"Toys" w/ Richard Perez

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Speaker 1 (00:19):
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Speaker 2 (01:08):
Enjoy the episode so pretty much. Podcast starts now, What
is up everyone around the globe? You're listening to Stradia Lab.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Oh, I'm feeling loose.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Oh, I'm feeling loose.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
I'm feeling blanky goosey.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
I'm simply a canvas for ideas to be painted upon.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
If I like turn my head one way versus another,
entire mini series on television could be created. I am
in such a place of sponge like absorption of the
world around me, and I'm ready to create.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Have you ever done the Artist's way? You know?

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Here's the thing. I have started it twice. I don't
think I have gotten past like week three both times.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Well that's all you need. But I've been hearing about
it secondhand, and it's I think it's funny to be like,
just be open for God to come through you. And
I'm like, oh my god, I'm literally so open all
the time. That's crazy. I'm literally such a vessel for Christ.
That's awesome. You know.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
I recently, in a very vulnerable turn, shared my forgotten
audiobook library. I don't know if you saw this, I did,
I did, I would say pretty alarming. I don't know
how much you how much you sort of like took
it in.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
It was all self help stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
It was a lot of self help that I listened
to one chapter of because I I just and the
thing is I just am not. I know I'm not
a self help person. I know I can't do it. However,
you know, once a year, someone will someone I trust
will be like, yeah, I know I'm not either. I'm
also like punk rock and uh, you know, fuck the system,
but this one really helped me. And then I'll be

(02:46):
like all right, like if you say so, maybe you're right,
and then I will I will have an allergic reaction
to it. I can't do it. And I actually think
that's my issue with artists way too, because I'm also like,
why like when they're like, do morning pages and just
write a stream of consciousness without taking your pen off
the paper, and like, no, what if I write while thinking?

(03:09):
And I actually like organize my ideas?

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah, but then you're being critical and you're like they're
trying to like make you more open and not be
critical of your ideas.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
And you find that that has worked for you.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Uh yeah, I actually love being non critical of writing
at first, because it just, like you know I've been
talking about it, is like you developed like a scab
and you're sort of like, Okay, well now I'm scabbed
so hard over that I can't come up with anything.
But if you're just if you're if you break that
scab off by just writing whatever. Then you're like, oh,
I guess you just write whatever because if you're putting oh,

(03:46):
I think I'm frozen. And that's okay, Okay, we're back.
We're back, thank god. So basically I was talking about
scabs and about how we all have them.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
I just want to say, you know, for everyone listening,
we did all just freeze. And also, it is four
forty five pm on a Friday my time.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, and I will say it's one forty four on
a Friday my time.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Which is maybe worse. I'll say, no, mine's worse. Sorry
to center myself.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Why is it worse?

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Do you feel because you're still in the middle of
your work day, like you can you can you know, yes,
the day is winding down, but like if you're working
in an office right now, you could potentially be going
to a meeting.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
No, I mean, you're right. It's just when you said that,
I got scared. I was like I felt like an
injustice where I was like, there's someone in a meeting
right now, yeah, and like that's I actually want to
like free them, Like I want to like run into
the office with a gun, yeah and say let them out,
don't you think though?

Speaker 1 (04:53):
Okay, here's my take on meetings in when I've been
in an office environment. What's great about meetings is that
you actually have an excuse to kind of zone out
and do nothing, Whereas if you're at your desk, it's
more stressful because you feel they need to appear like
you're working. You can just listen attentively if you're in
a meeting. When I am in an obfice environment and
suddenly I have like what's called in the business back

(05:15):
to back meetings. Let's say it's like lunchhim and you're like,
oh God, Like I can't believe I'm back to back
meetings from two to six pm. To me, that's heaven.
I'm basically sleepwalking through the entire afternoon.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
But this is something that speaks to you as a performer,
Like there's something about the performance of a meeting that
speaks to you more than the like it is at
your desk. The only person you're performing for is yourself.
Like it's like send that email and you're like, fuck,
I have to send that email and you're like just
sort of overthinking it, and you're like I don't want to.
I don't want to. I don't want to. But as
soon as like someone else's eyes are on you. You're

(05:46):
like watch this, I can like tap dance around you guys,
and in this meeting.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah, an email, First of all, it's never gonna an
email as a form is never gonna be transcendent. Like
it's very rare that I've written a trend and send
an email, but it's actually very common that I've said
something absolutely legendary in a meeting. You know, I just
have to sort of get in the zone. So email
it's not going to be transcendent, and you're not going
to get positive feedback meeting. Honestly, most people are not

(06:12):
that bright. All you have to do is speak up
and say something semi coherent. Immediately you're going to get
praised from two people in that room.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
I mean, talk about vessel for Christ, talk about artists.
Way when you're in a boardroom and you're speaking like
God is speaking through you, Yeah, there is a divine
energy in you in a boardroom speaking.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
And it's also like I, oh, actually I almost do
want to talk about this. I bombed so hard last
night at a show and it made me remember something
I you know, you sort of forget we're so used
to being in front of people speaking in front of people.
That then it's like a piece of cake. If you're
in a boardroom and you have people like aggressively nodding

(06:52):
in a kind of performative way. Yeah, we've been like
training for it our whole lives.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah, can I ask this bomb? Did it emotionally hurt?
You know?

Speaker 1 (07:02):
It was one of those New York nights where I
was running late, so I took an uber, which, you know,
bad decision. It was snowing and there was traffic. I
show up to the show forty minutes late.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
I mean I knew I was going to be last
on the lineup, so I wasn't you know, I knew
I wasn't like inconveniencing anyone, But I was originally going
to show up on time. And I showed up forty
minutes late after paying thirty dollars for aneuver get to
the show, immediately have to go up Bomb, leave the show.
I get stuck on a jay train for twenty minutes
with no cell service. It's just it's kind of like,

(07:39):
you know, you're you're heading home and your clothes are ripped,
you're bleeding, your phone is dead. One shoe is gone.
You're basically crawling on the floor, and I'd be lying
if I said it wasn't also sort of romantic in
this way, because I am, you know, kind of Carrie
Bradshaw locked out of her apartment, you know, Broad City,

(08:02):
the gals sort of like with you know, one boob
out of the bra like trying to get to the
Lil Wayne concert. So you know, you win some, you
lose some. But it definitely did not feel good.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, that hurts.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
And I hadn't bombed it, well, I guess I hadn't. Yeah,
I guess I hadn't bombed in a while. It is
the truth of it, I'll be.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Honest, not the brag. Do you think was it just
flusteredness or was it.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
Like that's what hurt is that it was my fault.
It was I somehow went up and did not have
the right energy to begin with. Said one thing. The
audience immediately did not care about me. I was unable
to leave the sort of vocal monotone I was like,

(08:48):
and then I was aware of that, so I was
trying to make myself sound animated, so it was like
I was forcing a smile and they could also sense
the inauthenticity in that, and then I actually like, like,
forgot my material.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
Now that's classic.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
That's kind of crazy.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah, And you know sometimes you actually, if you're in
a good enough place, you can forget something and then
roll with the punches and almost transcend and like improv
on the spot. This was one of those things where
would like say half a sentence and then remember that
I forgot something, and then just go back and repeat
it without like addressing it, and then they wouldn't laugh,
and I'd be like, why I said it? I said
it the right way. What the fuck do you want?

Speaker 2 (09:30):
That's tough? Yeah, damn, I'm like bombed central these days,
are you well? I've I did one show last week
and bombed, and it was weird because there were coworkers there,
and then everyone has to be like good job, and
I have to be like thank you, because it's even
worse to be like, I bombed.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Can I tell you something? I did that? And that
was the final straw where I was like, oh, I
am fully like this is the biggest flop night of
my life because I ran into people and you and
I immediately did a whole self flag, like oh god,
that was rough, like am I right? Blah blah blah,
and they were all like, no, you were good, and

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it's like, what am I doing here?

Speaker 2 (10:12):
Just let me just say I bombed? It's okay.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
Of course they can't say that. You're like, it's like
you're putting them in a weird spot. Of course you
did the right thing and I did the wrong thing.
Like you can never start talking to someone about bombing.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
You literally have to go thanks, thank you. Yeah, and
guess what, no one cares, No one, No one cares
for even a second. Yeah, that's like the biggest lesson.
That's the biggest takeaway. That should put that in the
artist way. No one cares, No one cares.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
I'm sorry, but if that if Julia Cameron ever tried
stand up comedy, she'd be in tears in a second.
I don't think any of those methods that she's so
famous for would help her.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
Well, that's because stand up comedy is not an art.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Maybe if she was a painter or a screenwriter.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
The cowardly art forms should we bring in. Our guests
are esteemed guest who actually has never bombed in yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
Never bomb Please please welcome Richard Pez for the second time.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
But who's counting?

Speaker 1 (11:12):
Returning Champ?

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Returning Champ? Mama, Hi, Oh my god, Hi, how are
you speaking of bombing? Hi?

Speaker 3 (11:23):
Hi? Hi? Now sometimes it feels like I'll get on stage,
I'll be like hi, and I'm just like covered in
sid I like sweep myself off the stage.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah, there's like the ringing in your ear, like your
vision has that like blur effect on it. I hate that.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
I wish I was the type of performer like, here's
my dream. All right, this is when you act. I'm
on a lineup, I have seven minutes to perform. The
entire bit is that I have a series of false starts.
So I like say Hi, Then I like slip and fall.
Then I get up and I'm like sorry about that.
Then I like get the mic, but it falls on
my hand. Then I spent like, you know, two minutes
trying to put it back together, and I'm like hi,

(12:07):
and then my phone rings. I'm like, I'm sorry, I
have to take this, but I do that, you know,
Andy Kaufman style for ten full minutes.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
I mean that would be I've certainly tried. You've done that.
I've done that before, I've done who sets where I
haven't done a joke, yeah, which are my favorite sets.
But then it's kind of tough because the whole point
is to like have jokes.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
So is it?

