April 2, 2024 • 29 mins
Ellie and Scott are joined by comedian, actor, and producer, Mayan Lopez. Mayan discusses her love of auctions and estate sales! The three chat about Dress Barn, Mayan’s wild dining room table, and the inherent risks of shopping on Ebay. Plus, Scott shares with Ellie his love of small booths at restaurants!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
No no, no, no no.
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No no, no, ball too.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Hey Scott, Hey, Ellie. I was going to jump on
the singing, and maybe five percent did, but I got
too shy.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I got shy at the end.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
But by the end of this season, I'm going to
have you singing full throttle. Welcome to Bourne to Love.
This is our podcast hosted by me, Ellie Kemper.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
And you, Scott Eckert.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Every week we have a fantastic guest. Wow summer just okay,
I'm kidding. I'm kidding. They're all fantastic.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
One of them is pretty terrible, one of them was
just awesome. But the good news is not today, Not today,
We've got a great one Today.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Today we aired on the side of fantastic and we succeeded.
We have a guest on the show every week to
talk about something anything in the world that they love.
Today we have on the show the fantastic Mayan Lowe
because she is here to talk about auctions and estate sales.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I cannot wait to talk to her about that.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I am way to talk to her. I can't wait
to doctor her going once, going twice. That's what I'm
looking for.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Before we jump in with my end how was your week, Ellie?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
It was fantastic. It was a great week. I did
a lot of fun stuff and there was something that
I wanted to pick your brain about, something that I
think I have a vague memory of being against, but
now I think I love My wife and I went
on a date night, as we sometimes do, lucky us
(01:41):
went to a restaurant and we were seated in a.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Mini booth, a mini booth, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Like a booth at a restaurant, right, yeah, yeah, this
was a mini booth where it was like a chair
sized booth. Do you know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
I think you're about a small booth. There was no
room for vanessaa butter purse anywhere. There was no room
for you to slide over.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah that's right. Normally it would
just be some chairs and it's small table like you know,
a table for two isn't normally boothed, it's chaired and
normally at a restaurant, like you know, it's not crazy
you go to Apple because two people will sit at
a regular sized booth. But yeah, I was snugged into
this little mini booth.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
And we've talked on the podcast before about how you
enjoy the sensation of being cocooned.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Kind of love it, Wrap me up and see you
in the morning.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
And I think yesteryear, Scott was irritated by a mini
booth situation because I felt like I was being cheated.
But this time, Ellie, I felt like I was being cocooned.
And there was plenty of table space, right, I mean,
we're not eating a buffet. It's a regular dinner. We've
got space enough for our plates, we're not knocking our
(02:56):
drinks off. I was just there with my lovely wife
and this sitting across from me in a cushioned seating
sort of situation.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I completely understand. First of all, I love a booth.
What I don't always love is the curved booth. Nobody
likes that the semi.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Circurve boot no, and you're in the corner of a
curved booth, n it's seth. Your knees get stuck together,
that dinner's fucked.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
And also whenever you gotta literally crawl under the table
to get out. The only people who like being at
the top of the semi circle are children, because they're
stupid and they don't know better.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Children are never more rat like than when they crawl
under a table. They're just they're so eager to just
crawl under the table.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Oh and their little whiskers, just like on faid. You
and I are on the same page about children being
stupid and rat like. But to get back to the
mini booth, Scott, I love and I'm not alone. The
feeling of being cocooned.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
All of these things send us psychologically, do you know
I I've studied psychology.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I mean, yeah, you don't yet have a master's, but
you have the equivalent of a bachelor's. I'd say for sure.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
I've read some articles as the same. It's not different.
We all find comfort in womb like environments. Okay, so
it sounds to me like what you were in was
a womb like environment. You're snuggled in there with the
love of your life, Vanessa. You're sharing, Scott, what kind
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of food was it?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
It was dumplings.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Dumplings.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
First of all, it was womb like insofar as we
were receiving nutrition. And then the dumplings they were soup dumplings,
So I don't know, it was like the amniotic fluid
we were.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
The little dumplings were sitting in a soup of amniotic broth,
and you were putting it in your bodies just like
a fetus. The metaphor of the comparison was completely apt here.
I completely understand your love of that. I'm so happy
you had a cozy dinner.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Ellie. I have to ask you a question. I said dumplings,
and I think I saw a micro reaction. Are you
anti dumpling? Oh?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Did I WinCE?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
It wasn't quite a WinCE, My micro wins. Maybe.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
I think you may have been mistaking this because my
kids mistake this too, and I really have to work
on it because I'm sending them into a world of confusion.
I think when I really like something, I make an
ow phase first, Scott, the psychologist in me understands why
I'm doing it.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
But the human part of me understands is confusing to people.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
So I think I go ooh, like yeah, maybe because
it's like so naughty to enjoy something I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I love dumplings.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Well, you know what, you would really love dumplings in
a mini booth. The next time you're in La, I'll
take you. We'll snuggle up together in our mini booth
and eat dumplings.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Ugh, amniotic soup dumplings. I can't wait, Scott. I'm glad
you had a love this week. We both have a
love to look forward to you right now, which is
our chat with Mayan Lopezan.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Is an actress and comedian who starred in Handsome, a
Netflix murder mystery, Other People, and Jersey. Mayan is the
co creator, writer, co executive producer, and star of one
of my favorite NBC comedies out Right Now, Lopez Versus
Lopez with her father George Lopez. The show's second season
(06:22):
is just about to premiere. It premieres on April second,
and we are delighted to have Mayan with us today
to talk about auctions and estate sales.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
So stick around when we come back. Mayan Lopez, Okay,
and we are back. We are here as promised with
the lovely Liyan Lopez.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Hi, Ellie, Hi, Scott, thank you so much for having me.
I am so excited to be here.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
We are very excited to talk to you.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
We're big fans and we're and I specifically I think
Scott as well, but I know I specifically am so
intrigued by your love, which is estate sales and auctions
when did you first realize how much you loved these things?
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Well, one of my guilty pleasure shows was always storage wars.
