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Go For It!--Mo Collins · Inside The Moms Club

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  Speaker 1: Hi, Welcome to inside the Mom's Club, where being a
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  Speaker 1: mom is the coolest place to be. Here in the
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  Speaker 1: Mom's Club, we believe that what embarrasses you now will
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  Speaker 1: make a great story later. And let's face it, you
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  Speaker 1: don't laugh sometimes you're gonna cry. Join us in having
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  Speaker 1: a good laugh together. I'm Monica Samuels. You are now
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  Speaker 1: inside the Mom's Club, your private destination for all things mom. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: welcome moms. Welcome to inside the Mom's Club. I'm your host,
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  Speaker 1: Monica Samuels, and I'm here with my cost Julie Orchid.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hey, Monica, this is a different look today.
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  Speaker 3: It is.
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  Speaker 1: I found these great legs. I'm always looking for my
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  Speaker 1: shop like crazy. I'll buy it pretty much anything. As
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  Speaker 1: evidence by that the fact I'm wearing these I found
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  Speaker 1: these gray glasses because for those in podcast world, I'm
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  Speaker 1: wearing glasses that around the rim says bless your heart.
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  Speaker 2: Now I have a different definition of what that means.
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  Speaker 2: But why are you wearing bless your heart glasses today?
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  Speaker 4: Okay? This is how you use them. I figured it out.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, so as we all know, for those who
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  Speaker 1: are not from the South, bless your heart means well. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So my mother sometimes when I'm not feeling well.
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  Speaker 4: So she'll say bless your heart. She does not mean that.
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  Speaker 1: In the South though, there's another way to say it,
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  Speaker 1: which is well, bless your heart, which is not nice.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't think I can say it on the
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  Speaker 2: She's glass.
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  Speaker 4: This is the great thing.
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  Speaker 1: So so, for example, yesterday I had a very belligerent,
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  Speaker 1: arrogant TSA officer who was giving me a hard time
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  Speaker 1: because I just tried to push my bin because it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't moving, and he wheeled around. It told me that
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  Speaker 1: just because I'm pre checked does not mean I'm entitled.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever that means my complaint to the complate department at TSA.
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  Speaker 1: We'll determine what that really means.
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  Speaker 2: Right it.
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  Speaker 1: Had I had my glasses handy, you could have just
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  Speaker 1: got because you can't say anything to these people, right,
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  Speaker 1: so I could have just said.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. I think it would have gotten the message.
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  Speaker 1: You think, you know anytime you feel like saying it,
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  Speaker 1: but you know that that wouldn't be a good idea.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's great. I think most people would get
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  Speaker 2: the message.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we have.
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  Speaker 5: Had a little bit of time off and now we're
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  Speaker 5: back we're back in La filming our podcast. We're super
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  Speaker 5: excited to be here. But I have to say getting
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  Speaker 5: back into it, the whole thing of flying again yesterday
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  Speaker 5: and coming and doing all this, like people that barge
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  Speaker 5: all the way from the back to the front to
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  Speaker 5: get off first, and they're taking your head off with
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  Speaker 5: oh here, all.
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  Speaker 4: You need is you bless your heart, the glasses to.
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  Speaker 3: You.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, very fashionable.
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  Speaker 2: All right, back into it has been a you know, well, Tony.
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  Speaker 1: When I when I look at this, so bless your heart.
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  Speaker 1: That that just started me? Can me think about so
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  Speaker 1: they had so I did some tiktoks and you did
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  Speaker 1: them with me. Actually where we the word demure has
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  Speaker 1: been a like popular thing and somebody told me, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, demure is a bad thing.
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  Speaker 4: It's not a good thing, which really, well.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of setting us back late is back a
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  Speaker 2: little bit.
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  Speaker 4: I think if so he's like, oh, you don't want
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  Speaker 4: to be demure.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's a play on words. It's been a fun
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  Speaker 2: week doing it.
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  Speaker 1: Well it was fun, but so but then that so
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  Speaker 1: then so my son is not dating a lovely girl
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  Speaker 1: from Minneapolis.
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  Speaker 4: She's so sweet, very nice.
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  Speaker 1: And I did my book tour years ago. I went
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  Speaker 1: to Minneapolis and then someone told me the other day
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota nice is not nice?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Is that it's passive aggressive?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know about that. Park and I have to say.
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  Speaker 1: Had nothing but good experiences in Minneapol. And of course, uh,
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  Speaker 1: my son's girlfriend, assuming that's still his girlfriend.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know what article you were reading, but where
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  Speaker 5: we need to find out if that's true.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we have an expert.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, we have an expert here today who can tell
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  Speaker 1: us all about that.
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  Speaker 4: And not only that.
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  Speaker 1: She has had an impressive improv and sketch comedy career.
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  Speaker 1: She was among the cast of Mad TV, where she
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  Speaker 1: created characters like Lorraine Yes and Stuart's mom who I
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  Speaker 1: think is his named Jerene. But I can't remember exactly.
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  Speaker 1: But my favorite character and I can. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: say I can relate to it because that would not
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  Speaker 1: that that would sound terrible. But it was Joan Callametzo
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  Speaker 1: on Parks and Recreation, where she was the host of
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  Speaker 1: Pawnee Today, Money Today, and I always enjoyed saying that
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  Speaker 1: I wish we had some Gotcha some Gotcha girls show.
