, and then went to LA, and then you came back for NYU.
00:38:36.159 --> 00:38:36.400
Yes.
00:38:36.639 --> 00:38:37.680
How is LA?
00:38:38.320 --> 00:38:39.760
Here's the thing.
00:38:40.079 --> 00:38:50.240
I right after I moved back to New York, I spoke very poorly of Los Angeles.
00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:52.240
And some of those things I stand up.
00:38:55.599 --> 00:38:56.559
And I'm blacklisted.
00:38:57.680 --> 00:39:00.720
Um I Oh, you were on the blacklist?
00:39:03.039 --> 00:39:05.039
Really amazing time on set.
00:39:05.119 --> 00:39:05.920
Everyone was so nice.
00:39:06.159 --> 00:39:07.840
James Spader is amazing.
00:39:08.320 --> 00:39:16.800
Um, and but the more that time has passed, the more I realized again how lucky I was.
00:39:17.360 --> 00:39:38.240
I I moved to Los Angeles and I was dating somebody that I had met on a set, and we moved in together, and wow, we had I had this again community that I didn't even know was a community, and it was a lot of behind the camera people.
00:39:38.400 --> 00:39:38.559
Yeah.
00:39:38.800 --> 00:39:41.599
Because the person I was dating worked behind the camera.
00:39:41.840 --> 00:39:42.240
Gotcha.
00:39:42.720 --> 00:39:58.320
And and I look back on my time in LA, and though I again wasn't getting a lot of auditions, I then I I worked with this Shakespeare company called Porters of Hell's Gate.
00:39:58.639 --> 00:39:59.599
Porters of Hell's Gate.
00:39:59.760 --> 00:40:00.800
That sounds fucking rad.
00:40:01.280 --> 00:40:02.159
They are rad.
00:40:02.480 --> 00:40:02.720
Yeah.
00:40:02.880 --> 00:40:07.599
Um, and they're doing Shakespeare in North Hollywood, and it's never been done before.
00:40:08.000 --> 00:40:10.320
Um I'm sure it has, but not well.
00:40:10.559 --> 00:40:12.720
And they're doing it well.
00:40:12.960 --> 00:40:21.920
It's full of people who love Shakespeare and who love LA and who think that there's, you know, a a gap in absolutely.
00:40:22.159 --> 00:40:26.320
And so they're they're making it accessible, and it's so great.
00:40:26.400 --> 00:40:27.119
I had the time of my life.
00:40:27.200 --> 00:40:29.360
I played Petrucchio in the shrew.
00:40:29.760 --> 00:40:30.000
Nice.
00:40:30.079 --> 00:40:31.440
Oh, that would be a great part for you.
00:40:31.680 --> 00:40:32.320
It was so fun.
00:40:32.400 --> 00:40:33.039
Yeah.
00:40:33.519 --> 00:40:52.320
And um, and I found community that way, and I found community through my partner at the time, and um, and then I you know, I I was sort of itching, and I had I had known that I wanted to go to grad school because uh I had a professor in undergrad.
00:40:52.480 --> 00:41:00.960
My undergrad was extremely lacking in just a a a a well-rounded arts education.
00:41:01.360 --> 00:41:01.760
Sure.
00:41:03.119 --> 00:41:05.920
But there was one teacher who came.
00:41:06.639 --> 00:41:08.720
Um, his name is Jim Iorio.
00:41:09.360 --> 00:41:21.280
He uh he took over the like voice and speech classes, the acting classes, um, the movement classes, and changed my whole life.
00:41:21.519 --> 00:41:23.039
Changed the trajectory of my life.
00:41:23.119 --> 00:41:25.280
I wouldn't have known what grad school was if it weren't for him.
00:41:25.360 --> 00:41:30.079
He graduated from NYU grad in like I was gonna say that name sounds so familiar.
00:41:30.320 --> 00:41:33.119
Yeah, it was like I wanna say early nineties, maybe.
00:41:33.360 --> 00:41:36.800
I think Andy, maybe of Andy Ingalls, I think, maybe told me about him.
00:41:37.360 --> 00:41:37.599
Yeah.
00:41:37.760 --> 00:41:49.440
Um, and now he's I believe that he is the our he's the the chair of the program at at Chicago Oh great Roosevelt College.
00:41:49.599 --> 00:41:52.400
They do have like a really great um acting program anyway.
00:41:52.880 --> 00:41:54.159
Sounds prestigious and great.
00:41:54.400 --> 00:41:55.440
Yeah, he's amazing.
00:41:55.599 --> 00:42:07.599
And he uh put NYU on my radar and he was like something you might want to think about in the future is grad school, and he was like, uh it'll be um the hardest but the best thing you'll ever do.
00:42:07.840 --> 00:42:08.400
Yeah.
00:42:08.720 --> 00:42:16.000
And then four years out of undergrad, I was like, I I'm returning to that recommendation from him.
00:42:16.639 --> 00:42:21.440
Um and and yeah, and so I I f I actually flew, I was living in Los Angeles.
00:42:21.519 --> 00:42:28.880
I thought that it wouldn't be enough to go to the California auditions, and so I flew to New York.
00:42:29.840 --> 00:42:30.000
Yeah.
00:42:30.240 --> 00:42:32.240
Oh, so you flew to New York.
00:42:32.720 --> 00:42:35.599
You didn't think it would be enough to do the audition in LA.
00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:37.200
I said no, it's not good enough.
00:42:37.280 --> 00:42:38.400
I gotta go to the school.
00:42:38.800 --> 00:42:41.280
This is what's actually like kind of Did they know that?
00:42:41.440 --> 00:42:41.680
No.
00:42:41.920 --> 00:42:42.480
Oh, wow.
00:42:42.720 --> 00:42:44.960
No, this was like my I have like a problem.
00:42:46.639 --> 00:42:48.320
I don't think so because you got in.
00:42:48.559 --> 00:42:49.440
That's true, that's true.
00:42:49.680 --> 00:42:49.920
Yeah.
00:42:50.400 --> 00:42:58.960
But if that's what you needed too, yeah, you felt like that was what you needed, and you're like, I'm gonna feel more empowered or what have you to be there doing it.
