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Jennifer Graziano Unfiltered: Mob Wives, Married by the Mob & What’s Next · Cats & Pudding with Jennifer Dilandro

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  Speaker 1: This is the Cats and Pudding Podcast. A melting pot
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  Speaker 1: of pudding.
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  Speaker 2: And now, here's Jen.
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  Speaker 3: Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to this week's episode of
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  Speaker 3: Cats and Pudding. And today, oh my goodness.
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  Speaker 1: This is going to be so exciting.
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  Speaker 3: I have such a wonderful, wonderful co-host today, my little Lexi.
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  Speaker 1: What an honor it is.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I love you.
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  Speaker 5: It's a true pleasure to Now, this is my second
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  Speaker 5: time on Katz and Podcast co-hosting.
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  Speaker 1: Pudding. Oh, my God. What did I say? Katz and Podcast.
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  Speaker 1: But that's okay. Katz and Pudding Podcast.
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  Speaker 3: That's okay.
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  Speaker 1: That's all right. I'm just so overwhelmed with excitement. I
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  Speaker 1: can't even pronounce things. And by the way, I'm coming
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  Speaker 1: over your house for some hot pudding tonight.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: We were just talking about that.
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  Speaker 1: But thank you so much for having me. It's a thrill.
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  Speaker 6: It's a thrill to be here with you.
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  Speaker 5: But we have some really, really big special guests.
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  Speaker 1: We do. And I'm going to let you introduce them. Yes.
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  Speaker 5: We are graced today with none other than the world's
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  Speaker 5: famous Jennifer Graziano, who is the creator, executive producer, and writer, right,
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  Speaker 5: who created Mob Wives.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And now. Well, I don't know about world famous. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I think... This could say notorious. Yeah, it probably makes
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  Speaker 1: more sense, but that's a little negative, but okay.
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  Speaker 5: And now you have your new theatrical play based on.
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  Speaker 1: Mob Wives, which is... It's coming to so many places
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  Speaker 1: in New York and... Jersey.
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  Speaker 3: Rhode Island.
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  Speaker 1: Rhode Island.
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  Speaker 4: And.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm so excited because you guys are coming
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  Speaker 1: to Rhode Island. Yeah. And everyone in Rhode Island, you
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  Speaker 1: better buy tickets. Yes. Yes. 9-20.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to get them to buy tickets.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 8: Right?
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  Speaker 1: On the Pateksa. That's like a classic Rhode Island spot.
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  Speaker 1: I know. So I've been hearing everybody talking about it.
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  Speaker 1: It's like where all the mob weddings happen.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I think if I'm not mistaken, historically, it was
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  Speaker 1: a place where they used to bootleg the liquor and
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  Speaker 1: the mob had control of it back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like perfect for us. I love it. I
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  Speaker 1: love it. Keeping with the theme. And we have one
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  Speaker 1: of the stars of the show, Jay. Yes, we do.
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  Speaker 1: Lauren Updike, who I just met today. And you are adorable. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. I cannot wait to see you in the performance.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for having me. Absolutely. Oh, Lauren, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: is not just a star of the show. She also, she,
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  Speaker 1: she's an actress, but she also does a performance of
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  Speaker 1: a lifetime. If you ask me, she does an odor
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  Speaker 1: rendition to a funny girl. Are you familiar with that?
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  Speaker 1: The singer. Yeah. She sings, she acts, she dances. So yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So it's really, it's, it's an exciting play because what
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  Speaker 1: we really tried to do is not like a lot
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  Speaker 1: of these dinner theater, like I will not call it
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  Speaker 1: dinner theater. The code immersive experience sounds way more sophisticated.
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  Speaker 1: And I think we're trying to be a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more prestige, right? So, you know, a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: dinner theater is just, come it's outrageous it's over the
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  Speaker 1: top have a good time at home we have a
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  Speaker 1: real story to this there's a real underlying story there's
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  Speaker 1: a love story within it there's a coming of age
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  Speaker 1: story within it and then you got the mob story
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  Speaker 1: which we can't get away from because yes it takes
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  Speaker 1: the dna of mob wives and brings it in the
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  Speaker 1: room but it's really a personal it's kind of personal
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  Speaker 1: because there's you know the the um bride her name
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  Speaker 1: is bella and the play and she kind of runs
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  Speaker 1: away from the neighborhood and goes away to college and
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  Speaker 1: wants to get away from this only to end up
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  Speaker 1: right back in the same place. And I kind of
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  Speaker 1: thought that sort of a little bit like me.
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  Speaker 3: I was going to say that. It sounds like you, Jen.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit, a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So, you know, it does come from a personal place. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I have an amazing cast. Lauren included that
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  Speaker 1: helped to bring it to life. And it is outrageous
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  Speaker 1: and it is fun. And we do have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fun with it. And some of the things we
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  Speaker 1: say and, especially Lauren does are pretty funny and outrageous.
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  Speaker 1: It's you get everything the best of all. I love it.
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 5: And, um, is, is this has, have you been like
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  Speaker 5: touring like for how many months? Cause I've noticed so
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  Speaker 5: many shows and, uh, what do you, what do you
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  Speaker 5: feel like is, is coming next?
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  Speaker 1: We really just started on it. Yeah. We've only, we
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  Speaker 1: ran our debut run back in February. Um, three nights
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  Speaker 1: sold out in New Jersey and, And then we took
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a break to kind of workshop
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  Speaker 1: it a little bit. And now we're back. We got
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  Speaker 1: five more shows in New Jersey where we started Rhode Island.
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  Speaker 1: We just completed Hudson Valley. Just locked down a gorgeous
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  Speaker 1: place in Tarrytown called the Tarrytown Estates. Talking to Florida
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  Speaker 1: about doing a few cities. A few city tour there.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Vegas is, you know, they wanted to do what's called
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  Speaker 1: a four wall deal, um, out in a place that
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  Speaker 1: I don't think we're ready yet. Like if I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to do Vegas, I want it to be a hundred percent. Right.
