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March 13, 2026: The Chipmunk Story (My Netflix Reality TV Dating Story) · The Daily Sarcast

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  Today's episode is sponsored by Being Sick. When you have actually so many things
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  that you need to be doing, it's the worst.
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  Insert theme song here. This is the Daily Sarcast. I give you the news and made you a laugh.
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  I'm Lindsay Vernick, and today is Friday, March 13th, 2026.
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  Happy Friday the 13th. I'm still not feeling too hot, and I have a lot of new
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  listeners on the pod, so I figured today might be a good day to reshare my chipmunk story,
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  which is when I was a chipmunk on a dating show on Netflix called Sexy Beasts.
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  If you haven't watched it, I highly recommend you take the eight minutes out
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  of your day to turn on Netflix Sexy Beasts season two, episode four,
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  Sully the Bat. It's super fun.
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  And this is the story of how I became a producer and the whole story of what
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  happen in detail of when I was a chipmunk on Netflix.
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  So I hope you enjoy. Let's go all the way back to the year 2020 when I was living
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  in Philadelphia with my best friend at the time, having the best time of our
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  lives, partying every weekend. I had a ton of girlfriends I loved to go out with.
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  Everything was so great. I had this amazing, amazing 9-to-5 in marketing I loved.
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  Unfortunately, one day I got let go from the job and I was so crushed.
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  I felt that the world was over for me. I was so upset.
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  For weeks, I'm applying to jobs. I'm taking some calls online over Zoom.
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  COVID's starting to come. It's starting to come out from China that it's this weird bird virus.
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  And people are starting to get sick but no one really knows what it did yet
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  and it's probably just nothing right at the time too i was doing stand-up at night in philadelphia,
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  and i'm really really enjoying it and i love being
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  creative and funny and i it was a really great
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  time when i did it but i still knew i had to make money so i'm
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  going online i'm on backstage and i see this ad for
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  single like a fun single dating show
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  and i'm like this is cool and it
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  was pretty indescript it just said if you're a single
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  and if you're single and you're fun and
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  you want to do something new try out this new dating show
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  on netflix come come sign up
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  so i was like hell yeah so i hit apply i fill
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  it out nothing we a couple weeks go by i'm interviewing and nothing sticks taking
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  some zoom calls over the phone and covid's starting to become more and more
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  of a thing and more and more people are starting to get laid off and it's starting
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  to get a little scary, but I'm still going about my daily life.
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  And as I'm applying to more and more jobs, I'm like, you know,
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  why? I never heard back from that casting director.
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  And I go, so I go back on the ad one day and I'm like, I'm so bummed.
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  I never, I never heard back from the show.
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  It would be so cool to be on a dating show. So we go back to the ad.
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  At the bottom, it had the casting director's email on there.
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  And I'm like, oh my God, obviously I'm just going to email him.
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  Previously, I think it was about like a month before, it was the,
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  I don't know if you've watched Schitt's Creek.
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  It was the Schitt's Creek series finale.
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  So my family and I, in spirit of Schitt's Creek, because it was COVID,
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  and I was like, guys, let's get into this. It is Schitt's Creek series finale.
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  This is huge. So my dad took out his tux from 30. He has some worn in 30 years.
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  He put that on. He dressed up as Johnny. My mom dressed up as Moira, as the mom.
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  Nicole, my sister, was David. And I, of course, dressed up as Alexis.
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  So my, of course, if you saw Schitt's Creek, and assuming that you did,
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  I did the Schitt's Creek Alexis dance, and my dad taped it. I'm a little bit Alexis.
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  So I said, you know what? Screw it. I'm going to just email this casting director.
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  So I send an email to him and I said, I want to be on, I'm going to be on your show. I love this.
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  And I sent a video of me doing the Schitt's Creek dance.
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  An hour later, I get a phone call or sorry, an hour later, he emails me back.
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  I am dying and I haven't even seen the show before.
