July 11, 2022 • 58 mins
Blair welcomes Alyssa Limperis (Flatbush Misdemeanors, Peacock) to the show. She professes her love to a famous singer from the past.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello everyone, it's your boy Blair, back for another outstanding
week oft the Dear Owen Wilson Podcast. Again, as always,
I just want to think my dear listeners, my followers,
my supporters, my friends, my loved ones for supporting me
on this new podcasting journey. Because I'm having a great time.
(00:21):
I'm telling you, I'm having the funnest hell time, despite
the atrocities of the world and each waking day being
more fiery than the next. You know what we can do.
We can try to carve out a little space for
happiness and joy, and so I'm glad to be sharing
that with you guys. Today we have such a fun guest.
(00:42):
Oh my gosh, you know her from everything She's bowing
the hell up. Alyssa limp paris a longtime friend of mine,
incredible comedian actress. The things that she wants you to
look out for. She has a role in season two
of Flatbush This Demeanors on Showtime, so check that out,
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follow her and also look out for her special No
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you Eli. Thank you for spreading and preaching the good word.
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Thank you honey. Oh yes, it really feels my heart
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I love you. Have a great week. Hello everyone, Wow,
welcome back to the Dear oh In Wilson Podcast. It's
your host, Blair Sucky back to will give you another
(03:19):
gut punching episode. Yeah, and do I have a surprise
for you today. I think you guys are gonna lose
your goddamn mind. So dear friend of mine for many
years and absolutely just exploding all over your television yours
and mine, Um and her friend of the show, Real Rock.
(03:41):
When she did the live show, I'll tell you something,
it was explosive. It's the only word that I can use.
So am I pleased to have her today? And you
know I could keep going just building the tension in
your guy's heart, but I think I'm just gonna go
ahead and introduce her right now. You guys, please welcome
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to the show, my friend and yours. It's a little empiris.
Oh my goodness, thank you for having me. As you
were saying that, I was remembering, I do you remember
in the show? I think we ended up just kind
of like roasting each other for like right, Like I
(04:24):
think it was like I did, I did my little letter,
and then it just kind of became the two of
us kind of softly roasting each other for all. I remember.
It was like one of the most fun moment stage.
Me too. I really, that's all I remember too, because
so long ago at this point, but I just remember
(04:44):
being like, this is why we do it. Yeah, yeah,
and you know what, you know, like those moments on
stage where you feel like there's something other worldly moving you.
It felt like that, and I was like, said, that
was so fun. Yeah, that's exactly how I felt too.
That's how I felt too. And it was like it
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wasn't even about the audience at that point. It was
like they this was they were they were Yeah, we
were just kind of with each other, like doing our
thing on another plane. Yeah, it might not be a
good show for them, you know what I mean, who
knows they were off it they witnessed history and that
they didn't they really did. How have you been, what's
been up? I know, I know I miss you. I
(05:26):
feel so yeah for for listeners. Blair and I met
starting doing stand up. I want to I mean what
years ago? I think? Yes, so we're coming up on
almost a decade. Yes, I know, and we both of
used to live in New York City and now that's
who I am right now. I'm living here for the
next month or so. Oh really for a job for
(05:46):
a job, for a job, for a job, job or
an acting job, an acting job thrill. Yeah, I can't
like to hear off what this is about. Yeah, off
the record, because this bitch stays booking you too. It's
like you're on and you're on a new show all
the time. So I was like, oh, I can't see
(06:07):
what in fairview. And then there's a new one. There's
a well, um not that I know. Yes, yes, well,
let me be the first to tell you. Congratulations. Come on,
where the folks, the folks from the great yeah new show,
Come on on. I got the executives here with me
and we'd like to offer it to you. So how
(06:27):
does it feel to be back in New York is
if it feels awesome? And I will say because like
I feel like I was only here as like a
kid and now here as an adult, and it's very like,
I don't know, it's awesome. I love being here as
an adult. I feel like I got tired of New
York as like a kid recently and then l A,
I feel I, you know, grew up and learned how
(06:49):
to be an adult and it's kind of fun being
back here and being like, oh, yeah, you don't have
to live in New York and like only eat chips
for them have like three percent battery and be running
around like I don't know where I am. I was
just a fucking mess, whereas now I'm like, I do
my laundry. I'm like, oh, I'm going to make a
chop salad at home, and I'm like, yeah, in New York,
can you can do that? In New York? It's just yeah,
like sleep eight hours when I got off the plane
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from New York in l A and I was just
like just immediately I was like, wow, I feel arrested.
I like, don't smoke or I don't really do drugs
or anything. But I got off the plane and my
mom used to tell me that, like the first month
I was in l A, she thought I was like
baked out of my mind all the time because I
was just so calm and happy, because I was just
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I think that's it. We were so tired. We were
ourselves so tired, so tired. We were living, like you know,
the way we met was like doing stand up like
three nights, like three mincs a night. Stay we stayed
up till like, I mean, we weren't really I wasn't
really doing three mins a night, but I would like
follow people to Mike. I was like we were just
like around comedy all night. And yeah, it was something.
(07:54):
I'm glad we did it. It was like we were
in college for comedy. But it's nice now. Yeah, yeah,
I'm so glad we did it. And I'm so glad
that's also over. Yes, But I do like to head
back to New York, And it is funny, it's so
different now, Like every time I go there, I just
feel so much older, like it seems like a lifetime ago,
and every time I feels you that long ago long.
(08:17):
But yeah, it does. That's how I feel being that
you was like, Oh, I feel like an old time
or like smoky cigarettes, like Union Pool. Still here, babyful, beautiful.
I spend time in there. Absolutely, yeah, I have a
fun time. Kid. You'll remember these days. I was here
two years ago at the black Top. But I'm like,
enjoy your youth, kiddos. That's so true. Um okay, well god,
(08:42):
it's so good to see you the water tree and um,
why don't we have you read your letter to the class. Yes,
I would love to read my letter. And this is
without a change, verbatim from whenever I did it live, So, folks,
this is what we call a reprise. We are yeah up,
all right, dear Billy Gilman, Hi, uh maybe if you're
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a listener, do you know who he is? You're going,
who's Billy? I'm not sure. Well, Billy, listen to me.
I don't care if anyone listening knows who you are, because, buddy,
you're a goddamn rock star. Okay. I didn't get to
listen to the radio growing up. Anytime we wanted to
listen to the radio in the car, and my dad
would say you got it, and then he'd play the
book on tape of To Kill a mocking Bird. So
I was used to the radio being the story of
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a widowed man. In the nineteen thirties, road trips were
absolute hell. The closest thing I had to the radio
was listening to Raffie. You know, Raffie, the grown esque
man who made songs for children, Baby Bluega and the
Deep Blue Sea bringing a Bell. And probably shouldn't because
you probably only listened to it before you had a
full brain and you were a child. But no, no,
I was listening to that well into my teens. When
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I was young, I thought, hey, cool dude, nice songs.
Now I look back, I'm like, okay, anyone who writes
songs for children should probably not be letting your children
no offense. Raffy, I love it. You know how to
hit a good beat. But look anyway, I listened to
that till I was like eighteen. So I remember when
I went to a country fair in my hometown and
I heard you Billy sing the national anthem. I was like,
(10:10):
oh my god, now this this is a band. You
were a twelve year old country start with a hit single,
and you were so sweet and you were so good,
and when my friends were like, oh my god, Britney
Spears and I was like, nah, you heard of Billy
Gillman sing about America And they were like what song?
I was like, uh, the National Anthem. They were like,
are you okay? I knew so little about radio. I
(10:32):
remember a cool girl at school was like, do you
guys like blu meaning the song by Destiny's Child? And
I was like, oh yeah, I ordered the Blooming Onion
as an entree. They were like no, no, no, not
that we're talking about the song. By the way, guys,
and I don't like doing this, but do you know
how many calories are in the blooming onion? Four thousand?
(10:55):
I'm all four, like a have some whatever, but four thousands,
you know, in an app and an appetizer. I'll tell
you what. We gotta give ice cream arrest and find
a halo top solution for the onion. We have ice
cream that goes down to sixty cows for a whole point.
I need that for the Blueman. I want the Blueman.
Give me a bloom and cauliflower something. Figure it out. Anyway, Billy,
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listen to me. You had a top forty song on
the radio when you were twelve years old. The only
impressive thing I could do at twelve years old was
grow a full blown mustache. Still can. All my friends
were like, let's shave our legs. I was like, yeah,
can I get a lawnmower to run over my face?
You are an angel and you should have won The
Voice season eleven. But I am here and I am
ready for your comeback. That's it. Yeah, wow, God, so
(11:48):
much love tenderness went into that. Love to see that here.
If you're if you're, if you are listening, I've been
revisiting say you Will, beautiful track if you want to,
if you kind of if you're late to the Billy
Gilman and you want to get on. He's known for
one voice and that's a great song, So you will
that one. That's the one I go to. It's kind
of more for the for the for the you know, listen,
(12:12):
thank you, because I know our listeners are really they
love a recommendation, especially in the arts. They are supporters
of the arts and lista just to refresh your mind.
I don't know if you remember or not um from
that one faithful night that we spent on this show together.
I do, in fact have my private detective Lucien Wiggles,
(12:36):
who uh you may or may not remember, who helps
out a great deal with this show as my private
detective that I pay to do exhaustive research on my
guests and the celebrities that they write their letters to. Okay,
Mr Winkles, Winkles, Wiggles Wiggles, Mr, No problem, easy, easy mistake. Um.
(12:56):
So yeah, I do pay this man a lot of money,
and sometimes because he can go so in depth with
his research, my guests can find his questions a little
off putting. So just take into nature that if any
question in the interview, because we do like to be
pretty shrewd with the interview, sort of like I'm remembering
(13:20):
where the roast began and I'm gearing up, okay, And
I just want to let you know that anything that
maybe has that feeling to it directly came from Lucien Wiggles.
And I'm just the messenger, of course, and I believe me.
I get a business, business, business, So thank you. Yeah,
I just wanted to give that little preface. And now,
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without further ado, let's jump into the interview. Yes, all right,
a Lissa, either Mr Lista. I had to pay Lucian
extra to find out who the hell Billy Gilman is
to pay over time. I'm so sorry about that, but
(14:04):
thankfully for Lucien, I got all the inflo I need Billy.
What was a contestant on Team Adam on season eleven
of the show The Voice in sixteen, and that was
a comeback that wasn't like where he started, you know
what I mean? That was like, yeah, yeah those days.
Of course, as we know, with a show business, uh,
(14:27):
you're trying to launch maybe thousands of times. Absolutely, it's
just kind of a constant clinging and launching that we're doing.
