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INTERVIEW: Michelle Buteau & Ilana Glazer Talk 'Babes' Movie, Motherhood, Broad City, Wokeness + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club
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  Speaker 1: Morning everybody.
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  Speaker 2: It is DJ n V, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy.
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  Speaker 2: We are the Breakfast Club. We got some special guests.
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  Speaker 1: In the building who keep a job, both of them
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  Speaker 1: from the new film That's Everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: May twenty fourth. We have Michelle who told around you
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  Speaker 2: did okay?
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  Speaker 1: All right? In Alana Glazer?
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  Speaker 3: Hi, Hey, thanks morning?
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  Speaker 1: Are you feeling this morning?
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  Speaker 4: Good feeling?
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  Speaker 5: Really?
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  Speaker 4: I mean this is it's like it's like Kwanza every day,
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  Speaker 4: like there's a movie out. It's crazy. Wrote it, you
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  Speaker 4: started it, you produced it.
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  Speaker 5: She's a powerhouse, not just being thrown out on some
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  Speaker 5: screaming platform.
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  Speaker 4: Correct, that's correct.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, I'm excited about that too. Also, press is
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  Speaker 3: like such an insane part of the job. But to
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  Speaker 3: do it with Michelle, we have been just laughing hoopy.
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  Speaker 4: I don't I haven't figured out my dosas yet, but
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  Speaker 4: I don't need it. Just do press, you know what
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  Speaker 4: I mean. It's crazy, but it's fun because we're also
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  Speaker 4: comedians and so we don't mind saying something or talking
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  Speaker 4: about something like twelve thousand times and I join it
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  Speaker 4: every time. It sort of just like, well, it's like sex.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you've got to use your imagination.
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  Speaker 3: To get it right.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, we got to ask some of the questions.
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  Speaker 1: Did you write the question in married sex?
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  Speaker 6: We we try to switch it up. We try to do.
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  Speaker 5: Yesime an edible, nobody, no details.
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  Speaker 4: Oh I love them. I was like, absolutely when you
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  Speaker 4: got a hemorrhoid, because that's too vulnerable. Good morning, everybody
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  Speaker 4: talk about.
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  Speaker 1: With the hemorrhoids to Babes. Okay, tell us what Babes
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  Speaker 1: is about for people that don't know.
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  Speaker 4: So.
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  Speaker 3: Babes is a movie, a heart comedy with a lot
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  Speaker 3: of heart, about two best friends, lifelong friends who are
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  Speaker 3: in very different places in their lives. Michelle's character, Dawn
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  Speaker 3: is married with two kids. My character Eden is a
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  Speaker 3: free spirit, spontaneous, totally naive to the responsibilities of parenting.
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  Speaker 3: And when my character Eden gets pregnant, she decides to
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  Speaker 3: keep the baby and it tests their friendship a crazy way.
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  Speaker 1: Was it a one night stand that you got pregnant?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, one, Yeah, a very special one night
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  Speaker 3: stand that touched this person.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Eden, That's how I met my husband too. So
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  Speaker 4: like yes, I always say open your mind, your heart,
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  Speaker 4: and your legs to love because you never know where
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  Speaker 4: you go find it.
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  Speaker 5: That's right, But you are of a certain age when
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  Speaker 5: that happened, right, Well, we're talking about what somebody I'm
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  Speaker 5: talking about because there was a certain level of experience
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  Speaker 5: and growth that came with the decision.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was. I was late twenties, early thirties, and
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  Speaker 4: so you have to be responsible too, cute for bacteria,
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  Speaker 4: get checked out on your sexuality. Definitely, have you know,
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  Speaker 4: hard conversations with people. I am interested, I'm not interested.
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  Speaker 4: And what I do love about this movie is that
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  Speaker 4: you know, I'm the only child, so I really call
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  Speaker 4: my friends my chosen family. And so it's always different
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  Speaker 4: when I have an argument with a cousin compared to
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  Speaker 4: like a best friend, because I'm like, I don't I
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  Speaker 4: don't like this confrontation. And I hope we're still friends
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  Speaker 4: after this, and we've been friends for a very long time.
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  Speaker 4: When this is the first time we're really working together,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, you work with your friend, you hope
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  Speaker 4: it ends well.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: And it was like stronger like a Kelly Clarkson song,
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  Speaker 4: thank God, because I was like, we don't know how
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  Speaker 4: it's going to go. But it was amazing.
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  Speaker 3: That is like such a risk, Like Michelle was was
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  Speaker 3: so busy having just written and preparing to shoot her
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  Speaker 3: first the first season of Survival of the Thickest her
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  Speaker 3: hit show on Netflix, and.
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  Speaker 4: They've seen it.
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  Speaker 1: Promoter.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so we really had to like work it, work
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  Speaker 3: it out to uh to get Michelle, which was amazing.
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  Speaker 3: But the other thing is like the risk of like
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  Speaker 3: how could it turn out in the end, But we're
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  Speaker 3: like closer than even closer than before, which is god, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: thank god.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's also just beautiful working with just bomb
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  Speaker 4: as women who have a vision and want to tell
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  Speaker 4: a story about you know, what happens to our bodies
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  Speaker 4: when we get pregnant, in our relationships not only with
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  Speaker 4: our partners but with ourselves and then our friends, and
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  Speaker 4: then you know what kind of like isolation you might
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  Speaker 4: be going through when you try to have a kid,
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  Speaker 4: and can you talk to anybody and can they relate?
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  Speaker 4: And how do you go back to work and have
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  Speaker 4: all this responsibility. So it's really like educating everybody you know,
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  Speaker 4: whether you have a kid or not, whether you know
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  Speaker 4: somebody with a kid or whatever it is. And it's entertaining,
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  Speaker 4: and once Pamela Adlon was attached as a director, I'm like,
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  Speaker 4: this is going to be good. Yeah, it because you know,
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  Speaker 4: she has five seasons of better things and she's just
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  Speaker 4: a powerhouse too when it really comes to leaning into
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  Speaker 4: the truth of what like a real female experience is like.
