Latest / Notable Nostalgia / (Re-Listen) Ep 126. - Icon Worship w/ Irene White
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hey what's up nostalgia nerds we have a re-listen episode
- 0:03Speaker 1: today but it's a great one it's with the wonderful
- 0:07Speaker 1: the fabulous the icon one of my favorite people of
- 0:12Speaker 1: all time she's so great uh Irene White uh we
- 0:14Speaker 1: can't wait for you listen listen to this one if
- 0:17Speaker 1: you haven't listened to it yet but if you have
- 0:18Speaker 1: listened to it then you know how wonderful this episode
- 0:20Speaker 1: is uh but yeah no we have some new episodes
- 0:23Speaker 1: coming out really soon we have some Halloween themed ones
- 0:26Speaker 1: uh we have a comic-con one uh we have some
- 0:29Speaker 1: other stuff in the works so stick around you know
- 0:33Speaker 1: um keep listening and uh keep sending messages to lauren
- 0:37Speaker 1: ash i mean tagger and this one you know irene
- 0:40Speaker 1: white lauren ash you know i mean there's some connection
- 0:43Speaker 1: there and i think we know what that connection is
- 0:45Speaker 1: superstore okay i'm just babbling but hey i hope you
- 0:49Speaker 1: enjoy this hope you enjoy this episode um next week
- 0:53Speaker 1: we'll have a new one out i think it's going
- 0:54Speaker 1: to be the halloween one so no maybe they're Comic-Con. Alright,
- 0:58Speaker 1: so next week's episode is going to be the Comic-Con episode.
- 1:01Speaker 1: So make sure you listen to that. Let us know
- 1:03Speaker 1: some of your favorite comics, superheroes, nerdy stuff like that. Awesome. Well,
- 1:08Speaker 1: until the next time, live long and prosper. And what
- 1:17Speaker 1: if I lost both my hands tomorrow?
- 1:19Speaker 2: You could be a seat model. I was 16 at
- 1:23Speaker 2: the time, or 15. And then hook it up with
- 1:26Speaker 2: a witch. And that was... Cats can smile, apparently.
- 1:32Speaker 3: Whoa. Weird.
- 1:35Speaker 2: But it doesn't always mean that they're happy.
- 1:37Speaker 1: Lucy receives a call from what I can only assume
- 1:40Speaker 1: is the future winner of every acting award ever. Yeah.
- 1:44Speaker 2: Jenny Noon is a star. Her looks weren't a part
- 1:47Speaker 2: of the issue.
- 1:48Speaker 1: He's like, I had to sell my last top hat
- 1:51Speaker 1: for gas.
- 1:53Speaker 2: Maybe this is not appropriate either, but we'll see. Hello, listener.
- 2:00Speaker 2: Welcome to Notable Nostalgia. I am Jeff.
- 2:03Speaker 1: And I'm Andy.
- 2:03Speaker 2: And we are here for a special episode, Icon Worship,
- 2:07Speaker 2: Irene White. We get to interview Irene White from... the
- 2:12Speaker 2: NBC show Superstore, and she's been in several other shows.
- 2:16Speaker 2: She appeared on Friends, Will & Grace, Frasier, Third Rock
- 2:19Speaker 2: from the Sun, Gilmore Girls, and the list goes on
- 2:22Speaker 2: and on.
- 2:23Speaker 1: Any show that our listeners have watched, I guarantee there's
- 2:27Speaker 1: one show at minimum that she's such an icon that
- 2:31Speaker 1: she's been in so many shows that our generation watches.
- 2:34Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that. I am so excited to interview her.
- 2:37Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 2:38Speaker 2: All right, here's our interview with the icon Irene White.
- 2:47Speaker 2: She started as the sharp-tongued and some might say villainous
- 2:51Speaker 2: Carol from NBC's Superstore to popping up in just about
- 2:54Speaker 2: every TV show that millennials loved. She's the scene stealer
- 2:57Speaker 2: you didn't know you were worshipping all along. Today on
- 3:00Speaker 2: Notable Nostalgia's Icon Worship, we bow down to the one,
- 3:04Speaker 2: the only, Irene White.
- 3:09Speaker 4: What an intro thank.
- 3:11Speaker 2: You we have um a friend of our podcast uh
- 3:15Speaker 2: drag queen uh peaches christ does um what she does
- 3:19Speaker 2: is uh idol worship with mink stool from like all
- 3:24Speaker 2: of like the john waters movies totally yeah so that's
- 3:27Speaker 2: kind of a playoff of that that you're our second
- 3:30Speaker 2: icon that we've interviewed the first one um is darren
- 3:34Speaker 2: stein who wrote and directed jawbreaker Oh, yes.
- 3:38Speaker 1: Okay.
- 3:39Speaker 2: So you're our next icon.
- 3:41Speaker 4: Oh, I love it. I'm in good company.
- 3:45Speaker 2: Okay, so we want to get things loosened up with
- 3:47Speaker 2: a lightning round. Okay. I'm so excited I'm talking you're doing.
- 3:53Speaker 3: Great and we're recording right now oh yeah.
- 3:56Speaker 1: We're super casual we've interviewed a few people and I
- 4:01Speaker 1: think you and Darren side right now this is a
- 4:02Speaker 1: side of Jeff I rarely see yeah he's like second
- 4:05Speaker 1: guessing himself and it's odd so yeah.
- 4:07Speaker 2: I do like stand up you know benefit things like
- 4:09Speaker 2: and everything this is probably like the most excited I've
- 4:13Speaker 2: been like ever.
- 4:15Speaker 4: I am absolutely.
- 4:16Speaker 2: Thrilled to be here okay Um, your favorite go-to movie.
- 4:23Speaker 4: Amelie.
- 4:24Speaker 1: Oh, that's a good one.
- 4:25Speaker 4: The French film.
- 4:26Speaker 3: Yes.
- 4:27Speaker 2: Uh, favorite go-to pumped up music. So when you need
- 4:31Speaker 2: like a pump up or a lift up, what's like
- 4:32Speaker 2: a go-to song of yours?
- 4:34Speaker 4: Oh, I love black box early nineties.
- 4:38Speaker 3: They're like, um, uh, their dance music. I'm trying to
- 4:42Speaker 3: think of one of the songs. It's like, um, they
- 4:46Speaker 3: did right on time and like, Anyway, they're great.
- 4:50Speaker 2: I'll just check.
- 4:51Speaker 3: Black Box.
- 4:51Speaker 2: I don't think I know them, but I'm going to
- 4:52Speaker 2: check them out now.
- 4:53Speaker 3: You would probably recognize them. You would probably recognize some
- 4:57Speaker 3: of the songs, and I can't believe I can't remember
- 4:59Speaker 3: any of them right now.
- 5:00Speaker 2: You're starstruck too right now.
- 5:03Speaker 4: I am, totally.
- 5:06Speaker 2: Your go-to show?
- 5:12Speaker 3: That's such a good question. So I happen to love Murder.
- 5:17Speaker 3: So I love Law & Order.
- 5:20Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 5:20Speaker 3: I have seen, and luckily for me, there's like 25
- 5:23Speaker 3: years of it.
- 5:25Speaker 4: And I also watch SVU.
- 5:26Speaker 3: Yeah. So I will, so I guess maybe I like
- 5:31Speaker 3: sexual crimes also. I'm not really sure, but I just
- 5:34Speaker 3: will have it on. And I, like if I'm doing
- 5:38Speaker 3: errands around the house or whatever, housework, and an episode
- 5:41Speaker 3: will start and I'll be like, I've seen this one.
- 5:44Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, Irene, you've seen it all 11, 12 times.
- 5:48Speaker 4: So that's my go-to show.
- 5:49Speaker 2: And it's kind of comfort because, like, for the most part,
- 5:51Speaker 2: they always catch the bad guy. So it's kind of like,
- 5:54Speaker 2: you know, a formula. Have you been in any Law
- 5:56Speaker 2: & Order shows?
- 5:58Speaker 3: No, and I... It is my dream. I will be
- 6:01Speaker 3: a dead body. I will be, like, some neighbor that
- 6:06Speaker 3: doesn't have time to talk to them. That's one of
- 6:08Speaker 3: the jokes. It's like they interview people. And the person's
- 6:11Speaker 3: always like, yeah, anyway.
- 6:13Speaker 4: I gotta get to the gym.
- 6:14Speaker 3: And it's like, we're talking to you about a murderer
- 6:17Speaker 3: in your building.
- 6:18Speaker 1: Somebody you knew just died. Yeah, listen, I gotta pick
- 6:21Speaker 1: up some Chinese food.
- 6:22Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going to Zumba.
- 6:24Speaker 4: And it's like, okay, but all right.
- 6:27Speaker 1: See ya.
- 6:28Speaker 2: If Mariska Harkity is listening or the creators of then
- 6:32Speaker 2: let's hire Irene and Jeff. I'm ready. We can be
- 6:36Speaker 2: going to like Zumba together. That can be our characters. Okay, perfect.
- 6:40Speaker 1: I am ready.
- 6:41Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 6:42Speaker 4: I am ready for it.
- 6:43Speaker 2: Okay, this is a hard one. Who is your favorite
- 6:45Speaker 2: Spice Girl?
- 6:47Speaker 3: Oh, that's not hard at all. My favorite is Sporty.
- 6:51Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, yeah, that's my favorite.
- 6:53Speaker 1: My favorite is Sporty.
- 6:54Speaker 3: I'm going to tell you something quickly. In 2007, there
- 6:57Speaker 3: was the reunion tour.
- 6:58Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 7:00Speaker 3: And they were playing here, all five of them, here
- 7:03Speaker 3: in Los Angeles. And I couldn't get anyone to go
- 7:06Speaker 3: with me, so I just went by myself to the
- 7:08Speaker 3: Spice Girls concert.
- 7:10Speaker 4: And I had the best time. The best time.
- 7:15Speaker 2: That's so perplexing to hear. hey, who wants to go
- 7:19Speaker 2: see Spice Girls with Irene White? Like, everybody would want
- 7:24Speaker 2: to do that.
- 7:25Speaker 3: Well, it was 2007. Maybe people didn't care about me.
- 7:28Speaker 1: Oh, my God!
- 7:30Speaker 4: But it was great. I love the Spice Girls. I
- 7:32Speaker 4: used to have the Barbie dolls. I'm, like, huge on
- 7:35Speaker 4: the Spice Girls.
- 7:35Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 7:35Speaker 2: No, we are, like, Spice World is one of my
- 7:37Speaker 2: favorite movies of all time. It's so good.
- 7:41Speaker 4: It's so good.
- 7:42Speaker 2: Yeah. And it's self-aware. Like, people think it's just ridiculous,
- 7:45Speaker 2: but it's self-aware that it's camp.
- 7:47Speaker 4: So it's actually quite smart.
- 7:49Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 7:50Speaker 1: For his birthday last year, I got him all five
- 7:51Speaker 1: Spice Girls Barbie dolls, but I ordered them from eBay.
- 7:54Speaker 1: And when they arrived, they stink so much like cigarettes.
- 7:58Speaker 1: I haven't given it to him yet. And I just basically,
- 8:02Speaker 1: now I feel bad. I'm like, hey, I got you
- 8:04Speaker 1: a present, but they're still at my house.
- 8:05Speaker 2: I think we should, like how back in the day
- 8:07Speaker 2: they had smoking and non-smoking sections. Maybe we should have
- 8:09Speaker 2: smoking Barbie Spice Girls and a non-smoking, you know?
- 8:12Speaker 3: But you know, from eBay perspective, um you have to
- 8:15Speaker 3: get things from it'll say smoke-free home.