It's just all we do. Yeah, ye, Hollywood, it's fun,
great business. What I am going to say, My doctors
get to become doctors, like they go to school for
(14:47):
six years. Then it's like you're just a doctor. Every
year we're like, we're a doctor. Please please remember we're
a doctor. Promise. Yeah, maybe this year we could be
the doctor again. Too much to if I could possibly
use my ten years experience to do surgery again. Okay,
that's comedy is very similar to surgery. We're saving lives
(15:09):
out here. No, it's actually the most similar thing to
surgery there is um, the most life saving profession there is. Now. Listen,
what are I'm gonna say? It might be heavy, but
I think you have a way of connecting with people
in the same way Billy connected with the millions of
people who watched The Voice. That's just my opinion. But
(15:32):
what would you say is the single most recognizable quality
that you share with Billy? Oh, my goodness, the single
most recognizable quality that I share with this I'm gonna
have to ask Lucian to get me something, folk, because
I'll tell you what, Buddy, it's been a while since
I've seen Billy, It's been a while. What do we
have in common? Well, I think Billy and I might
(15:57):
be from We might be East Coast. Buds is Billy
from the East Coast. He isn't back from Rhode Island.
There we go, So that's it. So that's what we share.
That's what we share is we are both from He's
from Westerly. I ran in Westerly. His parents are Bill
and fran I bet we have a very similar spread
at Thanksgiving. If I bet aren't spread at Thanksgiving, it's
(16:19):
kind of equally like it's so much food and almost
none of it all tastes the exact same somehow none
of these are different, but they look different. Yeah. Well,
and you know, as Rhode Island only has about i
think like four people from there, that is why you
share a lot with the people that are from this
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exactly exactly like we share. Yeah, so this really explains
so much. Just right off the top of this interview,
we we did get to the bottom of what is
a deep connection to be connection? Yes, yes, so you're single,
you will would say you're single. Most recognizable quality that
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you share with Billy is in fact being from Rhode Island. Well,
and the sick part of that is is I'm not
even from Rhode Islands, so it's it's it's not even us.
Where are you from? Then, I'm from c conk, Massachusetts,
which is kind of annoying because everyone's always like, oh,
you're from Boston, which like I'm not. I'm from So, like,
I don't know a lot about Massachusetts because I'm right
(17:23):
on the border of Rhode Island. Sure, I'm not really
from Rhode Island, but I don't really know a lot
about other parts of mass So this is my struggle.
Blair is struggle and se Konk C Kong. Guess how
its spelled? Guess how it spelled? What well? I was thinking,
is that sort of like a shellfish like um that
(17:45):
you find in the Bahamas? That is the DS. You
would think, so, and guess what it's a It's a goose.
It's a goose, I'm pretty sure, or at least it's
s E E K O n K. Doesn't that sound
like a toddler spelled it? Yeah, you would think it's
like s E A like, oh, it's part of the
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c's just like that's really from left field, right out
of left field. Yeah. Um, okay, so c Cock Massachusetts.
But okay, yeah, because I did always know that my
friend de lista very New England gal. Um. But okay, wow,
(18:27):
this is so illuminating. Okay um. Follow up question? Did
we get up at three o'clock in the morning to
sleep outside for a one minute audition for Stand Up NBC?
And how do you think this giant moment informed our careers?
I The funniest part of all that is, I remember
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clear as day we waited like overnight outside under scaffold
of New York City, like six hours in the dead
cold maybe rain, to try to like get on to
perform a minute comedy, and I remember clear as day
the whole time not knowing what I was gonna say.
That is and we psycho, that's so psycho instead of
(19:12):
like us, Like if I had had like a minute
that was so good, I could remember like getting in
line to be like should I say this tweeter? That tweet?
Just like oh my god. Also a minute like what
joke could really be in one minute? Be so good?
Like one one liner? I mean it's like, right, I
don't know to this day if I had to do
one minute of stand up, I would have no idea
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what to do. Well, I just remember us. I mean,
like the thing is we had I think the time
of our lives, like in amidst so much self inflicted
pain and delusion, we were literally lying our bodies on
the New York City sidewalk, straight on the New York
(19:55):
City sidewalk for hours and hours, just disc usting filth. Yeah,
you know, even when we had to get COVID like
the vaccine. I was like, I remember seeing the lines
and being like I don't want to wait. I feel
like forever forever made me hate lines because I was like, no,
I remember the feeling of having this like people who
wait in line for tick. I think that's the biggest
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thing it did for me, was it when never Again?
I don't think I ever auditioned for like a thing
like that. I was like, that was my last one thing.
I think too, because it was like oh no, no, no,
never again. Never. Oh. It was just so but we
all really bonded, and I think it brought us all
very cool. That's like when I remember really meeting you
and Marcia, it's like we became real friends, I have
(20:36):
to agree, but suffering we laughed so hard, I really did.
I remember. I remember thinking that you were like the
funniest person ever. Same, same, same, That's that's what I remember.
So I was like, oh, who cares about this thing?
Like we just got to play and and meet each other. Yeah.
I just remember thinking like, oh and Marcia, we were
just dying. Oh god, yeah, we really any of us
(20:59):
got it right, not like not like across the board.
I think Marcia got through Marcia, yeah, Marcia, wait about yeah?
But I think that was the moment we all became stars.
Yeah right. It was just such a like yeah, because
then I even there was another club, remember maybe the
(21:19):
comedy strip you had to do that for Yeah, I
never did that. I remember I like signed up to
put my name in like the audition lottery I think
it was called, and then I didn't show up because
I was like, I don't want to do this. Ship.
I remember it was like the booker I think probably
died or something, but it was like the blocker who
had been there for like fifty years, and he would
like openly say he doesn't like he doesn't think women.
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He's like, I don't Yeah, no, I just don't think
women are funny. I don't want them my club. And
we're like, yeah, let's go audition there. I think, yeah,
I think that would be really good for my soul.
I think that, yeah, that's I don't think what I
need to do. Yeah, that's probably. This is probably what
teams are made up. This is probably it. I think
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that's what LA did for both of us, was we
both were probably because I did I feel in New
York just feel like I just did whatever I thought
I was supposed to do. And I feel like once
I got to l A, I really became like what
do I want to like, what do I want to
be doing? And I'm only going to do that in
terms of career, like I don't need to be totally. Yeah,
Like when you're starting out, people above you, like you
are like, well, always someone is always telling you an
(22:24):
extremely linear path that you have to take and that's it.
They're convinced that's the only way. And like you, when
you're younger, you're like is this person right? And there's
no actual path, So you're kind of like, well, that's
there's no path I see, and this person is telling
me their path. That's like path I know, so I
have to be on this path. And then the more
you you know, grow, you're like, oh, there's a lot
(22:45):
of different paths that it's like so different for each person.
It's yeah, but it's just so funny, Like I just
can't believe we did that to this day either. Yeah, Um, okay,
moving on, Lissa, Marry fun Kill, Blake Shelton, Billy Gilman,
(23:11):
whoever that is, and Adam Levine. Okay, Billy Gilman, I'm
gonna have to. This is like a really you're putting
in a really tough position here, but yeah, I'm gonna
have to. I think I'm I'm definitely fucking Adam Levine
like out the gate, like that's we can just kind
of get that out of the way. Well, we love
honesty here. Yeah, I guess I could marry because I could.
(23:32):
But anyway Billy i'd love, I think in my head
because I saw him when he was like eleven, I
can't like properly marry or fucking like. I love him
and I'm writing my letter to him, but I also
might have to kill him, which is you're putting me
in a tough spot. But I don't think I can
honestly say I could marry or fucking because in my
head I just know him as this. You know, sometimes
(23:53):
love means murder. Sometimes the people you love most you have,
you have to murder. And then I guess i'd marry
Blake Shelton. Um, he's gotta I don't want to get
in Gwen's way. I love Gwen Stefani. So that's gonna
you know, that's gonna be tough. We're gonna have to
work that out together maturely. Of course he's got surely.
(24:14):
Of course he's got a beautiful ranch. I could write
some corses in Oklahoma, So my, you know what, in retrospect,
that shouldn't have come right out the gate. Was sucking
at him because marrying him probably would have synergized better
with my life. But again, love sometimes that's you know,
you have to deal with consequences of your choices. So
sure visit me in Oklahoma. Pretty scene, there's pretty a
(24:37):
pretty good scene out there. It's starting the stand up scene.
It's kind of you're actually gonna start it with me.
It's it's starting with me once I get there on
the ranch. Um, yeah, we're gonna be doing so, We're
gonna do a show at the You're gonna be doing
it on Dave Chappelle. Um, yeah, yeah, you know he
said you gotta come Blair, you gotta come live with
(24:58):
a few months, a few months of you up, come
on down on site, come on the jet, on site,
COVID testing. Yeah we did, we did. You just right
up and then boom, we have to master anything. Riff
city city. You know what? For so long I never
like coming like um, growing up, I never understood the
Adam Levine thing. And then I went in I think
(25:21):
like two thousand nine um to a concert with my
mother where it was counting crows Augustana, and that takes
me to this day like love Counting Crows. I mean,
and I saw Adam Levine like up close performing their
giant catalog, and I was I was like, okay, yeah,
(25:44):
I'm sold, like will be loved. You're singing his arms
while singing you will be loved. Forget it, forget it.
I was. I was like, okay, I was. I'm willing
to admit I was wrong and change my opinion on
a dime. Oh totally, totally yeah, no Adam movie. And
I'm yeah, yeah, So do you know this about this
(26:06):
man that you love so much that you wrote a
letter to um that he's gay now and he was
a child Christian singer and so you know he has
really which I think is always a difficult intersection. Wow.
I was okay, I was. I was pretty sure that
he was gay. That's great that he's opening gay and that. Wow.
(26:27):
I didn't know that he started Christian. I mean, I'm like, oh,
I didn't know he started as Christian. And I'm like
his song God Bless America. Um, you know, it's so funny.
I grew up like Catholic and I went to Catholic school.
I grew up a church, so it's like religion was
always around me. So I think I probably didn't clock
it as much as I was like, oh yeah, that
(26:49):
that made sense if he's singing, Oh totally yeah, definitely Okay.
So I hope he felt welcome. Did he leave like
the church or did he feel welcomed by his church
or was it like I wonder, I hope he. I
hope he was at a good church that was I'm
not let's I think it was like uh, I think
he it was hard for him to wreck for style
(27:14):
and so we're proud of him here at Dear and Will,
We're proud of him good. I'm I'm proud of him
and happy for him, um to be himself, you know. Okay,
here we are uh yeah. And do you think, just
to follow up follow up question, that Blake Shelton and
Gwen will last? Yes? I think they will, only you
(27:36):
know why? Here's why? Well, I I went to see
Blake Shelton and pre pandemic pre pandemic but like almost
like right, pre pandemic in l A, some big theater
in l A. I um, I love. I grew up
on country music. I my dad, you know, my my dad,
(27:59):
and I was into country music so much and Blake
Shelton has been around for so long social maybe his
songs were songs that I heard growing up. It was
so it was so awesome. It was I remember being like,
I gotta come to concerts all the time, and then
it was like, you know, COVID came two weeks later.
