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Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer _ Good Hang with Amy Poehler · Midnight Mystery Stories

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  Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of Good Hang.
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  Speaker 1: This is an exciting one. I'm starting this episode in
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles, and then I'm getting on an airplane, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm flying to New York, where I go to that
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  Speaker 1: studio and talk to Abby Jacobson and Alana Glazer, the
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  Speaker 1: stars of Broad City, just the sweetest, most wonderful, talented
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  Speaker 1: women who, in many ways, helped my company Paper Kite
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  Speaker 1: grow and expand into what it is today. And I
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  Speaker 1: cannot wait to talk to them. We're going to talk
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  Speaker 1: about Broad City, the show, of course, and getting that
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  Speaker 1: made and what it was like to do it together.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to talk about female friendships.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to talk about, you know, life as a
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  Speaker 1: millennial and how it's changed and what is nostalgia.
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  Speaker 2: And hopefully we're going to get to all of those things.
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  Speaker 1: But I always like to start these episodes with people, um,
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  Speaker 1: who know our guests, who have good feelings and thoughts
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  Speaker 1: about our guests and want to give me questions to
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  Speaker 1: ask the guests. And I thought, no better people to
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  Speaker 1: ask than the women who run Paper Kite Productions, the co-heads,
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  Speaker 1: the co-presidents of Paper Kite, Kate Arendt and Kim Lessing,
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  Speaker 1: who work with me every day and who are going
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  Speaker 1: to join me in this studio to talk about Abby
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  Speaker 1: and Alana.
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  Speaker 2: So, ladies, welcome!
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  Speaker 3: Woo!
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  Speaker 4: Who knew?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah!
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  Speaker 1: Kate Aaron and Kim Lessing sharing a laptop today.
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  Speaker 4: That's how we work.
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  Speaker 2: We just have the one. Let's all work on our laptops.
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  Speaker 5: Hold on, Amy.
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  Speaker 4: We have to run your company. One second.
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  Speaker 6: And send.
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  Speaker 3: Send. Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm so excited to interview you guys because we
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  Speaker 1: are here in the studio and next door to Paper
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  Speaker 1: Kite Offices.
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  Speaker 2: Which you co-run.
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  Speaker 1: And we're talking to Abby and Alana about Broad City.
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  Speaker 1: And it just felt like it was such a great
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  Speaker 1: combo because.
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  Speaker 2: In many ways, you represent millennial and zillennial.
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 2: Or jillennial.
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  Speaker 8: Jen, why?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Gen Z.
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  Speaker 6: I'm so cuspy.
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  Speaker 4: You're cuspy. But it's not with Gen Z. But not
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  Speaker 4: with the Z.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, you two represent teamwork in many ways, and I
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about that. But also, you know how
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  Speaker 1: important that show was to Paper Kite and its growth.
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  Speaker 1: So before we start, tell everybody what you do here
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  Speaker 1: at the company.
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  Speaker 2: What's your job?
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  Speaker 6: So Kim and I, as Amy said, we're the co-presidents
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  Speaker 6: of Paper Kite Productions. And We are in charge of
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  Speaker 6: the many incredible shows and movies that Paper Kite makes.
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  Speaker 6: Everything from Broad City to Russian Doll, Difficult People, Harlem.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're producers. We don't produce as a team. We
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  Speaker 4: actually produce separately. And we really take on projects based
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  Speaker 4: on our passion for them, our availability. We really are...
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  Speaker 4: We like to describe ourselves as the engines of projects,
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  Speaker 4: the connectors of projects. And we really love... We really
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  Speaker 4: love every second of doing it.
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  Speaker 6: And we've been here working with Amy for 10 plus years.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We will never leave.
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  Speaker 1: Never.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 4: She'll have to drag us out of here.
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  Speaker 2: We have the keys to this.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you do really have all the secrets. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And they're bad. I'm so nervous.
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  Speaker 2: But, like, I was just trying to do the math
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  Speaker 2: of the timing.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, we both started on Broad City. Yeah, so tell me.
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  Speaker 1: How you started on that show and, like, what your
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  Speaker 1: memories of the early Broad City days.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I actually started on the Comedy Central side.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: So I was, like, thrilled to get this job at
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  Speaker 4: Comedy Central because they were making Broad City. And then
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  Speaker 4: I ended up leaving Comedy Central to come work with you.
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  Speaker 4: And I got to work even closer to the ladies
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  Speaker 4: on Broad City. And it was like, I knew I
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  Speaker 4: was in the right place because I felt like I
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  Speaker 4: was making something that actually genuinely represented my life and
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  Speaker 4: genuinely represented the types of friendships I was having.
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  Speaker 6: So when I first interviewed with Amy, I had just
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  Speaker 6: watched season one of Broad City. And I remember being like,
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  Speaker 6: holy shit, I've never seen queens like this on tv
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  Speaker 6: before like no one's ever existed like this on television
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  Speaker 6: my age doing the kind of stuff my friends and
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  Speaker 6: i do say speaking the way that we speak and
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  Speaker 6: my first day of paper kite amy and i did
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  Speaker 6: notes on a season two episode and i was like
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  Speaker 6: is this real life like what is happening and that
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  Speaker 6: was your first day yeah well maybe my second but.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah i got to like send my boss at the
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  Speaker 4: time my notes on the cut one of the first
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  Speaker 4: cuts i think i started on season three actually And
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  Speaker 4: she used some of them, and I was like, I've
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  Speaker 4: made it in entertainment. I was like, I'm in. I
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  Speaker 4: was so happy. But we used to do a lot of, like,
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  Speaker 4: are you Abby? Are you who's who?
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  Speaker 8: It wasn't a hard.
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  Speaker 4: One to really say.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to talk about it, because what is
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  Speaker 1: so cool about that show is it creates these versions of, like, friends. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, much like, you know, back in the day,
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  Speaker 1: like Laverne and Shirley or even the Golden Girls or
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  Speaker 1: Sex and the City, like when you start being like,
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  Speaker 1: are you an Abby or an Alana? What I think
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  Speaker 1: underneath that is it proves like the writing is good
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  Speaker 1: that you've, identified what version of you.
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  Speaker 4: It was such a specific friendship that it was completely
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  Speaker 4: and utterly universal. Like you just, everyone was either an
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  Speaker 4: Abby or an Alana.
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  Speaker 8: So what are you, Kim?
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  Speaker 4: I'm obviously Alana because I'm like head over heels in
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  Speaker 4: love with Kate and always have been and always try
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  Speaker 4: to touch her butt.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It started with me being like, can I? And then
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  Speaker 4: she was like, you're being like, I'm sorry. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I would never do that at work.
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  Speaker 2: That's insane. That's not okay at the workplace. But like
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  Speaker 2: when we left the office.
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  Speaker 4: But when we left the office, like on the way
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  Speaker 4: to the cars.
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  Speaker 6: In the parking lot.
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  Speaker 2: And so Kate, you are an Abby.
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  Speaker 6: I'm Abby.
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  Speaker 5: She's also a deadhead.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, and we both love Oprah, so.
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  Speaker 2: That kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 4: And you guys have that crazy Oprah connection where you
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  Speaker 4: both like her.
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  Speaker 2: So for people who don't know about what we.
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  Speaker 1: Do, right, so we're a film and production company. We
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  Speaker 1: do all different kinds of projects, animated, unscripted.
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  Speaker 2: We do half hours. We do hour-long dramas.
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  Speaker 1: But Broad City, we use it a lot as an
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  Speaker 1: example when we're talking to creators about projects you know,
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  Speaker 1: young creators who have an idea and want to transfer it.
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  Speaker 1: And could you speak a little bit to how we
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  Speaker 1: use that as an example?
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  Speaker 6: We always say like Broad City is our North Star
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  Speaker 6: and it is the North Star. I think if you
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  Speaker 6: are a young female creator in comedy in the last
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  Speaker 6: 10 years, that's it. Like they did the thing that
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  Speaker 6: everybody wished they could do that men had been doing
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  Speaker 6: for a long time. There was truly, like we said before,
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  Speaker 6: no one liked them. So we always refer to them
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  Speaker 6: as kind of they're enmeshed in our ethos as a company.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and they have a lot of elements of things
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  Speaker 4: that we really resonate with, like scrappy underdogs, women who
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  Speaker 4: love each other, people that have messy edges, and also
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  Speaker 4: two characters that really want something. What I always related
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  Speaker 4: to about Abby and Alana is even though they were
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  Speaker 4: silly and messy, they always really went after the things
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  Speaker 4: they wanted. They went after it with such passion.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, and they took such good care of each other,
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  Speaker 6: which is such, friendship is so important to us. We
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  Speaker 6: had a conversation day one. If there's any sense of
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  Speaker 6: competition or jealousy, we have to talk about it. We
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  Speaker 6: have to get it out because it will just sit
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  Speaker 6: in and fester and make it stressful and miserable. And
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  Speaker 6: communication just, we were smart enough to know then that
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  Speaker 6: it was the thing that was going to get us through.
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  Speaker 6: And today, 11 years later, it's still, we're so brutally
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  Speaker 6: honest with each other. And then we say thank you
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  Speaker 6: to the other person that we can be so brutally
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  Speaker 6: honest with each other. And I feel like Abby and
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  Speaker 6: Alana were like that.