- 8:18Speaker 1: Oh there we go yeah i didn't know i just assumed.
- 8:21Speaker 5: Yeah yeah that's good to know i know yeah anyway
- 8:24Speaker 5: and then uh this is the last lightning round who's
- 8:27Speaker 5: your favorite who's your favorite dog on instagram oh.
- 8:31Speaker 3: My god my favorite dog on instagram besides gus gus no.
- 8:34Speaker 2: You can say gus gus that was just a silly
- 8:39Speaker 2: but it is gus gus right it is actually oh
- 8:42Speaker 2: my gosh I'm so sorry about that.
- 8:44Speaker 1: I wanted to tack on two other quick lightning round
- 8:45Speaker 1: questions since it is Halloween time did you have a
- 8:49Speaker 1: favorite costume that you dressed up as when you.
- 8:51Speaker 3: Were younger so for many years I went as a
- 8:56Speaker 3: crayon oh what color red one year blue another year
- 9:02Speaker 3: and basically my mother would make our costumes and so
- 9:05Speaker 3: it was really just like a tube of felt and
- 9:09Speaker 3: then like a pointy.
- 9:11Speaker 2: I think that's pretty awesome.
- 9:12Speaker 1: Well, and it's being safe because you never know when
- 9:14Speaker 1: you're going to have to either be a blood or
- 9:16Speaker 1: a crib.
- 9:16Speaker 6: Oh, wow.
- 9:17Speaker 2: See?
- 9:17Speaker 1: Yeah, you're just perfectly right.
- 9:19Speaker 4: See, I was ahead of the curve.
- 9:21Speaker 2: Yeah, and crayons, back when we were kids, they were it.
- 9:23Speaker 1: They were the coolest.
- 9:24Speaker 2: Everyone's like, oh, Xbox, PlayStation. Back then, it was crayons.
- 9:27Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 9:28Speaker 1: Especially with the crayons that had the sharpener in it.
- 9:30Speaker 1: If you had one of those, you were set. And
- 9:31Speaker 1: last Halloween question. Oh, sorry. Yes.
- 9:34Speaker 4: I was just going to say you came from a
- 9:35Speaker 4: rich family.
- 9:36Speaker 1: Exactly, yes.
- 9:38Speaker 2: You're like, oh, man.
- 9:39Speaker 1: What's your go-to favorite Halloween candy?
- 9:44Speaker 3: Okay, that's a good question. I really like a Mounds. Oh.
- 9:49Speaker 3: And I know that I'm in the minority. A lot
- 9:52Speaker 3: of people don't like coconut. I love coconut.
- 9:55Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you.
- 9:56Speaker 4: And I like I like a mounds. That's my go-to.
- 9:58Speaker 2: I love that. Well, until next time.
- 10:03Speaker 3: Thanks so much, you guys. Okay.
- 10:07Speaker 2: So I just, I follow you on Instagram, obviously. And
- 10:10Speaker 2: you just got back from like a whirlwind trip. Like,
- 10:13Speaker 2: where did you go?
- 10:14Speaker 3: Yes.
- 10:15Speaker 4: I went to France. I went for two weeks. I
- 10:17Speaker 4: went by myself. And I.
- 10:24Speaker 3: Don't even know how many years I've wanted to do
- 10:26Speaker 3: a French immersion program, like where you stay with somebody.
- 10:29Speaker 4: When I was in high school a.
- 10:32Speaker 3: Million years ago, I was an exchange student to Brazil
- 10:34Speaker 3: and I loved it.
- 10:36Speaker 4: I don't speak Portuguese anymore.
- 10:37Speaker 3: But anyway, so I went and I did this and
- 10:40Speaker 3: I stayed at a town that's about three hours outside
- 10:43Speaker 3: of Paris.
- 10:44Speaker 4: I stayed with the family. I had lessons in the morning.
- 10:47Speaker 3: And then I went back to Paris and acted like
- 10:51Speaker 3: a native, like I lived there.
- 10:52Speaker 4: So that's what I did.
- 10:53Speaker 3: I really wanted to do it. I wanted to do
- 10:55Speaker 3: it forever. And so I was like, I'm going to
- 10:59Speaker 3: do this. And if I miss auditions, I miss auditions.
- 11:02Speaker 1: Good for you.
- 11:03Speaker 2: That's awesome. We all need to kind of live that life.
- 11:05Speaker 2: Like if we want to do something, just make sure
- 11:07Speaker 2: it happens. Like that's awesome.
- 11:08Speaker 1: Well, like you were talking about going to that Spice
- 11:10Speaker 1: Girls show alone. I find it so freeing to do
- 11:12Speaker 1: things alone now that I'm like, getting older and like,
- 11:15Speaker 1: I like to leave work early and go to the
- 11:16Speaker 1: movies a bunch because then I don't have to worry
- 11:18Speaker 1: about like timing with anybody. I can sit where I
- 11:20Speaker 1: want to sit.
- 11:21Speaker 4: I love going to the movies by myself. I love it.
- 11:24Speaker 1: During the day when there's nobody there, you're like, this
- 11:26Speaker 1: whole screen's for me.
- 11:27Speaker 3: Yeah. It's so, it's, it's like a little piece of heaven.
- 11:31Speaker 3: I really enjoy doing things alone. I know a lot
- 11:33Speaker 3: of people who don't, but, um, I really like it. Yeah.
- 11:37Speaker 4: It suits me.
- 11:37Speaker 1: Until I started doing it, I didn't think I would
- 11:39Speaker 1: enjoy it, but now I kind of prefer it. I'm
- 11:41Speaker 1: always like, With my daughters, I'm like, oh, you guys
- 11:43Speaker 1: have school, huh? Shit, my bad. All right, well, have fun.
- 11:47Speaker 2: It's so great being an adult. All right. How did
- 11:51Speaker 2: you get started in comedy and acting?
- 11:56Speaker 3: Let's see. So I did go to college. I have
- 11:59Speaker 3: a degree in theater. And prior to that, when I
- 12:02Speaker 3: was in high school, I did some drama. Initially, I
- 12:05Speaker 3: was in the orchestra and I played the violin. And
- 12:09Speaker 3: then this is so boring, but like one semester drama
- 12:15Speaker 3: and orchestra were then at the same period, the same hour.
- 12:18Speaker 4: And I had to make a big decision.
- 12:21Speaker 3: Like I remember, I mean, now it seems so silly,
- 12:24Speaker 3: but at the time it was like a really big deal.
- 12:27Speaker 3: And I chose drama and I had to go tell
- 12:30Speaker 3: the orchestra teacher that I was leaving. It was really
- 12:33Speaker 3: kind of, I don't know. I mean, it's obviously fine now.
- 12:37Speaker 3: But so then that's how I got started was in
- 12:40Speaker 3: high school. I did theater. And then in college, I
- 12:44Speaker 3: went to the University of Texas at Austin. I got
- 12:46Speaker 3: a degree in theater there. And then I moved to
- 12:50Speaker 3: Chicago after college and I took classes at Second City.
- 12:54Speaker 4: And I would say that's. You knew that.
- 12:56Speaker 1: No, but we were talking about it right before here.
- 12:59Speaker 1: And I was like, she's so funny. I guarantee there's
- 13:01Speaker 1: improv in the background.
- 13:01Speaker 2: And I said Second City. Yep.
- 13:03Speaker 1: That's crazy.
- 13:05Speaker 3: So I took classes at Second City and I auditioned
- 13:09Speaker 3: to be a part of Second City twice and I
- 13:11Speaker 3: didn't move on.
- 13:14Speaker 4: And I remember that also was a real.
- 13:16Speaker 3: Heartbreak for me. And then now I'm like, oh, it's fine.
- 13:19Speaker 3: And then when I moved here, then I after a
- 13:24Speaker 3: certain period of time, I was doing more improv at
- 13:26Speaker 3: a place called Improv Olympic.
- 13:27Speaker 1: Oh, sure.
- 13:27Speaker 3: Which, uh, Iowa West, which doesn't exist out here anymore
- 13:32Speaker 3: in Los Angeles.
- 13:32Speaker 4: I think it's still in Chicago, but yes, a lot
- 13:34Speaker 4: of improv, a ton of improv.
- 13:36Speaker 1: That's awesome.
- 13:36Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 13:37Speaker 1: Well then let me kind of go onto that question too. Uh,
- 13:40Speaker 1: cause it seems like you do a lot of comedy roles,
- 13:42Speaker 1: comedic roles. Was there one specific part when you're like
- 13:45Speaker 1: a kid to where you're like, Hey, I can make
- 13:47Speaker 1: people laugh and I enjoy doing this. Do you remember
- 13:49Speaker 1: like one specific thing or was it maybe you just
- 13:51Speaker 1: hanging out with friends or?
- 13:53Speaker 3: Yeah. I remember when I was in fifth grade, we
- 13:57Speaker 3: did a play about Abraham Lincoln, an original play about
- 14:01Speaker 3: Abraham Lincoln.
- 14:01Speaker 4: I'm sure it was riveting.
- 14:04Speaker 3: I'm sure the fifth graders wrote a great play. But
- 14:07Speaker 3: I was playing this part, you know, I don't, it
- 14:10Speaker 3: was about like, like starvation. It must have been fiction,
- 14:15Speaker 3: but it was like the girl who wrote to him
- 14:18Speaker 3: and asked him to grow a beard.
- 14:19Speaker 4: It doesn't.
- 14:21Speaker 3: What?
- 14:23Speaker 4: What is this?
- 14:24Speaker 1: I want to see that play so bad.
- 14:27Speaker 3: It was probably like 15 minutes and we thought it
- 14:29Speaker 3: was like three hours. Anyway, I remember performing.
- 14:34Speaker 4: My character's name was Grace.
- 14:36Speaker 3: And none of these other Yahoo fifth graders knew their lines,
- 14:41Speaker 3: but I knew everybody's lines.
- 14:42Speaker 4: And so I remember.
- 14:44Speaker 3: performing saying my line with you know gusto and then
- 14:48Speaker 3: there would be a silence and then i would lean
- 14:51Speaker 3: over to somebody and tell them their line and then
- 14:53Speaker 3: of course all the parents would start laughing and then
- 14:55Speaker 3: the then you know the person whoever the guy playing
- 15:00Speaker 3: abraham lincoln who would did not have it together. Like,
- 15:06Speaker 3: I'm like, dude, this is, you're not being professional. Would
- 15:09Speaker 3: say his line. And then there would, I would say
- 15:11Speaker 3: my line immediately. And then there would be a pause.
- 15:13Speaker 3: And then I'd lean over to whoever else was, you know, nervous.
- 15:18Speaker 3: I didn't have time for nerves at that point. But anyway,
- 15:20Speaker 3: I got a lot of laughs. And I would say
- 15:22Speaker 3: that that was, even though I thought I was being
- 15:25Speaker 3: really professional, I think that those laughs really did something
- 15:29Speaker 3: to me.
- 15:29Speaker 1: Oh, that's awesome.
- 15:30Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 15:30Speaker 1: You got, you felt that rush and everything.
- 15:31Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 15:33Speaker 4: I was like, I have this audience in the palm
- 15:35Speaker 4: of my hand.
- 15:37Speaker 1: I just love to think like Abraham Lincoln had a B-O'd.
- 15:40Speaker 1: That was like a whole monologue. It was a big monologue.
