A TOP’S PRIORITY Ft. Anania | Episode 205
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Summary
In this episode of the comment section, we are joined by the one, the only, the iconic, the talented Ananiya Wojtowicz. We discuss the death of D'Angelo, Tupac Shakur, and much more.
Transcript
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Hey everyone and welcome back to another episode
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Today we have an iconic all-star, the one, the only,
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I just learned what that was like three days ago and I keep stemming on it.
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I have so many things I want to talk about with you.
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But one thing specifically is your Ananiya roundups, like of your tweets.
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Those are like some of my favorite posts and I quote this one all the time.
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In fact, I told the Washington Post this about you because they asked me questions about
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I don't know who the fuck they were going to choose.
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One of my favorite tweets that I remember to this day all the time is you said, if Tupac
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Shakur was alive today, he would be he they down.
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When I think about it, I go, he they would, you know what, it's actually kind of dangerous.
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My, my Oracle abilities, cause I tweeted, I tweeted, and this is crazy.
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I think D'Angelo, the singer is bisexual three weeks later.
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When I was like, okay, when I found out that he died, I was like, okay, 2025 has to come
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Also been thinking about how like Eartha, Kate, and Tina Turner to wake their ass up.
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If you're watching this Tina and Eartha, come on.
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Well, speaking of coming on the show, you're here.
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I closed an off-Broadway musical not too long ago.
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It was at the New York Theatre Workshop in New York.
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It's this new musical and I was able to like originate a role.
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Like I just felt like a part of community and I was like pushing myself artistically.
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And you know, like that's the things that I want to be doing with my life.
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And then I produced a holiday show this past Christmas.
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I produced a holiday show and this was at the Huntington Theatre in Boston and it sold
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And now I'm just biding my time until I can announce my next thing.
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But I don't know when this episode will come out in relation to it.
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Check my page and see if there's something cool going on.
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There might be something cool that might happen before or after this.
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I was like, okay, they're inviting a bunch of influencers.
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And you know how sometimes they'll like put the influence, they'll invite you, but you
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Seat fillers have better seats than us, honestly.
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I'd be closer if I was at home watching it from the TV.
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So I had every single, and mind you, Audra McDonald went up there, snot, blubbering tears.
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I felt like I was, I felt like I could hug her.
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Because when we gag about theater, she's like, oh my God, you're for real.
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But I said I used to watch, which obviously her role as Celie in The Color Purple was the
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first time I watched her like for real, for real on Broadway.
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And I said her performing I'm Here at the 2016 Tony's.
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And she was like, oh my God, you're fucking for real.
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Cynthia Revo does this thing where she sings so fucking well.
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Where when you hear it one time, you need it again.
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And then you're on like a 40 minute rabbit hole.
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And you're like, wow, I can't believe she's saying it like that.
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And then you go back and you go to the most replay.
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When she sings like that, I believe in a higher power.
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I was like, there has to be a higher power of some sort.
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I feel like that picture of Ursula like sucking it into the shell.
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I said before, I would be, I would grow 10 times the size of this building.
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Like I joked with her when she was on the show.
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I was like, oh, you're like being kept away in a tower like Rapunzel.
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When you did that episode as Elphaba, I was, there was something in me that was like,
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I'm happy that she didn't do that in front of Cynthia.
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But then I'm also mad that you didn't do that in front of Cynthia.
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Honestly, I get a lot of comments about looking good green, which feels like shade low key.
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They're like, you should always look like that.
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You know, we get a lot of backhanded compliments, especially as, as big, powerful women.
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Like the, the things they consider a compliment to me, mama.
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I was talking about, I tweeted that the, um, Hudson and Connor, they weren't going to
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And then somebody was like, oh, I can't believe it's not their top priority.
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They were like, come on, get on gaydar, blah, blah, blah.
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Someone commented, when has Ananiah ever been a tops priority?
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I feel like I got into the fandom a little later.
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I started watching when episode four was gonna come out.
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I was like, what are these, you know, what are these gay people?
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And I just think it's like such a, I talked about this.
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I, by the end of the show, there's this moment.
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There's this moment when Shane's dad catches them in the cabin, in the cottage.
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You said, now I can't watch cause this is fantasy now.
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I honestly, I wait till things are just like no longer relevant.
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Honestly, that's kind of for the, I see where you're coming from.
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Sometimes I think, I think, I don't think it's like a contrarian thing for me cause I really
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don't give a fuck about loving things that everybody else loves.
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I really do think it's just because I'm like, well, I don't want to be swayed by opinion.
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That being said, like if it's real, real dog shit, I'll sometimes I'll tune in.