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  Speaker 5: And a lot of you you wrote this, right, is
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  Speaker 5: this like a I don't want to say an tension
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  Speaker 5: of Broad City, but Broad City told a very specific
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  Speaker 5: story of people in their twenties. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Now it's like a woman in there, like late thirties.
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  Speaker 3: It's totally like related the vie, you know. And my
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  Speaker 3: character eden Is is definitely similar to Alna Wexler the
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  Speaker 3: way she's like born out of me. I co wrote
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  Speaker 3: it with Josh Rabinowitz and he also wrote on Broad
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  Speaker 3: City and with actually the late great Kevin Barnett. They
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  Speaker 3: were a writing team.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And the character Claude is based on Kevin.
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  Speaker 6: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: The character that my my character Eden gets pregnant by
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  Speaker 3: is based on Kevin. And it was like it was
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  Speaker 3: really fun. We were like kind of writing in Kevin's voice.
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  Speaker 3: And Stepan killed it. Yeah, Stephan James killed it. Killed
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  Speaker 3: it really, I think Kevin would be thrilled. That's I
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  Speaker 3: know was being portrayed, was portraying him.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, was there of any thought like this is what
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  Speaker 5: Eden is what Alana would be doing.
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  Speaker 3: Now, it's like kind of you know, like it's totally related.
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  Speaker 3: And she's you know, she's chill, she's a stoner, she's weird,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in the same way that anything that I
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  Speaker 3: make that's like brilliant my voice is going to be
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  Speaker 3: related to me in that way.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna shoe you have babies.
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  Speaker 2: So did you enjoy pregnancy, Because some people enjoy pregnancy,
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  Speaker 2: they love it, and some people just absolutely positively hate it.
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  Speaker 2: Like Jess is not here today because every once in
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  Speaker 2: a while she gets tired of practice one.
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  Speaker 6: She's like, yeah, I'm good, like most women do, and.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, take a break. It's hard for us to say
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  Speaker 4: no because there's a lot of opportunities for us, especially
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  Speaker 4: to get paid equally, and so we got to show
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  Speaker 4: up and grow a body and like hopefully our uterus
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  Speaker 4: don't drop out on the floor and we're trying to
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  Speaker 4: interview somebody and be cute exactly. And so pregnancy, for me,
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  Speaker 4: this was like a very interesting movie for me to
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  Speaker 4: do because my body couldn't carry my kids, so we
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  Speaker 4: went down the circusy route. And so you know, for me,
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  Speaker 4: I really want to honor it was like to be
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  Speaker 4: pregnant because I never had that experience. So I'm also
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  Speaker 4: learning as a woman what that's like. But what I
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  Speaker 4: did bring to the table was being just a tired
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  Speaker 4: ass mom of five year old twins, where it's like,
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  Speaker 4: if I didn't have kids, I'd probably play this character like, hey, everyone,
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  Speaker 4: I got apple sauce. But when you're tired, just like,
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  Speaker 4: who want it? Open it? Okay, there, go get your
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  Speaker 4: apple sauce. You know what I mean. And so, you know,
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  Speaker 4: just even the nuance of like loving your family but
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  Speaker 4: the way you really talk to them when you're tired
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  Speaker 4: like that, And especially as a comedian, I want to
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  Speaker 4: make it light and bright and funny and fun and
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  Speaker 4: so the great thing about the writing with Josh Milana
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  Speaker 4: and then also the direction with Pamela, She's just like,
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  Speaker 4: you ain't got to say anything, just be still. On comedians,
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  Speaker 4: it's hard for us just to like hear silence, and
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, shouldn't we feel it with a joke and
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  Speaker 4: she's like, no, you are tired stare off into space,
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  Speaker 4: and I was like, oh, that's why I go to
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  Speaker 4: the bathroom and take my phone when I'm at home.
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  Speaker 4: That's right, it's my mean time.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, And the movie opens up with this unbelievable labor
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  Speaker 3: scene that Michelle does and the way that you conjured
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  Speaker 3: it's so funny because it's so real, the way that
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  Speaker 3: you like conjured that.
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  Speaker 4: I love physical comedy. It was that's the only kind
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  Speaker 4: of cardio I beget, and it's a physical comedy. It's
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  Speaker 4: so fun. It really is fun. I feel like people
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  Speaker 4: just don't let themselves fly anymore. But I also love
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  Speaker 4: these conversations too, because I even have family members that
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  Speaker 4: will forget that I did not give birth because I
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  Speaker 4: am so in motherhood. And there's no shame to this story.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's there's beauty and alternative family planning and
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  Speaker 4: alternative love and you don't have to be blood related
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  Speaker 4: to somebody to love them, which is like you know
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  Speaker 4: what Babes is about too, And so yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I don't mind at all, and it's not a mistake
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  Speaker 4: or a mishap on anybody. It's like, it's my story
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  Speaker 4: and I don't mind sharing it. At all, And like
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  Speaker 4: I it was sergacy was not legal in New York
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  Speaker 4: when I was going through it, and so I stopped
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  Speaker 4: with Andy Cohen and Albany and it's overturned nown so
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  Speaker 4: you know, just stational sergacy is legals. So if you,
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  Speaker 4: you know, have to go down that route, like whatever
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  Speaker 4: you want, like whether it's a kid or a career,
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  Speaker 4: whatever you want, I want that for you, just be
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  Speaker 4: a crazy bitch and go get it.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not a woman, so I can't speak to this,
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  Speaker 5: that's right, but I would feel like I feel like
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  Speaker 5: motherhood and carrying a child is two different things because
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  Speaker 5: you can be a saragate that carries the child, but
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  Speaker 5: you're not taking the journey of motherhood's And.
