The Comment Section with Drew Afualo - COWORKER FUNNY Ft. Taylor Ortega ｜ Episode 222

00:00:00.000 There's people in my real life who maintain a height that I go, okay.

00:00:06.280 Okay.

00:00:08.320 Sure, if you need it.

00:00:09.540 If you need that inch, go ahead.

00:00:10.880 Whatever.

00:00:11.380 I used to feel like gaslit by it, and now I just go, whatever.

00:00:14.840 No one can see what I see.

00:00:16.740 I know, and they say, I'm about 6'1", and I can see their scalp.

00:00:19.780 Yes!

00:00:20.880 Sure.

00:00:21.840 It's crazy.

00:00:22.400 Me too, mama.

00:00:30.000 hey everyone and welcome back to another episode of the comment section show starring me your

00:00:35.080 fave everybody knows me who cares about me on to the guest today we have the iconic the legendary

00:00:40.040 the one the only taylor ortega thank you for having me oh my god to be here welcome to the

00:00:47.720 show i'm so happy to have you that was a pro intro oh my gosh thank you i get that i do get

00:00:54.200 that compliment quite a bit from guests and i'm like oh my god it's something to see it's something

00:00:58.500 gonna see yeah that's just what happens when i do like pee pee poo poo time in front of this 0.91

00:01:02.620 bullshit for 200 plus episodes yes they you know what what's annoying too is sometimes people are 0.97

00:01:07.740 like oh i hate when you repeat yourself i'm like you try talking for 200 episodes no you we don't 0.98

00:01:12.480 have that much to say girl you're gonna circle the block there's only so many experiences you can

00:01:16.980 have i can only age so fast i have only i don't have that many you use them up like you get to

00:01:23.340 an age where you have experiences and you go finally i have something and then you use them

00:01:27.320 up in a three hour span. Yeah. And then you're like, all right, does anyone else have anything

00:01:30.660 else they want to say? Then you dig into like the personal ones where you go, I wasn't going to say

00:01:33.020 this, but you have to start oversharing. I want to give, I want to give something.

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00:02:08.480 barilla the pasta that does scarpetta look for the red bag well i'm so happy to have you thank you

00:02:14.960 for coming to the show i think you're a ledge and i think you're hilarious um but i do want to just

00:02:20.660 kind of kick off just to because i know you've done improv i know you've done stand-up now

00:02:24.740 obviously you're doing acting or you haven't been doing acting but now you're in big mistakes

00:02:27.860 oh how exciting it's really exciting but let's start from the beginning like how did you

00:02:31.540 get into show business i feel like or entertainment as a whole like what led you there um i guess

00:02:39.320 what did lead me there i grew up thinking that it was like a viable career path like i think many

00:02:47.920 of us do where we're like i'll probably either like go to college and get a job or like probably

00:02:52.740 I'll be like a famous actress yeah yeah that's I'm like probably I'll do that those are my two

00:02:57.360 paths yeah you're like surely I'll be on camera for a living yeah um and no and then I'm I moved

00:03:04.460 to the city in like my early mid-20s and I I think at that age you start to get a little bit more like

00:03:10.320 oh wait it's hard and I was like waiting tables and stuff and so you're I I minimize my dreams

00:03:16.220 to a realistic place and I went okay actually I will wait tables a thing I was really really bad

00:03:22.060 at and do improv because it was the boom it was during the big boom okay and you don't get paid

00:03:27.360 for improv no you don't if anything you pay to do yeah if anything you pay a hefty price

00:03:31.860 and not just financially to do no dignity a lot of it and so i was doing that and i was being the

00:03:38.340 worst waitress in new york city tri-state area maybe as a whole and i said well we did it i'm

00:03:43.860 done we're good this is the dream and i think that was kind of a a lifesaver because having

00:03:49.260 zero expectations is sort of the only way to last out this business oh my god i know especially in

00:03:54.240 art form like to make money off art you really got to do it for the love of you have to do it

00:03:58.720 for the love of the game and i think for me too it was like i came i didn't have it was so funny

00:04:06.860 recently i did another podcast where everyone it got clipped and everyone was like oh they thought

00:04:11.260 i was maybe a nepo baby and because they've never heard of you before and yeah and well because 1.00

00:04:16.360 they you know they pop up that's true and I guess the conversation it seems like yeah right like 1.00

00:04:20.840 sometimes you'll be watching someone for a while and you go oh I didn't realize and um and so no

00:04:25.380 but I wasn't and so it just does take a much longer time it takes a really long time I've

00:04:31.600 gotten I've only gotten industry plan I think like once nice but I was like I would be the worst one

00:04:37.280 ever like I'm an antagonizer like I know when I antagonize people I would be like they need to lay

00:04:42.260 low. Yeah, that would be a really strange approach. I know. They typically, men in this industry don't

00:04:47.320 like being harassed. Typically. I'd go bigger. I'd go men as a whole. They like harassing. They don't

00:04:55.040 like being harassed. They don't. You've heard sometimes one of them will be doing like a kind

00:04:58.420 of a joke, a version of like a joke that they will do and then you'll kind of do it back and

00:05:02.700 you'll sort of see them be like, I really like that. Like, I don't like that. I'm like, we were

00:05:07.140 gonna have fun. I'm like, just let me do it a little more. Yeah, let's be silly. I go, this is your kind

00:05:11.440 of humor that you like right and girls like it too yeah girls like it girls like it girls like

00:05:18.940 it to be a little mean too i'd argue they're better at it honestly yeah typically speaking

00:05:25.200 when you're really on a roll with one and you think everyone you're both laughing and

00:05:28.680 all of a sudden it's really and you are kind of like killing it actually

00:05:32.120 yeah i'm giving myself the zoomies because i'm doing so awesome i'm literally like laughing my

00:05:38.220 It was so funny, I had someone on.

00:05:40.640 They had said, I went on someone's podcast

00:05:42.440 and they were telling me, I forget who it was,

00:05:44.680 but they were telling me basically

00:05:46.240 that they realized they mispronounced my last name

00:05:49.060 like in conversation with me.

00:05:50.520 And I was like, really, when?

00:05:52.520 And they were like, oh, it was like

00:05:53.820 when we were talking about this.

00:05:54.980 And I was like, you wanna hear something so funny?

00:05:57.100 I didn't notice you did that

00:05:58.280 because I was waiting for you to stop talking

00:06:00.260 so I could get my joke off.

00:06:01.100 I can do my joke.

00:06:01.940 Yeah, I was trying to get one off

00:06:03.680 and you were taking a little while.

00:06:05.140 So believe it or not, honestly, PEMDOS cancels out.

00:06:07.340 I wasn't listening to you.

00:06:08.180 I was focused on when my timing would land.

00:06:10.460 I was workshopping a bit while you were going through that.

00:06:13.600 So it's all right.

00:06:14.440 And that's fine.

00:06:15.280 I didn't even notice.

00:06:16.120 That's okay.

00:06:16.960 So you went from improv to standup natural pipeline.

00:06:19.800 No, I kind of went from like, well, yeah.

00:06:22.240 So cause standup, you can get a paycheck.

00:06:25.160 You can, if you really stick with it, get a paycheck.

00:06:27.440 And I said, I'm not interested in the paycheck.

00:06:29.900 Oh no, no, no.

00:06:30.740 I said, no, hold on.

00:06:31.960 No, I was doing improv and I actually,

00:06:34.580 It was like, there was a lot more like internet,

00:06:37.360 like it was less individual online.

00:06:40.160 It was a bit more like there were structures in place

00:06:42.740 and like companies putting money into talent

00:06:44.580 and you could go host something and get paid.

00:06:47.760 Like Cosmo would have you come like do a man on the street

00:06:50.280 and they would, it was like Buzzfeed era, you know?

00:06:52.460 Okay, yes, yes, yes.

00:06:53.560 And so when I first moved to New York,

00:06:55.480 I had like writer friends or people here and there

00:06:57.080 and they'd be like, do you wanna come host this thing?

00:06:59.260 And I would do it completely for free at first

00:07:01.540 because I didn't know that you should get paid.

00:07:03.560 And I would like leave my job or go before my job

00:07:05.940 and I would host these little things.

00:07:07.540 And that's how I sort of got into like being on camera.

00:07:10.560 Oh, nice.

00:07:11.360 And because that was just a thing back then.

00:07:13.640 And I would do that on camera.

00:07:14.900 And I met my manager as friends.

00:07:17.400 Oh, cool.

00:07:18.100 When we were both really young.

00:07:19.900 And she said to me, she was like,

00:07:21.980 you gotta start writing stuff down.

00:07:24.200 Yeah.

00:07:24.760 And I went, oh, I don't know if I want to do that.

00:07:26.500 And she's like, you have to start writing stuff down.

00:07:28.160 She was like, improv is a great skill and it is so fun.

00:07:30.760 And I still do improv shows and I really love it.

00:07:32.580 it's my favorite form of comedy it's true though and it's so great and it taught me so many good

00:07:36.980 things but she was like you have like I think the skills you have you need to start writing stuff

00:07:42.220 and she was right how cool yeah she was really right so when you ventured into stand-up like

00:07:48.020 how did you like that versus I know you said improv's your fave but how did you like it in

00:07:51.840 comparison to improv I love it I mean I kind of didn't do it I when I did like JFL and SNL all

00:07:59.780 abbreviation um shows and showcases and auditions i was doing like characters because i was kind of

00:08:06.920 jumping into it with no experience and you can kind of improvise that and then i learned to

00:08:11.120 write characters that way i started doing stand-up when i was living in la i moved with other

00:08:16.580 comedians and we started hosting a mic together this is actually so crazy because i think probably

00:08:21.740 the people who came to the mic didn't realize that i was not stand-up but i went they're like

00:08:24.960 we knew um like no nobody was aware we knew um no and i started because it was weekly i would get

00:08:33.200 like write my little like jokes for the week and so really la was where i was doing stand-up

00:08:38.380 um and i think it's really fun but i i have that improv brain of like i want to be with my friends

00:08:43.180 honestly you're so real because i stand up's one of the few things that i was like

00:08:47.600 really resistant to when i started doing this mostly because i i love to watch stand-up i have

00:08:53.060 many friends in stand-up obviously we have a shared love in caleb yes and so like i i love

00:08:57.900 stand-up comedy and i love it as an art form i love to watch it and i love to laugh clearly um

00:09:02.460 but when i started doing this i was you know some you know people in my team and stuff were like

00:09:07.700 well maybe we should try stand-up yeah like because i love improv like i do love yeah i love

00:09:12.040 working off people i love being quick and responsive that kind of humor is my favorite

00:09:16.540 kind as well but i with stand-up i was like i just don't want to find out the bad way i suck

00:09:20.940 because like I know that you wouldn't you'd be amazing at it as the thing and you would be like

00:09:25.340 good in the room with the like with crowd work you'd be so good with the audience and what I

00:09:29.400 think you would like the sweet spot of stand-up I think and maybe stand-ups will disagree with me

00:09:34.200 because I'm not really one but right I think what you would probably like best about it is like when

00:09:39.260 you're in like the city you live in and you're getting up on shows and you're doing it with like

00:09:43.200 other comedians like that's how you're seeing your friends like yeah you'd like be on a show

00:09:46.520 with Kayla be on a show with like these other comedians and that is so fun I think where it

00:09:50.600 loses me is like what what would happen with you is obviously your stand-up would be hilarious

00:09:55.660 you'd they'd want you to tour and then suddenly you're like by yourself and you're like maybe you

00:10:01.780 have an opener with you if you're lucky but like you're traveling alone and you're in a city you've

00:10:06.160 never been to and it's like really lonely and like you're literally so me like that's I'm not

00:10:10.680 kidding like I don't want to do that I tried it I tried it I tried it I did say I did open for

00:10:15.040 Caleb and Chris Fleming which felt fucking rude I was like where you put me before two giants

