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Nicole Travolta On Debt, Hollywood Rejection, Social Media Fakes, and Starting Over in NYC · Cats & Pudding with Jennifer Dilandro

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  Speaker 1: This is the Cats in Footing Podcasts, a melting pot
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  Speaker 1: of footing. And now here's Jen.
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  Speaker 3: Good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to this week's episode of
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  Speaker 3: Kats and Pudding. And today, Oh my god, I have
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  Speaker 3: such a great Cats today. I am so honored that
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  Speaker 3: she's here today. And I love her and I'm proud
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  Speaker 3: to pull horror friends, and she's so sweet and it's
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  Speaker 3: miss niculture Volta.
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  Speaker 4: I love you too, and I'm so happy to call
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  Speaker 4: you a friend.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so happy that you hear. I am too, and
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  Speaker 3: you are hear in New York because you have a
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  Speaker 3: show that you're doing.
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  Speaker 4: I do have a show I'm hanging by a thread.
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  Speaker 3: Show.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you for coming.
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  Speaker 3: It was amazing unapologetic, right, yeah, I mean I think
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  Speaker 3: that that's what it is.
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  Speaker 4: Right, It's like the pain and the vulnerability. Then you
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  Speaker 4: turn it into a comedy with some you know, emotional
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  Speaker 4: through lines. I think it's like that's what you know
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  Speaker 4: makes it, makes it go round, I suppose.
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  Speaker 3: So it's about it's about your your your your your
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  Speaker 3: navigation through your financial woes and and tanning I have
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  Speaker 3: but I'm Italian. Yeah, I go in the sun one
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  Speaker 3: day and I'm I'm dark. I'm dark.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, It's it's really and like this that's how I
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  Speaker 4: kind of got out of the financial woes, right. But
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  Speaker 4: I think it's important to make it very clear that
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  Speaker 4: everyone has like side jobs and stuff. It wasn't like,
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  Speaker 4: oh my god, a poor girl had to be a
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  Speaker 4: spray tanner like after like not at that at all.
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  Speaker 4: It just was so funny to me that because I
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  Speaker 4: was solely acting and then creating this sort of alternate
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  Speaker 4: lifestyle for myself by way of credit cards and getting
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  Speaker 4: myself into all of this crippling debt, then now way
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  Speaker 4: I sort of navigated out of it from the financial
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  Speaker 4: standpoint was through spray tanning, which then it's like the
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  Speaker 4: roles shifted and I was then doing this job creating
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  Speaker 4: perfection for other people or Hollywood's elite, while I was
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  Speaker 4: trying to sort of rip away this perfection that I
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  Speaker 4: had created for myself.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, and when did you start acting? How old were
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  Speaker 3: you when you started? A kid?
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to do this my whole life, which is
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  Speaker 4: so cliche everyone, you know, like I think it's like
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  Speaker 4: something that, but I really did. I never wanted to
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  Speaker 4: do anything else.
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  Speaker 3: I called Uncle John de Voltabody, So that's.
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  Speaker 4: Why I always wanted to do it. Just kind of
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  Speaker 4: all I knew, you know, and almost a lot of
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  Speaker 4: people don't know this, but I say it in the show,
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  Speaker 4: But my mom really kind of grew up in this
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  Speaker 4: industry and her family was in the production side. Her
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  Speaker 4: uncle from my great uncle was the senior vice president
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  Speaker 4: of post production at Paramount Studios for a film and
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  Speaker 4: parent from from Motion Pictures, So they it was just
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  Speaker 4: innately in my like, that's kind of all that I knew.
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  Speaker 4: Now doesn't mean I could, yeah, like right, but I'm
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  Speaker 4: not an Eppo baby, I'm an EPO niece. I want
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  Speaker 4: to make that very clear.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, it's a lot different.
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  Speaker 4: It's a lot different, a little different, but it's the
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  Speaker 4: feeling of like, Okay, this is what I know, this
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  Speaker 4: is what I want to do. But my journey was
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  Speaker 4: not like nothing was handed to me for us. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I had to I auditions, auditions and hundreds and hundreds
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  Speaker 4: that I never got.
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  Speaker 3: How does that feel? Do you? Did that affected you?
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  Speaker 1: Well?
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  Speaker 3: The nose and the reductions.
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  Speaker 4: I think that we say that it doesn't in many ways,
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  Speaker 4: like we're like, oh, we have a thick skin or whatever.