I always was very fascinated with other people's items, and
even it kind of is very sustainable also and thinking
about all the things that you own in your life
and then when you pass away, there's just things out
there that you own. But really I followed my mom's
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lead as it was kind of a COVID born hobby.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
You know.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
She was following these auction houses that she knew online
and some really interesting things were coming up because I
think people were selling things that were sometimes a little
extra kitchy to get some extra cash. And I've gotten
some really amazing items for all of you don't know.
I just talked briefly with Elliott Scott before this, but
my dining room table is one that was from the
(07:59):
estate sale of Christian Addlier, who's a fashion designer. He
was the head of Von Dutch and at heart.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Oh my god, those names are made up, right, all
of those names, Christian, Christian. Yeah, not to knock the
fashion kind of that. They sound like crazy names.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
You do lit a couple of things in the auctions,
But my dining room table is from nineteen sixty five,
and it is fiberglass, and it is the bottom half
of an elephant.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I will actually so let.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Me follow you.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
You could not have said anything. It is literally the
bottom half wa Mayan, It hold on?
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
And it's made of fiberglass.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
It's made from fiberglass.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
And my mom and I went half seas on it
because we were like, we are never going to see
anything like this again.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Correct, it's from nineteen sixty five. I know process well.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
So before we started recording, Mayan head alluded to this
dining room table and she's like, just you wait for it.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
And I in my head, this is me.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
This is like how sort of I don't want to
use the word lame, but it is a little lame.
I was thinking, Oh, she's going to reveal like a
polished oak or like shiny oak.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
I was like, it's going to be some type of wood.
This couldn't be further from the truth.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I have to know because I am confused, and I'm
taking the fall for all of the dummies out there
along with me. Yes, when you show us the elephant leg,
do you mean that elephant leg is made from fiberglass.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
So there's four legs and then there's actually like a
hanging kind of belly, and it's all made out of fiberglass.
And he used it as almost a table in the
middle of a room for books or things like.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
That, or cocaine. I mean it looks like a cocaine table.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
It was a very expensive joke. But I mean it's
the literal elephant in the room.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
And I feel like, yes, yes, it is a statement piece.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
It's low hagging fruit. But I couldn't No, no, it's not.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
It is wild.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
People were calling the auction house asking who bought the
elephant table.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Which now you'll all know, yes it was. It was
it was Lopez.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
No, wait a minute, does Anne get how does she
get to use the table?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I think it's a family heirloom. Now, yes, okay, I
have custody.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Right now.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah, that's split custody, but I have full at the moment.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Ellie already said it. But you warned us. You were like,
I have the craziest table. It's crazy. And that's a
bold move to make, just to promise someone that their
mind's about to be blown, and you delivered. Because my
mind is really truly blown.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Truly, guys, I gave them nothing.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I've never been doing a state sale. I've never been
to a true auction, but I have been to plenty
of like thrift stores or secondhand store antique stores. And
I've seen crazy tables before because they're old timey and
they look weird, and I was imagining, Oh, she's got
a table with like jewels on it or mirrors or
something you know from eighteen forty or whatever. Right, I
(11:23):
wasn't expecting the torso of an elephant. What are other
items did you purchase? Nothing can top the elephant table.
(11:43):
But like walk us through your COVID obsession checking in
on these estate sales with your mom or these auctions.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Yes, there is different types because there are live auctions,
a lot of them post COVID are online, but there
are still silent auctions. I can do it in person.
Not all of them are super extravagant. There's one that
some things are good, some are bad, but someone really kitchy,
like my mom recently went and they had Elvis memorabilia
(12:10):
and then they actually had some of the clothes from
Ziegfried and Roy Oh wow, And so my mom got
like a leather tuxedo jacket with like satin lapels that
was owned.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
By Safe than Roy that was like her to wear.
I think she's going to Yeah, is.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Your mom the coolest person in the world?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yeah, you even think of my dad.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Aunt Lopez is the icon behind the scenes that like,
my mom is awesome. Yeah, no kidding, I mean, but
also not all of them have been super successful. Lucille
Ball is my comedic icon of all time. And something
came up at one of the auction houses. I thought
that I bought a Lucille Ball owned dress and it
turned out to be fake. The cops, I mean, that's illegal, right,
(12:56):
and they called me afterward. I did end up getting
all of my money back. It wasn't as bad as
there was a Marilyn Monroe one and it turned out
to be a dress from Dress Barn like that, which
I was like, oh, dress Barn, oh mad. At least
mine was like a vintage and kline. Was it of
the era of lucy obal Yeah, it was polka dots
(13:17):
and it had Yeah it was like a halt Her top,
which it would.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Have seemed very lucy.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
So yeah. Yeah, also good on them.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I mean, I'm yeah, I have to call you.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
But that's good that they reached out did the right thing.
I guess I don't know how auction houses work. The
dress barn scenario, I mean, that's a crushing blow. But
also I don't know who it says more about that
seems like you're asking to be found out.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
I don't know. I know that person kind of has
a lot of hut spot. I respect it right to
go to a dress barn and see something on the
rack and be like.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Let's just say that you see, let's see how I
can take this right.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
And I don't know as someone who doesn't buy a
lot of dresses, I mean, I think that maybe the
person with the most that's all is the person who
named dress barn. Let's open a retailer that sells sts
of great dresses. I want to call it just dress barn,
dress barn. It's just a barn. It's just like a
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barn full of dresses, is what it is.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Exactly.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Question about the auction piece of it, because when you
said you go and I don't know if it's a
silent auction. I guess what I'm wondering is, have you
ever been to are we calling it a live auction?
