This week on the Touchup, Tarryn and Mari sit down with the hilarious and inspiring Anjelah Johnson-Reyes, one of today’s most successful stand-up comedians and actresses.
With six comedy specials and over 6.6M views on her latest YouTube special Say I Won’t, Anjelah opens up about life on stage, staying grounded, and finding gratitude in the chaos. From her early days as a cheerleader for the Oakland Raiders to landing her first acting gig as a recurring extra on the set of Friends to starring in hit shows like Ugly Betty, Superstore, and Curb Your Enthusiasm, she’s done it all — with heart, humor, and lashes that could stop traffic.
We talk about:
😂 How Anjelah built a career in comedy that keeps evolving
💫 Her mental health + gratitude podcast Funjelah
🎭 What it’s really like balancing touring & motherhood
💋 Her glam routine on the road
🌎 Her Family Reunion world tour (150+ shows!)
This episode is equal parts hilarious and heartfelt — a masterclass in gratitude, hustle, and humor from one of the most iconic women in comedy.
Enjoy!
See ya later,
BYE💋
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hi, get a little up.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hi am Teren.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
I'm Mari, and you're listening to.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
We hope you're picking up what we're putting down.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
And I like your greens on greens.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Yeah, I like a good monochromatic.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
I love that. I'll be honest, though, I don't typically
like dress up cute, but I looked at your guys' podcast,
and you guys are always cute, so I was all, well,
forget it. Then now I have to care.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
I know, well, yeah, great, you could have come in
a baseball hat and sweatpants and it would.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Have been thank you. I mean, sometimes I'm like, sometimes
we're not wearing shoes.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah, you guys, you went with the browns, you went
with the greens, and I'm.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
The blacksh I stayed at the gym a little too
long this morning.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I wish I could spend a time at the gym. Yeah.
One moment and I tell myself, like, I got I
gotta start working out again. I'll start working out again.
And I don't do it, Like I just don't do it,
and I don't know why I don't do it, but
I feel my body like atrophy, Like I feel like
(01:09):
myself just going.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Riga mortis.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Set in.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Wait a minute, I see little cute like in home
yoga videos.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yeah, and that's it.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Oh that's great, that's all you need.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
No, but I'm not even doing them as often. I
used to do them like three times a week. Now
it's like once every couple of weeks because I'm like,
I have to move my body. It hurts.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, we have a day and you are a touring comedian.
So she has a little.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
She's give me eighteen months.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Oh yeah, what's her name, Rosie?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
She's so funny. Eighteen months is so funny.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah, so cute.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
She's just like, yes, like chocolate.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Yeahs a cute little sass delicious.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Well, you look like you do a pull up, So
I feel like that's all that happens, you know, I
like you want to do. I have a video of me
and this was even like I don't know, four years ago,
and it still stands. We're doing a pull up competition
and then my friends are full on like geese, just
like getting it. And then I'm like, I couldn't even
(02:15):
pull one. I couldn't even pull one, not even one.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
And I couldn't do any negative one. I can go
down like I go down.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
It's not easy.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
It's not even well, I want to know what you
did your hair this morning, because I love the way
it looks.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Thank you so much. I did the dice in air wrap, okay,
and I did it yesterday.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
What and it still looks like that?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I did it yesterday and.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Still looks that.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Right.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
It's just like this kind of Jennifer Aniston.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
It's very jenn Aniston right now, so much. I know
how I feel about the dice. I think they're good
for like personal use dyce INDs, but I don't think
they're great to use every day, like as hard as
like we use them.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I think there's like the pro version and then like
a regular person who's not using it all day.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Long, okay, copy that, copy that.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I'm pretty sure that's what they do.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I just remember hearing they would always like circ it
out or something.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
I had to use it on a client one time.
She was like, I have the I only use the
dicon wrap. And I was like, she's like, can you
use it on me?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Totally no, I couldn't. It's pretty embarrassing. Really yeah, well
I just couldn't.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I just the first time I ever used whatever, and
I lied about it.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I was like, I could use it. Yeah, I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
The dice catch you girl? Oh my gosh, which one
do you have? No?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I like them, I don't know. I don't like to
use them on people. I will use them on people.
You know what I just got though, is this thing
I got on TikTok. It's a hot brush. A hot
roll brush. Okay, so you know how there's like a
dyce in essentially is like you put something on it
and you can blow dry a round brush. This is
a hot round brush, so you just like brush your hair.