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  Speaker 3: Also like how hard you work to get to that
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  Speaker 3: place where you know, took you years to get to
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  Speaker 3: this place that you worked so.
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  Speaker 4: Five years, four losses, you work so hard to get
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  Speaker 4: your babies. Yeah, and also did comminate at the same time,
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  Speaker 4: you know what it is? Oh my lord, I'm sure
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  Speaker 4: you guys have been through hard stuff. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: what you've been through. Sometimes we don't. You share so
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  Speaker 4: much every day you have to keep something for yourself, right,
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  Speaker 4: But you know, I think there is power and sharing
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  Speaker 4: because then you do make people feel less alone. And
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  Speaker 4: also it's cathartic for you. So I don't mind.
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  Speaker 6: I'm learning a lot by watching.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I'm married with four kids, but I'm learning
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  Speaker 5: a lot by watching, just because she comes in here
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  Speaker 5: every morning, she does the show that she's flying to
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  Speaker 5: Charlotte and do stand up this weekend.
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  Speaker 6: So it's just no, I'm like, no, no, wow.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, you know what. We talked about this all the time.
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  Speaker 4: Rest is also productive. That's okay, sit down.
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  Speaker 2: She took a day off this week, and I was
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  Speaker 2: happy because most people don't want to. They feel like
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  Speaker 2: they don't want to lose the opportunity. But she get
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  Speaker 2: some She was like, guys, I'm fine, everything's okay. I'm
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  Speaker 2: just taking the day. And I respected that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the hardest one. You know. We have this
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  Speaker 3: like pulse and pulsing and pulsing to go, go, go,
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  Speaker 3: especially in New York, and you, yeah, you want to
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  Speaker 3: like show up as though you're at the front of
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  Speaker 3: the line too, so it's a real act of strength.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I hope she gets a nice foot rup, you know.
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  Speaker 5: You know, a lot of Michelle is in this film
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  Speaker 5: with you all been friends for twenty years, right when
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  Speaker 5: you write something, how do you know this is the
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  Speaker 5: best person for the role.
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  Speaker 6: Are this is my friend? Like, how do you know?
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  Speaker 5: You know?
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  Speaker 3: Like when I was writing this with Josh, we were
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  Speaker 3: also kind of writing it with our producer, Susie Fox.
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  Speaker 3: So Susie was the dawn in between us because Josh's
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  Speaker 3: wife and I were pregnant at the same time. We
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  Speaker 3: didn't know. I can't believe you have four kids as well.
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  Speaker 6: Talk for.
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  Speaker 3: God, that's amazing.
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  Speaker 4: The bathrooms you have. That is a sign of royalty.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, that is empire building, that's your ancest dream.
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  Speaker 4: Is incredible, that's the forty Oh my god, bathrooms. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: So Susie was like Michelle's role had a one in
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  Speaker 3: a three year old Josh and I. Josh's wife was pregnant.
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  Speaker 3: I was pregnant, so we didn't know. We were like
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  Speaker 3: my character who didn't know how hard it is to
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  Speaker 3: raise a kid And we can also be a person
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  Speaker 3: if you can manage it. So we like kind of
• 11:42
  Speaker 3: had our character dynamic filled as we were writing it,
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  Speaker 3: but then once we started getting to casting, we like
• 11:49
  Speaker 3: wrote it and were greenlit to make the movie quicker
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  Speaker 3: than I think usually happens. And when we were in
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  Speaker 3: the casting mode, like you know, I was getting these
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  Speaker 3: we were talking about lists of actresses and lists of
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  Speaker 3: women that you know, I admire, who I've I've watched
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  Speaker 3: in movies for years, but to see them like on
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  Speaker 3: a list, it was so flattening. I've been saying, like,
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  Speaker 3: do you remember when Mitt Romney was like I have
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  Speaker 3: binders full of women? No, no, Mitt Romney. She was
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  Speaker 3: like running, I guess for president.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that is so cute.
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  Speaker 4: It was so that's very Mormon. It was.
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  Speaker 3: It was Mormon. It was uh And she was like
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  Speaker 3: talking about Binder's sould woman and that's like what it was.
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  Speaker 3: And I was like this process is yeah, is like
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  Speaker 3: so this is not hot, you know, especially where I
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  Speaker 3: come from in comedy and like being inspired and writing
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  Speaker 3: characters based on people. And Michelle came to me in
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  Speaker 3: a dream. It was like the thing so obvious, it's
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  Speaker 3: right in front of your nose. And I became obsessed,
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  Speaker 3: like literally like her.
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  Speaker 4: She forced me into it. I was like, this is
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  Speaker 4: a first grip. I love you. I'm busy. She's like, no, bitch,
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  Speaker 4: you can do, I said, I'm potty training three year
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  Speaker 4: olds right now.
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  Speaker 3: I don't even And I'm not a forceful person. I
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  Speaker 3: do not like to force. I love consent. I do
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  Speaker 3: not like to force people. It was potential by the
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  Speaker 3: time she said yes, but by the time yes, yes,
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  Speaker 3: But but I was just like, damn, like this can't.
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  Speaker 3: I really can't see this as anybody but you, because
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  Speaker 3: like Michelle is so funny but so emotional and like
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  Speaker 3: has such a big heart, and she was the only
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  Speaker 3: person who could who could capture both sides.
• 13:20
  Speaker 2: And you really wanted a major movie release because with
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  Speaker 2: so many people doing netflixes and TVs and YouTube movies
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  Speaker 2: and this, you wanted to be in the major mab
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  Speaker 2: I mean.
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  Speaker 3: I could only dream. I could only fantasize about that.
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  Speaker 3: The fact that Neon wanted to do that was so exciting.
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  Speaker 3: And they've expanded the theatrical release bigger than we thought.