Forget yes, and is that stressful? Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
It gets intense, right, But do you set a.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Limit in your own head, like I'm not going to
go above this, and do you stray from that?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
You think you do? And I try to.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
I've gone to ones in person, but the ones online
it's equally the same. Where you're sweating and you're getting
to that cap that you have for yourself and then
it goes by fifty dollars or seventy five. You're like,
how much further is it going to go? Or am
I going to be able to beat that other person
by just a little bit? But also at the same time,
it's something.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
That I really want. I'm like, I'm going to beat you.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
You know.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Sometimes I have to let things go, and then I
feel bad because also there's sometimes that my mom and
I have been on the same auction and we'll talk
about some of the items before, but then I don't
remember if she lost interest in it, and then she'll
call me and.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
She'll be like, hey, bitch, I'm the one fitting against you.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Stop.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Okay, all right? Another case of.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Oh, well, yes, the other Lopez versus Lopez, and I'm
just like, but no, it gets like pretty intense. But
there's one thing about auctions that there's always things that
go out and things that go in, which makes it
interesting because sometimes there's some weeks but there's really nothing,
and then sometimes you're like, you know what, I have
a good feeling to go and you find something. There
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is one green cabinet that we still have and it's beautiful.
I was like seven or eight at the time. There
was this old man who was there selling it and
he was saying that his wife would put all of
her little treasures in it, and it was beautiful from
the nineteen hundreds and she passed away, and it made
a really big impression on me because he was saying,
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this is her favorite thing in the world, and it
hurts me to let go of it. And my mom
told him, like, I want you to know, I'm never
going to sell it and it's always going to stay
in our family. And so you think about some of
these items, and I like to think of who owned
these items absolutely well.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
There's so much history in every peace. And my question
about the item, the one that got away. It is
so interesting because if you had never been at the
auction or perusing the sales, you would not necessarily know
that they existed. It has to be such a rollercoaster
because say you didn't know something existed, you set your
sights on it, you become like really determined to have it,
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and then it goes away.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
How do you it's like a loss?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
It is.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
It is like a loss and hopefully something else will
kind of come back for me.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Even the auction sites I've gone on, this is my
inferiority complex or something. Because I go on, I'm like, oh,
I'm gonna be outbid anyway, why even try?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
There's some defeats.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I'll teach you the ways Ellie will go to.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Please do go together.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I'll send you some because it.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Sounds like you grew up going to these estate sales
with your mom, so it was like it was sort
of part of the fabric of your childhood almost.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
I don't know, Scott, did you ever?
Speaker 1 (17:25):
No? I never have been to I mean, this is
maybe gonna I'm just gonna expose myself as a rube.
But what are the sophisticated auction goers like yourself or
your mother? What's the rep of eBay?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Good question.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
The deepest I've ever gone other than just like an
antique store is like, Oh, I really want that Deep
Space nine action figure from my childhood, and oh my god,
it's on eBay? Right? Is that? Is that just like
for normies or what's your feeling on eBay?
Speaker 5 (17:55):
I've gotten things on eBay. I think with eBay they
say there's trust sellers. I think just with auction houses,
if you can find your local ones, I think there's
just an extra layer of authentication. I say that several things,
but the dress Mien I was like, that was one
that was still a good auction house, but wasn't as
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higher caliber as the ones that I've gotten my nicer pieces.
So I think it's just an extra layer of authentication
you get those papers. I mean it's also a gamble
with eBay. I think could be also a gamble with auctions.
I'm not bash and eBay. I've gotten some great things
from eBay I got when I.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Was growing up. I had sketchers that were roller skates.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
You just reminded me of Lightning Trs's, which are probably
still manufactured. I'm not in the roller Blade game anymore,
so I don't know who's making what. But going back,
are you kidding me to find childhood nostalgis frants.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
It's the best.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
And what I can relate to you in all of
this is again my love of antique stores, and I
am some items I have like hutches and this chair
that I've moved from Los Angeles to New York. That's
really just it, but have moved like through apartments, and
there's such a feeling of comfort. I guess it doesn't
have to be an antique, but you already feel like, Okay,
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this is this piece with such a rich history, and
I can only imagine if you very well know the
history behind the piece, like for example, the elephant dining
room table, I don't know, it anchors you in some way.
And also it's just like not knocking dress Barn. It's
not just a dress from dress Barn. It's something that
has real significance. It makes you take greater care with
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your items. I would say, I'm thinking of all the
things I have that mean nothing, and so you kind
of dread them accordingly.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
You know, right exactly exactly. There's energy attached to it.
There's memories and that yes share that you carry with you.
And it's like even now you're saying, you're like, oh,
it's gone with me through this and you get attached
to objects and your energy gets into objects.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Yes, and it's nice, it's sustainable. You know where else
are those items going to end up?
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Otherwise?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
This is more than just like a quirky hobby. This
is like you're an evangelist. You've completely and totally convinced me.
You're getting a deal, you're identifying stylish, unique items, and
you're saving the world.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
So it's really fun. It's really fun.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
I completely know what you mean. It's an education in itself.
You're learning about design and art and you're also, like
you said, Scott Well, saving the world.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
That's maybe sustainable whatever, it's better than legacy.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Of hoping and sustainability.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
If I can get auctions out there, you go to
your local auction houses, your local auctioneers, spread the good word,
get your paddles out people.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
They've all had at heart.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
You're spectacular. Yes, there's I think no better way to
end our auction segment than with that call to action.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Yes for all time.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Curt Mian, Do you have a couple of minutes to
stay round and play a quick game with us?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I do.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
I would love to great awesome when we come back.
We're going to play a very fun game with my
little ends.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
And we're back.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
We have been talking about auctions, estate sales, and now
we're gonna put our little game hats on.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
We're going to play a game with Yon called love
It or Loathe It.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
This is a game where we're going to throw out
some items at you, some foods, activities, interests, and you're
going to tell us if you love that thing or
you loathe that thing. There can be no middle ground,
no in between. Hard guests are a hard No okay,
it's not rapid fire.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
We want you to.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Explain your oh okay, perfect, so you'll have time to
sort of validate yourself.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I'll be able to expect myself.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Any crazy stances you might have for maybe this is
the first crazy stance.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Okay, love it or loathe it?