- 15:46Speaker 1: Heroes that you had. I realized when I was a
- 15:49Speaker 1: teenager that a lot of my mannerisms are like Chevy Chase-isms,
- 15:52Speaker 1: I call it, with my hands. And I didn't even
- 15:53Speaker 1: realize that until I was older. Were there any comedic
- 15:57Speaker 1: heroes that you loved growing up?
- 16:00Speaker 4: Let's see here.
- 16:01Speaker 3: Um, I, that's such a good question. I, um, grew
- 16:08Speaker 3: to really appreciate Elaine May, um, like Nichols and May, uh,
- 16:13Speaker 3: but they only, they had recordings that we would listen
- 16:16Speaker 3: to or I would listen to, but I loved, I mean,
- 16:20Speaker 3: a lot of my heroes were, were, um, men, I guess,
- 16:24Speaker 3: cause that's kind of was doing comedy.
- 16:26Speaker 4: Although I love Terry Garr. Have you guys seen Tootsie?
- 16:30Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. for sure oh my god she's.
- 16:32Speaker 3: So good anyway but i loved michael j fox oh
- 16:36Speaker 3: yeah yeah and um i loved bruce willis and um
- 16:42Speaker 3: like before he became an action hero he was like
- 16:45Speaker 3: a comedy dude and then um who else did i
- 16:48Speaker 3: really love and i loved jason bateman he was like
- 16:51Speaker 3: my crush he was on like silver spoons with a
- 16:54Speaker 3: ricky schroeder and um who else did i love um.
- 17:01Speaker 4: And then I really love Gene Kelly.
- 17:03Speaker 2: Oh, sure.
- 17:04Speaker 4: A little bit older.
- 17:05Speaker 1: I love Gene Kelly.
- 17:06Speaker 4: Then Michael J.
- 17:08Speaker 1: If you watch his movies, like, I try to watch
- 17:11Speaker 1: them every, like, five or ten years. There's all these, like,
- 17:13Speaker 1: little subtle things that you don't get. I don't know. Like,
- 17:16Speaker 1: I just, yeah. Hilarious.
- 17:18Speaker 2: Great. I love him.
- 17:18Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 17:19Speaker 4: He's, like, timeless.
- 17:22Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
- 17:23Speaker 2: Yep.
- 17:23Speaker 4: Absolutely timeless.
- 17:24Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 17:26Speaker 1: That's great. Yeah, no, I love Young Frankenstein and everything,
- 17:28Speaker 1: so great choices, but yeah.
- 17:29Speaker 4: Well, thank you.
- 17:31Speaker 2: I want to jump to Superstore. Okay. So, I have questions,
- 17:39Speaker 2: but I just wanted to tell, and I'm sure you
- 17:41Speaker 2: get a lot of feedback of Superstore, because it has
- 17:43Speaker 2: such a following, especially, like, after it's wrapped, it has
- 17:47Speaker 2: a very cult following, I notice, on all the social
- 17:49Speaker 2: medias that people are still talking about. Very plot slight
- 17:56Speaker 2: plot details but like this i just want to tell
- 17:58Speaker 2: you because it's my first time actually speaking to a
- 18:00Speaker 2: star of it is that that show got i think
- 18:03Speaker 2: so many of us especially me as well through like
- 18:06Speaker 2: covid times um that was such a and then my
- 18:10Speaker 2: spouse was going through transplant like it was such a
- 18:13Speaker 2: comic relief in my life during that time because immune
- 18:16Speaker 2: suppressancy you know then we were even taking it more seriously.
- 18:20Speaker 2: So having Superstore as an outlet, and now it's still
- 18:24Speaker 2: like a comfort blanket to me. Like when I'm feeling anxious,
- 18:27Speaker 2: I'll throw it on. I identified with Carol a lot.
- 18:32Speaker 4: Well, thank you.
- 18:35Speaker 3: First of all, I want to say thank you for
- 18:37Speaker 3: saying that about the show. Because, I mean, I can
- 18:41Speaker 3: only speak for myself, but I think while we were
- 18:44Speaker 3: doing it, like, I want to agree with you that
- 18:46Speaker 3: I think that it's actually become more popular since it's
- 18:49Speaker 3: gone off the air because while we were doing it,
- 18:52Speaker 3: I did not feel that same level of appreciation. And again,
- 18:58Speaker 3: I can only speak for myself, but like, I would
- 19:00Speaker 3: say when I'm working on this show, it's on NBC,
- 19:02Speaker 3: it's called Superstorm. People were like, what?
- 19:05Speaker 2: When?
- 19:05Speaker 3: I'm like, it's on Thursday nights. They're like, oh, I don't,
- 19:08Speaker 3: I don't, I don't watch TV. And it's like, OK, well, anyway, bye.
- 19:11Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 19:12Speaker 3: So but I've I have heard from other people that
- 19:15Speaker 3: it's become a comfort show. What is it about it
- 19:17Speaker 3: for you?
- 19:18Speaker 2: I think it's the cast like all there's no weak
- 19:21Speaker 2: links on that cast at all. The irreverent kind of humor.
- 19:26Speaker 2: I just love so much. It's it's not. Yes, there's
- 19:29Speaker 2: storylines that go throughout the season or throughout the show.
- 19:32Speaker 2: But it's not one where– I can watch season– so
- 19:36Speaker 2: when I– sorry, sidebar. When I say I identify with Carol,
- 19:39Speaker 2: it's definitely not her, like, vindictive nature. But it's more
- 19:43Speaker 2: like her her dry her your your timing is just
- 19:46Speaker 2: effortless like on the show to be loved yeah and.
- 19:49Speaker 4: She that's all she just wants to be loved.
- 19:52Speaker 2: And she wants uh uh peppermint not um not candy
- 19:56Speaker 2: cane uh vape Juice. Anyways.
- 20:00Speaker 6: Sorry.
- 20:00Speaker 2: When she vapes and it's off screen, but you can
- 20:03Speaker 2: see the vape coming.
- 20:04Speaker 1: I love it.
- 20:05Speaker 3: Okay.
- 20:05Speaker 1: I was going to say, too, the great thing about
- 20:07Speaker 1: that show, I also feel like, is I think if
- 20:10Speaker 1: you look at any show in history, like the big ones,
- 20:12Speaker 1: it's all kind of like family. And even though they're
- 20:15Speaker 1: not related, Superstore is still a family. And every character
- 20:18Speaker 1: you can kind of relate with. So that's why I
- 20:20Speaker 1: like Superstore.
- 20:21Speaker 2: Before we got on with you tonight, I was saying, like,
- 20:24Speaker 2: Andy's a total Garrett character. Um, like, like he's the most,
- 20:29Speaker 2: he's so fun and like a little nerdy with some
- 20:31Speaker 2: of the, you know, video games and stuff, but he's
- 20:33Speaker 2: like the only scene person in most rooms.
- 20:36Speaker 1: Right.
- 20:36Speaker 4: And that's the voice of reason.
- 20:37Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 20:38Speaker 2: And that's how Garrett is. And then I'm thinking that
- 20:40Speaker 2: I'm probably, I'm going to say a mix of Glenn
- 20:43Speaker 2: and Justine.
- 20:44Speaker 4: Great.
- 20:46Speaker 2: But my fashion icon again is you brought back the
- 20:50Speaker 2: juicy tracksuit. How did that go behind the scenes? Was
- 20:55Speaker 2: that your idea or was that the design?
- 20:58Speaker 4: No, it was theirs.
- 20:59Speaker 3: And I have the blue one. I ended up wearing three,
- 21:03Speaker 3: but I think one got... I had a green one,
- 21:07Speaker 3: a blue one, and a pink one. And I think
- 21:09Speaker 3: one of them got cut. I can't remember exactly. Um,
- 21:13Speaker 3: but I, I have the blue one. I fear it
- 21:16Speaker 3: doesn't fit me anymore, but, um, yeah, they were like,
- 21:19Speaker 3: we want to make Carol that like, she has all
- 21:22Speaker 3: this money or she thinks she's going to come into
- 21:24Speaker 3: money because.
- 21:24Speaker 4: Of this lawsuit.
- 21:26Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 21:26Speaker 3: And she doesn't like, she's just behind. Like she doesn't,
- 21:31Speaker 3: she doesn't, she's like, Oh, I have money. And it's,
- 21:35Speaker 3: I'm going to wear this thing that's 15 years old.
- 21:37Speaker 3: So they were like, are you OK with that? And
- 21:39Speaker 3: I was like, of course I.
- 21:40Speaker 4: Will wear it.
- 21:41Speaker 3: You're paying me. I will wear anything you want me
- 21:43Speaker 3: to wear.
- 21:44Speaker 4: Like, honest to.
- 21:45Speaker 3: God, I will.
- 21:46Speaker 4: It's no problem.
- 21:48Speaker 2: Are you on? Are you on TikTok? Do you get
- 21:50Speaker 2: on TikTok and scroll ever?
- 21:52Speaker 4: I am not on TikTok.
- 21:54Speaker 2: OK, so there are so many people that post scenes
- 21:59Speaker 2: of Superstore and one that they post a lot of
- 22:02Speaker 2: is the icon. i'm gonna blush talking about it it's
- 22:06Speaker 2: like the scene between you and jerry when you're um
- 22:09Speaker 2: or did we freeze.
- 22:13Speaker 7: Oh hello oh what oh we did oh there we
- 22:15Speaker 7: go oh oh i think we're good now i was
- 22:17Speaker 7: like i was like she's really uh as good at
- 22:19Speaker 7: that staring contest yeah no there's a on tiktok there's
- 22:23Speaker 7: a lot of.
- 22:25Speaker 2: There's a lot of um people posting the um iconic
- 22:29Speaker 2: scene between you and jerry when um you i can't
- 22:33Speaker 2: look at me i say this okay where i lift
- 22:34Speaker 2: my shirt yes so that it says um that you
- 22:38Speaker 2: should have won the like an emmy for this uh
- 22:41Speaker 2: that character how did that like i don't question i'm
- 22:47Speaker 2: trying to ask is uh like how how did the
- 22:51Speaker 2: writing happen with your character i guess is that a
- 22:53Speaker 2: question i'm trying to ask is like how did they
- 22:56Speaker 2: decide to bring you from having a shellfish allergy to
- 23:01Speaker 2: like where you ended up.
- 23:05Speaker 3: So it's it's funny um the uh the woman who
- 23:12Speaker 3: wrote the episode called so there was a huge change
- 23:16Speaker 3: all of a sudden with this episode called uh ladies
- 23:18Speaker 3: lunch and um that's the one where they like have
- 23:24Speaker 3: me on the phone for the first time talking to
- 23:27Speaker 3: Amy's husband, like they have me. And I remember going
- 23:31Speaker 3: to the table read and being like, what's happening here?
- 23:35Speaker 4: Like, where, where is this?
- 23:37Speaker 3: We have leapt and it was phenomenal. So I don't
- 23:41Speaker 3: really know. I think they must've been like, let's see
- 23:44Speaker 3: if she can do this. And then I was like, yep,
- 23:46Speaker 3: I can do that.
- 23:47Speaker 4: Let's do that.
- 23:48Speaker 3: And so they just kind of kept pushing it. And then, like,
- 23:52Speaker 3: I had that HPV line.
- 23:53Speaker 4: And then.
- 23:55Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh.
- 23:56Speaker 2: Yeah, some of your lines.
- 23:57Speaker 4: Enjoy my.
- 23:58Speaker 2: Yeah, enjoy.
- 23:59Speaker 4: Enjoy my HPV.
- 24:02Speaker 2: She's a redhead, so safe to say she's the nastiest
- 24:06Speaker 2: freak in the world. Hey, Jerry, I'm calling to let
- 24:10Speaker 2: you know that you probably should get tested. There were, like,
- 24:13Speaker 2: ten guys here that say Sandra gave them her.