00:10:19.660 what the hell no that's the best i was like well i thought so the the room was awesome like even

00:10:24.020 even caleb told me it was at the largo so like oh so good caleb asked me he was like do you want

00:10:28.700 me to promote it like you're gonna be there and i was like honestly no and the reason why i said

00:10:32.740 no is because i was like i love and adore my fans i know they find me funny i don't think i'll know

00:10:37.900 if i'm actually funny if it's a room full of my so true i was like i wanted to be people who either

00:10:43.380 have never heard of me or maybe briefly have heard of me and i want to know for real if they laugh

00:10:47.620 like I was like it doesn't hurt to announce you kind of like in the moment and have people be like

00:10:51.560 right kind of like high off of like which happened when I went on I went to two of Caleb's like tour

00:10:57.960 stops which was like that was fun at that point though we had like an established friendship and

00:11:02.200 everything everyone was like a huge fan of all of us hanging out but even when I tried it I tried

00:11:06.480 it a few times and I was like I even explained this to Caleb because he was like please keep

00:11:10.540 trying because I told him I was like I don't think I'm going to do stand-up I think I'm going to pause

00:11:13.140 that and do other things because I love to act and I love to improv and stuff like that and I was

00:11:17.380 telling him i think it's the freedom with improv that i enjoy because obviously with stand-up

00:11:21.540 you have freedom but there is like a structure and you have to stay inside the parameters so

00:11:26.500 you can get your jokes yes which is great but i i need no fence line i'm kind of i'm at my

00:11:31.600 happiest yeah when anything can happen yeah and then it's like the fun surprise of like i just

00:11:36.200 did an amazing joke and even i didn't see it coming right it is low-key self-serving because

00:11:41.920 i'm like and i was hilarious and i just came up with that yes i actually think it's really

00:11:46.080 it's a good measure like yes you want to try everything but it's like other it's like the

00:11:50.180 people who represent us it is their jobs to be like what about this what about this what about

00:11:54.380 this like thinking of all your talents and how do we use them but I also think it's good to be like

00:11:58.500 I don't have enough interest in that to pursue it and I'll quit yeah and I will quit no thanks

00:12:03.660 and I also hate touring so it's funny you say that it is I do hate going on tour it's really

00:12:07.780 hard I think it takes a lot of fortitude to it's a lot to be touring yeah and it's like I could

00:12:12.040 never be a pop star no one asked me no and no one will and no one will i'm i'm turning 37 this month

00:12:18.400 no one will my knees crack loud when i go to the ground yeah you look great thank you so much i

00:12:24.400 never would have guessed 37 thank you but yeah no i can't be i can't be touring and yeah you i i get

00:12:29.820 you on that though too i'm like past a certain age i need to be at home i need to be when i see

00:12:33.240 them lifting zara larson over their head i go couldn't be me put her down yeah get her on the

00:12:41.500 put her down it's been months she's been up there i saw i know i we love zara larson here

00:12:48.020 uh we're huge fans of her here i want to be pulled up on stage oh my god i don't know the

00:12:53.020 lush but i want to do it you just want to give it your all i want to do it well i do have an

00:12:58.180 zara as my friend i will tell her thank you that you really want to do it with her i'll learn the

00:13:01.540 dance i'll be diligent yeah i'll tell her by that time you'll be ready you'll be prepared also i'm

00:13:05.680 5 11 me next to zara larson is probably like six weeks so i get it are you yes stand up later oh

00:13:11.260 my god nobody's tall nobody nobody's tall like everybody's tall anymore i know especially really

00:13:16.540 tall he is really tall it's funny because when i've i've had videos standing next to caleb very

00:13:20.840 few times because most of the time we're sitting and a lot of the stuff we're doing but when we're

00:13:24.420 standing they're like i was not prepared for him to be tall i was like no he is he's like 6'3

00:13:28.840 really do you think people who only see caleb in a visual medium they think he's short

00:13:32.640 isn't that crazy i'm like he doesn't even look short to me no he does not look but we're also

00:13:37.360 tall like i yeah that's true i do think tall women like can always tell when someone's tall 0.85

00:13:41.760 and someone's not short women don't know shit every single time when i'm like when i'm making 0.98

00:13:45.740 jokes live like when i do live comedy and stuff and i ask and i'm talking shit on men obviously 0.99

00:13:49.720 um i always ask them how tall was he and then they're like oh he was like six one i'm all how 0.77

00:13:53.700 tall are you five two you don't know no you don't know you don't know and you're wrong probably

00:13:57.360 there's people in my real life who maintain a height that i go okay

00:14:02.020 okay sure if you need it if you need that inch go ahead whatever i used to feel like gaslit by it

00:14:10.360 and now i just go whatever no one no one can see what i know when they say i'm about 6'1 and i can

00:14:16.240 see their scalp yes sure it's crazy mama you're yeah you're 6'1 and i'm 125 pounds period look at

00:14:24.520 I really am like how to I but then it because no one is tall right you go maybe I am wrong right

00:14:33.260 like maybe I yeah men have tried to gaslight me too they're like no you're probably like more like

00:14:37.940 five eight I was like I was five nine when I was 14 same I was I was huge yeah I was like I have

00:14:44.300 osteoporosis now in my 30s I doubt it well that's also the other thing is the um uh accounting for

00:14:51.580 like the slouching the slouching to be in the group right whenever people talk about like

00:14:55.640 taylor swift slouching i go she just wants to hear what everyone is saying and she just wants

00:15:00.200 to be laughing in the group and her head to be where everyone's head is she wants to be included 0.84

00:15:04.400 but then you don't zoom out and see like a group of girls and you're like

00:15:08.180 like sometimes you'll see a picture from being like a teenager and you're like hunched over yeah

00:15:14.540 like i i do like a lean too on unintentionally because everyone is smaller than me but also

00:15:20.160 like I've said this about fans too sometimes when fans ask me for pictures they're they'll always

00:15:25.120 comment on the height I think it's because they they literally assume I'm like five four or five

00:15:29.260 five which I'm always like I know men lie about their height I don't I would never say no I would

00:15:34.000 never say six feet if I wasn't even close 100 there's no there's no way that's a crazy height

00:15:39.120 to start lying about like that would be crazy if I was five six and I was telling people I'm six

00:15:42.880 feet that would be crazy that would be funny but that would be crazy it would so when fans meet me

00:15:48.640 in person they're like whoa you are you're huge i'm like right p50 right and then they're like

00:15:55.080 okay can i take a picture i'm like yeah and i hate when girls do this and i've said this many times 0.98

00:15:59.060 stop doing this to me when they stand next to me because i'm so tall and i do that lean they do 0.98

00:16:03.960 that stomach hold bullshit no wait what girl they hold me like their man what do you mean i said 0.98

00:16:07.820 wait they're going inside like like to the side like that like girls like do with their man like 0.99

00:16:11.860 their prom dates oh i literally was like hey no get that off me no get that hand off my stomach

00:16:17.960 I know, I never know how to stand.

00:16:19.620 I never know how to stand a photo.

00:16:21.480 If someone did that to me, I really wouldn't.

00:16:24.040 I got gone a few times.

00:16:25.320 I was like, now I've noticed a pattern

00:16:26.960 and I need it to stop.

00:16:28.060 I used to do a lot of, I had a joke I used to do 0.99

00:16:31.320 when I would be like, are there any short girls 0.97

00:16:33.480 in the crowd? 0.99

00:16:34.320 Because always there are, it's mostly them.

00:16:36.760 And they'd woo and I'd be like, one question, 0.99

00:16:40.020 what's your fucking problem with me? 1.00

00:16:41.880 What's your fucking problem with me? 1.00

00:16:43.160 You have everything. 1.00

00:16:44.680 And it is kind of like, they'll be like, you are so big.

00:16:47.340 And I know for them, it's like, they have, obviously, they could never know.

00:16:50.540 No.

00:16:50.900 Because usually, it really is like, it's not like there's three six-foot women in a group. 0.95

00:16:55.460 No, never. 0.99

00:16:56.260 There's only ever one.

00:16:56.780 There's only ever one.

00:16:57.720 We have to, like, I don't know, spread out, I guess.

00:17:01.580 There's only ever one. 0.75

00:17:02.340 And then, like, most of the girls are around 5'4". 0.89

00:17:04.580 Right. 1.00

00:17:04.780 And then it's like, maybe there's two five-footers.

00:17:07.460 Yeah, if that.

00:17:08.240 Maybe.

00:17:08.480 Yeah, if that. 0.98

00:17:09.260 Usually it is one other really small girl. 0.99

00:17:11.060 Yeah, really small, one really tall, and then everyone else is somewhere in the middle. 0.93

00:17:14.620 Yes.

00:17:14.900 And I'm always close friends with, like, the small girls.

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00:17:46.580 smallest one me too I'm always it is like a classic friendship of like the tallest girl in

00:17:52.060 these oh my god I'm giving I'm giving dada like I'm giving dad like father when I'm out with my

00:17:58.080 girls like it's like everyone's so small it's like I feel like a mother duckling yes and they're all

00:18:02.180 just trailing behind me it is really I worked at this restaurant in the city and when these guys

00:18:09.060 that I worked with I would come to the kitchen to like you know bust my like thing and all at once

00:18:15.500 they would scream avatar at me okay and i didn't oh kitchen staff has jokes they all screamed

00:18:22.320 avatar at me and at first i didn't get it and then i went the avatars are bigger yeah i got it

00:18:27.540 that's honestly kind of funny that you didn't get it at first i didn't get it first and then i kind

00:18:31.160 of i kind of left and i went that's a really good joke you really got i would say i think i would

00:18:37.660 get the avatar allegations more if i was like thinner but i'm i'm a big i'm a big girl okay

00:18:42.260 so i'm a thick girl and has anyone ever yelled a specific character at you no it's more so been

00:18:47.540 like be like i'm more giving bfg i'm not really giving avatar you know what i mean i'm giving

00:18:51.760 more bfg i'm giving more shrek like that's kind of more my vibes not shrek shrek's huge i mean

00:18:58.220 like tall like shrek's big well shrek's not real we don't know you think he's oh he is tall i guess

00:19:03.180 yeah he's tall i mean i would say google it and i'm sure fiona's tall too i'm sure she is i just

00:19:07.820 know what um size the other creatures are dude that's true it's a bad yeah yeah well because

00:19:13.740 you know when he's sitting next to the humans they look like this that's true that's me with

00:19:16.620 fans okay yeah yeah and then i'm like get out my swamp like that's literally my deal like

00:19:21.260 when i'm yelling at people and they're laughing and having a good time yeah they're loving that's

00:19:24.540 kind of my deal they're clapping yeah they're like canonically seven feet see he's seven feet

00:19:30.860 canonically big but that's i would think big thick boy yeah bigger i would think bigger too i know

00:19:36.780 But that's why I'm like, you know, that's like him going like to the guy's like torch.

00:19:41.520 That's me to men online.

00:19:42.680 Yes, it is.

00:19:43.760 They come and storm in my swamp and all that.

00:19:45.860 And they didn't even know.

00:19:46.620 And they don't even know that you're tall.

00:19:47.920 No, they don't.

00:19:48.740 They do think I'm lying.

00:19:49.860 There is also too like a, I make a joke on here a lot where I'm like, I may tell a joke,

00:19:54.460 but I never tell a lie unless I lie.

00:19:57.560 Yeah.

00:19:58.000 Then I'm lying.

00:19:58.960 Then I am lying.

00:19:59.720 But then, but then at that point I am lying.

00:20:01.220 But other than that, I'm not.

00:20:02.140 Are you lying?

00:20:02.660 Are you just trying something out?

00:20:03.760 That's why I'm like, I'm just like narrative building.

00:20:05.980 Yeah.