But anyway, all this to say, Gwen Stefani not only
came to the concert but set and watched the entire
(28:23):
concert from the front row. Yeah, like from the front,
like from the pit in the front of like and
I thought she was just gonna come on sing her
song and like leave and I were at like they
had video and she was there the whole time. Think
of like Luke and I and my boyfriend I both
do stand up. We've been doing I can't remember the
last time either must have seen a ship to go
to someone's whole show that is like you're that's like
(28:45):
come on, yeah, And you know, I see myself as
some extremely and talented intuitive and um. The way that
I my feeling about them is that they both seem
really at peace. That's what I feel too. That's when
I feel of their relationship feels that way. And you
(29:06):
know why else two because it's like they shouldn't really
be together, like there are a strange pairing. It's not like, oh,
they're like, you know, both country suite. It's like, no,
they clearly there's something there that is connecting them beyond. Yeah. Yeah,
that's like a lot of people were always like, you
should date outside your type, and I'm like, do I
have a type because I don't know if I I
(29:26):
don't know what that type is, but um, I guess,
like because I remember when they first started dating, I
was like, I would never see them together because she's like,
you know, rock queen, like kind of pink rock, like
skat girl, and you know. But they did sort of
find each other unexpectedly after both having been cheated on
(29:48):
broken hearts. I didn't know that. Yeah, I know that
they were both divorced. I didn't know they were both
cheated on. Yeah, Gavin Rossdale cheated with the nanny um
so try so cliche um yeah. And and and then I
think Miranda Lambert, I'm not sure positive allegedly cheated on him,
which I do love Miranda Lambert. Also I love Miranda too,
(30:12):
but I also do Yeah, I do feel the peace
thing feels very right to me. Where it's like, yeah,
there's something about yeah the two like granted him that
feels very Yeah. People like those, you know, those relationships
where they have that sort of like electric high passion
energy and you're like, oh, this seems like it's gonna
have potential volatility. Yes, but it doesn't feel that way
(30:34):
obviously with ship about them. We're rooting for them, We're
hoping for them. We we were were We love peace. Yeah,
I want them to be happy. They seem very happy.
Good for them. Wishing myself the same and you the same. Also, Alyssa,
thank you and as you to you as well, and
also with you and also with you and also with you.
(30:55):
Um A, Lissa, who do you think, in your opinion,
is the best judge on the voice and why? Oh? Okay,
well I gotta look up the current Let me let
me get like a current voice judges here and oh
hello we actually let me just ask my lawyer Mr Fridges. Hello,
Mr Fridges, Hey can I get you here? So I
(31:16):
know I know you're with the kids. I just need
one big thing, just the voice judges. Could you Oh
it's a quick Google search. I just wanted to make
sure it was from you because I'm on the podcast.
I'll plug you. I'll plug you tax season. I know, Okay,
thank you so much. Tell Tell Melissa. I said, hello,
all right, we're back. So thank you, my my, my
wonderful uh private eye. We also have a private eye
(31:40):
lawyer named Mr Wiges, Mr Widges. He's a p I lawyer,
attack fan. He's kind of what can't he do? And
he's and he's a dad, single dad, just like um
saul On, just a utility guy, a Saul from Better
Call Saul. But I will say you possess this too.
I remember seeing you the first time performed being like
(32:01):
I've never seen someone would like you. You're so you
have such a singular, unique voice as well that I
feel you. You are so electric to watch because you're like, oh,
I've never this combination of things I've never seen. Yeah, listen,
thank you. That means so much to me. And you know,
I also think you are a freak talent, like any
(32:22):
time I see you on stage or you used to
do Blair and Greta a lot, like I know Rest
in Peace. I used to when I used to watch you,
like I would lose my mind laughing, like even if
I think even if I saw you every night, I
would feel That's what I I feel about you. That's how
I feel about you. Yeah, I love it. Okay, but yeah,
(32:42):
that video is so special. Yeah, if you haven't watched it,
go watch. It's just like a really beautiful Yeah, it's
it's lovely. It's so good. We'll put the link when
this comes out, Okay, Alyssa, you were recently quoted in
The New York Times as saying that, aside from Billy Gilman,
your choice for emotions racial person of the Year for
me as uh, Kelly Ann Conway. I love what she
(33:05):
stands for and I love her. Look what was it
that made you make the jump from Billy to Kelly Ann? No? No,
see this, I remember this. This was this, this, uh, this,
and I will get Mr Winkle's back to because that's yours. Wait,
who's mind Wedges? Anyway? Mr Wedges will come Uh, we'll
(33:29):
come back, and I'll take you to goddamn court. I
didn't say that. I've never said such a thing. We'll
take it up in the New York Times, sweetie, Okay,
I don't, I don't Times, Okay, this has nothing to
do with me. I'm just really quoting what was already printed. Okay,
well this is blasphemy. When it was live on stage,
was like, oh, this is a fun bit. Now this
is like a clip on a podcast. It's gonna be
(33:50):
taken out. This is gonna destroy my career. People are
gonna be like, oh, what's so you know? I I
have to say loud and clear, I did not say
that interesting so interesting, but um and you know why too.
You can tell this is Blair's as much as I
reused my clip from this is this is oh wait
(34:14):
Trumpet office yet? Uh a, Lissa, please answer the question. Okay, Um,
I didn't I answer. I My final answer is um,
I didn't say okay, okay, moving Um. I think stage
(34:36):
said something like stage right now, and Blair, why do
you have the Trump flight behind you right now? I don't.
It seems to be painted. You have a painting of
I love Mr Trump and I, oh my gosh, I
wanted to be my daddy and husband. It's so weird
that you know that's what you want, and your belief
(34:58):
that it's hard for it's been distracting. Will be honest.
Free speech is so important to Okay, we're comedians. We
gotta say what we feel free speech with last bastions
(35:18):
of truth. Okay, Lissa, Billy was first discovered at the
age of nine. Do you find Billy to be a
bit of an over retriever slash Tracy Flick who gets
discovered at nine and then keeps so good head about
them last day? When were you discovered? Oh? Yeah, I
(35:44):
was discovered on the street in you and Marshall they
discovered me and they said, no, thank you, they did
discover me. And then they were like, get off the
street and go home. You don't have a joke prepared. Um, Okay,
I think being discovered at nine is so young. I
mean nine, I don't even remember. I was like my yeah,
(36:06):
I wasn't doing I don't think I could read. What
an incredible what an incredible thing. But it is so
crazy like to be nine and be discovered and yes,
still have a good head on your shoulders, that is
a huge, huge feat. So Billy, I respect you. That's crazy.
That's the kudos from a listle emparis everybody. That's a
big kudos. That's a big kudos from right over the
(36:28):
border in Rhode Island to you and Westerly, my friend,
I say kudos kudos. Um. Okay, So do you think
if you were discovered at nine that you would have
made it to the Voice, the TV show The Voice,
(36:49):
I can I can assure you if I was discovered
at any age, there is no way I would be
to get to the Voice unless it was in like
I don't know if they do the American I don't
think where it's like the funny people who don't get
on because they're like, oh my god, did you hear
how bad that person's voice was. I have no pitch.
(37:13):
I have no I can't I can't hold the tune.
I would not I would have made the voice even
as a judge. I would just be like, everyone has
a beautiful voice. I have no barometer for anything, Like
anyone who sings. I'm like, okay, you're adel beautiful. You
know No, I would not have made it to the Voice.
(37:43):
Probably Okay, okay. That's her final answer of aybody um
the first time. According to Lucian Wiggles, the first time
Billy appeared on the Jerry Lewis m D A Labor
Day telethon was in September two on do you think
Billy also thinks women shouldn't do comedy like Jerry Lewis no.
(38:05):
I I think I think that unlike the person who
said no to us at I have, I had a
strong feeling that Billy would that we could call him right,
I think Billy's I think Billy would be a great hang.
I think I would love to laugh with us. I
think I, like many men who have said no to us,
(38:26):
almost exclusively, yeah, every day, continue to say no, no, no, no.
Both of our YouTube comments, Hi, how are you? You're listening?
You know what's so crazy? I recently like, I don't
know how you are with YouTube comments, but I pretty
much never look like as a practice, and I have
(38:49):
probably like four or five years now, I don't look
at any comments. Um. But I someone sent me a
link like saying I loved you on this and it
was THEO Vaughan's podcast, you know. And I think we
probably are demographic, might be a little different of our audiences.
(39:09):
And I saw just at the top, like I wasn't
even looking through just like the top five that accidentally
my eyes uh with your to over um, and I
was like, oh wow, that's hurtful, right right, It's so hurtful.
It's so damaging if it's like it's I can't I
(39:32):
do the same. I now elevated not elevated too. But
now I also don't check the I do not check
my Instagram tab, so the notifications tab, I just don't look.
So if you ever call it and I don't reply,
it's just because I simply don't look. I don't want
to know self preservation. Self preservation, and I feel like
it's changed my life. But yeah, if I what we
do is like requires I've been thinking about this, like
(39:53):
even back in ten, Like the minute you start worrying
about what people think, it's like over. And so if
I think I'm a and then I read that someone
agrees with it, I would just stop. It's too risk,
it's too dangerous. So I just yeah, I can't look.
It hurts me too much. Yet Oh yeah, it was
crazy to me because like, if you are putting yourself
out there in any way, my therapist always used to
(40:15):
say this to me, my old therapist, you would say,
fifty percent of people will not like you no matter what,
and it has nothing to do with you people. Yeah,
so which is absolutely out of your control. But it
is some thinking. Like if you go into the arts
in any way, or putting yourself out there in any way,
like opening yourself up to others, like with any sort
(40:38):
of art or anything. It's like, it's hard because you
really have to be able to not take in other
people's opinions, which I think the only way to actually
do that is to keep like it's so lame, but
like to really keep like believing in yourself and believing
that you're telling the truth, like telling your truth, doing
(41:00):
something that you feel you think it's funny, and that's
like it as long as because yeah, it's like who knows,
a hundred percent of people might not like it, but like,
all right, if I thought it was funny, or if
I was saying something that was real to me, that's
kind of all I can all I can control. But yeah,
it's hard. It's hard, Yeah, comedy to like, I, um
(41:21):
the other day had a bomb like I hadn't had
in a long time. You know, sometimes it just comes up.