- 24:16Speaker 3: Yes, there's that one, yes.
- 24:18Speaker 2: And the actress, like, I was just talking to Andy, she's...
- 24:21Speaker 2: Every interview I've seen her in, she's like the sweetest.
- 24:24Speaker 2: Sandra is the sweetest character ever, too.
- 24:27Speaker 4: She's one of my closest friends. I was just texting
- 24:30Speaker 4: with her before this.
- 24:31Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh.
- 24:32Speaker 1: Coleco.
- 24:33Speaker 2: Oh, Coleco. But definitely put in a good word for
- 24:36Speaker 2: us so she can join us sometime. I will. If
- 24:39Speaker 2: you wouldn't mind.
- 24:39Speaker 3: I will.
- 24:40Speaker 2: But, oh, my gosh. And I also see them. Okay,
- 24:42Speaker 2: this is for the super fans of Superstore. But I see...
- 24:48Speaker 2: you all comment on each other's posts all the time.
- 24:51Speaker 2: And I like, I love that. Like, I love that
- 24:53Speaker 2: everybody's so supportive. Like Kelly, you know, like everybody is
- 24:57Speaker 2: like really, you guys seem to really care about each other.
- 25:00Speaker 1: That's awesome.
- 25:01Speaker 3: You know, I'll tell you, I, so I've never been
- 25:04Speaker 3: on a show. This was my first experience being on
- 25:06Speaker 3: a show for that long or doing that many episodes.
- 25:09Speaker 3: I hope I get that opportunity again.
- 25:10Speaker 4: We'll see. But we really liked each other. Yeah.
- 25:15Speaker 3: Like, like genuinely, we really, or do still like each other.
- 25:20Speaker 4: It's not, you know, past tense.
- 25:23Speaker 3: The last time we were all together, I think America
- 25:27Speaker 3: couldn't make it, but we went to Nico's wedding. Yeah.
- 25:30Speaker 3: So that was actually almost two years ago. I think,
- 25:33Speaker 3: and I think, and there've been other kinds of small
- 25:35Speaker 3: permutations of people getting together. But yeah, it's, it's, I
- 25:42Speaker 3: guess it's rare. And I'm, I'm, I'm happy that I
- 25:45Speaker 3: had that experience.
- 25:46Speaker 2: I promise you, I'm not like an obsessed fan, like,
- 25:48Speaker 2: like in a bad way, but I did see Aniko
- 25:51Speaker 2: perform stand up. He is so good at stand up.
- 25:56Speaker 4: He's so good.
- 25:56Speaker 2: And also his like, one of America's sweethearts is his husband.
- 26:00Speaker 1: Zeke, like.
- 26:01Speaker 4: Zeke is fabulous.
- 26:03Speaker 2: Yeah I fell in love with him on Survivor and
- 26:05Speaker 2: I just was like but when I met Nico after
- 26:08Speaker 2: stand up I was like I'm old school when I
- 26:11Speaker 2: meet like celebrities I look up to like people I
- 26:14Speaker 2: just look up to in like creative arts so I
- 26:17Speaker 2: like needed an autograph so I like opened my shirt
- 26:20Speaker 2: and had him sign my.
- 26:21Speaker 6: T-shirt and I don't think he loved it he did
- 26:25Speaker 6: he was he was very much a fan of my
- 26:28Speaker 6: behavior but good yeah.
- 26:30Speaker 3: Yes I run into Nico at the CVS. We live
- 26:35Speaker 3: in the same neighborhood.
- 26:36Speaker 4: So I'll be like, hey, how's your dog?
- 26:39Speaker 2: That's awesome. He's an icon too, for sure.
- 26:42Speaker 4: Yeah, he's absolute phenomenal. He's wonderful.
- 26:46Speaker 1: Well, since we confirmed the improv background, which we kind
- 26:49Speaker 1: of assumed. So I'm like, I don't know. When I
- 26:53Speaker 1: grew up, I loved Kids in the Hall. And being
- 26:56Speaker 1: improv background, I bet like working with Mark was probably
- 26:59Speaker 1: just kind of like, If it were me, I would
- 27:02Speaker 1: have like been like, Oh, like, you know, like how
- 27:04Speaker 1: was that? Like I just, any, anything.
- 27:08Speaker 4: Speaking of kids in the hall.
- 27:09Speaker 3: So I'm friends with Bruce McCullough and I was in
- 27:14Speaker 3: a live show with Bruce at the San Francisco sketch
- 27:18Speaker 3: fest in like 2007, the same year I went to
- 27:21Speaker 3: see the Spice Girls. It was a big year for me. And,
- 27:25Speaker 3: and so I've known Bruce for a long time. I've
- 27:28Speaker 3: met all of them. Um, I, I know Scott sort
- 27:32Speaker 3: of well, Dave Foley I've met and he was on
- 27:35Speaker 3: Superstore too. And then Kevin, I know the least I
- 27:37Speaker 3: would say. Um, but, uh, so I had already met
- 27:41Speaker 3: Mark through Bruce.
- 27:44Speaker 4: Um, but then, but.
- 27:47Speaker 3: Yes, it is like, they're so good, you know, and,
- 27:52Speaker 3: and they're just, they're, they're, they're just so good.
- 27:58Speaker 1: When I was a little kid, I used to do
- 27:59Speaker 1: the crush your head thing when I was like in
- 28:00Speaker 1: elementary school. And I don't think any other kids knew
- 28:02Speaker 1: what I was doing, but I was like, they're just
- 28:04Speaker 1: not cool enough. They don't know what I'm like, you know,
- 28:07Speaker 1: like I was like between that and Conan, I thought
- 28:08Speaker 1: I was like the coolest little kid around.
- 28:10Speaker 2: So the Dave Foley one is he's on one of
- 28:13Speaker 2: the last episodes, any second to last episode. And he
- 28:15Speaker 2: plays like the son of the owner of, I think
- 28:18Speaker 2: the son of the owner of the Cloud Nine.
- 28:20Speaker 3: Who comes to, like, buy it out or something, right?
- 28:23Speaker 2: And at the end of it, he starts eating unprovoked
- 28:26Speaker 2: dog food. And, like, it's so... Oh, yes! It's so ridiculous. And, like,
- 28:31Speaker 2: everyone's reaction, especially, I'm just basing it on her name,
- 28:34Speaker 2: the actress who plays Cheyenne.
- 28:36Speaker 3: Yes.
- 28:37Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh.
- 28:38Speaker 4: Nicole.
- 28:38Speaker 2: Yeah, Nicole. Her character arc is so amazing, too, on
- 28:42Speaker 2: the show.
- 28:43Speaker 1: Agreed.
- 28:44Speaker 2: And I was so bummed that, like, there was talks
- 28:47Speaker 2: about a spinoff between– There was. Yeah.
- 28:50Speaker 4: I don't know how far that got.
- 28:52Speaker 3: I don't know if they– I don't think they filmed it.
- 28:55Speaker 3: I don't really know anything about that. We did know
- 28:57Speaker 3: about it, but, yeah.
- 28:58Speaker 2: So I recently– last year I got a Stanley for
- 29:01Speaker 2: the first time, so I drink a lot of water,
- 29:03Speaker 2: and I also– with that, I manifest– so what i'm
- 29:05Speaker 2: manifesting is we as the loyal fans of superstore are
- 29:09Speaker 2: going to manifest a like either like a reboot not
- 29:12Speaker 2: maybe not a re i really love a reboot but
- 29:14Speaker 2: even like a like a hour-long special and they are
- 29:18Speaker 2: something's going on like we catch up with you know
- 29:21Speaker 2: all all the gang but and they have to come
- 29:24Speaker 2: together for some reason like i don't know what it
- 29:27Speaker 2: would be like uh Monster truck show or something.
- 29:29Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 29:30Speaker 2: Or like, I don't know.
- 29:31Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 29:31Speaker 2: Or we can take it to like, you know, when
- 29:33Speaker 2: Friday the 13th went into outer space, we can add
- 29:35Speaker 2: like a mystical. We need to manifest something. I'm not
- 29:38Speaker 2: the writer. I'm just the manifester.
- 29:40Speaker 4: I'm available. Yeah. I'm available for that.
- 29:43Speaker 3: Yes.
- 29:44Speaker 4: Totally available.
- 29:45Speaker 2: What do you know?
- 29:46Speaker 3: There is a there's a Mexican version of the show.
- 29:50Speaker 2: Oh, really?
- 29:51Speaker 1: I had no idea.
- 29:52Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 29:53Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 29:53Speaker 2: There are counterparts to all of your characters.
- 29:56Speaker 3: Yes.
- 29:56Speaker 4: I've never seen it.
- 29:57Speaker 1: I got somebody told me.
- 29:59Speaker 4: Find it. It's like a telenovela.
- 30:01Speaker 1: Oh, I love that.
- 30:02Speaker 3: I may be telling you the exact wrong thing, but
- 30:04Speaker 3: basically the format. And then I think there's it's going
- 30:07Speaker 3: to be like in some other country, too. They're doing.
- 30:14Speaker 3: And I think the Mexican one is I think it's
- 30:17Speaker 3: an hour. I haven't you can find it.
- 30:20Speaker 4: Let me know. I will because I haven't been able
- 30:22Speaker 4: to find it.
- 30:22Speaker 2: But every little city even in here because we're in
- 30:25Speaker 2: Oregon is getting a distribution center and Justine and Marcus
- 30:29Speaker 2: and Dina all work at a distribution center. So I
- 30:31Speaker 2: think that that could be what it is. It is
- 30:34Speaker 2: Superstore takes place in a distribution center. And so many
- 30:37Speaker 2: people were, okay, this is happening. I've green lit it.
- 30:40Speaker 4: I love it.
- 30:41Speaker 2: But what do you think your, what do you think
- 30:43Speaker 2: Carol would be doing today?
- 30:47Speaker 4: Oh my gosh. Oh my God.
- 30:52Speaker 3: What would Carol be doing today?
- 30:57Speaker 4: Is it wrong for me to say she would have
- 30:59Speaker 4: a podcast?
- 31:00Speaker 1: Oh my God, no.
- 31:01Speaker 4: Carol?
- 31:03Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure.
- 31:04Speaker 2: Podcast or podcast people are the worst. I don't know.
- 31:08Speaker 4: I'm not really sure.
- 31:10Speaker 3: But she, Carol just wants to be loved and really
- 31:16Speaker 3: thinks she has some abilities.
- 31:18Speaker 4: I'm not saying it's a good podcast.
- 31:19Speaker 1: No.
- 31:21Speaker 2: She takes a bunch of vape breaks and like Yes, exactly.
- 31:25Speaker 3: I don't know who she's interviewing or if she's just
- 31:27Speaker 3: talking to everybody.
- 31:29Speaker 4: Just like And they're too long. The episodes are like three,
- 31:33Speaker 4: four hours.
- 31:33Speaker 1: Okay.
- 31:35Speaker 2: So this is really for the diehards. And we won't
- 31:38Speaker 2: keep you too long. So when there was the character
- 31:40Speaker 2: arc of Carol, when she was very like metaphysical and spiritual,
- 31:45Speaker 2: was she lying or was she really have an awakened
- 31:48Speaker 2: like spiritual moment? And then she like, yeah.
- 31:53Speaker 4: My belief is that she was faking.
- 31:55Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 31:56Speaker 4: That I was faking.
- 31:57Speaker 2: Because she was trying to kill Sandra when she was
- 32:00Speaker 2: taking her, okay.