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  Speaker 4: Totally. And just the other day, for example, Kate was like,
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  Speaker 4: You interrupted me a thousand times. And I was like,
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  Speaker 4: thank you so much for letting me know. We both
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  Speaker 4: cried because it was so nice.
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  Speaker 3: We both cried.
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  Speaker 4: And I was like, I'm so glad you feel comfortable
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  Speaker 4: telling me. And she was like, I'm so glad you're
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  Speaker 4: going to stop.
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  Speaker 3: It's true.
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  Speaker 2: But, you know, we talk about it a lot here.
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  Speaker 1: Like, you know, a workplace is— I like to say
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  Speaker 1: it's not a family, it's a country.
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  Speaker 4: And I like to say it's a family.
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  Speaker 6: We reject that, but that's great.
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  Speaker 4: Lovers are family.
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  Speaker 2: It's a bed full of lovers.
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  Speaker 8: It's a bed full of lovers who are all related.
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  Speaker 4: It is not. A family of lovers.
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  Speaker 2: It's a family that everyone borrowed money from each other.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. No, a workplace is a country and it
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  Speaker 1: has its own culture and language and set of rules.
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  Speaker 1: And so one of the things I think that our
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  Speaker 1: country believes in is that in our experience, female friendships
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  Speaker 1: are a natural resource. They are like the most important
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  Speaker 1: things in our life. And for the most part, they're
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  Speaker 1: not like these competitive, awful experiences. They're often like the
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  Speaker 1: most supportive experiences.
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  Speaker 5: Experiences.
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  Speaker 1: And I feel like you're talking exactly about that, that
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  Speaker 1: women often come together and help each other in real time.
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  Speaker 1: And that help is like, you know, like rooting for
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  Speaker 1: other people's success never gets in the way of your own, basically.
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  Speaker 4: But that it's hard to remember that sometimes. And I
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  Speaker 4: think a lot of work environments are not conducive. Like,
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  Speaker 4: ours was easy. You're our mentor. Like, it was easy
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  Speaker 4: to be like, let's team up, you know? But it
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  Speaker 4: sometimes takes a lot of work, but I think there's
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  Speaker 4: never a time when it's not worth it just to try.
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  Speaker 4: It's like, reach out a hand and be like, let's be, let's,
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  Speaker 4: Be a team instead of enemies. A rising tide.
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  Speaker 6: Lifts all boats, right? I actually think you said that once,
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  Speaker 6: and it was the first time I'd heard.
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  Speaker 4: She invented that quote, I think.
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  Speaker 3: I think you're right.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I have a laptop. Let's see who can
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  Speaker 2: find who said that faster.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, get to work.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, I can do it faster.
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  Speaker 4: Immediately friendship followed by.
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  Speaker 1: Lifts all boats is an aphorism associated with what we know.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's attributed to John F.
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  Speaker 3: Kennedy.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: There is no way.
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  Speaker 4: There is literally no way. That guy has a whole
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  Speaker 4: bunch of quotes. That guy gets so much credit he
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  Speaker 4: doesn't deserve. How dare you? I know you're obsessed.
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  Speaker 2: He is the first Irish Catholic. There's nothing wrong with JFK.
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  Speaker 6: He's literally so handsome.
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  Speaker 5: Relax.
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  Speaker 1: My grandmother had a picture of Jesus and JFK in
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  Speaker 1: her house.
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  Speaker 4: We had such different grandmas.
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  Speaker 1: So that brings me to Million Dollar Advice. We're talking
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  Speaker 1: about the podcast that you two are doing. The new
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  Speaker 1: season is going to be launching very soon. Tell us
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  Speaker 1: about what that podcast is.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, so our show, Million Dollar Advice, is a work
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  Speaker 6: advice podcast where we have people call and email in
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  Speaker 6: and we answer their work-related questions. So it can be
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  Speaker 6: anything from like, how do I deal with my shitty
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  Speaker 6: boss to Kim's dying for a question. about what to
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  Speaker 6: do if your coworker owes you money.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like there's questions you guys are not asking
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  Speaker 4: us about like you loan someone money for something and
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  Speaker 4: they just haven't paid you back.
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  Speaker 7: How do you ask?
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  Speaker 4: Like, how do you ask? When's it too soon? When's
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  Speaker 4: it gone on too long?
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  Speaker 2: That's a great question. That's a good question.
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  Speaker 6: But basically, Kim and I, because of this amazing communication
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  Speaker 6: and partnership that we have, we almost... We're like, we
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  Speaker 6: got to share this because we're in on something.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, our advice is so good.
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  Speaker 2: It's million dollar advice.
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  Speaker 4: It's at minimum million dollar advice. It's so good. And
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  Speaker 4: we get each other through everything. And so many people
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  Speaker 4: don't have this kind of like work friend, work sounding word.
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  Speaker 6: They don't have an Alana to their Abby.
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  Speaker 4: Or Kate to their Kim, some would say.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 4: So we want to be that for people. And, you know,
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  Speaker 4: our first season is like full of the types of
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  Speaker 4: questions we're interested in answering. And we're... hoping for that
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  Speaker 4: money question in the second one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're making more. How can people send in questions?
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  Speaker 6: MillionDollarAdvicePod at gmail.com and they can send an email, you
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  Speaker 6: can leave a voice note, whatever your fancy is and
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  Speaker 6: we'll get back to you.
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  Speaker 3: And answer your- We'll figure out if you want to
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  Speaker 3: call in if you want.
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  Speaker 2: We'll solve all your problems.
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  Speaker 4: We'll fix your life. That's the thing. It's like, you're
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  Speaker 4: wondering like, how do I fix my life? What do
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  Speaker 4: I do? It's like so easy. Email million, million dollar
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  Speaker 4: advice pod at gmail.com and it's done. Okay, perfect.
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  Speaker 2: And then I'm going to get an airplane. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to fly to New York.
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  Speaker 5: That's great.
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  Speaker 2: What question do you think I should ask Abby and Alana?
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  Speaker 4: I have a good one.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: I think I have a really good one.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: So when you make a show together, it's like having
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  Speaker 4: a new baby. Like you're all work all the time.
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  Speaker 4: And I was curious like what things they did to
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  Speaker 4: fill their friendship cup and make sure that they were
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  Speaker 4: still like, In love, like staying in love during like
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  Speaker 4: the most, the hardest, longest hours.
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  Speaker 2: Great question. Million dollar advice.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to check that out. We're going to talk
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  Speaker 1: about it more. Abby and Alana, we're going to see
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  Speaker 1: them in New York. Thank you guys so much for
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: coming across the street to this studio from our offices.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks for having us.
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  Speaker 2: Abby and Alana are here today.
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  Speaker 1: My children, wives, sister, partners in crime, I'm very excited
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  Speaker 1: you guys are here.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for doing this.
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  Speaker 3: We're so excited to be here.
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking about our talk today. There's just so
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  Speaker 1: many things to talk about today and I was like
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  Speaker 1: so excited.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: Like I have a paper and everything. For people that
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Broad City was a long-running show on Comedy
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  Speaker 1: Central that Abby and Alana wrote and starred in and
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  Speaker 1: directed and produced and created. And it was and is, like,
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  Speaker 1: this really important show for a lot of people. And
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking about the last scene today. What happened
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: in the last scene? And what were you trying to
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: say in it?
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: And has it lasted?
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: That scene came as a vision to Paul W.
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: Downs.
• 15:22
  Speaker 5: Do you remember that?
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: He came in. We were writing. We wrote part of
• 15:28
  Speaker 5: season five in L.A. in an Airbnb.
• 15:31
  Speaker 7: And Paul came in one morning, and he was like,
• 15:34
  Speaker 7: I had a flash of the last moment. And I
• 15:38
  Speaker 7: think this is the scene where Alana exits the subway
• 15:43
  Speaker 7: in Union Square, and we've FaceTimed.
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 15:48
  Speaker 7: And Alana's walking through the city, and then the camera
• 15:51
  Speaker 7: leaves Alana.
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: And sees the other pairs. I just got chills.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: And he was like, that, that was like the thing.
• 15:58
  Speaker 7: And that was, that was what we kind of had
• 16:00
  Speaker 7: always talked about, which is just like, we're, we're one
• 16:04
  Speaker 7: of like thousands and millions of, of pairs.
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: And we had just been following us.
• 16:12
  Speaker 7: But the New York of it all was like, we
• 16:16
  Speaker 7: were showcasing like, oh, there's, there's these, there's Abby and
• 16:20
  Speaker 7: Alana's everywhere. Yes.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: And, you know, we end on, do you know Marie
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: Faustin and Sidney Washington, the stand-ups? But to end on
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: Marie and Sidney was so perfect just because they're so
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: delicious and they're such an iconic pair themselves. Yes. Yeah.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: So I think what we were, you know, trying to
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: say is that we followed Abby and Alana, but everybody's
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: got their, everybody's, if you're in your own life, oh,
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: you're having your own adventures and your parties and New
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: York is such a, always this like infinitely fruitful backdrop.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: For the craziest shit to happen. I can't get over it.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: I've been here 20 years. I can't get enough.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: I can't get enough.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: I know. And what it was and still is and
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: is that what you did with that ending, I think,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: is you gave the show back to the people that
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: loved it. And that's why I think that, you know, the.