(04:01):
And I really enjoyed it. Barely did it today and
I was like, oh.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
It gives you the Jennifer Aniston has a brush, but
it gets hot like a curling iron.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yes, so you can get really close to and you
want to get your scalp because of the bristles.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Oh it's nice for I have like and there's no
air coming out of it.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
No, no, no, no no no, it's it was sixty dollars.
I think there's a chi one, but that's probably.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
You got this from the TikTok store.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I did get it from the TikTok store.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I got got you got I got.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I got got recently with a cheese grater, but I
love it nice. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
See, it's like.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Potatoes Angela, I mean hash browns. You just put the
potato in and you just spin it so easily and hot,
and you don't have to plug it in. It's not
electric or anything, so you just you change the blade
of whatever shape you want the shape. So I did
hash bombs and then I just put the potato. I
peeled the potato, I put it in and then you
(05:07):
just turn it and then you push down on the
potato and.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Oh, I see, and it just shreds it and your
fingers are never in jeopardy.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Ever in jeopardy. Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I love TikTok. I don't know why they say that
they're going to ban it every Yeah, it's so weird.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
I got a last minute massage at just one of
those you know, Asian massage pallors, and I'd been there
before and I wanted one. Now that's how I am
with massage. I was like, get appointment.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I don't need a massage in a month. I need
a massage right now.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I do, but now right now.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
So I go in and it's like really clean too.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
It's not sketchy or anything. But he I was laying
on my belly and he put the sheet like way
too low. It was like a lot of Yeah, it
was uncomfortable from the get go. And so I'm laying
there and he's doing his thing and my hand like
this right below and yeah, and I literally in my
head because you're in shock when this happens to you,
(06:08):
said to myself.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Is that as a banana?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Is that a banana?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
And I moved my hand, I put it back, and
then it went back in my hand, the banana.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I didn't say anything, and shame on me.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
For not getting up. I froze, Yeah, of.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Course you did. I would freeze. I'm a frozen right now.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Because in my head I was like, it's a banana.
But it was clearly in my hand through his sweatpants.
And when he turned me over, he.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Like I showed him.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
He juged the sheet and went way too high, like
a couple of times.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I hate him.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I hate him, I hate what did we do?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
What did we do?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I have dignity, dignity, I can't even say.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
It went home.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
I told my husband at the time, but told it
what I was I called you, and I was laughing
hysterically because I was still in shock until the anger
kicked in right now, and then I got angry.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
We should do that, We should call Yeah, we should
leave reviews. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I mean I've had so many massages by men, and
I've never felt unco.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Now that's my story about the time.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
That I've had many uncomfortable massages. Some are like where
they get like they do things inappropriate like that, maybe
like once or twice where it's like not, that's pretty bad.
But I've had like where they just get too close
to my and I'm like, you don't need to massage
all the way up there, like this is not.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
That's where he went to he got close.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
It was like I went like that, Yeah, I think
about it now. Yeah, I go shame on me.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
But not shame on you. Crazy what happens to you
in moments like that? That's right, we freeze, we're what
do you do? And then it's that whole thing of
like am I overreacting? Is this? Do I say something
I don't? I don't want him to feel bad.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
We hate us, don't want did not want some douche
to not feel bad?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah, like what now.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
I know if that ever happens to me again, bad
like lesson learned. Yeah sure, but then you think about
all those.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Girls, like and let this be a lesson to anybody
watching right now. If you are ever in an uncomfortable
situation while you're getting a massage or any kind of
professional anything, if you feel an ounce of being uncomfortable,
just say those words I'm sorry, I feel uncomfortable with that.
Immediately they're gonna go, yeah, that's it. I'm sorry, I
feel unomfortable with that.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Yeah done, Yeah yeah, And then we'll take that advice too.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
I've had a couple of uncomfortable massages, but that are
actual not borderlining assault, but like funny where there was
one time I was getting a massage from this lady
and all of a sudden she started eating an apple.
No stop, massage in me, and then pulls an apple
out or a bag and goes, oh no, and you
(09:04):
know the sound of a crunch of an apple, Like
my eyes were closed and I know that is an
apple while she's a massage, And I was like, oh,
that's interesting. And then there was one time I had
a massage. Did you say where No?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Again, I was like well, she's a hungry I guess.
I don't know, but I was like, this is Yeah.