- 32:01Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 32:02Speaker 3: So I think, I think, yes. I can't believe I'm
- 32:12Speaker 3: having to ask this. How did that storyline end? How
- 32:15Speaker 3: did I, was I revealed?
- 32:17Speaker 4: What happened?
- 32:17Speaker 2: When, oh, when she stops being kind of more metaphysical. Yes.
- 32:21Speaker 2: I think it's the cat.
- 32:24Speaker 1: The cat runs.
- 32:26Speaker 2: Because you put laxatives at the bachelorette party, and then
- 32:35Speaker 2: the next day at the wedding, you try to kill
- 32:36Speaker 2: the cat. Yes. Okay.
- 32:40Speaker 3: And then I get electrocuted and I get sent away.
- 32:43Speaker 4: Is that right?
- 32:44Speaker 2: So, yeah, you go away after the attempted murder of
- 32:47Speaker 2: the cat. And then you come back and Carol's back,
- 32:51Speaker 2: which is literally that should have there should have been
- 32:53Speaker 2: an Emmy there. Just saying.
- 32:55Speaker 4: Oh, that episode was called Carol.
- 32:57Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. And when you the. Um, very passive, aggressive
- 33:04Speaker 2: hostility that care that you do for the, through the
- 33:07Speaker 2: character is so amazing. And just the effortless, like poor Sandro.
- 33:11Speaker 2: for sandra okay i'm sorry i giggled because it's such
- 33:14Speaker 2: a funny show okay so she makes you uh like
- 33:17Speaker 2: muffins you're like i'm i full i'm full i ate
- 33:19Speaker 2: and you just throw them effortlessly in the garbage yeah
- 33:23Speaker 2: yes oh my gosh but yeah that was that was
- 33:26Speaker 2: iconic and then i was so worried because i thought
- 33:28Speaker 2: that that you were done at that point but then
- 33:30Speaker 2: when you come back and you're ready to sue and
- 33:32Speaker 2: it's like it's leveled up with the track suit and
- 33:35Speaker 2: you're the humor is much more raunchy like the OK,
- 33:39Speaker 2: I know you're working for Disney right now, so I
- 33:41Speaker 2: don't know what we can say.
- 33:42Speaker 4: That's OK.
- 33:43Speaker 2: OK.
- 33:44Speaker 4: We can say things.
- 33:44Speaker 2: When you say.
- 33:46Speaker 4: Where am I going to masturbate?
- 33:47Speaker 2: OK, so that one I died.
- 33:52Speaker 1: But yes.
- 33:54Speaker 2: And then when you say to the to your lawyer,
- 33:57Speaker 2: did you get my email about which associates I think
- 34:01Speaker 2: are uncircumcised? And then she's like, I don't know.
- 34:05Speaker 1: How that helps.
- 34:06Speaker 2: And you're like, you're the lawyer.
- 34:08Speaker 1: Figure it out.
- 34:09Speaker 2: And then you walk away.
- 34:10Speaker 1: It's so good.
- 34:11Speaker 2: And everything to, like, all the actors on the show.
- 34:15Speaker 2: Same thing. Even the walking. Like, you guys stay in
- 34:18Speaker 2: character until you're, like, way off. Like, until you're completely off. Like,
- 34:21Speaker 2: there's no. There's so much going on in the background.
- 34:24Speaker 2: And you guys are acting no matter. Or, like, it's
- 34:27Speaker 2: just effortless. The show.
- 34:29Speaker 1: I just thought like, you know, it'd be a really
- 34:31Speaker 1: fun thing to do.
- 34:32Speaker 2: It looks effortless. I'm sure you guys, you know, put
- 34:34Speaker 2: a lot of work into it.
- 34:35Speaker 1: Write a Hallmark movie about Carol called Carol of the Bells.
- 34:39Speaker 1: And it's a Christmas Hallmark movie of that character. That
- 34:41Speaker 1: would be so much fun.
- 34:42Speaker 4: I like this.
- 34:43Speaker 2: My fantasy.
- 34:44Speaker 3: And it's got that scary Christmas song.
- 34:46Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 34:49Speaker 3: That one always makes me i'm like oh god somebody's
- 34:51Speaker 3: gonna kill me my.
- 34:53Speaker 2: Yeah my in my world i would if i could
- 34:56Speaker 2: control everything i would pair you up with darren stein
- 35:00Speaker 2: and like john waters and put you in like like
- 35:03Speaker 2: a like a updated you know hairspray kind of or
- 35:08Speaker 2: like pink flamingos if they rebooted that or something you
- 35:10Speaker 2: wouldn't be divine but like i want to see you
- 35:13Speaker 2: in like a like a jawbreaker kind of camp. Like
- 35:16Speaker 2: I love that so much. So I need to put
- 35:18Speaker 2: you guys in contact.
- 35:19Speaker 3: Great.
- 35:20Speaker 4: Thank you. I love it too.
- 35:21Speaker 2: Yeah. He is my friend on Facebook. Darren Stein.
- 35:23Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 35:24Speaker 2: He thinks I'm somebody I'm not.
- 35:25Speaker 4: Um, you are somebody. Thank you.
- 35:28Speaker 2: Okay.
- 35:29Speaker 1: Jeff is, he's been lying. He's been telling him that
- 35:32Speaker 1: he's Oprah.
- 35:33Speaker 2: Or I take my mask off and I'm a mayor.
- 35:35Speaker 2: I'm America Ferreira. Um, I love America Ferreira. Forget that.
- 35:39Speaker 2: That's a superstar too. Oh my ugly Betty is amazing. Um, Okay,
- 35:44Speaker 2: so I have to ask you this. So when it
- 35:47Speaker 2: was before COVID, probably season three or four, it was
- 35:51Speaker 2: after your character is more prominent. I went into Walmart
- 35:55Speaker 2: and I just I always chit chat with everybody. And
- 35:58Speaker 2: I was chit chatting with some of the employees who
- 35:59Speaker 2: were gossiping about other employees. So I went over there
- 36:02Speaker 2: and I started like I want to know the tea
- 36:04Speaker 2: and I was like, do you guys watch Superstore? And
- 36:07Speaker 2: they were like, yeah. And I was like, okay, who's the,
- 36:09Speaker 2: who's the Carol? Who's the, you know, that kind of thing.
- 36:11Speaker 2: And they had it already done.
- 36:13Speaker 3: They did.
- 36:14Speaker 2: Yeah. They knew who like, who the straight laced, you know,
- 36:17Speaker 2: perfectionist one was. They knew who like the slacker was.
- 36:21Speaker 2: They knew every, like it was so, so have you
- 36:23Speaker 2: gone into like a big box store and like, like
- 36:26Speaker 2: been recognized and like talk to people there?
- 36:29Speaker 3: Um, I haven't done that specifically. I do occasionally still
- 36:33Speaker 3: get recognized.
- 36:34Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 36:35Speaker 3: Um, but I haven't done it specifically in like a
- 36:38Speaker 3: big box store. Have I?
- 36:43Speaker 4: No, I don't think so. It happens to me more
- 36:45Speaker 4: in the grocery.
- 36:45Speaker 2: Store at night.
- 36:47Speaker 4: Which is a version of that.
- 36:49Speaker 2: Yeah, because you guys have the groceries in there. I
- 36:52Speaker 2: act like you guys actually work there.
- 36:56Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh.
- 36:56Speaker 2: I laugh so much at night. Superstore is my go-to.
- 37:01Speaker 2: Sometimes I watch Golden Girls, but Golden Girls, they are
- 37:04Speaker 2: so mean to each other, like, nonstop. So sometimes I
- 37:07Speaker 2: have to, like, not watch that show. But, yeah, I'll, like,
- 37:12Speaker 2: laugh so much that I start, like... Nope. And then
- 37:15Speaker 2: I roll over.
- 37:16Speaker 4: You know what's funny? I'm sorry to interrupt.
- 37:18Speaker 2: Oh, no, no, no. Interrupt.
- 37:20Speaker 3: Interrupt. The show was so important to me that I
- 37:24Speaker 3: have not gone back to watch it. And I especially
- 37:27Speaker 3: cannot watch the episodes, like the COVID episodes. And people
- 37:31Speaker 3: will ask me questions about filming then. And I'm like,
- 37:35Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm like, oh yeah, we're getting tested.
- 37:39Speaker 3: It was just such a heightened time and I'm glad
- 37:43Speaker 3: we did it and I think that it was important
- 37:45Speaker 3: but it was so and then the show was ending
- 37:48Speaker 3: and it was like that season was just it's I
- 37:55Speaker 3: like I don't I should go back and watch it
- 37:57Speaker 3: at some point but it was just such a weird
- 38:00Speaker 3: time yeah and like sad and weird I mean for
- 38:04Speaker 3: everybody so I was lucky to be working yeah um
- 38:08Speaker 3: but people will ask me they're like oh do you
- 38:09Speaker 3: remember the episode I'm like I don't remember that season
- 38:12Speaker 3: at all.
- 38:13Speaker 2: It was that time was a blur for me but
- 38:14Speaker 2: I can't imagine because you guys were one of the
- 38:16Speaker 2: only shows at that time that were like every like
- 38:20Speaker 2: the place we all had to go was the grocery
- 38:22Speaker 2: store So we all were going through what you guys
- 38:24Speaker 2: were going through. And the fact that you guys made
- 38:27Speaker 2: it humorous. And then just the stuff that, not to
- 38:29Speaker 2: go back to like my, no, this is icon worship.
- 38:32Speaker 2: So it's fine. The stuff that you guys touch on
- 38:35Speaker 2: with humor, like you guys talk about race, sexual orientation. Yeah.
- 38:40Speaker 4: Immigration.
- 38:40Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
- 38:42Speaker 2: Okay. That episode was the– like, I cry every time.
- 38:46Speaker 2: I can't watch it.
- 38:47Speaker 4: I can't watch it.
- 38:48Speaker 1: No.
- 38:48Speaker 2: And the– oh, my God. That's going to make me
- 38:50Speaker 2: verklempt right now. Yeah. It's an important episode that everyone
- 38:53Speaker 2: should watch at some point that maybe– but that was hard. Wow.
- 38:57Speaker 4: Super ahead of its time.
- 38:59Speaker 1: Okay.
- 38:59Speaker 2: Yeah, we need that. People need to rewatch it now, Americans,
- 39:02Speaker 2: and see what it's like.
- 39:03Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 39:04Speaker 2: But, yeah, that– you guys super short especially season six
- 39:09Speaker 2: is going to be like a part of pop culture
- 39:11Speaker 2: history because of covid the racial uh time like the
- 39:17Speaker 2: the riot everything going on and you guys touched it
- 39:19Speaker 2: with humor like how how was the writing back then
- 39:22Speaker 2: or like the coaching or how was it.
- 39:25Speaker 3: The writing you know the writers are phenomenal Like we
- 39:30Speaker 3: would get scripts and we'd be like, how how are
- 39:33Speaker 3: they being relevant and funny and having such a soft touch?
- 39:40Speaker 3: You know, like nobody feels like they're being hit over
- 39:42Speaker 3: the head. And, you know, a lot of those writers
- 39:45Speaker 3: are on St. Dennis Medical, which I don't know if
- 39:47Speaker 3: you've seen it, but it's great.
- 39:48Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 39:49Speaker 2: So that takes place in a fake hospital in Oregon. So, yeah,
- 39:53Speaker 2: it's an Oregon one. And then. But yeah, the cast,
- 39:56Speaker 2: I'm forgetting names, but the head of the hospital.