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  I get a call 20 minutes later from somebody in casting saying,
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  Hey, Lindsay, we love that video you sent over. When are you free?
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  You're doing an interview.
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  So fast forward. Now this is July. Now we are in COVID and I'm back at my parents'
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  house and I have my big interview for this show because you have to send,
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  do a casting tape before you get selected and
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  So I do my my dad gets my dad's a photographer in his free time and has a really
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  nice camera. So he set it up for me in the kitchen and get my hair and makeup all ready to go.
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  And I'm sitting there. I'm talking about my date stories.
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  My dad's like sitting in the other room. They thanked me. And that was that.
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  Over the next few months, I started to get back to normal life. I get emails.
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  Hey, don't. Hey, sorry. Like we didn't forget about you. We're still moving along with this.
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  I end up moving into a new place in Philadelphia.
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  I still didn't have a job. I don't even think I had a job. I don't even know
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  how I had money to move. I'm thinking back now, I moved into a totally new apartment.
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  I mean, at the time, our rent was so cheap. I literally spent,
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  when me and my two roommates in Philly, we literally spent $500 or $600 a month
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  each on rent and had our own bathrooms in this beautiful place.
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  Anyway, That's besides the point. Come September, they send me like this weird
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  email and they're like, hey, you're going to come to London and this is going to happen.
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  But first, like, but maybe we're not really sure if you're going to get picked.
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  So can you just like send us some pictures of your face?
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  Okay like they're like it's a mass show
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  so like we need some pictures of your face first to make sure
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  it'll fit right so he sent over pictures of my face
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  and like okay great thanks and then I think like
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  a couple weeks later I get another call and they're like and it's like hey
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  Lindsay what's up can you can you come to London
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  in like two weeks to film and I said oh
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  my god what and pretty much
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  gave me no details still on the dating show all I
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  know is I'm gonna wear this mask I'm gonna and it's
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  my episode like it's not one long series it's just one
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  episode i'll be on and it will be either be me going
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  on a date with three guys or i'll be going on a date or one
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  guy will be going on a date with me and two other girls who knows so my parents
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  are like lindsey like this is weird why don't we have enough information they
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  start digging around about the production company and everything and and then
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  it's like getting assumed like maybe this is like a sex trafficking ring we're
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  like just not sure maybe i'm getting kidnapped like do i even go like what's the deal.
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  I'm like, no, guys, like I'm going like risking this.
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  I'm going to be on this show. Maybe like I don't think it's a sex trafficking ring.
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  And like even if it is like I want to take my chances because like TV,
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  you know, I want to be on TV.
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  So then they tell me that there's going to be this reveal at the end of the
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  show. No matter what happens, I'm going to have to show my face and it'll be like this huge thing.
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  So my mom, my sister and I get in the car and we go to We're the King of Prussia Mall.
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  Mind you, nobody's there, obviously. Like, it's getting to the end of summer.
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  Everyone, or sorry, it's in September.
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  COVID's here, yet we're basically the only people at the mall.
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  And it's this huge to-do. Like, think prom mixed wedding dress shopping together.
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  Like, that's the kind of energy that was going on in these dressing rooms.
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  Like, it was the most stressful thing.
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  My mom was like, I love this dress. I hated some of the dresses that she wanted.
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  My sister didn't like this one, but I liked that one. It was this huge ordeal.
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  A lot of fighting in the dressing rooms of the Kenya Prussia Mall.
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  Finally, we land on this dress, and it was this whole thing.
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  But then don't forget, there might be like a fitness date.
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  So then we had to go to Athleta and Lulu and try on these different outfits
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  because I had to get like a cute fitness outfit, too, that, by the way,
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  I never ended up wearing.
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  Finally, one day in October, they send the car to come pick me up and like whisk me away to London.
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  And they send me along like all this COVID gear, too, because like going in
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  them, just going to London in the middle of COVID.
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  Like, who does that? So no one's at the airport.