Then I had another time somebody's message. I guess he
had ordered food or something, so they brought his food
into the room where he was massaging. And you know
the smell of French fries when they're not your French fries,
like they're in an elevator, like the French fries that
(09:38):
you're looking at. You I want one of those, But
then like the smell of French fry that was just
in an elevator before you got there is disgusted to
very specific smell, and I understand that, yeah, and that's
kind of what it smelled like. It smelled like, I
think because I wasn't expecting French fries. I was explaining
lavender and eucalyptus, and all of a sudden it was
(10:00):
it was like peanut oil and just full on fry.
And I was like, oh my god, this is disgusting.
And then the other time I actually wrote a joke
about it is I had somebody fall asleep well giving
me massage. No, yeah, you're like hello, hello, I'm sorry hello.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
On two food scenarios, and then someone fell.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Just well, okay, being honest in my joke, it's in
my my fifth Hour special.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I say, yes, you're you have five specials.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
I have six.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I'm working on my seventh, right, Narcoleptic.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
It's in my fifth Hour special. And when I tell
the story, it's it's one story, one person this happened,
but in real life it was twice, two different people.
One time was in Phoenix, one time was in Denver,
And the story that I tell it's mainly the Phoenix
story with like a touch of Denver, but it was
really two different situations. And one the first time was
(11:01):
in Phoenix and it was towards the end of the
massage and he was rubbing my feet and he started
to slow down. Now, oh god, yeah, and then it
just kind of stopped, and in my brain, I go,
is he doing like some meditation thing right?
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Like?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
He like, he's exactly, he's energying the stress out of
my foot right now. But then I heard his breathing
go like oh, and I was like, oh my god,
he's asleep. And then he just like woke himself up
and then kept going, and I was like, this guy
just fell asleep. He was massaging you.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Did you like open one.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I did, but I didn't like look up or anything like,
I was still like facing. I was like, wait, is
he sleeping? And then he woke himself up and then
the Denver story actually had to stop the massage because
it was like fifteen minutes into the massage and it
had happened a couple of times. He was massaging. He
was standing up massaging my back like this, and then
he just kind of stopped with his hands my back
(12:03):
and then I was like, are you okay? And he goes, oh, sorry,
must be the music.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Yeah, that's amazing, that's amazing, amusing. He was like, got
my ultra tranquil music on today, like this one.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Oh. So then it happened a couple more times and
I was like, hey, I think we need to end
this massage now, thank you.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Oh and yet passing out.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Yeah. So then we stopped the massage about thirty minutes
in and I was checking out. Obviously I didn't have
to pay for the service, but they were like so sorry.
And then I felt bad because she was like so sorry.
He's a new dad and they have a new baby
at home, so he's like up all night with the
baby and at the time. I don't have understanding for
(12:54):
like new parents. So I was like, okay, great, that
doesn't affect me other than I just really wanted a
massage today and I didn't get a massage. Like I
didn't say that to her. I was just like, okay, yeah,
that's fine whatever, but I was annoyed. Sure, now that
I'm a parent, I get it. I'm like, oh, it's understandable,
but probably still you shouldn't fall asleep on your clients.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Just take another month, broa.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Take another month. Drink a red Bull.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Drink a red Bull.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
You can't take another month because you have to provide
for your new baby that you have drink red Bull.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Bro replace the tranquil music with some seazy topic in
your AirPod.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Music on your gangster rap something.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
That's the most aggressive massage ever. I'm like, oh, thank you, sure, Wow.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Dam talking to I'm the boss.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I want to dive into comedy.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Yeah, And how you do it?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
It's just so wild to me.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
I could never wrap my brain around. Like just anybody
who's on the road a lot, like your makeup and haroutine,
your skin ca routine, Like how do you take care
of yourself?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
How do you sleep?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
How do you have sleep?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
How do you right? Which? On?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
First? Oh my god, well, I mean how do you
be a mom?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Because does she?
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Sometimes? She comes?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Sometimes she comes. If I'm on the road for longer
than two days, I will bring her, Okay, Like if
it's three or more days, then I'm gonna bring her
with me. Yeah. The longest I've been without seeing her
is three days. And even that was kind of like
an accident. Was supposed to be two days, ended up
being three and I was like, no.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Yeah, but you want a tour bus or do you
just fly?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
No, I'll be on a tour bus next year. I'm
very excited. It's my first time with a toddler on
a tour bus. So that be fun.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
It's gonna be cute.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
That's it's gonna be really Yeah, it'll be an adventure. Yeah,
and that's what I'm looking forward to. Like the family band.