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  Speaker 4: But at a certain point it does get to a
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  Speaker 4: bit taxing, you know, and then you get some and
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  Speaker 4: then it's like a snowball effect and they're like, sh
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  Speaker 4: this is work. It's happening, like this is the thing
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  Speaker 4: that I dreamed of, Like this is amazing whatever, and
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  Speaker 4: then there's more nose or then you your life takes
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  Speaker 4: a turn and you're not you have to be in
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  Speaker 4: such I feel like for this industry to your mental state,
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  Speaker 4: I think is also so important. And when I started
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  Speaker 4: going through all of this stuff with my ex and
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  Speaker 4: my my finances and then just sort of hitting this
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  Speaker 4: sort of rock. No, I don't want to say, like
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  Speaker 4: rock Bottom is very exensive, but it was a bottom
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  Speaker 4: of it was my bottom at that time. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 4: it starts to affect you in your work and when
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  Speaker 4: you're going in an auditioning because you're like desperate, like
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  Speaker 4: I needed this job. This isn't like a thing where
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  Speaker 4: you can do I'm just doing it, like you know,
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  Speaker 4: I needed that job. Every time I walked in for
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  Speaker 4: those auditions, I was like, if I don't get this job,
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  Speaker 4: I'm screwed. And that desperation, I think can come off
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  Speaker 4: in an audition like absolutely want to feel it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So but yeah, I think the nose it's hard, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's it's difficult. That's why I really wanted to do
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  Speaker 4: this and why I think it's so great. Like when
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  Speaker 4: we were just talking about all the things that you're
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  Speaker 4: doing and all the things that you do as a woman,
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  Speaker 4: I think you're giving not only your you're you have
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  Speaker 4: all these your hands in all these different pots. You
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  Speaker 4: also are creative acting, and then you have this podcast,
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  Speaker 4: and you are also giving a platform for other people
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  Speaker 4: to speak and tell stories or talk about you know,
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  Speaker 4: their lives or interesting conversations or whatever. And I think
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  Speaker 4: that that's the best thing you can do right now,
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  Speaker 4: because the industry itself, I feel to rely on it solely,
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  Speaker 4: just auditioning and going into these rooms. It's just getting
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  Speaker 4: more and more difficult. So to me, I'm like, what
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  Speaker 4: what a what a better? What better position than to
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  Speaker 4: be able to have something that you can do yourself.
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  Speaker 4: It's yours and then you can get get there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: like you you you're in the driver's seat. Yeah you
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  Speaker 4: have something to you know, like an additional thing that
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  Speaker 4: you could.
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  Speaker 3: Offer, you could offer them. Yeah, yeah, I mean I
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  Speaker 3: feel that way, and I feel like it's I mean,
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  Speaker 3: the industry's totally has changed. I mean years ago, what
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  Speaker 3: was it you'd have to go in for go in
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  Speaker 3: for an addition. Now now they just want people to
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  Speaker 3: you just want tapes now, And I can't stay in
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  Speaker 3: the tapes. I'm insane. I feel like awkward when I'm
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  Speaker 3: doing these tapes. Sometimes, even though I'm like always on
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  Speaker 3: social media, I'm always recording myself for some reason, when
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  Speaker 3: you'll like talk into a camera and you're speaking lines
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  Speaker 3: and they're like you don't want to know how what
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  Speaker 3: you look like, and you feel like you look weird
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  Speaker 3: when you're talking. Sometimes I don't know, like I always
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  Speaker 3: feel like a lot I was feeling a little weird.
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  Speaker 4: I also just miss it's even like just I miss
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  Speaker 4: human interaction. So the best part of auditioning back when
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  Speaker 4: you would go in person is that when you walked
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  Speaker 4: into a room, they could like capture your essence, right,
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  Speaker 4: so you could go in and have these moments like
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  Speaker 4: it's so nice to meet you. Sometimes that in general,
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  Speaker 4: I think, is like, oh, this is like a nice, humble,
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  Speaker 4: kind individual who's grateful to be here. Like you lose
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  Speaker 4: that completely when you are putting in a self tape.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, it was to think about it. People act on
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  Speaker 3: social media, right, right. I mean I've met people lots
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  Speaker 3: of people that on social media look like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the best guy around or the best girl around, and
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  Speaker 3: then you know you meet them in person, I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: this guy's this asshole, like you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, And I think that is very I mean, no, listen,
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  Speaker 4: I think some of the most wonderful people that I've
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  Speaker 4: ever met are through social media. If I hadn't met
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  Speaker 4: you know, all of the people that we have in common,
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't have met, you know what I mean. So
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  Speaker 4: there's still so beautiful, there's a bad, there's a balance.
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  Speaker 4: But I then you meet some people who portray themselves
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  Speaker 4: as these specific sort of specific types of people and
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  Speaker 4: they're just and they are anything but, And I'm like,
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  Speaker 4: that's so disappointing because you're really portraying like I am
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  Speaker 4: your best friend, and then you meet them.
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  Speaker 3: And then it's like nothing now and it's not the same.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that like that kind of you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think social media has changed the game a lot, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: don't you feel that way? Yes?
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  Speaker 4: When was the last audition you went on before I came?
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  Speaker 4: I went I had an audition for I don't even
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  Speaker 4: met my episode? What did I have? Days of Our Lives?
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  Speaker 3: Really?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? When soap operas aren't? I mean I had so
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  Speaker 4: much fun And I love the casting director. Her name
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  Speaker 4: is Marnie. She's unbelievable in such an actor lover. Like
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  Speaker 4: I think that's really important that you know these casting directors.
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  Speaker 4: I think there's some that are just so they love
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  Speaker 4: actors and they're so supportive, and she is so fantastic.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, obviously soap operas aren't. That's like my It's
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  Speaker 4: like comedy has always been my bread and better but
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  Speaker 4: it was fun, Like it was, Yeah, it was fun
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  Speaker 4: and the role was sort of comedically fun and it
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  Speaker 4: was great and you know, but again you're like, I
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  Speaker 4: was literally at my mom's house. My mom was reading
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  Speaker 4: with me, and I had like boxes set up with
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  Speaker 4: my phone on the tripod but then lifted higher with
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  Speaker 4: my computer so I could also be on this zoom.
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  Speaker 4: But they're like taping and then doing all these things,
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  Speaker 4: and it was just like, what is happening? What am
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  Speaker 4: I doing right now? Like it just looks like a dia.
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  Speaker 4: This is so ridiculous.