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Day quill, day quill, Love day quill, day quill has
saved my life many at times, same same. Don't practice
this people, you know sometimes you don't. I don't even
look at the back. I just I'm feeling awful, and
I spend the day quill roulette and I just try
(22:39):
to like think like that's enough. Yeah, no, day quill
is great. Even sometimes if I'm feeling something coming on,
I have to take it before I.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Take because you were motioning like the liquid. Yeah, do
you do the capsules? I say the capsule.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
I'm like surprised that I don't take the liquid because
I remember really liking try a minute.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Does anyone here remember try a minute?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Do you No? I don't know. I don't know that
I've ever heard of trying.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
You'll remember the Triuminic, they'll remember the love.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Oh that cold medicine is trimnic cold medicine or some
sort of affrititiac.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
It's cold.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
You know.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
My parents did used to give me bed and drill
to go to sleep, and that they used to call
it love juice when I was so maybe that's what
Triumnic was trying to go for. It's like, you're gonna
love this juice.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
You're gonna love this sweet juice.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I loved it. I feel like sometimes the liquid works.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
I love the liquids. I'm on the liquid now. That's
why this is on on the list, because the weather
and I do it exactly like you mind. The reason
to do the liquid is so that you can slug it. Yeah,
you know you don't need to measure it out just sometimes.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Yes, it's like, you know, we've lived enough life, you
know what, We're sure your body you know.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
You know I was on day quilled for like a week,
you know, in the middle of the winter, and I'm
telling you it's scary. How much better it makes you feel?
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Oh yeah, well love it?
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Or low that avocado toast?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Oh love avocado toast?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Yeah I do.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
That's like one where, weirdly, I kind of get really
into like the extra stuff that I put on it.
And I actually just went to Costco the other day,
and which I love Costco.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
That's another thing. I'm sure you guys have had a
Costco episode. We actually have it.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Isn't that weird? Okay, you'll come.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
That's gonna be our next one is Costco, especially in LA.
It's like avocado toast is you get the freaking heirloom tomatoes,
you have the barrata, and you have chili flakes, And
that's I mean, that's like the common Chris crazy. Can
I get you a water or avocado toast? If you
walk into someone's house.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
I know I think about because when our parents were kids,
I don't think avocado toast was like an entree in
the American restaurant.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
No, no, it's just everywhere and everywhere, and it's so good,
it's so nourishing.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
It is well. The funny thing is that, I mean,
it's been on the menu for a long time, like
maybe a decade or so. When it came on the scene,
of course it was seen is so horribly snobby, and
I think that it often is still today And that's
how I felt about it. But guys, if you're listening
to this and you haven't tried it, give it a shot.
Because it went to like one of these alley places.
(25:37):
It was exactly sort of the Fed and all that
kind of stuff, and I was like, I'm gonna hate this,
like give me a burger. And then I tried it.
I'm katta toast. It became trendy for a reason. Not bad,
not bad at all.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Yeah, stamp of approval.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Yes, I normally like McDonald's.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Can you imagine if McDonald's diddo coast.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
I'm not kidding, they're just like one step away probably,
But I would not be opposed to that.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Love it or loads it my end? Yes, country music.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I loathe it. I am not saying.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
You know, I listened to the lyrics of country music
and some of the songs I'm like, oh, that's really beautiful.
But with country music as a whole, it's just not
something that I gravitate. Me too, although with Beyonce and
in her new country album coming out. Yeah, but no
(26:33):
final answer load yeah for me.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
The same loath not for me. And I've tried many times. Yes,
I'm gonna get into it.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
I make fake country songs because sometimes they all sound
the same to me.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
So many people love country music and I'm like, what
am I missing?
Speaker 4 (26:51):
But anyway, Okay, it sounds like we three are on
the same page about loathing country music.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Yes, I mean, I haven't weighed in, but you've made
the assumption. You made the sure that I love the
DELI not because I am anything against country music.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Is that assumption?
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Right? Music? Guy, I don't like music in general. So
we were right. We were right. So you were right.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Okay, Mayan, this is our final one.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
And by the way, you've almost won the game show
love it or low that horses.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
I love horses. I rode horses for fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Okay, so you're a professional.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Rid I have a.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Horse girl throw it through. I used to compete competitively.
I actually do want to kind of get back. I
do want to get back into it. Like a weird
bucket list trip of mine. I'm like, maybe a really
weird horse girl, but I want to ride horses in
as many countries as I can.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Horses. I love them.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
I am someone that I can name like twenty different
breeds of horses that I don't.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
Horse girls get a bad day, but I think that
just shows that they could be dedicated to something early
in life.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
My best friend since kindergarten loves horses. She was always
competing growing up and I was always vs. Then I thought,
it'd be so nice to have a hobby, Ellie, It'd
be so nice to have a hobby. I guess that's
what I'm getting at. But anyway, congratulations one.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Load did Mayan. Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
We don't want to keep you. You have places to
go and shows to film and auction houses to bid at.
Thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
It was a pleasure talking to you.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
This is what's so wonderful.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Are there any specific projects you would like to plug
right now?
Speaker 5 (28:28):
Yeah, so my show, the second season of Lopez Versus
Lopez is premiering on April second, which happens.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
To be my birthday. Oh hello, oh wow, which is crazy.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
There's gonna be two episodes every week at eight and
eight thirty, and that'll be streaming next day on Peacock.
If you haven't watched the show. The first season of
Lopez Versus Lopez is on Netflix and on March twenty second,
I am going to be a guest judge on rup
Paul's Drag Race, so watch season sixty of RuPaul's Drag
Race as well.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
I cannot wait to see the second season of your show.
I cannot wait to see your stay and ONREU Paul.
Thank you for being on our show.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Oh thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
I hope to be back.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
I hope to be back.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
You will.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
We're going to talk about Costco.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Costco.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Yeah, people Backnastic. So thank you, thank you, thank you much.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Thanks for listening to Born to Love. We'll be back
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Speaker 2 (29:32):
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Speaker 1 (29:33):
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Speaker 4 (29:36):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
No no, no, ball too.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Hey Scott, Hey, Ellie. I was going to jump on
the singing, and maybe five percent did, but I got
too shy.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I got shy at the end.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
But by the end of this season, I'm going to
have you singing full throttle. Welcome to Bourne to Love.