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  Speaker 1: She is an Emmy nominee and she's qualified as the
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  Speaker 1: Mom's Club. She's the mother of one son. Please welcome,
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  Speaker 1: Moe Collins. Welcome to the Mom's play Low Mo, Well,
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  Speaker 1: straighten this out for us. Is Minnesota nice?
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  Speaker 4: Nice?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Well that's what I thought. Somebody said, Oh, that's passive aggressive.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, what being nice? Your pat What does that mean?
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  Speaker 4: I think it's nice? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Minnesota people in general, Yeah, yeah, they're very nice. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, like right now, I've been so excited because
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  Speaker 3: through Tim Walls, people are seeing the true character of Minnesota.
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  Speaker 3: Through him, he's the epitome. Like it's just so I
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  Speaker 3: love watching him because I'm like, yeah, that's.
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  Speaker 5: Like community, changing your tire in the snow, like all
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  Speaker 5: of that.
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  Speaker 2: It's a true story.
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  Speaker 4: Truth.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's a true story. I mean it's coined because
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  Speaker 3: it's true, you know. I mean it's true. Which isn't
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  Speaker 3: to say that there aren't bad people everywhere and assholes everywhere. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: there's a general rule. Minnesota is a very kind place.
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  Speaker 4: There you go. I really enjoyed it. When I went
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  Speaker 4: on my book tour. It was jew so it was beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought, wow, I'd like to live here. And
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  Speaker 1: then someone else said, well, do you see all those
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  Speaker 1: tunnels are those you know? You may not be so
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  Speaker 1: I'm from Texas, so that might be hard. But and
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  Speaker 1: in fairness, the person who told me that about Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: and ice was actually from another local state.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe they weren't so nice.
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  Speaker 1: Well they also well, I kind of wonder what's going
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  Speaker 1: on up there because this person's from Wisconsin, and they
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  Speaker 1: also don't like people from Illinois.
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  Speaker 4: So maybe there's a state.
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  Speaker 1: Thing going on there. But yes, I've had nothing but
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  Speaker 1: good experiences.
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  Speaker 2: So I think we all need to straighten that out.
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  Speaker 1: Unlike bless your heart, which will never be redeemed, as
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  Speaker 1: I saying, trust me, So tell so you are from Minneapolis,
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  Speaker 1: and tell us how your career took you from Minneapolis
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  Speaker 1: to all of the amazing things you've done. When you
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  Speaker 1: just touched on your career, it's been it's been amazing,
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  Speaker 1: as we say here on the Mom's Club.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks well. I mean, when my son was two, I
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  Speaker 3: had come out to LA and friends and myself we'd
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  Speaker 3: written a show and put it up, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: I was really dreaming of living in Los Angeles, And
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  Speaker 3: when my son was too I did. I sold the house,
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  Speaker 3: packed him up in a U haul with the three
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  Speaker 3: cats and headed out to LA and within the first
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  Speaker 3: year I got mad TV. So it was the right
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  Speaker 3: choice because ultimately I did it. You know, It's like
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  Speaker 3: if I was going to lead by example with my child, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I had to show him what it looked like to
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  Speaker 3: go for it and to go for your dreams and
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  Speaker 3: do what you love and be who you are.
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  Speaker 2: And does he say that he looks back he was two,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean, like over your career that
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  Speaker 2: he's so glad that you went for it and did
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  Speaker 2: everything that you did. I mean he's adult, an adult now, right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's twenty nine. It's not like he has anything
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  Speaker 3: to compare it to because he was too young to
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  Speaker 3: remember life in Minnesota. So for him, he's just he's
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  Speaker 3: in La yep, person and that's really all he's ever known.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 3: So he he's glad. He loves it here.
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  Speaker 2: So does he live here?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Amazing, that's cool.
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  Speaker 3: He lives up in Beechwood Canyon.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it would be nice for adult children to live
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  Speaker 5: in the same town.
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  Speaker 3: He just recently moved from an apartment across the street
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  Speaker 3: where he lived for six or seven years, and that
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  Speaker 3: was nice. Too. Even though I didn't see him a lot,
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  Speaker 3: I still just like to see his car park down
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  Speaker 3: the street or the light on in his apartment. I
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  Speaker 3: was like a.
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  Speaker 1: Comfort that saves you from having to check life three
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  Speaker 1: sixty all the time, like.
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  Speaker 5: Here, Oh, I don't know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, every day.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Did you do improv in Minneapolis or so that's where
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  Speaker 1: you started?
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  Speaker 4: Because improv?
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  Speaker 3: I started doing improv in eighth grade.
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  Speaker 4: Oh wow.
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  Speaker 3: And then after kind of getting asked to leave college
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  Speaker 3: a little early, Oh, and I didn't know what to
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  Speaker 3: do with my life. I remember improv that thing that
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  Speaker 3: I loved. And there's a company up in Minneapolis, much
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  Speaker 3: like Groundlings or Second City. And I signed up for
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  Speaker 3: Dudley Riggs Bring New Workshop in Minneapolis and sign up
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  Speaker 3: for classes, and then got into the touring company, and
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  Speaker 3: before you know it, I had a check and I
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  Speaker 3: was with people I love. Yeah, you know, it's on
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  Speaker 3: my my hive and it just went on from there.
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  Speaker 1: Now, for those moms out there who don't know, so
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  Speaker 1: explain a little bit how improv works, Like it takes
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  Speaker 1: a really do you have to be really smart and
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  Speaker 1: on your toes to be successful at that?