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  Speaker 1: I think from what I'm hearing, cause this is my
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  Speaker 1: first foray into theater. You need like a year to
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  Speaker 1: kind of really workshop it, get the story, get a
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent, get the casting, you know, everybody, because a
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  Speaker 1: lot of times what I'm realizing now is The show
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  Speaker 1: that you have is not the only show they act
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  Speaker 1: at that. So they're rotating.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So they're moving in and out. So I have a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of an issue with my next show, but
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  Speaker 1: I found a replacement for one of the girls, which
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  Speaker 1: is good. But yeah, so it's like, it takes time
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  Speaker 1: to kind of lock it, you know?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to do anything and take, I already
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  Speaker 1: bit off more than I can chew with theater because
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know what I was doing yet. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: slowing it down for a second. It looks very inviting.
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  Speaker 5: Like I just, just, you know, knowing that it's kind
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  Speaker 5: of like, um, a take on actually the show mob waves.
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  Speaker 5: And it's just like intriguing to people. People love that
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  Speaker 5: Italian mob. I just love it, you know, and so
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  Speaker 5: many people that I talked to just love it. They
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  Speaker 5: can't wait to come to the show. Um, I've noticed
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  Speaker 5: a lot of, uh, you know, influencers now that you're
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  Speaker 5: bringing into the cast and you, you, you know, you
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  Speaker 5: switch it up a little bit, but tell us about
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  Speaker 5: like the characters and everything.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So, um, It definitely has the DNA of Mob
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  Speaker 1: Wives in the sense of the two dueling matriarchs. If
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  Speaker 1: you watch Mob Wives, you know they were always dueling.
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  Speaker 1: So we have that. Our main character, one of the
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  Speaker 1: main characters, Cookie Casanova, could very well be the epitome
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  Speaker 1: of Renee.
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  Speaker 6: Renee.
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  Speaker 1: Ah. You know, her son is married. You know, if
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  Speaker 1: you know Renee, she does, you know, her son is everything.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody's good enough. So that's kind of embedded in the show.
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  Speaker 1: And is Renee Cookie in the show? Renee is Cookie.
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  Speaker 1: All right, because I haven't seen it yet, and I
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  Speaker 1: can't wait. All right. Which is an experiment. Wow. Because
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  Speaker 1: she's so good at everything. I'm just like, what's the
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  Speaker 1: perfect role for her? And you're keeping it in the family.
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: It's the family. And of course, there's all those themes.
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  Speaker 1: So Lauren, she plays something which I'm excited because she
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  Speaker 1: told me she usually plays like the runaway bride or
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  Speaker 1: the good girl or the good character. She's playing our
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  Speaker 1: sort of ex-girlfriend.
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  Speaker 10: I feel about playing that type now.
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  Speaker 1: So. Isn't it fun?
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  Speaker 3: It's so fun to be the villain, right?
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  Speaker 1: It's fun to be the villain.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like for a very long time, I got
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  Speaker 4: cast in these very goody-two-shoes roles, which is more aligned
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  Speaker 4: with who I am personally, to be quite frank with you.
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  Speaker 4: But I remember at NYU, that's where I went for
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  Speaker 4: my undergraduate degree, having my peers be like, Lauren, you
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  Speaker 4: really should.
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  Speaker 1: Take on more villainous roles. You should lean into that.
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  Speaker 4: And so it's funny because I feel like my peers
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  Speaker 4: kind of made that a thing and yeah you started
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  Speaker 4: getting cast as like villains and very chaotic characters and
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  Speaker 4: this character is crazy so i can just act something.
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  Speaker 6: It's high time yeah are you doing i.
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  Speaker 9: Drink lots of liquor there's i i hope it's okay
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  Speaker 9: to say i do fake a pregnancy at one point
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  Speaker 9: just Very chaotic vibes and it's very fun to be
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  Speaker 9: so outrageous and to be singing Barbra Streisand one moment
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  Speaker 9: and to be like slugging it at the boy.
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  Speaker 10: Can you give me a little little rendition of Barbra?
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  Speaker 7: I am the beautiful reflection of my love's affection.
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  Speaker 1: The walking adoration of my love's admiration.
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  Speaker 7: I am so beautiful, so beautiful, so beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. That's impressive. Five seconds later, she's batshit crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, you are multi-talented. Love Barbra Streisand?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Who doesn't?
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  Speaker 3: What was your favorite? If you don't say Yentl, I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to be upset.
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  Speaker 1: I love Funny Girl. I have a deep love for
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  Speaker 1: the musical. I've seen it on Broadway multiple times. I
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  Speaker 1: just think that music is so stunning.
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  Speaker 3: She's like butter.
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  Speaker 5: One of my favorite Barbra Streisand songs is the duet
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  Speaker 5: she did with Don Johnson, Till I Loved You.
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember that song? Oh, I did not know
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  Speaker 1: that song. Oh, I just love that song.
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  Speaker 3: But enough is enough with Harvard and Donna Summer.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. Don Johnson, who was, like, gorgeous back
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  Speaker 1: in the 80s, right?
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  Speaker 6: He's still gorgeous.
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  Speaker 5: I haven't seen him on anything in a long, long time,
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  Speaker 5: but they're like, who wasn't in love with Don Johnson?
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  Speaker 1: With his blazers, man. He's so cute. He wasn't even
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  Speaker 1: born yet. But that's a good one. It's more like
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  Speaker 1: a pop one, but I love it. I love that.
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  Speaker 1: It's a ballad. It's good. All right, so next time
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  Speaker 1: you've got to learn that one.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. The Way We Were, I think, was my favorite.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good one.
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  Speaker 1: Is it Robert Redford? Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 6: It's a music of my bliss.
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  Speaker 3: It's not too big.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. Love them.
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 1: One of my favorites.
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  Speaker 6: So you do a rendition of Funny Girl?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you do. Well, we can't tell you. You've
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  Speaker 1: got to come see the play to find out. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: She does sing a little bit of that. We're not
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  Speaker 1: going to get the storyline away. Yeah. A little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Any aside, we said enough.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's getting your tickets at marriedbrothermob.com and come find out. Oh, my.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. I think this is
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  Speaker 1: going to be huge. I really feel it.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just really excited to come and experience the show
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  Speaker 5: firsthand and see how.