00:42:59.200 --> 00:43:07.440
Yeah, and I needed to like, you know, be in the space and see the school, and I had never seen it, or so and I felt super, I felt so welcome.
00:43:07.599 --> 00:43:18.480
I I that's yeah, I told it I told this story a lot, which is that like when I walked in the door, Donathan Walters being with like the most beautiful face.
00:43:18.960 --> 00:43:20.800
Donathan, I love you.
00:43:21.280 --> 00:43:24.960
And I just like felt like Did he give you oils as you walked in?
00:43:25.200 --> 00:43:27.440
He gave me hand sanitizer because of the times.
00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:29.920
Oh, yeah, so yeah, fair enough, fair enough.
00:43:30.079 --> 00:44:10.710
Um and and yeah, and I I had a really great audition process, really great um callback weekend, and and I this yeah, something I I feel like I there's obviously doubts that creep in, but I like knew I was like, I belong here.
00:44:11.110 --> 00:44:24.630
That's that seems to be that's a very recurring theme with the people who talk about their grad school experiences being like, yeah, there's a feeling when you know you want to be there and you know you that's like that specific community is the one you want to belong in.
00:44:24.710 --> 00:44:25.030
Yeah.
00:44:25.269 --> 00:44:27.030
We kind of Tarantinoed your story.
00:44:27.110 --> 00:44:31.030
We sort of started at the end a little bit and went back or we jumped around a lot or whatever.
00:44:31.269 --> 00:44:31.670
Yeah.
00:44:34.870 --> 00:44:39.430
This is yes, no, and sometimes why.
00:44:39.670 --> 00:44:45.829
This is a game in which we go through three rounds of rapid fire questions, the answers to which are yes or no.
00:44:46.150 --> 00:44:53.110
And every so often, intermittently, when I am curious, I will ask Lauren why, and then she'll answer and we'll see what happens.
00:44:53.349 --> 00:44:54.230
Are you ready, Lauren?
00:44:54.870 --> 00:44:55.190
What's that?
00:44:55.349 --> 00:44:56.230
I said, or I won't.
00:44:56.390 --> 00:44:57.030
Oh, you won't.
00:44:57.269 --> 00:44:58.070
I mean, you don't have to.
00:44:58.230 --> 00:44:58.789
I'm an open door.
00:44:59.510 --> 00:45:00.230
Um, I'm ready, yes.
00:45:00.470 --> 00:45:00.710
All right.
00:45:01.110 --> 00:45:01.430
Here we go.
00:45:01.510 --> 00:45:03.670
And these questions were sourced from teambuilding.com.
00:45:03.750 --> 00:45:04.789
Thanks, teambuilding.com.
00:45:05.910 --> 00:45:07.349
They need that shower.
00:45:07.590 --> 00:45:09.190
They I they might.
00:45:09.750 --> 00:45:11.430
Because I'm not sure if it's around or not.
00:45:12.150 --> 00:45:12.950
Um, here we go.
00:45:13.110 --> 00:45:13.590
Round one.
00:45:13.670 --> 00:45:13.990
Ready?
00:45:14.630 --> 00:45:15.349
Do you vote?
00:45:15.510 --> 00:45:15.829
Yes.
00:45:15.990 --> 00:45:17.110
Have you ever been grounded?
00:45:17.349 --> 00:45:17.670
Yes.
00:45:17.910 --> 00:45:18.470
Do you drive?
00:45:18.630 --> 00:45:18.870
Yes.
00:45:19.110 --> 00:45:19.829
Do you live alone?
00:45:19.990 --> 00:45:20.230
Yes.
00:45:20.470 --> 00:45:21.030
Are you married?
00:45:21.269 --> 00:45:21.430
No.
00:45:21.670 --> 00:45:22.230
Do you have kids?
00:45:22.390 --> 00:45:22.630
No.
00:45:22.789 --> 00:45:23.590
Do you have pets?
00:45:23.829 --> 00:45:24.390
Yes.
00:45:25.030 --> 00:45:25.430
Why?
00:45:25.829 --> 00:45:27.829
That's my dog Dobby.
00:45:28.070 --> 00:45:29.910
Dobby! Oh my god, sweet.
00:45:30.309 --> 00:45:31.910
I haven't seen Dobby in so long.
00:45:32.150 --> 00:45:33.030
You could see him any time.
00:45:33.269 --> 00:45:33.990
Oh my god, please.
00:45:34.230 --> 00:45:36.870
Um, the light of my life.
00:45:37.110 --> 00:45:38.870
He's such a sweet seven years old.
00:45:39.030 --> 00:45:42.309
He's the best thing that has ever happened to planet Earth.
00:45:43.030 --> 00:45:49.430
Um he's the sweetest, most snugly, playful little boy.
00:45:50.070 --> 00:45:53.750
In the last year, he has started, he's always been a huge snuggler.
00:45:54.470 --> 00:45:58.710
In the last year, he has started really loving being under the covers.
00:45:59.190 --> 00:45:59.269
Oh.
00:45:59.829 --> 00:46:08.309
And so he will, right when I go to bed, he'll come up to my left shoulder and he'll paw at it and wait for me to lift the covers up so he can curl out.
00:46:08.710 --> 00:46:09.510
Oh my goodness.
00:46:09.829 --> 00:46:21.190
And then at whatever time he decides to during the night, he wakes up and comes to my right shoulder and paws at my right shoulder, and I pick up the covers and he curls up on my right.
00:46:21.670 --> 00:46:22.309
Oh my god.
00:46:22.630 --> 00:46:27.190
And it's just a little rhythmic ritual that we have every single night.
00:46:27.590 --> 00:46:28.150
That's beautiful.
00:46:28.390 --> 00:46:31.430
And sometimes I'm like, I was asleep.
00:46:31.910 --> 00:46:35.750
But then every time I'm like, you're so perfection.
00:46:36.070 --> 00:46:37.269
Yeah, you're so precious.
00:46:37.430 --> 00:46:41.030
Of course, you can snuggle on my right side instead of my left.
00:46:41.590 --> 00:46:42.230
He's the best.