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  Speaker 4: I would think, I don't.
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  Speaker 3: Know if you have to be really smart, Well.
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  Speaker 4: That's good news. You aren't smart.
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  Speaker 3: No, you have to be I don't know, have a
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  Speaker 3: certain level of three, I guess I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Quick.
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  Speaker 3: But improv is you know, you get suggestions from the
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  Speaker 3: audience and then you create a scene out of nothing.
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  Speaker 3: It's theater without a net. So yeah, that's really all
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  Speaker 3: it is, and anybody can do it.
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  Speaker 5: When did you know that improv was like in your blood,
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  Speaker 5: like your you know, dear friend, like that you just
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  Speaker 5: like ate it up.
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  Speaker 2: How did you know you had the ninth grade?
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  Speaker 3: In eighth grade? I mean, up until that point, everybody
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  Speaker 3: knew me as Maureen. I was a very painfully shy person.
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  Speaker 3: And then the the theater teacher, mister Hermiting, he he
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  Speaker 3: was in the busy hall of the Junior high that year.
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  Speaker 3: He goes hey, mo, and I'm like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 3: whoever he is, I would not want to be him. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: because mister Hermiting had a big, booming, scary voice and
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  Speaker 3: he was pointing at me and he goes, yeah, you
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  Speaker 3: get over here and sign up for this. And it
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  Speaker 3: was for it was to be a part of a
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  Speaker 3: you know, we would write sketches, we would learn improv
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  Speaker 3: and do improv and perform, and he basically in he
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  Speaker 3: kind of split my personality for me and made space
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  Speaker 3: for Mo this other part of who I am, this
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  Speaker 3: creative gave MO the freedom to do this. I was
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  Speaker 3: able to kind of just separate my shy self from
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  Speaker 3: what he saw in me, and then I built it
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  Speaker 3: from there. So, I mean, honestly, I fell in love
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  Speaker 3: with it in eighth grade and it's been my BAF
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  Speaker 3: ever since.
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  Speaker 4: Have you found it a lot?
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  Speaker 2: Because you heard this a lot people that are pretty.
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  Speaker 1: Shy are actually some of the best comedians and entertainers
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  Speaker 1: that do that are really shy people like in their
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  Speaker 1: own lives, they don't like they're not out there all
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  Speaker 1: the time, which is kind of funny too, because people
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  Speaker 1: expect them then when they see them in public to think.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, this, she's gotta be hilarious.
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  Speaker 3: Because she's as yeah yeah, and the opposite com he's
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  Speaker 3: had too. A lot of the loud miles out there
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  Speaker 3: that think they're funny.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so funny.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. But I do think that, and I say this
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  Speaker 3: a lot about people in comedy is that at the
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  Speaker 3: root of it is this desire to be taken seriously, right,
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  Speaker 3: and it's it's a tool to that, I guess. But
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  Speaker 3: and I mean, if you are shy, it's a tool
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  Speaker 3: to it's it's like another persona to step away from
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  Speaker 3: your your shy self and get out and get your
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  Speaker 3: ideas out.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So if your child is sort of introverted, you
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  Speaker 1: might want to explore that a little bit with them.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe they maybe they mean improv theater, Yeah, do some
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  Speaker 1: things that they can kind of be outside of themselves,
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  Speaker 1: which is a great thing. Well, here on the Mom's Club,
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  Speaker 1: we our motto is if you don't laugh, sometimes you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna cry.
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  Speaker 4: So we're all about laughter.
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  Speaker 1: And in Mad TV you delivered it all the time.
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  Speaker 1: So what was your I mean, humor and comedy. Have
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  Speaker 1: you ever thought about trying more dramatic stuff or you're
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  Speaker 1: like you think comedy.
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  Speaker 3: Is Yeah, I have. I mean the last job I
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  Speaker 3: really had was Fear of the Walking Dead. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that was AMA series. And I've done other sporadic drama
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  Speaker 3: projects over the years, and yeah, I want to do
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  Speaker 3: it all. Unfortunately, you know, Hollywood doesn't love me right now,
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  Speaker 3: so it's.
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  Speaker 2: Just not it's a hard it's a hard business.
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  Speaker 5: Do you have a favorite like, do you have a
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  Speaker 5: favorite role, favorite audition.
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  Speaker 2: That you were like? Really, you know, I was able
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  Speaker 2: to dive into I dive.
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  Speaker 3: Into everything I do. That's just that's me. When I work,
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  Speaker 3: I'm a diver. I give two hundred percent. For me,
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  Speaker 3: the favorite parts are just the moments with the people
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  Speaker 3: that I've gotten to work with. Yeah, you know, like
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  Speaker 3: I really have gotten to have great times with great
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  Speaker 3: people like I I've gotten my share of fun experiences
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  Speaker 3: and just really incredible people.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'm really dying to know how many takes when
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  Speaker 5: the gotcha girls would come across the stage did you
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  Speaker 5: have to do when you weren't losing it? Or was
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  Speaker 5: it always like able to roll with it? I mean
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  Speaker 5: that always kills me every time.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know how many takes. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 3: hard to say. It's usually like, I don't know, three
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  Speaker 3: or four takes of things that they were just getting.
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  Speaker 3: And of course when you do it, it's like they
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  Speaker 3: do the wide shot, they do the medium shot, they
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  Speaker 3: do close up shots, so you're actually doing the same
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  Speaker 3: scene multiple times, right, and then they put it all together.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, we certainly had our laughs. The tough times
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  Speaker 3: is when you can't stop, you know, if you get
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  Speaker 3: into I'm sure you all have had those times where
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  Speaker 3: you just, you know, laughter hits that funny bone so hard.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you get the giggles and you can't.