00:20:06.340 or I'm imagining manifesting all of those things you know when people will get really mad at

00:20:11.060 comedians for um when they find out like a piece of a joke isn't true or a piece of a story isn't

00:20:15.460 true like you just you need it for the narrative I go don't dig too deep yeah well oh my god

00:20:22.260 storytelling oh my god giggling is illegal now yeah I know sometimes when I tell jokes and they're

00:20:28.000 like oh a perfect one I like when I was serving I also hated serving um my the way my attitude

00:20:33.620 is set up i'm not built to be a server ever um because people are really mean to servers but

00:20:39.320 i i told this story i've told him many times how like the first and last restaurant i worked in as

00:20:44.980 a server as a server um i had to train this guy that i didn't realize was my replacement at the

00:20:51.280 time but he kept leaving in the middle of the shift to go smoke meth in the bathroom that is

00:20:55.400 that is quite literally the joke even though it's true he he absolutely was 1000 smoking meth in

00:21:00.940 the bathroom sounded like a little wayne song from the outside and it's happening yeah and then

00:21:05.940 he ended up getting fired like a day later because he left in the middle of the shift again

00:21:09.820 but he was just like eating and he like made himself well they don't like when you do that

00:21:13.580 no okay it's meth one thing yeah like eating the food yeah they go don't eat yeah so like i tell

00:21:19.640 this whole story on like a different podcast obviously the story is funny whatever um but a

00:21:25.580 lot of people in the comments like when the the clip did well online they were like actually when 0.99

00:21:30.380 you smoke meth you have no appetite so so like it was probably weed okay first of all fuck off 0.89

00:21:37.720 second of all believe it or not meth has a smell does anyone know yeah yeah yeah yeah that has a 0.99

00:21:42.520 very specific smell and so does weed so i know what meth smells like i know what weed smells like

00:21:46.840 either way did you laugh i would yeah 100 yeah either way did you laugh we're not dissecting 0.98

00:21:52.500 here just enjoy the oh my god what are you a cop like holy shit also it's like i'm sure people are 0.99

00:21:58.000 smoking weed at a restaurant but I guess if you had to give me the choice to get 0.99

00:22:03.340 through the day to work it's like I'm not picking weed why so it can last

00:22:08.500 longer so I can go slower and forget more people's orders and then I had

00:22:15.580 people arguing in the comments underneath going I used to smoke meth

00:22:19.300 and I was actually really hungry okay listen everybody's different gone a

00:22:24.220 a completely different way everybody who's does meth is different if you're not like that they're

00:22:29.480 not a monolith if you guys can believe meth was not the point literally that was not the point

00:22:33.900 the point i guess my point is like did you laugh yeah then enjoy you're thinking too hard yeah

00:22:39.100 you're we're all thinking too hard how are the truths going to present themselves to us right

00:22:45.660 and also can we giggle can we more and more it feels like we can't even get we can't giggle

00:22:51.520 especially not online it's an austere time yeah and in many ways it's never appropriate to giggle

00:22:57.180 anymore i think we can all agree it's like never appropriate to giggle but sometimes i need it you

00:23:04.680 ever get like a really big laugh off and you go it's been like weeks yeah like it was like really

00:23:11.420 like a bad one where you're like crying you can't breathe kind of absolutely and you go oh i needed

00:23:15.640 that release really bad yeah i needed it needed to like be exercised out of i needed it bad yeah

00:23:21.240 that's how i feel that way about laughing and i feel that way about like i almost talk about like

00:23:25.680 how i have to channel my anger and like my venom yes and i have to excrete it otherwise i can't

00:23:31.820 digest my food like a snake you know what i'm saying does it just ball up in your stomach yeah

00:23:36.160 and then i was like i gotta use this in some way and i feel like my platform is a perfect example

00:23:41.060 of me expending that energy positively it's beautiful it's like robin hood yeah yeah so

00:23:45.700 it's like i am stealing but like i'm giving to the floor so it's and you're kind of channeling

00:23:49.460 in a way yeah i was like this is healthy i'm in therapy it is about it often i know i think about

00:23:54.300 that also because i've said this before like i'm not a i don't really get big sobs like i'm not a

00:23:59.260 big sober yeah i feel that so sometimes like yeah a verbal tirade is like feels so good it's so

00:24:06.940 valid it feels so validating you're like i know i'm in the wrong but i gotta like i know i sound

00:24:11.820 foolish i know that's like honestly a huge part of girlhood i feel like sisterhood with your

00:24:16.740 friends like yes your girlfriend ever been telling you something and then like at a certain point 0.99

00:24:20.220 you're like you sound insane you're wrong you're in the wrong you gotta get the billy razor into 0.87

00:24:30.240 your life it's designed for how women actually shave legs pits toes happy trail wherever prickles 0.98

00:24:38.420 decide to show up it has five sharp blades and a pivoting head so you can actually get everywhere 1.00

00:24:44.500 without having to do shower gymnastics and it comes with a magnetic holder so your razor stays

00:24:50.680 dry on the wall instead of sitting in a shower puddle grab a billy razor in your favorite color

00:24:55.980 in store or at mybilly.com one of my really good friends was like she was telling me about this

00:25:01.160 this long story about something and then like she at the end of it she was like do i sound crazy i

00:25:06.500 go i mean yeah but i love you yeah i'm not judging you also it's like you just you just clocked

00:25:11.580 yourself so yeah I was like girl I think you know you're being crazy but it's okay like I support

00:25:15.300 women's rights and wrongs and wrongs and certainly wrongs and certainly wrongs oh yeah I hold the 0.96

00:25:20.640 most aggressive double standard for women and men for sure also once you're once you get a little 0.98

00:25:25.080 older it is kind of like you when I was younger um I I was never sure what was what was up what

00:25:32.260 was down and so you'll feel a big feeling you'll feel angry you'll feel sad you'll feel whatever

00:25:35.780 and you're like I could be wrong about everything and then the older you get you know when you're

00:25:40.080 being crazy and you know when you're when your behavior is like you know when you're being out

00:25:44.640 of pocket you know when you're being um in my home we call it like me and my my partner we go

00:25:49.720 I'm being bad I'm the bad one today I'm acting bad you were acting bad last week you maybe had

00:25:54.580 a week of acting bad and like you know you're being stubborn you know you're in the wrong

00:25:59.620 and I the older you get the more it's like well I'm still gonna like need to get this out but

00:26:03.340 that's you know I know true it's so freeing too and then you can have a little winky moment where

00:26:07.520 you know I'm being kind of bad this week being a little bad I know one time I was talking to my

00:26:11.980 sister about something and she was like in the middle of it I was like asking her I was kind

00:26:15.960 of pushing back on something she was telling me a little bit and she was like oh no I'm being a

00:26:19.400 hater yeah I'm being a hater yes I'm hating and I just want to hate freely and I'm gonna get over

00:26:23.580 it and I was like that's real girl you need to and it and it feels sort of like um when you're

00:26:30.520 when you're younger and your friend is doing that it's almost like building a bad habit in you where

00:26:35.200 you go I have to speak up to my friend right like I can't just allow her to do whatever like it

00:26:39.720 almost builds a habit where you're like no definitely am I scared of her I'm scared to

00:26:45.000 tell her like I'm gonna wait to address that I don't want to build this dynamic when she's in

00:26:48.760 a different state where am I afraid is she in charge of me you know where now it's like you

00:26:53.500 you can say right hey I think we can't act on that's like true sisterhood too like I feel like

00:26:58.280 that's when you get grown-up friends versus like when you're young uh having friends when you're

00:27:02.580 young versus when you're older and in your 30s i was scared of all my almost all my friends

00:27:07.140 right and what they would do yes or you'd get like access to kind of like a cool new group

00:27:12.300 of girls or something you'd be like i simply i can't speak my mind here it's too early i can't

00:27:17.260 we're in the lying phase like when you date you're like this is the phase where we lie to each other

00:27:21.020 we're gonna lie or i'm gonna pretend to absolutely be someone that i'm not i don't want to end up

00:27:26.800 being like the funny one who like helps them

00:27:29.480 with their academic appeals, you know.

00:27:32.560 I need a better role.

00:27:33.400 I need a better role.

00:27:34.240 Maybe I'll be the leader.

00:27:36.800 Okay, speaking of a new role,

00:27:38.260 let's talk about big mistakes.

00:27:40.040 Okay.

00:27:40.880 How exciting, how did it come about?

00:27:42.040 Like, how did it feel when you got it?

00:27:43.780 I'm so curious.

00:27:44.700 I mean, it was like two years ago,

00:27:49.300 almost exactly that I first,

00:27:51.460 I was on a job in Italy.

00:27:54.020 in Rome you know Roma and um I did an audition tape for it and I remember like I don't know how

00:28:04.280 all of the industry side stuff works but whenever I get an audition my brain kind of runs through

00:28:08.380 like not in um in a totally emotionless way you're just like this is something I could

00:28:13.460 reasonably get or like no they'll probably go with someone bigger or like you just know where

00:28:17.040 you slot in a little bit you start to learn and you do mostly auditions that you don't get so it

00:28:22.980 doesn't really feel like anything but I got it and I read it I think I read the pilot or something

00:28:27.020 and I was like oh wait this is like really my personality and we have like the same upbringing

00:28:32.300 and like background all this stuff I go wow this like character is very close to type I think I

00:28:35.700 would do an amazing job at this but I don't think the timing is right like I do not think they could

00:28:40.560 cast me in this and I waited six months and uh didn't hear which is exactly what I was expecting

00:28:46.960 so that was perfect yeah and I guess what happened was they had read a ton of people for it and they

00:28:51.920 were like struggling to like release cast it how they wanted to or find a fit that felt right

00:28:57.440 and my manager reached back out and was kind of like hey like what's the deal like why haven't

00:29:03.300 you cast this yet and like why not taylor and this is so crazy to learn but they were like oh

00:29:08.700 honestly she was the exact first um the first audition we saw and sometimes you're just kind

00:29:14.360 of like prepared to see a ton of people so you forget the first person you see yes or even the

00:29:20.020 first five or ten yeah and I think and then I had talked to a casting director not who casted big

00:29:26.020 mistakes but who was like it's so interesting because I'm sending the people in the first

00:29:30.380 you know group of people who I think are the best fit and a lot of times they're just like okay who's

00:29:35.720 next because you're just like this process is going to be long and we're going to see every

00:29:38.860 girl in this town it's like the grass is always greener mentality yes they're like what if though

00:29:43.500 it can't I know I think we're all and in everything we do we go nothing can be easy

00:29:47.440 nothing can be easy and simple no no we have to torture ourselves and it has to be hard to be

00:29:52.800 good yes um and i believe that and i'll keep living my life that way but yeah and then i came

00:29:58.080 so really quick like i waited six months and then they were like would you tape again and i was like

00:30:02.700 obviously i'm unemployed i will tape out yeah let me check my schedule yeah for the lead of a show

00:30:08.280 i'll tape yeah yeah um and then truly like a day after that i went in and like read with dan

00:30:13.120 And it was, at that point you are kind of like,

00:30:16.540 either we have chemistry or we don't.

00:30:18.280 Right.

00:30:19.060 You can't really fake it.

00:30:20.400 And I'm so glad that we did,

00:30:22.080 and that we really liked performing together.

00:30:24.280 But also I think we were like improvising,

00:30:26.100 and we had like a really sweet energy with each other.

00:30:29.620 And I, who knows, but I did leave kind of being like,

00:30:33.460 it does seem like I probably got it right.

00:30:35.820 Like, I don't know, right?

00:30:37.380 But you're not in the room with anyone else.

00:30:38.620 You're so me.

00:30:39.460 Like everyone else could have been having that experience,

00:30:41.080 but I go, no, mine's special. 0.98

00:30:43.120 You're like, my fucking nailed that. 0.97

00:30:44.900 I know, I think I nailed it. 0.99

00:30:46.560 One time I went to a live audition

00:30:48.580 that was like full Broadway singing for a movie.