We're traveling all over the country.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
You know, Oh my god, that's gonna be so cute.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Yeah. Yeah, everybody's coming to you every ready.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Your husband a comedian?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Is he funny?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
No? Sometimes sometimes he's funny, like he does music. When
he used to tour doing music, he would be funny
on stage and like in between songs he would say
funny things. But I think he probably thinks he's funnier
than he is.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Probably I think that's men.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, but he is funny, like I laugh, Yeah,
but he probably thinks he's hilarious. You're like, he.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
No, he's he's funny. Yeah, I do laugh.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
I think that's because I get more nervous when he's funny,
because I'm nervous for what he's gonna say, because he
doesn't have a filter, so he can like offend people
sometimes people I know, but I'm like, h like, I'm
very like, I know timing, I know my limits, I
(16:09):
know whatever, and I know like, oh, that's.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Gonna be whatever. I can read a room, yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yes, I can read the room. And sometimes I think
he does not read the room. And I think that's
why I get nervous. So anytime we've been asked to
like host something together or whatever, I'm like, okay, here
we go, you know, like.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
And a lot of times, yeah, my dad's like that
very much.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
It's scary to be around kill.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
A lot of times he'll ace it and he's great. Yeah,
and I'm like, oh, I was nervous for no, for
no reason, and then a different situation will happen. I'd
be like, see, there's the reason, that's why, that's why
I was nervous last time. But we got out scott free,
and now this time.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
We did the other one.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
That's right, that's right, that's so funny.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Now let's talk about like skincare and makeup any care,
because you have to do your own stuff right. You
don't bring.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yes, I do my own stuff, And every now and
then I'll be in a city where somebody's like, hey,
can I do your makeup when you're here? And absolutely
there There's been times when I'm like yes, and I've
made relationships, and then there's other times where I'm so
like tired then like the thought of somebody coming in
setting up, I have to talk and then do your
(17:24):
thing when I could just real quick for sure, I'm
my n girl.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Sometimes if it's a big theater, I'll be like, yeah,
come do my makeup. But if I'm just doing clubs,
you after clubs you, I'm like, yeah, yeah, I'm ground
wearing ma lululemons and a hoodie on stage. I don't
need my makeup done. Yeah, because I get I don't know.
Sometimes just sitting in the chair is tiring, like posture,
Let me move, let me not be on my phone,
(17:51):
so I can you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Like getting to know somebody for the first time too
write You're like, let's talk, let's have your whole life story.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Here we go, and it's like, I hate this this, Yeah,
please don't do this. Yeah, it's yeah, I can see that.
I mean, I hate getting like my hair done, like
sitting at a salon. I'm like, oh, just cut it off.
I'm over this. Get me out of hair. So I
can I get I get.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
That, I really, but I do my own makeup and
I do a really nice skin. You thank you god.
This she does just got great eyes, thank you. Thank
you so much. Every positive thing you say about me,
I have a negative one to go right with it.
I was like, oh, but did you see this your eyes?
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Did you see my eyelids? How it's over here like this.
I'm always the first person to call out like something
like you look great, you like, I love your hair.
Let me tell you why you shouldn't. This weekend, I
thought I brought dry shampoo and I brought a little
moose instead, and I went like this, I shook it
and went amazing, and I made my greasy head greasier.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Yep. For my shows, you just do a low pony then,
or like I did it.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
But here's the thing. Forgot my hair brush. I had
a clock clip, so I was using my c to
brush through her hair. I forgot a hair tie. Who
forgets a hair tie? Yeah, so I had to ask
Danielle who's her rooms, like across the hall. So then
she gives me one of her hair ties. And I
just had to do it like a slick pony because
of my greased out the moosehead. Yeah, my moosehead.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Do you want to start a podcast?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Well, you're like, I'm really cool. A lot a lot
of people said that I should, and I didn't want to.
For a long time, I didn't want to do a podcast,
mainly because I was nervous about There was a few reasons.
I was nervous about sound bites, like somebody taking something
out of context that I've said, Like I'm always too
(19:40):
concerned with offending people, which.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Is not imagine that though not everybody's offended by everything
I know.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
So that was like one reason, I was like, no,
I'm going to say something that's going to offend somebody.