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  Speaker 1: It plays out. It's so much fun. And I think
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  Speaker 1: what really makes it special, obviously, the cast. And what happened...
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  Speaker 1: They're going to kill me for saying this, but like
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  Speaker 1: none of the young. So we have the kids. We
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  Speaker 1: call them the kids. That would be Lauren and Jackie,
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  Speaker 1: who you meet a little while. Everyone under our age
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  Speaker 1: of the kids. And then we have the adults. So
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  Speaker 1: none of the kids knew each other before this happened.
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  Speaker 1: And now they all hang out like all the time.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see very into the brand of always together at
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  Speaker 1: each other's shows. And our bride and groom really became
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  Speaker 1: a couple, which is no way.
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  Speaker 3: That's so cute.
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  Speaker 1: So that alone is good enough for me. Oh, I
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  Speaker 1: like that. Job well done, Jen.
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  Speaker 6: Job well.
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  Speaker 1: Jen, let me ask you, like, were you the casting
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  Speaker 1: agent as well for the whole show? The way the
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  Speaker 1: cast came together was all over the place. We had
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  Speaker 1: a casting agent, and I can't remember her name. God
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  Speaker 1: damn it. We'll write it into, like, good thing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, so we had a casting agent. We, my director
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  Speaker 1: Vivian Sorensen had a friend named Ann. Don't remember her
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  Speaker 1: last name either. Who brought us a few of the
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  Speaker 1: cast members. A lot of them I knew. Um, so
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  Speaker 1: some of the influences. So the cast is a perfect
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  Speaker 1: mix of theater trained actresses, actors and actresses, which is
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  Speaker 1: probably the majority. Um, and then Renee. She's just in
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  Speaker 1: a category of her own. She's Renee.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And then we have social media influences, which is Kristen.
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  Speaker 1: And then we kind of rotate in a special social
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  Speaker 1: media guest. So it covers all the bases.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But with a good foundation of real theater acting. Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: They're teaching everyone how to act. That's great. That's great.
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  Speaker 1: And they're teaching them the rules of theater. Because my bunch,
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  Speaker 1: I came with a bunch of like scrappy freaking mob ones.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We think they can do whatever the hell they want
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  Speaker 1: when they want. It's like, no, there are rules to
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  Speaker 1: this shit. Don't over talk the director. They still haven't
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  Speaker 1: learned that one. We're still working on that. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's fun. It's a little chaotic behind the scenes and
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  Speaker 1: on stage. We're getting there. We're getting there. But it's
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  Speaker 1: so crazy. It's like organized chaos. Every time it's like, wow,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's a feel good. It's a feel-good podcast.
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  Speaker 1: And it's so fun.
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  Speaker 4: Like, just as you were talking, I was just thinking, like,
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  Speaker 4: it's also such a funny group of people, which there's
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  Speaker 4: so much improv in this show. Like, yes, there's a
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  Speaker 4: script that.
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  Speaker 1: We very much stick to, but everyone is so clever
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  Speaker 1: and hilarious. And it's, like, everyone's got, like, a bit
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  Speaker 1: with the audience. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: There's this guy, Chris, who's a part of the guys.
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  Speaker 4: He's always got, like, a bit or something. He's always, like,
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  Speaker 4: bothering someone in the audience. And then my character's coming
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  Speaker 4: up to him, like.
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  Speaker 1: Get away from them. Don't listen to him. Like, he's trouble. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but it's a very funny bunch. It is. There is
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  Speaker 1: a lot of improv, and that's intentional, obviously. I love that.
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  Speaker 1: I love that.
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  Speaker 5: Impromptu, you know, just, you know, feeling the crowd.
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  Speaker 1: That's exciting. Well, you're going to be at the Rhode
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  Speaker 1: Island Shack Rock.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 1: And we're interviewing everyone on our red carpet. Yes, I
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  Speaker 1: can't wait. I can't wait. That's going to be exciting.
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  Speaker 1: And the Rhode Island Housewives, the aunties are our special
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  Speaker 1: guests on your show. Definitely. And this is going to
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  Speaker 1: be great.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I've been talking to a lot of people
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  Speaker 5: and they're really excited about it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, mob wives coming to Rhode Island. Married by
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  Speaker 1: the mob. We love that. And it's literally like Renee
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  Speaker 1: had a mob wedding, obviously. And she'll explain when she
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  Speaker 1: comes on here. In her words, the worst mob wedding ever.
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  Speaker 1: So she's like trying to get a redo almost. In
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  Speaker 1: this place. That's so funny.
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  Speaker 5: Do you know what I noticed too?
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  Speaker 1: People love the accents. People are very attracted to that.
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  Speaker 1: They are. It's just like that New York accent. It's
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  Speaker 1: so fun.
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  Speaker 10: It's very hard to find our authentic accent right now.
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  Speaker 10: There's a lot of kids that are trying to come
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  Speaker 10: up and to go into these different roles.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you mean to recreate.
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  Speaker 6: To recreate. It's like our accent is dying. It's dying.
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  Speaker 1: And it's hard to recreate this accent authentically.
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  Speaker 6: It's not an easy.
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  Speaker 1: Accent to recreate. Yeah. You know.
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  Speaker 10: So it's, but there, what I've been finding with other
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  Speaker 10: casting directors have been saying is that it's been hard
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  Speaker 10: to find younger actors who can come across and have authentic.
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  Speaker 1: My son and his friends come from the same place.
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  Speaker 1: They don't talk like we do. They don't talk like us.
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  Speaker 6: They don't talk like us.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I have the Rhode Island accent.
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  Speaker 6: It's a little different.
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  Speaker 3: You do.
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  Speaker 1: But, yeah, I just met some of your colleagues outside,
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  Speaker 1: and they're like, where are you from?
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  Speaker 10: Park.
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  Speaker 6: You have the one I love.