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Is it? Thank you? That's actually a good point? Is it?

Speaker 1 (12:30):
What even is the point?

Speaker 2 (12:31):
What even is the point?

Speaker 3 (12:32):
What even is the point? Guys, let's start there. What
even is what is the point?

Speaker 2 (12:37):
Rich? Rich?

Speaker 1 (12:38):
First question we have for you is what even is
the point?

Speaker 3 (12:41):
Okay, Like I think that, Well, thank you so much
for having me.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
Well, thanks for being here.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Stop stalling.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
Well it says that I'm trying to, like because thinking
about what you guys were talking about with like artists
way and the thoughts that kind of stop you when
you're in the writing process to like persist and to continue.
I feel that way about just speaking in general. So
in a board meeting or whatever meeting, I don't say anything,

(13:14):
and I'm trying to get better about that. Even if
I do perform on stage and I don't say anything
for like ten minutes, I'm like at a meeting where
it's like, well, everyone of you, like, you know, just
tell me your opinion on this or whatever, Like, yeah,
I get in a way.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
Would you rather send any send an email or speak
up in a board meeting.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
I think I don't even know both feel like I'm like,
I didn't get you need to be.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
Honest, one to say, in order for you to communicate,
you have to be on a stage in front of
an audience. Otherwise it's like.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
Yeah, like it's sold out, sold out.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
No, that's so true, Like I won't I can't get
my point across. The show isn't sold out.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
Exactly.

Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yeah, that really really is tough when the show's not
sold out.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
But yet no, like it's just like I don't know,
Like I just have a heart. Like I remember back
back at UNI, when I was in art school, we
would have crit uh huh, and I loved it, you know,
love to hear about people's process and what they're working on,
you know, unpacking some of those things together was fun
for me. But I felt like I would have a

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thought and then of course someone else would say it
and I was like, oh, I thought the same exact thing.
And then someone the teachers like that's so true, what
a great thought you had, And I'm like.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
Yeah, can I say something about that stuff? Yeah, I
wouldn't be able to deal with it. This idea like,
if I ever like doing an MFA and having everyone
go around and say their opinions, I'm like, I respect
maybe one of you, and I have to listen to
what you think about my work.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
I mean, but maybe, like sometimes I get that, but
I'm like, maybe sometimes they would like at least like
asking sure where I'm like, oh, I didn't even think
of that.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
I am sometimes I can just stress myself out by
imagining that there's a drag race, but for like gay
comedians and like, and I can I can imagine the
fans like hating me and loving someone else and being
like middle of the road, and I can get upset
at like something that doesn't even exist. I think anytime
you're in comparison with people who are your peers, I'm

(15:25):
trying to get upset.

Speaker 4 (15:27):
Oh yeah, and guess what there is that it's called
literally all of all of all of the audiences at
the Millhouse.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
That's true.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
They're leaving and they're saying, this wasn't as good as
when we went to Gay Guys version two.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yeah, they have those little note cards they give out
that are like, rank this performance based on the last
six performances you've seen.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
Yeah, and everyone honestly, everyone you challenge and then RuPaul's
comes out, but it's David Cross.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
I feel that way sometimes with some certain shows, like
a homework show or something like I recently did like
a Housewives like show, and I don't watch that show.
I don't know that universe at all, but I agreed
to it, and I was just like, oh, yeah, like
this should be I'm gay, but it's it's like a
table read. I'm like, okay, yeah, like easy, like, oh,
I'll site read, but then like I once I get there,

(16:20):
I forget that, like everyone's the huge Like people that
come to the show are like fans of the of Housewives,
and they there's an expectation or something and the character
that I or the person that I was like reading
as like as iconic lines and or whatever. Like there's
these really funny moments that I was just sight reading

(16:41):
and I was like, in real yeah, but you were
figuring out like what.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
But I think that's better because it's like the difference
between in a biopicch someone doing an impression and someone
like embodying a character, Like it's like in.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
A lip sync when someone does the actual Corey over
since someone makes up their own sy.

Speaker 3 (16:59):
Exactly could have done that, but I didn't. My fear
got in the way, my own my critical my critical
voice got in the way, and I failed that week.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
Oh so you were kind of like reading it in
a straightforward way, as though you would be doing like
a reading at a funeral.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
Yeah. I was like, I wasn't filming, you, guys, I
wasn't filming.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
And would you say it reached a point of anti
comedy maybe where it was like really funny that you
were speaking in a monotone or no, yeah, did it
loop back around?

Speaker 3 (17:26):
No, it was anti comedy that like, no.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
One, yeah, I mean that's.

Speaker 3 (17:31):
That's no one was laughing when I was speaking, damn,
And that's really fine. It's fine. And then I got
off stage. I was like, I suck, and everybody's like,
I know, you were good, you were good. No, I
I know.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
I really like the idea of you doing a Real
Housewives staged reading and then like being so depressed about
bombing that you're going around being like I fucking suck,
Like I bomb that I fucked at that, and everyone's
like it's like that's not the Real Housewives reading. Like
you read the words like I bombed.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
I bombed. At this rate, I'll never get a I
don't know. Yeah, I mean I was low key a little.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
I didn't.

Speaker 3 (18:17):
I mean, I wasn't like I bombed. I bombed, but
I was just kind of like I just want to go.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
Yeah, that's definitely.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
That's definitely how. That's how.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
And I've had like there was like friends from college
too that were there, Like no, I heard the people
I haven't seen in a long time, and I'm like
they're like, hey, but I can feel that energy of
like hey, that's so fun, Like no, it really, but
maybe I'm projected.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
Maybe I'm just No, it's tough to bomb in front
of people that know you because it's like because they
probably see you once every blank years, like literally, so
it's like literally you just be like this does happen?
Like it's just like I'm not this is a representation
of who I am in total. That's also what's got
starting is like when like you're starting and then someone
that you look up to is like on the same

(19:04):
show as you, and you're like, okay, okay, okay, this
is the only time I'm going to see me and
you go up and like do medium to bad and
you're like, well they will for years think I suck right.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
You know what's worse than that, well, potentially doing really well,
but then looking out in the crowd and finding the
person you admire and seeing that they're not into it.
Yeah yeah, and then and then afterwards they just like
give you a little fist bump and are like, great,
set man.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
I think sometimes you can be that sounds good, actually
something awesome, that sounds fun.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
You guys are just turned on because I did this
impression of a straight guy.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
We're like, wait, wait, nice.

Speaker 3 (19:43):
Nice, thanks, how are you?

Speaker 1 (19:49):
I just want to say to everyone that like goes
to your friend's comedy show, whatever you know. Imagine you
you're a lawyer. Imagine inviting someone to see what a
random day of your work is like. Sometimes you're not
going to slay at that meeting, and sometimes you're not
going to get the client. You're not gonna get your
client the money they need. Sometimes you may even sent
someone to jail. If you're a doctor, you could kill someone. Now,

(20:12):
imagine that happens to be the day that I visit
because I happened to be visiting New York from Seattle
or Portland or Chicago, wherever I live, and you're like,
oh my god, I have a surgery that day. Come
see it. I come the person dies. Does that feel good?
That's my life every day?

Speaker 3 (20:27):
Oh my god?

Speaker 2 (20:27):
And you have to be like, well, I don't normally
kill people, or else I wouldn't be a doctor, right exactly,
like they wouldn't keep your surgeries.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
They're like fun, looks like you were having fun.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
He almost lived. Yeah, And then that person is like
on their group chat with the other friends from college
and they're like, how was how was George? And they're like,
I mean he killed the patient, like like.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
He like looked good in the like like little scrubs,
but like, yeah, he did kill the guy. But to
be fair, the guy was like really sick.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
And it was definitely like cool to be in the
o R. Like it all seemed like the lighting and
everything seemed real. It wasn't like one of these basements.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
Coworkers seem nice.

Speaker 3 (21:07):
Yeah, I mean I still picture this happening in a theater,
but like around one and it's like a black box
sitter on the round and then everyone's just kind of
watching this like box where you're doing the operation and
there's like music playing like.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
Very well, honey, that's the future with it with social
media and how much everyone wants to be seen and
and everyone's a creator now and everyone and our president
is an inful.

Speaker 3 (21:38):
Everyone's artists, everyone's artist artists.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
What they're doing. They're making Instagram reels in the White House, folks,
give it six years. Operations you'll have to pay, buy
a ticket to attend, and you'll have to be sponsored
by a brand to attend. One of the big operations.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
Budweiser presents Sam's appendectomy.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yeah, that's the fucking future. People.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
You think you know who's handling all the ticket sales prisoners?

Speaker 2 (22:15):
Oh I thought you're gonna say Ticketmaster, But honey, which
one's worse? I don't know. If I am my way,
Ticketmaster would be in prison.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
Wait same snap, literally is behind that is evil.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
The worst part of your friends coming to see your
surgery is that you're like, you like obviously kill the
person that day, and so it's like such a bummer.
But then there's like this nurse who like, like was
really good at cleaning up the blood, and they're like, yeah,
like who is that nurse? Like that nurse is really
going to be somebody. I can see that nurse like
like being like the best nurse.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
Yeah, the nurse open to you.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
I Meanwhile, you know that that nurse's mom is the
head hospital administrator and that's how she got the job.
And it's like, yeah, she grew up in that culture,
so she of course does a really good job of
cleaning and knowing how to do you know, bedside manner
and everything.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
The nurse is like twenty two.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
Yeah, the nurse is twenty two. She's like weirdly really pretty. Yeah,
and you know, you did your best.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
You did your best. So Richard, are you excited to
go on tour? God?

Speaker 3 (23:27):
I love what I do?

Speaker 1 (23:28):
Yeah, Richard, you're going on tour.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
You're going on tour.

Speaker 3 (23:31):
Speaking of bombing and performances and things of that nature.
I am touring.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
What do you think your bomb rate is going to
be on tour?