And same thing for like hosting talk shows and stuff
like I've been asked to audition for certain time shows
to be a panel.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Would love for you to be some kind of I
would hate it because I'm.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Wait, like, what do you mean the panel for a
talk show? Like The View, the Talk, the Real like
that kind of stuff. Yeah. I always would get nervous
because I don't want to like say something in the moment.
That's anytime I'm asked to give my opinion on something,
I always get nervous because now it's up for debate.
(20:30):
My opinion is this, Well, my opinion is this, and
then you put it out on the internet and now
everybody has an opinion about your opinion. But that's the
world that we live in, I know, And that's why
I don't want to invite more of that into my life.
Yeah you know what I'm saying. So, which is a
lot of my comedy is storytelling and not so much
my opinion on even though if you listen deep intently
(20:51):
you can see like, oh, this is my opinion about
social media these days, I guess I just try in
my comedy to not start debates, even if it's like
not offensive. I don't want a debate, yeah, interest in debating.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
I'm not a debater.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I always have been afraid to put myself out there
just because it's like, well, then people get to comment
on what you look like and what you said. There's
gonna be people that think we're not funny, or we're
not entertainment, or we're bad makeup artists or like whatever.
But now I just don't care.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
And that was part of me saying yes to doing
a podcast and wanting to do it. Fungula, Yes, that's
the name of your podcast. A story, Yeah, thank you.
I think I just like talking to different people who
are like, listen, there is your voice is needed for someone.
(21:48):
It's not for everyone, obviously, but there there are people
who need what you have to say. Yeah, And I
on stage and doing stand up, it's there's a rhythm
to it. There's punchline, there's set up punchline, there's you
cut the fat, you take out the details so you
can get to the comedy of it. And I love
(22:10):
when I have the opportunity to go deeper and like
actually just have like real conversations with people, So it
makes sense that I would want to do a podcast. Yeah,
And then I went through the whole thing of oh,
but I'm a comedian, so people are going to expect
me to just have a comedy podcast. But I don't
want to do just a silly, funny comedy podcast, like
I would want to do something with heart as well.
And so that's where it came to gratitude because gratitude
(22:33):
is one of my tools that I use with my
mental health and it's one of the things that I practice.
And so then I said, Okay, I'll do a mental
health and comedy podcast and it's going to be focused
on gratitude. So that's what we do, is we share
matitudes and gratitudes. When we do one mattitude, which is
the thing that's making you mad these days, and like
(22:54):
what's pissing you off, giving you a bad attitude? What
is your maratitude? And then we talk about that and
then we move into gratitude and we're like, what are
five things that you're right before in life? And usually
those five things will like lead us into a story
in your life. And it's been great, it's been so
fun and it's really just like elevating your vibration and
(23:16):
putting good vibes out there into the world.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
That's the most important thing too. And also it's so
therapeutic that you get to like do this and share
your like you're listening to other people share their stories,
and it's like healing for you too because you're it's
giving you that space that you can be like, oh, okay,
this is I can get to be that person on
stage being a comedian making people laugh, but this is.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Truly who I am and really what I want to
talk about, and I love to connect with me. You're like, yeah,
surface talk is like hard for me. When you're at
a party, you're an event, Oh my gosh, you have
to like schmooze schmooziness.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
That's why I don't. That's why we don't go to
those things.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Hate schmoozing. I can't. It's so staying on the surface.
I can't do it. But having an opportunity to go
deep with someone and being like, oh, so, tell me
about your relationship with your mom, Like how did that
work out? WHOA, why do you think this? Blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Can I take three guesses where you're from Angela because
I think you have an accent.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
I hear that a lot. I'm curious what you think
the accent is Calgary? Where's Calgary? Oh? No, a map.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Girl, Minnesota now like a Dakota Minnesuta. No, not not Minnesota. Okay,
hold on, there's like something in there home like a Midwest.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
I feel like youngers California like me, I'm from California.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
From California.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
It was like some kind of thing that there was
an accent in there though that was not like a
Midwest Raiders.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Fan like I'm from the Bay. Yeah. Okay, you might
be the first person.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Actually, but I always hear that my whole life. I
hear I have an accent, but I feel like it's
whatever you sound like. I'm going to start sounding a
little bit like it, so then my voice just starts
sounding weird.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Okay, you know what I mean? Yeah, racket, did you
I want one more question? Did you always know that
you wanted to be a comedian?