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Well, and then the last season, like, oh girl, white women wanted to jump me about
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They were literally trying to cancel me because I didn't pick the fake white brother that they
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I mean, literally and metaphorically to that girl.
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I was like, when I was like thinking, I'm like, you know, is what she's doing kind of fucked
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If I was that age and men who looked like that were fucking with me.
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I would have been having them sign in a check in sheet at my door, bitch.
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But I love watching shit like that because I love to like chime in.
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But this last season, girl, they were trying to jump me.
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So now maybe that's another reason why I stayed away from this one.
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I was like, just in case I have an opinion that nobody likes.
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I'm getting a daydream of you like like the Matrix style, like fighting like a horde of people.
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And I do it all the time for dumb bitch shit like that.
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Like I don't mind fighting men because that's just like my thing.
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Like I was like, that's the best part about this dumb ass show.
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Also, I will say when I was like going to town on that show and I was like fighting people and fighting for a specific brother.
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You honestly gave me as much information as I need to know about the summer I turned pretty.
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I'm super like, I don't care about spoilers either a lot of times.
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And like recently I watched my sister wanted to watch the Stranger Things finale like with our friend Alex.
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Even though most often times if I could recount it to you, I'd probably be really wrong.
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They're, they're kind of racist still, but they're working on it.
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One time on my show with my sister, I was like, we were doing this bit where I was explaining the plots of movies.
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Even if I haven't seen them, I was just kind of going based off what I thought.
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Like when I was recounting Pride and Prejudice, I was literally saying like, there's this girl and she's like smart and she has sisters and her sisters want to marry like for like frivolous reasons.
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And then I go, and then there's this guy and then he comes and then he's like, you know, it's like that bullshit when they're like black cat golden retriever.
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And then I said, and then they're in the rain and he confesses his love to her and then he gets pneumonia and he dies.
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I was like, and that's like pretty much the end.
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It's revealing to me when you said it's like little women.
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I was like, wait, there's, there's plenty of like.
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I think if I, if I stayed vague a little bit longer, I probably would have like finessed the ending,
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but I said, I said too confidently that he died and that was not true.
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They were like, you're actually so wrong about that.
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I was like, I think I'm going to watch the new gladiator.
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And I go, no, but like, it's like men fighting.
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I literally was like, no, but I feel like I got the like gist.
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And he was like, well, it's like a, it's a continuation.
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Can I tell you something funny about Paul Mescal?
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Basically like when I first, the first year I worked with the Oscars was like his like
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Like him and Pedro Pascal, big, big year for them.
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And I was working with the Academy specifically.
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So they were like walking me around like rehearsal space.
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And they were like, oh, this is where everyone's going to come.
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We sent out all your information to all these people.
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Like, and a lot of people said, oh, they'll stop, whatever.
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And then some of them, she's like, oh, Paul Mescal is like really excited to me.
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Then when I told my sister, I go, who the hell is that?
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And she goes, well, he had like a really big movie or whatever.
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The whole time I'm thinking in my head, Logan Lerman.
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I'm telling you, like they have similar head shapes.
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And then like, and then I go, my sister goes, no, Logan Lerman.
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Like I have, I have like an itis where it's only white men.
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I'm like, well, that's the same person as this guy.
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A large part of my job is remembering who people are.
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I'm not in the same vein as men, but I was also one time my sister was explaining to
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me the difference between Daisy Ridley, Daisy Edgar Jones, Daisy Jones and the six.
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I thought Daisy Jones and the six was a story about Daisy Edgar Jones and Daisy Ridley.
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I can only have a certain amount of white people up here at a time.
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And I have to like, once they reach their peak, then I can swap them out for another.
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It's really like compressing of time frames for me.
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I know Daisy Edgar Jones and Paul Mescal from normal people.
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Cause she said, oh, he, she was in a really famous show with Paul Mescal.
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And I said, I don't know the difference between these people.
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Paul Mescal, if you ever see me, I'm going to tell you that I thought you were.
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Oh, I think that's the funniest form of reparations to be honest.
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Well, Paul was also great in the one with Andrew Scott.
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Do you see how they start morphing into each other?
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But first of all, one of my favorite pastimes is spreading misinformation.
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I love to lie, and unless I decide not to lie, then I'm not lying anymore.
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Mutuals Media, who's the production company of Gaydar,
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I mean, I think it's been awesome to, like, diversify what people know me for, too.
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The last time I was on the pod, I was, like, you know, doing my own thing and, like,
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That's more than a lot of other people can say.
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Um, but yeah, it's been great just, like, interviewing people.
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And people always ask me, like, what's my, like, favorite episode or anything.