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  Speaker 3: We thought it would be I think five hundred theater Smax,
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  Speaker 3: but they've expanded it to like a thousand so far.
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  Speaker 5: So you're I think it's a great time because I'm
• 13:46
  Speaker 5: I like going to the movies, Like that's just something
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  Speaker 5: I enjoyed doing good for my mission.
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  Speaker 4: Late night.
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  Speaker 5: I like going to mad Na's, you know, but I
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  Speaker 5: don't mind like a six o'clock right, Yeah, I like
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  Speaker 5: my popcorn, my PM and M. So I'm at the
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  Speaker 5: point now where I'm looking for because so many's so
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  Speaker 5: many limited movies coming to theaters.
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  Speaker 6: I'm just looking for things that seem good to go see.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I hope you like it. Yeah, you're gonna love it.
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  Speaker 4: It's dope.
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  Speaker 6: I got seven bedroom school, by the way, I just
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  Speaker 6: thought about.
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  Speaker 5: Damn.
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  Speaker 4: And then you have a housekeeper every day. You have
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  Speaker 4: to have somebody coming in every day. You do know
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  Speaker 4: this adult thing? I just graduated.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 4: You don't hold you laundry. No, you're too busy for that.
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  Speaker 3: All the young girls two parents.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's amazing.
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  Speaker 6: I read what you said.
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  Speaker 5: You your character on Broad City also named Alana. Yeah
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  Speaker 5: said people thought that was you look you for that
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  Speaker 5: for years. Do you think that if you had to
• 14:43
  Speaker 5: use a different name, people would still feel.
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  Speaker 3: I think it. I think it would have changed things
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  Speaker 3: for sure, for sure. Yeah, And you know, I guess
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  Speaker 3: it's because we also started as a web series that
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: we were like just being ourselves. You know, it was
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  Speaker 3: like less less reason to be like protective or something.
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  Speaker 3: But definitely, and you know, I get it. I get
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  Speaker 3: white people mix it up. I mixed it up, you
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: know what I mean. I was like, yeah, I'm her.
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: And then it like took a while, especially it took
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: it ending to realize that I was me.
• 15:12
  Speaker 5: Oh, how long did it take to get a character
• 15:14
  Speaker 5: like that out of your system?
• 15:17
  Speaker 7: Like probably three years, so like realize, you know, and
• 15:23
  Speaker 7: bait's in your DNA when you do something and care
• 15:24
  Speaker 7: about something twenty four to seven, three sixty five, it's
• 15:27
  Speaker 7: very hard to let it go.
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm like doing a lot of work to
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: grow into a new person.
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, it's like a lovely break up, but it's
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: like a part of time. Yeah.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just kind of put her down. Yeah, you know,
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: and she's she's there. She's in fifty episodes, so I
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: got her.
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: Did you talk about some of the cravings women have, Like,
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: you know, I know my wife wanted ice cream and
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: strawberries every morning.
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: Oh did you get it?
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: Of course, just wanted tacos and she eats lasagna at
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: six o'clock in the morning.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: I'm done with the sav burritos.
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: Yeaheah me too savory.
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: You know what's so fun is that I called my
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: surrogate and asked her she had any cravings, and She's like,
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: I hate spaghetti with tomato sauce, and I just want
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: it every day. And I was like, damn my kids,
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: because I'm a pasta ho like morning, even and night.
• 16:15
  Speaker 6: I love pastaasta cars.
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: It's just pasta. I don't like bread, but pasta little
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: maine catchio, peppe, a rigatoni with a vodka sauce, like
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: a squat ink with like the lobster, and yes, but
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: like a good shrimp. Yes, with a little red chili
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: pepper flakes on a nice little buttery shot, A name,
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: get a little green apple on the back.
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: What do you like? What the between films and television?
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: I mean, besides the paycheck and the time on set?
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: Just kidding. I with TV you have to tell a
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: story a lot faster. You have to get to it.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: But with film there's time to breathe and grow and
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: think about what you could do and stuff, And that
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: editing process is probably harder because you have so much
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: more stuff because you can play around. But either way,
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: as a comedian, with a lot of heart. I mean,
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: it's it's really such a blessing to be doing this.
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: I mean, I remember you from like the Viacom days
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: where we weren't even getting paid, like Wendy Williams Gong
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: Show at Carolines or whatever. I never got goned.
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: You never got gone.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: No one never got gone. So, like you know, when
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: people are just like, how's it feel to be doing
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: all this stuff, It's just like I've been doing all
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: this stuff for free for like twenty years, and now
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: I'm just getting paid, you know what I mean? Thank
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: god we age will because it takes a while.
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: I loved I loved you, I loved First Wives Club.
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: Me. I don't know how me and my wife just
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: ended up going down a First Wives Club rabbit hole.
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: One oh no on BT plus or Netflix, Netflix, thank god,
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: I know no, she could be D plus.
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: So this is the best eleven ninety nine you'll ever spend.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: But it's time. No, we gotta see the Martin reruns somehow.
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: But like Netflix is such a great platform, and so
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: I'm so glad so many more people got to see
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: it because Joe Scott is so funny.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: The whole Castle yeah, jon.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: Rico Lee Yuma Delish.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: And I was gonna ask how to be and a
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: mom change you just in life? Right?
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: I always say when I have my kids, you look
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: at money differently, right because you think, damn, I.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Gotta pay for high school, I gotta pay for college,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: I gotta pay for this. So how has being a
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: mom changed you? Just in life? And everything scares me? Now.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: The other day were walking in the city and my
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: daughter just graduated from college.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: And congratulation, thank you.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: It was NYU.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: So they block off the street so they have like
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: this huge thing, and while she's enjoying.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Herself with the friends, I'm like, whyppen it? For car
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: breaks through this barricade. I'm like everybody would a book.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: In every movie.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Absolutely you check all the and you think you could
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: do it something. If something does happen, I'm like, you
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: get thinking like I'm gonna dive and grab her and push.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: Look, I will drive over a bridge when they were
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: like little babies and be like, okay, we get off
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: this bridge. I'm gonna go on the back, get both
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: car seats at the same time, like stick them in.