00:30:52.420 And not my, I sing, but like I was there 0.98

00:30:55.860 with like Broadway girls.

00:30:57.860 And I was used to like film and TV auditions.

00:30:59.980 They're very chill with you in film and TV auditions.

00:31:03.160 I go in, my sister who is a Broadway girl

00:31:05.620 and me are auditioning.

00:31:06.920 My sister goes in, nails it like you've never heard

00:31:08.720 in your life, okay?

00:31:09.560 It's beautiful, it's flawless.

00:31:10.480 She comes out, she's like,

00:31:11.060 right I go in I miss a whole page of music okay miss a whole page they go you didn't finish the

00:31:18.980 song I go amazing do you want me to just jump back in or should I start from the top

00:31:22.140 and they're like I'm so glad you noticed take it from the top they go start from the top I

00:31:27.700 sing it again I fuck up the whole audition I walk out I go I think I might have gotten that

00:31:32.140 my sister's like you definitely did it you're so me you definitely do the only person whose

00:31:39.260 narrative matters is mine it's mine i leave every audition going i think my dreams are coming today 0.99

00:31:43.140 god i feel sorry for every other girl who went in after me i'll be i'll say that much shit 0.61

00:31:47.280 someone someone during this press like press um run was like referred to me as an ingenue once 0.94

00:31:52.440 again i and i and my my manager's gonna be like stop doing this i'm turning 37 this month um

00:31:56.740 they're like an ingenue i go i it's truly the only way i've stuck it out this long to get this job is

00:32:01.380 that i walk into every space going today's the day right today it's true but then you have like 0.89

00:32:08.340 a big win and you know that was worth it and you do the big win and you're like i fucking knew it 0.70

00:32:12.560 i knew it all along and then when you don't get it you're like we'll see the universe has a plan

00:32:16.800 yeah there's something bigger coming yeah there's something bigger for the big they say no so they

00:32:20.420 can open a window they can give me an even bigger opportunity they're calling me soon and it'll be

00:32:24.700 like two years unrelated two years you'll get there was the win reasons why i didn't get it

00:32:29.900 i'm like well obviously i wasn't here at the time they were filming like if i had gotten that job

00:32:33.600 two years ago.

00:32:34.440 I might not be free to do this.

00:32:37.800 It's like, coulda done both, girl. 1.00

00:32:39.420 I'd do the same shit all the time. 1.00

00:32:40.920 Coulda done both for sure, but. 0.99

00:32:42.260 I haven't gotten a confirmation once,

00:32:44.100 but I tell myself all the time,

00:32:45.220 I'm like, well, I know the reason.

00:32:46.320 I know the reason.

00:32:47.160 I know the reason.

00:32:48.000 Here's the thing.

00:32:48.840 That sort of mental abuse cycle is really,

00:32:52.400 it does, it's sort of how I feel about seasons.

00:32:55.860 Like, now that I'm like back in New York,

00:32:58.480 it is sort of like the, you are getting,

00:33:02.420 God, 200 no's to a yes, maybe more, probably more.

00:33:05.840 Yeah.

00:33:06.680 And so that like cycle really does put your brain

00:33:09.200 in this weird place where when you get a big win,

00:33:12.440 you're like.

00:33:16.760 I knew it, I knew it, I knew it.

00:33:19.200 I knew it was gonna happen.

00:33:20.040 And it is so hard and everyone is waiting so long

00:33:22.400 for like their one thing.

00:33:23.880 And it's like the one communal thing you share.

00:33:25.640 Oh my God, that it is.

00:33:26.720 Everybody's waiting.

00:33:27.560 It is kind of, it does put you in a place 1.00

00:33:30.380 where you're like more more and more primed which is why the the nepo baby allegations 0.83

00:33:35.040 are even funnier because you're like bro you have no clue how long i've been waiting i've been 0.98

00:33:41.080 waiting for my number to be called for a long fucking time and the deeper you get the more 0.98

00:33:45.200 like you learn where it's kind of like you're insane if you're not if you're if you don't 0.99

00:33:49.640 have a connection in this business or five million dollars you're insane for trying

00:33:53.920 why would you ever do it no you get one little win you get like one little

00:33:59.860 your first little unpaid thing and you're like oh my god there's space for me here

00:34:03.180 oh my god i'm gonna be huge this is just the beginning oh my god the start of my career who

00:34:10.880 am i gonna think when i win my oscar i literally do the same thing i'm like who am i gonna think

00:34:14.380 when i win my oscar oh my god sometimes i get anxiety where i go this is crazy like an anxiety

00:34:18.640 will hit me where I go because one part of my brain goes awards are silly like they just don't

00:34:24.640 matter like everyone like and I do believe here's the thing I do believe like everyone does deserve

00:34:29.440 to exercise creativity and I think if they wanted to have a creative career which I don't know that

00:34:35.700 everyone wants to do that with their creativity it's true yeah but everyone should get a shot

00:34:39.980 it's not how it feels like it works and it's not how it works yeah but so I will have that one part

00:34:45.180 of my brain where it's like validation doesn't matter and da da da da and then I have the other

00:34:48.660 part of my brain obviously that's like now been trained to be like it's a sign or I'll be like

00:34:55.280 I'll be like I'm really nervous about my oscars speech and it's like honey what oscars speech

00:34:59.180 I'm like I hope I don't forget anyone in my oscars oh my god I know I'm like what if they

00:35:02.820 only give me a plus two who am I gonna bring obviously my mom who am I gonna bring I think

00:35:06.140 all the time all the time who am I gonna take how am I gonna decide I'm like they're gonna

00:35:11.100 to be so mad at me when i don't take them it's like you're not invited not yet they don't know

00:35:16.800 your name over but imagine when you're not when your name does get called you need to be ready

00:35:19.820 we have to be ready that's why i'm not even kidding this happened to me like a couple weeks

00:35:24.200 ago i was like so high and i was taking a shower and i was thinking about like acting because i'm

00:35:29.660 working on some stuff right now and i was like thinking about it and that's where i say my

00:35:32.620 prayers a lot like to my ancestors to the universe whatever and so i was like literally picturing

00:35:36.820 being at the oscars and i was like measuring who would be in the audience made myself cry

00:35:42.020 i'm so badass i was like thinking about it i was like wow like i'm like that's gonna be

00:35:46.600 i'm like god i hope i'm like thinking to myself wow the first time one woman to win an oscar like 0.97

00:35:55.340 that is such a huge feat nothing's even remote i haven't been cast in shit 0.99

00:35:59.420 i haven't been cast in shit girl when michael b jordan was talking about his mom 0.99

00:36:03.660 like taking him to all the auditions I go that's really sweet I should do something like that 0.96

00:36:07.380 you guys are not on the same path I'm gonna steal that I'm gonna steal that I hope you don't mind

00:36:14.440 I'm gonna steal that I think in um I think in in 15 to 18 years when we win our Oscar Michael

00:36:20.660 B Jordan will have forgotten what he said for real he's gonna be on like Denzel Washington's

00:36:26.220 level yeah at that point yeah he's not at the event no for real I saw I saw an interview with

00:36:30.680 denzel washington recently and they they asked him like oh like how many when you do auditions

00:36:35.660 like they said when you do auditions that was the start of the question and he like cut them off 0.98

00:36:40.100 and goes audition you know i haven't auditioned in like 20 years no i watched that shit i said 0.95

00:36:44.680 i'm trying to be like him he's offer oh my god i'm trying to be like him i mean the minute i think 0.76

00:36:49.520 i think i think when you get an oscar you don't have to audition anymore but i'll still do i will

00:36:53.940 still do it i'll read let me be clear i always will go i'll read me too i'll read i feel like

00:37:00.040 You watched The Comeback?

00:37:01.780 No, no, I haven't.

00:37:02.900 Oh, I think that you would love it.

00:37:04.360 Really?

00:37:05.200 It's truly one of the best shows ever made.

00:37:06.280 It may be my favorite.

00:37:07.360 Oh, love.

00:37:08.540 It really, from time to time.

00:37:11.860 And her character is like, it is one of the first shows

00:37:15.400 that I watched the first season.

00:37:17.380 And I was like, wait, maybe acting is hard

00:37:19.260 and is like such a skill.

00:37:20.760 Because sometimes it feels like you're like,

00:37:23.380 I'm just thinking of how I would feel.

00:37:25.280 And you think you're not working that hard.

00:37:27.040 But then you see Lisa Kudrow do this character

00:37:29.140 that is so over the top and silly and then she's really making you feel she's a really sympathetic

00:37:35.420 character and you sometimes you love her sometimes you hate her um and yet sometimes you have to watch

00:37:41.100 it because it is that internal monologue it is where like she is it's not about her being a good

00:37:45.980 person or a bad person she is just like kind of it has the delusion that you need in order to

00:37:50.720 survive in order to survive in this yeah and like enjoy yourself and or sometimes really make yourself

00:37:55.960 a prisoner of it too right really trap yourself yes you have to like lock yourself in the room

00:38:01.060 with it kind of deal and it is that's so real I feel like I've told people many times because

00:38:05.560 I'm not even like on your level I'm an I'm in the dickhead internet level like where they're

00:38:09.980 kind of intersecting and I've told people before like there is a level of delusion you have to

00:38:15.180 maintain to continue to do this because it is so it's also so subjective like the casting process

00:38:22.040 in general can be extremely subjective sometimes it's very close to material sometimes it's just

00:38:26.520 how they're feeling sometimes it's what they like imagined in their head it's all so or it's like

00:38:31.460 they hire somebody else and like you would have gotten it but then they hire someone else and

00:38:34.860 then suddenly the group chemistry isn't or like layout isn't what there's just so many moving

00:38:39.000 pieces like somebody else getting a job affects whether you get a job or not it's crazy i mean

00:38:43.600 the internet of it all is i think that that takes so much more you're getting like immediate feedback

00:38:50.420 for your performance and that's like that takes a crazy backbone that's true you know that is a way

00:38:57.740 you you going to a set like doing your it's like we're all here doing this job and no one's going

00:39:02.540 to see it for a minute so I can go and do a job yeah and do what I think is the best version of

00:39:09.140 that job and if someone doesn't like it in six months to a year it's not really that much of my

00:39:14.100 business yeah but when someone's like literally like knocking on your door being like I did not

00:39:17.820 like that hey that sucked that wasn't funny have you ever considered that you're wrong and meth

00:39:23.420 makes you not hungry i actually know a lot about meth so yeah and there's like no human being on

00:39:29.360 earth like obviously anytime anyone tells me i'm wrong i go you're right you're right you're like 0.77

00:39:34.500 i have been thinking that i might be stupid my whole life and like actually now that you bring

00:39:37.940 it up to me you're right my hubris is so crazy that even when they tell me i'm like well how 0.80

00:39:41.820 would you know it's true though they google it and i'm like well it's always good to learn the

00:39:46.920 internet these days it's always good to learn but i do think it's like taking constant feedback i

00:39:50.980 don't think is good either yeah that's true you have to have that you have to have that chip in

00:39:55.440 your brain no thank you today yeah it's like actually i'm gonna choose not to believe any

00:39:59.480 of these yeah i can't i just can't today yeah and honestly i feel like with that i that is my

00:40:04.500 version of an epobaby honestly is the internet that's that's my way of like bulldozing my way

00:40:09.100 in but i really do think i needed that that little like extra boost from the internet so

00:40:14.420 it's kind of an amazing it's kind of an amazing thing the way it's changed in the last couple of

00:40:19.100 years because even before like when I was talking about like oh there were these online jobs you

00:40:23.720 still have to be sort of like around for a minute yeah and then be like one of whatever 15 people

00:40:28.820 they were using on rotation for these jobs where now it's like you kind of if you are like funny