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But it's always been, and no shade to the A, B, and C listers, but it's always, like,
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the people who are, like, up and coming that I have the most fun with on the show.
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I mean, like, um, I loved my episode with Renee Rapp.
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But, like, it's been really cool to, like, talk to, like, people.
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And, like, just have fun with the, the, the, the, me trying to come up with a fancy way
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It's been cool to talk to people and learn things.
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You, I feel like you're so similar to me in the way we host, which is, like, you just
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And if there's something that comes out of it, we'll.
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But it's like, I feel like you get the best clips when you're, like, able to connect to
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I feel like you're really, really famous people because, like, I've said, I had a meeting
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yesterday when I was talking about hosting and I was like, I think my favorite part of
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hosting, especially talking to really famous people, because I don't get starstruck.
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And it's like, I don't ever get starstruck, so I like talking to them like they're normal.
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Like, when you're, especially when you're a little mean to them, I think they love it.
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I mean, it's just like, I feel like it's also a way to like, I guess disarm might be,
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But it's kind of just like, you don't like, I feel like there's a script that a lot of people
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And I think you get like, you also get a much more meaningful conversation out of it.
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And then even like, I'm sure gaydar is kind of like when I host on carpets, like, you
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Yeah, it's a quick, we, it usually takes 10 to 15 minutes for each episode.
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She brought me flowers for my birthday, which is great.
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Um, uh, there was this episode with this person named Yadoye.
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This, this guy named Sean, he's a comedian as well.
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He came on the show and for maybe, I just told you it takes 10 minutes to film the episode.
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He was describing a movie I've never seen before in my life.
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And I was like, at a certain point, you just gotta get to, what is it about?
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This happens, this happens, this character, uh, the denouement.
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Wait, you're all, it's okay, I didn't wanna see it.
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Cause when they're older, I love to make old people jokes.
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So sometimes when they're like, when I had Kyle McLaughlin on and he was describing something
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And I go, no, but you're like way older than me.
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So that reference kinda like went over me a little bit.
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I actually just spent time with Caleb in, what do you call it?
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I went with like my family and my man and then we took my friends, Alex and Steven and then
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And then we were always the loudest trip you could possibly imagine.
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I mean, but you're, I feel like Irish people get up, you know?
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They're better than the UK because the UK when I went there, I'm not going to be
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like, oh man, I was fighting a war with the redcoats when I came back from the UK because
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I was like talking shit on their food and I was like, your food is ass.
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And every time I say it on this show and they clip it and they put it on their, oh my
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The fat insults, like the allegations of fatness that I get from Brits specifically.
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It's just crazy because they always do this thing where they're like post a picture
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I would just like to say that I'm 5'7 and 95 pounds wet.
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Like every time I do that, I'm like, and I'll let you know if I find your waist.
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Like in interviews, if it's stalling a little bit, like if you're not getting as much.
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I also like looking directly into their eyes and waiting.
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That or I'll just like answer for them and move on.
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That's hard for me when I would do street interview things.
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So like when I, when they pull random people on the street.
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Everybody thinks like, oh my God, if I got pulled for a street interview, I'd be so hilarious
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Maybe like a two thirds of our comments are like, let me come on gaydar.
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And as soon as you get in front of that camera, it'd be like, it's going to, you're
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Like, and then I do, I've done what you've done too, which is leaning into it.
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Sometimes if I talk to celebrities that are just like, um, cause I love to bring bits,
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like obviously when I do carpets and like you're a funny bitch like me.
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So it's like, it makes it, the time go back better.
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Have you had a favorite interview on the carpet?
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I don't know what the fuck was happening with the Marty Supreme press tour.
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But he just, he needs to remember he's a white dude.
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I saw, I saw a meme that said, he said, fuck that Oscar.
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Like literally a month ago, I, I said to my, I like turned to my friends and I was like,
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Like, I thought it was like, I thought it was like a biopic at first.
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It's not, it's like a made up thing, which I was like, I especially can't get into it.
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I'm just like, when they try to force me to like a white guy, I resist.
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I think he wants to be a lot sillier in interviews.
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And I think maybe, maybe the Marty Supreme thing has allowed him to do that.
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Which is, it didn't, is it, is Marty Supreme a comedy?
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No, I have been seeing people say though, that it's like men who are fucking dumb and watching
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it are absorbing it in the same way that men my age did Wolf of Wall Street.
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Like when, when, when dumb bitch dudes watch Family Guy, they're like, oh, the, the offensive
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But like the funnier part is layered within, which is that he's genuinely a terrible person,
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You can always tell like when people like watch, I love Family Guy.
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I love Family Guy for a different reason than a lot of.