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  Speaker 3: You just can't. It's like, you know, my cousin and
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  Speaker 3: I when we used to go to church together, It's
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  Speaker 3: like we'd always end up having to leave the church, right,
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  Speaker 3: you just couldn't come back, you know. Well, yeah, it
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  Speaker 3: too hard.
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  Speaker 1: And it's interesting to you on Mad TV and some
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  Speaker 1: of the clips that are out there on YouTube now
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  Speaker 1: our clips were you actually were laughing and I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: stop because yeah, whoever you were working with was pretty funny.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, funny, so hard not to laugh so hard. I
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  Speaker 3: mean they used to take bets when you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: how long it would take before I would crack up,
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  Speaker 3: And man, I would do everything I could just try
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  Speaker 3: to try and win win those bets, but uh, I
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  Speaker 3: think I lost every time.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you were entertaining either way. Yes, So where did
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  Speaker 4: the character, because it.
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  Speaker 1: Was developed over time, where did Joan Calametso come from?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what did you draw on your.
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  Speaker 3: They wrote her, they wrote her, yeah, and I auditioned
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  Speaker 3: for it.
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  Speaker 4: So we're not going to break news like your.
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  Speaker 3: Alcohol from my friends and I. You know, we used
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  Speaker 3: to watch like those kind of sad cable access shows
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  Speaker 3: that we're out there. Yeah, I used to love those.
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  Speaker 3: They were just so odd and kitchy, and so it
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  Speaker 3: kind of kind of just drew from that for the
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  Speaker 3: character just pretending to be professional you don't know what
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  Speaker 3: you're doing. That's where I started with Joan. And of
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  Speaker 3: course over time producers and writers realize that they could
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  Speaker 3: expand the character with me because like every time I
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  Speaker 3: chow to set, Amy Poehler would just say, most here,
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  Speaker 3: keep the camera rolling because of the improv. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's like until they say cut, I'm gonna keep going.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, yeah, I love that. That's full support and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean, letting you shine and do
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  Speaker 2: your things.
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  Speaker 3: And it's all about First of all, there were no
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  Speaker 3: egos on this show, because when the captain of the
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: ship Amy has no ego, you can't come aboard and
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: have an ego yourself, you know. So it was a
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: great playground. It was just a fantastic playground. And it's
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: you know, when you when you let when you let
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: the cameras go beyond the script and such. You're essentially
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: mining for comedy gold and usually find some, you know,
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: and then you have that for in the editing. It's great.
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: Well, I mean I can only speak as a parent, like,
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: listen when you hear your kids belly laughing from the
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: other room and you're on in the other room.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: And they you know, So it was it was classic.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: It was good and you could tell, you could tell,
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: So thanks for sharing that story.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, you know, I always say, if you're gonna
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: be doing comedy making comedy, you should probably be having
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: fun doing it. Is I just kind of feel like
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: that's going to come across if you don't. I've been
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: on some things I don't specifically remember what, but it
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: was like, yeah, this isn't very this isn't fun, you guys,
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: this isn't supposed to be comedy. Let's have fun, Yeah.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: For sure.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that should be the main rule.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're not having fun, I don't know how
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: you can be funny. Actually yeah, well and what's not
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: so fun? But you hit you hit on it. So
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: that's kind of a You've been in a tough business,
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, the ups and downs. How have you stayed
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: grounded and gone through the years. You know, and no
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: matter who you are, you can win an Academy award
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: one year and the next year it's like, oh, who's that?
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: I mean, so what super calling me grounded? That feels
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: really good.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: I just met you, but I that Yeah, she's that.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Say you want to see the contrast right here you are?
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's yeah. You know, a lot of
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: the resilience in this business is about what you're doing
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: when you're not working, and that's been most of my career.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: Most of my career is not working. You know, that's
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: just fact. So yeah, I've certainly had my moments of
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: going crazy, and you know, you try and keep busy,
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: trying to and now it's like I have not really
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: I have not worked on camera for a couple of years,
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: and not a lot of auditions coming through either. So
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: I paint I've.
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: Gone back to what you're doing right now, to when
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: you are you know, yeah.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: I mean I've been an artist all my life. I
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: thought that was actually what I was going to be.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: And you know, I joke that I'm not actually going
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: to Plan B. I'm going back to Plan ah.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: That's a good way to put it.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: You know, it makes it less sad.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: This was plan A all along.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: It was plan A. You know.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: So what are you painting?
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: I'm in my studio painting every day. I have my websites,
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: I sell, I do commissions.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: Wow like that.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you need to come to Round Top, Texas.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a whole different story.
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's very Yeah.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: We couldn't paint anything, Monica.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: No, I can't paint. I can't sing, I can't dance.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: It's a sad state of my fear.
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: But I can write. I wrote a book. So there
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: was quite an experience in and of itself.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Well, I have questions about you being a mom. Just
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: be because we are inside the mom's club and we
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: do talk to a lot of people, whether you know
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: they have kids or not. But I'd love to hear
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: about were you that football mom? Did you you know,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: did you do it all? And if we were to
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: ask your son, what would he say about you as
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: a mom and parenting?