00:40:33.440 and good and have something to say I can kind of just be like and now me as well and it's so hard

00:40:38.900 this will take takes time no for real I've talked about how like I'm I'm fully planning on like

00:40:44.220 Lin-Manuel Miranda-ing my way into that industry like I'm like yeah you can have it but I am a

00:40:49.700 principal character well you can have Hamilton I'm just I'm Hamilton and I can't sing but you're not

00:40:54.220 wrong because at the end of the day you're not wrong though because at the end of the day it's

00:40:57.920 still like people want to watch you and like and many people agree on it and that decides whether

00:41:04.760 you get to talk or keep talking that's true yeah that decides and then even as you start to like

00:41:10.640 transition to different forms of like performance or writing and stuff it is just it does just

00:41:15.320 continue to be like what are your ideas what do you have like what is your which is i guess the

00:41:19.880 dream like that's the goal the goal is to get to a point where you can like procure your own ideas

00:41:23.820 yes which i think is that's why i think you're so incredible too in the way that you've obviously

00:41:28.660 you're very talented but i also think it's the the way that you've been looking at the industry

00:41:33.300 is like one of the healthiest mindsets i've heard in a while thank you which i think is i think it

00:41:39.040 speaks to your ability to not only sustain but also like perform at the level you have for so

00:41:43.860 long because it's like yeah it's given you the like breathing room to kind of understand like

00:41:48.700 i don't need to take this personal but this is what i really love to do and one day it will work

00:41:52.640 out it is it is it is not personal at the end of the day it really isn't it but it and if it was

00:42:00.340 that's crazy it it is that's more of a thing on them than it is on you even people who are watching

00:42:05.220 you people are watching you way more often than they're watching people on film and tv right and

00:42:09.660 you're giving them like so much more content you're giving them so much more of like what

00:42:13.320 you're creating on a way quicker basis and they're responding to it it's not it's still not personal

00:42:18.140 because it's still not personal because you they don't really know you and so you are it is still

00:42:23.700 performance and so someone not liking it you do kind of just have to take a minute and be like

00:42:28.300 that's okay right it really is okay you don't have to like it i don't like everything i watch

00:42:32.680 i know people and like then people become like i'm sure for you more than anyone like they're

00:42:36.580 having like a parasocial experience yeah which is normal and it happens and you kind of do i bet

00:42:41.580 have to be like oh my god but wait but like actually you don't i do have like all of this

00:42:46.040 life and all of these people who have known me for years and like i you know it is not personal

00:42:51.480 yeah and you need that grounding kind of aspect too to keep reminding yourself how not personal

00:42:56.480 it's so not and people are so not allowed to like it and they're so allowed to tell you and yeah

00:43:01.680 and i've said i've said that too like as far as like finding me funny i've like said before i'm

00:43:05.680 like i mean if you don't find my kind of humor that funny like that's fine that's okay yeah like

00:43:11.840 i i don't care like i mean like and also like i mean if i were to split hairs like and we're asking

00:43:16.960 a council of comedy why would i ask you like i like also it's like historically people agree

00:43:22.400 that you're funny yeah i mean i got a cosign for some pretty funny people i listen yes let's call

00:43:28.480 it what it is throughout my life people have i've gotten the feedback more often i know like when

00:43:32.960 men who hate me are like it's not that i don't like her i just i just don't think she's funny

00:43:35.920 i'm like right you're just lying right and i was like yeah i was like i mean like one of us is

00:43:40.400 funny they're like it's for academic reasons like her that's typically why i don't like women it's

00:43:46.000 for i just don't think that she's informed in the ways that i would like and it's just like 0.99

00:43:50.960 historically it shouldn't do the comedy structures that i would yeah oh my god comedy structure

00:43:56.480 the comedy structure i one time i had um a comment once that was like saying that i wasn't as funny

00:44:02.720 as like caleb or britney like my friend britney oh um because i'm more co-worker funny and then

00:44:08.640 they said that caleb studied comedy in college and that's why he's so good i go no the no he didn't 0.51

00:44:15.440 there's he's a sociology major yeah what the fuck are you talking about i don't also is that a is 0.99

00:44:21.540 that a major that's why i said where'd you go chuckles university like oh my fucking bad yeah 0.99

00:44:25.680 i got i didn't get accepted into that college my fucking bad yeah my bad i didn't apply it was 0.98

00:44:29.880 audition only and also you can co-sign this too caleb doesn't hang out with non-funny people 0.94

00:44:34.140 no it's he finds them taxing it's true it's true and even like and i'm when we're talking like

00:44:39.140 even people who are not comedians like you know like the biggest characters if we were to get

00:44:44.160 real specific yeah yes there is not a person around caleb who does not have a pov you're right

00:44:51.420 who's not a big personality no dead ass like i think the same i was like he has a very high

00:44:56.060 standard the boy wants to have a good time yeah otherwise he's just dancing for everyone yes 0.97

00:45:00.580 everyone needs to be playing a role you know that is also that is the thing about like co-worker

00:45:04.720 funny is okay so like still the funniest person in the whole office like what do you mean if i'm

00:45:12.100 the funniest girl in the office I'm probably the funniest girl the world is my office what do you

00:45:17.340 mean so you're talking about like my skill in the office that I'm funny okay so I'm funny

00:45:20.900 so you agree so you agree that I'm funny and then you said co-worker what was it the word

00:45:26.840 after you said was funny okay sorry I'm not a word person sorry I used to I had a boyfriend

00:45:36.100 in my like when I was like 22 sorry oh derogatory and I apologize and for that and um and he would

00:45:43.440 be like no it's like you and he like wasn't funny and that's okay there's nothing wrong

00:45:49.120 with not being funny listen God doesn't give with both hands you don't see me being like upset I

00:45:53.140 don't woodwork like I don't like like it's okay to say you don't know how to do something it's

00:45:57.880 okay it's all right it's okay but he wasn't funny and he would go and I hear this like I would hear

00:46:02.380 this so many times like over the years from guys but they'd be like he'd be like no it's like I'm

00:46:06.640 he's like you are funny but you're like theatrical funny and I'm more like he's like I'm more dry

00:46:11.600 and I go and I would never understood being mean but it would make me feel bad like I was like

00:46:15.260 yucking it up crazy and then I go oh like so people are like laughing having a good time when

00:46:19.420 I'm being funny and when you're being funny they're kind of like hmm and so everyone gets

00:46:22.440 uncomfortable when you talk and then when I do it everyone's joyous and having a good time yeah oh

00:46:26.040 so they're like ha ha laughing oh so you meant ha ha funny what's the other kind yeah the other

00:46:30.920 kind of funny he's like that's interesting so you're kind of positing more than anything you're

00:46:37.740 positing from time to time right right you're just kind of like observing having a thought

00:46:42.180 every now and then ah and sharing it with the group oh yeah oh that's good oh okay no I love

00:46:47.420 that that's one time I asked my man I was like who who between the two of us do you think is funnier

00:46:53.140 obviously a loaded question yeah and then he goes between the two of us I go yeah he goes

00:46:58.700 well obviously you and I go you're right that's the correct answer that was a trick question it

00:47:03.280 would be so crazy not to say it would be sort of like to have made a profession off of it

00:47:09.460 like I've been in that position so many times where like even like a quick like guys would

00:47:14.120 just be like I just think I think I could do it and it's like but you haven't so I just feel like

00:47:18.880 and I didn't bring this up you did yeah and also like what's stopping you yes you have a phone and

00:47:25.980 a brain and general will so like go ahead go ahead you're scared feel free it's scary well

00:47:31.440 like come join me it's lonely at the top i'm so bored up here i want to laugh oh i've scaled

00:47:35.920 them out in a thousand times oh i want to laugh you don't want to laugh oh yeah i haven't had a

00:47:40.480 laugh in so long give me a little laugh come on do you ever get one of these where you have like

00:47:44.900 men this actually just happened to me last week when i did like a work event but i was hosting

00:47:49.840 something and it was like there were comics there and like one of them i love and the other ones i

00:47:55.740 I didn't really know that well, but there was a guy there.

00:47:57.600 Sorry.

00:47:58.440 And after the show, we went into this green room

00:48:02.660 and he was like, I've never met this man.

00:48:04.980 I've never heard of him.

00:48:05.820 Like, he's like, you know, honestly, you know what, Drew?

00:48:08.640 You're like, you're like funny.

00:48:12.140 You ever get one of those?

00:48:13.260 You're an actually kind of prone.

00:48:15.360 You're like actually pretty funny.

00:48:16.680 You're actually funny.

00:48:17.880 Or they'll kind of punch up something that you've said.

00:48:20.680 I had a friend who is a guy who is funny.

00:48:23.220 they exist and is a comedian and he was telling me a story and he's also someone who's like

00:48:29.440 very blunt and I speak very bluntly too which is like a really refreshing friendship to

00:48:33.200 have with a man like I could say I could give any feedback and he'd go huh and he would

00:48:38.280 let me say whatever I wanted and it feels good it feels so good it's not hard so and

00:48:42.640 he was talking he was telling a story where he was in a room on a show or something and

00:48:46.420 it was two other women comedians and they were talking and one of them was talking about

00:48:49.540 joke and I think like the other woman was like oh yeah and and he's like and then I just I brought

00:48:55.700 up another joke she said and I said like and I noted it basically and he goes and they both got

00:49:00.520 really quiet and it was really uncomfortable and I went so yeah so I think like right it so

00:49:05.740 ultimately honey don't I think don't just don't even risk that I think don't I think that like

00:49:10.720 don't stick your neck out like that one of those times where unsolicited advice it's like wait for

00:49:14.980 them to turn to you yeah wait for them to go what do you think yeah yeah or I go stick to the joke

00:49:19.660 they're talking about don't go you had another joke that I thought well since you're taking

00:49:24.020 feedback there was um he goes there was a hush over the crowd when you did this joke and I feel

00:49:27.660 like if I feel and I'm sure you noticed but I just I'm sure you know that I probably bring it

00:49:31.920 up you're probably reeling um oh god that was painful how that feel not good huh I do have

00:49:38.260 some notes for you they washed over and he was like totally I won't like that's the nice thing

00:49:41.920 too i think with like a nice guy um you know with a man who's like not experiencing too much pain

00:49:48.060 in life which is a beautiful place to be right um i would just be like don't do that again that's

00:49:53.000 bad and they'll go yeah yeah okay yeah they're just like the big totally yeah yeah yeah they're 0.93

00:49:59.700 like oh yeah i guess that makes sense it's like right must be nice huh to fucking exist in that 0.96

00:50:04.700 ignorant spot yeah they're like i love the weekend and i get the weekend it's the best days of the 0.95

00:50:09.260 week oh my god it's infuriating and also i i envy it yeah i'm like oh that would be awesome 0.88

00:50:17.240 to chill there that'd be so sick but it's the same thing like that that guy this happened to

00:50:21.440 me last week that guy was like you're actually funny which when i do commercials when i do

00:50:26.140 shoots of any kind like there's always at least one guy who who's like a grip a camera guy sound

00:50:33.020 guy whatever who feels the need to go out of their way to tell me you're actually really funny but

00:50:39.140 tone is always too like when we when I heard we were going to be doing this with you today

00:50:43.240 I was like uh who and then you can't you came and you did it and I thought wait a minute and I found

00:50:50.140 myself enjoying it and I it's almost that as if I discovered you you're hey it's like I discovered

00:50:56.040 you I hope you make it one day you know what it also happens when it's like sometimes a man will

00:51:00.180 tell you that you're beautiful in a way where you're kind of like I know people have told me

00:51:03.780 yeah yeah yeah that's what I've heard but they say in a way where they're like you