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Because there are just some jokes in it where I'm like.
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I actually did go to his holiday party last year.
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And he performed a bunch of holiday songs with Liz Gillies.
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Like at that party, it was confirmed to me because I was like, I'm going to go meet
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him and maybe ask him to come on the show or whatever.
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One of my publicists is a gay man and his friends were all there.
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And then I was, he's like, I was like, Hey, like, nice to meet you.
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And he was like, this is exactly what he said guys.
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I want you to know this cut was maybe six minutes.
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I got the news of the century at that party, but it was amazing.
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Speaking of singing, what's like a dream role for you?
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Um, my biggest goal is for someone to write a role for me.
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Like, you want to originate a Broadway performance.
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I have, I think Hercules Mulligan as a trans woman would be hilarious.
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It feels, it feels like a little gauche to say.
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I think the only reason it feels gauche now is because the movies came out.
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But I don't really think it was ever gauche to say that.
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Especially now that Cynthia's played her in the movie.
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Well all of those sound well within the realm of possibility for you.
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I can't sing for shit but I love that musical down.
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But if I'm talking like in the realm of possibility acting.
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Like I would love to be in like an Abbott Elementary.
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Or even in something like a House of the Dragon.
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And this has been a perfect opportunity for us to let you know that we are making a sitcom
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We might have to go back to the writing room but...
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He was like the most outrageous woman in the world.
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And then he just like is screaming the whole time.
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I love your videos because they usually start with a laugh.
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And then I like watch my videos back sometimes and I like hear my laugh and I'm like oh my
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Like a gnome that came to life and I live for that.
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I did something yesterday with like exec people or whatever and I was talking about acting
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or being cast in something and I use this bit a lot.
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But I literally go when it comes to acting I'm a real who want me kind of girl.
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I know I'm good at it and I could be really good at it.
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It's a skill that you have to keep working out.
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And it's funny because when I talk to like professional comedians like Taylor Tomlinson
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When I was talking to her I was like yeah sometimes my friend tell me you should do stand
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She goes yeah the money part you have that's normally where you start with none and then
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My manager hated hearing that because he was like you should do stand up.
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And my first ever five I ever did was for Caleb.
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Caleb said this thing on his podcast where he's like yeah you usually just have to jump
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Because I was asking him advice about doing five for someone else.
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Like listening to me talking on the phone and then he goes.
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You're going to do fucking five for her and not me.
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I was like well I just like you know I'm I'm I'm asking if I should whatever.
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And then when I said that to one of my other buddies he goes that was your first five
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I did stand up for my my solo show in for the holiday show.
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It was like I felt like the the preparation for such and then the execution of it completely
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I was like I because I have like a joke maybe every line but then it's like when you're
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up there and you're like what the fuck did I say.
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I get that though because I the first time I did it I felt like I did good but I felt
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like I could have been better and I think I felt married to the material and like where
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I think I shine in comedy is just kind of like riffing.
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So then the second time I did it I like gave myself just like loose parameters and then
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I think when I work I'm really good at crowd work but I just never wanted to be a stand
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up that only did crowd work because then it's like that's not the gig like because then
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Yeah you need you need material for sure you do.
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And I have I have some material that I'm like this would be so funny if I said it but if
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I gave that to a straight white guy he'd sell out Madison Square Garden.
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If I gave that joke to him he'd be on top of the world bitch.
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How much of your material do you put on your socials?
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Yeah that's some of my stand up friends have said that that was kind of like annoying
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to them about stand up getting popular online was like it starts people start taking jokes.
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Sometimes in New York when I go to see like a comedian like I've seen their I've seen
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Yeah and it's and it's not as it doesn't hit as hard.
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I'll tell you who it was for after but like when I did my second bit but like it went
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really well but I did a lot of crowd work because like the crowd was real active and
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it felt like they wanted it and I really this is a very specific crowd so I was leaning
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heavy into the men shit because like it was a real girl power kind of crowd.
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So I was like I knew they would laugh at those.
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They're not always gonna laugh at other jokes like my white people jokes they don't
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So like I was like I really have to keep that in mind sometimes.
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And I was like I was like but also you guys do be doing that sometimes.
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Have you had any like negative experiences doing stand up.
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I haven't had like anything that's been like I have the performance has to stop or anything.
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I remember doing drag one time and I was doing like a trick and this is like early.
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I was doing some kind of trick like I think maybe I was doing like a cartwheel or something.
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When I was on tour last year with my sister we're doing podcast live.
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So it's just live comedy but it's riffing mostly and it's lots of crowd work.
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So we're involving the audience but not in a way that gives them too much power.