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: DNA— Cry, cry, cry.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: I love to get people to cry.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: I think it felt and still feels like one of
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: the big reasons why that show sticks around is exactly
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: what you said.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Is people— they are the main characters of their own story.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: Everyone is.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: And everyone feels like they're living a life that feels—
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: Very much like Abby and Alana's life. Like how am
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: I piecing together a life in real time? And the
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: fact that that ending was like passing the baton, it's
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: very deep. And I think it has to do a
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: lot with what we're going to talk about today in
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: your work. So for those people that don't know, let's.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Go back in time.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: To little tiny babies.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Alana's 19.
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: Wow. Right?
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: And Abby, you guys met what age and where did
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: you meet? How did you two— 22.
• 18:11
  Speaker 7: This is so funny that this— well, I knew this was happening,
• 18:15
  Speaker 7: but— This.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Is 19 years ago. Wow. 19 years ago, my dog.
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: This is actually— this is crazy that I did this last week.
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: We met in a— Did what last week? Oh, I'm
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: going to get to.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: Oh, cover that.
• 18:28
  Speaker 7: We met— I did ayahuasca last week, and I went
• 18:31
  Speaker 7: right back there. No, but we were in an improv
• 18:35
  Speaker 7: practice group. Like, we were both taking classes at UCB.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: I had just graduated college, moved here. You were still
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: at NYU.
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: You know, you take classes at UCB and then, like,
• 18:48
  Speaker 7: you've got to form a practice group, like, after school or, like,
• 18:52
  Speaker 7: at night after your day job. Our mutual friend, Tim Martin,
• 18:57
  Speaker 7: I remember he was like, I'm in this class with
• 18:59
  Speaker 7: these two, it's a brother and sister, and they're great.
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: Like, can they come and practice with us?
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: And we were like, yeah.
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: And.
• 19:08
  Speaker 7: Elliot and Alana came, and I was like, this.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Girl's on Arrested Development. This is crazy.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: How does she have time to get off of Arrested Development?
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: It just ended, and I was like, it makes sense.
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: She's in New York.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: It makes sense. You have a huge network show, and
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: then you go.
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: Do practice and crowd groups in basements.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: It makes sense.
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: This is how I remember it. This is my side.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: And then we go to McManus that night.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Which is a bar nearby the theater.
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: And we're sitting at the bar, you and me, and
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: it was like other, it was only guys in the
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: group except us. And we're talking, we're like, where are
• 19:45
  Speaker 7: you from, where are you from? And I was like
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: smitten with this person, like everyone that. meets Alana is
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: I was like this person is unlike anyone I've ever
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: met and not like any of my friends and we
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: were just like and she was like I'm from Long
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: Island and I was like whoa like two of my
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: best friends from college are from Long Island and she's
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: like I'm from Smithtown and I was like so are
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: they and I was like and then I said their
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: names and you were like I know them and I
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: was like this is not the girlfriend not the.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Man Oh, my God.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: I'm literally crying.
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: But I remember you were— I' m going to.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: Cry as well.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Wait, Alana's crying? What's making you cry, Alana?
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: When she said smitten, I started crying. Oh, my gosh.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: That's just so sweet. And I remember, you know, dramatically
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: falling under the bar. You know these two same people?
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: It's like— We're Jews. We're from the tri-state area. Like,
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: not that big a deal.
• 20:32
  Speaker 8: Yeah, we're from, like, two and a half hours away.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: But I was changed that Abby knew these two people
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: I knew.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: But I think what you were.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Saying, what was underneath that is, like, that the universe, like,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: it's why it's so thrilling to look back at how
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: things come together.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Because the smallest changes.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: In our lives go in a completely different way. And
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: what you were noticing, like, the universe was giving you
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: some signs of, familiarity basically like it's you know if
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: you believe in past lives it's like oh we knew
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: each other before like that's the universe just like making
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: sure you have something to talk about so you spend
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: five more minutes talking so then you spend 15 minutes
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: talking so then you do a show together right right.
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: Wait real quick so on Friday I was in Chelsea
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: and I where I was going I'm like confronted with
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: McManus wow when you.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: Said McManus the first time I like almost made a
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: joke it's like so rude but like A dumpster.
• 21:25
  Speaker 8: With bars, like, you know, nailed into it.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: It's not exactly a bar.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: For people that are listening, that used to be kind
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: of the place where everybody after improv shows would hang out.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: And it was, like, green paper tablecloths at the time.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: And the green leather seats.
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Ass grooves, and it's never been changed out. Like, you're
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: sitting in our ass grooves in McAnus. Like, it's never
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: been updated.
• 21:50
  Speaker 7: Like, the people in the back were, like, unattainable. Like
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: at that point, we were like up at the front
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: being like.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: There was this hierarchy at UCB that we never climbed.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: We only climbed it outside of UCB through Broad City.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: But yeah, the further back you went at McManus.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Like an invisible velvet road.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah. But I walked in.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: I went in the side door.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: Like it's crazy.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: Sticky floors.
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: I went in and we went there so much after
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: that moment.
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: But I walked in. We even shot in there. We
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: shot like the cocktail cold open in McManus. We needed
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: to shoot there.
• 22:25
  Speaker 7: But I walked in and just remembered that moment I
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: just said of you and I at the bar.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 22:33
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: That's a real time travel moment.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: And so you meet and you're like, you're not Alia Chakwat,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: but I will have you two be in a scene
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: many years later in Broad City. But you say, OK,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: I see something in you. I love being with you.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: We like being with each other. And then you start creating.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: What is the, would you remember like when that creative
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: content stuff started?
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: Like, you know, I think being in this improv group,
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: it wasn't like we got so much duo time. There
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: was something like, like a grit that was like a
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: tension that was not the same. The difference between us
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: that when rubbed together, you know, created this spark, this
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: like difference the differences about us that we were like
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: that's funny that's funny and i think also as women
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: and as young women it's you're kind of safer together
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: so it's it's like you're gonna cry yeah oh no
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: abby's correct is i love it it's so good why
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: do we get our makeup done makeup time yeah we're not.
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: Gonna get through any questions Let's.
• 23:38
  Speaker 8: Cry the entire time.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: And I'm going to get one on Beck. Tissue on Beck.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: But it's like, you know, I think it's so much
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: about sameness when you're young, when you're a young woman.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: But we were, I think, secure enough with each other
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: to recognize our differences and it tickled us. And beyond
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: our sense of humor that was both, you know, Venn
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: diagram shared and different. It was also like our work ethic.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: We were like desperate to make a spreadsheet. you know?
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: And we're like, we had these ideas and we were
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: like desperate to list them neatly.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, that is, I think a lot of like your,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: when you get out of college in that time period
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: where you're like, I need to give.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Myself a job.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: I need to be busy because I've, you know, up
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: until now, schoolwork has kept me busy and like the
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: course or whatever that I've been on has kept me busy.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: But you're like, Now I have to structure my own busyness.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: I have to create busy things.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Something that's just that's coming up for me is all
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: three of us having worked so much in food and service,
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: you know, and there's so much busyness in that.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: I just texted you about Steamer's Landing.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: You just texted me about it?
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: I was like, what was that place you worked? Was
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: it actually called Steamer's Landing?
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Like, disgusting.
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: Even if they still exist.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: I bet the French fries are good, though, at Steamer's Landing.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. But in Broad City, Paul Muccia had changed
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: it in a script to Dumpers Post. Yeah. And I
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: remember we were at the office and we were, like,
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: first reading a script that they got back to us.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: I fell to my knees. Like, bent over a couch,
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: fell to my knees, dumper.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: And we're talking about Paul Downs and Lucia Agnello who
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: went on, are now creators of Hacks and who, you know,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: wrote and directed and produced with you and us Broad City. So, like,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: they also have their, like, baby versions of this experience.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: So we did this podcast.
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: Improv group for like two years before doing anything Broad City.
• 25:38
  Speaker 7: But it was the two of them actually who we
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: made one episode of Broad City, the web series. And
• 25:45
  Speaker 7: we were like, again, as Alana said, so organized, so organized.
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: And it was the two of them who saw it
• 25:50
  Speaker 7: and emailed us and loved it.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: The first web episode came out and they emailed us immediately.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Keep doing this.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: So when you guys were in your second season of
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: this web series in 2011- I was down the street
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: living in the West Village and I get a text
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: from a Upright Citizens Brigade teacher.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Was it Will Hines? Yeah.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: And he said, hey, check out Abby and Alana. They're
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: doing some great. web series stuff and they wanted to
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: know if you want to do it and so I
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: watched a bunch of your stuff and I thought it
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: was really funny and it was shooting right down the
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: street from my house and you two asked me to
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: come do a small bit we were like um running
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: away and I remember oranges fell on me at one
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: point there were I don't remember anything about the plot.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: What was the there's barely what was the plot we
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: were running we were running we were running and we
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: were trying.
• 26:48
  Speaker 9: To get toward it spoiler cookie the plot was very
• 26:52
  Speaker 9: broad city we were running to get a cookie yeah
• 26:54
  Speaker 9: um and um and then after that as far as
• 26:58
  Speaker 9: i remember very soon after you sent me an email
• 27:01
  Speaker 9: saying saying what i.