Speaker 1 (25:05):
No, no, this is a good story. No, I wanted
to be an actress.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
I was a cheerleader for the Oakland Raiders, Yes, honey, yeah,
I was a cheerleader. Yees him, like.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
I don't know anything about you.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
So you're a dancer. No, that's why you have a
banging body.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
You were. I was a cheerleader. I didn't grow up
technically trained as a dancer. I did pop warner cheerleading,
so I had rhythm yep that one. Hey, yeah, let's go,
let's go. Yeah, I did that, And cheerleading is more
like purouet.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Yeah sure.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
So I didn't like cowboys.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
It's the same kind of yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Yeah, yeah, so I I went. The long story is
I was in junior college. I wanted to be an actress,
but it was like a fantasy. I would never say
it out loud because I was embarrassed, Like how embarrassing
I want to be an actress? Like I might as
well say I want to be a princess apprentice. I
might as well say that, right. So I had a
(26:12):
friend who moved to LA and she became an actress
and she was in commercials, music videos, and so we
see her, Oh, there she's in a Ros commercial. There
she is in the Insign music video, and we were like,
oh my gosh. And I remember talked to her one
time and I was like, I want to do what
you're doing. And she's like, Okay, if you move to La,
i'll help you. I'll help you get started and i'll
show you how to do it. And I'm like, new way,
Like now it's an actual dream, not so much a fantasy.
(26:36):
So then I ran into another friend who I grew
up with doing Pop Warner cheerleading, and she was like, yeah,
I'm a raiderrette. Now I cheve with Oakland Raiders. You
should come try out. We're about to have tryouts. And
I was like, oh, no, that's not my thing at all.
And then basically I was at this place in my
life where I didn't know what I wanted to do
(26:56):
and I had my friend in La saying if you
come here, I'll help you. But I feel like I
needed a sign if that was going to make that
big of a move to move to Hollywood. I've never
lived outside of my mom's house before, and I'm going
to move to a whole different city and live with
strangers and like chase a dream of something I don't
know how to do. I need a sign. So I said,
(27:17):
I'm gonna go try out for the Oakland Raiders and
if I make the squad crazy I'm gonna do it
for one year and then I'm going to move to Hollywood.
I'm gonna try to be an actress. So I went
to the Raider at tryouts in Oakland by myself. I've
always been tom Boy. I remember I went to Forever
twenty one and I bought like some heels from for
twenty one. You know, I have those twelve dollars heels
(27:38):
like in the front of the store. I just bought
some heels and like a little miniskirt and like a
little tank top. And I went to this audition and
I made it to the next round. There was seven
hundred and fifty girls at this audition. Oh my, everybody,
everybody a whole root vision. Then after that, I had
to learn a routine. I had to learn a dance routine,
(27:58):
and then I had to get like these little dance
shorts and stuff. Because I'm not a trained dancer, so
I had to like go to a dance door and
get like dance shoes. I never had dance shoes. I
had to get dance shoes and I it's now down
to like maybe three hundred girls at this hotel in Oakland.
I think it was like the Hilton or something, and
(28:19):
there's all these three hundred girls learning dance routine, and
on the stage is the director and choreographer, and she
has her little Britney Spears microphone off, and she has
her like her two radaretes with her that are current
radaretes that are you know, teaching, helping us learn this routine.
At some point, we're learning and then play the music.
Now let's try it again. We woo woo. We're learning
(28:39):
this routine. At some point, the director comes off the
stage and she's she's walking through the audience and she
weaves her way through the audience and she walks up
to me and she says, clearly, you have no dance training,
but you have something that cannot be taught. Rise Is that? Rise? Honey? Does?
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Is that? Drip? Drip?
Speaker 1 (29:03):
And I was just like thank you, and I that
was the best backhanded compliment I had ever received because
it was really just so powerful.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
I think it's.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Exactly what she was saying. Yeah, you don't, you don't
have training, but you have the it. Yeah you got qua,
Yeah you have it.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
You are him.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
And then I auditioned and I made the squad. I
cheered for that one year and I was named Rookie
of the Year for the squad for the Raider It's
and then the.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
One who had no formal training was renamed rookie of
the year.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
In all fairness, I was co Rookie of the year.
There was two of us who were rookies of the year.
But yeah, we went to the super Bowl that year.