- 40:00Speaker 4: Wendy McClendon.
- 40:01Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
- 40:02Speaker 4: Wendy McClendon Covey.
- 40:03Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 40:03Speaker 2: So she's the actress. So she has wished my dog
- 40:06Speaker 2: a happy birthday, too. Of course she has.
- 40:08Speaker 4: She loves animals.
- 40:09Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 40:10Speaker 2: So there's like Gus Gus is so intertwined with pop culture,
- 40:13Speaker 2: similar to like how you are because shifting gears from Superstore,
- 40:18Speaker 2: you've been in shows in like Modern Family, The Middle, Frasier, Friends,
- 40:23Speaker 2: Will & Grace. Gilmore Girl. You've been in, you've touched
- 40:27Speaker 2: on all of these iconic shows. Do you ever have
- 40:30Speaker 2: like those pinch me moments or how, cause you see
- 40:34Speaker 2: it in such a different lens than we do. So
- 40:37Speaker 2: have you, what was your, I know it's a broad question,
- 40:40Speaker 2: but like, do you ever have those pinch me moments or?
- 40:43Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, because like when I, you know, whatever,
- 40:47Speaker 3: I'm in high school and I'm watching, you know, moonlighting
- 40:51Speaker 3: or whatever it was on.
- 40:52Speaker 4: And like, thinking, Oh, I want to, I want to
- 40:56Speaker 4: be on TV. I want to be on TV.
- 40:57Speaker 3: And then, so the first job I did was, um,
- 41:01Speaker 3: Dharma and Greg.
- 41:02Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 41:03Speaker 4: And I had one line and I was thrilled.
- 41:06Speaker 3: I remember like they filmed at the 20th century Fox
- 41:10Speaker 3: lot and I drove on the lot.
- 41:12Speaker 4: I had what's called a drive on.
- 41:13Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 41:14Speaker 4: And it was, that was a big deal.
- 41:15Speaker 3: And I had a trailer and it was just like,
- 41:18Speaker 3: and this is well before cell phones. So I don't,
- 41:20Speaker 3: I don't have any photos of anything. And it was
- 41:23Speaker 3: just like, I mean, I can still like tap back
- 41:28Speaker 3: into like how thrilling it was. And then, and then
- 41:33Speaker 3: it continued like that. And then I remember when I
- 41:36Speaker 3: did friends, the, um, uh, I had, the audition was
- 41:43Speaker 3: on a Monday morning. The callback was Monday afternoon and
- 41:46Speaker 3: I started work on Tuesday. So it was like, went
- 41:49Speaker 3: really fast. And, and so, um, I remember, and I
- 41:54Speaker 3: had a day job at the time, so I had
- 41:55Speaker 3: to like cover all of my, so I was working
- 41:57Speaker 3: Tuesday through Friday of that week. I had to like
- 41:59Speaker 3: cover all of my shifts and it was like, you know,
- 42:02Speaker 3: I booked episode of Friends and everybody's like, oh my God.
- 42:05Speaker 3: And so I remember, so I had all of this
- 42:08Speaker 3: stress about covering shifts and stuff. And then I, you know,
- 42:13Speaker 3: went to sleep or whatever. The next day, then I
- 42:15Speaker 3: had to drive to Warner Brothers and, you know, parked
- 42:20Speaker 3: and all that kind of stuff.
- 42:20Speaker 4: And then I got really nervous.
- 42:22Speaker 2: Sure.
- 42:23Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, and I was, I remember
- 42:26Speaker 3: walking from the parking structure to the soundstage and getting
- 42:30Speaker 3: like really, really anxious. And then outside of the soundstage,
- 42:35Speaker 3: I was like, Irene, your agent thinks you can do this.
- 42:39Speaker 3: The casting director thinks you can do this. The writer
- 42:42Speaker 3: thinks you can do this.
- 42:44Speaker 4: You can do this.
- 42:45Speaker 3: And I had a pretty small part. And then I
- 42:48Speaker 3: walked in and was like, you know, trying to keep
- 42:51Speaker 3: it together. And the first person to talk to me
- 42:53Speaker 3: was Matt LeBlanc. And he walked up to me and
- 42:56Speaker 3: extended his hand. And he was like, Hi, my name's Matt,
- 42:59Speaker 3: what's yours? And I said, Oh, my name is Irene.
- 43:02Speaker 3: And he goes, Oh, it's my grandmother's name. I knew
- 43:05Speaker 3: there was a reason I liked you. And from that moment,
- 43:09Speaker 3: I was like, Oh, I'm gonna be okay. Like, it
- 43:12Speaker 3: cost him nothing. I mean, he I'm sure he doesn't
- 43:15Speaker 3: remember that. It cost him no loss of ego to
- 43:19Speaker 3: be kind to somebody who just has like three lines
- 43:22Speaker 3: or two lines or whatever it was. So that was
- 43:24Speaker 3: a real pinch me moment too, where I was just like, oh, okay,
- 43:27Speaker 3: these people are making a million.
- 43:29Speaker 4: Dollars a week.
- 43:31Speaker 3: I better come correct. Like, and I'm so lucky to
- 43:34Speaker 3: be here. So that was a real pinch me moment
- 43:37Speaker 3: for sure.
- 43:38Speaker 2: Yeah. And you had, I think you were just in one,
- 43:42Speaker 2: maybe two, but you had a pretty good, good, sad role.
- 43:45Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 43:46Speaker 2: It was with Matthew Perry. Yeah. And you played his assistant.
- 43:49Speaker 2: Doesn't he, he kind of dogs on, he's like talking
- 43:52Speaker 2: crap about you in front of cats.
- 43:54Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 43:54Speaker 2: Oh, and then you go on and Carol goes on
- 43:56Speaker 2: to try to kill the.
- 43:57Speaker 4: Cat, kill a cat. It doesn't make sense.
- 43:59Speaker 2: Wait, was that care? Maybe that was Carol.
- 44:01Speaker 3: Oh my God. Earlier life. Yeah. Um, I had had,
- 44:06Speaker 3: I think I was in two scenes and then I
- 44:07Speaker 3: think only one aired or one got cut or whatever
- 44:10Speaker 3: it was. It doesn't really matter. But yes, I was
- 44:12Speaker 3: like a crazy cat lady.
- 44:13Speaker 2: But he was, uh, he was, he was so iconic.
- 44:16Speaker 2: Like he was, he was one of my comedic heroes, him.
- 44:19Speaker 2: And then, um, I don't know if you ever watched, uh,
- 44:22Speaker 2: all that from Nickelodeon back in the nineties. So Lori Beth,
- 44:26Speaker 2: Lori Beth Denberg, Matthew Perry, uh, you're the newest one
- 44:30Speaker 2: on my Mount Rushmore. Um, as of a few years ago, but, um,
- 44:34Speaker 2: But yeah, iconic comedic actors.
- 44:37Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
- 44:39Speaker 3: He was really wonderful to me, Matthew Perry was. He
- 44:42Speaker 3: was really nice. I mean, because none of them have
- 44:46Speaker 3: to be nice to anybody. They were all nice to me,
- 44:48Speaker 3: but I didn't really deal with any of the rest.
- 44:51Speaker 4: Not as much.
- 44:52Speaker 3: They were all totally fine to me. Nobody was mean
- 44:54Speaker 3: to me at all. But he was really wonderful and
- 44:57Speaker 3: Matt LeBlanc. They were both really, really great.
- 44:59Speaker 2: And that's someone that even like on a more micro
- 45:01Speaker 2: level that like our listeners should always do too is
- 45:04Speaker 2: like no one's ever above anybody. Like we should all,
- 45:07Speaker 2: we're all in this together.
- 45:08Speaker 1: It's nice to be nice.
- 45:10Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 45:10Speaker 1: It's nice to be nice.
- 45:12Speaker 4: The thing is it's easy.
- 45:14Speaker 3: Like, it just costs you nothing to be like, hello,
- 45:17Speaker 3: welcome to the set.
- 45:18Speaker 4: I know I'm a big deal.
- 45:19Speaker 3: And you're here, you know, for just one episode.
- 45:22Speaker 4: We're glad you're here.
- 45:23Speaker 3: Like, it just is, it's just easy to do. And
- 45:26Speaker 3: it just costs nothing.
- 45:28Speaker 2: When people say like, when I'm going to the checkout,
- 45:30Speaker 2: I usually do like, I don't do self checkout because
- 45:32Speaker 2: that's too overwhelming. But when the cashier is like, how
- 45:35Speaker 2: are you doing today? And I always say like, eight.
- 45:38Speaker 2: You know, like, I give them a number. But then
- 45:41Speaker 2: when I'm having, like, a really bad day, I do
- 45:43Speaker 2: kind of trauma dump on them a little bit. And
- 45:45Speaker 2: I think that's my, you know, Carol coming out or
- 45:47Speaker 2: whatever that I, like, probably overshare a little bit. I
- 45:51Speaker 2: do really want to, before we lose you, I want
- 45:53Speaker 2: to talk to you about the exciting news that you
- 45:57Speaker 2: are on a new show on Disney and Disney +.
- 45:59Speaker 2: I am.
- 46:00Speaker 3: Yes.
- 46:00Speaker 4: It's called Electric Bloom.
- 46:02Speaker 2: It is.
- 46:04Speaker 3: Absolutely delightful and charming and smart and funny.
- 46:08Speaker 4: It's great.
- 46:10Speaker 3: And I'm on three episodes and we're waiting for a
- 46:14Speaker 3: season to pick up and fingers are crossed that it'll
- 46:16Speaker 3: be picked up, but it's wonderful.
- 46:18Speaker 4: And the music is written by Diane Warren.
- 46:20Speaker 2: That's I don't know if you, yeah, that's a big,
- 46:22Speaker 2: I mean, it's huge.
- 46:24Speaker 4: All the songs are bops.
- 46:25Speaker 2: Yes, they're all bops. I don't want to say actually,
- 46:28Speaker 2: but like sometimes, you know, I don't listen to Hannah
- 46:31Speaker 2: Montana on the regular. But this is like elevated music.
- 46:35Speaker 4: I totally agree. I totally agree.
- 46:37Speaker 2: And then I haven't got to your episodes, but Peg,
- 46:40Speaker 2: you look like you're having a lot of fun. You
- 46:44Speaker 2: posted some behind the scenes photos, which is awesome. But
- 46:46Speaker 2: the trampoline, I don't want to give spoilers, but there's
- 46:50Speaker 2: awesome costumes that you have. And you look like you're
- 46:53Speaker 2: having so much fun. Like I know I'm manifesting this,
- 46:56Speaker 2: that this and Superstore kind of reboot and you working
- 46:59Speaker 2: with John Waters. Those are all the things I'm manifesting
- 47:01Speaker 2: right now.
- 47:04Speaker 4: I need to manifest these. You don't have to do
- 47:06Speaker 4: all the work.
- 47:08Speaker 2: We'll work as a team. Listener, we're going to work
- 47:10Speaker 2: as a team. I'll send out the press release.
- 47:12Speaker 1: We got this. I think you should really hold Jeff accountable, though.
- 47:15Speaker 1: And say, like, I haven't got a call from John Waters. Like,
- 47:17Speaker 1: really start probing him.
- 47:19Speaker 2: But don't you think that Irene would be perfect to
- 47:22Speaker 2: pair up in some kind of project with Jennifer Tilley?
- 47:25Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure.
- 47:26Speaker 4: Oh, I love Jennifer Tilling.