• 27:04
  Speaker 7: Remember this very well we that last episode of the
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: web series we knew we wanted to be the last
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: one it was like more production value we like worked
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: with this director who it was just like bigger and
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: uh we we emailed you with the cut maybe of
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: it and said, this is our, we've been thinking and
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: we want to go to L.A. and pitch this as
• 27:29
  Speaker 7: a show. Would you ever consider being the executive producer
• 27:32
  Speaker 7: on it?
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: We were also like kind of excited that we were
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: like pretty much the same height. And when we first met,
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: and it was just like, this is funny. Yeah, we
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: all love being short. Literally seeing eye to eye. And
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: I remember being like, well, we might send it to
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: Jonah Hill. And we knew we were going to ask you,
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: but we weren't going to ask you on the spot
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: that day.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: I'm just here to say it was a genius move
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: to say you were going to send it to Jonah Hill. Girl.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: Incredible move.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: Girl, your face. I will never forget.
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: If you hadn't mentioned it, you were like, no way.
• 27:59
  Speaker 8: That's what you did.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: I remember being like, whoa, whoa, whoa. What the— I
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: remember just.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: Being like, she was, like, pissed, immediately pissed.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Immediately, like, in the race, like, taking, like, immediately, because
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: I am competitive, but I remember thinking, like, no, Jonah
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Hill can't take, he has broads.
• 28:17
  Speaker 8: And this was not a ploy.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: No.
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: We really were like.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: Jonah Hill, you know what I mean, whatever. But, like,
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: you know, but I remember your expression, you know, and, like,
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: I remember just thinking later, like, You know, it's always
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: smart to– it's like in relationship, it's okay sometimes to
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: be like, you're not the only one circling here, honey.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: I'm dating, babe.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: I'm dating.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: You think I'm just waiting around?
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to– okay.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: So you sent me the email and I was like,
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: let's go. We're in. And we started developing together.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: Wait, can I just say one thing? Yeah. Your response
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: to that email I think was the biggest celebration of
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: the entire– 10 years.
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: I remember it was on my, I think I called you.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: And I was like shooting some short film upstate. And
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: she was like upstate in the middle of nowhere.
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: I was like, you clearly didn't open your email.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: And like we were freaking out.
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: I was like, I think I had to leave a party.
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: I left a birthday party.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: It was like, it was crazy.
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: That was it.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Like I remember all the other milestones, but you saying
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: you were going to, like that was like your hero
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: believes in you. That was crazy. Oh, I'm glad you.
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: Feel that way. And then you remember we met. Okay,
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: you were like, well, let's meet about it.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: Okay, let's meet about it. We met before we met
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: for like a good hour.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: We were like, okay.
• 29:38
  Speaker 8: Just to like preview.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
• 29:40
  Speaker 8: Yeah, we were like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: And we're like, what's it going to be like?
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: It could be anything.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: Just in this hallway, like before we met, I was
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: like this forever kiddo. Amy Poehler, like you can just
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: picture– what your parents saw you as in the doorway
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: at eight. Like you're always that like, hey, you know,
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: and like the way you just walk down the hallway
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: to greet us. That was how you walk down the
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: fucking street. She's like, hello, you know, like all sunshine.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: You're wearing these like cute sunglasses and a dress and
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: it's just sunshine and this like oh, you're like, your
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: heart is on your sleeve and it's you at eight.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: And we were like, it was surreal. That was like
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: really like trippy, gloopy. The whole lunch was Like as
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: though I was tripping my balls off.
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: We had a meeting after it as well.
• 30:26
  Speaker 7: I don't know. It's been a whole day together around
• 30:29
  Speaker 7: the meeting.
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: Because I remember we were like, she watched every web.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Like you came with the legal pad.
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: You were like, we got to make a teaser. We
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: made the teaser from the web episodes.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: The legal pad going through our silly little web episodes,
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: what you thought of each one. And we were like,
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: we were like, what is going on? The thoughts and the.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: I don't know, real opinions.
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: And we were at, which I'm not going to say where,
• 30:54
  Speaker 7: we were at a restaurant where we were like, this
• 30:56
  Speaker 7: is clearly Amy's favorite restaurant.
• 30:59
  Speaker 8: Got like, you know, those like sort of.
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: I was.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Like saying hello to everybody. Hello, George, how's your wife?
• 31:05
  Speaker 8: Oh my God. And we're like, we'll just get toast.
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: You know, like we don't even know how to order
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: at this time.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: You know, what do you get?
• 31:12
  Speaker 8: Well, we'll get that.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: You know, like just not even knowing how to have...
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: like be a person.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, I have just nothing but like exciting bottom
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: of show mountain memories of it. And, you know, I,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: the reason that one of the many reasons why I'm
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: so thrilled that we're talking today is like to put
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: it in perspective for me, Broad City made me feel
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: like a real producer. I had been producing on parks.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: I had produced other things and stuff that I had done.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: And You know, we had technically produced our UCB show,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: even though we didn't know what that was.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: That was what we were doing.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: And our sketches at SNL. But Broad City felt like
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: the child that made me the mother. And it's still,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: when I think about it, I feel so proud to
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: have been along for the ride and just being helpful
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: in any way. But I learned so much from watching
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: the two of you. I learned so much from like
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: trying to advocate for the show I learned so much about.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: What kind of stuff I wanted to make. I'm just
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: going to.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: Fully cry now. Oh, my God.
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: This is it now?
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
• 32:28
  Speaker 9: Oh, my God.
• 32:30
  Speaker 8: And then plus the voice, it's like going to seem
• 32:31
  Speaker 8: so insane.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: But it's like, dude, like, it's just like you, I
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: don't want to cut you off. No, no, please. But
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: it's like, you know, I remember this one time that
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: we had, lunch or whatever, and you talked about the
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: sexual politic of the show.
• 32:48
  Speaker 7: And I was like, I remember like then we'd be
• 32:53
  Speaker 7: like out talking and I'd be like well what we're
• 32:55
  Speaker 7: really trying to do is the sexual politic of the show.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: Oh my god can I have like a full tissue
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: this gross half tissue.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: But talk about sexual politic for a second very I've
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: said this before immediately what I learned and this is
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: why I love like the best thing about getting older
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: is like being less and less certain about everything if
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: you're doing it right you just know you're supposed to
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: be You're supposed to let go of the grasp.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: Of the things you think you know.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: And that is what I think young people do, people
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: younger than you do. And even just the very simple
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: way in which you guys approached your own bodies, your
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: own bodies in space, your own bodies in the show,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: the way you approached— I mean, I remember very specifically saying,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: you know— you know, if.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: You don't want to get in your underwear for this scene.
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: And the pilot.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: And the pilot.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: If you guys feel uncomfortable. And you're like, we wrote it.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: We are the ones writing that we're in our underwear.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: And we're so comfortable with how the dynamic is in
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: the scene. We're so, like, thank you, good looking out.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: But you're kind of missing the.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: Point in a way.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: And there was a lot of that for me where
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: I watched how you two– reminded me of like what
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: I what was like an old story or like old
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: programming like I think it's what Brad said he did
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: a lot and still does I will.
• 34:13
  Speaker 7: Say on that I don't know how fully comfortable I
• 34:17
  Speaker 7: was in those scenes but I think that was also
• 34:21
  Speaker 7: like okay over here we wrote it and I like
• 34:24
  Speaker 7: loved it so much and I knew that like Abby
• 34:27
  Speaker 7: as actor will have to deal with that when we
• 34:30
  Speaker 7: get to the day. And for me, that like, I
• 34:35
  Speaker 7: feel like that like Broad City was in a moment
• 34:39
  Speaker 7: for me of like a little bit later, like.
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: Huge growth.
• 34:43
  Speaker 7: Like I feel like I grew up a little later.
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna fully cry.
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: And in so many ways because of Alana, which.
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: Is so like the Abby and Alana, it's what's happening.
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: It's what's happening, like the confidence.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: Like, I.
• 35:00
  Speaker 8: Think, first of all, like.
• 35:04
  Speaker 7: But the confidence, like, of that dynamic of, like, Abby
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: is the insecure one and Alana's got this, like, bravado.
• 35:15
  Speaker 7: And that's, like, something that I was, like, learning right
• 35:18
  Speaker 7: alongside the character because that was real.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: You know, like, us being.
• 35:25
  Speaker 7: Us being sorry I'm laughing we are but us being
• 35:28
  Speaker 7: the hottest women in like any room is like that
• 35:31
  Speaker 7: was like not how I approached going out and we
• 35:35
  Speaker 7: I would go out with Alana as a friend and
• 35:37
  Speaker 7: that would be like and I don't know if that
• 35:39
  Speaker 7: was like a fake it till you make it but
• 35:40
  Speaker 7: that was like the charge of like yeah you know
• 35:41
  Speaker 7: we are and my ass is like the hot like
• 35:45
  Speaker 7: my ass being a hot thing was not something I
• 35:49
  Speaker 7: ever thought we'd focus on so much I still love
• 35:52
  Speaker 7: it and then I was like I only, like, only
• 35:55
  Speaker 7: through Alana, like, that among many other things was, like,
• 35:59
  Speaker 7: such a huge change for me. And I think, like, so, like,
• 36:03
  Speaker 7: us being in our underwear, I was, like, able to be, like,
• 36:06
  Speaker 7: I might not be comfortable, but, like, I know this
• 36:08
  Speaker 7: is so right and this is so powerful and, like,
• 36:10
  Speaker 7: so funny.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's what female friendships at their
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: best do is they provide this.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: The opposite of a fun house mirror.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Like they provide this like beautiful mirror that you get
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: to look in and see this version of yourself that
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: your friend sees.