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  And like, I'm terrified. terrified I'm gonna get COVID and like I wanna follow
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  the rules too they're like you must wear this mask and this face shield and
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  like eye protectors or whatever like in this airport so I'm in this airport
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  nobody else is there I'm like in face mask face shield like literally head to toe covered.
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  Ready. I get on the plane to go to London. Nobody's on this plane.
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  Like, I'm pretty sure there's four other people in there. I thought about sneaking
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  up to first class, but I'm like, because there literally probably was maybe one person up there.
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  But I was like, you know, I'm not like that episode of Seinfeld when she gets
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  up there and they kick her back out.
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  Like, I'm not I'm not going to do I'm not a mess. I'm just going to enjoy my
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  my huge row to myself and close my eyes and, you know, pop my Xanax and wake up in London.
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  So I get to London and I get picked up and they take me to this little one bedroom
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  apartment because I have to quarantine for two weeks before I get on set with everybody.
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  It's like this little one bedroom apartment that they put me in.
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  I didn't know it at the time, but it would be one of my very first,
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  one of my very many furnished apartments. So they said, here you go. This is your apartment.
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  Do not leave for two weeks. Yeah, we'll send
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  food and whatever so they sent me like I
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  had two PAs who I had contact with every single
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  day and they took it was a girl and a
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  guy and they took turns calling me and checking in and I would tell them if
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  I wanted to order like order delivery for that day or if I wanted groceries
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  if I wanted to cook and the girl PA would like help me like come up with like
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  fun recipes to make and it was really fun.
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  I also like didn't want to go crazy in the space either.
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  So like in the morning, only in the mornings and at night would I be in my bedroom
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  or if like I took a shower and had to get dressed, that's the only time I would
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  be in my bedroom. I tried to keep it just for sleep.
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  So my day was pretty much like I would wake up in the apartment.
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  I would go out to my dining room table. I would write the Daily Starcast in
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  the morning because we were six hours. I was six hours ahead. So I.
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  First thing in the States in the morning. So it worked out well.
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  And then I would make breakfast on one side of the apartment.
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  And then I would do like, I would probably work out for like two hours a day
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  in like this little tiny nothing space.
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  They like sent me weights and that kind of stuff.
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  And then I would spend the rest of the day like six feet over on the other side
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  of the apartment, like watching TV.
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  I watched like a lot of TV. And I
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  talked a lot to the PAs and about like what they do and
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  how they got into it and I was really fascinated
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  by their jobs I was like this is your job just like to
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  talk to me all day and they told me how like you know to have fun with people
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  and like order food and stuff like this is kind of a cool job isn't it and they
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  were telling me like oh yeah like you can easily find this stuff when you go
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  back home like you just get like these like month contract a couple month contracts
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  and that's what you do and I was like Hmm.
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  Interesting. And also at the time I was interviewing for a new job,
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  like back in Philadelphia, because right, I mean, I was going to go on this
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  TV show and then it was back to the grind back in Philly.
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  So I'm interviewing at a metal refinery to be a marketing assistant at the time too.
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  And I was so excited. Like I got the, like I was in the entire interview process
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  while I was in quarantine and I got the job while I was in quarantine.
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  It was a very, very exciting time for me at the time like I was literally like
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  doing it was a the metal refinery this is like.
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  Sidetracked so it was a company where dentists could sell like teeth and it's
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  really gross and you don't you can you don't need to hear this but yeah so it
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  was a very strange job I didn't last very long there.
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  Clearly so i'm talking to the pas all the time like what
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  is this show going to be like can you literally tell me
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  anything like what's gonna happen and they said okay look
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  you are going to be one of the girls who
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  goes on the dates you're not gonna be like the girl with three guys
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  and i was so bummed i told my best friend at the
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  time and she was like well that's only from the main girl
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  can only be like a model or something and that's why
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  she's my ex-best friend and i'm getting ready for the
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  shoot and they tell me to wear an outfit that
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  covers my whole body so you know
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  the guy can't see what i actually like look like they
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  didn't want to give anything away like skin color anything so
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  i said okay here's my turtleneck they got me stockings i was covered head to
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  toe like also like i'm hoping if you've seen this i'm hoping that you've seen
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  the show before sexy bees on netflix because i'm season two episode four i probably
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  should have put that in the beginning.