This is our podcast hosted by me, Ellie Kemper.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
And you, Scott Eckert.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Every week we have a fantastic guest. Wow summer just okay,
I'm kidding. I'm kidding. They're all fantastic.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
One of them is pretty terrible, one of them was
just awesome. But the good news is not today, Not today,
We've got a great one Today.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Today we aired on the side of fantastic and we succeeded.
We have a guest on the show every week to
talk about something anything in the world that they love.
Today we have on the show the fantastic Mayan Lowe
because she is here to talk about auctions and estate sales.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I cannot wait to talk to her about that.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I am way to talk to her. I can't wait
to doctor her going once, going twice. That's what I'm
looking for.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Before we jump in with my end how was your week, Ellie?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
It was fantastic. It was a great week. I did
a lot of fun stuff and there was something that
I wanted to pick your brain about, something that I
think I have a vague memory of being against, but
now I think I love My wife and I went
on a date night, as we sometimes do, lucky us
(01:41):
went to a restaurant and we were seated in a.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Mini booth, a mini booth, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Like a booth at a restaurant, right, yeah, yeah, this
was a mini booth where it was like a chair
sized booth. Do you know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
I think you're about a small booth. There was no
room for vanessaa butter purse anywhere. There was no room
for you to slide over.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah that's right. Normally it would
just be some chairs and it's small table like you know,
a table for two isn't normally boothed, it's chaired and
normally at a restaurant, like you know, it's not crazy
you go to Apple because two people will sit at
a regular sized booth. But yeah, I was snugged into
this little mini booth.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
And we've talked on the podcast before about how you
enjoy the sensation of being cocooned.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Kind of love it, Wrap me up and see you
in the morning.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
And I think yesteryear, Scott was irritated by a mini
booth situation because I felt like I was being cheated.
But this time, Ellie, I felt like I was being cocooned.
And there was plenty of table space, right, I mean,
we're not eating a buffet. It's a regular dinner. We've
got space enough for our plates, we're not knocking our
(02:56):
drinks off. I was just there with my lovely wife
and this sitting across from me in a cushioned seating
sort of situation.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
I completely understand. First of all, I love a booth.
What I don't always love is the curved booth. Nobody
likes that the semi.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Circurve boot no, and you're in the corner of a
curved booth, n it's seth. Your knees get stuck together,
that dinner's fucked.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
And also whenever you gotta literally crawl under the table
to get out. The only people who like being at
the top of the semi circle are children, because they're
stupid and they don't know better.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Children are never more rat like than when they crawl
under a table. They're just they're so eager to just
crawl under the table.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Oh and their little whiskers, just like on faid. You
and I are on the same page about children being
stupid and rat like. But to get back to the
mini booth, Scott, I love and I'm not alone. The
feeling of being cocooned.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
All of these things send us psychologically, do you know
I I've studied psychology.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I mean, yeah, you don't yet have a master's, but
you have the equivalent of a bachelor's. I'd say for sure.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
I've read some articles as the same. It's not different.
We all find comfort in womb like environments. Okay, so
it sounds to me like what you were in was
a womb like environment. You're snuggled in there with the
love of your life, Vanessa. You're sharing, Scott, what kind
(04:29):
of food was it?
Speaker 1 (04:30):
It was dumplings.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Dumplings.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
First of all, it was womb like insofar as we
were receiving nutrition. And then the dumplings they were soup dumplings,
So I don't know, it was like the amniotic fluid
we were.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
The little dumplings were sitting in a soup of amniotic broth,
and you were putting it in your bodies just like
a fetus. The metaphor of the comparison was completely apt here.
I completely understand your love of that. I'm so happy
you had a cozy dinner.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Ellie. I have to ask you a question. I said dumplings,
and I think I saw a micro reaction. Are you
anti dumpling? Oh?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Did I WinCE?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
It wasn't quite a WinCE, My micro wins. Maybe.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
I think you may have been mistaking this because my
kids mistake this too, and I really have to work
on it because I'm sending them into a world of confusion.
I think when I really like something, I make an
ow phase first, Scott, the psychologist in me understands why
I'm doing it.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
But the human part of me understands is confusing to people.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
So I think I go ooh, like yeah, maybe because
it's like so naughty to enjoy something I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I love dumplings.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Well, you know what, you would really love dumplings in
a mini booth. The next time you're in La, I'll
take you. We'll snuggle up together in our mini booth
and eat dumplings.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Ugh, amniotic soup dumplings. I can't wait, Scott. I'm glad
you had a love this week. We both have a
love to look forward to you right now, which is
our chat with Mayan Lopezan.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Is an actress and comedian who starred in Handsome, a
Netflix murder mystery, Other People, and Jersey. Mayan is the
co creator, writer, co executive producer, and star of one
of my favorite NBC comedies out Right Now, Lopez Versus
Lopez with her father George Lopez. The show's second season
(06:22):
is just about to premiere. It premieres on April second,
and we are delighted to have Mayan with us today
to talk about auctions and estate sales.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
So stick around when we come back. Mayan Lopez, Okay,
and we are back. We are here as promised with
the lovely Liyan Lopez.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Hi, Ellie, Hi, Scott, thank you so much for having me.
I am so excited to be here.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
We are very excited to talk to you.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
We're big fans and we're and I specifically I think
Scott as well, but I know I specifically am so
intrigued by your love, which is estate sales and auctions
when did you first realize how much you loved these things?
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Well, one of my guilty pleasure shows was always storage wars.
I always was very fascinated with other people's items, and
even it kind of is very sustainable also and thinking
about all the things that you own in your life
and then when you pass away, there's just things out
there that you own. But really I followed my mom's
(07:33):
lead as it was kind of a COVID born hobby.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
You know.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
She was following these auction houses that she knew online
and some really interesting things were coming up because I
think people were selling things that were sometimes a little
extra kitchy to get some extra cash. And I've gotten
some really amazing items for all of you don't know.