It was like the best year to pick the open Raiders.
And the super Bowl was in San Diego. And the
very next weekend after the super Bowl, I came home,
I packed up my room, put in my station wagon.
(30:05):
My mom handed me down her station wagon and I
drove to LA the very next weekend and started my career.
And my friend kept her word. She helped me get started.
She helped me register as an extra, to be an extra.
And even that story is incredible because I don't have
entertainment experience. And so she's like, Okay, listen, you're gonna
(30:27):
go sign up at this extra's casting agency as a
casting agency just for extras. They cast all the extras
and all the TV shows and movies. You got to
go register. She's like, but when you go and register,
there's gonna be a line of people out the door
that want to register to be an extra, because anybody
can register. Yeah. So she's like, this would I want
you to do. Don't wait in line. I want you
to walk up to the front window, and I want
you to ask for a guy named Sam okay, and
(30:50):
I want you to bring your raidar at headshot and
bring a tray of cookies. Oh and when Sam comes out,
I want you to give him the cookies, give him
your headshot, and just say I'm new in town. I
just wanted to leave this yere with you and let
you know I'm available to be an extra. That's it.
Don't sign up, don't do anything keys, okay, great cook
(31:12):
So I'm like, this feels real sleazy. First of all,
it feels like all the casting couches they told me
not to get involved with. But all right, here we go,
here we are. So I show up at the casting agency.
Sure enough, there's a line of people out the door,
just like she said, And here I come with my cookies,
just cutting in front of everybody. I'm like, oh, this
feels real nasty. Yeah, And I'm like, you know, I'm
here to see Sam. She's like, Okay, hold on, and
(31:33):
then here comes this guy Sam walking from the back
offices to the front lobby and he comes out wearing
a Raiders hat. And here I am with my radar
at headshot. We just came off the super Bowl like
a few weeks ago, so I'm like, oh, hi, I'm new.
I just wanted to leave this here with you. He
sees my headshot and he goes Raider's no way immediately yeah,
(31:54):
and he's like, all right, thanks for letting me know.
We'll be in touch. I'm like, okay, great, and I
leave in my phone number. Calls me like I don't know.
Three days later, Wow, hey, I have a spot for you.
Do you want to be an extra on Friends? Stop
the biggest show on television right now?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Go way?
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Yeah, yeah, I do want to be an extra on Friends.
He's like, okay, show up there on Thursday. Here's your information.
I go to Warner brother Studios to be an extra
on Friends. This is my first time doing anything in
the entertainment industry. And I'm walking through this huge lot,
walking by all the sound stages. I have no idea
what I'm doing. And I remember walking into the studio
(32:35):
seeing the stage, seeing like, oh, here's Joey and Chandler's apartment.
Here's Monica and Rachel's apartment, Here's Central Perk. Like, I
am on the set of Friends, like my favorite show
of all time. Yeah, I am on the set of Friends.
This is wild wild. So he ended up signing me
up to be an extra, and I made friends with
(32:55):
the ad the assistant director on the show, who was
really funny and I was funny. So me and him
would just be funny together and then he'd be like, Oh,
you're funny, I'm gonna bring you back tomorrow. Like okay, cool,
Oh you're funny, I'm gonna bring you back next week.
And then we just start vibing, right, It's like, yeah,
might bring you back next week, next next thing. You know.
I'm an extra on Friends for season nine and ten.
Oh my god, their final season.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
I want to watch news episodes.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Oh you'll see me in the season nine and ten.
It's the end of season nine to season ten and yeah.
And that's how I started my career, and it's incredible.
It's one of that's one of my favorite jobs I've
ever had, was being an extra on Friends.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
And what did you have to do? Is being an
extra you're just like.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
I'm in the coffee shop walking from the coffee bar
to the chair, walking from you know, this side of
the window to the door. When Joey says, how you doing,
you exit the building? Great, how you doing?
Speaker 3 (33:53):
I want to be an extra. I'm going to be
an extra. How much you get paid? How many moneys?
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Ninety five dollars and then if you were in the union,
you got one hundred and twenty five dollars for the
day and then money and you're on for a while too,
You're hanging around here for oh yeah. And then I
just it was like cool with everybody, and so like
(34:18):
you're not supposed to talk to the cast members, you
know what I mean? And like if they saw you
trying to talk to the cast member, immediately you removed.