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  Speaker 3: It's cute. It's a little different than the Boston.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit. But it's close to the Boston. It's
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: like in between, I'd say, New York.
• 15:57
  Speaker 6: They don't say park.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: I say park. Park. It's a little there, there. I
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: say park. Really, there, park. Like, really.
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: Guys.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: Guys. That's fine. She goes, that's fine. That's fine.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: But it's funny that I say that because from my kids,
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: from my oldest to my youngest, my oldest sounds like me,
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: my middle one is like in between, and my younger
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: one sounds like she's from Ohio.
• 16:19
  Speaker 6: She's like, Mom, can I have a dollar? I'm like, dollar?
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: My older, yeah, my sister, that's, yeah, I have a dollar.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: Sonny says, Mom. I'm like, who the fuck is Mom?
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: Who's with Ma? That's Ma. Who's not there? I call
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: my mother Ma. Yeah, Ma. And Dad said Mom, too.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: I'm like, no.
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: I'm like, where did you get this accent from?
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Like, mom, can I have a dollar?
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: Do you want a dollar?
• 16:45
  Speaker 10: Not a dollar, but yeah. Because they're gentrified now. It's
• 16:50
  Speaker 10: sad that the accent is dying.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: We got to bring it back. I don't really think
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: it's the best one ever. I think it's great. I
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: think it's good and it's funny, but it's not proper
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: by any means.
• 17:00
  Speaker 10: No, but if you go anywhere in the world, and
• 17:04
  Speaker 10: I will tell you, it is so recognizable and everybody
• 17:08
  Speaker 10: wants to hear you say, New York, motherfucker.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: Everybody else, can you say motherfucker?
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: Sure, motherfucker.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: It's true.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: They want to hear you speak, but it's so funny.
• 17:21
  Speaker 10: I mean, I'm in England, and these people have taught
• 17:23
  Speaker 10: me this proper Queen's English, and they're like, I go,
• 17:26
  Speaker 10: you want to hear my accent?
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: I go, your accent sounds like music.
• 17:30
  Speaker 10: I said, they were like, your accent sounds like music.
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: I'm like, really?
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: It sounds like music you like, bro. Now, speaking of accents, how, like,
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: was it easy for you to develop, like, the accent?
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: So, I'm from New Jersey.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, actually.
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: And, you know.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: I feel like where I grew up in North Jersey,
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: I wasn't exactly.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: Exposed to like that New Jersey accent.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: Um, with that being said, I used to go to
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: South Jersey a lot and it's like a very unique accent,
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: like where I used to go to the Jersey shore.
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: And so I just think being around it, my, my
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: grandma grew up in Spanish Harlem.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Um, my, I feel.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: Like he's going to kill me if he watches this,
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: but like my uncle, like, like has like a bit
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: of a New York accent from.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Being like from, um, North Jersey in the eighties.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: And it's like, just listening to my family a little
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: bit and just those influences from Jersey. Um, I was
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: kind of able to just come up with it a
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: little bit, but I don't think that I like grew
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: up talking like this, you know.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: What I'm saying? But yeah, I do a lot of accents.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: I got, I love the Southern accent as well. I
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: just found accents to be fascinating.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: Um, but, uh, yeah, I wouldn't say that this is,
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: that was like something that I like grew up like
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: doing I feel like this has always been how I've
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: sent it with that being said my boyfriend is from
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: Kansas and he's like baby very much.
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: Of a New Jersey accent.
• 18:52
  Speaker 9: Like what are you talking about I'm like you say
• 18:55
  Speaker 9: milk I'm like you cannot like what are you talking
• 18:57
  Speaker 9: about you have an accent.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: That's so funny I love it I love it so
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: so what's next Well, a lot. We're going to obviously
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: continue to tour with the play. I just set a
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: scripted series with a company with Warner Brothers. I've been
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: doing a lot of writing. I have a scripted series
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: I'm writing, co-writing with a girl named Christine Crocus and
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Lee Daniels is going to produce that as well as
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: direct it, co-produce it with us. And what else? I
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: just put nine unscripted series into development with different, uh,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: production companies. Um, we're very much growing those shows, everyone
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: from all three media to IPC to propagate. Um, so
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: top of the next year is when we'll be in
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: market with all of the shows and, out of five scripted,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: nine unscripted, and probably three more all set up. What
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: is that? 14, 17 shows. That's a lot of shows.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's very hard in this marketplace right now.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: So I'm hoping out of 17, I'm hoping for four.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: I'll be happy with one, you know, and just how
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: it's been. It's hard. It's hard to sell stuff. It's
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: easy to set it up. It's hard to get it greenlit. Yeah.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: I mean, just like meeting you online and now meeting
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: you in person. I love your ambition, your passion for.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: What you're doing.
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: You know, the resume was so impressive to me and
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: I was like, wow, we've done so much, you know,
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: and you are more like behind the scenes, not like
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: your sister, like out in you know, doing the shows
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: and everything, but I really love and respect what you do.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: I'm really looking forward to seeing what you do next.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: And I can't wait to see you in the show.
• 20:44
  Speaker 10: Jen, what is your favorite project that you're working on now?
• 20:47
  Speaker 10: Can you give us a little tidbit of it?
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: There's so many. I don't want to say, because you
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: know what? The minute I say the favorite one, It's
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: so obvious of what it is. And I don't, I'm
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: keeping it close to the vest. I don't want no
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: one else going to be like, that's brilliant. Cause it
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: is fucking close. I thought a lot of times it'd
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: be like, yeah, I'm going to make that faster than
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: she can. So no, I'm not telling you, but it
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: is a scripted YA project that I absolutely love. It's
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: got a little, you know, samurai term pretty in it.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know. You want to know the funniest thing though?