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  Speaker 3: If anybody's sold the background the phone on my phone
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  Speaker 3: so crazy. It was like a box.
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  Speaker 4: And yes, it's so it's such a funny experience to
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  Speaker 4: be able to do it that way. But I miss
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  Speaker 4: there's especially in La you have to sit in your
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  Speaker 4: car for so many hours to get from one to
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  Speaker 4: the god. But I do miss that, you know, you
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  Speaker 4: like walk onto the lot like the Warner Brothers on
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  Speaker 4: your there's like a there's a magic that happens that
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  Speaker 4: you don't get anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because they don't have auditions on the lots anymore.
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  Speaker 4: Not really, very rarely. Everything is on zoom.
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  Speaker 3: Really.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe if you're screen testing for something, then you'll
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  Speaker 4: have to come in or maybe if there's like some
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  Speaker 4: colob ex, A lot of it is on zoom now
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  Speaker 4: it's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: And that also probably changed a lot because of COVID too,
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure. Yeah. And then people then I kept when I.
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  Speaker 4: Like, that's why I love again, like being here. It's
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  Speaker 4: just like so nice it is, isn't it nice?
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  Speaker 3: And you know, then that's why I like to unpark
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  Speaker 3: my podcast in person. I feel like it's just you
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  Speaker 3: get such a better you know, show, and a better
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  Speaker 3: feel for the person when you're doing it, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: and really, you know, sitting across from one another instead
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  Speaker 3: of looking at somebody on you know, FaceTime or on zoom.
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  Speaker 4: I totally agree.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's just a different And I have phones
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  Speaker 3: are on and you're talking and the ugly pictures in
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  Speaker 3: the background behind them, Yeah, it's because you're like now
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  Speaker 3: you're looking at all the stuff behind them or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: It's just I feel like this is just I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I think I think human interaction has really changed over
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  Speaker 3: the last since I'm a kid. I mean, I know
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  Speaker 3: that I'm the last generation that doesn't know the world
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  Speaker 3: when I'm an internet. Isn't that crazy? Crazy? Birth the Internet?
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  Speaker 3: But we know the world without it? Yeah, that's that's
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  Speaker 3: isn't that crazy? Yes? And it was a lot simpler then.
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  Speaker 3: It was so much better. Everybody's everybody's head.
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  Speaker 4: Is down in their phone. It's so wild how reliant
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  Speaker 4: we are on these things now too, because I also
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  Speaker 4: when I you know when before, when I was driven, now,
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  Speaker 4: when I started driving, there was no we didn't have
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  Speaker 4: you know, Google Maps probably had navigation, we did, or
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  Speaker 4: we did map My dad would print map quests, right,
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  Speaker 4: map quests, yep, and you would have to like, fine,
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  Speaker 4: you know.
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  Speaker 3: You know what on my map quest? Was pen and paper?
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  Speaker 3: That was on map? Yes, that was it? Or a
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  Speaker 3: map or like a fold out map. I wouldn't know.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think any of these kids know how to
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  Speaker 3: read a map? The United States? They don't even know
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  Speaker 3: what the what the capital is. It's it's really scary.
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  Speaker 4: It's like it's really it's become now that if your
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  Speaker 4: phone dies, you're dead. You're screwed.
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  Speaker 3: You can't get anywhere, you can't get any money, and
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  Speaker 3: you can't do anything. You can't order a cab, you
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  Speaker 3: can't order uber, you can't order food, you can't call anybody,
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  Speaker 3: you can't go anywhere because there's no directions, right, So
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  Speaker 3: you have to just be self reliant.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't that great that this made us unself reliant?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's the scariest thing in the world if
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  Speaker 4: you again, people don't have their cards anymore. Everything's on
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  Speaker 4: their phone. So if you go to the store and
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  Speaker 4: you're trying and your phone's dead and you're trying to
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  Speaker 4: do like the tap thing, yeah, you're done.
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  Speaker 3: You're food. That's it. Because if you don't carry your
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  Speaker 3: cards with you, you're done. Yeah, that's it. I still
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  Speaker 3: carry my cards with me. I still carry cash. I'm
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  Speaker 3: still carry my dad is always has me. He's like,
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  Speaker 3: you got to always make sure that you have and
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  Speaker 3: I never do. That's a true time.
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  Speaker 4: He Yeah, he's like he always has he always has cash.
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  Speaker 3: I always have cash on me. That's what said.
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  Speaker 4: He actually said to me the other day. He was like,
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  Speaker 4: cash is king, that's what he's going.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is. It's still king to us. I mean, look,
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  Speaker 3: I just think that I for me to swipe a
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  Speaker 3: credit card for like a fight dollar, well, it's not
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  Speaker 3: even finals anymore.
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  Speaker 1: What is it?
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  Speaker 3: The coffee is now probably nine dollars.
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  Speaker 4: Coffee is like twice. Yeah, you could get like a
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  Speaker 4: nice fifteen dollars these days.
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  Speaker 3: Unless you go to McDonald's you get one for like
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  Speaker 3: three dollars and then its pretty good if you want
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  Speaker 3: to advertise with us McDonald's McDonald's sponsorship. But I can't
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  Speaker 3: see just putting that on a credit card.
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  Speaker 1: To me.
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  Speaker 3: That bothers me. Yeah, it's like what why why? You know?
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  Speaker 3: What is this? And it's just more and more and
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  Speaker 3: more and more. It's just like it's like cash is
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  Speaker 3: phased out. People like look at you when you hand
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  Speaker 3: them cash, like they don't even want to touch it.