00:46:42.470 --> 00:46:43.269
What kind of dog is he?
00:46:43.430 --> 00:46:45.510
He's a lab shepherd.
00:46:45.750 --> 00:46:47.349
There's a little bit of poodle.
00:46:47.510 --> 00:46:49.670
He's got 12% super mutt.
00:46:49.990 --> 00:46:50.789
Super mutt?
00:46:51.110 --> 00:46:51.910
What's that?
00:46:52.309 --> 00:46:58.230
Like it's just they're so it's such a mix of dogs that they're just like, we gotta it's not mud anymore.
00:46:58.390 --> 00:46:59.190
It's super mutt.
00:46:59.910 --> 00:47:04.950
Super mutt, I think, is made up of this is I'm gonna get roasted.
00:47:05.110 --> 00:47:09.030
But I think I think that it's a mix of all the bullies.
00:47:09.430 --> 00:47:13.430
And so I think it's like Staffordshire, um.
00:47:14.870 --> 00:47:16.710
Oh oh, I see, I see like the bully breeds.
00:47:16.950 --> 00:47:17.510
I get you.
00:47:17.670 --> 00:47:20.390
Um I thought you meant like dogs with bad reputations.
00:47:21.190 --> 00:47:22.789
Oh, bullies.
00:47:22.950 --> 00:47:24.070
These dogs are bullies.
00:47:24.390 --> 00:47:28.550
Yeah, well, I mean, the reputation is for those dogs, sadly.
00:47:29.510 --> 00:47:31.590
That's why we're fighting the stereotype.
00:47:31.829 --> 00:47:32.710
Oh, there you go.
00:47:32.870 --> 00:47:33.990
Are you an only child?
00:47:34.150 --> 00:47:34.309
No.
00:47:34.550 --> 00:47:36.150
Do you work full-time?
00:47:37.510 --> 00:47:39.190
More or less, I'd say.
00:47:39.349 --> 00:47:40.390
The hours vary.
00:47:40.470 --> 00:47:42.630
I'm an artist, so did not ask why.
00:47:42.870 --> 00:47:43.349
That's right.
00:47:43.430 --> 00:47:43.990
And that's right.
00:47:44.150 --> 00:47:45.430
And see, this is what I'm talking about.
00:47:45.750 --> 00:47:47.590
Uh do you have a second job?
00:47:47.829 --> 00:47:48.309
Yes.
00:47:48.630 --> 00:47:49.269
Why?
00:47:49.750 --> 00:47:52.070
And now you're getting your description.
00:47:53.670 --> 00:47:57.829
Um, I have a second job because I well, I have many jobs.
00:47:58.070 --> 00:48:05.190
Um, but I would say my favorite second job is I teach one-on-one yoga to senior citizens.
00:48:05.430 --> 00:48:05.910
Oh my god.
00:48:05.990 --> 00:48:06.789
That's wonderful.
00:48:07.110 --> 00:48:08.630
It's so, so amazing.
00:48:08.710 --> 00:48:09.510
It's so fulfilling.
00:48:09.590 --> 00:48:09.750
Yeah.
00:48:09.990 --> 00:48:11.030
I love it very much.
00:48:11.269 --> 00:48:15.110
They are incredible enough to let me in their homes.
00:48:15.510 --> 00:48:16.070
Oh my gosh.
00:48:16.309 --> 00:48:17.349
Oh, so you go to people's homes.
00:48:18.950 --> 00:48:19.670
Oh my god, wow.
00:48:19.910 --> 00:48:20.309
Yeah.
00:48:20.550 --> 00:48:20.870
Wow.
00:48:21.190 --> 00:48:30.710
And they're usually like 85 plus, and their goals are so why I love it is because their goals are so anti-fitness.
00:48:30.950 --> 00:48:38.309
Their goals are always like to be able to walk in the park and listen to the birds, to be able to lift my grandchildren up when they come and visit.
00:48:38.470 --> 00:48:38.710
Yeah.
00:48:38.870 --> 00:48:44.870
And so there's nobody who's ever like, I'm trying to get swole and count my fucking macros.
00:48:45.030 --> 00:48:45.110
Yes.
00:48:45.430 --> 00:48:48.950
This is like I want this for practical.
00:48:49.430 --> 00:48:52.789
These people, they still call me bitch, but it's because I'm a bitch.
00:48:53.430 --> 00:48:56.630
I want to be able to hold my grandson, bitch.
00:48:58.230 --> 00:48:59.750
Yeah, exactly.
00:48:59.990 --> 00:49:01.910
They have a lot of comments about my clothes.
00:49:02.309 --> 00:49:02.789
Do they really?
00:49:02.950 --> 00:49:03.190
Yeah.
00:49:03.349 --> 00:49:03.990
Oh my god.
00:49:04.309 --> 00:49:07.430
They're always like, why do you wear colors?
00:49:07.670 --> 00:49:09.829
They're like, make yourself smaller.
00:49:10.710 --> 00:49:11.750
It's a different generation.
00:49:11.990 --> 00:49:12.309
I know.
00:49:12.630 --> 00:49:13.590
Different generation.
00:49:14.150 --> 00:49:15.349
Do you know how to ride a bike?
00:49:15.590 --> 00:49:15.829
Yes.
00:49:16.070 --> 00:49:17.190
Have you ever had stitches?
00:49:17.510 --> 00:49:17.829
No.
00:49:18.150 --> 00:49:19.829
Do you know how to cook?
00:49:20.150 --> 00:49:20.710
Yes.
00:49:21.030 --> 00:49:22.230
Do you like spiders?
00:49:22.710 --> 00:49:23.430
I don't mind them.
00:49:23.670 --> 00:49:24.950
Have you ever been to summer camp?
00:49:25.110 --> 00:49:25.349
Yes.
00:49:25.590 --> 00:49:27.030
Do you have an imaginary friend?
00:49:27.269 --> 00:49:27.910
Yes.
00:49:28.230 --> 00:49:28.710
Why?
00:49:28.950 --> 00:49:29.670
Currently?
00:49:29.910 --> 00:49:32.630
I mean, I think we all have imaginary friends.