Speaker 1 (23:38):
Yeah? If you had to guess, which cities do you
think you're gonna bomb at?

Speaker 3 (23:44):
Yeah? You know what I'm gonna say, none of them?
Oh huge, none of them? Hockey bitch.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
You know what?

Speaker 3 (23:50):
Maybe what are you that nurse?

Speaker 1 (23:52):
Jesus?

Speaker 3 (23:53):
Yeah, I'm that nurse on this tour?

Speaker 1 (23:56):
Nurse and you.

Speaker 3 (24:02):
Are Wait wait I was but yeah, yeah, wait what
I was doing?

Speaker 2 (24:11):
Unique? Unique?

Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yeah, I'm that nurse.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yeah, Richard, don't you're you're leaving us after giving It's
crazy where you're literally just like pretending like you don't
know what we're talking about. It's like one of the
most no no, no, you guys.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
That's the doctors they't stop and meet.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
That nurse.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
Nurse.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
Wow, what an incredible.

Speaker 1 (24:39):
Interpretation of that song. It would be if the video
was Beyonce as a nurse and the plot was that
all the doctors were male and they were like underestimating her,
but she was actually the most amazing nurse.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
That would be so cool. That would be so cool,
It'll be stunning. Can I tell you guys about some
some a bomb that I had once? Okay, so this one.
I've talked about my worst bombs that but this is
more of a medium bomb that I It's kind of
juicy to talk about because it was in front of
past two time past guests Lisa Trager and it was

(25:09):
so bad. It was at the cake shop, I remember,
and she was guest hosting for like John it was
John Kate hosted that.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
Maybe and she was she was one of the people
who hosted it, but this was before she was a
perm host. John Early, by the way, gen't really and then.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
So she I went up first. It's a notoriously bad
show in general. There's like potentially eight people in the audience,
and it was not a great vibe. I go up,
eat complete shit, and she goes up as the host
after me and goes, well, that was smart. I guess anyway,

(25:49):
let's bring up our next comedian. And I was like,
holy shit, and it.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
Was so was anyone else, like slang.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
No, people started slaying, like maybe towards the very end,
as like it finally started to feel warm, warmer.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
It's s Yeah, it's a fine line between like there's
a way to interpret that. I mean, I will say that,
you know, not her best maybe not her best comment,
but there's a way to interpret that is like, we're
all in this together, and isn't it such a hard show?
And that there was an element of that last night
where a lot of people were struggling, and so we
were all trying to like make each other feel better

(26:23):
by like affirming the other's experience. But you can't affirm
it too much because then you're basically agreeing that they bombed.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
Yeah, I was raw, but that.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
Was really bad.

Speaker 3 (26:35):
I didn't laugh once.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
Yeah, you're like, yeah, the audience was not into that,
which is not your fault because you were funny. But
I agree that it was a tough room and it
was for me too, don't you agree? And they're like, well, no,
you did really well or would have if the audience
had been different.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
Yeah, yeah, that's tough. And actually I think Lisa has
a erased it. I think it didn't make an impact,
but it's something where I was like she remembers, like
I was like, this is like what I am in
her mind.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
Oh she has if that. I've seen so many people
we know do like bomb. It has never made an
impression on me.

Speaker 3 (27:14):
Yeah, honestly same. Yeah, and even like people that I'm
like a fan of before, you know, and I'm like,
oh I see them and they don't right, they have
like an awkward set or it's just like not the
vibe just isn't there. I'm like, oh, well, I still
know they're funny. It's still and on I feel that way.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
And on the other side of things, if someone I
think is not funny is killing what I'm thinking, is
the world's going to hell in a hand basket? No
one has taste anymore. I'm not it's not changing my
mind about how funny they are.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
No, You're totally right.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
It actually makes me like them less because I'm like, oh,
I see, you're just appealing that low is common denominator
and it's working, you stupid bitch. I'll see.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
I'm like, hack hack hack, no, Richard saying go ahead, sorry,
as we asked as you sipped water.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
Richard, look wi Richard, Hello, we're podcasting.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
Am sorry?

Speaker 3 (28:02):
Sorry? So do you think that? Like how do I
word it? Because like when people when people are like, uh,
like the audience was thinking and it's so specific and
it's like five specific things. Oh, it's because the way
I said this, and then this happened, and then that
and then this, This is what the audience is thinking.
And I'm like, maybe there's some things where there's like

(28:25):
and something perceptive or like intuitive about it, like sure,
but I'm also like, I don't know if that's always
the case, Like I think that's it's more of like
your own mindset and like how you know, like you
get tripped up on your own thing or like your
anxieties get the best of you, or the critical voice
is just really.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
I mean, or it could be something you don't even know,
like someone could have yeah, like a phone could have
vibrated in the fourth row that you didn't even hear.
And then it's sort of like distracted one person and
then someone looked back and in your mind that was
because of something you said, but she wasn't.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
Right, and I'm like, oh, okay, well I guess that
person hated it. And then you start thinking on that
a little, like, yeah, it's it's it can be tough
to navigate, but I'm just like I I think it's
like there, of course is a big part of it
that like comes from.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
So basically what you're saying is if you vomb, it's
your fucking fault, bitch.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
Kind of so you're saying, and you know what, it's
my fault. It's my all those last night last night,
it's my fault.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
So my bomb.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
I get off stage. Honestly, someone in the front row,
I've already gotten off stage. Some of the front road
turns to me and takes out like a spray cleaner
for glasses, for eyeglasses, and he goes do you need this?

Speaker 5 (29:46):
Whoa, that's rue And this is someone you don't even know,
someone I don't even know that I guess noticed while
I was on stage that my glasses were a little
bit dirty, and I.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
Knew I did not do well. Oh and as soon
as I get off, his first instinct is to offer
me glasses cleaner because of.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
How busted my glasses look. That is so deeply messed up.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
Yeah, that's shit.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
One time I was bombing so bad one a person
offered me a shot. No, I was bombing so bad,
and these guys were talking. I was like, are you
will you stopped talking and they were like, we're ordering
drinks and I was like, the bar is not even
in this room, Like what are you talking about. They're like,
we're talking about we wanted to get to drink. And

(30:34):
they're like, do you want a shot? And I was
like fine. That was the worst bomb. And then they
left and Bob left and bought drinks and then I
did a shot while bombing. It was one of the
most horrible experiences in my life.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
So the first time I ever performed in like on
the same show as you, Sam, I bombed, and I
remember that what was it.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
What was the show?

Speaker 3 (30:54):
It was that club coming see I don't remember whose.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
Show, Like Sam has no recollection of that, And for you,
it is something you were thinking about all these years later,
and I'm.

Speaker 3 (31:02):
Like and this was like because that night was the
first night you and I like formerly met, and you
were like, oh, like you should like do the podcast,
and then like a few weeks later I did it.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
I have that with Aaron Jackson, the first time Aaron
saw me before my bomb. I'm sure he does not
remember it. We are good friends, but I will never
forget like saying something, everyone being silent, and then making
eye contact with Aaron who was just sort of like,
you know, had like an encouraging smile, but he knew
what was going on. Yeah, should we do our first segment?

Speaker 2 (31:34):
I think that's a really good idea.

Speaker 3 (31:36):
Wait. Should I talk about my tour a little bit?

Speaker 2 (31:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (31:38):
Excuse me, I just want to promote it a little bit?
Please please?

Speaker 2 (31:43):
Yeah, go You're allowed.

Speaker 3 (31:44):
Hi, guys, welcome to a Stradio lab. Does it different
with Richard Perez as your host for this segment. This
segment is to promote my upcoming tour. It's for my
solo show called I have to do this directed by
Charlie Barday, dear friend of all of ours, and the

(32:07):
cities that I will be visiting this spring will be,
uh what is it? Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Los Angeles. I'm
still figuring things out with San Francisco, aren't we all
also figuring? I'm figuring things out with Pittsburgh. I'm figuring

(32:28):
things out with Boston. But but just keep that in mind.
It's uh, yeah, it's a it's a really lovely special
show that I love doing. And I know we talked
about bombing a lot, but I think this will be
a different experience than that.

Speaker 2 (32:51):
I agree. I think it's thanks Richard for having me.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
I hope that's my that's my hope that I'm putting.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
Thanks for having me on your segment, Richard, Australia Lab
but a little different.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
Yeah, if you guys want to say like one thing
about it.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
I think this show is so good. I've never not
seen it. Crush crush, crush beyond.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
Have you have you seen it?

Speaker 2 (33:11):
Oh? No, I've never seen it, So let's start there. No, No,
I've just seen it.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
Sam and I seen it together because there we saw
the hall.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
I've seen the Union Hall versions.

Speaker 3 (33:23):
Yeah, all right, that was like my that was like
the third time I did it. Is that true? Yeah?
And Charlie and I had you guys interview.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
Show rather than doing it, rather than doing a talk
back at the end, we did a talk back in
the beginning where we interviewed Charlie as the director of
a show we haven't yet seen. Yeah, now that's all comedy.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
I'm sorry, that's all comedy, mama.

Speaker 3 (33:46):
Yeah it was. It was really fun. That was a
great night.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
It was really fun.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
Richard. I want to say thank you for having me
on your show. Straightia Lab Presents Richard promotes his tour.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
Thanks George, and thank you Sam for saying what you're saying.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
And I just want to promote I have a podcast,
Straighter Lab that anyone can listen to on Apple Podcasts
for Spotify, hosted with Sam Taggart, who I think has
also been on the show before.

Speaker 3 (34:10):
And if you guys don't like this segment, you can
just scrub to like, well, this will.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
Be released on a different I assume your show has a.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
Well the We've scheduled the photo shoot for the cover
for this one.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
And we'll invoice you for that. We always when Sam
and I guessed on other podcasts, we usually do a
photo shoot and then invoice the host of that podcast.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
I'm thinking this photo shoot is leather and lace.