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  Speaker 3: It's like they don't even know what it is.
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  Speaker 4: No, they don't know how they and some places don't
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  Speaker 4: take it. They're like, oh yeah you can.
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  Speaker 3: They don't know how to make change. How's that?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mentioned, none of these kids know how to
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  Speaker 3: make changel.
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  Speaker 4: Scary. It is scary, scared, We're scared.
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  Speaker 3: It's very scary. It's pretty scary. So, I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: have to tell you though, when I watched when I
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  Speaker 3: came to I was there the first night. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you were phenomenal. I was so impressed by you and
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  Speaker 3: by the whole show, and I yeah, I mean it
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  Speaker 3: was really fun. I mean it was interactive. I mean
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  Speaker 3: you were like people from the audience were like, I
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  Speaker 3: mean I know why I was. I was heckling.
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  Speaker 4: Oh you were. I love you. You were the best.
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  Speaker 4: It was so like you were amazing, amazing.
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  Speaker 3: How do you deal with that if you have like
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  Speaker 3: a like an idiot, like a guy in the order
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  Speaker 3: to like somebody.
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  Speaker 4: So it's interesting. I don't because I think, especially here,
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  Speaker 4: people know it's not a regular stand up shows. It's
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  Speaker 4: so much more storytelling and it is there is a script,
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  Speaker 4: and there's you know, so it's it's something that's ingrained
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  Speaker 4: in my bones. Right now, I've gotten more people that
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  Speaker 4: will talk to me during the show and like go
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  Speaker 4: back and forth. And I'm comfortable with that because the
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  Speaker 4: show lives inside of me, right And even if it didn't,
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  Speaker 4: I said this earlier, I'm like, the show is not
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  Speaker 4: some well crafted Shakespearean theater piece, Like if that's what
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  Speaker 4: you're coming to expect, it's it's wrong. You know, this
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  Speaker 4: is what it is is. It's a it's a chaos's chaos.
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  Speaker 4: It's messy, and I think that that makes it feel okay,
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  Speaker 4: Like even if I lose myself in it, it's like
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  Speaker 4: I'm not I'm not a robot, I'm a human, so
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  Speaker 4: I think. But I also think that the engagement with
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  Speaker 4: the audience is so important. How Ever, I have not
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  Speaker 4: really had a lot of people heckle me because of
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  Speaker 4: I think the nature of the show I did the
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  Speaker 4: other night. I hope that he finds this have a
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: man in of course the second row, and he made
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: it a point the whole time too. He was by
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: himself to yawn on his phone, pretend to be sleeping
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: like this, like the whole entire show, and I had
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: to I almost threw him out. I almost was gonna stop.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: And be like, you gotta go, but you did. But
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: I didn't good because you know what, that would have
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: made him win.
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what.
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: I took the attention off of you and put it
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: on him.
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: Yes. So I just literally kept like walking when he
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: would be like, I'd walk from this side to this side,
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: this sid this said, and I kept walking over to
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: him and stick bring him in the face and he
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: would just be like this, I'm like, you did, dick,
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: You are a dick.
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: What's the point of coming, Like what, I just have
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: to know why, why did it even come? Why would
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: you want to get up in the morning like you're
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: like today, I'm going to get up and I'm going
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: to go to this woman's comedy show or a story
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: about her life, and I'm going to sit in the
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: second row and I'm going to attempt to make her
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: miserable and being kind of miserable.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: Asshole makes choices like this.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of miserable people in the world.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: Yes, that's true.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: I mean, look at people on social media. Look at
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: they do. Just people just say just nasty things to
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: people on social media for absolutely no reason, no reason, right, Like, dude,
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: why are you? Like what's wrong with you? Like, if
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: you don't like what I'm saying, then don't follow me,
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: you know. You know what, that's a beautiful You could
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: say unfriend or unfollow or delete me or block me.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Why do you have to come at me?
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: Not any of it.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: It doesn't make any sense. I think people today feel
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: like there's a power in that. Maybe maybe that's like
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: a it's like a power trip. Maybe people who do
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: that or common packle shows or just sit there. It's
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: like they get all fun of. It's like a power
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: trip for them because they feel like they can like
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: ruin or run something that that maybe their life's out
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: of control.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Kay.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, who knows why, because it's me. I would never
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: get a thing to even do that to somebody.
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: I think it's it makes people feel something that we
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: obviously don't understand. But I couldn't imagine if I don't
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: like something that someone's saying. There's a lot of things
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: that I don't like. There's a lot of things that
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: I don't agree with. There's a lot of things that
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: I'm like, I I would never open my phone and
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: like write I hate message like a yell, like an
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: awful yelp.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: We've go on.
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: Somebody even that, Yeah, like you would.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: Really you really have to piss.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: Me off, have to piss me off to make me
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: want to like ruin. But the thing that I think
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: is so interesting too, is like the women commenting on
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: other women's posts that I see like ripping apart their bodies,
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: ripping apart their faces so bad. It's so many things
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: that I'm like, why.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Why women should be sticking together? And we don't and
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: then and it's all but I this this thing of like, oh,
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: women are sticking together, like I think that there are
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: some that are better, not really but not not not.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: I work. I work in the buda industry. Yeah, I
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: know that's not true. It's everybody's out to outdo somebody else.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: It's really it's bad. I mean not. I don't want
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: to say everybody, because it's not collectively everybody, but there's
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: a good majority of people like that. If I have
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: to get up in the morning to go and go
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: abuse somebody about their looks, about what does that say
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: about me as a parson, oh my gosh, and that
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: they're actually like renting space in my head that I
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: got to worry that I have to go that step
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: farther to say, like even in so many local comments
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: on about me and about my look or something, I'll
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: put a video up, I'll put its old, I'll put
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: a I'll put a reel up and the first that
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: maybe don't like what I say, and the first thing
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: that the person does, and it's a from a woman,
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: there's not much of something about my looks. Why what
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: this real has nothing to do with anybody's looks, So
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: it's nothing to do with even like my business it's
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: something could be another topic altogether. And the first attack
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: is what I look like and how old I am.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: I just don't get that. It's so it's and it's
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: so bizarre that it comes from with.