00:51:08.160 I've gotten this a couple times

00:51:10.480 where a guy will be like

00:51:11.220 they'll either tell it to you where you could tell

00:51:14.520 they think that you don't get it a lot

00:51:16.820 where they might they're like 0.98

00:51:20.340 a girl like her probably doesn't get a lot 0.98

00:51:21.920 this is gonna make her day when I say this 1.00

00:51:24.080 or they'll be like 0.98

00:51:26.620 you have a really unique beauty

00:51:27.860 what the hell

00:51:29.380 they're like you have a really unique sort of look

00:51:31.560 or they'll compliment you in a way where you go

00:51:33.820 people think I'm pretty

00:51:35.620 i'm like maybe not everybody listen maybe not everybody yeah okay but you're not the

00:51:42.320 you can't think you're the first you're like when do they tell you i'm like

00:51:46.080 no you're like does this actually mean like people are always saying i'd be a good homemaker

00:51:52.760 they're saying i'm good at vacuuming they tell me that i have a face for radio but you

00:51:58.720 have changed that you've really changed you think you think i could be

00:52:02.100 no way dude that's even girls where like where marnie's like i don't think i'm like a model

00:52:08.340 i'm like shoshana and ray are like well no not like a model

00:52:11.140 well obviously not not like i'm no and she's like honestly like that that's crazy the unique beauty

00:52:20.480 thing is so funny it makes me laugh too because i feel like they think they're being so

00:52:24.340 like different in their approach like the way that they choose to compliment you in that way

00:52:29.080 i also think too the next time you hear that or someone anyone hears that

00:52:33.420 i would honestly be like you know what i was planning on killing myself today

00:52:37.100 and now i'm not going to you're like one second

00:52:40.140 take a gun out of your waistband you're like i won't be needing this later i don't need that 0.98

00:52:48.520 that means the world that means the fucking world to me bro close bro that means the 0.99

00:52:55.080 fucking world to me bro just make it so over the top like oh my god oh my god it's also like a guy 0.99

00:53:01.140 who's never looked in the mirror before because he's never had to yeah because he's ugly and 0.99

00:53:04.620 that's just across the board and guess what whether he is or isn't doesn't matter just doesn't matter 0.99

00:53:09.960 he's immediately ugly to me when you're on some bullshit like that doesn't matter i know that's 0.97

00:53:14.120 how i'm not thinking about how he looks he's not thinking about how he looks yeah i was like but 0.99

00:53:17.140 you felt the need to compliment my looks anyone ever told you you're beautiful i bet not not 1.00

00:53:21.700 but you never get that huh but you never get that your ugly ass never hears that huh you never 0.99

00:53:26.380 i bet you see all the other girls and you say i wish they would look at me i wish i look like that 0.99

00:53:32.180 i know that's like um when i was a i told this horrifying story about going to prom with a 0.74

00:53:38.540 mormon my junior year of high school yeah terrible experience did you grow up like in a mormon 0.82

00:53:42.920 community around no not at all not even a little bit just one loose yeah just one loose caught me 0.98

00:53:47.220 like a wild salmon you know what I mean wow honestly like he was awful and I sent ire his

00:53:52.260 way metaphysically constantly yeah um but I do remember explicitly like one of this reminds me

00:53:58.220 of that was like you know you're like kind of getting to know each other so you're doing this

00:54:03.040 bullshit mantra in high school and you're I was like well what's your type like I'm trying to be

00:54:07.160 nice type yeah and he's well he asked me what's your type and then I said I'm trying to think of 0.96

00:54:12.400 type right anyone who talks to me right like exactly like well and then when he asked me i

00:54:17.560 was like you know like someone nice and like funny and like gets along with my family like i'm keeping

00:54:23.140 it real general and then i asked him like what about you to be polite again and he's like i like

00:54:28.660 short white girls with glasses oh yeah to my face we were sitting across from each other at a table

00:54:35.780 i was like and you're like okay well i'm missing a few of those things you're like what do i cling

00:54:43.020 to yeah i was like okay he said that i remember feeling so shocked to my core because i was like

00:54:48.120 how am i supposed to like i went oh really and he goes yeah i go all right um like i'm 16 by the

00:54:56.480 way i don't know how to pivot in this conversation when you're 16 it's like everybody likes short

00:55:01.180 girls like white girls with glasses i like when you can pick them up it's like a love is blind

00:55:05.760 where they ask if like they have an active lifestyle or like could I pick you up or something

00:55:10.000 like that kind of thing it's like no either you can whether you can or can't doesn't really matter

00:55:14.940 if you tried to piggyback me my feet would drag along the floor behind you so don't we can try it

00:55:20.740 yeah I was like okay don't worry less about picking up more about how much money do you make

00:55:25.400 like that's well that's the other thing it's always like especially when you're really young

00:55:28.940 like when you're both teenagers it's like I'm for sure that that guy was kind of like but

00:55:33.680 here i am with you like none of those girls can't get attention from the one yeah short white girl

00:55:39.740 with glasses right and he was from utah and mormon so like yeah that tracks right i just like really

00:55:45.280 didn't expect him to give me such a very fucking literal answer i thought you were gonna say

00:55:50.140 someone funny yes whatever the no they're not gonna say no funny oh of course not well well 0.91

00:55:55.080 not funnier than me surely and i'm funnier than most men so now what they're not they don't want

00:56:00.200 that and if they say that they're lying they don't want that I mean what's nice about being in your

00:56:04.900 30s is most of the time if like you find yourself around a group of guys and you're you know joke

00:56:09.400 and you're like really ripped and you're really ripping and you're really going they'll like it

00:56:13.640 you know especially like knowing other performers like they really like it I've had I haven't had

00:56:17.820 this experience in so long where you're like you're not making fun of them you're just being

00:56:22.340 you're having a funny night yeah yeah and you're like you're sparkling you know and and you could

00:56:28.060 tell it's like really whatever and you see a guy kind of be like kind of his face and he's sort of

00:56:33.320 like she's disgusting to me like i love that feeling yes that feeling to me feels like what

00:56:40.940 i imagine smelling salts feel like when they like crack them and they go yeah that's how that feels 0.66

00:56:45.940 to me when i you're growing the fat you're you're getting big like a dragon from sleeping beauty

00:56:51.140 that's how i feel too yes it's like when you're sucking all of their soul it's like a dementor 0.98

00:56:57.300 kind of deal like I'm sucking the soul out of you because you're realizing in real time you're not

00:57:01.600 that funny not that funny but then I go don't drop the energy hey stay with me you're thinking sad

00:57:07.900 thoughts it's about the energy it's about the energy I love that about you honestly what's

00:57:16.020 your sign Gemini oh T what are you I'm a Virgo oh Mercury yeah we're just talking period look at us

00:57:22.400 yes go go go but speaking of your astrological sign i do have fun facts about you you do yes

00:57:30.080 that we i would like to go over with you okay and then you can let me know if they're fun okay okay

00:57:34.400 so uh oh and this one it says you played she go in the live action kim possible movie i did that

00:57:39.920 was fun what an iconic role that was like one of my first jobs i love that i know how was that

00:57:44.800 experience um it was really crazy i'm not i came from truly like i had not done a lot of acting and

00:57:50.160 and then I did that job and they had me doing

00:57:53.080 just like things that I now know are not normal

00:57:56.100 of normal acting jobs, like an action movie

00:57:58.380 and this was like a kid's movie,

00:57:59.480 but I'm still like on wires

00:58:01.580 and you're doing like a lot of stunts training,

00:58:02.820 which is really cool.

00:58:03.820 Like stunt training jobs are really, really cool.

00:58:06.040 They're like the coolest people who work in this business.

00:58:08.820 But they also had me in like a leather neoprene suit.

00:58:13.100 I can't like, and I'm not used to like using my body

00:58:15.120 thinking about, I've only used it for comedy.

00:58:16.660 They're like, could you stand up straight when you walk

00:58:18.900 and also be like kind of, and I'm not even,

00:58:21.120 it was the first time I had to like think about my body.

00:58:23.040 So it was like sort of so many things I've never done since,

00:58:26.180 but it was a really cool job.

00:58:27.500 So interesting.

00:58:28.340 It was really, really neat.

00:58:29.180 And you did a lot of your own stunts on that movie?

00:58:30.800 No.

00:58:32.640 No.

00:58:33.480 You basically, when you're doing stunts,

00:58:34.800 you have to do it just enough so that they can cut you

00:58:37.580 together with a stunt double.

00:58:39.260 And like for the fight choreo.

00:58:40.420 So you will learn fight choreography

00:58:42.080 and they will try to film as much of it with you as they can.

00:58:45.380 But then someone who is, like, truly, like, an acrobatic performer.

00:58:50.020 Yeah, like a professional.

00:58:51.140 Yes.

00:58:51.720 A stunt professional.

00:58:52.480 A stunt professional.

00:58:53.740 And they're doing, like, crazy.

00:58:54.740 And, like, it's really crazy with a lot of, like, action movies or whatever.

00:58:58.020 So much of the movie is stunt performers.

00:59:01.000 That's so interesting.

00:59:02.180 It really is.

00:59:02.580 I guess it makes sense.

00:59:03.680 It makes complete sense.

00:59:04.840 But so much of the movie is them.

00:59:06.280 Like, and now I will watch things and be able to see.

00:59:08.920 Especially things, like, I've done or in.

00:59:10.860 Where you're able to see.

00:59:11.800 Or, like, things that have, like, big group.

00:59:13.580 um i did this movie um this paul feig movie called jackpot and they had a lot of like fight

00:59:21.520 sequences and that it's like they're not even stunt doubles those are like stunt performers who

00:59:25.260 are the actors in the these fight scenes oh interesting so they also are doing like a lot of

00:59:29.540 capital a acting as well it's really fascinating so their jobs are so cool i have a running joke

00:59:35.120 with meg salter that like i'm gonna be i'm gonna be cast as the rocks body double before they make 0.99

00:59:40.060 me a lead they're gonna be like get in there bitch they are gonna make you they're gonna put 1.00

00:59:43.640 me in a bald cap and tell me to get and then the rock is gonna have to be your body that is kind of 1.00

00:59:48.500 what it looks like though you will see like yourself and then you'll see someone who like

00:59:51.780 does not look like you at oh girl i know they're gonna cast a man at all i know like a shiny wig

00:59:57.980 sort of like flipping around and the audience can tell but you go that doesn't look

01:00:01.160 i know it will be like a grown man whatever the hell it is they're like sorry only seth was here

01:00:07.900 They're like, I'm sorry, but only men are as big as you.

01:00:11.220 I had to cast a man as your double.

01:00:12.760 I'm sorry.

01:00:13.320 Sometimes they do go.

01:00:14.380 Sometimes they do go. 1.00

01:00:15.680 We just can't find a girl big enough right now. 1.00

01:00:21.060 And I'm like, no worries. 1.00

01:00:22.220 Keep looking.

01:00:22.900 Or like now sometimes I will go, oh, I worked with this girl.

01:00:25.660 Let me send you her stuff because there's only like a couple really.

01:00:28.540 Well, now I got it.

01:00:29.300 Now I have another fear I have to work on. 1.00

01:00:30.920 I'll send you the gals.