Speaker 3 (34:37):
Yeah, oh hell yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
That Actually you would think Sam would be leather. But
I'm going to be leather and Sam is going to
be in a full two two lace.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
Yeah, I'm going to be very am I am? I?

Speaker 3 (34:48):
What am I wearing?

Speaker 1 (34:48):
Well, you're not part of this. We're doing a photo
shoot as the guests of Straighter Lab Presents Richard promotes
his show, and it'll be like a little photo.

Speaker 3 (34:57):
I don't get a picture you have like the cover
art for it already.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
You know what I mean. It's like to promote the
specific episode, you need a headshot of us, and so
we're sending you this photo shoot. Will send you many
options options.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
Yeah, I'll send you a lot of options.

Speaker 3 (35:13):
Can I edit myself?

Speaker 2 (35:14):
Like? And if your face is anywhere on this fucking picture,
I'm going to assue you it's not really hell and back.

Speaker 3 (35:21):
You won't be able to buy What if I made
it cute?

Speaker 2 (35:25):
Like?

Speaker 3 (35:25):
What if I did a picture I like, edit it
where it looks like you're in your full leather. You're
in your full lace watching me on stage, enjoying the show.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
I'm not seeing it.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
I'm not really seeing the vision.

Speaker 3 (35:38):
Both of you are like smiling.

Speaker 2 (35:39):
Sounds really busy. It just sounds really busy, and it
kind of goes against the leather and lathe.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
We want to take one thing off in a stage, Yeah,
we want to take one thing off. And that thing
is kind of the additional thing you added after we
gave you the finished product. I say, let's take that
off and then just go with the finished product that
has been improved by legal and HR and our entire team,
and we'll send you everyone that worked on it. And
you can in the Instagram capturing, you know, styling at

(36:05):
Style Girl, Makeup Ata Girl.

Speaker 6 (36:09):
Yeah, yeah, Makeup Girl Style, Girl Craft Services, girl Craft Services.
She's a doll, a doll.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
We met her when she was a nurse and we
were performing surgeries and we said, you have such screen presents.
We're taking you on tour.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
Yeah, oh my Godney, do you know how to work
a damn grill? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (36:37):
By the way, Craft Services at our photo shoots are
like tapas, small plates, oysters, fish, tacos. It's a lot
of seafood.

Speaker 2 (36:46):
Actually a lot of food. Yes, we only eat fish.

Speaker 1 (36:50):
Yeah, veggies. One time they included a corn sauce, so
we sued and we won.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
Yeah, so that's what you're gonna eat before you get
into the leather in the lake. Lots of yeah, enduring
and during, of course, it sounds like it's gonna be smelly.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
Our breaths are gonna smell really fishy too.

Speaker 3 (37:09):
Yeah, you're gonna smell fishy as fun.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
Yeah, because we're gonna be serving serving fish. Bitch, bitch. Wow.
Somebody's gonna be like, is it fishy in here? Is
it just me? And you're gonna be like, no, it
is fishy in here.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
And then he's gonna be like, we're gonna breathe in
this space, and it's gonna be like, oh god, excuse.

Speaker 2 (37:25):
Damn, fuck my god.

Speaker 3 (37:28):
The camera is like shaky.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
The photographers just like yeah, and then we're like, do
you want some me?

Speaker 2 (37:34):
So cod.

Speaker 3 (37:38):
So cald, so interesting, okay, And so I.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
Think that concludes that segment, So Richard, our first segment
is called Strade Shooters, and in this segment we ask
you a series of rapid fire questions to gauge your
familiarity with in complicity and straight culture, and you have
to choose one thing or Oh, by the way, where
can people find tickets to your tour?

Speaker 3 (38:00):
Oh? Thank you so much. We're going to go back
to the well.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
This is in the mini segment where can people find
tickets to promotes this tour?

Speaker 3 (38:06):
Well, I'm confused this is going to be in my episode?
Is this going to be in.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
The third episode? Yeah, this is a new third episode.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
And by the way, Claire, we're doing a new new
photo shoot, a new photo shoot to promote this third episode,
and it's going to be I'm gonna I'm a robber,
a bank robber, and Sam is a bank teller. Yeah,
and I'm holding I'm holding him a gun robbery kind
of like Inside.

Speaker 3 (38:36):
Man themed, Yeah, Inside Man, and I'm Robert.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
Call.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
And it's called Clarity, Clarity, Claire. This episode of the
third episode is called cla Welcome to Clarity, Welcome to Clarity,
and it's and the.

Speaker 1 (38:49):
Theme song is if you many, my, myem me any questions?

Speaker 3 (38:59):
So, okay, so this is the third episode. Ok, we're
talking link tree.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
So yeah.

Speaker 3 (39:06):
Instagram, thank you guys for tuning in. You can go
to my Instagram it's Richard Underscore Perez and you can
find a link tree in the bio and that, And
by the time this comes out will be like a
really fun like tour poster separate from not attached to
Stradio I've incorporated at all. I don't know, but it'll

(39:28):
be completely a separate photo shoot. Sam and George will
not be in the pictures or anything.

Speaker 1 (39:35):
We own this ip. Like the fact that you're promoting
the tour on Stradio Lab means that we have to
have approval of any further further like assets that will
be produced from it.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
Yeah, yeah, bitch, And it's not it's like a pretty
like simple, really standard we send We'll.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
Send you the lawyer and it has to go through
makeup girl style. Everyone involved in our photoshoots also has
to approve any third party assets.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
Yeah for my own images.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
Yeah, as soon as you game on this show, all
creative projects became part of the studio inc mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (40:13):
Okay, So in the forums we sent you and I
actually don't really want to like figure it out on air,
It's like you can go read them, you've already signed them,
and like we have a limited amount of time in
the studio, and I'm not going to be going through
paperwork with you right now.

Speaker 3 (40:29):
Yeah, well we have Okay, okay, okay, I'm not going
to fight because that's not what I came here to do.
I don't want to fight with you right now. I
just am trying to on this third episode, I'm just
trying to bring some clarity to anyone that's confused, that's
listened to it, that.

Speaker 1 (40:50):
Clary tragedy. Sorry, whenever you say clarity, Whenever you whenever
someone says clarity by contract because we're sponsors on Clarity,
whenever someone says the word clarity, that song starts playing.

Speaker 3 (41:07):
It's almost like that, but it's clear.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
It's beautiful, beautiful.

Speaker 3 (41:13):
But yeah, it'll be on the link tree in the bio.
And I guess now with this amendment, I guess I'll
have to change the tour image.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
So it's okay, there's still time.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
Yeah, there's still plenty of it.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
And when does the tour start?

Speaker 3 (41:27):
The tour? The tour starts, God, it starts March twenty sixth, sixth, sixth.
That's a hard word for that's a really tough word.

Speaker 1 (41:40):
Six It starts March twenty sixth, six aries.

Speaker 3 (41:44):
How do you say it?

Speaker 1 (41:46):
March twenty sixth, Sam, You're doing a really good job
with your lisp. It's actually like almost gone.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
Okay, let's go back, Let's start a new episode of
our podcast and go do our first segment.

Speaker 1 (42:02):
Okay, let's start a new episode, I think, and let's
actually scrap those three.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
I wasn't feeling it.

Speaker 1 (42:09):
It's like, I think we can use them for Patreon
or something.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
Yeah, we got network notes network notes, and they really
didn't like it. I'm reading the network notes now and
I actually can't read them out loud because they're pretty cruel.

Speaker 1 (42:23):
And Richard, we think you have such a unique voice,
like we've always loved you.

Speaker 2 (42:27):
We've always felt that way.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
We find ourselves though, being kind of the only ones
in the room that do.

Speaker 2 (42:33):
It's just tough when a voice is so unique, It's like,
who will this connect with? You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (42:38):
Yeah, and sometimes unique is not necessarily good unique.

Speaker 3 (42:47):
That was the song you were singing.

Speaker 2 (42:48):
That was the song.

Speaker 3 (42:51):
So now in this podcast, whenever I hear unique, I'll
go nurse.

Speaker 2 (42:55):
That's right. Also, you know, it's funny. I wonder if
people that go to that live and say England who
go to Uni. Go uniqu.

Speaker 3 (43:07):
Ni back in Uni. We met in Uni.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
That's where you are.

Speaker 7 (43:17):
Unique.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
Get on the tube towards Uni.

Speaker 1 (43:24):
I'm that bad.

Speaker 3 (43:27):
From Uni. Oh I love that? All right, My cast
starts now, okay, podcast podcast start.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
I want to introduce her first segment, our first second
culture Shooters and the same We're going to ask you shues.
You have a five questions this thing or the other thing.
The only follow ups. You can't ask an follow up questions.
I'll scream at you so fucking loud.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
Are you fucking kidding?

Speaker 1 (43:48):
Richard? This is a children's show. You can't say the
f slur.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
We just fun.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
Oh my god, this is crazy. I'm just like overwhelmed. No,
I know, it's just like too many things are going
are you okay? No, I'm fine. It's just like a
lot of like we just recorded so many episodes.

Speaker 1 (44:08):
I'm just like we have to bank them though, because
Sam and I have really busy schedules, like we'll do
like three, four, five, six in a row.

Speaker 2 (44:15):
Yeah, okay, okay, let's do our for at segment and
then we can go back to doing a bit Okay, fine, Okay,
Richard Stiggy's yogurt or Piggy pudding.

Speaker 3 (44:30):
I actually did not hear what you said with the
first one, but I'll say the second one.

Speaker 7 (44:34):
Okay, rich bitch, Richard, pay attention, No it did, Okay,
attention Okay.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
Calling triple A or eating Chipotle a.

Speaker 3 (44:50):
Wo I love that these ryes eating Chole okay, Richard.

Speaker 2 (45:03):
Signing up for a mailing list, or saying up with
a little lisp.

Speaker 3 (45:11):
I'm gonna say sup with the little list.

Speaker 1 (45:13):
Richard, ADHD or all eyes on me in the center
of the ring just like a circus.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
Uh huh.