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Well he's very quiet, but yeah, I was a very
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: active mom, even though you know, like I was working
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: man TV for you know, from what five to ten
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: years old? I think he was three I don't know. Yeah,
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: a lot of the years I was working, and you know,
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: there would be times I would I didn't. I never
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: had a nanny or anything like that. That's the Minnesota
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: and me, yes, you you raise your own children. And
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: so there will be times I'd have to leave the
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: makeup chair, you know, halfway into Doreen Larkin and go
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: pick up my kid from school and I bring him
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: back to the studio. Yeah, and you know I had
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: stuff for him to do in my room. But he
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: was also I was the only mom on that show,
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: and so it was really cool how everybody just sort
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: of they were all the aunts and uncles of my kid.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: It was great, Like he'd spend time up in hair
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: and makeup. They'd do his hair, they'd dress him up
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: in capes and all this fun stuff. So he got
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: to experience that. But he was also my son was
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: very athletic, and so he was in all the sports,
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: all of them, and he was really good. So you know,
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: he would get like brought into these more private baseball
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: leagues and stuff like that, and so it was a lot. Man,
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: it was a lot a lot of taking him around
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: to practice and games. And then he was captain of
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: the football team in high school. He was a quarterback.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: So I went to the trauma being that mom up
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: in the stands and watching your kid get hit.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's not easy.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was not easy. Two concussions.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Was a baseball mom, so I totally get the whole thing.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: So I was team mom, So I had to collect
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: everybody's birth certificates and then make sure make sure the
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: other team wasn't cheating by putting kids on who professed
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: to be nine but had mustaches, and we were like,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's actually a real birth certificate.
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: So but so you did all that I got, because
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: that's a.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: Lot I did, and I did, and I really liked
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: being the mom that had all the kids over to
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: her house. Yeah ay, so I can kind of keep
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: tabs on what my son is doing. But a lot
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: of the kids on our block did not have the
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: same you know, security sure that my son did. And
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: so there are even times, you know, like where we
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: had for a while, one of his friend's mother was
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: she was she was in prison, and it just sort
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: of happened and he was left at our house and
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: I'm like, well, I guess you I guess you're staying
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: spending the night year. For he spent almost a year here.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: That's amazing.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: But that's that's sort of what our household was was
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: just an open place for a safe place for These
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: are all boys, you know, and I loved it, like
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: the slumber parties. And and then my son a bunch
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: of them they formed a band, and so they had
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: the garage. They played the band, and then they had
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: gigs down in Hollywood even and I had a tahoe
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: at the time, and so I get all the instruments
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: in my car and take them to their gigs. I
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: liked being that mom.
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean so far, you've got to figure it out.
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: A you know, you need a village to raise your kid.
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: I'm a big believer in that. And then you have
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: them all over to your house. I mean, you get
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: to know them, and you get to keep tabs on them.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: I think that, you.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: Know, I try to keep that thing about women is
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: that we are also within each and every one of us,
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: an entire village.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: That's true. That is so true.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Well, and so our show kind of got started is
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: we're there's five of us who are really close friends. Yeah,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: through our kids, and so we're sort of the mom's club,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: even though we're just really good friends.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: But since you were such an involved mom.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Did you have a group of mom friends who you know,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: you got close to or did you find some moms
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: that would always, you know, say, you know.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: Oh, bless her heart. What was it like with the
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: other moms?
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Well, a lot of them didn't have another a mom
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: that was available. So I did not meet a lot
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: of the moms. Oh, to be honest, you know, I
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: had friends at the games and stuff. You know, we
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: sit in the bleachers and talk.
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, a group of friends. Now you're close girlfriends just
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: oh tight.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Love it.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a smaller circle. Yeah, you know, it's like
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: I don't I don't feel this need to just be
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: everybody's you know, on everybody's list. I just don't need
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: that anymore. Sure my list is tight.
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it changes, it becomes more intimate and more you
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: get to be more real, you get.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: To be more honest, and yeah, you need all that
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: other fluff. I totally agree with you. Yeah for sure.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: Well what's what what's your next act? The being a
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: famous artist? And remember artist?
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: That sounds good. I like that.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: That sounds good. Look. It's like, you know, I'm I
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: don't ever cut off any of my limbs as it were.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: It's like, I'm a lot of things. Mo is short
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: for more and in the meantime, you know, I'm I
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: am pushing my art and doing my stuff with that.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: But you know, if any if, at any time, some
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: director producer wants to pull me out Betty White Jennifer
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: Coolidge style and put me to work on camera again.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: Mm hmm, where to find me?
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: For sure? I can speak. I would love to see that,
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: for sure.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would love to see that too, Yes, because
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: I don't I don't feel like I'm done there, and
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: God knows, I've got more character qualities now than ever, you.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: Know, sitting up straight, Yeah, for sure. So what are
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: you painting? I'm really curious, like what are you painting?
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: Things?
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: Is it? You know? It's I work in oil. I
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: work in acrylic a lot. Yeah, my work is not
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: put into a box kind of like just just like
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: my acting, you can't kind of can't put me into box.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: I do a lot of abstract stuff. Lately, a lot
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: of people have been having me do abstract wilderness stuff.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: I do a lot of heads, I just call them heads,
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: but they're they're honestly just kind of like characters, which
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: is funny because I'm also a character actor. But I
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: call them heads. They're abstract. Yeah, I paint whatever I'm
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: working on a I just got a trip tick, which
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: is three pieces of art that go together. Got a
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: commission to do that.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: I like it.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, So so.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: I have one question for you besides the art.