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But it was like you know like Friday Saturday nights notoriously are the rowdiest because
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especially if it's 21 and over because everyone's drinking.
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And then some people start feeling like they're part of the show.
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Actually no it happened once somewhere else too.
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We were in Florida and we both like were kind of riffing and working with the crowd like
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And then there were people like starting to really talk over like my sister or when people
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in the crowd like I was asking them a question and they were answering it and they were talking
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over and like giving their own commentary and like trying to make jokes like trying to be
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And then like at one point I had just had it like I was like the interrupting there were
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people scooping ice like it was just there was too much noise going on and it was pissing
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me off and I've worked really hard to not be that person anymore.
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But I was literally sitting there I was getting irritated and then someone interrupted again
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and then I went I'm sorry can you pause really quick.
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And then I literally I go sorry go ahead because this person's trying to tell me the story.
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Now I don't know if it's shocking to hear I did lose the room after that.
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I don't know if it's shocking to hear I did lose the room.
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Because I'm also laughing now because I'm realizing that Carrie and Kate were all there at that
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But it was like it was one of those where it was like I went a little too hard.
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I was like after a while I felt like I had to be like it's okay guys you can laugh it's
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I had and then I was like okay that one's on me.
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Yeah then the next show when it happened again I literally at that show I was like hey
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But I get it like especially I love hearing I would love to hear about drag how's that
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I'm at this point now where it's kind of hard to.
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If sometimes you have to like pause one to pursue others.
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And it also I'm sure made you even more confident in performance.
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That you were able to reinvigorate your love for it.
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Because I did get a warning that you need to get out of here.
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It says that you were in the flute section of your high school marching band.
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You played the flute and then we could not meet on that because you did not play the flute.
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Wait that low key makes sense though that you played the sax.
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I also played a mellophone for one year in marching band.
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You almost went to school for forensic psychology.
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I almost went to University of Iowa for forensic psychology.
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And I figured that it would be a cool way to be like be in and like.
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Ananiya Prime is a forensic psychologist right now.
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Professional Ananiya is a forensic psychologist.
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It says you used to work as a live performer at Storyland theme park in New Hampshire.
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The amusement park was the only thing in the zip code.
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They hired actors to work at an amusement park.
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I can't talk too much about this because I did almost get fired.
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And honestly doing character work in any capacity.
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If a kid comes up to me and they're not willing to play.
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Everybody says that, but I, and I, and I, I appreciate the like vote of confidence.
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But I think that if I really were to sing for real, I would be so humiliated.
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I don't think I've ever been more embarrassed than thinking about singing for real.
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I'm so afraid of people hearing me sing because I hate not being good at things.
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And that's something I'm not the best at, you know, is what it is.
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Uh, it says you have performed in tons of plays and musicals over the years, but one
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of your first was a high school production of 12 angry men.
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Um, there was like a character that was obviously supposed to be a black kid, like a black person,
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And I had to sit next to the person, the white, like the white person who was playing the black
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I had to watch that dumb ass movie in college for like a class or something.
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It's like, it's like just interesting enough to finish it.
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And it's one of those where it's like, I get it.
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Like I understand, I guess like logistically why it would be like, whoa, just a crazy movie,
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but it's nothing like, I don't know, like the Sonic movies or anything.
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Let's not sit and act like that's as good as trolls.
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Like, sometimes I really do feel like a dumb bitch in that regard.
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I recently rewatched the Night at the Museum movies and I was laughing my ass off.
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And I was literally thinking like, God, no, the Oscars just don't know what they're talking
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It says you co-hosted a live student award show called the Evvies.
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And I think my, my freshman year I was in the production.
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Like I did like a, a dancing thing and backed up for it.
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And me and Cedric, um, we're really close and we riff off of each other.
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Well, and we both saying and all that other stuff, but when we did it, it was, um, during
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There was just like a teleprompter and it was all virtual.
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It kind of sucked, but it was like, it was such a, it was a fun experience.
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The opportunity was cool to do like the best you could have done at the time.
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Cause the year before it was like this whole production, like you stay after school closes
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And like, if you get dominated, it's like this whole thing.
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Well, that brings us to the end of this episode because your team's going to kill me if I
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We have things to do people to see, but I need to take a serious moment for just a second
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And I have truly, I will sing your praises to anyone that will ask me.
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And I recommend you to a lot of things like all the time.
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And I'm just so happy that now I feel like the internet is starting to catch up with your
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And something I did write in the Washington Post thing too, was that everybody needs to
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stamp their ticket for before Ananiya wins her Tony, because I already know that's
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And I'm going to be the first one to be like, I said it.
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Is there anything else you'd like to promote before we sign off?
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