Speaker 3 (45:21):
All the second ones are like, I'm gonna do you
think people.

Speaker 1 (45:24):
With ADHD like shouldn't have rights or like be recognized
as people by the state. Is that what you're saying?

Speaker 3 (45:31):
Those are the rules of the game.

Speaker 2 (45:32):
Is that you want any.

Speaker 1 (45:33):
Follow up questions.

Speaker 2 (45:34):
You pick one to have rights, you pick one to
have right, you pick one to have right. No one's
ever figured out what this game is, and basically you're
picking which one has rights.

Speaker 1 (45:44):
Damn, Richard, you finally unlocked it. It's the way the
game works. You have to pick one of the two
to have rights.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
Don't make me choose okay, Richard, the lost daughter or
the found footage. That's good?

Speaker 3 (46:05):
Whoa the lost daughter?

Speaker 1 (46:09):
That was a really difficult one. Richard going on a
booze cruise, or being addicted to youtubees.

Speaker 3 (46:20):
Being addicted to YouTube?

Speaker 2 (46:21):
Okay, Richard, the fast and the furious, or a cat
who is curious?

Speaker 3 (46:27):
My cat, who's curious?

Speaker 1 (46:29):
Life is good? Or wife make food?

Speaker 3 (46:35):
I say life is good?

Speaker 1 (46:38):
Okay, thanks? Oh so, wait, the wife doesn't deserve rights?

Speaker 3 (46:46):
I thought we changed the rules. Don't make me sound bad, Hi, Richard,
don't make me sound bad.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
I'm here.

Speaker 1 (46:54):
This is the fourth podcast recording. You think women don't
deserve rights. You think people with the eighty agent you
got the serve to be legally recognized by the state.
I mean, this is.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
Crazy, you guys.

Speaker 3 (47:05):
First of all, I thought this was the fifth episode.
I'm just so confused. And then now you're trying to
make me sound bad.

Speaker 1 (47:14):
Where's makeup girl?

Speaker 3 (47:17):
Makeup girl? Or look there's a squirrel.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
Don't mock us.

Speaker 1 (47:23):
I just want And by the way, here's your officials.
Here's your official score. Your official score disqualified from zero
to one thousand of your official score is disqualified.

Speaker 2 (47:37):
No, is that the low.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
Yeah, yeah, congratulations.

Speaker 3 (47:47):
Oh my god, I feel like I just bomb.

Speaker 2 (47:51):
I'm so it wasn't you.

Speaker 1 (47:53):
It was a crowd. It's just like a I mean,
it's the fifth recording of the day. Like we're also
not doing great, but also you are doing so well,
but you're crushing. But like the reason doesn't like is
because of other things not in your control. You know
it has nothing to do with you, so pretty much that.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
Should we do our topic?

Speaker 1 (48:19):
Yeah, I would actually love it, Richard, if you could
tell us what your straight topic is and what's straight
about it. And I know this is your least favorite
part of it because you hate put it being put
on the spot. You knew this was coming.

Speaker 3 (48:40):
I just want to say, like, you know, my idea
is like, Okay, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna try
to go try to go for it. Hi, guys for
listening to Thanks for listening to this portion of the episode.

Speaker 2 (48:53):
I mean of the recording.

Speaker 3 (48:56):
And my topic for today's radio lab is with let's
say it all at the same time. One, two, three, toys.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
Toys.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
That's me saying brattycers is boys, but it's toys.

Speaker 3 (49:13):
Look at how they look at it. Looks like everyone
needs one toys, toys.

Speaker 1 (49:20):
I've been busy thinking about toys, toys.

Speaker 3 (49:24):
Blocks, doll always busy thinking about action figures.

Speaker 2 (49:30):
Legos, Richard, what about toys is straight?

Speaker 3 (49:36):
Yeah, Okay, I think I grew up playing just a
little like contacts, Like I grew up playing with toys,
playing with toys and looking.

Speaker 1 (49:52):
Can I tell you something I said last night that
I thought I trust set off the cuff and it
bombed so hard. Sorry, and then we'll go back to
toys because I just thought of the phrase I'm obsessed
with when politicians are like, and that's personal to me,
Like it's like when they're talking about helping them, like
that's personal to me. So I said something about like
I was like talking about getting married, and then I
was like, and same sex marriage is personal to me,

(50:13):
And I thought that that would like be something. I
understand that it's not a complete joke, but I thought
that like people would like get the reference and the
way people were looking at me completely blank anyway, So
toys are personal.

Speaker 3 (50:24):
For you, Yes, toys are personal for me because I
grew up playing them with them, and I probably grew
up playing with toys till I was like sixteen on
if I'm being honest. But when I was like thinking
about picking a topic, I was like, well, toys are
like when toys are brought into your life at least

(50:44):
an hour generation and generations before. I don't know what
people are what toys look like now necessarily, but I
feel like instantly it's like it adheres to like gender
stuff and like yes, how or normal, Like it's instantly
like Okay, you're gonna play with these toys like right
off the bat, and it's like not really like it

(51:07):
just happens, and I'm like, oh, I have hot Wheel totally,
and I have this, and then you do kind of
find your taste sometimes, like you know, and also like
if you have like a sister or something who has
toy and you can mix toys and be like okay,
like I have a Barbie in this universe that I'm building,
Like there's some of that, but I think that, yeah,

(51:29):
I think toys have a heteronormative nature to them.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
When you were a child, if you can remember back
this far, was there ever a like toy that you
had where it was like, oh, he's gonna be LGBTQ plus.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
Richard's parents in the early nineties being like, is he LGBTQ.

Speaker 3 (51:54):
Plus I mean low key? Because my mom she worked
at Toys r Us.

Speaker 1 (52:04):
So it's personal for you.

Speaker 2 (52:06):
This is personal for you. This is yeah.

Speaker 3 (52:09):
She worked at Toys r US for a little bit
when when I was growing up, and she was like
in like the she did something in like stock room
or something, and she would like get us toys sometimes.
And also like her and my dad separated when I
was like really little, so like he kind of would
like spoil us a little bit and be like, I'm dad,

(52:29):
I'm fun. Here's toys, you know, And I'd be like yeah.
And so I was obsessed with Toy Story the movie,
and I wanted and my dad got me like me
and my brother, you know, most of the characters from that,
most of the cast. But we didn't have bo Peep.

(52:51):
And I wanted bo Peep.

Speaker 2 (52:53):
Really really bad.

Speaker 3 (52:55):
And so I'm asking my mom if she could like
hook it up from her job at Toys r US.
I was like, and so I was like, did you
get bo Peep? Mom? Did you get bo Peep? Mom?
Did you get bo Peep? And then one day we're
on a family vacation or We're like driving to the
beach in Jersey and like, my mom has on like

(53:16):
a cassette tape, but she played in the car and
it's whatever her music, and then it just cuts and
it's this audio of me being like, Mom, did you
get bo peep? Mom? Did you get peep? She was
secretly recording me asking her about that, and everyone laughed, wait.

Speaker 1 (53:36):
Which I assumed she was secret recording because she wanted
to remember what you asked for. Was she doing it too?

Speaker 2 (53:42):
Might have been.

Speaker 3 (53:44):
I don't know if it was to bully me.

Speaker 1 (53:46):
Was she being like, doesn't Richard sound LGBTQ plus in
this clip?

Speaker 3 (53:49):
I think that was it. She was looking for evidence?

Speaker 1 (53:51):
Is that true?

Speaker 2 (53:52):
She's like, I've got it. I'm going to the cops.

Speaker 3 (53:55):
Yeah, you know, I'm not sure why she recorded it,
but but yeah, And I remember I was like really embarrassed. Yea,
And she was like I'm sorry, but but yeah, but.

Speaker 2 (54:14):
Yeah, you sound gay here, like I'm sorry, but you
do sound gay.

Speaker 1 (54:21):
Here, like don't shoot the messenger and I love you,
I mean, but you do sound gay.

Speaker 3 (54:26):
You sound a little gay wanting this ship?

Speaker 2 (54:29):
So so did you ever get it?

Speaker 1 (54:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (54:32):
I don't think I did. No, I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (54:35):
I remember why you're a comedian, and that's where that's
why you're searching for both people.

Speaker 3 (54:40):
You still didn't think I was gonna get so personal.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
Well, it's personal to you personal.

Speaker 3 (54:45):
Yeah, that's true. This topic is toys are very personal
to me.

Speaker 1 (54:48):
Toys are personal to you because you were given them
by both your father and your mother, and in that sense,
they re uh, you know, like reified the gender binary. Yeah,
because as it you were, like, toys can come from
two places, man or woman literally literally.

Speaker 2 (55:06):
Okay, Richard, I have another question if you remember childhood,
but you're already doing such a good job of Yeah,
was there ever a toy that you had that you
really loved that said, Wow, our boy is gonna be
fucking straight as hell. This guy's gonna fucking pound poon
in a way that no one else ever has.

Speaker 3 (55:23):
Probably the first thing that jumps to mine is like
Spider Man's like abs.

Speaker 2 (55:27):
Yeah, you had a toy, just Spider Man's Abs.

Speaker 1 (55:31):
No, I had like broken toys.

Speaker 3 (55:35):
They're scary like Sid like sid and uh toy story.

Speaker 2 (55:41):
My favorite toy is Spider Man's abs abs.

Speaker 3 (55:47):
Yeah, so Spider Man, But I felt like I was.
I remember just being really like like fixated on his body.
He had a really you know, he had a nice body.

Speaker 1 (55:56):
He had a really tight but it was sort of
more Twinkie like you weren't into like Superman.

Speaker 3 (56:01):
No, he was like he was like upside down triangle,
like like big shoulders, little ways.

Speaker 1 (56:09):
Like that's not really true to what I can that
what you know, what I grew up with.

Speaker 3 (56:13):
Well, this was the nineties.