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  I was like, I'm going to play by the rules, obviously.
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  So it's a few days before the shoot. A nurse comes to test me.
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  Like the nurse comes to just give me one last COVID test just to make sure somehow
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  I didn't pick it up over quarantine, whatever.
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  It was TV was crazy with COVID. Like I came to find out later,
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  like COVID testing and television was crazy.
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  Like we tested a lot. And then he, this COVID nurse man goes on to tell me that
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  he was once arrested in New Zealand for robbing ATMs and stole millions of dollars
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  and pulls up YouTube on his phone and shows me all these videos of him robbing ATMs. I'm like.
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  What are you doing here? Like, is this legal? And he was like,
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  yeah, they'll hire anybody. And I was like, okay, that's cool.
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  And then he tells me, he thinks he was just at the guy's house,
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  like the guy's apartment who I'm going on the date with.
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  And he's like, yeah, he's like smokes a ton of hookah. Okay. Interesting.
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  Finally it ends and they take me out of the hotel and they drive me to,
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  I think it was like an hour away at whatever.
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  They drive me to this new hotel to put my stuff down
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  and they tell me this is where you're going to stay for the remainder of
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  the shoot and then they take me to another hotel to get
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  into hair makeup to start filming so by the way so i like that is the amount
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  like this is the most amount that i know about the show what i've told you so
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  far like i still have no idea literally what i'm walking into so but all i know
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  is that I'm about to find out what my mask is.
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  So I'm walking down this hotel for my hair and makeup and I open up the hotel
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  room door and on the bed is the chipmunk mask and I see two hair and makeup
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  people smiling at me all excited ready to go.
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  So I sit for like hours and hours. Okay, it was literally like three hours.
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  But they're putting this crazy makeup on me. It's called FX Makeup.
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  And the guy who did it, I still follow him on Instagram. He is the sickest FX makeup artist.
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  He has done a ton of really cool horror films and stuff.
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  I mean, I look like I was in a horror movie with my makeup.
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  So they put this mask on me over my head.
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  And I could not hear anything and
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  I also couldn't eat anything either they let me they
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  were like okay before we put this mask on like do you want to like eat or
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  drink or do anything like before this goes on because like that's
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  probably it for you for a bit I was like oh no
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  it'll be fine they put the head on me I could barely
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  hear anything that's going on like I'm pretty sure I
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  spent that whole day just no I know I just spent that whole day
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  just nodding and smiling even though they couldn't even see me
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  smiling I'm like yeah whatever whatever you guys want sure so
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  then i'm finally done i'm in hair and makeup
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  i walk back to this hotel mind you this hotel is open
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  to the public and all these people are looking at
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  me like what the fuck this girl is walking with a chipmunk
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  head in clothes just through
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  the lobby very casually surrounded by people like this is
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  strange they take me to i forget somewhere
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  close by to this castle i don't know if you have ever seen
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  the if you've ever seen that show you on netflix
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  it's filmed at that same castle i thought
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  that was cool i'm in my costume and they take
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  me to the castle and the castle is like decked out
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  for filming they take me upstairs to my photo shoot room
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  where they do all the photo shoots and they have me stand at the photo shoot
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  and start taking photos of me and videoing me of me just standing and dancing
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  around and at first i'm like this is so awkward and weird but then eventually
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  started getting into it i'm like smiling and i'm batting my eyelashes and i'm
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  like chattering my teeth.
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  I love that one. But the chipmunk teeth, it was really fun.
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  So a little bit later, they are like, okay, next thing. Now we're going to go
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  meet the other girls that you're competing with.
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  And we're going to like film some stuff with them. And that's when you'll go
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  on your date. Go downstairs into like this like big living room area.