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Cause I really believe that I'm young. So I'm on this,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: I'm on this call with, with, the studios and they're
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: giving me a list of showrunners they gave me like
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: 23 showrunners to go through and I'm looking at them
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: and I'm like it's the you know fake empire that
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: did Gossip Girl and it's Jenny Han that did The
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Summer I Turned Pretty I'm going yeah this is amazing
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: I love this is this is like really who I
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: grew up on and I'm like what I'm older than
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: all of these days on the earth I'm older than
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: everyone in this room. Please don't even put that on
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: the podcast. But in my mind, I think I'm still
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: a teenager writing these teenage stories because that's what I love.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: That's what I like. I like to drop stuff. It's
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: who I am. It's where I come from. It's easy
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: for me. But I love YA. I love stuff like
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: The Outsiders. And I love stuff like Summer. I turned pretty.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: I was crying like a little bitch. Like, I can't
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: believe it. I'm like, you are so nuts. And I'm
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: trying to think. Oh, Sterling Point. I just watched. I love.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: That's my shit. I don't know why, but it is.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: And I, you know, now I'm also doing a mystery,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: you know, sort of like Perfect Couple and Big Little Lies.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: I'm writing something like that. Wow. Where do you find
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: the time to do all this? I don't go out anymore.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: I need to pay the most.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: Just think of nothing new and just write.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: I literally don't. I wake up and I go right
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: to my couch. And then I stretch. I go to
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: the table. I stretch again. I go to the, what
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: do you call it? The island. Island. In the kitchen.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: And I just go around my house and I find
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: new rooms and I just keep writing and writing and creating.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: And then I get bored. I love it. Then I
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: go out. And then I'm like, why did I go out?
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: I'd rather be home. So I'm in that space. That's fine, really.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: It took me a long time to get there. And
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: trust me, because I was not a party animal, but
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: I was a social butterfly. I wanted to be everywhere.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Now I don't want to be anywhere. I got my dog.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: He keeps me company. And you just want to create now.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: That's it. That's all I do. And everyone's like, how
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: are you doing this so fast? I'm like, because I
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: spent 24 hours for three days in a row, whereas
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: maybe someone else is doing four hours here, five hours down.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: That takes a lot of focus. It takes a lot
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: of focus to do that. A lot of focus, a
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: lot of dedication. It's very difficult.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: To do that, to accomplish such great things, you know?
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: It's not easy to write. It's in you. It's in
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: your blood. No, it's not. And I always wanted to,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: like when I was younger, I wrote poems and stuff
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: like that. And then I wrote a song that was
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: like a number one. I heard it. I checked it out. Listen,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: it was a song. It wasn't like rocket science genius
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: level writing, but it was a song. It was number
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: one internationally. It got somebody a record deal, whatever it
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: may be. So I wrote that. I wrote a pilot
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: I sold to HBO back in 2017-ish. I wrote this play.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: I'm writing more pilots. The next thing I haven't written
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: yet is a book. So I think I'm like one
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: of those people that has to accomplish every single thing.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: So I think that's next. Probably not this year, maybe
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: next year. But also what I'm seeing too is every
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: book is now becoming a TV show. Or a movie.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: So I'm like, all right, maybe I go and rewrite.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: This is what I did with Mob Lives. Yeah. I
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: was trying to write scripted. Then I said, oh, it's
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: easier to go unscripted. I'll do that first and then
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: do the scripted. So now I'm like, oh, it's easy.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Everybody's getting a book. Let me do the book first
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: and go this way. But I go back and forth.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: I don't even know what I'm saying. So when is
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: the next show now?
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: Tell us.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: In two and a half weeks in Avenel. So there's
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: one on... September 12th and 13th.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: That's in Jersey.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: That's in Jersey, right over the bridge from Staten Island.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: So it's perfect for me. And then, and all the
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: New York, New Jersey people, it's easy to get to.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Then we go to Rhode Island. Little Roni. I'm coming
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: to work.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Alexia, when we're here and there. I'll be there, but
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: you're right. Yes.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: Well, I'll be at Greece for the other two shows.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: We'll be.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: I will be.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go to Greece, and I'm going to leave.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: She's the new producer. I love it. Me, Jen. Well,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: this year's set.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: I'll come around.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Rhode Island is September 20th, and then we go back
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: to Jersey again, October 16th, 17th, 18th. Tarrytown looks like
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: it's going to be November 3rd. Where is that Tarrytown?
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: It's sort of west.
• 25:41
  Speaker 10: It's right before the, well, now it's, they're not the
• 25:44
  Speaker 10: Tappan Sea Bridge anymore.
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: Now it's the Mario Como Bridge now.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: I think it's called that.
• 25:48
  Speaker 10: Yeah. My grandmother used to live there. That's why right
• 25:52
  Speaker 10: over there. But Tarrytown is beautiful.
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: It's a nice.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: We've got a couple of spots in Long Island that
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: we're talking to, but I think from a, Structural and
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: professional feel. I want to end around right before Thanksgiving,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: take the holidays off, do some more workshop and come
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: back in February with a perfect shot. That's right. We'll see.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: That's great. We can get that. But from what I
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: hear in theater, it takes a while. So I'm not
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: behind right now. Yeah.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Not perfect for in my eyes yet. Yeah. That's great.
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: It takes time to develop.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: How many years does it take to develop a play?
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: You're going to get out the kinks here and there.
• 26:33
  Speaker 10: A chorus line took how many years to develop before
• 26:36
  Speaker 10: they hit?
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Tell me, you know.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: Like 10 years. Really?
• 26:40
  Speaker 10: Oh, yeah.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Were they performing it at the same time, right? Yeah,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: same time until they got it right. That's what I hear.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: So I'm not so upset with myself because I am
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: a perfectionist.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 26:49
  Speaker 10: That's the same thing. I mean, there were so many
• 26:51
  Speaker 10: different plays that took. This is an immersive, so it's
• 26:56
  Speaker 10: good because it's awesome.
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: I love that part of it.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: When you fuck up, you just make something up.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: And I heard Mr. Lewis was excellent at fathering.
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: Fathering. We don't want to make him a father, though.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: What?
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: We don't want to make him a real father. Well,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: he's a priest.
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: But no, he's great.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: And we gave him a beef duck roll. Like, a
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: week before we went into, you know, the performance. And
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: I was like, let's go. Hopefully he remembers. And he
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: did amazing. It was great. It was great. His role really, like,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: developed into something important.