I just talked briefly with Elliott Scott before this, but
my dining room table is one that was from the
(07:59):
estate sale of Christian Addlier, who's a fashion designer. He
was the head of Von Dutch and at heart.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Oh my god, those names are made up, right, all
of those names, Christian, Christian. Yeah, not to knock the
fashion kind of that. They sound like crazy names.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
You do lit a couple of things in the auctions,
But my dining room table is from nineteen sixty five,
and it is fiberglass, and it is the bottom half
of an elephant.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I will actually so let.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Me follow you.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
You could not have said anything. It is literally the
bottom half wa Mayan, It hold on?
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
And it's made of fiberglass.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
It's made from fiberglass.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
And my mom and I went half seas on it
because we were like, we are never going to see
anything like this again.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Correct, it's from nineteen sixty five. I know process well.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
So before we started recording, Mayan head alluded to this
dining room table and she's like, just you wait for it.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
And I in my head, this is me.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
This is like how sort of I don't want to
use the word lame, but it is a little lame.
I was thinking, Oh, she's going to reveal like a
polished oak or like shiny oak.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
I was like, it's going to be some type of wood.
This couldn't be further from the truth.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I have to know because I am confused, and I'm
taking the fall for all of the dummies out there
along with me. Yes, when you show us the elephant leg,
do you mean that elephant leg is made from fiberglass.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
So there's four legs and then there's actually like a
hanging kind of belly, and it's all made out of fiberglass.
And he used it as almost a table in the
middle of a room for books or things like.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
That, or cocaine. I mean it looks like a cocaine table.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
It was a very expensive joke. But I mean it's
the literal elephant in the room.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
And I feel like, yes, yes, it is a statement piece.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
It's low hagging fruit. But I couldn't No, no, it's not.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
It is wild.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
People were calling the auction house asking who bought the
elephant table.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Which now you'll all know, yes it was. It was
it was Lopez.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
No, wait a minute, does Anne get how does she
get to use the table?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I think it's a family heirloom. Now, yes, okay, I
have custody.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Right now.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah, that's split custody, but I have full at the moment.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Ellie already said it. But you warned us. You were like,
I have the craziest table. It's crazy. And that's a
bold move to make, just to promise someone that their
mind's about to be blown, and you delivered. Because my
mind is really truly blown.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Truly, guys, I gave them nothing.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I've never been doing a state sale. I've never been
to a true auction, but I have been to plenty
of like thrift stores or secondhand store antique stores. And
I've seen crazy tables before because they're old timey and
they look weird, and I was imagining, Oh, she's got
a table with like jewels on it or mirrors or
something you know from eighteen forty or whatever. Right, I
(11:23):
wasn't expecting the torso of an elephant. What are other
items did you purchase? Nothing can top the elephant table.
(11:43):
But like walk us through your COVID obsession checking in
on these estate sales with your mom or these auctions.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Yes, there is different types because there are live auctions,
a lot of them post COVID are online, but there
are still silent auctions. I can do it in person.
Not all of them are super extravagant. There's one that
some things are good, some are bad, but someone really kitchy,
like my mom recently went and they had Elvis memorabilia
(12:10):
and then they actually had some of the clothes from
Ziegfried and Roy Oh wow, And so my mom got
like a leather tuxedo jacket with like satin lapels that
was owned.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
By Safe than Roy that was like her to wear.
I think she's going to Yeah, is.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Your mom the coolest person in the world?
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yeah, you even think of my dad.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Aunt Lopez is the icon behind the scenes that like,
my mom is awesome. Yeah, no kidding, I mean, but
also not all of them have been super successful. Lucille
Ball is my comedic icon of all time. And something
came up at one of the auction houses. I thought
that I bought a Lucille Ball owned dress and it
turned out to be fake. The cops, I mean, that's illegal, right,
(12:56):
and they called me afterward. I did end up getting
all of my money back. It wasn't as bad as
there was a Marilyn Monroe one and it turned out
to be a dress from Dress Barn like that, which
I was like, oh, dress Barn, oh mad. At least
mine was like a vintage and kline. Was it of
the era of lucy obal Yeah, it was polka dots
(13:17):
and it had Yeah it was like a halt Her top,
which it would.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Have seemed very lucy.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
So yeah. Yeah, also good on them.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I mean, I'm yeah, I have to call you.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
But that's good that they reached out did the right thing.
I guess I don't know how auction houses work. The
dress barn scenario, I mean, that's a crushing blow. But
also I don't know who it says more about that
seems like you're asking to be found out.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
I don't know. I know that person kind of has
a lot of hut spot. I respect it right to
go to a dress barn and see something on the
rack and be like.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Let's just say that you see, let's see how I
can take this right.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
And I don't know as someone who doesn't buy a
lot of dresses, I mean, I think that maybe the
person with the most that's all is the person who
named dress barn. Let's open a retailer that sells sts
of great dresses. I want to call it just dress barn,
dress barn. It's just a barn. It's just like a
(14:15):
barn full of dresses, is what it is.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Exactly.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Question about the auction piece of it, because when you
said you go and I don't know if it's a
silent auction. I guess what I'm wondering is, have you
ever been to are we calling it a live auction?
Forget yes, and is that stressful? Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
It gets intense, right, But do you set a.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Limit in your own head, like I'm not going to
go above this, and do you stray from that?
Speaker 2 (14:40):
You think you do? And I try to.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
I've gone to ones in person, but the ones online
it's equally the same. Where you're sweating and you're getting
to that cap that you have for yourself and then
it goes by fifty dollars or seventy five. You're like,
how much further is it going to go? Or am
I going to be able to beat that other person
by just a little bit? But also at the same time,
it's something.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
That I really want. I'm like, I'm going to beat you.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
You know.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Sometimes I have to let things go, and then I
feel bad because also there's sometimes that my mom and
I have been on the same auction and we'll talk
about some of the items before, but then I don't
remember if she lost interest in it, and then she'll
call me and.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
She'll be like, hey, bitch, I'm the one fitting against you.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Stop.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Okay, all right? Another case of.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Oh, well, yes, the other Lopez versus Lopez, and I'm
just like, but no, it gets like pretty intense. But
there's one thing about auctions that there's always things that
go out and things that go in, which makes it
interesting because sometimes there's some weeks but there's really nothing,
and then sometimes you're like, you know what, I have
a good feeling to go and you find something. There
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is one green cabinet that we still have and it's beautiful.