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: I just read a little while ago this morning that
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: the Dances with the Stars list came out? Would that
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: be today? I saw that Eric Roberts signed up. If
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: anybody ever tapped you for that, would you do Dances
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: with the stars?
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: Not with my knees?
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: We'd have to keep hit on the ground, right like Yeah,
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: I mean, unless they.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: Just want to over time. I just don't know that
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: it's feasible.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: To be honestly, Miracles happened. Miracles happen. So I just
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: thought it was funny that, Yeah, the list came out.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: I wonder if Moe would sign up for that.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't sign up for it, No, yeah, but you
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: might do it? Maybe maybe, I hear, Yeah, what's the number?
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: Would it afford me new knees?
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: We'll put a plug in for you.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Well, there you could. Yeah, it could be sponsored by
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: some you know, medtronics.
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: They can replace you and put you on Dancing with
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: the Stars and say look at her.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: She's like the first round. It's like Collins is down.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: But at least I could say I did it. We'll
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: take that check.
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely love that.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Well, we have some women and young women who would
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: like to ask you some questions the way they are
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: our zoomer moms and our zoomer daughters a special treat
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: this time. So welcome Zoomer mom and Zoomer daughters. Welcome
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: to the Mom's Club. Well, hello, ladies, and we are
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: so glad to have you introduce yourself. Tell us a
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: little bit about yourself, and then do you have a
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: question for Moe Monroe.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: Welcome to the Mom's Club.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: I know, there you go.
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: I am doing well. It is such a pleasure to
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: meet you. Be junkie, a mad TV job. I like
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: being able to do something on a whim, and you
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: are awesome at that. So I want to tell you
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: that first, but I want what I want to ask
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: you is what is it on your bucket list as
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: it relates to acting that you would like to tackle
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: in your career at this point in your life.
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: Drama, Yeah, you know, I do. I want to do drama.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: I want to do things. I mean, yeah, I do
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: feel like I'm headed into more character and more richer
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: characters to do. I'd love to do some. I mean,
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: even if it's like some like not gory horror, but
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: a thriller or something where I'm some evil woman. I
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: think that would be super fun to do. I like
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: playing broken people really, yeah, awesome? Yeah, I like broken
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: people underlings? Is that the right way to say it. Yeah.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: I like doing those kinds of characters, you know, bringing
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: them to light.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: That's that's so what So that's interesting. So Lorraine on
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Mad TV was funny but sort of you could have
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: it's a little bit broken, right, I mean that you
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: know you find her when there.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: That she's broken. You know. That's the thing about broken people.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: It's often perception that they are broken, and quite honestly,
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: you could look at every one of us and say broken,
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: you know, I mean we're all here to to break
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: and repair and break and repair, and you know it's
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: not a perfect journey. Yeah. So I like going into
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: those characters, including Lorraine, and going how how do they operate?
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: What moves them? You know, those those things, and then
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: you know, I put myself into that. What similarities do
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: I have to that person? God knows, I'm coming to
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: be more and more like Lorraine all the time. Yeah, yeah,
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: but yeah.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: That's a good answer.
• 31:20
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I like that.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: It wasn't expecting that.
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: Well we have also zoomer daughters.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: And this one more quick.
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah, So have you considered that maybe this downtime is
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: a time where you're just really preparing for that biggest
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: role that you want.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: I am, do you know what I mean? It's like
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: I am, I am preparing. There is no direct way
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: in my mind to prepare other than to you know,
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: just keep being me and learning my lessons, and those
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: are the things I'll bring whenever the thing dangles itself
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: and presents itself. But you know, my husband actually coined this,
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: and I think it's so true. Being an actors, like
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: you're kind of like an assassin. You always have to
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: be ready for when you do get that call. You know.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: So those things to me mean keeping myself healthy and
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: ready to just go. You know, it's something in the
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: mind that is ready. That's the prep Yeah, it is
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: to always be ready to jump. But in the meantime,
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: you know, being creative is just at least keeping creativity
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: flowing through my old bones.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but not only are you creative.
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: I forgot to mention this that you're really involved like
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: with animals and yeah, do you have a certain number
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: of rescue dogs cats?
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: I really don't know the answer to this. I just
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: was like, wait a second, you do a lot of yeah, saving.
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I do. I'm on the board with Stand Up
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: for Pits, which is a pit bull advocacy. I've been
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: with them from the start. We currently have Walter, who's
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: one hundred and sixty five pound Dane mastuff. He's huge.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: I thought you're going to say one hundred and sixty
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: five years old, but yeah.
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, if he's only two, oh my god. And
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: then we got Beanie, who is just a hot mess
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: and she's an eight year old. She was bred for
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: eight years, dumped in the desert. She's a staffy pit
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: bull mix and we we deal with her. She's a lot.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: There's Toodles, the cat who's still with us, who we
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: literally found under our bed.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, like found our bed.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: We heard me owing for a couple of nights, couldn't
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: figure out where it was coming from, like a little
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: kid and us, We're looking outside out the screen door,
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: like where the hell is this?
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: What is going to do?
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: You have a new weird habit? Like why are you meowing?
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Like what is that? Like? I can't imagine find a
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: kitten on your bed?