00:49:33.110 --> 00:49:33.910
Imaginary rant.
00:49:34.309 --> 00:49:34.630
Why?
00:49:35.110 --> 00:49:37.829
Who do you talk to when you're talking in your apartment?
00:49:38.470 --> 00:49:39.510
That's true.
00:49:39.829 --> 00:49:41.910
How do you know I'm talking in my apartment when I'm alone?
00:49:42.150 --> 00:49:43.829
Maybe I was a little bit more than a little bit of a little bit of a little bit all night.
00:49:43.990 --> 00:49:45.030
This is something full moon.
00:49:45.269 --> 00:49:46.789
This was actually a bit that's that.
00:49:48.550 --> 00:49:55.829
This is something I actually sort of discovered about myself when I was working one of these jobs that I had, where I was I was a director at a showcase company for a couple of years.
00:49:55.990 --> 00:49:56.470
Cool.
00:49:56.789 --> 00:50:14.470
And I kind of came to the realization about like when people do monologues, I'm like, you're never, and maybe this is like just so on point, but I'm like, even when you're home alone, like when you talk when you're home alone and you're having a phantom conversation, you're not saying it to yourself.
00:50:15.349 --> 00:50:17.829
You you have someone in your head that you're imagining.
00:50:17.910 --> 00:50:26.390
Whether you can conceptually see who it actually is, you always have an idea of who that person is.
00:50:26.710 --> 00:50:27.110
Absolutely.
00:50:27.190 --> 00:50:27.510
Yeah.
00:50:27.750 --> 00:50:31.829
And for some reason, when I f like I that just like clicked for me.
00:50:31.910 --> 00:50:33.590
It helped me do monologues a lot better.
00:50:33.750 --> 00:50:33.990
Yeah.
00:50:34.230 --> 00:50:35.110
Um that's great.
00:50:35.269 --> 00:50:41.030
And it I I I felt like I was like, oh, that's a good advice to pass on to the people that I was doing showcase stuff with.
00:50:41.349 --> 00:50:41.910
That's really great.
00:50:42.070 --> 00:50:42.309
Yeah.
00:50:42.550 --> 00:50:44.870
Um, but that just sort of ignited that memory for me.
00:50:44.950 --> 00:50:45.349
That's cool.
00:50:45.510 --> 00:50:46.070
That's round one.
00:50:46.150 --> 00:50:46.630
How you feeling?
00:50:46.710 --> 00:50:47.670
How you feeling, Lauren?
00:50:48.150 --> 00:50:48.870
Be honest, Lauren.
00:50:49.190 --> 00:50:51.990
I wish there was someone here to like massage my shoulders.
00:50:52.230 --> 00:50:53.990
Like I was in a mid-fight.
00:50:55.190 --> 00:50:56.870
Are you ready for round two?
00:50:57.190 --> 00:50:57.670
I'm ready.
00:50:57.829 --> 00:50:59.269
Do you like riding motorcycles?
00:50:59.590 --> 00:50:59.910
No.
00:51:00.470 --> 00:51:01.110
Why?
00:51:01.430 --> 00:51:03.510
I've only done it once, didn't do it for me.
00:51:03.670 --> 00:51:05.430
I'm not like an adrenaline person.
00:51:05.670 --> 00:51:05.910
Sure.
00:51:06.070 --> 00:51:07.670
I don't know that I've ever been on a motorcycle.
00:51:07.829 --> 00:51:09.829
I mean, like, here's the thing.
00:51:10.150 --> 00:51:11.510
You're gonna die.
00:51:12.870 --> 00:51:13.829
I know.
00:51:15.269 --> 00:51:16.550
I hope it's not now.
00:51:16.870 --> 00:51:18.550
Like the everybody knows this.
00:51:18.630 --> 00:51:18.789
Yes.
00:51:18.950 --> 00:51:21.269
But the risks on a motorcycle come on.
00:51:22.470 --> 00:51:26.150
When you hear about a motorcycle accident, it's never like I know.
00:51:26.390 --> 00:51:28.789
It's never No, it's never like, oh dang.
00:51:28.870 --> 00:51:29.510
I got a little thing.
00:51:31.829 --> 00:51:33.030
No, you have head trauma now.
00:51:33.430 --> 00:51:35.750
Your arm is dead or your head was taken off.
00:51:36.230 --> 00:51:39.349
Yeah, it's always gruesome.
00:51:39.670 --> 00:51:51.110
Yeah, I was recently talking to an orthopedic surgeon who told me that he used to love motorcycles until he saw what it does every single time.
00:51:51.349 --> 00:51:51.670
Yeah.
00:51:51.829 --> 00:52:03.510
Like you never, yeah, like you said, you never get it's like if you're gonna be on this thing, you better know exactly how to ride it and like and maybe go to the dirt roads in West Virginia, Mountain Mama.
00:52:03.750 --> 00:52:08.309
Mountain Mama, where no one is there to watch your head fall off.
00:52:08.550 --> 00:52:09.430
Yeah, that's true.
00:52:09.750 --> 00:52:10.870
Yeah, die alone.
00:52:10.950 --> 00:52:11.269
Come on.
00:52:11.750 --> 00:52:12.630
Nobody wants to see that.
00:52:12.710 --> 00:52:13.590
No one wants to see that.
00:52:13.750 --> 00:52:15.190
Are you a twin or a triplet?
00:52:15.269 --> 00:52:15.510
No.
00:52:15.750 --> 00:52:18.150
Can you recite pie to more than 10 digits?
00:52:18.789 --> 00:52:21.030
I think so.
00:52:21.590 --> 00:52:22.230
Yeah?
00:52:22.550 --> 00:52:23.190
Why?
00:52:23.590 --> 00:52:24.390
I don't know.
00:52:24.550 --> 00:52:27.990
Well, I think one day when I was little, I was like, I'm gonna do this.
00:52:28.230 --> 00:52:29.030
Here's the thing.
00:52:29.190 --> 00:52:32.950
I ask sometimes when people say yes, I'm like, I say why.
00:52:33.349 --> 00:52:34.870
But then you just want to hear me do it.