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: And you're right.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: It's very, it's, it's aspirational.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: It's kind of manifest-y, but it is like, you are
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: sexy if you say so. And you're beautiful if you
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: feel so. And everybody is beautiful and sexy and in
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: their own way. And sometimes you just can't, you have
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: to have like a, a surrogate feel it for you.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: And that's what you do for each other in female friendships.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: And that's what exactly what Abby and Alana did constantly.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: It's just, and it's good for comedy. Like pumping each
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: other up is funny.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: Oh, it's so funny. And, you know, to the point
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: before of what I was saying about sexual politic, you
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: just validated us as women, not as girls. Everybody called
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: us girls, even the people working for us, you know,
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: they called the girls, whatever. You called us women at
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: such a young time where I was like, damn, I
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: suppose we are. And then, you know, like with comedy,
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: I mean it's just– I just will never– it's just
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: the fucking best. Comedy is just the fucking best.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: Why is it the best?
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: Because it's like– it's this cosmic container that just lifts
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: you up off the ground of like the systems we're
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: rooted in. And just connects people so efficiently. It's so efficient.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: You know, just whatever. Obviously farts are the funniest. Someone farts.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: I disagree.
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: Really?
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: I'm not the biggest fart is funny fan.
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: Like if somebody farts in a context where they're not
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: supposed to, you don't giggle? I don't think. Ish.
• 37:50
  Speaker 8: It really depends.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: Like that was actually a big thing for us on
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: the set of Parks and Rec because like people would
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: fart and I'd be like, don't fart.
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: Just like in life?
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like on- I don't know if that's a- That's
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: not what I'm talking about.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: I'm talking if they accidentally fart, I feel a little
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: codependently worried about them.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: No, I mean like if somebody farts as a joke
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: to invade your space with odor, that's not cool.
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: That's like sibling- Yes. That's like not shenanigans. We don't
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: like that.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: Well, when are farts ready?
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: Okay, so I remember a good Broad City fart. I'm
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: meeting your parents.
• 38:23
  Speaker 7: It's at like your Shiva and Bob Balaban picks me
• 38:27
  Speaker 7: up and we're like, and we're adding a fart there.
• 38:29
  Speaker 8: That's what I'm talking about.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: I'm talking about professorial, masterful fart comedy.
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: That was really thoroughly thought out and intentional.
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: But you're right.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: A little squeeze that comes into a little.
• 38:42
  Speaker 8: But we added it. It was cute.
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: Maybe that's it.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Maybe if the farts are cute.
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: Like if they're cute.
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: Oh, for sure. But I'm also talking about like adding
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: a sound effect.
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: We did add the sound effect.
• 38:53
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: We gotta make that clear.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: I hear you.
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: And.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: And then just to get us on the air, you
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: write a script.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: We go to FX. We try to make it at FX.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: They pass. And we kind of have a moment where
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: we have to regroup.
• 39:12
  Speaker 7: I remember just going back to what you were talking about,
• 39:15
  Speaker 7: maybe like when you felt like producer. I remember you
• 39:18
  Speaker 7: would be the one that would have to deliver that
• 39:21
  Speaker 7: news to us.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: I did.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: I learned a lot.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Yes, that was in real time I was learning on
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: the job you know I was like like all of
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: us like you sometimes fake it till you make it
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: you have to kind of pretend and I remember thinking
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: right my job here is to uh never let never
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: let anyone feel like you know we're not going to
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: solve this problem because that's just you're supposed to You're
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: supposed to keep the ship in the water and, you know,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: and other people can steer it, but you have to
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: make sure it doesn't sink. And so I remember not
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: quite knowing where we were going to go next, but
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: feeling like I needed to make sure that you felt
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: like we were going to go somewhere good.
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: I think we did.
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: And you did. Yeah. I'm remembering now another lunch at
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: a place that we never would go, but we were like, totally,
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: we'll meet you there. And it's going to be chill. Balthazar.
• 40:07
  Speaker 7: Anyway.
• 40:09
  Speaker 8: So we, like, met for lunch.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. But you were like.
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: So, you know, lucky for us, Comedy Central had wanted us,
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: which isn't always the case. And you were like, FX
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: is like a cold boyfriend. You don't even want them.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: No.
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: Anyway.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: That would never change.
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: You don't want that boyfriend anyway. And it was like, yeah,
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: I don't.
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: And that time, Comedy Central, maybe to let people know,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: we were in such good company.
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: Who else was on the air during that time?
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: Key and Peele. Key and Peele. It was so funny.
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: Workaholics who had a similar, like, web to... to TV.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: Amy Schumer, inside Amy Schumer, Kroll Show.
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: Maybe Nathan For You.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. Early Nathan Fielder. Yeah, it was such
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: an incredible time.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: Why do you think it's come, you know, it's like
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: sprung back in this way right now? It must feel
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: good to have people still come up to you and
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: say they love it and And say who they think
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: they are.
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: It's also like such a newly as we are like
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: becoming like literally middle-aged adults. It's like such a sweet.
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: Such a sweet, connective thing when people talk about it.
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: When we were younger, they thought we improvised it. We
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: were like, we work so hard to write this over
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: and over and over again. You know, it's just improv.
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: It's slapped together. And that we're like stone. Like if
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: they're meeting us on the street, that we're stoned in
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: that moment or whatever.
• 41:41
  Speaker 8: They think you're stoned. We think we're the characters from
• 41:43
  Speaker 8: the show.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: And like what it is now is like it's just
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: reached this like such a warm, sweet like bed for connection.
• 41:51
  Speaker 7: I don't know if you experience, I mean, when we're,
• 41:54
  Speaker 7: we haven't for a second been like out.
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: Together, but that's a whole other thing.
• 41:58
  Speaker 7: And people are like, what are you guys doing on
• 42:00
  Speaker 7: the street together? But like my wife, Jodi, like, she's like,
• 42:04
  Speaker 7: this is unlike anything. Like to have someone witness it.
• 42:08
  Speaker 7: She's like, you get this, like this wild positive affirmation,
• 42:14
  Speaker 7: like coming at you.
• 42:17
  Speaker 5: That is so rare.
• 42:19
  Speaker 7: That is like a really, I feel very thankful all
• 42:22
  Speaker 7: the time for that.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: Before we move off of the Broad City section, I
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: do want to just for like people that are big fans,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: hottest day on set, coldest day on set. Any memories
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: of like when you were very hot, very cold?
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: Everything was so sweaty, literally sweaty.
• 42:39
  Speaker 5: And I don't know why I was always wearing skinny jeans.
• 42:42
  Speaker 5: So really added to it.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: Babe, it was the time.
• 42:44
  Speaker 7: Alana sent me something where like something happened and I
• 42:47
  Speaker 7: was like.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: You know what's going to happen when you're 70? Because
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: this has now started to finally happen. Skinny jeans are
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: going to come back around. But people are going to
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: be like, this is so cool, these really tight skinny jeans.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: And you're going to say, you know, I used to
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: wear it. It's wild.
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: Here's hoping. I don't know, but maybe.
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, remember skinny jeans? I'm trying to think of
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: like go out there.
• 43:14
  Speaker 5: They're still going out. I still see people in them.
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I see millennials being like, fuck you. I don't care.
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: I'm wearing skinny jeans. I feel organized in them. And
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: I'm like, get it.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, that's what I mean.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: It's just now it's like all the way around to
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: if you're wearing skinny jeans, you're a confident person.
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: You're, you know. But I also had these straight down
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: bags for a lot of the show.
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: And I remember they would get, they'd be just be
• 43:36
  Speaker 5: fully soaking wet.
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: So hot.
• 43:39
  Speaker 8: Sopping wet bangs. Marsau would have to be like, can
• 43:42
  Speaker 8: you dry the bangs?
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: That's so funny. Yeah. That was so funny.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: And guest stars, who comes to mind as people that
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: when you just like pops in your head is like, oh,
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: that was a fun day. That was a good moment.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: That was– there's so many great people that came to
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: the show.
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: RuPaul just cracks me up. He was so like studying
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: his lines and saying them to himself that I was like, damn.
• 44:07
  Speaker 7: And I would say Kelly Ripa. I mean just the
• 44:11
  Speaker 7: way– just her personality. Being that version we wrote of
• 44:15
  Speaker 7: her was wild. She was so excited, too. Like, her
• 44:19
  Speaker 7: joy was like, oh, my God. Like, she really wanted
• 44:22
  Speaker 7: to be there, and it was, like, so contagious.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: And do you remember Lady Gaga tweeting about the show,
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: how important that was?
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: Yes, we were in the writer's room.
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: That was a.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: Season two, end of season one.
• 44:35
  Speaker 7: She was like, oh, my God, they used my song.
• 44:37
  Speaker 7: I think it was, like, my favorite show used my song.
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: And we met her. She like asked us to– or,
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: you know, invited us to a performance and we like
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: went on her bus. And like the thing she.
• 44:48
  Speaker 8: Was– You did go on a bus?