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: My bro.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Like a plum size mermaid.
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: Like think of.
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: All types of stuff. But for me being a parent,
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: I didn't think about money my creative like process. I
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: felt free. I was like life is beautiful and it's
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: meant to be lived and it's a miracle that we're here,
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: so let's just fly baby, and thank God. Like that's
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: that's when the money started coming, so.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, And I think that's like not a not
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: a coincidence. You know, there's like this like magnitude that
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: you're pulling where you're like I'm in my own world
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: and like then you become the sun, just pulling in
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: the other elements.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: Yes, come on, yoga class, down with dog.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: I've been like taking so much more pleasure in comedy
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: and like less stress less, like more from the inside out.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: I think this is what becoming a mom has given me,
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: where it's like in that same pull too, where like
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: you know, I don't know, used to like stress or
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: be like more anxious about stand up and TV and film,
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: but now it's like I'm really like drinking it in
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: and my my baby. It's three years old, so I'm
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: still in that like sort of baby phase and just
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: enjoying how like insanely cute it is. I can't even believe.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: But I'm I know I'm gonna be a.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: Oh I'm very anxious. I'm a helicopter, a law and mower.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: And I used to like, I'm not even like.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: I get called my oldest fifteen she called me a
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: helicopter day.
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: What is a lawnmower day?
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: I mean lawnmower is like I will, I will drive
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: over you to get it done. Like I'm glad that
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: you think you could climb this tree. You can't let
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: me get you down, okay. And my husband's European and
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: so it's very different being married to a person that
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: grew up in a place where the government actually takes
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: care of them. So he's like, let them see what.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: I'm like, No, no, okay, we don't have a ppo.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: Let's just not do that. City MD is open twenty
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: four hours, but I don't want to find out. So, like,
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: you know, I do want them. Creatively, I'm just like
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: fly baby, But physically he's just like let them see.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: So we're doing swimming lessons and stuff. But also one
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: thing I realized as like coming from a big Caribbean family,
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: I'm telling my kids you don't have to say hi
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: to everybody.
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: You know what I mean.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: You don't have to kiss everyone on the cheek, you
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: don't have to sit on their lap. You don't have to,
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: like that's your body, right, So if you don't feel
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: like doing all that, you don't have to. Because I
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: was always just you know, you know, and that's weird
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: for a lot of like my Caribbean family. But I'm like,
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: I don't care. Let them do what they want to do.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it makes it it's gross. You don't have to.
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: You don't have to. You don't have to sit on
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: everyone's lap.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: We could, yeah, totally.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: So you don't let them say hello to people if
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: they want to.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know they're polite, they're actually here.
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: I get the kids even think about how when we
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: were raised, like give me a kiss.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it was just like go there and say, Hi,
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: that's your uncle I never met.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: I gotta be enveloped by some man. Yeah.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: Like no, I mean they're very polite and they like people,
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: but they get overwhelmed too. Like I just did Colbert
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: the other night, and every like the whole team was
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: in the room and they're like, Mama, to have to
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: say how to everybody? I said, no, No, you could
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: just go like this or just look the other way.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, protect yourself, that's right.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: I think that we have this weird thing in our
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: mind where we think, you know, you learn boundaries at
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: a certain age. If a two year old, I got
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: a two year old home to two year said no, yeah,
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: give me a hug.
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: No, I don't want to.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: Respected exactly exactly the same, yes, and and us creating
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: a saved space for them to put up a boundary too,
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: because you know, I live in the Bronx. My kids
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: are could be going to public school. You know, they're
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: gonna have to learn boundaries and protect themselves with the
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: kids to.
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: Do more movies, Michelle one movies.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: We need federal.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Funding for education.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: My kids go to public school.
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: The only place I'm all for gentrification.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: Oh my god. I know because I went to school too.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: And I'm also like private school is just such a
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: foreign thing to me, and I'm like, how do you
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: learn what the world is?
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: I went to Catholic school and there was like more people,
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: There was more girls doing fast things and more drugs.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: And I mean I played soccer with this, like who
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: played soccer against this? Like old girl Catholic high school
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: and I remember so many of the girls got pregnant.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: They need a maternity uniform.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: What that's crazy?
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: Isn't that insane? So I don't know, there's something nice
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: about public school where it's like shared community. But also
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: please have a mal detective the Wow, she's right though.
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: You just need more. You need to invest more into this.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: That's right. Yes, yeah, I shouldn't have to make more
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: money to send my kids pay nicer. This is this, this,
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: this is the country we live in. I'm voting for you.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: You know, you have my tax styles and I want
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: potholes and just like you know, tired teachers. You know,
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: healthcare shouldn't be a luxury.
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: How important is the female bond in friendship when you
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: have like these big things happen in your life, like
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: like giving birth, like these big life changes.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: I mean it's everything. Yeah, it's like the foundation, I think.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: And also like just to hear like the real minutia
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: and the real details of how you're doing it. That
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: was something when we were making babes between Pamela and
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: you and me to talk about how we actually get
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: it done. It's like new ideas for like lunches or whatever.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: It's like so useful.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was definitely. I realized that all of us
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: use there a time, very wisely. And for me being
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: the first time creator starring in working with Pamela who's
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: a creator starring in five seasons, then also Alana, I
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: was like, this is just like a beautiful ass masterclass.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: And then going to my set and working with Tasha
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: Smith in garcel Bouve, I'm just like, you know, there
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: is a sisterhood no matter where you're from, And it's
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: like if you don't talk about it, like my therapist
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: isn't always available and she's expensive, so talk to your friend.