It's like tripping on the street, like you're walked along
and all of a sudden the cement uneven you didn't
see it and I fucking fall out of nowhere. Yeah,
And I was like, damn, wow, that feeling especially like
it was just so ironic, as it always is, where
(41:42):
I had like a few of the best shows in
my life the same week and I was just like,
oh my god, there's no fucking rhyme or reason to
this show. Life on the whole, it is it is.
That's that's it. That's it. Yeah, it's but it is
the one thing that like there's just no yeah, there's
no control from day to day. It could be. Yeah.
(42:03):
I also a lot of it is internet culture, I
think because they're used to not be that sort of
access to performers, but like, wow, it can be what
do you think it is? Because I would never see something.
I would never comment something unkind to a stranger in
(42:24):
my life. No, never, And like, yeah, I think you're right,
because without that element, then it's like just the people
in the room and either they vibe with you or
you don't, and then that's kind of but yeah, the
online thing is very like yeah, yeah, well, I just
don't imagine someone putting out like a piece of their
work like stand up or I don't know, and then
(42:47):
going on their page and being like I want you
to know how much I reject you, right, And I
think it's why it's good that we don't look, because
that's okay that like that, you know, that is okay
in a way. It's like like you see your therapist
and it's people like if you don't like me or
don't find me funny, like that is okay. I can
(43:08):
live with that, you know. It's if I don't if
I agree with you, if I agree with if I
start agreeing with you, then we're in trouble. So I
think that's why it's like I just yeah, the more
we don't look and the more we just keep, you know,
being around people we love and doing things people are
right living directly in your life because like I do,
think about someone's capacity for success is definitely directly related
(43:33):
to how much you can tolerate, tolerate totally totally because
you're Yeah, that's it's basically just and I remember people
saying that early on. It's just like hanging on. It's
just like how long can you hang on? How many
rejections can you take? How many bombs can you take?
Because it's not you know, rejection can you take? Sign
(43:53):
me up? But but what peace? What peace came? I
don't know, like what peace we're getting to do what
what And I feel you tweet this sometimes and like
I agree with you, Like it is such a delight
that we set out in as kids to like do this,
and we get to do this, you know, we get
to spend and so like that's the that's the cost.
(44:14):
It's like, okay, we get to do what we love
and what we feel really connected to, an energized by.
And the cost is the cost is people tell us
to kill ourselves on the internet. What are you to do? Blair? Okay,
it's a tradeoff. Baby fun un fun fun back at
(44:36):
my pal love it okay a lista. According to Lucian Wiggles.
On March sixteen, Billy was honored in two separate ceremonies
in the Rhode Islands Senate and House of Representatives for
his successes and for representing Rhode Island as an artist.
We're exactly um no, actually we are. You said that.
(45:00):
I was about to say where exactly are you from?
But now I know it's Seacock, Massachusetts, which is actually
confusingly near the border of Rhode Island, so we sometimes
think you're from Rhode Island. So that's answered right now.
Would you think that Seacock Massachusetts, would ever consider honoring
you for your work? And would you accept graciously or
spit in their faces? Oh my god, se Conk, I
(45:22):
I these are really good questions. Wouldn't you say? He's
worth every dime you spend up thorough every podcast, they
get better and better. It's incredible he's growing. Yet, it's
really wonderful. I I O c. Cock. They don't need
to thank me. I love I love them, I I
I own them. I love c So you say that
(45:43):
you want to honor se Conk and not the other
way around. Wow, the humility that you maintain as your
celebrity status and branches to the courthouse. I would like
to bring Sea the Mr Mr Seacock, the goose himself.
I would like to pardon a goose. And I was
on behalf of my love for ce Conk. I pardon you. Yeah, No,
(46:05):
I I love c Conk. I wouldn't go to Yeah,
we have a courthouse. I don't know. Okay, So she folks, folks, folks,
she wants to honor sea Conk. She's not even accepting
an honor from them. Incredible. Wow, that's Dear and Wilson exclusive,
Baby Wilson exclusive. That really is. I feel even in
(46:30):
New York. Well that's you know, the more I leave
my home, the more I'm like just looking for pieces
of c conk outside like I have like posters in
my not like things in my home that's say c conk.
It's just like now, I just you know, you spend
your life wanting to leave, and then you leave and
you're like, I want to go back. The paradox of life.
It really is the paradox of it all. Yes, well
(46:54):
posture by the way, Yeah that I've muted my video,
but I really as I probably look uh like ever,
That's what I have to say to you. Okay, Lista,
you're clearly obsessively in love with Billy Gilman. Did your
(47:16):
world come crushing down on you when you found out today, um,
within the last thirty minutes that Billy came out as gay?
And no, I I love him. I've always loved Billy
in this unconditionally, conditionally however, yes, Billy, I just I
(47:37):
much like his song one Voice, Billy. I love his voice,
and Billy, if yeah, you keep singing, I'll keep and
even if you don't, but I hope you keep saying
I'll keep listening to you. I'll keep listening to you,
so you know, Yeah, your love goes on regardless of
whether you will ever have the chance to sleep with him. Absolutely,
(47:59):
because as we're all learning, as we all grow and mature,
there are many ways to love someone that don't involve
sleeping with them. Yes, Adam Levine, No, it's only don't
you know that's more sort of a purely physical love.
But yes, Billy, of course, Billy, I love me no
matter what. Yes, yes, when I'm coming for your man,
(48:21):
But Billy, yes, whatever you do, Adam, your arms arms Okay,
I'm this unfortunately is our final question. Okay, I know,
and I know all our listeners around the globe feel
(48:43):
the same way at this moment. They don't want this
to end either. Um Australia. Yeah, in Japan, Japan, Antarctica,
even Iceland. That's true, Alaska. Um. According alusion, Billy is
quoted as saying, I just wanted to inspire people, and
(49:06):
I hope I did. Did he inspire you to become
a comedian? Billy Gilman? If not? Um, are you actually
a liar and not truly a Billy Gilman fan? I
honestly can probably say I really do feel I bet
I was. I bet I was inspired seeing someone from
my part of town go after their dreams at a
(49:26):
young age. Possibly related, possibly related, could be my first
cousin or brother. Um I I yes, I think it
probably her brother. Yes, I believe he is in my
immediate family and this is just a plug for him.
And he's paying me handsomely, which is why you weren't
upset when if you killed him immediately. I did not. Yeah, yeah,
(49:54):
I know the genetics are I don't know. It's it's close,
it's close. Um, but yeah, no, I he did inspire me.
I feel I feel anyone in my part of town
that I saw go after something from a young age,
I was like, okay, cool, that's someone that's someone sure sure, Yeah,
so Billy, he inspired you to become a comedian, and
(50:15):
you would call yourself a true Billy Gilman fan and
you're not aliere comlutely free, comlutely. You can put me
on a wire, give me a test. Yeah, stay cool
as a cute. When I say I am a true
Billy Gilman fan, say all right, come on, Oh no,
I don't think you guys have the rights. But I
(50:35):
don't know if but say you will, you gotta listen
to it. It's it's so good, Okay. So I do
think that me and the Owen Wilson deal O and
Wilson family will collectively feel comfortable saying that you are
not a liar and you are telling the truth about
being a true Billy Gilman fan. Yes, score okay. So
(51:00):
we do like to conclude our episodes with one final
segment called Fan on the Street Tree, in which we
ask our guests and eventually our listeners, um, if they
(51:22):
have maybe a fun celebrity encounter anecdote to share with
the class. And you have worked with some big names
these days, anything fun that's PG that you might want
to share that you didn't won't be violating any n
D as. I know. I'm like, I don't know what
(51:45):
what you are being Thanksgiving with Tom Brady's. I love Tom,
He's so wonderful. Um, he's great. Um what can I uh?
Or it could have been before you went into entertainment.
Even before I went into entertainment, I worked in soho
(52:06):
so or not so whatever? Like Um, I worked at
the Butcher's Daughter, which is just like Vegan Juicehof. So
we saw a bunch of celebrities there, and I do
remember one night it was like I had worked at double,
which was like I was so tired and I was
just so and the place was kind of empty, and
Taylor Swift walked, which was like and I think it
(52:28):
was like helpful that I was so tired, because I
probably would have freaked up, but instead I was just like,
what can I get you? Started? She also so tired. No,
she was not by herself, but she entered that Jake
Jillen whole years no, no, um. But she was great.
She was super nice, and I just remember like talking
(52:51):
with her security guard. It was just kind of like
me and her security security guard. Oh yeah, oh yeah,
for sure. Uh. And it was pretty empty and it
was just her enjoying a meal. And then I remember
at a certain point, like a ton of people started
coming and then it was like she had to leave.
But she was stunning and beautiful. It's not really a
funny good story at no, it doesn't. She was pretty funny,
(53:12):
just fun She was taller than she's very tall. She
she she glowed. She was like, wow, that's cool, Taylor Swift.
I do like Taylor Swift. She's great. I mean that
bitch puts out albums, you know, the thing like she is.
I feel like she is a hustler. She put out
(53:34):
like she's like, well, you guys have been disgusting and
tie dying ship and staring at the Yeah, She's like, oh,
I just put out I don't know, thirty new songs
I wrote myself and just recorded in the comfort of
my own home. Did you get emotional hearing Fearless that album? Oh?
(53:54):
All of it? I like something about like the time
it hit in the pandemic with like, oh, this is
like her new older voice, with like her these songs
that we heard in high school. It was like, oh
my god. Yeah, there's something about that too, because like
I can't imagine growing up in the public guy, Like
because I mean the teens, the middle school, all of
that are such like an awkward, uncomfortable nightmare, Like so
(54:18):
emotional too, like just because the nature of just being
human and like that age and I can't imagine being
on display for everyone, and just there's like going back
and see like I can't imagine having a catalog from
that time period, of working from that time period and
still be exactly and still it's still being so good
(54:39):
and still holding up. Whenever I see any movie about
like teen Girls or something, I sob so much. Oh
me too, me too. Yeah, yeah, that was probably what
it was, was just remembering being that age and all
those like feelings. Yes, yeah, all right, Well this has
just been so much fun, and it's great to learn
(55:01):
find out who Billy Gilman is and catch up with
you and find out you know about you went to
the Blakes concert, and how you feel about Adam's arms,
and just how we both love Gwen and a lot
we really it was really good. Learned about c Congum
(55:21):
and Stuffy. Yeah, and please all our dear followers and
fans around the globe enjoy a list of followers. She's
all over your TV. What a tree for us. Thank
you for coming on, Thank you so much for this
great show and for having me being so fun. This
was such a joy. Yeah, I'll see you when you
(55:41):
I want to see you when you get back from
New York. Yes, sounds great, see back in l A Okay,
I love you, heyst
Hello everyone, it's your boy Blair, back for another outstanding
week oft the Dear Owen Wilson Podcast. Again, as always,
I just want to think my dear listeners, my followers,
my supporters, my friends, my loved ones for supporting me
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(00:21):
I'm telling you, I'm having the funnest hell time, despite
the atrocities of the world and each waking day being
more fiery than the next. You know what we can do.