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah. It was like right outside the like performance or whatever.
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: And she was so kind being like you remind me
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: when I watch your show I feel like I'm not
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: famous and I'm young again and like just running around
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: the city before– All of this, which, you know, she
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: was clearly grateful for, but also was clearly quite heavy. Yeah.
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: And it was so many years ago. It was, like,
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: before now, she's, like, such a woman.
• 45:11
  Speaker 5: Well, it was 30 years ago.
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: We got her song. I mean, how did we even
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: afford her song?
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: How did we afford her song?
• 45:16
  Speaker 5: How did we do that?
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: I have no idea.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: We paid for it, but how.
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: Did we get it?
• 45:20
  Speaker 7: I think she liked— it was, like, if someone involved liked
• 45:24
  Speaker 7: the show, someone's manager or something.
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: Right. Whoopi. Whoopi came and did a wordless background role
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: as Sister America.
• 45:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that was wild.
• 45:36
  Speaker 8: That was wild.
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: And I remember like meeting her and being like, and
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: she comes in the trailer. She is such a badass,
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: like so herself the same. She's exactly who you'd think
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: she is. And And, like, we were just, like, acting
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: totally cool. And we were also in stages that were, like,
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: illegal and, like, an abandoned building, essentially. And I was, like, well,
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: she was, like, leaving. And I was, like, thanks so much.
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: It meant so much to me. And then she left.
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: And I, like, immediately, like, turned around and wept and, like,
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: cried in rubble, in, like, Bushwick rubble that we were
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: filming in for some reason. Because she was so, not
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: only did she do our show, but, like, such a
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: real ass bitch. Such a, like, a comedy girl, real bitch. Woman.
• 46:17
  Speaker 5: Oh, my God. Shania Twain.
• 46:18
  Speaker 7: I think about that a lot, actually, because we we
• 46:21
  Speaker 7: got her to say, man, I feel like a smoothie.
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: I think about that a lot.
• 46:29
  Speaker 6: So game.
• 46:29
  Speaker 8: So game.
• 46:31
  Speaker 5: She was like that was like so crazy.
• 46:35
  Speaker 8: Yeah, she did that for.
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: I mean, you're pointing at me.
• 46:39
  Speaker 5: Oh, I'm like, that should be a show. That was
• 46:42
  Speaker 5: the bear.
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: We did the bear before the bear. You did the
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: bear before the bear.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: We did the bear.
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: Before the bear.
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: You're right.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: And for people, there was a scene where I was
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: in the back of the kitchen and there was a
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: whole drama with me and Seth Morris.
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: You guys were exes. We were exes and we just
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: created a little bit of a thing.
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: And you're right.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: You know what? The bear stole. The bear stole from
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: Broad City. You heard it here first.
• 47:04
  Speaker 5: And you directed that.
• 47:05
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: I mean, what the fuck?
• 47:06
  Speaker 5: What the fuck?
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: So we do this thing where we talk to people
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: about our guests before they come on. And I was
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: really trying to think about who I wanted to talk to.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: And what organically came up for me was Kim Lessing
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: and Kate Arendt, the producers, co-heads of Paper Kite, have
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: worked together for 10 plus years.
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: They are millennials.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: And they started when Broad City was, I think, Kate's
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: second or third day was we were doing notes on
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: like episode two of Broad City. So I asked them
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: what they would want to know from you and from
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: a workplace perspective they were curious how did you to
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: keep your relationship your actual intimate friendship healthy while you
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: were working together and like as you've gone on to
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: work on other things.
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: Like what how do you keep your workplace healthy.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: Knowing what you know now and how did you do
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: it then too how do you like to work and
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: what do you bring into your work to keep it healthy.
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: As incredible as it was to make Broad City it
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: was like we would like always make sure to have
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: a little time up top to connect and catch up, LOL,
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: catch up from 12 hours ago or whatever it was.
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: But like, you know, but like it just, it feels
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: like so, I don't know, so human to now have
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: dinner and just be, lately we have been like crying
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: so much. It's been so, it's so like juicy and
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: delicious and nutritious and sweet. But at the time it
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: was very much slotted in. To catch up. And things
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: would always make their way into the comedy, which is cool,
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: but it's not the same as it being its own,
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: just for the sake of its own beauty, you know?
• 48:48
  Speaker 7: And I think we knew that the catching up, it
• 48:51
  Speaker 7: was like the catching up was essential for the thing. Like,
• 48:55
  Speaker 7: we knew that, like, it's so derived from us, so, like,
• 48:58
  Speaker 7: we had to kind of, like, catch up and be like, okay, that's,
• 49:03
  Speaker 7: write that down for this thing.
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: What helped you during those times, like, What was the
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: stuff you like, did you pick your battles?
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: Did you?
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: Well, I think like something also was like, I'm thinking
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: about it too. Cause like there was tension, like rise
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: and release of tension constantly. And I think like a
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: lot of it was like boundaries. and space and being like.
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: See you later.
• 49:22
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah.
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: And, like, taking the space.
• 49:25
  Speaker 5: Well, we didn't, like, hang out. I think when we
• 49:27
  Speaker 5: were doing it, we weren't, like, we would see you
• 49:29
  Speaker 5: on Monday.
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: We weren't, like, as our friends anymore. We weren't hanging
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: out as friends during Broad City.
• 49:33
  Speaker 8: We couldn't.
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: So it's almost like you had to put that a
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: little bit aside, just, like, not let it atrophy, but
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: not give it a lot of oxygen while you were
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: doing the show.
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was very, like, after-school club, you know what
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: I mean, in that it's, like, this thing of, like,
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: slotting in 45 minutes to talk before we focus. It's, like,
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: it wasn't—it is so— Like, it feels so beautiful now to, like,
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: just not have a task at hand, you know?
• 50:00
  Speaker 7: But during that time, even though we weren't on the weekends,
• 50:02
  Speaker 7: I would be like, you know, if something was happening,
• 50:04
  Speaker 7: I'd be like, Alana, I'm going on a date. Like,
• 50:06
  Speaker 7: what am I, what do I, it wasn't like, don't
• 50:09
  Speaker 7: speak to me.
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 50:10
  Speaker 7: It was just like, after truly like 12, 14 hours
• 50:14
  Speaker 7: of Monday through Friday, we were like, let's not do.
• 50:18
  Speaker 5: Dinner on Saturday.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: Who did you go on the date with and what
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: did you wear?
• 50:22
  Speaker 5: Well, I do.
• 50:22
  Speaker 7: Honestly, I remember like this is post-Broad City. I saw
• 50:26
  Speaker 7: you the day before I met Jodi.
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
• 50:29
  Speaker 5: And I was like telling you what I'm going to wear.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: Your beautiful wife, Jodi. Wait, tell us that story. You
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: were going on a date with Jodi?
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: We were in L.A.
• 50:37
  Speaker 7: And you were staying at Liz's house. And I was like,
• 50:39
  Speaker 7: I'm going on a date. By going on a date,
• 50:42
  Speaker 7: it was like so deep COVID. She was like coming
• 50:43
  Speaker 7: over to my house to the patio. And I was like,
• 50:46
  Speaker 7: I think I'm just going to wear like– I know
• 50:49
  Speaker 7: what I wore.
• 50:49
  Speaker 5: I was like, I think I'm just going to wear
• 50:50
  Speaker 5: a sweater and like black.
• 50:51
  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 50:52
  Speaker 5: Like, we were still doing that. And you were like, yeah. Like,
• 50:54
  Speaker 5: don't do too much, you know?
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: Totally.
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: What you wear on a date's really important.
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 51:00
  Speaker 5: Because it says a lot. I'm excited.
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: I'm not excited. I don't care. I want to have sex.
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: I don't want to.
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: Like, there's a ton of things happening.
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: And it worked because you bagged that babe.
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: You bagged her.
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: You bagged that babe. That babe was obsessed.
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: And y'all are so beautiful and romantic. Like, you're such
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: a beautiful couple. I know.
• 51:21
  Speaker 7: Oh, my God.
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: So, like, also hot. Hot. Hot as fuck.
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: Beautiful. And both of you have had a very busy
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: 10 years. You become a mom. Both of you have
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: gotten married.
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: Like, you've both done a ton of different projects that
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: you're writing, creating. Like, there's so much that's happened. And
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: I guess I was curious, like, Alana, motherhood.
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: Is a big creative thing.
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: In a lot of your work. You talk about it
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: a lot on stage. You made a movie about it, Babes.
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: You have this way in which you're, like, peeling that
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: onion a lot. And what's it brought? How has it
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: expanded you and your work?
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: It just has organized everything for me appropriately. Things are just, like,
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: in their right place now, like, in my heart. And
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: it's been so creative. And work also, like... is work.
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: It's not, and it's a creative context, but it's not
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: like how I figure out who I am. It's a
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: part of who I am. Yeah, I just feel correctly organized.
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: That's very cool. Ab, what about the past?
• 52:31
  Speaker 5: That's very cool.
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: What about you, Ab, the past 10 years with all
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: the different projects you're working on and worked on? What,
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: how has that like changed your creative? Because, I mean,
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: I'm curious about you as a fine artist too.
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, you're like, you're, You come from a fine
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: art world.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: Like people don't know– for people who don't know, in
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: what way do you express yourself that way?
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: And is it always changing?