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  And I see they put a little microphone on me. This cute guy puts a microphone on me.
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  And I forgot what his name is. Oh, no, my God. It was Archie.
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  Archie puts a mic on me. and i'm sitting and
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  i meet the other girls so there's the skeletons and
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  she's wearing like this green dress or no
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  no no sorry she was green and she was
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  wearing a black dress and you
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  lit i'm telling you like they really did the airbrush great like
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  you could not see anyone's skin color like at all like no idea
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  what she actually looked like and i sit down
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  with her and then there was this girl that was a tree i for
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  camary i forget her name the three of
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  us sit down with drinks they like literally make us cocktails and
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  they sit down they're like okay just talk and we're
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  gonna film you guys so i'm like sitting on this couch and i've all these
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  like three cameras pointed at me and we're
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  i'm like supposed to be talking to these girls and so they're
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  like they'll come in and like yell us stuff at us
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  and be like talk about this so like we're chatting whatever i'm getting
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  to know these girls the skeleton girl her ex-boyfriend
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  cheated on her ex-fiance cheated on
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  her with her stepmom while she was sleeping upstairs but
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  she's got to keep the house though and then she shows me
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  this giant side tat of harry potter cute we teach take turns going into the
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  room going on dates with him sometimes when i would run out of my drink i would
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  like wit i would be like guys i need another drink like whisper to the girls
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  and then suddenly like one would appear and i'm like how did that drink just appear in front of me.
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  That's so crazy. So funny now, like, being in production and looking back at this stuff.
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  It was finally, it was last but not least, it was my turn.
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  By the way, they cut that whole scene, by the way, of us, like,
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  sitting in the living room chatting,
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  which there was so much great content in there, but apparently,
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  like, the EP called me later to let me know that the show was coming out, which is actually,
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  like, now I'm thinking about it, it's actually pretty cool that the EP individually
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  called every individual contestant,
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  because there was a ton of contestants on that show so that was very
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  nice of her to reach out personally to every person and let
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  us know that that scene got cut but also the show was premiering so anyways
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  i go on this date with so i go into the other room with this guy and i sit down
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  with him and i'm like looking at him and i'm like what is he is he a bat like
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  what you know i'm like trying to figure out like what ethnicity he is i'm like
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  is he white is he asian like what like i'm literally.
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  My brain is working overtime to try to figure out who I'm on this date with.
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  And he's asking me questions, and we're talking, and I'm, like,
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  trying to, like, think of, like, funny things to say. I'm so nervous, too.
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  And then he, like, asked me if my cheeks were balls, like, my chipmunk cheeks
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  were balls and, like, touches them. I'm like, no.
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  And then, like, the producer came in, actually the one who I was just talking
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  about, the EP, and, like, yells.
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  She's like, hey, guys, can we keep this, like, PG?
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  So the date was, like, 20 minutes or whatever.
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  When they filmed my otf which is it's
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  called an on-the-fly interview i got so excited i'm
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  like oh my god the talking heads and it's so funny to
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  now look back and years later and i'm the
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  one who's like if i would have known that like three years later i would be
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  the one producing and being one the one standing behind the camera doing that
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  quote-unquote talking heads is pretty pretty crazy it's pretty cool to look
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  back and be like wow like three years ago or four years ago or whatever.
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  Actually, yeah, like four years ago now, I had no idea what it was.
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  And now I'm like the one doing it. Whatever. Anyway.
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  Anyway, so I do like quote unquote talking heads, which is fun fact called an
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  OTF, which is an on the fly interview because it's on the fly and it's an interview.
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  So now, you know, they're not called talking heads. So next we film the elimination round.
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  So at this point, the guy, I don't even remember his name.
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  Oh my God, this is so bad. I can't even remember what the guy's name was.
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  Whatever, it doesn't even remember the bat.
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  So at this point, the bat has to vote one of us off. And I'm like so scared it's gonna be me.