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: Me, and it's so messed up because even that is
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: that I'm it's you can get also a million other wonderful,
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: lovely comments, and those ones will stick with you because
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: it's so hateful. I always say, though, thank god we
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: don't understand that type of behavior because we would never
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: do something like that. So I'm grateful that I don't
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: understand what is going on behind someone's brain to go
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: like I'm gonna rip this person apart for no reason.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: You know. I you don't have to feel sorry for them,
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: that's what you know what, feel sorry for them and
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: you don't know what's going on in their world, you
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: know what I mean? But whatever, Like you know, if
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: it's on social media, I can just you know, delete
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: it or whatever. But I just feel like if people
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: come in your face when they're doing it, is that's
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: that's hard. That's hard to back off from. I really,
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: so I can only imagine you wanted to like go
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: down the owners to probably punched this.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: Guy, right, I took everything in my It took everything
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: in my power. And it's distracting to yeah, because then
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: you start getting in your head. Am I boring you?
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Or it's just that's what you should have said to him.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: You should excuse me? Am I boring you?
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: Are you sleeping? Are you tired? Do you need a blanket?
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: You did some coffee? I should I.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: Honestly should have said something. I just am like always,
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: I just I. But then another part of me is,
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: like you said, then he wins.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: Said he wins exactly, and I don't want him to win,
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: and you don't want him to know. Well, I could
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: tell you you are. You would never have even known that.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: That was your first night that you were on stage.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: You were amazing. You are a spot on on everything.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: I mean, it was just and the way you told
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: the story and you and she tells us, You tell
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: the story with the you know, impressions and and you
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: know you you not and not just comedy. You do
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: just show real feelings and you know you do. You
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: know you get a little TEARI or ie and emotional
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: because it's bringing up I guess old you know feelings
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: and stuff for you so it's probably a cathartic for
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: you too.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: It's really cathartic, and it does. It's like every night
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: is a little bit different. And then sometimes I feel
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: that that range of emotion where I'm like, oh my God,
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: like I can't believe that I'm talking about this or
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: that I'm here and that I'm doing this, you know,
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: that it all comes up, you know, And I've been
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: doing this show for now three years, but this is
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: the biggest iteration I've reiteration I've ever done of it.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: And so it's like a lot you know, your your
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: your I got I clawed my way to come back
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: here and make this happen. And so it's emotional sometimes too.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: And then you're you're sort of going through it and
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: then you're like standing up here and you're like, wow,
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: I did this. I made this out of that, you know,
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: And so it's it brings me to my knees sometimes
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: a lot of times.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: I mean, listen, you are a success story. You are
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: you should be proud of yourself, you know, and you
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: know what and what you what you're saying too. I
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: mean even about persons of people getting themselves in death,
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: I mean death in debt go for bid death, and
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: that is to me this synonymous. But in debt, I
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: mean people, a lot of people can relate to that
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: because it happens, and it's probably happened to every single
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: person at least once in their lifetime. I know what's
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: happened to me. Yeah, I mean I have run up
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: my credit cards. I could have done my kitchen three
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: times over when I was when I was in my
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: thirties with the old the credit card debt, and I
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: don't even nothing to show for it, zero to show it.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: And I used to go back and think, my god,
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: why did I do that? Now no adult me looks
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: back on that and it's like, wow, I can't believe it.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: And now I'm afraid if I have like one hundred
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: dollars on my credit card, now I'm panic scary, you know,
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: like oh my god, oh my god. But when you
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: go with you know, you're not thinking of it then,
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: like you're not when you're in it, you're not thinking
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: of it that way, so.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: You're you don't think of it, you don't think of
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: it that weight out. But when you come out of it,
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: and then you're like, like, what the fuck did I do?