• 52:57
  Speaker 5: I don't do that that much anymore.
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: You're good at drawing, girl. I– thank you.
• 53:02
  Speaker 5: Do you want me.
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: To say it?
• 53:03
  Speaker 5: I did– I went to art school.
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: You've done two books. You went to art school.
• 53:06
  Speaker 7: I went to art school and I like– I'm– a
• 53:09
  Speaker 7: big like goal of mine would be to do– to
• 53:12
  Speaker 7: get back into painting and do– Have, like, a show.
• 53:15
  Speaker 5: What do you like about painting? I think I'm in
• 53:19
  Speaker 5: my head a lot, which I think is something that
• 53:21
  Speaker 5: we really bonded over.
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 53:25
  Speaker 7: And it's very meditative for me. But, like, I've painted—
• 53:29
  Speaker 7: two and a half paintings in the past two years.
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: You should say you're the painter that makes one painter
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: a year and then everybody comes and watches you finish it.
• 53:36
  Speaker 5: That's what a guy would do.
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: I know. That's right.
• 53:38
  Speaker 5: No, I'm dying to do it. Like, I think it's
• 53:40
  Speaker 5: just like.
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: He'd be like, it's like so cool that I only
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: do this much.
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: He'd be like, I only do two and a half.
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: And everyone would be like, he's a genius.
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, a withholding genius.
• 53:51
  Speaker 5: You're right.
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: God, he's genius.
• 53:53
  Speaker 5: It takes me a whole year to do it.
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: Exactly. And can I ask you about Prelude?
• 53:58
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: Can you talk about it?
• 53:59
  Speaker 8: Oh, my God.
• 54:00
  Speaker 5: Yes, I forgot I told you all about it.
• 54:01
  Speaker 8: I mean, you did the thing.
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: I did the thing. Do you want to talk about
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: it a little bit?
• 54:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we're in the thick of it right now.
• 54:05
  Speaker 7: Okay, so Prelude is this fellowship program I created with
• 54:09
  Speaker 7: Mika Tennant, who's like my partner. And it's an eight-month
• 54:13
  Speaker 7: program where there's 10 fellows that we select. And it's early, early,
• 54:19
  Speaker 7: early career storytellers. And so there's 10. We set them
• 54:22
  Speaker 7: up with mentors. And there's ongoing programming with they have
• 54:26
  Speaker 7: mentorship every month. We have programming every month that I
• 54:29
  Speaker 7: run the programming every month. I have people come in
• 54:32
  Speaker 7: and talk where I ask them questions. Amy kicked it off,
• 54:36
  Speaker 7: which was like, they still talk about that. They still
• 54:39
  Speaker 7: like cannot believe that you came.
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: Of course.
• 54:41
  Speaker 7: And so I'm realizing that like for me, like the
• 54:46
  Speaker 7: success is that they have confidence in themselves. And that's,
• 54:51
  Speaker 7: that's like, that's like the best that we can Like,
• 54:53
  Speaker 7: that would be, like, my goal. They all leave feeling
• 54:55
  Speaker 7: like they have confidence and that they have– they know that, like,
• 55:00
  Speaker 7: someone believes in them, which, like, truly just to go
• 55:02
  Speaker 7: back full circle, which is, like, what you did for us.
• 55:05
  Speaker 5: Like, and I said this to you the other day.
• 55:07
  Speaker 5: I'm going to cry again.
• 55:08
  Speaker 7: When I had you, like, that– you believing in us
• 55:11
  Speaker 7: and what we were doing, like, I think is what, like,
• 55:14
  Speaker 7: has fueled us to do everything we've done since.
• 55:18
  Speaker 5: And I'm like, if I could do that for them,
• 55:21
  Speaker 5: that is– Yeah.
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: That is so cool, Abby.
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: So awesome.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: And it really does feel kind of like crying again.
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: Everybody who's listening, crying again. And I just want to
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: ask about Good Night and Good Luck because, Alana, it's
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: very exciting. Like a Broadway debut is– it's such a
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: singular goal.
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: Did you have it?
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: Did you ever have that goal? Did you want to
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: be on Broadway? Like– I am accentuating the way.
• 55:51
  Speaker 4: A bunch of comedians.
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: I believe it's supposed to be Broadway. Talking about Broadway.
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: It wasn't really in my, like, I didn't think about
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: it as, especially since I had a child, it's so
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: time consuming. And since I've, like, kind of got my
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: stand-up and touring, like, now I, like, get it, how
• 56:11
  Speaker 3: to do it, how I do it. So Broadway, you're
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: so in someone else's control. I just hadn't thought about it.
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: It was such an incredible experience. You know, it reminds
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: me of Broad City. And then also, before that, the
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: early days of comedy, you're just seeing the same people
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: night after night after night. George Clooney was the co-writer
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: and star.
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: Of this performance. How is our man George?
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: An angel.
• 56:38
  Speaker 7: An angel.
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: He is an angel. He is my... hero he is
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: my hero from like the personal human being to the
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: public figure he is oh my gosh it was such
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: a such a privilege to perform his writing.
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: And you know ab we we we don't have to
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: get into it but you had a beautiful relationship in
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: um league of their own what was the best takeaway
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: of that show.
• 57:03
  Speaker 5: I was just talking to Darcy about it.
• 57:04
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: Great Darcy Carton.
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: The most kissable.
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: And she's so.
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: So it makes sense.
• 57:10
  Speaker 5: She is kissable. So funny.
• 57:13
  Speaker 8: Because I was like.
• 57:15
  Speaker 5: Because I kiss Paul so much on Broad City. Yeah.
• 57:17
  Speaker 5: And then I was like, I guess I'm going to
• 57:18
  Speaker 5: kiss another one of my really close friends.
• 57:21
  Speaker 8: Listen, we kiss our friends. But it also is like.
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: We kiss our friends.
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: I found like.
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 57:25
  Speaker 7: Like.
• 57:27
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 57:27
  Speaker 7: I think I'll do that forever. I'm in love with
• 57:30
  Speaker 7: my friends. And there's already that chemistry there.
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: But I.
• 57:36
  Speaker 7: Guess in the middle of Broad City is when I
• 57:38
  Speaker 7: was like, oh, wow, I think I like women, too.
• 57:42
  Speaker 7: Which was like, obviously, Lana was very much there for
• 57:44
  Speaker 7: me during that. Yes, of course.
• 57:46
  Speaker 5: And then I was like, like everything else, I want
• 57:48
  Speaker 5: to put that in the show.
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 57:50
  Speaker 5: And that was very much in the show with Clea.
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 57:53
  Speaker 7: Who, like, that was so fun, and I was so
• 57:56
  Speaker 7: happy that that lined up to get to have that
• 57:59
  Speaker 7: on Broad City, and it was, like, truly us, like,
• 58:01
  Speaker 7: getting to explore what was happening to me, what was
• 58:03
  Speaker 7: happening with Abby, and, like, differently, but the same, which
• 58:08
  Speaker 7: was incredible to be able to do that. And then
• 58:10
  Speaker 7: on League, like, I loved making that show. It was
• 58:14
  Speaker 7: very hard in a lot of different ways. It was
• 58:17
  Speaker 7: a period show. It was, like, baseball.
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: It was.
• 58:21
  Speaker 7: Inner workings of Amazon is not Comedy Central. That was–
• 58:26
  Speaker 7: there was a lot more money. And at the end
• 58:28
  Speaker 7: of the day, I was like, I'm writing this ensemble.
• 58:30
  Speaker 7: And everybody– like, it is just a bigger sort of, like,
• 58:33
  Speaker 7: friend group. And so I was like, that– like, to
• 58:36
  Speaker 7: expand that into, like, a group was, like, incredible. And
• 58:39
  Speaker 7: then to get to write this love story with Darcy was,
• 58:43
  Speaker 7: like– it was a dream.
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: People really responded to that relationship and that story.
• 58:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 58:49
  Speaker 7: It's been a really cool– It's kind of like on
• 58:54
  Speaker 7: the street kind of thing.
• 58:55
  Speaker 5: I'm like, I know which.
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: One you're going to say based on what you look like.
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: And having made comedy for so long, what's your relationship
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: to comedy now? What do you watch, read, go to? Like,
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: how do you make yourself laugh right now? What's making
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: you laugh? Who's making you laugh? Like, what's the place
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: when the world is getting really intense that you, like,
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: where do you escape?
• 59:21
  Speaker 5: I have a hard time.
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, me too.
• 59:23
  Speaker 5: And so I have two things.
• 59:26
  Speaker 7: But I don't.
• 59:28
  Speaker 5: I have a hard time finding them, so I'm very interested.
• 59:31
  Speaker 7: Okay, so I just saw this just last week. I
• 59:34
  Speaker 7: saw Caperlant's new show.
• 59:36
  Speaker 8: Oh, wow.
• 59:37
  Speaker 5: At the Bell House. I mean, I haven't laughed that
• 59:41
  Speaker 5: much in a long time.
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: Oh, so live Caperlant. Recommend.
• 59:47
  Speaker 7: She's on tour, I think, right starting now. And then
• 59:50
  Speaker 7: the show I'm watching that I'm obsessed with that like
• 59:53
  Speaker 7: Brooke told me about.
• 59:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Brooke Posh.