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: Oh, he's amazing.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: He cracks me up.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: I hope I'm okay if I, like, reveal this.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: But, like, genuinely one of my favorite lines in the show.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: There's a moment where he takes the Bible.
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: He just goes, fuck this.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: And he gets me every single time. Every single time.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Everyone is all, you know, cookies in the room. When
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: cookies in the room, somebody's good. Shut up. That's how
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: father Michael does. That's funny. I love it.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: Of all people together, shut up. That's Michael Lewis.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: She likes him. She takes it so personally. It's real.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: I'm like, no, this is a play, Renee. Hi. It's
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: a play. Michael Lewis is not telling you to shut
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: the fuck up. Father Michael is telling you to fuck this.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: She'll never get better, Michael, either. How can you? He's
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: the best. He's the best.
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: I'd like to bring up our other cast member for
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: a little less, but.
• 28:24
  Speaker 10: I would like to thank you for coming on today
• 28:28
  Speaker 10: and telling us about your role.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: And I can't wait to hear you sing. I know.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: I can't wait.
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: I mean, you gave me a great rendition.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Thank you so much. I love your accents. Your
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: vocal ability is unbelievable. You're beautiful, and I love your nails. Yeah,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: and I obviously know some. You're wanting to talk, I see,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: with all the sequins.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: You got it all going on.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: I'm doing a little bling bling. Well, my words had
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: to look a little blingy, right? But you keep losing
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: your A and your E. You went off again? No,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: it's there. It's okay. It's good. All right. Give her
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: up for Lauren. Yes.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: Welcome to the show, Miss Jackie.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: How are you here?
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: Now, what role do you play, Jackie, in the play?
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: I play Gianna Marie. Gianna Marie. I'm the maid of honor.
• 29:16
  Speaker 8: And the funny thing is, I told them when I
• 29:18
  Speaker 8: got cast, I was like, my full.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Name is Jacqueline Marie Gianna Kraft. So Gianna is already
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: in me. How can you beat that?
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: I know.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: It was good casting. That's amazing. You don't even have
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: to remember the name.
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: It's like a short name.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Symbathes.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: That's awesome.
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: I love that.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: So tell us, like, how you feel being cast on,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: you know, this show.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: Show.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: I mean, tell us everything. It's such a perfect fit
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: for me. I love it so much.
• 29:51
  Speaker 8: So I am 75% Italian already, so it is locked
• 29:55
  Speaker 8: and loaded.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: Best percentage.
• 30:00
  Speaker 10: That's right.
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: What was that moment when he said, oh, good fellas,
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: when he said, what are you, Irish and Italian?
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Only the good half. I'm 75 Italian and nothing else.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: It doesn't even matter. I don't know about that.
• 30:16
  Speaker 8: And I love telling people about this show because it's
• 30:19
  Speaker 8: just like this run on sentence of like, it's this
• 30:22
  Speaker 8: improv comedy, Italian mob themed immersive show by the creator
• 30:28
  Speaker 8: of Mob Wives.
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: And I love how it's walking with your hands.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: It's so neat.
• 30:33
  Speaker 8: Yeah, but I've been doing improv and stand-up and sketch
• 30:38
  Speaker 8: for 10 years or so now.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: So it really is, it comes pretty easily.
• 30:45
  Speaker 8: And working with such incredible people and with incredible writing is,
• 30:50
  Speaker 8: you know.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: I want to say, before we get too far away
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: from Lauren being on this stage, in my eyes, the
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: two of them are the next Dina Faye and Emil Pola.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: I say it all the time. I know I'm going
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: to be right because I have, I'm going to pat
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: myself on the back. One more time. I'm doing that
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: a lot today. I have a scary judge of talent
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: and I see it. And I don't know when it's
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: going to happen, but it's going to happen. I could
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: see it. I could see it. I like that. I
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: like that. I mean, she, she set up our two leads.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: So she was right about that. So, I mean, I think,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: I think that was matchmaking. I can't believe that story too.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: They're in love.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: Kiss.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Belongs to the play. They weren't together yet, but they
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: had their first kiss before their real first kiss. So
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: I'm like, and her first kiss was an hour ago.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: That's awful.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: And they're going to say.
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: It all to you.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: And they're like, yeah, but if they break up, they're
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: going to be fucking pissed, you know? Blah, blah, blah.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: There's no divorce being allowed. That's so funny. No one
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: divorces in the mob. Divorced by the mob?
• 31:57
  Speaker 10: No.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Absolutely not. That doesn't happen. No.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: So tell us about your character.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: So I'm the maid of honor. I like how you
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: say it better before. I'm the maid of honor. I'm
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: a business. I don't want anybody messing with the bride.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Plot twists.
• 32:18
  Speaker 8: Everyone messes with the bride. But I am there with
• 32:22
  Speaker 8: fists ablaze and ready to go if anyone does. Except
• 32:25
  Speaker 8: when I'm in the bathroom.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: With a groomsman. We won't talk about that.
• 32:30
  Speaker 8: So then they get distracted from my job. But otherwise,
• 32:34
  Speaker 8: I am there to back up the bride. Occasionally suggesting
• 32:39
  Speaker 8: we run away and leave. Like, that he's not good
• 32:41
  Speaker 8: enough for her. But ultimately, I am there for whatever
• 32:45
  Speaker 8: she wants to do. And she wants to marry Carlos.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: And you're just behind her the whole way?
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: I am behind her the whole way. Except when I
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: suggest that she leave. She says she's going to call
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Augie and Addie to make sure they kill you. And
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: they'll come pick us up and we can get out
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: of here, girl. It's probably a cool party tonight.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: Do you sing in the show too? Oh, no.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: I don't think they would like that. That's so funny. No,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: but we do.
• 33:19
  Speaker 8: There's a lot of, well, there's a lot of dancing
• 33:22
  Speaker 8: first and foremost. It really feels like you're at a
• 33:26
  Speaker 8: family wedding and seeing from the actor's perspective, like, The
• 33:30
  Speaker 8: way that we're connecting with the audience. Like, I know, like,
• 33:34
  Speaker 8: from Saturday's show, I know what one audience member, what
• 33:37
  Speaker 8: they studied in college.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: I know that it was Barbara's birthday.