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: Did I do. It's crazy.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: What did I spend forty dollars? Yeah? No, exactly, like seriously,
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: and it's it's crazy, you know, and it adds up
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: so quickly it does. It's like and you know what
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: when when you're doing it, you don't really when you're
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: like like, hey, I just swipe us wipe, that's wipe
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: us white, you know. I mean. I got my first
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: credit card when I was seventeen years old. My grandparents
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: got me an American Express card because I was going
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: away with my friends. So I'm seventeen. What I shouldn't
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: happen an American Express card? Wait, I'm giving this to me,
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: And what happens? I run run it up, run it up,
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: They pay it and every credit call company sends me
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: a credit card after that.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: Yep. Because that's that. Now you're sitting pretty, You're like
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: this girl is ready yeah to go, she's not ready
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: to go. And it's like that's why you say. It's
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: like the and then when you are in it and
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: then you have to get out.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Of it, it's very hard.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: And then you are I did like that Deck Consolidation company,
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: but they then they have like a whole entire business
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: to get you out of it. So there's like businesses
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: and they're really.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: Not getting you out of it because it's all interest
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: that you're paying.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: So right, so you get out of it, but it's consolidated.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: You're not dealing with like the deck lectures anymore, but
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: you are paying a lot lot of money money.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's crazy, but you don't but you don't think
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: about it. Then now you look back on and you're like,
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: but you know what, you for whatever reason, you needed
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: to go down that road to get to you where
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: you are for whatever reason. And I and I really
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: believe that. My grandma always said that she goes there's
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: always a reason why you have to That's something that
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: you have to go through in life. You have to
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: go through it, whether it's good man, whatever it is,
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: there's always a reason why. So maybe you had to
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: go through that to lead you here.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: Well that's what I said, is that people are like, well,
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: why didn't you call that your uncle? Why didn't you
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: do this? Why didn't you do that? Why didn't you
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: call your parents and make have them in It's like
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: so I don't even know. I'm like, I don't need
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: to I'm not obligated to give like an exact reason
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: of why I did or didn't do what I did,
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: but I made the choice to the shame was eating
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: me alive, alive, and I had just gotten married. Now
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: I'm getting divorced. I felt pretty fucking ridiculous, Like, uh,
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: my whole life didn't make sense to me all of
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: a sudden, and it's deeper than just the dead. So
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: if I had done any of those things, I wouldn't
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: be sitting here right now. So thank god I didn't.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: Thank god I made the choice to figure out a
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: way and go with this consolidation company, even though I
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: agree their interest rates are creat like it's not like
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: you know, it was, it's a whole thing. But I
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: wouldn't have this, So I'm glad that I went, that
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: I did it this way, and.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: It could have been a lot worse. Yes, everything can
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: always be worse, and you have to look at it
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: that way, you know, And I know with me, like
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: even when I was when I had my credit calrds
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: through the roof, I wouldn't go and ask Mike. First
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: of all, after my grandparents paid off my my credit
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: calrd the first time, they never paid it again. Yeah,
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: that was it. That was it. They never helped me. Yes,
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: they never helped me again, and they go, we don't
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: care if you have to beg, borrow or steal. We
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: are never going to pay another credit card. And they
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: meant it. They meant it, so I couldn't even ask
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: them when I was in debt. So I had to
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: I had to figure it out.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: What did you do?
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: I worked and paid it off, you know, I worked
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: and paid it off. But when I got and when
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: I got this would happened too. When I got married.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: I mean I took a second I had to take
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: a second mortgage on my house to pay it, which
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: was which that was discussed. That bothered me more than
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: any That's what I'm saying is that people like, that's
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: how bad it can really get.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: Is that I think people don't understand. Is that, like,
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: when you're in that type of a situation and how
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: bad it can really get, It's scary.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: It's very scary when you have one hundred thousand dollars
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: that you've got to pay back and you're thirty one
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: years old, You're like.
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: Where yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it's it's anxiety, riddy.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's you want to like, it's it's very and
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: you don't want to tell your parents. You don't want
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: to tell anybody because then you want to hear them saying,
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: we know we're from Italian parenty that the guilt, Oh
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: how do you do that? What's the matter with you? Like?
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: How do you run yourself up in debt like that?
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: It's but it's so easy, it's so simple to have
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: it done. It's it's it's like the swipe. It is.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: It's as simple as that. It's as simple as that.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: And you don't think about it until thirty days later. No, right, no,
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: you don't think about it until then. Do you have
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: credit cards?
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: Now? No, you don't know even emergency no debit, yes,
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: but no, but everything is I have one. I have
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: one emergency credit card that has like a very but
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: I truly don't even keep I'm like scared.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's good that you you know that you're
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: able to say yourself. But you know, I think, I
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: think I feel like you've learned a lessing.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I should have something more, something, because.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: It's just God forbid you get stuck anywhere, and let
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: me tell you it's happened before.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: Where like I've been stuck somewhere and like my debit
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: card is flat, you know you just like you know, no,
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: so then you don't have it. But I, you know
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: I it's they that that volume to what I had
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: was not just like having an American Express, right, which
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: you can still get yourself in that, but I had
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: like a store card for every car, every single.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: So those are the worst because those those aprs are
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: so expressive. Crazy, But American Express is the worst. Is
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: the best club because you got to pay and at
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: the end of the month, right right, right right, that's
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: what I use it. Well, and you get sky miles. Yes,
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: you went to Europe. I went to Italy twice with
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: my That's what I'm saying, first class with my with
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: my Well you're smart say that. Yeah, now I'm s
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: hot now. But it's just but I but that's a
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: card that you have to pay off. Yeah, and you
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: can't hold a big amount on it. No, that's it.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: You can hold a certain amount of every month that you
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: can you know, use and like you could whatever, but
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: you have to pay. You have to pay it off. Yeah,
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: that's it. No, no hold by and then you can't
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: well you can't use the card that's it exactly. So
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: you're done. So either you pay it or you don't
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: have a card now to use.
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: You've come miles from your original American Express.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: Paying it down my grandparents anymore? Is that crazy? Oh
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: my god? So how many? How many more shows you
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: have left? Though? Ten? Ten? Are you excited?
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: I'm so excited. I'm just it's a whirlwind, and I'm like,
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: I don't want to say. People are like, are you tired.
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: I'm like, yeah, I'm exhausted. Like it's like the way
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: that I feel when I wake up in the morning
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: is almost like I went to the gym three times
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: in a day, and you're just sort of like your
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: body because the emotional up and down and then they
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: need to be on and like having to sort of go.