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  It's not even like I really liked him. It's just the fact that I just, I didn't wanna lose.
• 21:40
  I felt it was like embarrassing to lose on a TV show
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  you know so when he did vote me
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  off I was so crushed like
• 21:49
  I don't take rejection well like I just it felt like a gut punch honestly and
• 21:54
  you could see it in my face too like you could when on the show when you watch
• 21:58
  it like I my eyes just well up and I'm so upset so I've been working with this
• 22:02
  one casting director I kind of felt like that little kid at a party like mom
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  mom can you come here and she's talking to all these people.
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  And I'm like, can you come out here with me? Like, I really need to talk to you.
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  And I'm literally at any point, like, I'm choking up. I'm about to burst at
• 22:17
  any point so I could barely talk.
• 22:19
  So I finally am able to, like, pull her outside. And she's like,
• 22:24
  don't you need a jacket, love? And I'm like, oh, my God, my British accent is so bad.
• 22:27
  Don't you need a jacket, love? And I was like, no.
• 22:30
  And then as soon as we get signed, I'm like, I can't believe you voted me off. I'm so upset.
• 22:36
  I just wanted to win. She's like, oh, my God, I'm so sorry. I'm like,
• 22:41
  I just wanted to win. This is so embarrassing.
• 22:44
  She's like, this isn't embarrassing at all, love. Like, don't worry.
• 22:49
  And I was like, no, I am worried.
• 22:51
  Everyone's going to laugh at me when this comes out. I mean,
• 22:54
  everyone did laugh at me, but like for other reasons. And it was also very funny.
• 22:58
  Like now looking back, it's very funny how I reacted.
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  He was like the real like top, top guy comes outside and is like, what's going on, dear?
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  And I was like, oh, my accent's so bad. Please ignore this.
• 23:10
  And I was like, I just wanted to win. I'm just sad.
• 23:14
  And he's like, because it's all, you know what, love? It's all just telly. It's all telly.
• 23:20
  That's what I tell myself at 4 a.m. when I come here. It's all just telly.
• 23:25
  I'm like, OK, but I wanted to go on the dates.
• 23:28
  And he was like, you're he was like, but aren't you staying like five extra
• 23:32
  days here? Like we're literally doing all that stuff like you.
• 23:35
  You're going to have so much more fun on your own in London than going on these
• 23:39
  stupid dates and getting filmed. Like you don't want to be on camera having to do all this stuff.
• 23:44
  And I'm like, but I do, though, I do. Ew. Calm me down. He's like,
• 23:47
  just, it's fine. Like, this is literally, like, over tomorrow.
• 23:51
  Like, it's the fastest shoot day ever. Like, don't.
• 23:54
  Like, you would be filming for one more day. Like, I literally,
• 23:57
  like, the shoot days were literally two or three days long, depending on when you got voted off.
• 24:01
  So silly. So I'm, like, so sad.
• 24:04
  Get in the car with like my hair and makeup team and they're like
• 24:07
  he shouldn't have voted you off and i'm like i know i'm
• 24:10
  like it's just so sad so funny looking back
• 24:14
  get home i call my dad derrickly crying
• 24:17
  and he calms me down per usual you know
• 24:20
  they ordered me food and i'm like i'm not even hungry as
• 24:23
  i'm as i'm eating they're like just go to bed like tomorrow
• 24:26
  i'll be fine you have your reveal you're gonna have a great day
• 24:29
  and i was like i guess but i'm still voted off the
• 24:32
  show the next morning I get up
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  and they say well you don't have
• 24:38
  to get up as early today because you don't have to get into three hours
• 24:41
  of hair and makeup so that's great and I'm like but I
• 24:44
  still wanted it I pack up and they're like you will not be returning back to
• 24:48
  your hotel room and again so I go back to the same hotel for my hair and makeup
• 24:53
  and the girls who did my makeup were amazing actually one of the girls it's
• 24:58
  they did my quote-unquote glam makeup one of the girls who did it.