- 47:27Speaker 2: That would be, like, that kind of iconic duo would
- 47:30Speaker 2: be everything. Like, almost like a buddy comedy. Like a
- 47:33Speaker 2: Thelma Louise, but, like, funny.
- 47:34Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 47:35Speaker 4: Oh, I love it. I love it.
- 47:37Speaker 2: I have so many plans.
- 47:38Speaker 4: I love her.
- 47:38Speaker 2: I just hired myself as one of your managers. Wonderful.
- 47:42Speaker 3: Thank you.
- 47:43Speaker 2: So, yeah, I'm excited to get into more Electric Bloom.
- 47:46Speaker 2: This is, it's going to be big. And I love
- 47:48Speaker 2: that you're having fun and doing your thing. Because you
- 47:50Speaker 2: need to be out there making music. I don't want
- 47:53Speaker 2: to get verklempt again, but you're making people happy. And
- 47:57Speaker 2: I hope you know that. And we need that.
- 47:59Speaker 4: You two are making me happy right now.
- 48:02Speaker 2: Thank you. How about that? We're a happy little group
- 48:05Speaker 2: right here. It's nice to be here. I want to
- 48:07Speaker 2: keep you for as long as I can, but I
- 48:09Speaker 2: want to ask one more little question. Okay. Because I'm
- 48:13Speaker 2: always curious. Can you watch TV shows and movies and...
- 48:19Speaker 2: get lost in the story or are you so aware
- 48:22Speaker 2: because you've been in this business for so long of
- 48:25Speaker 2: the production and the lines and the sets and the
- 48:28Speaker 2: lighting and everything can you get lost in in shows movies.
- 48:31Speaker 3: I can um i can i just finished watching department
- 48:36Speaker 3: q on netflix which is a murder show nice i
- 48:40Speaker 3: love my murder show it's a scottish murder show um
- 48:45Speaker 3: so i can i I will say that there are
- 48:49Speaker 3: times when I'll be watching something and I'll be like, man,
- 48:52Speaker 3: I wonder how many takes of this they did.
- 48:54Speaker 1: Oh, sure.
- 48:55Speaker 3: Or, you know, like, oh, or, you know, this is
- 48:59Speaker 3: what when I most notice it is when there's dialogue
- 49:02Speaker 3: that I think is tough.
- 49:03Speaker 4: Like, I don't really I do watch hospital shows. Have
- 49:07Speaker 4: you seen The Pit?
- 49:08Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
- 49:08Speaker 2: With E.R.
- 49:10Speaker 1: That was intense.
- 49:11Speaker 4: Noah Wiley.
- 49:12Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 49:12Speaker 4: I'm like, how did I'm I was watching it. I
- 49:15Speaker 4: was like, how are they? how do you memorize these lines?
- 49:18Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 49:18Speaker 3: Like, how do you, all of this medical jargon, like,
- 49:21Speaker 3: how do you, as an actor, especially if you come
- 49:24Speaker 3: in for one episode or, you know, and you're there for, like, how.
- 49:29Speaker 4: Do you memorize this?
- 49:30Speaker 3: Like, that's, because memorization does not come super easily to me.
- 49:35Speaker 3: And so that, I would say that that's when I
- 49:37Speaker 3: most notice it when I'm watching something and I'm like, Wow,
- 49:40Speaker 3: this is a monologue with a lot of hard words
- 49:43Speaker 3: and they obviously memorized it.
- 49:45Speaker 4: Like, that's amazing to me.
- 49:47Speaker 2: Have you seen Adolescence or Adolescent?
- 49:50Speaker 4: Okay, I saw the first episode and I was traumatized.
- 49:53Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a hard show to watch, but cinematography wise,
- 49:56Speaker 2: it's all shot in like one shot.
- 49:58Speaker 4: It's one take. Yeah, it's one shot.
- 50:00Speaker 2: And it takes you from like house to police station,
- 50:02Speaker 2: you know, and everything at the travel time. And it
- 50:04Speaker 2: is so.
- 50:05Speaker 6: It is.
- 50:06Speaker 4: It's not something that's sort of faked. I think it's real.
- 50:09Speaker 3: Like, they rehearsed for, like, weeks before they actually shot.
- 50:15Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a hard show to watch.
- 50:16Speaker 4: It's incredible. I need to get back to it because
- 50:19Speaker 4: I know it's wonderful.
- 50:21Speaker 2: But it was, like, really hard. Because my fiancé is
- 50:24Speaker 2: a lot like you. He falls asleep to, like, Dateline
- 50:27Speaker 2: and SVU kind of things. But I always have to watch, like,
- 50:30Speaker 2: Superstore after because I need to go to bed with
- 50:32Speaker 2: a good taste in my mouth. But I asked him casually.
- 50:35Speaker 2: I was like, oh, how would you kill me, you know?
- 50:37Speaker 2: assuming that he would just say i would never kill
- 50:40Speaker 2: you he said i would inject in between your toes
- 50:43Speaker 2: with insulin and and.
- 50:45Speaker 6: I was like oh damn it like that's so terrifying
- 50:48Speaker 6: you were socks to bed though yeah yeah i'm like
- 50:51Speaker 6: oh but um but no i um do you have
- 50:54Speaker 6: any other questions for our icon of the week no
- 50:57Speaker 6: we've kind of been pretty long yeah i'm so sorry we.
- 50:59Speaker 3: Kept you so long i have to say something okay
- 51:01Speaker 3: say it.
- 51:03Speaker 4: So I listened to your 80s episode.
- 51:05Speaker 1: Oh, cool.
- 51:06Speaker 3: Yes. And I think the song of the 80s is
- 51:10Speaker 3: Rio by Duran Duran. So I don't want to, I
- 51:13Speaker 3: don't want to, you know, you liked Private Dancer.
- 51:16Speaker 4: Yeah. And you liked, don't tell me, I'm going to
- 51:21Speaker 4: remember what it is. Michael Jackson.
- 51:23Speaker 2: Yeah. Right?
- 51:24Speaker 3: Yes.
- 51:25Speaker 4: Dirty Diana.
- 51:26Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 51:27Speaker 3: But i and i was listening i was very engaged
- 51:30Speaker 3: and i was like it's rio.
- 51:31Speaker 4: Oh yeah for me it's rio.
- 51:34Speaker 2: I love that so some of our episodes usually we're
- 51:37Speaker 2: getting together on the weekend and like kind of drinking
- 51:39Speaker 2: and partaking in other activities um terrific there is we
- 51:43Speaker 2: did start a news segment a news episode so notable
- 51:47Speaker 2: news there is an episode where i do talk about
- 51:50Speaker 2: an event that happened. So if you listen to the
- 51:52Speaker 2: blueberry special, just use caution and don't think of me differently. But, um,
- 51:57Speaker 2: but yeah, I went to a Mexican cookout cause my,
- 51:59Speaker 2: my spouse is Mexican and the night before, and then
- 52:01Speaker 2: I went hiking the next day and unfortunate incident happened.
- 52:04Speaker 2: So anyways, um, I'm not sure why I'm sharing this
- 52:07Speaker 2: with Irene right now, but.
- 52:09Speaker 1: We're, we're friends.
- 52:11Speaker 3: My poor bodies, bodies that do things.
- 52:16Speaker 2: Okay. Forget that. I said that. Um, I, where can
- 52:18Speaker 2: our listener find you? And find what you're working on.
- 52:22Speaker 3: I am mostly on Instagram is where I am. I'm
- 52:25Speaker 3: not on TikTok. I keep thinking about it. But my
- 52:27Speaker 3: Instagram is the Irene White, at the Irene White. And
- 52:32Speaker 3: I do post.
- 52:33Speaker 4: And, you know, yeah, that would be it.
- 52:37Speaker 2: And listener, your assignment tonight is to, if you cancel
- 52:40Speaker 2: Hulu because of last week or the week before, Get
- 52:43Speaker 2: Hulu back. Get Disney Plus back. We're on board. Watch
- 52:46Speaker 2: Electric Bloom. Rewatch on repeat Superstore. Because if they see
- 52:51Speaker 2: that we are here for it, they will make a
- 52:54Speaker 2: reboot or they'll make a TV special.
- 52:56Speaker 1: They will do it.
- 52:57Speaker 2: So let's rally behind this in 2026. Yes. Thank you. Yes.
- 53:02Speaker 4: Thank you.
- 53:02Speaker 2: We're on this.
- 53:03Speaker 3: Yes.
- 53:05Speaker 2: And I think that is going to be it. I
- 53:06Speaker 2: have two, like, shameless things to ask. If you're only
- 53:11Speaker 2: if you're comfortable. can I take a this is so
- 53:15Speaker 2: invasive probably can I take a picture yeah.
- 53:18Speaker 3: Of course okay should I my place is kind of
- 53:24Speaker 3: a mess should I blur my background you should.
- 53:26Speaker 2: See I have four I have two dogs two cats
- 53:31Speaker 2: and a 14 year old like your every whatever your
- 53:37Speaker 2: comfort is it just let's see if.
- 53:38Speaker 4: I let's do this because that way it looks I
- 53:41Speaker 4: feel like.
- 53:41Speaker 2: It looks really messy Andy's background back here because we're
- 53:44Speaker 2: in his garage there's like a skeleton my Spice.
- 53:47Speaker 1: Girl Barbie there's a lot oh yeah it's a it's
- 53:50Speaker 1: a fake skeleton um oh my dad's calling.
- 53:53Speaker 4: Let me let me zhuzh my hair oh no.
- 53:55Speaker 2: You look this is I won't I don't have to
- 53:57Speaker 2: I won't post this or any oh actually okay well
- 53:59Speaker 2: you can if you want okay cool I'm so nerdy
- 54:01Speaker 2: I'm sorry okay I'm going to see if I can,
- 54:04Speaker 2: cause we're on there too. So like pose.
- 54:07Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
- 54:07Speaker 2: Hey.
- 54:09Speaker 1: Oh my God.
- 54:09Speaker 2: You're so cute.
- 54:10Speaker 1: I always point. Thank you. Cheap trick. The guitarist.
- 54:13Speaker 2: He's a big, he's a big trick fan. well thank
- 54:16Speaker 2: you so much and that yeah if you if you
- 54:19Speaker 2: if you do chit chat with any of your other
- 54:20Speaker 2: friends let them know about our podcast but i will
- 54:23Speaker 2: like for sure like thank you so much for everything
- 54:25Speaker 2: that you've done for pleasure yeah.
- 54:27Speaker 1: Jeff got me into superstore and it's my like right
- 54:29Speaker 1: after the second and third episode i was like this
- 54:31Speaker 1: is my new comfort show so i love the show
- 54:33Speaker 1: so i'm super.
- 54:34Speaker 2: Oh i'm so happy to hear that and her i
- 54:36Speaker 2: think uh irene's or carol's first line is they're talking
- 54:40Speaker 2: about things they want to do in the future. And
- 54:41Speaker 2: she's like, she writes down eat shellfish. And then, but
- 54:45Speaker 2: then they're like, I read like, Oh, this is what
- 54:47Speaker 2: you want to do. And then she's like, I'm allergic.
- 54:50Speaker 2: So to go from that Carol to like the juicy
- 54:54Speaker 2: couture one, like it's, it's amazing. This, the writing, thank you. The,
- 54:58Speaker 2: all of the co-stars, everyone behind the scenes and especially
- 55:01Speaker 2: our icon, um, of the week or not week, just
- 55:04Speaker 2: our icon in general, Irene White.
- 55:06Speaker 4: Thank you.
- 55:07Speaker 3: My God.
- 55:08Speaker 4: What a pleasure. This was really wonderful.