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: But at the same time, I'm like, I wouldn't trade
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: it for anything, Like this is not a complaining tired.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: I just am sort of like having to make some
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: sacrifices in my own life right now because you're just
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: like pushing through. So your rest is really important, Like
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: you don't realize it, Like six weeks, five nights a week,
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: it's a lot.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: It's a lot. Well, you're also going up and down
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: in your emotions through the show, and you're reliving.
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: It's every night, every night, and by the time today
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: rolls around, which would normally be like a day off,
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: but then it's not really a day off, so which
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: I'm so happy to be here. It's like your your
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: energy levels are like I wake up in the morning.
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: I woke up this morning and it's like you're My
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: eyes are like hanging in my head. I'm like, I'm
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: asking and just you feel like a corpse. But you're
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: so grateful, Like I'm so grateful.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: It's so amazing. I just could you do this for
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: a week, maybe more so after the show when you
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: go back to stay here. You're gonna stay. I'm so
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: happy you're gonna stay here.
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: I stay here. I'll be here for like, I'll be
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: here for a little less than a month, and then
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: I'm going to start just looking at areas and looking.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: At places, and you, like Brooklyn New said, right.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: I do.
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: Like I'm in Greenpoint right now. I love it. I
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: have friends over there.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: That's that's how my mother is from Greenpoint.
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: It's great over there. I mean, I love Manhattan too.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: I would place now, that's what all.
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: The people are saying, Yep, it's like Williamsburg Greenpoint is great,
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: like these are all My friend of mine lives in Dumbo,
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: Like there's so many great places.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: A couple other friends of mine just moved.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: The story in Queens is a big place now. Yeah,
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: Ridgewood now and Queens. Everybody's moving down from Williamsburg.
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: How far is that.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: From the city's twenty five minutes.
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: It's all relative.
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: But if you I mean whether if you drive, it
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: just depends in rush out, like it takes an hour
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: and a half to get to.
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: Buy to my car.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't want the car.
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: I want to just be here and like I just
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: love I just love it. I love it like truly
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: I love I'm from La, so this is not like
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: I love LA and I will always love La and
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: La will always be my home, my family there, My
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: mom is there right now with my stepdad, like it's home.
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: But there's something to me about even just like when
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: I met you at dinner, the instantness and you're like
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: this that does not happen where You're like, we're gonna come,
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: We're gonna support the what and you guys showed up
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: for me on my first night and I am not
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: saying that, like I don't. I haven't been friends with
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: you for a year even like you guys, just it's
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: like a community here, and I think you have people's backs.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: That's the different I think La. It's very trans to
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: get Yes, Like I know friends who've moved to LA
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: and they're like John, there's nobody here that knows each
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: other past like four years.
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: And everyone is like new best friends. And then everything
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: is very widespread. So that's the whole thing, Like you
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: can't you can't do things. My friend, one of my
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: best friend lives in Silver Lake, and then my other
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: friend lives in Venice Beach. That's an hour drive because
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: the traffic is never going to be good enough that
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: you're going to get there quickly unless you're driving at
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: like one o'clock in the morning, that's it. And then
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: it's still thirty something minutes. Yeah, it's crazy.
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: How long it takes to get somewhere. Like in West.
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: Hollywood, was so much time in your car, Oh my god,
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: And here it's like easy, like you're on the subway,
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: walking or moving all the things.
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: It's and I just like you said, it's just more
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: it's more of a community. I don't think it is
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: as much inside the city as it used to be.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: I think more like in the boroughs. It's still like
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: that with like you know, everybody still just like neighborhoods
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: and people know each other for a long time. I mean,
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm still friends with people I've been friends
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: with since I'm four years old and I'm still friends.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: See that's so great.
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: And you know what's so funny, says that two of
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: my childhood best friends live here. That's not and we
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: are so close and so that's also been so special
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: for me. It's because I'm like.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: Oh, they love it here. They'll never go back to
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: La no no, no, no, no no.
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: They love it here. Like so they are just locked in.
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: They have great friends, great community, have a lot of
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: I have a lot of friends here. Like sometimes I'm like,
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: I don't know how I have this many PIDs and
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: now I have more friends.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: You do and you have us. We love We show
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: up with people. That's how you do. We do. We'll
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: like that, you know if we like you. And you know, listen,
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: we don't. I don't take many people into my grow
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: like you know that that quickly. But when you know
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: when you know that you know somebody and you have
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: I'm an EmPATH. I could feel somebody's energy. You have
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: great energy, and I just I loved you the minute
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: I met you.
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: So do I just absolutely ad I love you.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: I love you to You're so sweet. Oh my god,
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: I got the love with the No, but you you are.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: I mean, the minute I met you, I thought you
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: were just like my type of person, you know, and
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: it's I don't know about you, but as I'm getting older,
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: I don't. I don't just make friends, you know, listen,
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: just friends in the industry that you have to be
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: nice to. There's people that you know, my patients, of course,
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: I have to be nice to them. I hate their gods,
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: but I have to be nice to them. But there's
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: people who you're gonna you know now is going to
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: be part of your circle and you're gonna hang out
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: with and spend time with this person like you got
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: to really, you know, as you get older, it's not
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: that easy.
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: Bullship meter goes, Yeah, you can have time. You no sense, No,
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: you're tired. People are tired. There were like all trying
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: to survive at this point, like right now, Like I
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: just think, like you don't have time for any of that.