We can try to carve out a little space for
happiness and joy, and so I'm glad to be sharing
that with you guys. Today we have such a fun guest.
(00:42):
Oh my gosh, you know her from everything She's bowing
the hell up. Alyssa limp paris a longtime friend of mine,
incredible comedian actress. The things that she wants you to
look out for. She has a role in season two
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(01:03):
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(02:14):
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(03:19):
gut punching episode. Yeah, and do I have a surprise
for you today. I think you guys are gonna lose
your goddamn mind. So dear friend of mine for many
years and absolutely just exploding all over your television yours
and mine, Um and her friend of the show, Real Rock.
(03:41):
When she did the live show, I'll tell you something,
it was explosive. It's the only word that I can use.
So am I pleased to have her today? And you
know I could keep going just building the tension in
your guy's heart, but I think I'm just gonna go
ahead and introduce her right now. You guys, please welcome
(04:01):
to the show, my friend and yours. It's a little empiris.
Oh my goodness, thank you for having me. As you
were saying that, I was remembering, I do you remember
in the show? I think we ended up just kind
of like roasting each other for like right, Like I
(04:24):
think it was like I did, I did my little letter,
and then it just kind of became the two of
us kind of softly roasting each other for all. I remember.
It was like one of the most fun moment stage.
Me too. I really, that's all I remember too, because
so long ago at this point, but I just remember
(04:44):
being like, this is why we do it. Yeah, yeah,
and you know what, you know, like those moments on
stage where you feel like there's something other worldly moving you.
It felt like that, and I was like, said, that
was so fun. Yeah, that's exactly how I felt too.
That's how I felt too. And it was like it
(05:05):
wasn't even about the audience at that point. It was
like they this was they were they were Yeah, we
were just kind of with each other, like doing our
thing on another plane. Yeah, it might not be a
good show for them, you know what I mean, who
knows they were off it they witnessed history and that
they didn't they really did. How have you been, what's
been up? I know, I know I miss you. I
(05:26):
feel so yeah for for listeners. Blair and I met
starting doing stand up. I want to I mean what
years ago? I think? Yes, so we're coming up on
almost a decade. Yes, I know, and we both of
used to live in New York City and now that's
who I am right now. I'm living here for the
next month or so. Oh really for a job for
(05:46):
a job, for a job, for a job, job or
an acting job, an acting job thrill. Yeah, I can't
like to hear off what this is about. Yeah, off
the record, because this bitch stays booking you too. It's
like you're on and you're on a new show all
the time. So I was like, oh, I can't see
(06:07):
what in fairview. And then there's a new one. There's
a well, um not that I know. Yes, yes, well,
let me be the first to tell you. Congratulations. Come on,
where the folks, the folks from the great yeah new show,
Come on on. I got the executives here with me
and we'd like to offer it to you. So how
(06:27):
does it feel to be back in New York is
if it feels awesome? And I will say because like
I feel like I was only here as like a
kid and now here as an adult, and it's very like,
I don't know, it's awesome. I love being here as
an adult. I feel like I got tired of New
York as like a kid recently and then l A,
I feel I, you know, grew up and learned how
(06:49):
to be an adult and it's kind of fun being
back here and being like, oh, yeah, you don't have
to live in New York and like only eat chips
for them have like three percent battery and be running
around like I don't know where I am. I was
just a fucking mess, whereas now I'm like, I do
my laundry. I'm like, oh, I'm going to make a
chop salad at home, and I'm like, yeah, in New York,
can you can do that? In New York? It's just yeah,
like sleep eight hours when I got off the plane
(07:13):
from New York in l A and I was just
like just immediately I was like, wow, I feel arrested.
I like, don't smoke or I don't really do drugs
or anything. But I got off the plane and my
mom used to tell me that, like the first month
I was in l A, she thought I was like
baked out of my mind all the time because I
was just so calm and happy, because I was just
(07:34):
I think that's it. We were so tired. We were
ourselves so tired, so tired. We were living, like you know,
the way we met was like doing stand up like
three nights, like three mincs a night. Stay we stayed
up till like, I mean, we weren't really I wasn't
really doing three mins a night, but I would like
follow people to Mike. I was like we were just
like around comedy all night. And yeah, it was something.
(07:54):
I'm glad we did it. It was like we were
in college for comedy. But it's nice now. Yeah, yeah,
I'm so glad we did it. And I'm so glad
that's also over. Yes, But I do like to head
back to New York, And it is funny, it's so
different now, Like every time I go there, I just
feel so much older, like it seems like a lifetime ago,
and every time I feels you that long ago long.
(08:17):
But yeah, it does. That's how I feel being that
you was like, Oh, I feel like an old time
or like smoky cigarettes, like Union Pool. Still here, babyful, beautiful.
I spend time in there. Absolutely, yeah, I have a
fun time. Kid. You'll remember these days. I was here
two years ago at the black Top. But I'm like,
enjoy your youth, kiddos. That's so true. Um okay, well god,
(08:42):
it's so good to see you the water tree and um,
why don't we have you read your letter to the class. Yes,
I would love to read my letter. And this is
without a change, verbatim from whenever I did it live, So, folks,
this is what we call a reprise. We are yeah up,
all right, dear Billy Gilman, Hi, uh maybe if you're
(09:07):
a listener, do you know who he is? You're going,
who's Billy? I'm not sure. Well, Billy, listen to me.
I don't care if anyone listening knows who you are, because, buddy,
you're a goddamn rock star. Okay. I didn't get to
listen to the radio growing up. Anytime we wanted to
listen to the radio in the car, and my dad
would say you got it, and then he'd play the
book on tape of To Kill a mocking Bird. So
I was used to the radio being the story of
(09:28):
a widowed man. In the nineteen thirties, road trips were
absolute hell. The closest thing I had to the radio
was listening to Raffie. You know, Raffie, the grown esque
man who made songs for children, Baby Bluega and the
Deep Blue Sea bringing a Bell. And probably shouldn't because
you probably only listened to it before you had a
full brain and you were a child. But no, no,
I was listening to that well into my teens. When
(09:49):
I was young, I thought, hey, cool dude, nice songs.
Now I look back, I'm like, okay, anyone who writes
songs for children should probably not be letting your children
no offense. Raffy, I love it. You know how to
hit a good beat. But look anyway, I listened to
that till I was like eighteen. So I remember when
I went to a country fair in my hometown and
I heard you Billy sing the national anthem. I was like,
(10:10):
oh my god, now this this is a band. You
were a twelve year old country start with a hit single,
and you were so sweet and you were so good,
and when my friends were like, oh my god, Britney
Spears and I was like, nah, you heard of Billy
Gillman sing about America And they were like what song?
I was like, uh, the National Anthem. They were like,
are you okay? I knew so little about radio. I
(10:32):
remember a cool girl at school was like, do you
guys like blu meaning the song by Destiny's Child? And
I was like, oh yeah, I ordered the Blooming Onion
as an entree. They were like no, no, no, not
that we're talking about the song. By the way, guys,
and I don't like doing this, but do you know
how many calories are in the blooming onion? Four thousand?
(10:55):
I'm all four, like a have some whatever, but four thousands,
you know, in an app and an appetizer. I'll tell
you what. We gotta give ice cream arrest and find
a halo top solution for the onion. We have ice
cream that goes down to sixty cows for a whole point.
I need that for the Blueman. I want the Blueman.
Give me a bloom and cauliflower something. Figure it out. Anyway, Billy,
(11:17):
listen to me. You had a top forty song on
the radio when you were twelve years old. The only
impressive thing I could do at twelve years old was
grow a full blown mustache. Still can. All my friends
were like, let's shave our legs. I was like, yeah,
can I get a lawnmower to run over my face?
You are an angel and you should have won The
Voice season eleven. But I am here and I am
ready for your comeback. That's it. Yeah, wow, God, so
(11:48):
much love tenderness went into that. Love to see that here.
If you're if you're, if you are listening, I've been
revisiting say you Will, beautiful track if you want to,
if you kind of if you're late to the Billy
Gilman and you want to get on. He's known for
one voice and that's a great song, So you will
that one. That's the one I go to. It's kind
of more for the for the for the you know, listen,
(12:12):
thank you, because I know our listeners are really they
love a recommendation, especially in the arts. They are supporters
of the arts and lista just to refresh your mind.
I don't know if you remember or not um from
that one faithful night that we spent on this show together.
I do, in fact have my private detective Lucien Wiggles,
(12:36):
who uh you may or may not remember, who helps
out a great deal with this show as my private
detective that I pay to do exhaustive research on my
guests and the celebrities that they write their letters to. Okay,
Mr Winkles, Winkles, Wiggles Wiggles, Mr, No problem, easy, easy mistake. Um.
(12:56):
So yeah, I do pay this man a lot of money,
and sometimes because he can go so in depth with
his research, my guests can find his questions a little
off putting. So just take into nature that if any
question in the interview, because we do like to be
pretty shrewd with the interview, sort of like I'm remembering
(13:20):
where the roast began and I'm gearing up, okay, And
I just want to let you know that anything that
maybe has that feeling to it directly came from Lucien Wiggles.
And I'm just the messenger, of course, and I believe me.
I get a business, business, business, So thank you. Yeah,
I just wanted to give that little preface. And now,
(13:42):
without further ado, let's jump into the interview. Yes, all right,
a Lissa, either Mr Lista. I had to pay Lucian
extra to find out who the hell Billy Gilman is
to pay over time. I'm so sorry about that, but
(14:04):
thankfully for Lucien, I got all the inflo I need Billy.
What was a contestant on Team Adam on season eleven
of the show The Voice in sixteen, and that was
a comeback that wasn't like where he started, you know
what I mean? That was like, yeah, yeah those days.
Of course, as we know, with a show business, uh,
(14:27):
you're trying to launch maybe thousands of times. Absolutely, it's
just kind of a constant clinging and launching that we're doing.