• 33:40
  Speaker 8: Like, we are connecting with the audience throughout the show,
• 33:43
  Speaker 8: having real conversations.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: I really love that. I love that. And that way, like, I.
• 33:47
  Speaker 8: Feel comfortable when it comes time to get up and
• 33:49
  Speaker 8: dance or, like, be interactive, be a part of the show.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: Because then they feel like they're at a wedding. Exactly.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: They feel like they know us at that point. Yeah.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: It's really, it was just fun.
• 33:59
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah. You know what I wanted to ask you? I
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: wasn't sure. Is this also like a sit down dinner?
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: So like you're.
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: Actually at a wedding eating like the chicken and the
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: macaroni and the salad.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Chickens are really a lot hard for us. You'll see
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: if it's the Rochelle.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, so in most venues, some venues don't have
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: the food capabilities, but we try to find the ones
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: that do because we want it to feel like, yeah,
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: you're at the wedding, you're getting the first course, the
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: second course.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: The one thing we haven't had yet was a Venetian honor,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: which is really my favorite, so I'm going to work
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: on that. But, yes, you get your full course meal,
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: your three-course meal, and you literally are dancing in between.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: We have Vinny. Oh, my God, he's an amazing singer.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: So picture being at an Italian wedding and here comes
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Karamia and what else? Volare.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: Volare, yeah.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: So amazing. Oh, I love that. It's so much. It's literally, Renee,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: what did she call it the other day? Magical. So
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, I feel that. I feel that. Because
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: there are so many moments where like your hairs are
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: standing up and then there's so many moments like that.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: It's fucking nuts. So it's a. Emotional. And then at
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: the end, you're writing down, this one gave $ 100. This
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: one gave $ 50.
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: The chicken sucked.
• 35:24
  Speaker 6: I'm taking him on a fast.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's awkward, y'all.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, this Venetian hour, there was no Venetian hour.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: I was taking all the $ 100.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: It's so funny. Go to a wedding. How much should
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: we give? Well, how much should they give you? So
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: we got that. Stay open. What's your rule of thumb, right?
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Because I hear different. It's like, hey, you definitely have
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: to match what they gave you, but it's also like
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: you've got to kind of estimate what the cost per
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: plate is and double it. Like, there's so many rules
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: in an Italian wedding. Oh, they haven't opened up. We've
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: got to give them more money. Yeah, yeah.
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: But you want to know something?
• 36:00
  Speaker 10: It's funny because this day and age, people don't do
• 36:04
  Speaker 10: weddings like Italians do weddings.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: No.
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: They don't.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: The funniest part is my son just got engaged, 27
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: years old, and I'm thinking, He wants to have like
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: a club wedding, of course, because I'm still 27 and
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: may have. I would want to have a club wedding.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: He wants a traditional sit down, a tally way. And
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: he wants the finger from my show. I love that.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Then he at his wedding. I'm like, what? Who are you?
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: I'm like, are you like my son? My son is
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: so traditional. It's hilarious. I love it, though. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: It's cute. It's cute. It's shocking. It's cute. But no one,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: you're right, nobody does weddings like that. No, they don't.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: It's also, I just read two days ago, because now
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: I'm all into the wedding stuff because I have to
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: go through it with him, that somebody just made a
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: very controversial, who was it? It was in People Magazine
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: or something. It was controversial that no one should get married.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: No one should have big weddings anymore. They're too costly.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: It's a waste of freaking money. And they ended up
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: divorced in three years anyway. And I forgot who it was,
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: but I'm like, hey, Justin, why don't you read this?
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Because you should be the one from power instead of money.
• 37:12
  Speaker 10: What do you make me spend all this money? Make
• 37:15
  Speaker 10: sure you guys are going to stay together.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: No, not even that part. For me, it's like, okay,
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: my hair. I can't even say who it is because
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: she'll kill me. Somebody I know is having a wedding
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: and it's costing her $ 120, 000 for one day. You could
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: put that down on your house. Like, to me, it
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: makes no sense. But I get it. I was never that, like,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: girl dreaming of, you know, the princess bride wedding. I
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: went to City Hall and then got divorced five months later.
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: And I rented City Hall too. I wanted the house.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: I said, my grandparents said, do you want a house
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: or do you.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Want a wedding?
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: I said, give me the money for the house. And
• 37:51
  Speaker 6: I took the house.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Hello, that's what I would answer. And he did.
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: But I already had, I was already, he was married before.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: I was married before. I had a baby already.
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: So I was like, I didn't.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Have a real, I never had a real wedding.
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: But I have three girls that I'm.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Going to have. See, now you're going to live vicariously.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: I'll live vicariously with them. And spend all this money,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: give them a house. You've got 17 of them.
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: Well, no.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: She's got a house, an empty house, in the wrong way,
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: a house in Queens. Give them a house for each kid.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: I said, we're going to have to buy a house.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: It's okay.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: Well, I would rather give them money to go buy
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: a house.
• 38:35
  Speaker 10: But we did have a wedding plan that never came
• 38:37
  Speaker 10: to pass.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, yes. Yeah, that was fun.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: That was a fun time.
• 38:44
  Speaker 6: We didn't get our money back.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: Oh, boy.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: No.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: It happened to my friend, and yeah, it's terrible. But listen,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: they want the bride wants a wedding, and I respect that, too,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: at the same time. I just happened to... No. When
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: it comes time for the house, they're going to be like, oh,
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: we should have got the house. But I could be wrong.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: But I had a great Venetian owl. We all danced
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: and sang. Can we do that in your new backyard?
• 39:11
  Speaker 10: No.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: Tell them just to go to the show and you could.