00:52:35.110 --> 00:52:39.030
But the thing is, even if you do it, I'm not gonna fucking know because I can't.
00:52:39.670 --> 00:52:40.950
You can say any numbers.
00:52:41.670 --> 00:52:42.470
How much can you do?
00:52:42.710 --> 00:52:43.750
3.14.
00:52:43.990 --> 00:52:45.110
15926.
00:52:45.430 --> 00:52:46.390
I think that's all I can do.
00:52:46.550 --> 00:52:46.950
Three?
00:52:47.110 --> 00:52:48.550
Do you count the decimal point?
00:52:48.870 --> 00:52:53.349
Uh I think we have to count everything past the decimal point as the ten digits.
00:52:53.510 --> 00:52:53.910
What?
00:52:54.150 --> 00:52:55.750
Because three uh okay, fine.
00:52:55.829 --> 00:52:56.470
Fair enough, fair enough.
00:52:56.950 --> 00:52:57.590
But you're you're right, you're right.
00:52:57.829 --> 00:52:58.870
I don't even think I'm there though.
00:52:58.950 --> 00:52:59.190
Hold on.
00:52:59.829 --> 00:53:00.550
I'm gonna count the decimal.
00:53:00.950 --> 00:53:01.990
I think it's like eight.
00:53:03.590 --> 00:53:06.630
3.14159269.
00:53:07.110 --> 00:53:07.750
Oh, nine.
00:53:07.990 --> 00:53:08.230
All right.
00:53:08.390 --> 00:53:09.349
Is it the last number?
00:53:09.750 --> 00:53:10.390
Came in close.
00:53:10.470 --> 00:53:11.349
Is it nine?
00:53:11.990 --> 00:53:13.269
Do you believe in ghosts?
00:53:13.510 --> 00:53:14.789
Yes, of course.
00:53:15.110 --> 00:53:16.550
There's one sitting right next to you.
00:53:16.789 --> 00:53:17.110
Is there?
00:53:17.190 --> 00:53:17.670
Oh god.
00:53:17.829 --> 00:53:19.349
Is this the Haunted Mansion?
00:53:20.150 --> 00:53:22.710
I always have to fight the urge to ask why on that one every time.
00:53:22.950 --> 00:53:24.710
Is it Eddie Murphy at Haunted Mansion?
00:53:24.870 --> 00:53:25.430
That was one of them.
00:53:25.590 --> 00:53:27.590
And then they did another one that was even worse.
00:53:27.910 --> 00:53:30.550
Sorry! Haunted Mansion is really good.
00:53:31.110 --> 00:53:32.550
The ride is great.
00:53:33.269 --> 00:53:33.670
Oh my god.
00:53:33.829 --> 00:53:35.349
You mean the first one with Eddie Murphy?
00:53:35.510 --> 00:53:36.470
Of course that's what I mean.
00:53:36.630 --> 00:53:37.190
Oh my god.
00:53:37.269 --> 00:53:37.750
I don't know.
00:53:37.990 --> 00:53:39.750
I don't remember liking it.
00:53:40.230 --> 00:53:41.349
Oh my god.
00:53:41.750 --> 00:53:45.030
Have you ever been to a live rock concert in the past year?
00:53:46.230 --> 00:53:46.550
No.
00:53:47.110 --> 00:53:47.990
Have you ever gone?
00:53:48.150 --> 00:53:49.829
Have you ever done stand-up comedy?
00:53:50.309 --> 00:53:50.630
No.
00:53:51.269 --> 00:53:53.510
Have you ever written a song for someone?
00:53:53.910 --> 00:53:55.510
To my dog every day, yes.
00:53:55.670 --> 00:53:58.550
You didn't ask why, but I gave that to you for free.
00:53:59.349 --> 00:54:00.710
Do you have a best friend?
00:54:00.950 --> 00:54:01.829
Yes, I do.
00:54:02.150 --> 00:54:02.789
Why?
00:54:03.110 --> 00:54:04.070
We grew up together.
00:54:04.309 --> 00:54:04.710
Oh yeah?
00:54:04.870 --> 00:54:04.950
Yeah.
00:54:05.190 --> 00:54:07.110
Oh, so you have like a long-term best friend.
00:54:07.269 --> 00:54:08.230
Oh yeah, we've known each other since.
00:54:08.470 --> 00:54:09.110
Oh wait, I know her.
00:54:09.190 --> 00:54:09.829
Yeah, you met her.
00:54:10.070 --> 00:54:10.390
Alex.
00:54:10.550 --> 00:54:10.870
Allie.
00:54:11.030 --> 00:54:11.269
Allie.
00:54:11.670 --> 00:54:12.550
But her name is Alexandra.
00:54:12.950 --> 00:54:13.269
Oh, okay.
00:54:13.349 --> 00:54:13.829
Okay, there you go.
00:54:14.390 --> 00:54:16.070
Um yes, you met her.
00:54:16.150 --> 00:54:16.630
She's amazing.
00:54:17.030 --> 00:54:18.070
She lives in Ohio.
00:54:18.309 --> 00:54:21.590
She is also the light of my life, the second light of my life.
00:54:22.870 --> 00:54:25.510
And um yeah, we grew up.
00:54:25.670 --> 00:54:29.349
I've known her since I was probably like six or seven.
00:54:29.990 --> 00:54:33.590
Um we didn't get close until we were like seventeen.
00:54:34.150 --> 00:54:36.470
She ten years.
00:54:36.630 --> 00:54:36.950
Yeah.
00:54:37.269 --> 00:54:37.750
What was it?
00:54:37.829 --> 00:54:45.269
Was it just like you were both growing into yourselves and uh yeah, we ran in different circles and then we sat next to each other in choir.
00:54:46.309 --> 00:54:47.670
And we made each other laugh.
00:54:47.829 --> 00:54:48.789
No one else is funny.
00:54:48.950 --> 00:54:49.269
I like it.
00:54:49.510 --> 00:54:49.829
Just us.
00:54:50.070 --> 00:54:50.309
Yep.
00:54:50.630 --> 00:54:51.829
That's the best type of friendship.