It's just all we do. Yeah, ye, Hollywood, it's fun,
great business. What I am going to say, My doctors
get to become doctors, like they go to school for
(14:47):
six years. Then it's like you're just a doctor. Every
year we're like, we're a doctor. Please please remember we're
a doctor. Promise. Yeah, maybe this year we could be
the doctor again. Too much to if I could possibly
use my ten years experience to do surgery again. Okay,
that's comedy is very similar to surgery. We're saving lives
(15:09):
out here. No, it's actually the most similar thing to
surgery there is um, the most life saving profession there is. Now. Listen,
what are I'm gonna say? It might be heavy, but
I think you have a way of connecting with people
in the same way Billy connected with the millions of
people who watched The Voice. That's just my opinion. But
(15:32):
what would you say is the single most recognizable quality
that you share with Billy? Oh, my goodness, the single
most recognizable quality that I share with this I'm gonna
have to ask Lucian to get me something, folk, because
I'll tell you what, Buddy, it's been a while since
I've seen Billy, It's been a while. What do we
have in common? Well, I think Billy and I might
(15:57):
be from We might be East Coast. Buds is Billy
from the East Coast. He isn't back from Rhode Island.
There we go, So that's it. So that's what we share.
That's what we share is we are both from He's
from Westerly. I ran in Westerly. His parents are Bill
and fran I bet we have a very similar spread
at Thanksgiving. If I bet aren't spread at Thanksgiving, it's
(16:19):
kind of equally like it's so much food and almost
none of it all tastes the exact same somehow none
of these are different, but they look different. Yeah. Well,
and you know, as Rhode Island only has about i
think like four people from there, that is why you
share a lot with the people that are from this
(16:42):
exactly exactly like we share. Yeah, so this really explains
so much. Just right off the top of this interview,
we we did get to the bottom of what is
a deep connection to be connection? Yes, yes, so you're single,
you will would say you're single. Most recognizable quality that
(17:02):
you share with Billy is in fact being from Rhode Island. Well,
and the sick part of that is is I'm not
even from Rhode Islands, so it's it's it's not even us.
Where are you from? Then, I'm from c conk, Massachusetts,
which is kind of annoying because everyone's always like, oh,
you're from Boston, which like I'm not. I'm from So, like,
I don't know a lot about Massachusetts because I'm right
(17:23):
on the border of Rhode Island. Sure, I'm not really
from Rhode Island, but I don't really know a lot
about other parts of mass So this is my struggle.
Blair is struggle and se Konk C Kong. Guess how
its spelled? Guess how it spelled? What well? I was thinking,
is that sort of like a shellfish like um that
(17:45):
you find in the Bahamas? That is the DS. You
would think, so, and guess what it's a It's a goose.
It's a goose, I'm pretty sure, or at least it's
s E E K O n K. Doesn't that sound
like a toddler spelled it? Yeah, you would think it's
like s E A like, oh, it's part of the
(18:06):
c's just like that's really from left field, right out
of left field. Yeah. Um, okay, so c Cock Massachusetts.
But okay, yeah, because I did always know that my
friend de lista very New England gal. Um. But okay, wow,
(18:27):
this is so illuminating. Okay um. Follow up question? Did
we get up at three o'clock in the morning to
sleep outside for a one minute audition for Stand Up NBC?
And how do you think this giant moment informed our careers?
I The funniest part of all that is, I remember
(18:50):
clear as day we waited like overnight outside under scaffold
of New York City, like six hours in the dead
cold maybe rain, to try to like get on to
perform a minute comedy, and I remember clear as day
the whole time not knowing what I was gonna say.
That is and we psycho, that's so psycho instead of
(19:12):
like us, Like if I had had like a minute
that was so good, I could remember like getting in
line to be like should I say this tweeter? That tweet?
Just like oh my god. Also a minute like what
joke could really be in one minute? Be so good?
Like one one liner? I mean it's like, right, I
don't know to this day if I had to do
one minute of stand up, I would have no idea
(19:33):
what to do. Well, I just remember us. I mean,
like the thing is we had I think the time
of our lives, like in amidst so much self inflicted
pain and delusion, we were literally lying our bodies on
the New York City sidewalk, straight on the New York
(19:55):
City sidewalk for hours and hours, just disc usting filth. Yeah,
you know, even when we had to get COVID like
the vaccine. I was like, I remember seeing the lines
and being like I don't want to wait. I feel
like forever forever made me hate lines because I was like, no,
I remember the feeling of having this like people who
wait in line for tick. I think that's the biggest
(20:16):
thing it did for me, was it when never Again?
I don't think I ever auditioned for like a thing
like that. I was like, that was my last one thing.
I think too, because it was like oh no, no, no,
never again. Never. Oh. It was just so but we
all really bonded, and I think it brought us all
very cool. That's like when I remember really meeting you
and Marcia, it's like we became real friends, I have
(20:36):
to agree, but suffering we laughed so hard, I really did.
I remember. I remember thinking that you were like the
funniest person ever. Same, same, same, That's that's what I remember.
So I was like, oh, who cares about this thing?
Like we just got to play and and meet each other. Yeah.
I just remember thinking like, oh and Marcia, we were
just dying. Oh god, yeah, we really any of us
(20:59):
got it right, not like not like across the board.
I think Marcia got through Marcia, yeah, Marcia, wait about yeah?
But I think that was the moment we all became stars.
Yeah right. It was just such a like yeah, because
then I even there was another club, remember maybe the
(21:19):
comedy strip you had to do that for Yeah, I
never did that. I remember I like signed up to
put my name in like the audition lottery I think
it was called, and then I didn't show up because
I was like, I don't want to do this. Ship.
I remember it was like the booker I think probably
died or something, but it was like the blocker who
had been there for like fifty years, and he would
like openly say he doesn't like he doesn't think women.
(21:40):
He's like, I don't Yeah, no, I just don't think
women are funny. I don't want them my club. And
we're like, yeah, let's go audition there. I think, yeah,
I think that would be really good for my soul.
I think that, yeah, that's I don't think what I
need to do. Yeah, that's probably. This is probably what
teams are made up. This is probably it. I think
(22:02):
that's what LA did for both of us, was we
both were probably because I did I feel in New
York just feel like I just did whatever I thought
I was supposed to do. And I feel like once
I got to l A, I really became like what
do I want to like, what do I want to
be doing? And I'm only going to do that in
terms of career, like I don't need to be totally. Yeah,
Like when you're starting out, people above you, like you
are like, well, always someone is always telling you an
(22:24):
extremely linear path that you have to take and that's it.
They're convinced that's the only way. And like you, when
you're younger, you're like is this person right? And there's
no actual path, So you're kind of like, well, that's
there's no path I see, and this person is telling
me their path. That's like path I know, so I
have to be on this path. And then the more
you you know, grow, you're like, oh, there's a lot
(22:45):
of different paths that it's like so different for each person.
It's yeah, but it's just so funny, Like I just
can't believe we did that to this day either. Yeah, Um, okay,
moving on, Lissa, Marry fun Kill, Blake Shelton, Billy Gilman,
(23:11):
whoever that is, and Adam Levine. Okay, Billy Gilman, I'm
gonna have to. This is like a really you're putting
in a really tough position here, but yeah, I'm gonna
have to. I think I'm I'm definitely fucking Adam Levine
like out the gate, like that's we can just kind
of get that out of the way. Well, we love
honesty here. Yeah, I guess I could marry because I could.
(23:32):
But anyway Billy i'd love, I think in my head
because I saw him when he was like eleven, I
can't like properly marry or fucking like. I love him
and I'm writing my letter to him, but I also
might have to kill him, which is you're putting me
in a tough spot. But I don't think I can
honestly say I could marry or fucking because in my
head I just know him as this. You know, sometimes
(23:53):
love means murder. Sometimes the people you love most you have,
you have to murder. And then I guess i'd marry
Blake Shelton. Um, he's gotta I don't want to get
in Gwen's way. I love Gwen Stefani. So that's gonna
you know, that's gonna be tough. We're gonna have to
work that out together maturely. Of course he's got surely.
(24:14):
Of course he's got a beautiful ranch. I could write
some corses in Oklahoma, So my, you know what, in retrospect,
that shouldn't have come right out the gate. Was sucking
at him because marrying him probably would have synergized better
with my life. But again, love sometimes that's you know,
you have to deal with consequences of your choices. So
sure visit me in Oklahoma. Pretty scene, there's pretty a
(24:37):
pretty good scene out there. It's starting the stand up scene.
It's kind of you're actually gonna start it with me.
It's it's starting with me once I get there on
the ranch. Um, yeah, we're gonna be doing so, We're
gonna do a show at the You're gonna be doing
it on Dave Chappelle. Um, yeah, yeah, you know he
said you gotta come Blair, you gotta come live with
(24:58):
a few months, a few months of you up, come
on down on site, come on the jet, on site,
COVID testing. Yeah we did, we did. You just right
up and then boom, we have to master anything. Riff
city city. You know what? For so long I never
like coming like um, growing up, I never understood the
Adam Levine thing. And then I went in I think
(25:21):
like two thousand nine um to a concert with my
mother where it was counting crows Augustana, and that takes
me to this day like love Counting Crows. I mean,
and I saw Adam Levine like up close performing their
giant catalog, and I was I was like, okay, yeah,
(25:44):
I'm sold, like will be loved. You're singing his arms
while singing you will be loved. Forget it, forget it.
I was. I was like, okay, I was. I'm willing
to admit I was wrong and change my opinion on
a dime. Oh totally, totally yeah, no Adam movie. And
I'm yeah, yeah, So do you know this about this
(26:06):
man that you love so much that you wrote a
letter to um that he's gay now and he was
a child Christian singer and so you know he has
really which I think is always a difficult intersection. Wow.
I was okay, I was. I was pretty sure that
he was gay. That's great that he's opening gay and that. Wow.
(26:27):
I didn't know that he started Christian. I mean, I'm like, oh,
I didn't know he started as Christian. And I'm like
his song God Bless America. Um, you know, it's so funny.
I grew up like Catholic and I went to Catholic school.
I grew up a church, so it's like religion was
always around me. So I think I probably didn't clock
it as much as I was like, oh yeah, that
(26:49):
that made sense if he's singing, Oh totally yeah, definitely Okay.
So I hope he felt welcome. Did he leave like
the church or did he feel welcomed by his church
or was it like I wonder, I hope he. I
hope he was at a good church that was I'm
not let's I think it was like uh, I think
he it was hard for him to wreck for style
(27:14):
and so we're proud of him here at Dear and Will,
We're proud of him good. I'm I'm proud of him
and happy for him, um to be himself, you know. Okay,
here we are uh yeah. And do you think, just
to follow up follow up question, that Blake Shelton and
Gwen will last? Yes? I think they will, only you
(27:36):
know why? Here's why? Well, I I went to see
Blake Shelton and pre pandemic pre pandemic but like almost
like right, pre pandemic in l A, some big theater
in l A. I um, I love. I grew up
on country music. I my dad, you know, my my dad,
(27:59):
and I was into country music so much and Blake
Shelton has been around for so long social maybe his
songs were songs that I heard growing up. It was
so it was so awesome. It was I remember being like,
I gotta come to concerts all the time, and then
it was like, you know, COVID came two weeks later.