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: So I think who you're surrounding yourself with this really important.
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: It's very important, and that's I'm glad that you have
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: your two friends, thanks too. That's good.
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: There are my chat and then I have It's just
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: a wonderful group of other people that I've known for
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: years or some people have moved here from LA. So
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: it's just been really nice. Like I think a lot
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: of people are coming here they want something different, different.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because every it's like every few years it's different.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: It's like everybody wants to they're coming to New York,
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: and then the reverses and then everybody goes to LA
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: or there. Some people go to different states like there
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: was a big mess, uh, you know, exibits. Some people
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: are going to like the Catalinas, Like I know a
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: lot of people who moved to the cat I may I.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: I don't think I could ever move to the south
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: and stay there forever. I could visit.
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: I'm in either gonna it's for me, it's New York
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: or and I'm not like there's no or I'm in
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: Europe like one of those I mean Europe.
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: I can't stay there for that long either I really Yeah,
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: I kiss the ground when I come home. You love it?
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: You are I.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: Kiss the ground when I come home? I do, I can't.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: I'm just I love it there like I love Italy
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: when I go. But I'm like, I want to go home,
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: like I yeah, I need to be here. Yeah, for
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: whatever reason.
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: This really does have especially here, it just does have
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: a sense of home.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it does.
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: I get it.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: It does. It really does. I mean, you know, and
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: I you know, I it's it's I think for New
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: York because especially it's hard to transition to someplace else.
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: I really yeah, I think so too.
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: Also, the the way that the city is set up.
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: I think that the beauty of it is is that
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: you can go from place to place and be go
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: do different things, and like you can bounce from place
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: to place. You just can't do that other places.
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah. No, Here there's you could do anything and one
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: night you could you know, feel like I feel like
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: a visit a twenty seven different Yes, and each.
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: Area is different, yes, so because it's all sort of
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: like that too.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: But yeah, but in a smaller spread out scale, yes, right,
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: taking nine miles.
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: People are like, we don't understand, so la is like
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: I'm like, La is like the biggest city, and then
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: there's like cities within the city, like there's You're just
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: so huge, you know.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: I mean, California it's to be a bad massive it's
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: a I mean, it's a beautiful state.
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: I love it. I mean, I do love it. It's beautiful.
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: It's the only it is such beauty that that's why
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: I think that there's it's sometimes hard for people to
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: leave the weather, the beauty, the there's a lot of
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: magic there. But I would also argue that here, I mean,
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: I know that the weather is not as good at
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: all compared to La weather, but there's really something magical
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: about this city. There is in mind, and you have
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: like a whole other beauty of like seasons. We don't
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: have seasons. So that's the one thing in La for
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: me is that every day feels sort of like the
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: same because it's there's no change in season.
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: What movie was that and that Steve Martin did that
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: he was the news the weather man and every day
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: was the same.
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: It was like, oh yeah, what what was that movie?
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: And I was like this, it was the same temperature,
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: it was like the same news. I can't remember it
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: was him. I think Kevin Klein was in that movie.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: But it was l A l A l A Something
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: l A story maybe, oh maybe something LA.
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: Something Steve Martin nine when don't go watch those movies.
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it was just like every day. It
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: was the same thing every time. But it's the same thing.
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: It really is that though.
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: But it's beautiful and everybody's outside though.
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, people are outside, not as much as people are
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: outside here though, Like when it gets nice here, people
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: go feral. Yeah, because people are out in the streets.
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: If everybody's bodies look better in La though, I think so.
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: I think so, even in the city. You think that
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: people I do. I think that people are more into
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: the health I think in La. I'm not saying that
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: we're not. The people here are not healthy, but I
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: think that l A is more. You always think of
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: them like outside doing watersports. Yeah, on their bikes all day.
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: I mean, even though there's a lot of bikers now
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: in the city, which is crazy. Almost got ronov one
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: yesterday in little Italy. You gotta watch every changer. Yeah,
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: and they don't stop here.
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the bikers are crazy. They're insane. They're insane. I
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: am Yeah, I I l A in general is very
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: health conscious, but I think you can find that and
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: I think it's what you make of it.
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean I like it. I like
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: to visit LA, but I would never be able to
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: live there. I'm just yeah, and I go and I
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: snow bird to Florida. There you and that's another place.
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: I can't stay too long.
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: I can't say I'm hard of it too long either,
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: So don't feel bad.
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: I'm like, I got to get out of yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: I mean it's great, and then you go there you
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: love it, and then it's like, oh my no, you
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: got to come home. I gotta come. Yeah. Well, we're glad.
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: We're glad that you're going to be calling New York your.
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: Home and there so excited.
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: I am you too, And I want you to tell
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: everybody where they could find you, and if they could
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: still buy tickets for your shop.
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: Yes please. My show is running. It's called Culture Volts
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: is doing all right, and it's running until May tenth.
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: It's so Whole Playhouse. You can get tickets at so
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: Whole Playhouse dot com. And you can find me on
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: socials and the Culture Volta literally well not literally everywhere,
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: but literally everywhere on Instagram and TikTok.
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: I love that and I love you, Nicole. I love you.
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: I'm so glad you came on the show today. Thank
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: you so much, and I hope you'll come on again.
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: I will. Okay, good, Well, now that you're going to
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: be in New York, now we can get it. I
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: love it. Come back and be one of my co hosts.
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: I would love that. We're going to do that.
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: Well, definitely. Well, thank you for coming today, and everybody,
• 43:01
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