01:00:31.620 I'll send you the gals. 0.91

01:00:33.640 Yeah. 1.00

01:00:34.160 Send me your girls if they've gained about 100 pounds. 1.00

01:00:36.420 I'll send you the gals. 1.00

01:00:37.060 no i will send you the it's just not gonna matter they're gonna wig them up 1.00

01:00:40.820 hey movie magic they're gonna wig them up i know they got those girls flipping around

01:00:45.720 okay next fact uh it says that you used to be an entertainment journalist and you wrote an

01:00:53.040 article in 2016 called i binge watched orange is the new black season 4 at 3 a.m and i don't know

01:00:58.540 who i am anymore yeah so journalist is so loose like i was not a journalist basically it was like

01:01:05.040 the big web days and my job was like I was not cracking stories it was like another bigger

01:01:11.060 outlet would write something and then we would write the same thing and just pad it for word

01:01:15.940 count so I would do like a person I would do like a first paragraph sentence for personality

01:01:20.100 right and then it's like the fox it's like ground floor sub stack yes but sometimes you'd like live

01:01:25.080 watch things like Orange is the New Black but that was also like kind of hard because then you're

01:01:28.740 like this is actually a lot of writing you know you're like this original stuff is actually hard

01:01:33.900 i want to go back to i never finished orange is the new black but i did watch a couple seasons of

01:01:38.140 it they had a they had a lot of seasons yeah they did i never finished it it was i have i have an

01:01:43.520 itis though with that i think everybody does i think like our brains are a little just watching

01:01:47.600 new things so many things yeah and we're like we're going it's longer than 30 seconds i don't

01:01:52.660 think i can well i don't know what where i'll be in 30 seconds yeah well like how am i supposed to

01:01:56.420 scroll on my phone and also like now like when i tell my friends like i really want to watch

01:02:00.720 like something they're like is it like a show I can like scroll on my phone now yes I'm always

01:02:05.900 like no well you know sometimes that there will be now when you're developing stuff there is

01:02:10.640 an intention to where they're like reiterate the plot and it's like we can't naturally really do

01:02:16.280 that people are just gonna have to like ask someone in the room like your mom would you

01:02:21.160 know what I mean like how my mom's like asking questions before it started it's like we've seen

01:02:24.180 the same amount of of the movie I'm actually right with I'm like I'm discovering it along with you

01:02:28.620 girl we're discovering in the moment let's let it let's let it play out i've joked about that

01:02:33.700 with my mom because like my mom i love broadway and stuff when they made dear evan hansen into

01:02:38.900 a movie did ben platt look and saying yeah of course he did but obviously i had to go see it

01:02:42.860 you had to see yeah so when we went i was already annoyed because we were late and i missed my

01:02:46.560 favorite song which is the opening song waving through a window that's my favorite and do they

01:02:49.760 not reprise it no well like at the end towards the end but like i missed my favorite song

01:02:54.280 and i was like oh and then we're sitting there my mom has never seen this play she has no idea she

01:02:59.080 didn't even know it was a musical so when we were sitting there she goes who is that who is that

01:03:03.080 mind you we're like 10 minutes into the movie so i i know what's happening because i've seen the

01:03:06.200 play but like my mom does yeah who is that is this a musical wait who is that to not know something

01:03:11.040 is a musical is pretty jarring that happened to me and i took my mom and sister again to see into 0.99

01:03:16.620 the woods like when i watched that movie yeah my sister is this a musical holy fuck stop talking 0.87

01:03:21.440 to me you can really get lost during sondheim too you can really get she goes they sing the 0.96

01:03:25.260 whole time i'm like yeah it's a sondheim i don't know what that means both of you need to stop

01:03:28.720 talking to me during the movie you're gonna miss actually a lot if you yeah like i had to tell my

01:03:31.840 mom i was like you need to stop i told him please stop you need to stop please and and and you're

01:03:35.600 missing literal facts as we're doing this you're missing more all the lyrics are different you

01:03:41.140 actually can't miss any in the woods they're not gonna there's there's not gonna be a chorus

01:03:44.700 you need to pay attention you have to this is an opera that's why that's how i felt telling my

01:03:50.180 friends to watch chief of war have you watched chief of war on apple tv oh my god are they

01:03:53.660 singing it's on apple tv okay it's so good it's about the hawaiian kingdom okay jason momoa like

01:03:59.260 has been working on it for like 10 years finally got it greenlit okay it's almost 90 of it's in

01:04:04.280 hawaiian so like is it subtitles or you're just kind of there's subtitles so you have to watch

01:04:08.960 like so i was like telling some of my friends anyway i know but i was like telling my friends

01:04:13.480 you can't scroll during this you'll miss everything if you don't if you don't watch

01:04:17.440 and lock in you're gonna miss everything so i get it it's like counts as reading a book right

01:04:21.960 if you're watching if you're watching some of the subtitles and it's in another language you

01:04:25.940 are reading a book at that point that's you're a polyglot you are you are you start telling good

01:04:31.260 use of polyglot hard to work in sometimes but that was very that's where it goes that's improv

01:04:37.640 baby that's improv okay next fun fact it says your castmates on another simple favorite oh

01:04:45.360 helped you tape your audition for big mistakes while you were filming in it yeah i don't know

01:04:49.520 if it was big mistakes or another one but i do remember i had a couple of auditions um while i

01:04:54.580 was there and one of them was um like a live audition it wasn't big mistakes it was like i

01:05:00.000 had a zoom like screen test audition okay um i i don't know why i'm like i didn't sign an nda it

01:05:06.300 was for the the paper with um and it was with greg daniels okay and so like there you're doing

01:05:10.820 scripts you're doing like some improv yeah and yeah it was me and alex newell and i was like

01:05:15.760 can you help me please help me i love them i know alex is the best yeah and it is just really funny

01:05:22.500 when you have such a talented um person helping you do oh my gosh that's crazy like i'm so sorry

01:05:28.300 but i need you i'm gonna need to call in a favor i really need you and i would only feel comfortable

01:05:35.760 asking alex yeah we spent that whole time we were in italy for a while we spent that whole time

01:05:40.000 together and i would have only felt comfortable asking them to do that with me it would be have

01:05:44.360 been insane if i was like blake hey queen hey blake i don't know if you read for things yeah

01:05:54.240 but i have to read for something kind of big and you're not busy so you got how many kids four here

01:06:00.360 yeah anyway i can't ask alex again you think you'd do it right okay this last one says that

01:06:06.760 You used to be roommates in New York with your sister, Natalie, who also does comedy.

01:06:11.040 And one time they were fighting so loud, your other roommate tried to break them up and said, no, this is just how we talk to each other.

01:06:17.300 Yeah, yeah.

01:06:18.320 We don't, my sister and I don't, we're five years apart, so we don't fight a lot.

01:06:21.980 Okay.

01:06:22.580 And actually, like, five years apart is sort of like, you're having your own high school experience.

01:06:27.340 You're having, like, all your own friends.

01:06:28.820 You're like, so we weren't, we're not big, like, screaming sister fighters growing up.

01:06:33.660 Right.

01:06:33.980 Same.

01:06:34.460 Same with me and my sister.

01:06:35.700 How far apart are you?

01:06:36.760 we're two years apart two years oh so it could have been you guys are you really really close

01:06:40.960 yeah we're super yeah because that i could see us really getting into it two years apart like

01:06:45.760 you're in high school together you're having like friend overlap like yeah we did have a lot of that

01:06:49.740 yeah that could be that could be stressful no we never had that but then we lived together in new

01:06:53.460 york for a while we lived together for like five years and it was more like you are so comfortable

01:06:58.880 with each other right you do talk to each other crazy yeah that's true and i will say we lived

01:07:03.620 with a third friend who was kind of in the sweet spot of like she could kind of like have a natalie

01:07:08.380 day or have a taylor day and like kind of like i would be doing the same thing i would kind of be

01:07:12.300 like i'm in a good spot with everybody like all the time you know yeah a friend you can fight in

01:07:16.700 front of yeah definitely no one wants that but yeah yeah and also but also that she kind of gets 1.00

01:07:21.620 to play both sides like if she's like sick of my sister she can like hang with me if she's sick of 0.99

01:07:26.020 me they can talk shit about me kind of yeah and it's none of my business one time i did hear the 0.94

01:07:30.980 minute I closed the door they talked too soon and the sound traveled up the hallway and I was like 0.98

01:07:34.200 and they laughed but this was sort of like we were not we were not getting in fights when we

01:07:41.980 lived together and we didn't really snipe at each other but it means that you do have that

01:07:47.180 closeness that every once in a while probably like a handful of times in our lives we've gotten in

01:07:51.260 like a blowout fight yeah and it's like you've known each other your whole lives and then you

01:07:57.440 have all your like your childhood stuff too and so you're like yelling each other and like your

01:08:00.620 face like shaking like yeah only like literally only your sister could get you to that spot and

01:08:06.480 to be a third person in a space where that type of fight is happening oh yeah i'm in my home

01:08:11.900 what i can't go anywhere and we're doing like a traveling fight like i remember that fight like

01:08:18.960 we're doing a traveling fight like you'll you'll be yelling at her following her around and she's

01:08:22.880 Like, I'm done, I'm done.

01:08:23.940 And then, like, you'll upset your thing.

01:08:25.880 And then she, like, comes back after you.

01:08:28.040 And I didn't have a bedroom door.

01:08:30.780 So I had a curtain up, like, in this weird dining room that we had turned into my bedroom. 0.96

01:08:35.300 And she's, like, pulling it around her face and screaming at me.

01:08:38.240 And I'm trying to close the curtain on her face.

01:08:40.260 And she's like, and I like that.

01:08:43.500 It was really bad.

01:08:44.860 It was really bad. 0.99

01:08:45.760 Only sisters get it.

01:08:46.620 And the whole time, you're just like, I'm just never going to have to apologize for this.

01:08:50.920 And it's not going to happen.

01:08:52.880 in about an hour none of this is going to be mad i don't know it really from her it is one of those

01:08:59.020 things where you're kind of like like my sister and i like it'll get to a point like if we're

01:09:03.680 fighting which is rare but like if we do fight and it's preventing us from like we're like i'm

01:09:08.360 not talking to her yeah i always i always know we're fighting because we don't say she doesn't

01:09:12.660 send me tiktok she doesn't send me anything funny she's not engaging with anything that i post like

01:09:17.500 i i know she's mad at me then it's and vice versa i'm sure yes but sometimes i'll see something

01:09:22.000 that's so funny that i'm like okay fight over i have to tell you this i just saw either i'm not

01:09:26.840 on tiktok anymore because of my time management skills are really poor um i had to delete it but

01:09:31.040 i saw a reel um which i also i'm not allowed to be on there really um but i saw a reel and it was

01:09:35.580 like something it was like what you see when you and your boyfriend are in a fight and it's like

01:09:39.160 a wooden carved six foot big foot on a flatbed truck passing by and you're like i want to talk 0.92

01:09:43.220 i know the type of shit i see when i'm fighting with my boyfriend yes yes i'm like i want to talk 0.97

01:09:47.340 I saw one like that, too, recently. 0.99

01:09:49.640 Yeah, it's very similar.

01:09:51.480 It's the universe's way of being like, send her a little tick.

01:09:53.640 Or, like, sometimes, like, my man is, like, that friend where he's, like, seen us bicker, like, very rarely.

01:10:01.360 And he's also seen blowout fights, but he doesn't do anything.

01:10:03.900 Like, he never really gets involved, which is good for him.

01:10:06.360 Don't.

01:10:06.760 But the one time he said something was because we were, I forget, we were, like, at Coachella. 0.98

01:10:12.020 It was a rough fucking couple days. 0.95

01:10:13.980 But we were, like, standing. 0.99

01:10:15.620 My man's in the middle.

01:10:16.440 My sister and I are like this.

01:10:17.340 and we're like bickering at each other.

01:10:19.020 And it really was, we couldn't hear

01:10:21.420 what the other person said

01:10:22.420 and we both got offended for different reasons.

01:10:24.540 So we were both arguing

01:10:25.820 and that was the one and only time my man has said anything.

01:10:28.740 He went, hey guys, let's not.

01:10:31.600 And as soon as he said that, we were like.

01:10:34.540 Yeah, both.

01:10:35.380 Yeah, we're both like, now we have a common enemy.

01:10:37.340 That's exactly what we did to our roommate.

01:10:39.240 We were like.

01:10:41.500 First of all, don't ever talk to my sister

01:10:43.160 that way ever again.

01:10:44.000 We were like, whoa, we're like, this isn't even that bad.