I was like seven or eight at the time. There
was this old man who was there selling it and
he was saying that his wife would put all of
her little treasures in it, and it was beautiful from
the nineteen hundreds and she passed away, and it made
a really big impression on me because he was saying,
(16:12):
this is her favorite thing in the world, and it
hurts me to let go of it. And my mom
told him, like, I want you to know, I'm never
going to sell it and it's always going to stay
in our family. And so you think about some of
these items, and I like to think of who owned
these items absolutely well.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
There's so much history in every peace. And my question
about the item, the one that got away. It is
so interesting because if you had never been at the
auction or perusing the sales, you would not necessarily know
that they existed. It has to be such a rollercoaster
because say you didn't know something existed, you set your
sights on it, you become like really determined to have it,
(16:50):
and then it goes away.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
How do you it's like a loss?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
It is.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
It is like a loss and hopefully something else will
kind of come back for me.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Even the auction sites I've gone on, this is my
inferiority complex or something. Because I go on, I'm like, oh,
I'm gonna be outbid anyway, why even try?
Speaker 1 (17:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
There's some defeats.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
I'll teach you the ways Ellie will go to.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Please do go together.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I'll send you some because it.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Sounds like you grew up going to these estate sales
with your mom, so it was like it was sort
of part of the fabric of your childhood almost.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
I don't know, Scott, did you ever?
Speaker 1 (17:25):
No? I never have been to I mean, this is
maybe gonna I'm just gonna expose myself as a rube.
But what are the sophisticated auction goers like yourself or
your mother? What's the rep of eBay?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Good question.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
The deepest I've ever gone other than just like an
antique store is like, Oh, I really want that Deep
Space nine action figure from my childhood, and oh my god,
it's on eBay? Right? Is that? Is that just like
for normies or what's your feeling on eBay?
Speaker 5 (17:55):
I've gotten things on eBay. I think with eBay they
say there's trust sellers. I think just with auction houses,
if you can find your local ones, I think there's
just an extra layer of authentication. I say that several things,
but the dress Mien I was like, that was one
that was still a good auction house, but wasn't as
(18:15):
higher caliber as the ones that I've gotten my nicer pieces.
So I think it's just an extra layer of authentication
you get those papers. I mean it's also a gamble
with eBay. I think could be also a gamble with auctions.
I'm not bash and eBay. I've gotten some great things
from eBay I got when I.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Was growing up. I had sketchers that were roller skates.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
You just reminded me of Lightning Trs's, which are probably
still manufactured. I'm not in the roller Blade game anymore,
so I don't know who's making what. But going back,
are you kidding me to find childhood nostalgis frants.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
It's the best.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
And what I can relate to you in all of
this is again my love of antique stores, and I
am some items I have like hutches and this chair
that I've moved from Los Angeles to New York. That's
really just it, but have moved like through apartments, and
there's such a feeling of comfort. I guess it doesn't
have to be an antique, but you already feel like, Okay,
(19:18):
this is this piece with such a rich history, and
I can only imagine if you very well know the
history behind the piece, like for example, the elephant dining
room table, I don't know, it anchors you in some way.
And also it's just like not knocking dress Barn. It's
not just a dress from dress Barn. It's something that
has real significance. It makes you take greater care with
(19:38):
your items. I would say, I'm thinking of all the
things I have that mean nothing, and so you kind
of dread them accordingly.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
You know, right exactly exactly. There's energy attached to it.
There's memories and that yes share that you carry with you.
And it's like even now you're saying, you're like, oh,
it's gone with me through this and you get attached
to objects and your energy gets into objects.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Yes, and it's nice, it's sustainable. You know where else
are those items going to end up?
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Otherwise?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
This is more than just like a quirky hobby. This
is like you're an evangelist. You've completely and totally convinced me.
You're getting a deal, you're identifying stylish, unique items, and
you're saving the world.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
So it's really fun. It's really fun.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
I completely know what you mean. It's an education in itself.
You're learning about design and art and you're also, like
you said, Scott Well, saving the world.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
That's maybe sustainable whatever, it's better than legacy.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Of hoping and sustainability.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
If I can get auctions out there, you go to
your local auction houses, your local auctioneers, spread the good word,
get your paddles out people.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
They've all had at heart.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
You're spectacular. Yes, there's I think no better way to
end our auction segment than with that call to action.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Yes for all time.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Curt Mian, Do you have a couple of minutes to
stay round and play a quick game with us?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I do.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
I would love to great awesome when we come back.
We're going to play a very fun game with my
little ends.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
And we're back.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
We have been talking about auctions, estate sales, and now
we're gonna put our little game hats on.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
We're going to play a game with Yon called love
It or Loathe It.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
This is a game where we're going to throw out
some items at you, some foods, activities, interests, and you're
going to tell us if you love that thing or
you loathe that thing. There can be no middle ground,
no in between. Hard guests are a hard No okay,
it's not rapid fire.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
We want you to.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Explain your oh okay, perfect, so you'll have time to
sort of validate yourself.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
I'll be able to expect myself.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Any crazy stances you might have for maybe this is
the first crazy stance.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Okay, love it or loathe it?