- 55:10Speaker 2: Thank you so much. We'll have a great evening and
- 55:12Speaker 2: we'll talk soon.
- 55:13Speaker 3: Thank you.
- 55:13Speaker 1: Yes, we will.
- 55:14Speaker 4: I'll see you guys later.
- 55:15Speaker 1: Bye.
- 55:16Speaker 3: Bye.
- 55:16Speaker 1: Bye.
- 55:21Speaker 2: All right. That was awesome.
- 55:23Speaker 1: That was awesome. And you know, it's funny. It's like
- 55:25Speaker 1: before we started recording, you asked if I was nervous.
- 55:27Speaker 1: I was like, nah, I'm not nervous. But then right
- 55:28Speaker 1: when we were in the waiting room waiting for her
- 55:31Speaker 1: to join, my nerves kicked in again. Every, I say
- 55:34Speaker 1: this every single time we've interviewed anybody, every single person
- 55:38Speaker 1: has been so nice when they don't need to be
- 55:40Speaker 1: that nice. You know, it's just crazy. Like, I don't know.
- 55:43Speaker 1: I get nervous every time still, but it is, she
- 55:45Speaker 1: was really sweet. I was like, and I love that we,
- 55:48Speaker 1: before the, we were talking about, I was like, I
- 55:51Speaker 1: feel like she's been improv and you go in second. Yeah.
- 55:53Speaker 1: Second city. And then it turned out she was, and
- 55:55Speaker 1: we called it, we fucking nailed it.
- 55:56Speaker 2: She has that effortless, um, um, appeal, uh, appearing, uh,
- 56:02Speaker 2: Like I know like she has that talent and she's
- 56:04Speaker 2: worked to her craft with her studying theater and studying acting.
- 56:08Speaker 2: But there's something she has it. And yeah, she was
- 56:11Speaker 2: genuinely a nice person. I knew she was because of
- 56:14Speaker 2: like my interactions on. social media with her and my
- 56:17Speaker 2: dog and stuff.
- 56:18Speaker 1: She hasn't blocked you yet.
- 56:19Speaker 2: Yeah, she hasn't blocked me yet. Unlike Shawn Mendes, who
- 56:21Speaker 2: has blocked me. Shawn Mendes and Meghan McCain, they're not equals, but...
- 56:26Speaker 2: Because Shawn Mendes is way better. But Shawn Mendes did
- 56:28Speaker 2: block me. But so many don't. So many don't.
- 56:32Speaker 1: Yeah, so many don't.
- 56:33Speaker 2: No, that was surreal. Like, when you see somebody on
- 56:37Speaker 2: your screen, and even, like, how intimate, like, watching shows
- 56:40Speaker 2: on your phone is, but, like, Superstore is that comfort
- 56:43Speaker 2: show for me. Yeah. And seeing somebody... in such, like,
- 56:47Speaker 2: talking to us, but I've seen her deliver these lines
- 56:51Speaker 2: that are so intense and so funny, too, on Superstore.
- 56:55Speaker 2: It was surreal to see her.
- 56:57Speaker 1: Well, I didn't even... I only started watching Superstore because
- 57:00Speaker 1: of this interview, and it's one of my new comfort shows.
- 57:02Speaker 1: It's super funny. It's really fucking funny. Like, it's hilarious. Like,
- 57:07Speaker 1: there's laugh-out moments when I'm watching it alone. Every episode,
- 57:09Speaker 1: there's gonna be a few. Oh, I forgot what I
- 57:12Speaker 1: was gonna say.
- 57:14Speaker 2: Hmm.
- 57:15Speaker 1: good shit oh but i even before watching the show
- 57:18Speaker 1: after watching the show i saw all these little clips
- 57:20Speaker 1: and i never knew what tv show was from but
- 57:22Speaker 1: i've seen clips of her on like tiktok and instagram
- 57:25Speaker 1: and shit and then like watching the show i'm like
- 57:27Speaker 1: oh now now when i see the clips i'm like
- 57:29Speaker 1: oh i totally get it now so yeah and that's what.
- 57:31Speaker 2: The world needs more of is just to laugh and
- 57:34Speaker 2: like i love that we talked about like the diversity
- 57:36Speaker 2: of the cast and that no matter what You can
- 57:40Speaker 2: every every watcher or like viewer can identify with at
- 57:44Speaker 2: least one person. And it's just it's just so relatable.
- 57:48Speaker 2: And everybody, for the most part, has gone into like,
- 57:50Speaker 2: you know, grocery store, a big box store, anything like that.
- 57:54Speaker 2: And it's sometimes we forget that like are the people
- 57:57Speaker 2: that are working there have these like relationship with each
- 58:02Speaker 2: other and like these lives that they're going through. And
- 58:06Speaker 2: it's just I'm sure that I'm curious. I should have
- 58:09Speaker 2: asked this, too, is if like how did they like
- 58:14Speaker 2: what kind of research did they do? Did they have
- 58:16Speaker 2: like it seems like they would have like a what's
- 58:19Speaker 2: called like an expert witness, somebody that like worked in
- 58:21Speaker 2: the industry, like be a console or something.
- 58:24Speaker 1: But it's so weird to that, like there's probably shows
- 58:27Speaker 1: about big box stores and stuff previously. Maybe I never
- 58:30Speaker 1: heard of one. But it's such a good idea because
- 58:34Speaker 1: it's literally endless possibilities of stories.
- 58:36Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 58:37Speaker 1: All the different people coming in, just all the new
- 58:39Speaker 1: products coming out, just society itself. It's like a goldmine.
- 58:45Speaker 1: It's a genius idea to have a show in a store.
- 58:47Speaker 1: It's such a good idea.
- 58:48Speaker 2: Whoever wrote, because she started out as a nonverbal kind
- 58:53Speaker 2: of character, and then she was a little bit more timid,
- 58:55Speaker 2: the character of Carol, at the very beginning when she
- 58:58Speaker 2: was introduced. And when she talked about getting the script
- 59:02Speaker 2: for the first time that she really takes a shift,
- 59:05Speaker 2: whoever wrote that, icon. like they are an icon. They,
- 59:08Speaker 2: they saw something and they were like, we need to,
- 59:11Speaker 2: we need to utilize this, this actor more. And they, they,
- 59:15Speaker 2: they killed it. And then I was going to say,
- 59:16Speaker 2: one thing I didn't get a chance to mention to
- 59:18Speaker 2: Irene is that there's an episode, I think it's called
- 59:21Speaker 2: scanners where there's two teams and they are playing like
- 59:23Speaker 2: laser tag with each other. And Carol is in this
- 59:26Speaker 2: like roundabout clothing rack. where it's hard for her to
- 59:29Speaker 2: get people, but she starts shooting people with the laser.
- 59:32Speaker 2: And then every time she shoots somebody, she says, American sniper, baby.
- 59:36Speaker 2: And then, so whenever I succeed at something, if it's like,
- 59:40Speaker 2: I make a basket, if I'm playing basketball with my
- 59:42Speaker 2: kid or whatever, I will say, or if I throw
- 59:44Speaker 2: garbage in a garbage can, I'll say American.
- 59:46Speaker 1: Sniper, baby.
- 59:47Speaker 2: Like that's because not because of the, um, the movie
- 59:51Speaker 2: American sniper.
- 59:51Speaker 1: It's because Carol, like I, that's.
- 59:54Speaker 2: Like an everyday thing. And like, there's so many quotable
- 59:57Speaker 2: lines that, definitely maybe not work appropriate because of HR issues,
- 1:00:00Speaker 2: but anyways, but fabulous. I had such a blast.
- 1:00:03Speaker 1: So the only thing that I wish somehow we could
- 1:00:07Speaker 1: get is I want to see that fucking Abraham Lincoln.
- 1:00:12Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
- 1:00:13Speaker 6: Either.
- 1:00:13Speaker 1: I want to see it or I want, I want
- 1:00:15Speaker 1: to see the screenplay of it or, you know, the
- 1:00:17Speaker 1: script of it. Having fifth graders write a play about
- 1:00:21Speaker 1: Abraham Lincoln is so fucking funny to me. Cause like,
- 1:00:24Speaker 1: you know, they're going to get some stuff wrong. And I,
- 1:00:26Speaker 1: if I were the teacher, I would be like, just
- 1:00:29Speaker 1: go with it. Even if it's not right. Like, let's
- 1:00:31Speaker 1: just see what we can do with this. I think
- 1:00:33Speaker 1: that's so fricking funny. It would be really fun to
- 1:00:35Speaker 1: have fifth graders write a show about Abraham Lincoln, but
- 1:00:38Speaker 1: then have adults do the show.
- 1:00:40Speaker 2: And then the fact that if there wasn't Abraham Lincoln,
- 1:00:43Speaker 2: there might like the real guy, there might not have
- 1:00:45Speaker 2: been Carol. Like, cause Carol was really grown because of Irene.
- 1:00:50Speaker 2: But if there was no, I, uh, Abraham Lincoln, there
- 1:00:52Speaker 2: wouldn't have been that play when she was a kid.
- 1:00:54Speaker 2: And then there wouldn't have been, this iconic super stork character.
- 1:00:57Speaker 1: And then you wouldn't be saying American sniper, baby. When you, yeah.
- 1:01:01Speaker 2: It's just fucking crazy. Everything is tied into one another. Um,
- 1:01:05Speaker 2: all right, listener. So you have your assignment.
- 1:01:07Speaker 1: So really, really quick. You're kind of saying you're glad
- 1:01:10Speaker 1: that there was slavery.
- 1:01:11Speaker 2: No, I'm glad there's into slavery because without the end
- 1:01:15Speaker 2: of slavery, there wouldn't have been a Carol giving the
- 1:01:18Speaker 2: iconic line. And anyway, so anyways, so listener, we, we
- 1:01:22Speaker 2: have a homework for you. So get Hulu. If you
- 1:01:25Speaker 2: don't have Hulu, uh, Watch Superstore so we can get
- 1:01:27Speaker 2: some kind of like reunion special kind of thing going.
- 1:01:31Speaker 2: On Disney +, watch Electric Bloom. And then with notable
- 1:01:36Speaker 2: nostalgia in our little shared universe, this is coming out
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- 1:02:21Speaker 2: Or if you just want to say, you know, just
- 1:02:22Speaker 2: some like if you have like a horrible name from
- 1:02:24Speaker 2: that one episode a couple of days ago, a couple
- 1:02:27Speaker 2: of episodes ago, if you have like a Quentin name.
- 1:02:29Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
- 1:02:30Speaker 2: If you just message us, it's fine.
- 1:02:32Speaker 1: Get involved.
- 1:02:33Speaker 2: I want like my goal for the podcast is to
- 1:02:35Speaker 2: have it be you, me and then the third co-host
- 1:02:37Speaker 2: is the listener.
- 1:02:38Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 1:02:38Speaker 2: So like get involved with us. And then, Andy, you
- 1:02:41Speaker 2: have your podcast with your daughters. Yeah.
- 1:02:43Speaker 1: Dad, daughters and diplomas. We're only doing I mean, if
- 1:02:46Speaker 1: you think about it, it's like nine months times four.
- 1:02:49Speaker 1: So we have about 36 episodes or something like that.
- 1:02:51Speaker 1: And then it's going to be done. So listen to
- 1:02:53Speaker 1: it now.
- 1:02:54Speaker 2: Yeah, have fun with that. All right, guys. Until next time,
- 1:02:57Speaker 2: I am Jeff.
- 1:02:58Speaker 1: I'm Andy White.
- 1:02:59Speaker 2: And we'll see you next Tuesday.
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