Speaker 2 (56:15):
I don't know, Like, yeah, George, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (56:16):
I tell you, like, yeah, I think spider Man, this
is before before time.

Speaker 2 (56:21):
You've been like so poisoned by the media, like you
have such different expectations of what Spider Man should Even so, do.

Speaker 1 (56:26):
You think Peter Parker is like a meathead?

Speaker 2 (56:30):
Look, we're not saying that. We're just saying he's like.

Speaker 6 (56:34):
He just has brod shoulders, bubble broad shoulders.

Speaker 3 (56:37):
Yeah, he's like, yeah, he's kind of like, Well, I.

Speaker 1 (56:40):
Will say to sort of bring it to toys as straight,
toys as straight I do think you're absolutely right. The
toys are one of the first avenues through which children
are introduced to gender roles and to gender differences.

Speaker 3 (56:54):
Yeah, did y'all play with toys.

Speaker 1 (56:57):
Yeah, yeah, that I believe we did.

Speaker 2 (56:59):
So this is actual really personal to both of us
because we actually played with toy We.

Speaker 1 (57:02):
Both played with toys. One of the first things we
bonded over.

Speaker 2 (57:07):
Yeah. I'll never forget meeting Georgia, our Wicked Lady in
Bushwick and going, wait a minute, did so? Oh no?
I was like, God, I was so weird growing up,
Like I love toys? Were I love toys? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (57:20):
When I could tell you know, I said you were different?

Speaker 2 (57:24):
Yeah, you like And I was like, hold on, did
you play with toys?

Speaker 1 (57:27):
And then we've been in separate, in separable ever since.

Speaker 2 (57:30):
I do have a toy story of my own. Okay, okay,
I don't know if I've told you on this pod before,
but when I was really young, I was obsessed, obsessed,
obsessed with Little Mermaid toys, which was my big single
that I was going to be an LGBT plus American.

Speaker 1 (57:46):
Yeah, and.

Speaker 2 (57:49):
To the point where I was like maybe like three,
and I dropped my Little Mermaid in the pool and
I fell in the pool to try to get it,
and the life card had to save me. Oh no.

Speaker 1 (58:01):
And then at the end he was like probably like so,
like how did you get is everything okay? And you
were like my mermaid.

Speaker 3 (58:11):
He's like this kid.

Speaker 2 (58:12):
Is bro pause bro you old you BTQ plus. But
there was my mom always the story. Well, it's funny.
She used to tell it, like like when I was straight,
she would be like, you know, you're like people would say,
don't play with that because you know it'll make him gay.
It'll make him gay. Don't let him play with those dolls.
And we showed them.

Speaker 1 (58:37):
That is such a funny way of being accepting, being
like I was a progressive parent because I knew he
was straight, Like you couldn't play with dolls, he could
put on dresses. Who cares? Like I knew my boy
was straight.

Speaker 3 (58:52):
That's so funny.

Speaker 2 (58:53):
But I was obsessed with Mermaids, in particular the hair underwater.
I had like multiple Mermaid dolls the hair underwater, So yeah,
haul to me.

Speaker 3 (59:02):
And I love the bikini top.

Speaker 2 (59:03):
And I love the bikini top.

Speaker 3 (59:05):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (59:06):
It's so devilicious stepa Trump.

Speaker 3 (59:08):
It is fab Yeah, especially seeing the way like the
hair move around and dancing, just dancing.

Speaker 2 (59:17):
I just fill up the sink dipper in there. Watch
the hair flow.

Speaker 3 (59:22):
Yeah, Oh my god, I want like I love.

Speaker 1 (59:27):
Just practicing disrespecting women's bodily autonomy, as as white gay
men in our later life when we're just Oh, give
us another album. Oh, get back in the studio, bitch.

Speaker 2 (59:39):
Oh you flopped.

Speaker 1 (59:41):
Oh your song, your song didn't charge.

Speaker 8 (59:45):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (59:46):
This is a thread of Katie Perry's worst moments. That's
all because of Pal.

Speaker 2 (59:54):
George. You have an LGBTQ plus toy story.

Speaker 3 (59:56):
Yeah, what happened?

Speaker 1 (59:57):
I loved toys. It's actually per call for me.

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
So this is really personal, really personal for me.

Speaker 3 (01:00:04):
I didn't know we had so much to gain.

Speaker 2 (01:00:06):
This is like so personal to all of it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:07):
It's really personal for me. I would say I loved
Power Rangers. I was obsessed with like the way that
their heads would switch from costume to not costume. Do
you know what I'm talking about?

Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
Of course, I love the Power Angers toys.

Speaker 1 (01:00:20):
I love the Power Rangers. I loved uh Like, did
they have Action Man in the US?

Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
I'm not familiar with this, Okay, it's just like.

Speaker 1 (01:00:31):
A It's an action figure who was kind of military coded.

Speaker 2 (01:00:36):
I'm gonna be honest. Sounds not very thought out for sure.
Action Man.

Speaker 1 (01:00:43):
Yeah, but he was so hot, So I would make
Action Man in my sister's barbies have sex and even
threesomes because I actually only had one Action Man, but
I had my sisters had probably like over five barbies.
If I were to guess, well.

Speaker 2 (01:00:55):
That's cool that you had polytoys, that's really Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:00:57):
I had a lot of it, but it was kind
of toxic in this way where like the man was
had a harem of women rather than a bit it
was a bit religious in the Yeah, it was more
that rather than like kind of latigra queer polyamory.

Speaker 2 (01:01:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:01:12):
Yeah, and so I had that, but I so obviously, yes,
girl toys are dolls. Girl toys are like kitchen appliances,
easy bake oven, and then boy toys are cars, trucks,
action figures, guns. Yeah, so we can all agree on that.

Speaker 2 (01:01:31):
Yeah, part of toys.

Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
One of the parts of toys that was again so
personal to me was the kind of sublime of going
into a toy store. There is something that as a kid,
I'm like, this is what church must feel like to
someone who was religious. Did you, like, did you ever
go to just like a big, big big toys like
I have a memory of like toys or yeah, like
toys r us like my pay. So when we before

(01:01:56):
we originally moved here. The first time I came to
New York, we went to Fao Schwartz and I was like,
this is America, Like I can't.

Speaker 2 (01:02:05):
Still have never been either, is it, George, You're so privileged?

Speaker 1 (01:02:10):
Yeah. Well, and I went when I was like six
years old.

Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
Fuck, we've never even been.

Speaker 3 (01:02:15):
We've never been.

Speaker 1 (01:02:16):
And I was told from a young age, and I
really internalized this that the toys were of a higher quality.
My parents were like, you know all these other toys
made in China. At Fao Schwartz, there are elves basically
making them backstage.

Speaker 2 (01:02:29):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:02:29):
And so we got these two stuffed animals. One was
a hippo, one was a dolphin. And the way that
I was like, I have to take good care of
these because they're going to be worth millions one day.
And I still have them and they look pristine, to
be honest.

Speaker 2 (01:02:42):
And they're worth millions, and they're worth millions. I actually
one of the darker things about childhood is how early
you worry about the worth of your toy.

Speaker 1 (01:02:51):
Like a producer is saying, oh my god. Olivia's parents
told her fo Schwartz was a museum and she couldn't
touch anything.

Speaker 3 (01:02:59):
I mean, but it was sort of it you can't touch.

Speaker 1 (01:03:03):
So you've still never been to Fao Schwartz. I maybe
I was just so young that it made an impression
on me.

Speaker 3 (01:03:10):
Is it's still open?

Speaker 1 (01:03:11):
I don't think it is. And if it is, then
it's under like you know, probably owned by some venture
capital firm, so we'll never get to go.

Speaker 2 (01:03:17):
Basically, never get to go at.

Speaker 1 (01:03:19):
Its best though. You know, it was like you wouldn't
believe now here, you don't you want to know my
white whale. And with toys, uh huh m hm, the
Spice Girls barbies you had this? Why they didn't have them?
I knew that would be too LGBTQ plus for me
to even ask for.

Speaker 2 (01:03:37):
Yeah, yeah right, you said, honey, that's even too LGBTQ
plus for me. Yes, and I'm LGBTQ plus.

Speaker 1 (01:03:43):
But you know what I did is when my sister
was born, I they told me I could get her
a gift, and I got her the Britney Spears barbie
so I could play with it myself.

Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
Smart, very smart, of course, very very smart. Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (01:03:56):
I remember. Britney Spears was like the first album I
ever own.

Speaker 1 (01:04:01):
Mine was Spice Girl, So again, what was your sam?

Speaker 2 (01:04:04):
I think it might have been Backstreet Boys cut maybe
Millennium even.

Speaker 1 (01:04:11):
You know, I'm on the uh. I don't know why,
but I'm on the press list for the Sphere in
Las Vegas, and so they tell me whenever there's a
new residency there, and the Backstreet Boys are doing Millennium
there like three weeks and they recreated the photo shoot
where they're all wearing all white in front of like
a silver and white background.

Speaker 2 (01:04:31):
Wow, let's go, let's go, let's fucking go.

Speaker 3 (01:04:36):
But guys, I'm torn.

Speaker 2 (01:04:39):
I'm sort out of Vegas Day, Vegas Da Vegas Day.

Speaker 1 (01:04:45):
Outside of the Sphere, I'm having so much fun being loose,
And then there's a part of me that's like, I
actually think toys as straight culture is so smart that
I want to like really really get into.

Speaker 3 (01:04:58):
It, you know what I mean, Let's get into it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:00):
I want to say, I think it's funny when boys
just do love trucks. You'm always like, huh so it's
like just that literal huh like, and no one.

Speaker 1 (01:05:10):
Wants to talk about this. Of course, not all boys
love trucks, but boys not all boys. But the thing
is eighty percent of them literally do deeply and with
an uncontrollable urge to just what.

Speaker 2 (01:05:24):
What is that? That like scares me the way that
boys loved Truck.

Speaker 3 (01:05:28):
It didn't happen to me.