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Day quill, day quill, Love day quill, day quill has
saved my life many at times, same same. Don't practice
this people, you know sometimes you don't. I don't even
look at the back. I just I'm feeling awful, and
I spend the day quill roulette and I just try
(22:39):
to like think like that's enough. Yeah, no, day quill
is great. Even sometimes if I'm feeling something coming on,
I have to take it before I.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Take because you were motioning like the liquid. Yeah, do
you do the capsules? I say the capsule.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
I'm like surprised that I don't take the liquid because
I remember really liking try a minute.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Does anyone here remember try a minute?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Do you No? I don't know. I don't know that
I've ever heard of trying.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
You'll remember the Triuminic, they'll remember the love.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Oh that cold medicine is trimnic cold medicine or some
sort of affrititiac.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
It's cold.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
You know.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
My parents did used to give me bed and drill
to go to sleep, and that they used to call
it love juice when I was so maybe that's what
Triumnic was trying to go for. It's like, you're gonna
love this juice.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
You're gonna love this sweet juice.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I loved it. I feel like sometimes the liquid works.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
I love the liquids. I'm on the liquid now. That's
why this is on on the list, because the weather
and I do it exactly like you mind. The reason
to do the liquid is so that you can slug it. Yeah,
you know you don't need to measure it out just sometimes.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Yes, it's like, you know, we've lived enough life, you
know what, We're sure your body you know.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
You know I was on day quilled for like a week,
you know, in the middle of the winter, and I'm
telling you it's scary. How much better it makes you feel?
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Oh yeah, well love it?
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Or low that avocado toast?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Oh love avocado toast?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Yeah I do.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
That's like one where, weirdly, I kind of get really
into like the extra stuff that I put on it.
And I actually just went to Costco the other day,
and which I love Costco.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
That's another thing. I'm sure you guys have had a
Costco episode. We actually have it.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Isn't that weird? Okay, you'll come.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
That's gonna be our next one is Costco, especially in LA.
It's like avocado toast is you get the freaking heirloom tomatoes,
you have the barrata, and you have chili flakes, And
that's I mean, that's like the common Chris crazy. Can
I get you a water or avocado toast? If you
walk into someone's house.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
I know I think about because when our parents were kids,
I don't think avocado toast was like an entree in
the American restaurant.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
No, no, it's just everywhere and everywhere, and it's so good,
it's so nourishing.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
It is well. The funny thing is that, I mean,
it's been on the menu for a long time, like
maybe a decade or so. When it came on the scene,
of course it was seen is so horribly snobby, and
I think that it often is still today And that's
how I felt about it. But guys, if you're listening
to this and you haven't tried it, give it a shot.
Because it went to like one of these alley places.
(25:37):
It was exactly sort of the Fed and all that
kind of stuff, and I was like, I'm gonna hate this,
like give me a burger. And then I tried it.
I'm katta toast. It became trendy for a reason. Not bad,
not bad at all.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
Yeah, stamp of approval.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Yes, I normally like McDonald's.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Can you imagine if McDonald's diddo coast.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
I'm not kidding, they're just like one step away probably,
But I would not be opposed to that.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Love it or loads it my end? Yes, country music.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I loathe it. I am not saying.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
You know, I listened to the lyrics of country music
and some of the songs I'm like, oh, that's really beautiful.
But with country music as a whole, it's just not
something that I gravitate. Me too, although with Beyonce and
in her new country album coming out. Yeah, but no
(26:33):
final answer load yeah for me.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
The same loath not for me. And I've tried many times. Yes,
I'm gonna get into it.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
I make fake country songs because sometimes they all sound
the same to me.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
So many people love country music and I'm like, what
am I missing?
Speaker 4 (26:51):
But anyway, Okay, it sounds like we three are on
the same page about loathing country music.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Yes, I mean, I haven't weighed in, but you've made
the assumption. You made the sure that I love the
DELI not because I am anything against country music.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Is that assumption?
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Right? Music? Guy, I don't like music in general. So
we were right. We were right. So you were right.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Okay, Mayan, this is our final one.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
And by the way, you've almost won the game show
love it or low that horses.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
I love horses. I rode horses for fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Okay, so you're a professional.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Rid I have a.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Horse girl throw it through. I used to compete competitively.
I actually do want to kind of get back. I
do want to get back into it. Like a weird
bucket list trip of mine. I'm like, maybe a really
weird horse girl, but I want to ride horses in
as many countries as I can.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Horses. I love them.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
I am someone that I can name like twenty different
breeds of horses that I don't.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
Horse girls get a bad day, but I think that
just shows that they could be dedicated to something early
in life.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
My best friend since kindergarten loves horses. She was always
competing growing up and I was always vs. Then I thought,
it'd be so nice to have a hobby, Ellie, It'd
be so nice to have a hobby. I guess that's
what I'm getting at. But anyway, congratulations one.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Load did Mayan. Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
We don't want to keep you. You have places to
go and shows to film and auction houses to bid at.
Thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
It was a pleasure talking to you.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
This is what's so wonderful.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Are there any specific projects you would like to plug
right now?
Speaker 5 (28:28):
Yeah, so my show, the second season of Lopez Versus
Lopez is premiering on April second, which happens.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
To be my birthday. Oh hello, oh wow, which is crazy.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
There's gonna be two episodes every week at eight and
eight thirty, and that'll be streaming next day on Peacock.
If you haven't watched the show. The first season of
Lopez Versus Lopez is on Netflix and on March twenty second,
I am going to be a guest judge on rup
Paul's Drag Race, so watch season sixty of RuPaul's Drag
Race as well.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
I cannot wait to see the second season of your show.
I cannot wait to see your stay and ONREU Paul.
Thank you for being on our show.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Oh thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
I hope to be back.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
I hope to be back.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
You will.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
We're going to talk about Costco.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
Costco.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Yeah, people Backnastic. So thank you, thank you, thank you much.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Thanks for listening to Born to Love. We'll be back
next week with brand new things that we love.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
We want to hear from you.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Leave us a review in Apple Podcasts and tell us
what you love. We might even ask one of our
guests in an upcoming.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Love It or Load It.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Born to Love is hosted and created by Ellie Kemper
and Scott Ecker.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Our executive producer is Aaron Coffman. Our producers are Sheena
Ozaki and Zoe Danklab.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Born to Love is part of Will Ferrell's Big Money
Players Network in collaboration with iHeart Podcasts. Special thanks to
Hans Sonny.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Rachel Kaplan and Adrianna Cassiano
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Michael Fails, Alex Coral, and Baheed Frazier.
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