00:54:52.150 --> 00:54:52.550
Yeah.
00:54:52.870 --> 00:55:03.510
And we uh truly have like a cosmic, like inexplainable friendship.
00:55:03.590 --> 00:55:07.030
It just like did you say inexplicable to me?
00:55:07.190 --> 00:55:07.829
Yeah.
00:55:08.309 --> 00:55:09.510
Inexplainable.
00:55:09.750 --> 00:55:10.710
Inexplicable.
00:55:11.030 --> 00:55:11.670
I'll cut this.
00:55:11.829 --> 00:55:14.470
I'm sounding like a fucking mansplainer and I'm an asshole.
00:55:14.870 --> 00:55:15.430
Oh bad.
00:55:15.670 --> 00:55:20.950
I think that's uh what you said was probably perfectly reliable.
00:55:21.430 --> 00:55:23.670
If you keep that in, I'll sue.
00:55:23.910 --> 00:55:26.150
And you will never get an editor.
00:55:26.470 --> 00:55:48.630
I'm gonna say we have a cosmic inexplicable friendship that has like stood the test of time and it has stood true through the most insane hills and valleys and Mountain Mama.
00:55:49.269 --> 00:55:52.309
Mountain Mama, West Virginia.
00:55:52.550 --> 00:55:52.870
Yeah.
00:55:53.030 --> 00:55:55.829
Um, and I'll never be able, that's like why I'm struggling.
00:55:55.990 --> 00:55:58.150
I'll never be able to really put into words.
00:55:58.309 --> 00:55:59.110
It's inexplicable.
00:55:59.430 --> 00:56:00.150
Explainable.
00:56:03.990 --> 00:56:05.269
That's beautiful though.
00:56:05.510 --> 00:56:06.710
I that's so beautiful.
00:56:06.870 --> 00:56:07.349
I love that.
00:56:07.750 --> 00:56:08.309
I love her.
00:56:08.470 --> 00:56:09.430
Well, that's round two.
00:56:09.829 --> 00:56:11.030
Let's move on to round three.
00:56:11.110 --> 00:56:11.670
How are you feeling?
00:56:11.829 --> 00:56:13.349
Round three is a little more existential.
00:56:13.430 --> 00:56:13.990
I will put that out there.
00:56:14.230 --> 00:56:15.110
I love existential.
00:56:15.269 --> 00:56:16.470
There's a ghost next to you.
00:56:16.630 --> 00:56:17.349
Oh, good.
00:56:18.870 --> 00:56:19.349
Ready?
00:56:19.510 --> 00:56:19.829
Yes.
00:56:19.990 --> 00:56:20.390
Here we go.
00:56:20.630 --> 00:56:22.390
Would you risk your life to save a stranger?
00:56:22.630 --> 00:56:23.269
Yes.
00:56:23.829 --> 00:56:24.470
Why?
00:56:25.190 --> 00:56:25.990
Any stranger.
00:56:26.309 --> 00:56:28.789
I do think that that is an impulse thing.
00:56:29.030 --> 00:56:29.349
Yeah.
00:56:29.590 --> 00:56:34.309
I think that um I mean, no, not any stranger.
00:56:34.710 --> 00:56:41.110
No, if that stranger is harming someone else, I it would be circumstantial, of course.
00:56:41.670 --> 00:56:45.430
If you knew they were a harmful person, but that's tough.
00:56:45.910 --> 00:56:46.470
Yeah, that is tough.
00:56:46.710 --> 00:56:50.070
If I knew they were a harmful person, would I still risk my life to save them?
00:56:50.309 --> 00:56:54.470
If they were the only person in danger at the time, yeah, I think so.
00:56:54.789 --> 00:56:55.110
Sure.
00:56:55.349 --> 00:57:04.309
Um if I have to choose two people that I'm saving, one a bad person, two a good person, obviously I'm saving the good person.
00:57:04.789 --> 00:57:06.150
Hopefully I never have to choose.
00:57:07.670 --> 00:57:08.550
I asked them really quickly.
00:57:09.110 --> 00:57:09.590
Wait, wait, wait.
00:57:09.670 --> 00:57:10.150
Are you a bad person?
00:57:10.230 --> 00:57:10.630
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:57:10.710 --> 00:57:11.190
Are you a bad person?
00:57:11.349 --> 00:57:11.829
Are you a good person?
00:57:11.990 --> 00:57:12.150
Yeah.
00:57:12.309 --> 00:57:12.550
Okay.
00:57:13.269 --> 00:57:14.789
And they're and they're gonna be really honest.
00:57:15.110 --> 00:57:15.670
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:57:15.829 --> 00:57:16.470
Yeah.
00:57:19.190 --> 00:57:23.349
Would you fake your own death to save your family?
00:57:23.670 --> 00:57:25.990
And I want to be clear about this one too.
00:57:26.230 --> 00:57:27.590
You fake your own death.
00:57:27.670 --> 00:57:30.150
Your family believes you are dead too.
00:57:30.390 --> 00:57:30.550
Oh.
00:57:30.950 --> 00:57:32.230
This is how I hear.
00:57:33.030 --> 00:57:34.950
So you're just gonna let your family die.
00:57:35.190 --> 00:57:37.269
Well, can I be honest about something?
00:57:37.590 --> 00:57:37.990
What?
00:57:38.150 --> 00:57:40.390
They would be miserable if I died.
00:57:41.590 --> 00:57:43.829
That would be no life for them.
00:57:45.670 --> 00:57:47.829
They're like, they'd basically be dead anyway.
00:57:48.070 --> 00:57:48.390
Yeah.
00:57:50.230 --> 00:57:53.269
It's it's those are the same thing happens.
00:57:53.670 --> 00:57:54.630
Oh my god.
00:57:54.789 --> 00:57:57.269
It's like this is a lose-lose situation here.
00:57:57.430 --> 00:58:05.190
I might as well live my life as Lauren Lee and not in some witness protection program or whatever under a different name.
00:58:06.150 --> 00:58:07.269
Yeah, kind of.
00:58:08.070 --> 00:58:08.550
Fair enough.