Speaker 2 (01:05:30):
It didn't happen.

Speaker 3 (01:05:30):
I love people, God, I love I love dinner Party creatures,
I love Pikachu, I love like Peep.

Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
I actually think Pokemon is an interesting that bridges the
gap because boys girls.

Speaker 1 (01:05:43):
Oh my god, that's such a good point.

Speaker 3 (01:05:45):
Yeah, Pokemon was everything.

Speaker 2 (01:05:47):
Well, of course there's a girl Pokemon.

Speaker 1 (01:05:48):
Are you kidding me? Yeah, you raise your hand in
the classroom, you say, I like jiggly Puff. You're gonna
be bullied out of the entire state.

Speaker 3 (01:05:57):
Video games like picking like Super Smash Bro was like
picking which characters and I'm like, oh, I want to
be like what's her name, like Zelda, or there's one
Chic or whatever her name is, like she turns into
Chic and I'm like, I want to do that one,
and I would do it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:15):
Here's the question, because I think this is a little counterintuitive.
Do you think it's straight or gay to be like
a progressive mom who's overly concerned about what gender norms
the toys are instilling in her kids. Because I actually
think that's very straight. It's a very straight woman who
went to Barnard and thinks that it like is paying

(01:06:36):
so much attention to whether he or not her kids
play with dolls or trucks.

Speaker 2 (01:06:40):
To me, it's still gay.

Speaker 3 (01:06:41):
To me, I agree, I think it's Wait, so toys
are gay?

Speaker 1 (01:06:45):
Toys are like imagine a mom, imagine a mom that's
like we sorr. I remember this actually when when we
were young, there was this line in this sort of
like rich person toy story, there was a line of
like Barbie like dolls called Smarties Smarties because they were
smart and each of them had a different high power job,

(01:07:09):
so there was like lawyer, doctor. Now one might ask,
doesn't Barbie also have those jobs? Yes, but this was like,
you know, branded in a way to be feminist, and
I'm just sort of like, I wouldn't buy that for
my kids.

Speaker 2 (01:07:24):
Well, there's something that's like overthinking that, like the gender neutrality,
and yeah, what does this mean for my kid? I
think it's so LGBTQ.

Speaker 1 (01:07:33):
Plus, Yeah, it's true, you're right.

Speaker 2 (01:07:36):
In a way that's like admirable, but also is like
chill out, like there is something where it's like it's fine,
like it's actually fine either way.

Speaker 1 (01:07:46):
I'm also always worried that kids are going to rebel
against whatever they are raised with, which is why legitimately,
and I'm not kidding, can't raise them too progressively because
they will become right wing. Like you actually have to
raise kids as neutrallly as.

Speaker 3 (01:08:00):
Possible, be like, hey, play with these toys, you yeah,
like play with this truck, Like you have.

Speaker 1 (01:08:05):
To tell them trucks are for boys, and dolls are.

Speaker 3 (01:08:07):
For yeah, blue blue, blue.

Speaker 1 (01:08:12):
Them if they don't like their assign.

Speaker 3 (01:08:16):
Yeah, that's really fun. Yeah yeah, yeah, I mean fuck y'ah.

Speaker 2 (01:08:23):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:08:28):
I love toys so much and I just want to
play with them again, you know, actually recently, not recently.
This was a few years ago when am I saying
my cousin, like we used to all play together, like
my brothers, my cousin, my neighbors, Like we'd play like
cops and robbers, or they come up with these games
or like different scenarios where like like we're in a

(01:08:51):
castle and we have to whatever, defend like whatever. And
I was always cast or usually I was cast as
like the bad guy or like the villain and to defeat.
And I think I was just like I had fun
doing that and just kind of playing into that character.
But my cousin thinks that like that has that like
speaks to like my like queerness. Oh interesting or something

(01:09:15):
like you know, like a Disney villain gay or whatever
the way, like being like you'll.

Speaker 8 (01:09:20):
Never you'll never figure this one out and then it's
a gotam and then and they all went, well, it
certainly speaks to you being a performer, that's true.

Speaker 2 (01:09:32):
It's definitely a meteor role. Yeah, you're losing yourself in character.
I do.

Speaker 3 (01:09:38):
Yeah, And so I would feel that way with like toys,
like I would be put in those similar dynamics like
I'm like, oh, like we're playing with toys and and
I have to lose.

Speaker 2 (01:09:49):
Wait what because because.

Speaker 1 (01:09:51):
Because you're the villain, so like the narrative demands that
ultimately you don't get your way. Yeah, oh that's interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:10:01):
Because what message for that sound if the villain won?

Speaker 3 (01:10:04):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:10:04):
Yeah, a LGBTQ positive one.

Speaker 2 (01:10:06):
I guess.

Speaker 9 (01:10:09):
Toys, toys, toys, I like toys, toys, toys in BS,
toys and bars.

Speaker 3 (01:10:21):
George Froes, George Oh, my God, hold on, George, George, George, George, George, George, George, George.

Speaker 2 (01:10:34):
We like George George.

Speaker 3 (01:10:37):
George bias. We love him, we love him.

Speaker 1 (01:10:47):
Okay, I'm back.

Speaker 2 (01:10:48):
Oh you missed it.

Speaker 3 (01:10:49):
We just didn't run it.

Speaker 1 (01:10:52):
I heard George, George George and then and then I
cut Okay. I was sort of contemplating bringing it to
a place of.

Speaker 2 (01:11:02):
Like the way queer.

Speaker 1 (01:11:06):
Tender, queer people talk about sex toys and whether that
is related to toys.

Speaker 2 (01:11:12):
Actually, glad you're going here, And so.

Speaker 1 (01:11:15):
I know I'm coming at this in a sort of
like already, I don't feel confident. It's it's it's a
flaccid suggestion, but I'm like there is something there, because
there's something. And I would almost go so far as
to say this has to do with like sex positivity
writ large, where it's kind of like bringing a childlike

(01:11:35):
wonder to sex.

Speaker 2 (01:11:37):
I find it mostly like a cringey approach to sex.
Like I think there's such a thing as a sex nerd.
This is a theory I've been working on. And I
think like a sex nerd really makes sex unsexy. And
and I think when someone's really like, you know, like
try using a toy to or you know, if you
want to get into toys and like make sure the

(01:11:58):
toy is a quality toy. Like they're saying, like toy
with this way, I get like grossed out by it
and like it's like I don't think of it as
a sex toy. I think it's a sex tool.

Speaker 1 (01:12:09):
I like, you know, a serious business.

Speaker 2 (01:12:12):
It's serious business, and it's like has a use and
a purpose, like I don't take them out and I'm like,
how fun, let's let's play with this toy. I'm like, no,
it's like opening up a hole or being a hole.
Like it is, like it's not a it's not like
creating imagination. It's simply like a tool for physically feeling
different things.

Speaker 1 (01:12:32):
Yes, right, and also bringing this childlike energy into sex
is like I of course understand the instinct to destigmatize
it because it should not be shameful, but of course
what's exciting about it is that it's forbidden. So if
you bring in if you're like, oh, toys, Oh we're cuddling,
Oh cuddle party like blah blah blah, then it's like okay,

(01:12:53):
well now I feel weird because it feels like you're
talking to me like I'm a kindergartener.

Speaker 3 (01:12:58):
Yeah, I don't know any of this really, You're like,
I don't kind of just I feel Yeah, I mean,
I'm just far away from this topic.

Speaker 2 (01:13:06):
What do you mean sex? Have you had sex?

Speaker 3 (01:13:09):
I forget honestly at this point.

Speaker 10 (01:13:11):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:13:13):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:13:13):
If you asked me five years ago, yes, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:13:16):
That would have maybe said something else.

Speaker 1 (01:13:18):
Okay, let's do our final segment.

Speaker 2 (01:13:24):
I have a shout out. Okay. I finally was called
shout Outs, and in this segment, we pay and watch
the Grand Street vision of the radio shout out and
shout out anything that we enjoy. People play sustinct ideas
and I thought I didn't have one, but I actually
do have one, and I'm excited to do it. Okay,
do it? What's up freaks, losers, perverts all around the
globe from seed to Shining Sea. I want to give

(01:13:44):
a huge shout out to the John Early, Kate Burnlanout
Peacock special that Richard is in called would It Kill
You to Laugh? I watched this last Weekend for the
first time. Yes, it came out three years ago, so
what was so assuming? I watched this for the first
time last weekend, and I was saying, Damn, this is
funny as hell. I you know, John and Kate are

(01:14:07):
already well respected in our community, and but it's so
they're so funny, and you watch it and you're like,
it's so fun it's so funny, it's well performed, it's
well written, it's playful. I'm so in awe. And I
was like, damn, they really did it. And honestly, I
was like, I can't believe this isn't more popular. I
think this should be a damn classic. And it was

(01:14:29):
so good. Richard, You're incredible in it, of course, And
I think if you never watched it, because it came on,
I think when Peacock was quite new, and so maybe
it was like kind of it was like where do
I watch it? What's Peacock now? But you probably have
Peacock now to watch Traders? And I want to say,
go ahead and watch. Would it kill you to laugh?
It is great? Xoxo Sam.

Speaker 1 (01:14:51):
It's you know, it's literally a miracle when good things
get made.

Speaker 2 (01:14:55):
Yeah, you people don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:14:58):
I like you fucking literally you don't know. You think
you know, you think you're like, oh, yes, we get it.
Like Hollywood is consolidated and uh sort of like evil
people with bad taste for making decisions. It is quite literally,
not exaggerating, twenty times worse than you think.

Speaker 2 (01:15:14):
Yeah, yeah, I know.

Speaker 3 (01:15:16):
Honestly, like most movies or anything I watch, I'm like,
that's amazing it happened. Yes, No, I know, I know,
which if there's like anything good in it, I'm not
quick to be like I hate that. Yeah, so, I mean,
you know, it depends. I feel like I'm like, whoa, yeah,
I'm quick to do that if it's like a Star
Wars property or like I'm.