But anyway, all this to say, Gwen Stefani not only
came to the concert but set and watched the entire
(28:23):
concert from the front row. Yeah, like from the front,
like from the pit in the front of like and
I thought she was just gonna come on sing her
song and like leave and I were at like they
had video and she was there the whole time. Think
of like Luke and I and my boyfriend I both
do stand up. We've been doing I can't remember the
last time either must have seen a ship to go
to someone's whole show that is like you're that's like
(28:45):
come on, yeah, And you know, I see myself as
some extremely and talented intuitive and um. The way that
I my feeling about them is that they both seem
really at peace. That's what I feel too. That's when
I feel of their relationship feels that way. And you
(29:06):
know why else two because it's like they shouldn't really
be together, like there are a strange pairing. It's not like, oh,
they're like, you know, both country suite. It's like, no,
they clearly there's something there that is connecting them beyond. Yeah. Yeah,
that's like a lot of people were always like, you
should date outside your type, and I'm like, do I
have a type because I don't know if I I
(29:26):
don't know what that type is, but um, I guess,
like because I remember when they first started dating, I
was like, I would never see them together because she's like,
you know, rock queen, like kind of pink rock, like
skat girl, and you know. But they did sort of
find each other unexpectedly after both having been cheated on
(29:48):
broken hearts. I didn't know that. Yeah, I know that
they were both divorced. I didn't know they were both
cheated on. Yeah, Gavin Rossdale cheated with the nanny um
so try so cliche um yeah. And and and then I
think Miranda Lambert, I'm not sure positive allegedly cheated on him,
which I do love Miranda Lambert. Also I love Miranda too,
(30:12):
but I also do Yeah, I do feel the peace
thing feels very right to me. Where it's like, yeah,
there's something about yeah the two like granted him that
feels very Yeah. People like those, you know, those relationships
where they have that sort of like electric high passion
energy and you're like, oh, this seems like it's gonna
have potential volatility. Yes, but it doesn't feel that way
(30:34):
obviously with ship about them. We're rooting for them, We're
hoping for them. We we were were We love peace. Yeah,
I want them to be happy. They seem very happy.
Good for them. Wishing myself the same and you the same. Also, Alyssa,
thank you and as you to you as well, and
also with you and also with you and also with you.
(30:55):
Um A, Lissa, who do you think, in your opinion,
is the best judge on the voice and why? Oh? Okay,
well I gotta look up the current Let me let
me get like a current voice judges here and oh
hello we actually let me just ask my lawyer Mr Fridges. Hello,
Mr Fridges, Hey can I get you here? So I
(31:16):
know I know you're with the kids. I just need
one big thing, just the voice judges. Could you Oh
it's a quick Google search. I just wanted to make
sure it was from you because I'm on the podcast.
I'll plug you. I'll plug you tax season. I know, Okay,
thank you so much. Tell Tell Melissa. I said, hello,
all right, we're back. So thank you, my my, my
wonderful uh private eye. We also have a private eye
(31:40):
lawyer named Mr Wiges, Mr Widges. He's a p I lawyer,
attack fan. He's kind of what can't he do? And
he's and he's a dad, single dad, just like um
saul On, just a utility guy, a Saul from Better
Call Saul. But I will say you possess this too.
I remember seeing you the first time performed being like
(32:01):
I've never seen someone would like you. You're so you
have such a singular, unique voice as well that I
feel you. You are so electric to watch because you're like, oh,
I've never this combination of things I've never seen. Yeah, listen,
thank you. That means so much to me. And you know,
I also think you are a freak talent, like any
(32:22):
time I see you on stage or you used to
do Blair and Greta a lot, like I know Rest
in Peace. I used to when I used to watch you,
like I would lose my mind laughing, like even if
I think even if I saw you every night, I
would feel That's what I I feel about you. That's how
I feel about you. Yeah, I love it. Okay, but yeah,
(32:42):
that video is so special. Yeah, if you haven't watched it,
go watch. It's just like a really beautiful Yeah, it's
it's lovely. It's so good. We'll put the link when
this comes out, Okay, Alyssa, you were recently quoted in
The New York Times as saying that, aside from Billy Gilman,
your choice for emotions racial person of the Year for
me as uh, Kelly Ann Conway. I love what she
(33:05):
stands for and I love her. Look what was it
that made you make the jump from Billy to Kelly Ann? No? No,
see this, I remember this. This was this, this, uh, this,
and I will get Mr Winkle's back to because that's yours. Wait,
who's mind Wedges? Anyway? Mr Wedges will come Uh, we'll
(33:29):
come back, and I'll take you to goddamn court. I
didn't say that. I've never said such a thing. We'll
take it up in the New York Times, sweetie, Okay,
I don't, I don't Times, Okay, this has nothing to
do with me. I'm just really quoting what was already printed. Okay,
well this is blasphemy. When it was live on stage,
was like, oh, this is a fun bit. Now this
is like a clip on a podcast. It's gonna be
(33:50):
taken out. This is gonna destroy my career. People are
gonna be like, oh, what's so you know? I I
have to say loud and clear, I did not say
that interesting so interesting, but um and you know why too.
You can tell this is Blair's as much as I
reused my clip from this is this is oh wait
(34:14):
Trumpet office yet? Uh a, Lissa, please answer the question. Okay, Um,
I didn't I answer. I My final answer is um,
I didn't say okay, okay, moving Um. I think stage
(34:36):
said something like stage right now, and Blair, why do
you have the Trump flight behind you right now? I don't.
It seems to be painted. You have a painting of
I love Mr Trump and I, oh my gosh, I
wanted to be my daddy and husband. It's so weird
that you know that's what you want, and your belief
(34:58):
that it's hard for it's been distracting. Will be honest.
Free speech is so important to Okay, we're comedians. We
gotta say what we feel free speech with last bastions
(35:18):
of truth. Okay, Lissa, Billy was first discovered at the
age of nine. Do you find Billy to be a
bit of an over retriever slash Tracy Flick who gets
discovered at nine and then keeps so good head about
them last day? When were you discovered? Oh? Yeah, I
(35:44):
was discovered on the street in you and Marshall they
discovered me and they said, no, thank you, they did
discover me. And then they were like, get off the
street and go home. You don't have a joke prepared. Um, Okay,
I think being discovered at nine is so young. I
mean nine, I don't even remember. I was like my yeah,
(36:06):
I wasn't doing I don't think I could read. What
an incredible what an incredible thing. But it is so
crazy like to be nine and be discovered and yes,
still have a good head on your shoulders, that is
a huge, huge feat. So Billy, I respect you. That's crazy.
That's the kudos from a listle emparis everybody. That's a
big kudos. That's a big kudos from right over the
(36:28):
border in Rhode Island to you and Westerly, my friend,
I say kudos kudos. Um. Okay, So do you think
if you were discovered at nine that you would have
made it to the Voice, the TV show The Voice,
(36:49):
I can I can assure you if I was discovered
at any age, there is no way I would be
to get to the Voice unless it was in like
I don't know if they do the American I don't
think where it's like the funny people who don't get
on because they're like, oh my god, did you hear
how bad that person's voice was. I have no pitch.
(37:13):
I have no I can't I can't hold the tune.
I would not I would have made the voice even
as a judge. I would just be like, everyone has
a beautiful voice. I have no barometer for anything, Like
anyone who sings. I'm like, okay, you're adel beautiful. You
know No, I would not have made it to the Voice.
(37:43):
Probably Okay, okay. That's her final answer of aybody um
the first time. According to Lucian Wiggles, the first time
Billy appeared on the Jerry Lewis m D A Labor
Day telethon was in September two on do you think
Billy also thinks women shouldn't do comedy like Jerry Lewis no.
(38:05):
I I think I think that unlike the person who
said no to us at I have, I had a
strong feeling that Billy would that we could call him right,
I think Billy's I think Billy would be a great hang.
I think I would love to laugh with us. I
think I, like many men who have said no to us,
(38:26):
almost exclusively, yeah, every day, continue to say no, no, no, no.
Both of our YouTube comments, Hi, how are you? You're listening?
You know what's so crazy? I recently like, I don't
know how you are with YouTube comments, but I pretty
much never look like as a practice, and I have
(38:49):
probably like four or five years now, I don't look
at any comments. Um. But I someone sent me a
link like saying I loved you on this and it
was THEO Vaughan's podcast, you know. And I think we
probably are demographic, might be a little different of our audiences.
(39:09):
And I saw just at the top, like I wasn't
even looking through just like the top five that accidentally
my eyes uh with your to over um, and I
was like, oh wow, that's hurtful, right right, It's so hurtful.
It's so damaging if it's like it's I can't I
(39:32):
do the same. I now elevated not elevated too. But
now I also don't check the I do not check
my Instagram tab, so the notifications tab, I just don't look.
So if you ever call it and I don't reply,
it's just because I simply don't look. I don't want
to know self preservation. Self preservation, and I feel like
it's changed my life. But yeah, if I what we
do is like requires I've been thinking about this, like
(39:53):
even back in ten, Like the minute you start worrying
about what people think, it's like over. And so if
I think I'm a and then I read that someone
agrees with it, I would just stop. It's too risk,
it's too dangerous. So I just yeah, I can't look.
It hurts me too much. Yet Oh yeah, it was
crazy to me because like, if you are putting yourself
out there in any way, my therapist always used to
(40:15):
say this to me, my old therapist, you would say,
fifty percent of people will not like you no matter what,
and it has nothing to do with you people. Yeah,
so which is absolutely out of your control. But it
is some thinking. Like if you go into the arts
in any way, or putting yourself out there in any way,
like opening yourself up to others, like with any sort
(40:38):
of art or anything. It's like, it's hard because you
really have to be able to not take in other
people's opinions, which I think the only way to actually
do that is to keep like it's so lame, but
like to really keep like believing in yourself and believing
that you're telling the truth, like telling your truth, doing
(41:00):
something that you feel you think it's funny, and that's
like it as long as because yeah, it's like who knows,
a hundred percent of people might not like it, but like,
all right, if I thought it was funny, or if
I was saying something that was real to me, that's
kind of all I can all I can control. But yeah,
it's hard. It's hard, Yeah, comedy to like, I, um
(41:21):
the other day had a bomb like I hadn't had
in a long time. You know, sometimes it just comes up.