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: How much an hour?
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: Oh my god? Really? Okay it was two fifteen, Now
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: it's one seventy five fifty.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Well, I got a lot of camera, that's what I
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: was paying to fifty.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: So even the cameraman is like, see yeah.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Oh now you got to heal me for two fifty.
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: You need some raakings stuff. Yeah, it was a lot.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Damn Yeah.
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: Is Tobobla the tickets coming back?
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: It is? Where in the writer's room we're gonna be
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: filming season two And I got like a crazy ass
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: show coming up at Radio City Music Hall.
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: Did I read that the first the first.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: Woman ever to tape a special at Radio City. Gradually,
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: thank you so much. Yeah, I'll put you on the
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: list if you can get a babysitter. Y'all got a
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: lot of kids.
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: Would love to.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Okay, why why did you choose Radio City?
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: Just put a historical no.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: No.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: I opened for Johnson van Ness, who is on Queer
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: Eye on Netflix. I opened for them in twenty nineteen
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: and didn't even realize that I could play a stage
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: like that because I've never been given the opportunity before.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: And I got a standing ovation after fifteen in a set,
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: and I was like, what is this feeling? This is like,
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: why am I doing this unless I'm challenging myself? And
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: so I always had my eye on the prize, but
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: never thought I could do it because you know, I
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: don't want to constantly talk about what women are not
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: getting paid, but it's like those dreams aren't always in
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: the budget. And then I realized, like, I'm not doing
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: this for money. I'm doing this for like higher power,
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: a greater purpose, you know. For me growing up, it
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: was like will be Goldberg and Simbad, there's gotta be more,
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: you know, And so I just always want black, brown,
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: fat or whatever, you know, whoever to like at least
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: see my set and be like, oh my god, Radio
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: City I don't even know. I can go see the broadcasts,
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: let alone film is special there. And so when I
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: just I just want to look at the place. You know,
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: you ever go like on a on a housing tour
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: and just look at the house. You can't afford what
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: it would look like it feel like. So that's what
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: it was like. And I was like, who else, Like
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: what other females performed here and taped a special? You know,
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: It's kind of like looking at an apartment and be like,
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: anyone die here and.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Before you?
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: And they were like, no one. And then I got
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: the goosies. The right nipple got hard because that's the
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: one that really is awake now. And I said, Okay,
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: I gotta do this. I gotta do it. And so
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: June sixth, Yes, everybody come out, and you know, bring
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: two thousand of your friends.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Let's come and let's make it happen.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: I'm excited on New York. I also want to take
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: a hot shit every time I think about it.
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: That's good. That means it means something to you, truly. Yeah,
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: is that. Yes, anxiety kicks in, yeah, regularly now a ritual.
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: A lot of the title babes, Like some people would
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: say babes can be a derogatory term, dependent on the context, offensive,
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: dependent on the context.
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: So why the title babes?
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: I mean, we went through a lot of titles. I'd
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: love to be called a babe.
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, some people can.
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: It's not widely considered, but something dependent on the context.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: Something to a woman. But I love it. Uh, we
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: just had a listed titles, Yeah you did, and they
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: were sort of like also like punny, and it was
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: like eh, and Josh pitched pitched babes, and you know,
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: it was like also, I think the scope we were
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: going for, like we really wanted to make a studio
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: comedy that had a lot of heart, something really funny,
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: but that you also could tear up or cry at,
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: and Babes just felt like it was putting the movie
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: on the map where it was supposed to be.
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good name, babes.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: I know, Josh, do you.
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: All care about wokeness when you're writing?
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Now?
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: Do you worry about things like that?
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: Oh? Here we go?
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: Like do you care? Do you just write?
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: I mean also like wokeness at this point, like the
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: term what is it? Like who's who is slinging the
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: term changes the meaning of it. But I feel like,
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: I don't know, just holding values of like humanizing characters
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: and letting different kinds of people be complicated and complex
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: keeps it, keeps the dignity in both the writing and
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: then for the people performing those roles. So other than that,
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: I'm I'm not even sure what that means.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: Ye, Like I thinks wokeness, you know, the term woke is.
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: I think a lot of performers are sort of weaponizing
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: that word because you know, a lot of like you
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: can't say stuff. It's like you can't say stuff, but
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: is it funny? Did you work hard enough on it
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: to make it funny? So you know, we can talk
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: about things and we can say raunchy, hard whatever stuff,
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: but you know, make it funny. If not funny, then thought.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: But fucking don't be lazy when you're making that much money,
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: is all I'm saying.
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: That's very true. Does comedy have to offend?
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: I mean I don't. I don't. I feel like hot
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: saw should offend to be good, But I don't know
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: about comedy feel something, you know what I mean. Like,
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: I guess.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: Offense, like offending is subjective cause it's like pushing an
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: edge against, up against what you're normally allowed to talk about.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: So I guess it would offend people. Like people are
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: calling this movie so raunchy and and and raunch calm,
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: and I'm like, it just feels real to me. So
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: if I'm not offending someone else to make a joke,
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: I'm using myself and someone else happens to be offended
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: by it, you know what I mean. So I guess
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: it does have to be offensive in that way because
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: it's it's pushing up against what's normally allowed.
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: I've seen people say the movie is raunchy and it
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: makes me want to do they really think it's raunchy?
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: Are is certain topics about women just make certain people uncomfortable?
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: I think that's it. Yeah, that's it. Like, you know,
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: women go through your ship, but be quiet about it, right,
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: you know, show up, but don't be you know, don't
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: be too sexy. Just be sexy enough that you know
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: we can tolerate you. Right, have the baby, Why don't
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: you want a baby? Okay, but get back to your baby. Wait,
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: you know what I mean, it's like, what are all
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: these rules we have on our bodies? Also, can we
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: just live and talk about it?
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: You know?