00:58:08.630 --> 00:58:11.349
If you know that that your family would be torn apart in that way.
00:58:12.950 --> 00:58:13.670
Oh my god.
00:58:16.230 --> 00:58:18.150
Oh my god, that's brilliant.
00:58:18.470 --> 00:58:25.030
Would you accept your dream job if one of the conditions was not communicating with your family and friends for one year?
00:58:27.750 --> 00:58:28.390
Yes.
00:58:28.710 --> 00:58:29.990
I think I'd say yes too.
00:58:30.230 --> 00:58:31.110
Yeah, a year.
00:58:31.590 --> 00:58:32.390
That's not that bad.
00:58:33.110 --> 00:58:37.269
And it also doesn't specify the parameters around not talking to them.
00:58:37.349 --> 00:58:38.789
So you could be like, look.
00:58:40.550 --> 00:58:44.150
If it's just like a year of not talking, they don't get to know what the what's going on.
00:58:44.470 --> 00:58:46.390
Yeah, can I walk by them?
00:58:48.470 --> 00:58:50.870
Can you I don't know.
00:58:51.030 --> 00:58:52.950
Body language is a form of communication.
00:58:53.190 --> 00:58:54.470
Oh, oh, okay, okay.
00:58:54.630 --> 00:58:55.030
You know?
00:58:55.190 --> 00:58:55.510
Okay.
00:58:55.829 --> 00:58:59.430
If you're walking by like slumped over, like to let them know you're sad.
00:58:59.670 --> 00:59:00.870
I miss talking to you.
00:59:01.190 --> 00:59:02.070
That's what that means.
00:59:02.550 --> 00:59:04.870
So you tell them this before your year.
00:59:05.030 --> 00:59:06.390
You're like, okay, I'll walk by you.
00:59:06.550 --> 00:59:12.870
And if I'm doing this, if I'm hunched over like a crone, that means I'm sad and I miss you and I'm gonna talk.
00:59:16.870 --> 00:59:19.030
I'm so glad I'm not talking to you, fucks.
00:59:19.190 --> 00:59:19.910
I'm thriving.
00:59:20.150 --> 00:59:20.390
Yeah.
00:59:20.950 --> 00:59:21.510
Thriving.
00:59:21.590 --> 00:59:22.950
My life is going great.
00:59:23.349 --> 00:59:25.750
Um, I think a year is nothing.
00:59:25.990 --> 00:59:26.630
Yeah.
00:59:27.349 --> 00:59:31.670
If everything were to end tomorrow, would you be happy with how your life turned out?
00:59:31.990 --> 00:59:32.630
Yeah.
00:59:33.030 --> 00:59:33.670
Why?
00:59:34.470 --> 00:59:35.750
I love my life.
00:59:35.910 --> 00:59:42.789
Obviously, I have, you know, there are hard times and there are easier times, but I'm I'm so grateful.
00:59:43.269 --> 00:59:46.230
I'm so sorry, that's my guest for tomorrow.
00:59:46.789 --> 00:59:48.390
Wow Gail Shallon.
00:59:50.789 --> 00:59:52.230
Um go on.
00:59:53.829 --> 00:59:55.990
I have so many friends.
00:59:56.309 --> 00:59:58.309
I am surrounded by love.
00:59:58.950 --> 01:00:01.269
I love what I do.
01:00:01.510 --> 01:00:08.070
I don't get to do it as much as I would like to, but isn't that great?
01:00:08.470 --> 01:00:13.349
Like that I'm that I am yearning for something.
01:00:13.590 --> 01:00:35.110
It's very I've I'm very lucky to be hoping and yearning and to have something to work for, to have people who I love so much that I that are role models that I want to emulate, that I um I have a beautiful dog.
01:00:35.269 --> 01:00:35.590
Yeah.
01:00:35.829 --> 01:00:37.190
I love him so much.
01:00:37.750 --> 01:00:48.150
He greets me every day when I come home with like he's been waiting his whole life to see me and to kiss my face.
01:00:49.190 --> 01:00:51.829
And to be loved like that is unparalleled.
01:00:51.990 --> 01:00:52.309
Yeah.
01:00:52.550 --> 01:00:54.789
And so I'm very, I'm yeah, I'm very happy.
01:00:54.950 --> 01:01:01.670
If it all ended, I don't know, maybe I'd want to like get drunk tonight, but we know your family would be sad.
01:01:01.910 --> 01:01:02.550
They're not.
01:01:02.710 --> 01:01:03.510
Well, no, they wouldn't.
01:01:03.750 --> 01:01:04.309
They wouldn't know.
01:01:04.470 --> 01:01:05.190
They'd be dead too.
01:01:05.269 --> 01:01:05.910
We'd all be dead.
01:01:06.070 --> 01:01:07.750
Yeah, everyone would be dead.
01:01:08.230 --> 01:01:12.870
And on that note, Lauren.
01:01:13.190 --> 01:01:14.630
Oh my god, thank you so much.
01:01:15.030 --> 01:01:15.670
Of course, thank you.
01:01:15.990 --> 01:01:16.230
For coming.
01:01:16.390 --> 01:01:16.950
This was so much fun.
01:01:17.269 --> 01:01:17.829
This was really nice.
01:01:17.910 --> 01:01:19.269
Um, anything you want to promote?
01:01:19.430 --> 01:01:21.110
I mean, you got Elsbeth coming out, yeah.
01:01:21.269 --> 01:01:22.789
Yeah, take a look at Elsbeth.
01:01:22.950 --> 01:01:25.510
Um, season three, episode 15.
01:01:26.070 --> 01:01:26.710
Season three?
01:01:26.870 --> 01:01:27.030
Yeah.
01:01:27.510 --> 01:01:27.750
Wow.
01:01:27.829 --> 01:01:27.910
Yeah.
01:01:28.070 --> 01:01:29.110
They're already on a third season.
01:01:29.829 --> 01:01:30.630
They're really.
01:01:31.030 --> 01:01:33.349
Did you get to work with um Oh my god.
01:01:33.430 --> 01:01:33.990
Wait, what's her name?