01:10:46.580 you don't even know a bad day

01:10:48.900 because you're both embarrassed you're both like

01:10:50.260 I was acting embarrassed

01:10:51.420 so you're saying I'm an embarrassment

01:10:54.100 yeah we were both like humiliated and then we kind of

01:10:56.560 laughed and then we were like you never say anything

01:10:58.680 oh someone's feeling brave

01:10:59.840 oh someone wants to talk during fights now

01:11:02.020 and you're perfect yeah oh so someone wants to talk

01:11:04.640 during fights you want to join

01:11:06.420 and then he was like god no

01:11:08.420 I was just saying you guys misheard each other

01:11:10.500 because he heard everything right so then he was like

01:11:12.640 you guys misheard each other he's fully in the right

01:11:14.180 and then we were both like yeah

01:11:15.540 yeah anyways like we're probably gonna have a good day going forward this might have actually

01:11:20.620 put a damper on your day but we're even better than ever someone else like irritates you like 0.98

01:11:25.220 exactly like that and you're like well let's all talk shit on her now yeah yeah and how dare she 0.96

01:11:29.880 yeah let's link up and how dare she get upset now that we ruined her day with our arguing the other 0.80

01:11:35.580 day my sister i forget what we were talking about oh it was like us with our one of our friends

01:11:39.860 and we were laughing about something that we remembered and our friend was like i don't

01:11:44.680 remember that like where was i and then my sister was like oh that was the night you got mad at us

01:11:48.960 and you went back to your room so we had a lot of fun without you to find out that the night turned 0.96

01:11:54.000 around is like whoa yeah she literally was like what the fuck you guys were joking yeah 0.97

01:11:59.040 and no one woke me up and no one woke me up so you guys were only kind of being like miserable 0.98

01:12:05.340 when i was there couldn't be salvaged when i was there

01:12:08.900 so i get it oh man well that's all my fun facts for you well did they feel fun they were fun facts

01:12:15.780 oh i have one more oh she said she said you have a bonus one okay uh in 2019 you did the bob ross

01:12:25.300 challenge oh my god where you had to step-by-step copy a bob ross painting while wearing overalls

01:12:30.500 i don't think i agreed to wear overalls but i don't think i would do that because sometimes

01:12:36.340 they will cut you right up the front um yeah if you try to clip them and they whenever anyone tries

01:12:40.740 with me in a romper anything sorry to come back to being tall but it's like i'm not putting a

01:12:44.180 one piece anything on no straight up the gooch get real my two lips out painting you wish yeah

01:12:51.620 i'm giving claw machine between my legs this is like a bikini overall in my memory um yeah i'm

01:12:56.580 horrible it's pulling up it feels horrible because you have a long torso yes very long and people

01:13:01.620 will try to put put me in it and i'll go it's not gonna work but yeah and you can laugh and laugh

01:13:10.500 silly eye look you big bob ross fan um sure i mean i think is he still with us i don't think so no

01:13:19.940 oh well r.i.p r.i.p that was a beautiful career and like yeah well i'm sure the painting looked

01:13:25.380 beautiful do you like to paint no i'm really bad at like visual arts like painting drawing me too

01:13:31.620 I'm good at, like, oftentimes I will try something new.

01:13:35.560 And I'm not talking about anything, like, really out of the way.

01:13:37.960 But every now and then I'll try something new and be good at it right away.

01:13:40.420 And I'll be like, maybe that's true of everything.

01:13:42.800 And it's just so weird that it's, like, an art form. 0.97

01:13:45.560 And, like, I'm technically an art ass. 0.99

01:13:47.440 And it's so ugly. 0.99

01:13:50.920 It's so ugly.

01:13:51.740 Yeah, I don't like to do things I'm not very good at either.

01:13:53.800 It's bad. 1.00

01:13:54.580 Like, when I'm drawing or painting, it looks like a stupid baby did it. 1.00

01:13:59.020 I don't enjoy that feeling. 1.00

01:14:00.300 baby that they'd be worried about they would like get the baby testing you know what i mean

01:14:03.400 they'd be like motor skills or not there's something up well we recommend getting tested

01:14:07.980 before the next grade truly they're like her handwriting something she's not pen to paper

01:14:13.120 it's not something's not trance we're missing something i just never well that fact did you

01:14:18.880 find that one fun i guess even though it reminded me of something i'm bad at

01:14:22.840 and an outfit that looks ugly on me yeah so thanks for that amanda by the way well thank 0.96

01:14:29.540 you so much for coming on the show i fucking and i'll love you yeah i think you're a hoot and a 0.93

01:14:34.660 holler thank you and i would love to close us out if you could give us some tips on like getting 0.92

01:14:41.400 into acting like kind of like oh yeah the the pursuit of trying to get there and like how like

01:14:46.440 that whole process goes like obviously a lot of people that watch me want to work in this industry

01:14:50.640 but i also am asking selfishly for myself because i'm venturing into acting right now i'd love

01:14:55.680 whatever advice you people it's really weird when people give advice about getting into acting

01:14:59.240 because then there's like never concrete advice really and it really is like that like it really

01:15:04.300 is so confusing in that way and I think sometimes people focus on like representation or whatever

01:15:09.120 and I think the thing that ultimately works the best for someone who has not done like who doesn't

01:15:15.560 even like has like no platform hasn't done anything hasn't put themselves out there creatively

01:15:19.820 is like if you haven't done anything yet or you are a creative person and you're like why am I

01:15:24.080 not getting somewhere you do need other people even if it's like a solo pursuit you just do

01:15:29.220 need to be working with other people creating with other people help somebody else on their

01:15:33.800 thing like something small like if someone you if you see someone's doing like a student film

01:15:37.900 if you see someone's doing like a short or something like help them on that in some way

01:15:41.960 get into a community with other people it's gonna like not just so you have people to work with on

01:15:47.080 your thing but it's also gonna like really inform you of how things get made how things get done

01:15:51.160 it's an industry where you can pay to go to school but then you're gonna have to go in

01:15:55.600 into the business and learn it on the fly regardless so it is like things that aren't paid

01:16:01.120 things that which is another really frustrating part of this business it's true though you're

01:16:04.960 right but it's like use your spare time however you can even if it's slowly to meet other creative

01:16:10.980 people that is like the best yes be in the environment such great advice i think that's

01:16:15.820 wonderful it also is so inspiring too when you work with people also who work in other mediums

01:16:20.820 that maybe you're not thinking of initially.

01:16:23.020 I would love to like meet like musicians.

01:16:24.840 Yeah, like talking to,

01:16:26.900 I've talked to so many musicians on this show too

01:16:28.600 and just generally,

01:16:29.380 but like talking to them about songwriting,

01:16:31.920 about producing,

01:16:32.960 like all of it is so fascinating to me.

01:16:35.060 It is fascinating to me.

01:16:36.300 So much so to the point where it has really inflamed

01:16:39.000 my hubris and thinking I can be a DJ,

01:16:40.660 that is something I'm working on.

01:16:41.500 You could definitely be a DJ.

01:16:42.380 I'm working on it.

01:16:43.100 You could definitely be a DJ.

01:16:43.940 If Joe Jonas can do it, I can do it.

01:16:45.340 You would be an amazing DJ.

01:16:47.160 I think so.

01:16:48.000 You'd be an incredible DJ.

01:16:48.940 Also it is kind of like, it is just doing the thing.

01:16:52.200 And if you like it, you will just get better and better

01:16:54.920 and better, whether you're writing something,

01:16:56.200 whether whatever, it's like, I think sometimes people think,

01:16:59.480 especially when you have like no money and no time,

01:17:02.440 you want your first thing out to be perfect.

01:17:05.040 And the secret and like the lie of it all is that

01:17:08.440 it's not about the thing being perfect,

01:17:09.740 it's about you're gonna make like 900 things.

01:17:12.100 You're gonna do it over and over again.

01:17:13.600 If your wildest dreams work out,

01:17:16.100 what it does is it opens the door to more work.

01:17:18.300 and so you're back at square one you're back at square one in every phase you are back at square

01:17:22.360 one so it is just about like just do it just get it done I had I was writing something once and I

01:17:26.600 hated it hated it and I didn't finish it and I didn't I didn't I dropped it like 90 pages and I

01:17:31.280 dropped it and my friend who's a writer and director he was like it's just more important

01:17:36.120 to finish it to do something finish writing it finish doing it yeah and that is the point of art

01:17:40.500 right like the point of art is to create just create it not necessarily to like get accolades

01:17:45.100 for get paid for it although that is the dream yeah that's that shouldn't be the point it should

01:17:49.320 be the point yeah it's like a happy do a dj said where you're where there's a big space of silence

01:17:53.340 in between and then you play the next it's just for my two friends you're like one second one

01:17:57.160 second yeah it's like just for my man and my dogs but no you just have to do it and like enjoy it

01:18:02.340 and yeah have other people around because it is just so much more fun amazing yeah i think you're

01:18:06.580 incredible and i can't wait to see you cast in a million billion more things you too i hope so

01:18:11.780 please never stop yeah we're hard little workers please please please please yeah i'm talking all

01:18:19.320 that shit but i will do anything and if they can make short men look normal size on camera 0.98

01:18:22.940 i would appreciate it they can make yes i would do you lie in your slates about your height 0.99

01:18:26.840 no i actually found out i slated at 5 10 but i am 5 11 but i only discovered in pandemic that

01:18:32.580 i'm 5 11. i see so technically i measured myself i got bored and i leave that inch off so yeah i

01:18:39.500 literally told my acting coach i was like do you think it you think it's okay if i start lying

01:18:42.720 in my slates and he was like i mean yeah and i go and i i was he's like but don't go crazy like

01:18:47.960 don't say like five five well the problem is that it's like five eight to six foot is like they're

01:18:52.840 just like okay it's all the same to them if i say anything over five six i'm seven foot four it is

01:18:58.500 true so that's why i'm like oh the lying is not my sister lies by an inch two and it's kind of

01:19:01.740 like girl okay i'm gonna i started lying by two i'm not even kidding i started telling people

01:19:05.800 five ten it's for you it's for you and i do think that there is sort of a like uh people hear that

01:19:11.560 differently i'm telling you you're five ten differently yeah when i say six foot they're

01:19:14.800 like damn next i know but even five ten is in the double digits of that you know what i mean

01:19:19.480 like once you get past nine five nine is kind of like oh statues oh five nine yeah by the time you 0.98

01:19:26.720 had like five ten five eleven they're like oh they're like oh damn like okay so the frame of

01:19:31.160 the camera it's like to get the other girl in the they're like yeah and then the male far away 0.58

01:19:35.360 yeah the male lead is as tall as three apples tall they're putting him well they put him on a box

01:19:39.480 we need that so we need more we need more tall guys magic yes of course let's work that movie

01:19:46.280 magic let's thank you so much for coming i think you're incredible i love you having i love you

01:19:51.900 having fun here and being here where can everybody find you um i am on instagram where i'm only

01:19:59.440 allowed to log in once a day um because of my time management at taylor ortega um and there is

01:20:05.760 another taylor ortega it's okay if you find her but she does get tagged as me sometimes sort of

01:20:09.540 lucky her honestly it's working out for her listen i hope she likes it she's very kind about it she's

01:20:15.560 very patient with me and um on big mistakes yes how exciting oh my gosh make sure y'all go follow

01:20:23.240 taylor on literally everything if you're not already i'm sure you are and make sure you check

01:20:26.780 out big mistakes on netflix starring miss taylor ortega oh my gosh how exciting so amazing so

01:20:32.360 wonderful thank you so much for joining us and thank you so much for joining us on this episode

01:20:35.520 of the comment section don't forget new episodes drop every wednesday you can stream the audio

01:20:39.580 on all streaming platforms thanks so much to my amazing guest taylor ortega thank you so much to

01:20:43.180 all of you and i'll see you next week bye

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