Speaker 2 (01:15:35):
Quick to hate on like Marvels, like big big things.

Speaker 1 (01:15:38):
Oh yeah, right right, But even that, I obviously I
am too. But then you just think about all the
people that were employed and how it all came together,
even if it's a terrible movie, the fact that it
all just came together to produce like a two hour
piece of entertainment. I would love to see the Trump
administration produce one Marvel movie because they couldn't.

Speaker 2 (01:16:00):
They couldn't not with boj Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:16:02):
Okay, I'll go what's up, cinephiles, butletterbox users around the world,
I want to give a shout out to the film
The House of Yes. Of course I knew this was
a cult classic. The cover of Parker Posi holding the
gun behind her back wearing the Jackie olok is a
classic early Blockbuster memory. I remember looking at that and
being like, that is inappropriate for me. I can tell

(01:16:24):
that that's like somehow not safe for kids, and at
the time I was playing with toy so this is
personal for me. I watched it for the very first
time last night, and I have to admit I had
no idea what it was about. It is so much
more crazy and fucked up than I thought, and it
is so weird. It is such a specifically, it has

(01:16:46):
such a specific nineties indie energy. It is Parker Posy
at her finest. And I specifically want to give a
shout out to Tory Spelling's performance. She's a really good
comedic actress, and she's also really good in the movie,
which I have shouted at on the pod before. I
know that you know, her life has not gone the
way she has wanted it to go, and I don't

(01:17:08):
think you exactly. I don't think she'll be making her
return to the screen or stage anytime soon, but there
is footage of her acting, and she is good and
I enjoyed her performance, and I think she has some
screen presence, sue me. So shout out to Tori Spelling,
of course, her memoir storytelling and the film The House

(01:17:28):
of Yes. Is it a House of Yes or the
House of Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:17:33):
I've actually never seen it and I don't know it.

Speaker 3 (01:17:35):
House yet House of Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:17:37):
So that's crazy because I just thought that was a
venue in Bushwick.

Speaker 1 (01:17:41):
It's the House of Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:17:42):
Oh yeah? Wait do you?

Speaker 1 (01:17:44):
Oh you if you google it, do you recognize that
cover from Blockbuster? To me, it's so iconic.

Speaker 2 (01:17:49):
House of Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:17:51):
House I'm thinking of House of Wax, but that's a
different movie, House of Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:17:57):
I have never seen this trailer, this image in my life,
not once.

Speaker 1 (01:18:01):
Wait do you, Richard? Do you know the House of Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:18:03):
The movie?

Speaker 3 (01:18:04):
No, I just looked up a picture.

Speaker 1 (01:18:06):
She looks, I don't, honestly, all right, well but I
love this out. Okay, So she is just quickly since
you don't have a heart out, she's holding a gun.
She hold she is she plays this sort of you know,
in nineties terms, before we knew about how to be
non ablest, she was an insane person. That had just

(01:18:26):
gotten out of an asylum, and she's obsessed with Jackie.
Oh so she calls herself Jackie O and dresses like
Jackie O. And you find this out honestly ten minutes
into the movie. But the entire movie is about incest.
She's in love with her brother. Oh wow, so that's
what I mean. Like I thought I always knew there
was something inappropriate about it, but I didn't know that's

(01:18:47):
what it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:48):
Was interesting And toy Space, that's like, Yeah, George, that
doesn't seem like a movie i'd want to.

Speaker 1 (01:18:54):
Watch, showing is the brother's fiance.

Speaker 2 (01:18:59):
Yeah, George, I don't think I'm gonna later that movie.

Speaker 3 (01:19:02):
That's weird. I don't know why I didn't watch that.

Speaker 2 (01:19:05):
Yeah, George, could you not talk about that? Hey, Olivia,
could we caught that? That's weird?

Speaker 3 (01:19:17):
No, I would I would watch this.

Speaker 2 (01:19:19):
No, it's very I'm sick and twisted.

Speaker 1 (01:19:21):
It's like peak. You know when you think of Parker
Posey as a cult id.

Speaker 3 (01:19:27):
This is it.

Speaker 1 (01:19:27):
It's like this party girl and like day Trippers and like.

Speaker 3 (01:19:30):
And Tory Spelling is like. Also, I first saw her
in Scary Movie Too.

Speaker 1 (01:19:35):
Oh my god, I forgot you She's the best scary movie.

Speaker 3 (01:19:37):
She's so oh No, three is the best one. Sorry three,
I mean from what I remember, I remember just like laughing.

Speaker 1 (01:19:45):
And she also, you know, people like Tory Spelling, people
like Christy Ally, they were like Kathy Griffin. They had
like this sort of self aware sense of humor about
their own place and celebrity culture before that was something
that everyone had to do in order to do, like
you know, Vanity Fair Video My Life and looks.

Speaker 3 (01:20:03):
Oh my God.

Speaker 1 (01:20:04):
Totally they were ahead of their time, like Tori Spelling
having a reality show you know, sorry, sorry, Gilly Vibes,
The Simple Life Gilly Gilly Sorry.

Speaker 3 (01:20:21):
Yeah God and non record Zaga zaa Bubble.

Speaker 2 (01:20:28):
Sorry, sorry, so stupid. I love it's so funny to
have a podcast and you can just like quote for
like one minute.

Speaker 1 (01:20:39):
By the way, you know, barbarin Star is so good.

Speaker 10 (01:20:44):
I love that freaking movie, George God to be Sad
It had to be Sad is fab and it made me,
It made me laugh and it made me so I
love sweet.

Speaker 3 (01:20:57):
I love when a movie does both.

Speaker 2 (01:20:59):
I love what was fucking fun. No one wants to
have fun?

Speaker 3 (01:21:03):
I know literally, you know what I think.

Speaker 1 (01:21:05):
I think Tory Spelling wanted to have fun, and then
she was punished for it, and now she has to
be you know, she's like sort of in the tablet.
It's like if everyone had embraced Tory Spelling being kind
of a joke in this like fun way, then she
wouldn't have to be a joke in a tragic way.
And that many such cases, to quote President, in.

Speaker 2 (01:21:21):
Many such cases, many such cases, Richard, When you're ready
to give a shout out, please take the reins.

Speaker 3 (01:21:30):
Okay, okay, let's go. Hey, what's up everyone? I want
to give a shout out to the television show Arrested Development.
Since we're talking about cinema and media and things like that,
I feel inspired to give a shout out to this
iconic television show. I recently watched a compilation YouTube video

(01:21:53):
of Hello Wow, like laugh out loud moments from Arrested Development,
and that show is just so funny and one of
the greatest things ever created, which has shaped an entire generation.
It's so influential. So I want to say thank you, guys,
Thank you Ron Howard and Mitchell Hurwitz for doing that.

(01:22:17):
ROSSI and the cast, the cast, the cast, you guys,
you guys killed it, Michael Sarah, Michael, Michael Sarah Michael.

Speaker 1 (01:22:28):
Are you.

Speaker 2 (01:22:31):
Alia shotcat Alia?

Speaker 3 (01:22:33):
Alia?

Speaker 2 (01:22:34):
David Kross Krass?

Speaker 1 (01:22:37):
You know Will Arnette just spot I read he bought
a twenty million dollar home.

Speaker 2 (01:22:41):
I saw this as well actually, and guess what he
deserves it? Where Yeah, my words, I would never need
a twenty million dollar house if uh huh, if I
tomorrow run into one hundred million dollars, it is a
lot still going to be like suly, I think that's
a three million dollar house is plenty, and literally just
like keep it in the bank account.

Speaker 1 (01:23:02):
Yeah, and then invest invest, invest, right, and also donate.

Speaker 2 (01:23:06):
I just want like to live my life.

Speaker 3 (01:23:09):
Also, I just want like a cute ass apartment. Helly,
I'm like happy with that. I'm happy to have a
beautiful apartment. And then you know, if I do something
smart with the one hundred million dollars, I'm like, I'll
get another cute apartment somewhere on.

Speaker 2 (01:23:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:23:23):
But you know what, you know, my ass wants to
have an art collection. You know, I want to be
one of those rich people as the music like the
broad in La where it's like a family house.

Speaker 3 (01:23:33):
Wait, where do people like keep that.

Speaker 1 (01:23:36):
It's like, well, you can also lend it out to
the museum and it can be like m Jay Lenderman out,
it can be like from the George same Taggart family collection.

Speaker 3 (01:23:49):
It's literally like that, just like I don't know what
his music sounds like, but is it something like that? Wait?

Speaker 1 (01:23:58):
Speaking of music, shout out our friend Baths whose album
dropped today. Will shout out shout out to Will do
It this morning to album dropped, Loving.

Speaker 3 (01:24:10):
God, I listened literally to. I mean so fucking good.
I love it.

Speaker 1 (01:24:16):
I know the body, the body, and honestly shout out
to Will being snatched as hell.

Speaker 3 (01:24:20):
Hello body, honk Honky Honkynky, spider Man, Letterman who never
be Cassis, Peter Parker, guess why to Hunky? He's too hunky.
He's fab Yeah, he's he's fabulous, fab.

Speaker 2 (01:24:36):
And we're proud of him too.

Speaker 1 (01:24:38):
Well everyone, Yeah, and we're proud of him too because
we all know him and we're friends with him. And wait,
that's also Kristen Wig And.

Speaker 2 (01:24:45):
So I.

Speaker 3 (01:24:47):
Actually worked on the album and I m together and
actually happy.

Speaker 1 (01:24:50):
Actually the album right now, Actually I was the original
album Iconic Characters.

Speaker 2 (01:25:00):
What a beautiful like stage, like.

Speaker 3 (01:25:06):
Clear it out? Oh my God? Would you guys want
to talk about like one more thing.

Speaker 1 (01:25:21):
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Speaker 1 (01:25:43):
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Speaker 2 (01:25:46):
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Speaker 1 (01:25:53):
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