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, maybe that's not where he was. The
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: first couple nights we were hearing maybe he was outside somewhere,
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: but somehow maybe my other cat actually brought him in
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: and under the mat. No idea, But we did ultimately
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: find Dusty Toodles under the bed, just a little tiny kitten. Well,
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: so that's who lives in the house now. And then
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: there's Scalley Wags who's outside and we also take care
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: of him. Oh my god, that's an interesting but yeah,
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: we get animals here.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: It's just yeah, it's hard to say no, isn't it.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't say no.
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: How about your story? So Julie picked up a cat
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: at a rest stop. His name is Sippy. So I
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: thought that was.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: The strangest adoption story I had heard. But yeah, finding
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: one under your bed that you can't cut.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Monica is going to write a book. Rest Stop Kitty.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Yes, rest Stop Kitty is one on my list of
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: things that I will be doing in my in my downtime,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: I will ride rest.
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: I just had to mention it because I forgot that,
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: you know. I saw a glimpse of that and.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: I was like, oh my god.
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: We all love animals. We have plenty of them, you
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: know in our household.
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: So very important.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's very healed.
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: It is very cool.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: And yeah, my son has a dog that he talked
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: to us into letting him have. He's part Great Dane
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: and we think he's part Great Dane and part Beagle
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: because he's marked like a beagle. But he's and he's
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: just he's hyper and he's destructive at times. And he
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: even we even had an incident recently. I was kicking
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: a ball for him and I accidentally kicked it where
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: he bit my leg and so I ended up in
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: the er and I had my sins like, don't tell
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: them Max bit you.
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: They will take him down.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: I said, I will cover for Max if you do
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: one favor for me, and that is if you take
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Max to the vet, because I did kick him in
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: the face. You explain that my mother did not mean
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: to kick my dog in the fright. One of us
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: want to go to prison over this. Yeah, so we've
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: had some but but it means very important.
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: I think that's great that you do that. That is amazing,
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: And I.
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: Think there's nothing better than raising kids with pets.
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I've been talked into snakes, ferrets, stinky Smoky.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: I could do a whole show on Stinky Smoky.
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah show. Yeah, that's for sure.
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: Hamsters that didn't make it very long, you know, not
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: mentioning anyone on the show that.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: Waited to teach and show empathy, you know.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: One hundred people.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Well, and speaking of that, on the show today, we
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: have a Zoomer. We have two Zoomer daughters, and one
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: of them is Julie's daughter, and so we were so
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: excited to have her because like my son, Well, one
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: time I posted something on Instagram and I saw a
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: comment and it said I believe it was from him.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: I believe I may have a lawsuit for definition. So
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: he is not allowed on the show yet.
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: Well he kind of figures that out.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: But we were so happy to have Georgia on the
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: show today.
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: So, Georgia, do you have a question for mo.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: She is beaming. It's so amazing to finally meet you.
• 37:05
  Speaker 7: And I had no idea that I was going to
• 37:07
  Speaker 7: get to talk to you this week, but I'm a
• 37:10
  Speaker 7: part Trek fan, and when I put it together that
• 37:13
  Speaker 7: you were Joan Kalams was your character, it was amazing
• 37:18
  Speaker 7: and her character arch throughout the entire show is really
• 37:23
  Speaker 7: really impressive, and that shows how much skill you have.
• 37:29
  Speaker 7: You talked a bit about the positive experience that you
• 37:32
  Speaker 7: had working on that set, and as somebody who's going into, well,
• 37:38
  Speaker 7: my first job out of college and I'm going in
• 37:41
  Speaker 7: and working with a lot of people and meeting them,
• 37:43
  Speaker 7: can you talk a bit about.
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: What a really positive, like.
• 37:48
  Speaker 7: Really positive work environment in the studio and what it's
• 37:51
  Speaker 7: like to you know, want to work with people and.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: What kind of I.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: Think I think part of what it is is, you know,
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: if what was so great about going there was that
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: the people that are there all the time, the series
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: regular cast, the crew, the directors, producers and stuff. They're
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: so welcoming, right, you know, It's like they don't treat
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: you like some other You're brought in like a cousin
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: or something to the party. And I think that any
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: workplace can do that. It's how you welcome people. It's
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: how you make them feel comfortable, ask them questions about themselves,
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: you know, engage and beyond anything, it's just be considerate.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: It's just so simple. Consider other people, be considerate, be kind,
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: and engage.
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's great, it's.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: A great Yeah, engage.
• 38:47
  Speaker 7: Was that really funny to be really mean to Amy
• 38:51
  Speaker 7: Poehler or the normal basis?
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: I know, jn't.
• 38:56
  Speaker 7: I mean, it's the nicest people play funniest villains.
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: I know. Oh we would just howl after a take,
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: you know, And I mean there was some time where
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: I would just be like, oh, Amy, I feel just
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: you know, and just give her a hug or something, because.
• 39:14
  Speaker 7: Yeah, but the worst you made her feel, the more
• 39:17
  Speaker 7: funny it was to the audience.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and the harder we would laugh when the
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: take was over. You know. It's just like we talked
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: like just so rotten, like Joan was just so rotten,
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: you know. But I would be sure to you know,
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: jump right back into myself afterwards. I did not want
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: to be misconstrued. But I mean, I have a history
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: of playing some real bitchy characters, you know. I just
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: I don't know, I'm good at it. I don't know
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: what to say.
• 39:50
  Speaker 7: About ever get to help write the character after a while,
• 39:54
  Speaker 7: or you know, include some of your improv. Say that again,
• 39:58
  Speaker 7: you ever get to include some of your improv or
• 40:01
  Speaker 7: ideas that made it in there?