It's like tripping on the street, like you're walked along
and all of a sudden the cement uneven you didn't
see it and I fucking fall out of nowhere. Yeah,
And I was like, damn, wow, that feeling especially like
it was just so ironic, as it always is, where
(41:42):
I had like a few of the best shows in
my life the same week and I was just like,
oh my god, there's no fucking rhyme or reason to
this show. Life on the whole, it is it is.
That's that's it. That's it. Yeah, it's but it is
the one thing that like there's just no yeah, there's
no control from day to day. It could be. Yeah.
(42:03):
I also a lot of it is internet culture, I
think because they're used to not be that sort of
access to performers, but like, wow, it can be what
do you think it is? Because I would never see something.
I would never comment something unkind to a stranger in
(42:24):
my life. No, never, And like, yeah, I think you're right,
because without that element, then it's like just the people
in the room and either they vibe with you or
you don't, and then that's kind of but yeah, the
online thing is very like yeah, yeah, well, I just
don't imagine someone putting out like a piece of their
work like stand up or I don't know, and then
(42:47):
going on their page and being like I want you
to know how much I reject you, right, And I
think it's why it's good that we don't look, because
that's okay that like that, you know, that is okay
in a way. It's like like you see your therapist
and it's people like if you don't like me or
don't find me funny, like that is okay. I can
(43:08):
live with that, you know. It's if I don't if
I agree with you, if I agree with if I
start agreeing with you, then we're in trouble. So I
think that's why it's like I just yeah, the more
we don't look and the more we just keep, you know,
being around people we love and doing things people are
right living directly in your life because like I do,
think about someone's capacity for success is definitely directly related
(43:33):
to how much you can tolerate, tolerate totally totally because
you're Yeah, that's it's basically just and I remember people
saying that early on. It's just like hanging on. It's
just like how long can you hang on? How many
rejections can you take? How many bombs can you take?
Because it's not you know, rejection can you take? Sign
(43:53):
me up? But but what peace? What peace came? I
don't know, like what peace we're getting to do what
what And I feel you tweet this sometimes and like
I agree with you, Like it is such a delight
that we set out in as kids to like do this,
and we get to do this, you know, we get
to spend and so like that's the that's the cost.
(44:14):
It's like, okay, we get to do what we love
and what we feel really connected to, an energized by.
And the cost is the cost is people tell us
to kill ourselves on the internet. What are you to do? Blair? Okay,
it's a tradeoff. Baby fun un fun fun back at
(44:36):
my pal love it okay a lista. According to Lucian Wiggles.
On March sixteen, Billy was honored in two separate ceremonies
in the Rhode Islands Senate and House of Representatives for
his successes and for representing Rhode Island as an artist.
We're exactly um no, actually we are. You said that.
(45:00):
I was about to say where exactly are you from?
But now I know it's Seacock, Massachusetts, which is actually
confusingly near the border of Rhode Island, so we sometimes
think you're from Rhode Island. So that's answered right now.
Would you think that Seacock Massachusetts, would ever consider honoring
you for your work? And would you accept graciously or
spit in their faces? Oh my god, se Conk, I
(45:22):
I these are really good questions. Wouldn't you say? He's
worth every dime you spend up thorough every podcast, they
get better and better. It's incredible he's growing. Yet, it's
really wonderful. I I O c. Cock. They don't need
to thank me. I love I love them, I I
I own them. I love c So you say that
(45:43):
you want to honor se Conk and not the other
way around. Wow, the humility that you maintain as your
celebrity status and branches to the courthouse. I would like
to bring Sea the Mr Mr Seacock, the goose himself.
I would like to pardon a goose. And I was
on behalf of my love for ce Conk. I pardon you. Yeah, No,
(46:05):
I I love c Conk. I wouldn't go to Yeah,
we have a courthouse. I don't know. Okay, So she folks, folks, folks,
she wants to honor sea Conk. She's not even accepting
an honor from them. Incredible. Wow, that's Dear and Wilson exclusive,
Baby Wilson exclusive. That really is. I feel even in
(46:30):
New York. Well that's you know, the more I leave
my home, the more I'm like just looking for pieces
of c conk outside like I have like posters in
my not like things in my home that's say c conk.
It's just like now, I just you know, you spend
your life wanting to leave, and then you leave and
you're like, I want to go back. The paradox of life.
It really is the paradox of it all. Yes, well
(46:54):
posture by the way, Yeah that I've muted my video,
but I really as I probably look uh like ever,
That's what I have to say to you. Okay, Lista,
you're clearly obsessively in love with Billy Gilman. Did your
(47:16):
world come crushing down on you when you found out today, um,
within the last thirty minutes that Billy came out as gay?
And no, I I love him. I've always loved Billy
in this unconditionally, conditionally however, yes, Billy, I just I
(47:37):
much like his song one Voice, Billy. I love his voice,
and Billy, if yeah, you keep singing, I'll keep and
even if you don't, but I hope you keep saying
I'll keep listening to you. I'll keep listening to you,
so you know, Yeah, your love goes on regardless of
whether you will ever have the chance to sleep with him. Absolutely,
(47:59):
because as we're all learning, as we all grow and mature,
there are many ways to love someone that don't involve
sleeping with them. Yes, Adam Levine, No, it's only don't
you know that's more sort of a purely physical love.
But yes, Billy, of course, Billy, I love me no
matter what. Yes, yes, when I'm coming for your man,
(48:21):
But Billy, yes, whatever you do, Adam, your arms arms Okay,
I'm this unfortunately is our final question. Okay, I know,
and I know all our listeners around the globe feel
(48:43):
the same way at this moment. They don't want this
to end either. Um Australia. Yeah, in Japan, Japan, Antarctica,
even Iceland. That's true, Alaska. Um. According alusion, Billy is
quoted as saying, I just wanted to inspire people, and
(49:06):
I hope I did. Did he inspire you to become
a comedian? Billy Gilman? If not? Um, are you actually
a liar and not truly a Billy Gilman fan? I
honestly can probably say I really do feel I bet
I was. I bet I was inspired seeing someone from
my part of town go after their dreams at a
(49:26):
young age. Possibly related, possibly related, could be my first
cousin or brother. Um I I yes, I think it
probably her brother. Yes, I believe he is in my
immediate family and this is just a plug for him.
And he's paying me handsomely, which is why you weren't
upset when if you killed him immediately. I did not. Yeah, yeah,
(49:54):
I know the genetics are I don't know. It's it's close,
it's close. Um, but yeah, no, I he did inspire me.
I feel I feel anyone in my part of town
that I saw go after something from a young age,
I was like, okay, cool, that's someone that's someone sure sure, Yeah,
so Billy, he inspired you to become a comedian, and
(50:15):
you would call yourself a true Billy Gilman fan and
you're not aliere comlutely free, comlutely. You can put me
on a wire, give me a test. Yeah, stay cool
as a cute. When I say I am a true
Billy Gilman fan, say all right, come on, Oh no,
I don't think you guys have the rights. But I
(50:35):
don't know if but say you will, you gotta listen
to it. It's it's so good, Okay. So I do
think that me and the Owen Wilson deal O and
Wilson family will collectively feel comfortable saying that you are
not a liar and you are telling the truth about
being a true Billy Gilman fan. Yes, score okay. So
(51:00):
we do like to conclude our episodes with one final
segment called Fan on the Street Tree, in which we
ask our guests and eventually our listeners, um, if they
(51:22):
have maybe a fun celebrity encounter anecdote to share with
the class. And you have worked with some big names
these days, anything fun that's PG that you might want
to share that you didn't won't be violating any n
D as. I know. I'm like, I don't know what
(51:45):
what you are being Thanksgiving with Tom Brady's. I love Tom,
He's so wonderful. Um, he's great. Um what can I uh?
Or it could have been before you went into entertainment.
Even before I went into entertainment, I worked in soho
(52:06):
so or not so whatever? Like Um, I worked at
the Butcher's Daughter, which is just like Vegan Juicehof. So
we saw a bunch of celebrities there, and I do
remember one night it was like I had worked at double,
which was like I was so tired and I was
just so and the place was kind of empty, and
Taylor Swift walked, which was like and I think it
(52:28):
was like helpful that I was so tired, because I
probably would have freaked up, but instead I was just like,
what can I get you? Started? She also so tired. No,
she was not by herself, but she entered that Jake
Jillen whole years no, no, um. But she was great.
She was super nice, and I just remember like talking
(52:51):
with her security guard. It was just kind of like
me and her security security guard. Oh yeah, oh yeah,
for sure. Uh. And it was pretty empty and it
was just her enjoying a meal. And then I remember
at a certain point, like a ton of people started
coming and then it was like she had to leave.
But she was stunning and beautiful. It's not really a
funny good story at no, it doesn't. She was pretty funny,
(53:12):
just fun She was taller than she's very tall. She
she she glowed. She was like, wow, that's cool, Taylor Swift.
I do like Taylor Swift. She's great. I mean that
bitch puts out albums, you know, the thing like she is.
I feel like she is a hustler. She put out
(53:34):
like she's like, well, you guys have been disgusting and
tie dying ship and staring at the Yeah, She's like, oh,
I just put out I don't know, thirty new songs
I wrote myself and just recorded in the comfort of
my own home. Did you get emotional hearing Fearless that album? Oh?
(53:54):
All of it? I like something about like the time
it hit in the pandemic with like, oh, this is
like her new older voice, with like her these songs
that we heard in high school. It was like, oh
my god. Yeah, there's something about that too, because like
I can't imagine growing up in the public guy, Like
because I mean the teens, the middle school, all of
that are such like an awkward, uncomfortable nightmare, Like so
(54:18):
emotional too, like just because the nature of just being
human and like that age and I can't imagine being
on display for everyone, and just there's like going back
and see like I can't imagine having a catalog from
that time period, of working from that time period and
still be exactly and still it's still being so good
(54:39):
and still holding up. Whenever I see any movie about
like teen Girls or something, I sob so much. Oh
me too, me too. Yeah, yeah, that was probably what
it was, was just remembering being that age and all
those like feelings. Yes, yeah, all right, Well this has
just been so much fun, and it's great to learn
(55:01):
find out who Billy Gilman is and catch up with
you and find out you know about you went to
the Blakes concert, and how you feel about Adam's arms,
and just how we both love Gwen and a lot
we really it was really good. Learned about c Congum
(55:21):
and Stuffy. Yeah, and please all our dear followers and
fans around the globe enjoy a list of followers. She's
all over your TV. What a tree for us. Thank
you for coming on, Thank you so much for this
great show and for having me being so fun. This
was such a joy. Yeah, I'll see you when you
(55:41):
I want to see you when you get back from
New York. Yes, sounds great, see back in l A Okay,
I love you, heyst
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