• 25:03
  She was one of the makeup artists for Barbie last year.
• 25:07
  So that day I also decided that I'm going to flip the script on that.
• 25:12
  Fuck being upset about losing the show.
• 25:14
  Like I was like, you know what? I'm, I am about to go make my big reveal.
• 25:19
  I'm going to show these people what I actually look like and I'm going to have fun with it.
• 25:24
  How many more times, you know, how many times do you get to be on Netflix and have fun?
• 25:30
  Like how many times do you want, like this is a TV show. I'm gonna
• 25:33
  have fun with it because me being sad and
• 25:36
  upset about it is not gonna make anything better for me and it's only gonna
• 25:40
  make me look worse and so I came up with this great line and I told the makeup
• 25:46
  girls I said you know what I'm gonna say when I leave that room after my review
• 25:51
  I'm gonna say good luck girls you're gonna need it.
• 25:54
  And they were like, yeah, that's a great line. You better do that,
• 25:58
  Linz. And I was like, I will.
• 25:59
  They take me back to the photo shoot place in the house. And I do my photo shoot.
• 26:04
  And the director was like, beautiful, gorgeous.
• 26:07
  And I was like, oh, my God. At first, I was like, wow, he's really,
• 26:11
  he's so nice to his cameraman.
• 26:13
  Like, wow, he's so motivating. Like, wow.
• 26:17
  And then it took me a few minutes later. I'm like, oh, shit, he's talking to me.
• 26:21
  I thought he was just, like, complimenting his cameraman. And I was like,
• 26:24
  that was nice of you. I do my little photo shoot. I'm having fun.
• 26:28
  And then I do my reveal. And I say my line. And I'm so mad they cut the line.
• 26:34
  I literally, they kept the hair flipping.
• 26:36
  Because I say at the end, good luck, girls. You're going to need it.
• 26:39
  And flip my hair and walk out.
• 26:41
  Cut it. That was like the one thing I wanted in that show. Like the only thing
• 26:45
  I wanted them to keep. And of course they cut it, whatever.
• 26:48
  And then I spent five days in London because I asked them to book my flight
• 26:53
  for a later date and time because why not?
• 26:56
  And so to answer your question, how much did they pay me? I basically broke.
• 27:02
  I didn't break even. I definitely lost money. I definitely lost a lot of money there or like, sorry,
• 27:06
  spent a lot more money there than what
• 27:10
  I actually like I made I'm so lucky and
• 27:13
  so happy I did that because if it wasn't for being
• 27:16
  a chipmunk on Netflix I would never be a tv producer it's
• 27:19
  really cool to look back now like
• 27:23
  doing even doing this podcast telling this story and I don't
• 27:26
  know like I think the moral of the story too is if you love something like you
• 27:30
  should go after it because life is too short I don't mean to like get all sentimental
• 27:34
  right now because I know you know this is a comedy podcast but also just like
• 27:39
  I think it's also really important that like we all go after what we want.
• 27:43
  And yeah, of course, like money is always a factor.
• 27:47
  But it's just so crazy to think that like if I wasn't a chipmunk on Netflix
• 27:52
  that this I wouldn't be where I am right now and for something so crazy and drastic to happen.
• 27:57
  So I think also learning that, like, what you think might be the worst thing
• 28:00
  in the world could also be the very best thing, because also if I didn't lose that job.
• 28:05
  Marketing job back in Philadelphia all those years ago, I highly doubt I would
• 28:11
  be here right now telling this story.
• 28:14
  So, yeah, I hope you guys enjoyed that story, and I hope I never have to tell
• 28:19
  the story again, and I hope I never have to watch that show again,
• 28:21
  because I am so fucking sick of it.
• 28:23
  Feedback comments questions on ace jewish by looking for a date email me at
• 28:28
  lindsey at the daily starcast.com thanks so much for listening have a great
• 28:32
  friday the 13th and i will talk to you guys on monday.