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: Oh? Absolutely, yeah, that's what I say. Like when Amy
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: said keep the camera rolling, you know, because Moe's here,
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, right, good stuff.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: Emily, we have another daughter here. He's not my daughter,
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: she's my brother in law's daughter.
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: She's my niece.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: Emily, Welcome to the Mom's Club. Do you have a
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: question for mo?
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: Hello?
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: Yes, I was wondering what the most rewarding experience or
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: role in your career has been.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: Get to reach deep today?
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's always a hard question because, like I say,
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: it's like moments with people. But but doing Sarah on
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: Fear of the Walking Dead was a very deeply personal journey.
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: I would say. She was just this badass and like
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: I was cast as Sarah when I was fifty three
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: and after my first season, my my cancer came back
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: and I didn't tell anybody just because denial it was
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: a big part of my program. But Sarah gave me
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: so much strength, you know, I just I drew from her.
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: And so even like you know, when I was home
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: or whatever and feeling weak from because I was on
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: a chemo pill for years and just feeling like poop,
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: and I was like, I can say the other here,
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: I would have Sarah take me for a walk, you know,
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: and I would literally go out, take on her stature
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: and feel her strength and go for a walk, and
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: then I would feel strong. So that was just this
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: really beautiful symbiotic relationship that I had with Sarah and
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: vice verse. It's like Sarah being as hot kind of
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: hard as she was, I brought MO into her and
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: softened her in some interesting ways, only because like half
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: the time in sad scenes, I couldn't MO became overly
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: emotional and it was just and my emotions would come
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: through Sarah. But so that that was a very satisfying
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: and the other the other side of it, of course,
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: was those were super duper hard, hard days, Like that
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: is the hardest job I ever did. Like we're talking
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: sixteen eighteen hour days out in whether it's heat cold.
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: We weren't in trailers, we weren't in nice comfy places.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: You know. It's like between takes. I'm squatting in the
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: grass or whatever, like watching out for scorpions because we
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: shot in Austin, Texas.
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: I did it.
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: But at the end of you know, I remember, just
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: like one time particular, pulled into the hotel room eight
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: in the morning, you know, and and I just took
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: a moment to congratulate myself, you know, for because I knew,
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: I knew what I was going through with my health
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: and and that I did it so well. I got
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: through it all so well, and so those are that's
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: a great victory, right like when we have those moments
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: where you just you just get through some tough stuff
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: and you're like, I didn't It's that's just about one
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: of the coolest things you can walk away with in
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: any aspect of life, when you go I did it,
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: and then it's character building. It becomes who you are.
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: And of course, as my body gets weaker and weaker
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: and weaker, I know I'm more badass than ever because
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: I did those things. I've gone through those things, and
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: I am more resilient as a result. I should end
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: this by saying I am cancer free.
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: Yes, congratulations, yay.
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: I love that.
• 44:08
  Speaker 5: I was going to ask you when you you know,
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: the kids asked you a question is like, you know,
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: as a mom and especially my daughter being on the
• 44:15
  Speaker 5: show today, I was like, well, what advice, But you
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: need to say no more because everything that you just
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: said to these young ladies who are you know, in
• 44:23
  Speaker 5: their young twenties, you draw from the strengths around you,
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: and you know what I mean, engage Like all of
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: this is excellent advice. It's not a perfect road, and
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: everything you just said, I just feel like I went
• 44:34
  Speaker 5: to church.
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: I love it.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think I was like, I think you
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: fully said Minnesota is nice.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: That's right what.
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: I wanted to clear up.
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: You proved it right here by being on the show.
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: Will weak so much, you know, it's.
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: Like that's what life is you young ones listening. It's like,
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: it's about finding out your capacity in life.
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: Hard things are only put in front of you because
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: the universe knows before you do that you can get
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: through it. And then you get through it and you go,
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: holy crap, I got through it, and I'm better for it.
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: I'm bigger, I've expanded my capacity for life. Yeah, yep,
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: big stuff.
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: Thanks, great great advice.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: George is taking notes like she's in past. She's like,
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: hold on, can you say that again?
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: She can listen to podcast your capacity for life exactly.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: Well, we want to thank our zoomer moms and zoomer
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: daughters here. Great to have you. You guys have been ladies. Amazing. Yeah,
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: awesome questions. We'll have to have zoomer daughters on more often.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: They've greatly and the zoomer mom.
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: I learned from.
• 45:48
  Speaker 5: I learned from everyone's kids. I learned from my own.
• 45:50
  Speaker 5: They are my greatest teachers, you know, even when I
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: don't want to.
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: Admit it on camera.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: Well, mo, where can we find your art? Where can
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: they people find you on social media and get your
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: art and commission you. I was gonna send you a
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: picture of Julie's head and maybe you can do an
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: abstract for me.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: We can give it to your for birthday.
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: That Yeah. My website is mocollinsart dot com. Pretty simple,
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: and on Instagram, I have my you know, just sort
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: of my page, but then I also separately have at
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: mocollins art on the Instagram site.
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: Okay, well, Gret, that's.
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: Where I do a lot of fun videos and stuff
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: and show how I work and stuff like that.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's great. We'll check it out with moms out there.
• 46:34
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• 46:37
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• 46:44
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• 46:45
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• 47:52
  Speaker 4: So I'm very excited about that.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: Well, we will be back next time with celebrities and
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• 47:59
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• 48:02
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• 48:05
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• 48:07
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• 48:09
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