• 39:14
  Speaker 10: I was going to say that.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Renee became an official officiant so they can go to
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: the show and Renee can marry them at the show. Yeah,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: that's their big Italian mob wedding. I mean, that would
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: be great. And speaking of that, We're going to start
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: offering that to our guests if they want to come
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: watch the show. And if you really want to get married,
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: you can. That's wild. That's wild. I love that. The
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: two leads of the show, they're really worried that Renee's
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: going to marry them during the show. It's like, goodness,
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: that's so funny. They're like, don't let Brene get up there, okay?
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: So this show must be right up your alley because
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: you mentioned you were in comedy, stand-up comedy.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: So this is, like, you know, like, how did you feel, like,
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: getting cast in this?
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it was so cool. I remember the
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: first rehearsal.
• 40:05
  Speaker 8: You were like, here is this script that I have, but, like,
• 40:09
  Speaker 8: feel free to improvise. And it was such a wonderful, like,
• 40:12
  Speaker 8: collaborative process of pitching jokes. And even, like, while we're running.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: The shows, I.
• 40:18
  Speaker 8: get so much joy and exhilaration from just like coming
• 40:21
  Speaker 8: up with a new joke at each night for like
• 40:24
  Speaker 8: different moments.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Um, yeah, that part is really great, but yeah,
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: I've been.
• 40:28
  Speaker 8: I've been doing standup around New York city and mostly
• 40:30
  Speaker 8: sketch comedy.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Um, so I'm. Any other shows you want to talk?
• 40:38
  Speaker 11: I mean, I do stand up regularly, uh, throughout New
• 40:43
  Speaker 11: York city. And I also have my own, um, social
• 40:47
  Speaker 11: media show it's called serving stories i'm a server and
• 40:50
  Speaker 11: i interview other servers oh and we talk we dish
• 40:55
  Speaker 11: on the serving uh industry and i actually had lauren
• 40:58
  Speaker 11: on the show um so it's it's basically like a
• 41:02
  Speaker 11: little bit of comedy a little bit of.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: Gossip um that's my current baby and it's all It's
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: all real. It's all real. People will ask me, like, oh,
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: who made up that story? I'm like, that is real.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: We don't need to make up anything. It's like, what's
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: in it?
• 41:14
  Speaker 6: It's like, what's in it?
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: It's like, what's in it?
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: It's like, what's in it?
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: It's like, what's in it?
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: It's like, what's in it? On Instagram. And then Serving
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Stories Show is my show on Instagram. Oh, I cannot
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: wait to watch that. I think you can find Lauren
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: at Lauren Updike. U-P-D-Y-K-E is the last name. And Jen,
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: how else would we find you? Find me. I'm a corner. No.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: I'm a corner. You can find me at Jen Graziano,
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: at Jen Graziano with two N. And I think on Facebook,
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: because I'm Facebook age. Oh. My full name is... Well,
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: that's great. I'm still Facebook. I love Facebook. I do, too.
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: What about MySpace is coming back?
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: I'm not even out of MySpace. I'm probably going there.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: But I do want to say to her point, she
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: does have a lot of great jokes, and she's, like,
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: in rehearsal making them, and I'm writing them in the script. Oh,
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: we're adding that one. So a lot of her stuff,
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: a lot of everyone's stuff made it into the script
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: and the rewrites, and so... It is very cool. I
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: love that. I love that. It's collaborative.
• 42:23
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: I love that. This is really, really nice. I love
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: it so much.
• 42:27
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: That's exciting. Very exciting. I'm excited that you were here today.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: I am so excited to be here. I'm excited to
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: see you. I know. I'm excited to meet you all today. And,
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: you know, it's a thrill. I love what you're doing.
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: I look forward to seeing it live and in person
• 42:47
  Speaker 5: and seeing what you guys do next. You know, all
• 42:50
  Speaker 5: of you with With all the careers and all the
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: aspirations and dreams. And I'm so, you know, happy to
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: meet you guys.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: So it is what, 2026? By 2028, you'll be seeing
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: them on SNL. I believe you. I'm telling you, I
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: can feel it in my bones.
• 43:06
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: I love it. We're going to call Lauren Michaels. Lauren Michaels, right?
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: Lauren Michaels. Come on, Lauren Michaels. Get on it. Don't
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: miss out. Yes. For now, go to MarriedByTheMob.com, get tickets,
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: and you'll see them there. That's right.
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: And the next show, again, is about it.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: Avenel, New Jersey, at the Avenel Performing Arts Center, September
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: 12th and 13th. Rhode Island is September 20th. Back at Avenel,
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: Tower Town, November 3rd. You can go to our Instagram,
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: at MarriedByTheMob, and find out all the dates. We're always
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: posting and promoting. I love the ads. They're really cool.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: They're really cool. I love how everybody looks in it.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: It's exciting. Get your tickets, people. Get your tickets. You
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: cannot miss this show, right? Is it ever bright too?
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: Can they miss it? Event bright? No.
• 43:55
  Speaker 6: Sometimes I do that.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: I don't know. You know, am I supposed to be
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: doing that? I don't know either. Sometimes I do. You
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: should put it on there too. I know. But the
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: thing is, so sometimes depending on the venue, their ticketing
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: process goes straight to them or my ticketing process goes
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: straight to me. So it kind of. fucks everything up
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: in a way people don't know where to go. Try
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: and keep it in one way. Alright, well just go
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: to the website. Or go to Instagram. Or at Married
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: by the Mop. Or at Married by the Mop. Jen,
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: it's been so fun co-hosting with you today. Thank you
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: for having me. I love you so much.
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: And now I get to interview you just by yourself.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: So exciting! I have to sit in traffic.
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: Thank you for coming on today. It was so nice
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: meeting you.
• 44:46
  Speaker 6: Jen, we love you.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: Thank you for being here today. Everybody, congratulations. Thank you.
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you so much. And 227 is going to
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: be the year for everybody.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: That's right. I feel it. 2027, baby. I feel it.
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel it.
• 44:58
  Speaker 6: And thank everybody for tuning in today.
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: And please hit the subscribe button. YouTube, Apple, Spotify, or
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: else I'm sending the whole cast after you, too.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: That's in the box.
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: That's a bonus, baby. Have a great day.