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we really talk in the movie like we talk like, yes,
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: I see why that would offend some people, you know.
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's also like, you know, we play like lifelong
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: friends from Queens and so I'm from Jerseys, she's from
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: Long Island. This is just how we like speak to
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: each other whatever, and so people find that. People find
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: an defense when I say hello, and I'm like, and
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: I've truly because I'm married to a Dutch gun. I
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: used to make a joke about it because he's like,
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: why are you so aggressive? I was like, I just
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: asked you how you want your eggs?
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: How do you ask it? How do you want your eggs?
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: I think he only.
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: Heard d m X like white white, how it sounds.
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that is an interesting point, though.
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: You can make people uncomfortable just by forcing them to
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: have a discussion. Yeah, I know, you know, we got
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: to talk about these issues.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Why do you think people are so afraid
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: to sort of run into the burning building of conversation.
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: I think that we need to open it up I
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: think we need to set buildings on fire on purpose
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: sometimes just to have of the discussion.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: I think people don't want to be truthful, though, and
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: I think they fear truth because with this society, you
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: get canceled for being regardless of what you believe in.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: So I think a lot of people they look at
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: what social media goes to ye then they follow like sheep.
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: Which makes me wonder if you even believe what you
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: say you believe, because if you say you believe something exactly,
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: you would have no problem saying it, no problem discussing
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: So there's it's almost like everyone has like a dual
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: personality who are with their friends and who they are
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: on social media. Yeah, you know it is hard too though,
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: because social media is a revolving resume, so if you
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: speak to power, you could lose jobs and representation and
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: friendships and so you know. I always thought the hardest
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: part about being a parent would be, like, you know,
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: raising them, the money, the bullying, the racism, but also
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: like trying to figure out how to teach my kids
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: how to define their worth and power without likes and
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: followers is something I don't even know how to wrap
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: my mind around. Right now, Like I don't even know how. Like,
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: especially having four girls.
• 34:05
  Speaker 6: I don't let them use social media? Oh no, what
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: I don't let them use especially.
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: When you read all these stories about how a lot
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: of these big tech guys they don't even let their talk.
• 34:18
  Speaker 6: To have a phone.
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: The great book out called The Anxious Generation, that's right,
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: and it just talks about how social media and we
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: knew this already, but it just really goes in different houses,
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: ruining people's mental emotional health, especially kids. So why would
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: I why would I use?
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: Are you on your phone around your kids?
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: Yes?
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: But I try to practice good habits and not be Yeah,
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: so I try to just put it away, you know,
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: especially like tonight, I'll be we got this cuddle time tonight,
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: we'll be.
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: Watching Yeah, come on, ma wana, let's go.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: I teach the older ones to use it as a tool, right.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: I have one that just graduated from n y U
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: and she's twenty two. She's doing real estate, so I
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: teach her how to use it as a mold herself.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: I have a twenty year old who goes to University
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: of Miami, and I, you know, teach them.
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: How to six six okay.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Oh my and my wife been together thirty years, so
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: six but less, but the younger.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Ones not, you know, but seven could dance.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: So but that's how they communicate with their dance friends
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: because they send each other dances through YouTube.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: But as long as it's private, I don't have a
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: problem with it.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: But I tell them teach them to use it as
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: a tool, and they've been pretty good with it and
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: not letting it affect them.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: And I think that's the.
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: Even conversations around sex, the milkays and even knowing their sexuality,
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: if they want to wear a bra not on the
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: crop top and stuff. Is that that you leave to
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: your wife or do y'all do it together or sometimes
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: you do it too, like because you can't stop doing it.
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: You got to keep having that conversation.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Right For me, it's my wife, okay, But I give
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: my kids the jokes regardless, like they give me jokes.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: I give them jokes. It is whatever it is.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: But when it comes to that sex conversation, my wife
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: definitely one thousand percent leads and I just fall into
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: place because it's still uncomfortable. Like my daughter's twenty two,
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: and it's like she has a boyfriend. I don't want
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: to know if you're having problems whatever, go talk to mom.
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: Can you look at the boyfriend and know if he's
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: a good dude.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: He is a good dude. I do like him.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: They actually the last semester they've been staying at my house,
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: same bedroom, same bedroom.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: Wow, dad, love your dad, Love your dad.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: But I'm gonna tell you why me.
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: And my thirty years old a separate bedrooms?
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: We were married, But you don't know why me and
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: my wife, Yes, we were together in college. She was
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: a old dominion. I went to hamp University. So my
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: last year my parents and her parents are like, Yo,
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: they're always together. Why are we paying for separate places?
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Put them together? And and it's the same thing. They've
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: been together for three years. They're always together.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: And they're in that house. So what did y'all married though?
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: In college?
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: No, got married early.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: No, we got married at twenty two. But we were
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: in college in nineteen twenty one. We were together.
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: I mean it took me longer to graduate college, but
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: I do appreciate it.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So they do stay in the same bed, and
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: he does stay and I like him because I can
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: see how he's around the other kids.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: I see how he's around.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: When with my wife, if groceries, he's grabbing the groceries,
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: he's washing the dishes, he's he's.
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: Got a free room and body better.
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: But you can't teach thoughtfulness like you just have it,
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: you know. And I always said I don't need to
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: marry somebody rich. I just need somebody with ambition and
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: who's thoughtful because money can always come, that's right. Yeah, yeah,
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: I do. Yeah, I feel like I wouldn't be able
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: to be with someone who didn't have who wasn't excited
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: about something by himself, like have your own life. Like
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: I push him out all the time, I like, go
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: out with your boys, because he doesn't mind staying home.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: I'm like, go out. And that's the thing about this
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: movie too. All the men in this movie are men.
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: Like my character has a supportive husband who's like, you
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: should go out. Stop trying to breastfeed, nothing's happening, get stressed.