• 59:55
  Speaker 5: Brooke Posh.
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: Instrumental in the early Brad City.
• 59:58
  Speaker 5: Big Boys. Big Boys? You've seen Big Boys?
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 4: No, nothing.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: Okay, hold on.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: Googling right now.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 4: It's so good.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 5: It's on Hulu. It's from the UK. Okay.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 7: It's so– and it's like the mix of like it's
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 7: so funny and really heart– like there's heart.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 5: It's like got me.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: So it's a sitcom.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: Two boys from very different ends of the spectrum of
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: masculinity become best friends at Brent University Freshers Week in
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: their first year at university. They explore, experiment, and try
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: to discover themselves.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 5: I've never read the description. That's what it is.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: And Alana, what are you listening to? How do you
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: check out or laugh?
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: I've been really– it's like I want to see Kate's show.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: I really love like what my friends are making, like hacks.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: I've been– I still have to catch up on season four,
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: but– That's been really killing me in, like, a good
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: way where I'm just like, oh, this is so good
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 3: and so funny.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 4: I'm, like, living.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: I'm dying. You know what I mean? And also, like,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: the last time I laughed so hard was at O'Mary. Oh,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: my God. I just died. I'm, like, starting to get into, like,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: old movies, though. I just watched Prince of Tides.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 5: Okay, not so much funny.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: David, like, wants to watch all of Barbara Streisand's stuff
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 3: because we have, like— biographies of little, for little kid books.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: And we're like looking at Barbara and reading her life
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 3: story and we're like, let's just watch the catalog. And
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 3: she's like, she's so stunning, dude.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: That's a sweet man there. Her nails in Prince of Tides.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 5: She directed that.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: She directed it.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 5: And Nick Nolte.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: Like the gorgeous. And to see, first of all, she's
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: so hot and beautiful. And I'm like looking up in
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: Wikipedia and doing the math. She's like 53 in it.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 3: And she directed herself and is like, yeah, I'm fucking
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: gorgeous and so Jewish.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: Would she say like Prince of Toids?
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 5: Would it be Toids? Toids. She would.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 3: It's just like, get it, bitch.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 9: Get it.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: Fucking get it. No kidding.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 5: She has a bio that just came out.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: Autobiography. And you should hear her do.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 5: The— The book I heard was incredible. The audio book. Yeah.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: She's incredible. Barbara— We know you're watching and listening. Barbara,
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: please come.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 3: Please. Dude, that would be such a good guest.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: When Tina and I did the movie Sisters, her husband,
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: James Brolin, played our dad. And my parents visited the
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: set one day, and my mom was like, I wonder
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: if Barbara Streisand's ever going to come. And I was like, Mom,
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: Barbara's not going to come visit. You know, on Long Island,
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: the set of Sisters, her husband is an actor.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: And she did.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: And it was the day my mother was there.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 3: Yes, dude.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: She came to visit.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: You know, just came to drop by to see her gorgeous,
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: loving husband, James. And my mom was like, I told you.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: And I was like, this doesn't happen all the time.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 3: Don't get used to this.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 5: Did they have a moment?
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 4: They did.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, they had like a little hello. She was lovely.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: And very lovely to us. And you're right.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 5: We don't talk.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: Barbara, when you come on, let's talk about the things
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: you've directed. I want to talk to you just as
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: a director.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: Like, truly. It was so cool. And, you know, learning, like,
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: how to light yourself as a woman in your 40s
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: and your 50s and your 60s. Just be, like, just, like,
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 3: make it soft. Just, like, feel. She is, like.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 8: Irresistible.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 3: We were just like, she is so hot.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: I had a Broad City moment the other day that
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: felt very Broad City, speaking of lighting yourself as I
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: was shooting something. And I was looking at the monitor
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: and I said, can I just take a peek to
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: see where you are at with lighting? And the young
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: director of the piece said, oh, don't worry, you look great.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: And I was like, can I give you a little feedback?
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: I think when women, especially my age, ask for the monitor,
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: saying don't worry, you look great is not helpful. Like
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: it's not, it's not like we're being vain or insecure
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: or like, we're just like trying to tweak just what
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: like we would our voice or performance. Like we kind of,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: we have a sense of like how we're going to
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: feel comfortable and how we want to come across.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: Like lighting is a big deal. I don't think he.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: Understands, this person understands. I think he's actually trying to
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: make me feel better.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 3: I totally get it, but it's just like, LOL, bro. LOL, bro.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 3: I mean, OMG, LOL, bro. And then a little.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 5: Did you get to see? Huh? Did you get to see?
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: Of course. Of course.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 3: All you do is you go like this.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's always... And this is very Broad City.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: It's always like how much in the moment do you
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: want to like correct? And how much do you want
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: to just like.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: You know, it is.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think what we're talking about today is
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: the reason why people love the show is they feel
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: like there's like people looking out for each other, sticking
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: up for each other, taking care of each other. There's
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: a community in the show. There's like a vibe. And
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: then what that does, it allows you to do that
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: for yourself. And then you become your own advocate for yourself.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: That's what the characters did.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 5: I had a Broad City moment on Saturday, too.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 7: I don't know if it has a big culmination like this,
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 7: but I went to a premiere and I went alone.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 5: Which is wild. And then I went to the party after.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 5: And I was like, I'm going to schmooze. And I
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 5: knew someone. And I was like, okay, we're eating.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 3: We get a bite.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 7: And then we're going up to the bar. I was like,
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 7: let's get a drink. And we go up to get
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 7: a drink. And they were like, you know what? I
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 7: don't want to hold the martini. I have to pee.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 7: I'm going to go pee.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 5: And I was like, all right, well, what do you want?
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 5: I'll get it.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 7: And I get the drink. And I was like, oh,
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 7: look at me at this premiere. I get the two
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 7: martinis and then they never came back. And so I
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 7: truly was like, I was like standing with two dirty
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 7: martinis and I was like, and.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 3: I was like looking like a true drunk.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 7: People would come up to me and then I told
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 7: Jodi later, I was like, oh God, like people will
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 7: come up to me that I knew and then people
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 7: come up to me that love Broad City.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 5: Me holding the two martinis and I was like, I'm
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 5: fucking Abby.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 7: I'm a fucking Abby. And I was wearing a thing
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 7: where like I kind of had to keep adjusting it.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 5: Finally, I was like, this one looks better. And I
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 5: was like, started drinking. I was like, I abandoned.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 3: How many minutes would you say that you were double
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 3: fisting martinis?
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 5: I would say too many.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 3: Any number?
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 5: I would probably say 20.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 3: Yo! Yeah. Well, I was.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: Like, she's going to come back here.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 5: And then I was like, this is a good martini.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 5: They made it.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 3: Like, they made it.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 8: I didn't pay for it, but I was like.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 5: That's very Abby.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 4: They made it.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 5: It's a nice martini. I'm going to waste a martini.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: Then they're watching me and I don't want them to
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: think that.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 3: I'm not drinking it.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 5: And then I was like, I abandoned it. And then
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 5: I was like, I'm leaving.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 3: In the spirit of, like, self-improvement, if it was 20
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 3: this time, how many minutes will you give it next time?
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 7: You know, there's no world in which I'm getting the
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 7: drink when someone goes to the bathroom next time.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 5: I think I'd be like— That's a good correction. I'll
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 5: see you when you get back. I'm going to get
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 5: myself a drink.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: And Alana, have you had an Alana moment recently? Is
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: there something that happens where you're like, oh, this is
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: an Alana moment?
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 3: I have one that I can't say that I'll tell
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 3: you after. Oh, you can't.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: Oh, I want to know it. It's naughty. Yeah, it's
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: really naughty. Alana, tell us.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 5: Have you had an Abby moment?
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: Us filling it in might be more fun. Kind of
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: like what you were talking about with your show. Like
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: us filling in what your Alana moment is.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 7: Dot, dot, dot.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: Dot, dot, dot, babe.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's leave it at that.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, dot, dot, dot.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 3: But I'll tell you after.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: Okay, well, dot, dot, dot it is. I love you too.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for doing this.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 5: We love you, Amy.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 3: I love talking about the show.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: I love talking about what's next.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 3: You always were. You always will be. Not from, not, oh,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 3: Amy Poehler. She's an icon. No, from the fucking in
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 3: the flesh delicious show. forever eight-year-old person that you are,
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 3: mother that you have always been to us, big sister,
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 3: just friend. You're just incredible. We're so grateful.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: Thank you for letting this eight-year-old be your producer.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 3: She did it. She did it good.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: Thank you, guys.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Abby and Alana. Thank you for coming and
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: doing the pod. It was so, so great to talk
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: to you. And it's just a delight always to see
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: the two of you together. And today's Polar Plunge is
• 1:08:17
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• 1:08:20
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• 1:08:24
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• 1:08:26
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• 1:08:30
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• 1:08:33
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  Speaker 1: You've been listening to Good Hang. The executive producers for
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: this show are Bill Simmons, Jenna Weiss-Berman, and me, Amy Poehler.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: The show is produced by The Ringer and Paper Kite.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: For The Ringer, production by Jack Wilson, Kat Spillane, Kaya McMullen,
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: and Alea Zanaris. For Paper Kite, production by Sam Green,
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: Joel Lovell, and Jenna Weiss-Berman.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: Original music by Amy Miles.