01:01:34.070 --> 01:01:34.309
I'm sorry.
01:01:34.470 --> 01:01:35.030
Carrie Preston.
01:01:35.190 --> 01:01:35.829
Carrie Preston.
01:01:35.910 --> 01:01:39.829
She is she was excellent in the holdovers.
01:01:40.309 --> 01:01:42.630
Um small but mighty part.
01:01:42.710 --> 01:01:43.110
She was great.
01:01:43.349 --> 01:01:44.470
She seems lovely.
01:01:44.870 --> 01:01:45.750
Is incredible.
01:01:45.829 --> 01:01:45.990
Yeah.
01:01:46.230 --> 01:01:52.070
Not only an incredible actor, but just the greatest human being.
01:01:52.309 --> 01:01:54.150
She seems like a lovely energy.
01:01:54.390 --> 01:01:54.630
Yeah.
01:01:54.789 --> 01:02:01.670
I I have a small part on the episode, and she made me feel like I was number one on the call sheet.
01:02:01.910 --> 01:02:02.950
Oh, that is so lovely to hear.
01:02:03.750 --> 01:02:10.789
But I do think that like last little bit about acting that I'll say, like, the leads, they set the mood.
01:02:10.950 --> 01:02:11.670
Yeah, they do.
01:02:11.910 --> 01:02:13.430
And it's night and day.
01:02:13.510 --> 01:02:18.150
When you're working with someone who really ingratiates you into the set, onto into the story.
01:02:18.390 --> 01:02:18.710
Absolutely.
01:02:18.950 --> 01:02:19.510
It's night and day.
01:02:19.750 --> 01:02:25.349
And can I just say, last thing, the Moonstruck reading was exactly like that too.
01:02:25.590 --> 01:02:26.070
Was it really?
01:02:26.390 --> 01:02:30.150
All of those people were fantastic.
01:02:30.309 --> 01:02:39.430
I was like, so happy to be there and so kind and generous and open and playful.
01:02:40.630 --> 01:02:43.910
Not truly not an ego in the house.
01:02:44.150 --> 01:02:45.110
That's so beautiful.
01:02:45.349 --> 01:02:45.750
It was crazy.
01:02:46.070 --> 01:02:47.990
Because those are three in particular.
01:02:48.230 --> 01:02:48.470
Huge.
01:02:48.789 --> 01:02:50.150
Well no, Steve Buscemi was there.
01:02:50.550 --> 01:02:51.670
Steve Buscemi was in it?
01:02:51.829 --> 01:02:52.309
Yeah.
01:02:52.470 --> 01:02:52.789
Dude.
01:02:53.110 --> 01:02:55.110
My brother and I saw Steve Buscemi on the street once.
01:02:55.269 --> 01:02:55.430
Oh.
01:02:55.750 --> 01:02:56.470
It was great.
01:02:56.630 --> 01:02:58.230
We were like, Hugo Buch.
01:02:58.390 --> 01:02:58.950
Buscemi.
01:02:59.110 --> 01:02:59.590
You go Bush.
01:02:59.750 --> 01:03:00.150
Bush.
01:03:00.870 --> 01:03:01.349
That's huge.
01:03:01.590 --> 01:03:02.150
I love to hear that.
01:03:02.309 --> 01:03:04.470
I mean, he walked right up to me and he was like, hey, I'm Steven.
01:03:04.789 --> 01:03:05.349
What's your name?
01:03:05.510 --> 01:03:05.910
Oh my God.
01:03:06.150 --> 01:03:07.670
I was like, yeah, I know you're Steven.
01:03:08.470 --> 01:03:10.390
You're a fucking legend.
01:03:10.550 --> 01:03:11.349
All of them are legends.
01:03:11.510 --> 01:03:11.829
They're amazing.
01:03:12.230 --> 01:03:13.430
Randall in Monsters Inc.
01:03:14.150 --> 01:03:14.630
Oh my God.
01:03:14.710 --> 01:03:16.710
I always forget he's Randall in Monsters Inc.
01:03:16.870 --> 01:03:20.150
You know, my girlfriend and I, we just recently rewatched Troy.
01:03:20.390 --> 01:03:24.789
If anybody was watching Troy, Roseburn is the best part of Troy.
01:03:25.110 --> 01:03:28.230
She is delivering so hard in that film.
01:03:28.390 --> 01:03:29.190
She's amazing.
01:03:29.510 --> 01:03:30.630
She's incredible.
01:03:30.870 --> 01:03:32.150
And Bobby Conavale.
01:03:32.550 --> 01:03:32.870
I know.
01:03:33.110 --> 01:03:34.470
What a power couple, too.
01:03:34.630 --> 01:03:35.030
Oh, yeah.
01:03:35.269 --> 01:03:35.910
Holy shit.
01:03:36.070 --> 01:03:36.470
Yeah.
01:03:36.710 --> 01:03:38.550
Um, he's so good.
01:03:38.870 --> 01:03:40.630
It was the best day.
01:03:40.870 --> 01:03:41.510
That's amazing.
01:03:41.670 --> 01:03:42.070
Yeah.
01:03:42.309 --> 01:03:45.030
Well, anyway, Lauren, that's the end of the pod.
01:03:45.349 --> 01:03:46.630
Thanks for coming all the way out here.
01:03:46.870 --> 01:03:47.269
Of course.
01:03:47.349 --> 01:03:47.670
Thank you.
01:03:47.990 --> 01:03:48.550
This was amazing.
01:03:48.789 --> 01:03:49.510
We should hang out more.
01:03:49.750 --> 01:03:50.070
We should.
01:03:50.230 --> 01:03:50.550
Please.
01:03:50.710 --> 01:03:51.349
Let's do something.
01:03:51.510 --> 01:03:52.150
Let's do it.
01:03:52.309 --> 01:03:53.030
All right, y'all.
01:03:53.190 --> 01:03:57.910
That's this week's episode of the Working Class Acts podcast.
01:03:58.150 --> 01:03:59.829
We'll see you next week.
01:04:00.230 --> 01:04:00.630
Bye!
01:04:01.430 --> 01:04:02.630
Do you do that every time?