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: Go and I and I love that representation for me,
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: especially brown men because Hassin, Yeah, he plays my husband,
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: and it's and it's just like and it's very queens
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: if you think about it's even Queen's public school friend
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: for real. But yeah, I feel like we don't see
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: enough of that because it feels like it's always like, oh,
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: what am I gonna do with the babies coming? My
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: favorite thing is ruins. It's like your favorite thing is
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: surfing turf. Shut the fuck up and we'll go to Sammy.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: I like to go out. I like to go out
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: your own relationship.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: Do you like to go out with girls night or
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: do you say nah, I'd just rather be home with
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: the family, you.
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: Know, I have like I have friends, Like I'm friends
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: with the same amount of like men and women. Especially
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: when you do comedy, you're friends with total life. So
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: like it is what it is, and comedy is like
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: a night out. So I like the kitten heels on. Yep,
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: you know, give me the white wine. Puts some ice
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: in it so it could last longer. Yeah, and so yeah,
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: I like to have people over. I'm a host now,
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: I liked it. I mean, I have three bathrooms, but
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: I host.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: I like, God is good.
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: I know, yeah, I know, I like.
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: To like to cuddle like Charlene does. But also, like
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: you know, if I'm going out for comedy, it's like
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: I'm out, I'm seeing the community, I'm seeing the people.
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: So is one, Yeah, we're doing it.
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: We all intentional about the menu chose to be in
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: a film like this, So you got a Samanaj and
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: all of the Platt and John Carole Lynch.
• 39:21
  Speaker 6: Were you intentional just.
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: Like Hasson was was intentional for sure. And also, like
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: you know, in comedy and in this movie and in
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: my experience, it's all so derived from real people that
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: I know who've been doing it and in comedy for
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: so long. So Hassin I called and asked, Yeah.
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, And I've known him for a really long time.
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: We used to do the road together. We did colleges
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: together because book us for like Black History Month lol.
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: And he also is you know, working with two kids, right,
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: and so it was nice that we all brought our
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: tired parents experience and added comedy to it. And he's
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: such a good act. He's such a good act, a
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: good nice comedians in a different light, I.
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: Know, he really like gave it. He really gave like
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: the the heft to his character too. And he's not
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: just like this like great husband who's like so happy
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: to be there. He's also annoyed, he's exhausted, it's lots,
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: he's upset or whatever. It was. He was great, and
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: the other guys kind of came later. Oliver Platt that
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: was really cool, real New York cast. Oliver platte on Caroline.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: Now you're from Long Island, right.
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, from Suffoc County.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: No, you're from Jersey.
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Trenton, Trenton, New Jersey hood. You know what. I
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: was on the other side of the tracks.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: Okay, I know there was the other side of the.
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: Cheerleing competition, and it just looks like a very like
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: a factory town almost.
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Trenton takes the world makes whatever the fuck.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: The world.
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: I'm dyslexic. I'm glad I'm not there.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: You're not glad.
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: Bronx I was the best saying for a while, and
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: I love the community and best side. But I was like,
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: you know, I have dogs and kids. Now, I was like,
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: I need windows and doors and stuff, and so you
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: look at water, yeah, and I live by the water.
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: The Bronx is interesting. There's there's a different soul to them.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: Live on the other side of the Bronx. She's not
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: the Bronx that you're thinking.
• 41:18
  Speaker 8: Island.
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: So if you want to come over and get out,
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: comes to the island. We got all the crab legs.
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: Come.
• 41:30
  Speaker 6: People in America come from the Bronx and all of Florida.
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: What's that?
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: The craziest people in America come from the Bronx and
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: all of Florida.
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: Oh my god. I went to College of Florida. I
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: actually went to I'm a mask, Thank god, I have freckles.
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: Solid friendly, but she's crazy. I went to Florida International University,
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: but I want to go to the u of M
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: because all my cousins went there. But I wasn't smart enough,
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: and so, you know, it was interesting, but it was fun.
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: What I love about South Florida is like closer to
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: like most Caribbean countries and like US states. So you
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: get this like crazy flavor of just like loving your
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: body and celebration of your body. And it's a very interesting.
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: It's a good education, I think outside of school too.
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: That's when I started going to like strip clubs for
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: fun and I was like, whoa, this is crazy.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: There's a pool on campus, Like my son is having
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: the best time.
• 42:18
  Speaker 8: Every cool. Yeah, but babes babes comes out of there.
• 42:29
  Speaker 8: And we appreciate you guys for joining us. Thank you
• 42:30
  Speaker 8: so much on this Frida.
• 42:31
  Speaker 6: Whate w lat quotes. What does success look like all?
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: In regard to.
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: Babes, you know, success has changed the question you asked
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: before about having kid. How it's changed me. Success has
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: changed for me into like taking pleasure in the process.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: So Babes is already a success. Man, I'm having so
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: much fun and had so much fun. Thank you for
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: doing it. You are so funny and amazing, So you
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: for having It's a success.
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: What about.
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: I mean to be honest, I feel like this should
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: be a jump off, like more female powerhouses should be
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: telling stories about their bodies, especially with what's happening in America.
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: It's like, you know, culture means something. Books are getting banned,
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: laws of fun are being made, So make the movie
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: and the TV shows while you can. And let's not
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: stop there, Like let's have a hilarious comedy about trans
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: people like trans comm transrom com I don't know, or
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: like non binary people like you know, as we are
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: evolving and learning about like what we can and cannot
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: do or whatever, it's just like, let's just tell more
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: stories for us, by us, so we can educate and entertain.
• 43:43
  Speaker 6: We need Republican Congress people to be mad at.
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: Baits, love it to get mad.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: Okay about it.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: Bright Art, well, thank you guys.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: For joining us. Fourth It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning,
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: wake that ass up in the morning.
• 44:03
  Speaker 6: Breakfast Club
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: M hm.