You're like nope and never welcomed back. You're like, nope,
out of here. I wouldn't talk to them, but they
would talk to me. Interesting, they just.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
Knew you just had that Yeah, I know when you
have that kind of energy and that vibration of people.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
I get it. Yeah, I get it. Are you please talk? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:40):
It would be no, it would just be like I'm
I'm here I'm just doing my job.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Corney Cox, you need to get to work.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
I'm just here to do my job.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
You got to get to work. Banling Falling, Yeah, rest
in peace.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
I know. I think i've I've had a personal conversation
probably with all of them, but not like anything memorable,
like we talked about family, just something like oh hey
do you blah blah blah blah, no blah blah okay, cool,
like something like that, like a simple whatever.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
And my story that I wrote about in my book
that I still to this day, I remember being at
the craft service table and then there was these little
teacakes that we loved and they were so good. And
I remember Lisa Kudro walking up and her and I
both were sitting there standing there eating the tea cakes
and her being like these are so good, right, and
I'm like they are good. And then that was my
(35:33):
moment with Lisa Coota, and I was just like all
she did was say a sentence of just like these
are good, right, But she said it to.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Me a fan.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
She said to me, yeah are good.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Yeah Yeah, what a what a story, what a career,
what a story, what a legacy? Yeah, icon you are yeah,
so much, so much. You had five specials, You've written
a book, You're going on a massive tour. Wow, you
have a podcast, you are raids cheerleader.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
What am I doing? Get here?
Speaker 3 (36:09):
I love people like that doing whatever you want to do.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
It sounds like, yeah, yeah, that's You're like a generating manifestor.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
You probably don't even know you're doing it, But I
think I have seasons of that, yeah, of being a manifestor,
and then seasons of what am I doing? And then
seasons of how do I do that? And then seasons
of dreaming and having dreams, and then seasons of not
(36:35):
having dreams. Like if you were to ask me right now,
like what's your dream? What do you want to do?
I'd be like, I mean I have my overall dream
of like I would love to have a sitcom one day,
But like, is that fueling my Is that fueling me
right now? Dream? And it's all representation, Like it's all
a sign to me at least I can tell, like
the fact that I'm not working out regularly. I know
(36:58):
for a fact my insides are not one hundred yeah,
meaning like I don't have vision, I don't have direction,
I don't have any of that. Like it's a little
messy on the inside, because I can see it in
my outside. I see it in the fact that I'm
not exercising. I'm not motivated to exercise. I'm not motivated
to like wake up in the morning and have some
(37:18):
me time, have some like devotion like me and God time.
I'm not motivated to any of that. I'm like just going,
I'm just wake up, go wake up, go okay, okay,
and then I'm fine with it.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
Yeah, until you're not.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Until you're not yeah, and then you make.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
That So it's so hard to be consistent. Yeah, we're
not perfect, like anyone who sits there and.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Is like I'm my healing journey every day and every
morning I do.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
You're like, great, that's amazing. Is that like really realistic?
Can you live every single day of your life like that?
Speaker 2 (37:49):
I don't, I know, because sometimes hard.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
I do want to be in that season again, though
I loved that season it.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Yeah, when you're ready to make space for that, then
you will be.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
That's what I gotta make space for it.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
Yeah, you do, because it takes time, effort and like
hmmm uh, mindfulness and doing things with purpose that's hard
to do.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
It's interesting because I'll have a conversation with someone who
is in that season, or like I'll be witnessing it
and I see it and I'll be like, yeah, I
want that again.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Yeah, it's inspiring.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Yeah. But then when it comes time to like I'll
be like, Okay, I'm gonna wake up tomorrow early and
I'm gonna like do some like journaling or like something.
And I'll wake up early and I'm like, where was
that inspiration that I had when I saw I know
I'm going through it. I'm like, it's not here this morning.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Yeah, well tomorrow, yeah, yeah, Yeah, I'll even.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Start journaling and be like, nothing's coming on, nothing's coming out.
Dear dear deard die, dear die, dear.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Yeah, I would take it up.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
My hand starts her. I don't write enough.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
That's a problem, right, oh god writing a check?
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Have you started seeing me post more workout videos in
my stories? And you know she getting together get together.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
Together in that season.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
Angela Johnson, Well, thank you so much for coming. Oh
my god, we can find you online. Just Angela Johnson
reyes on.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Instagram Angela Johnson, I go by Angela Johnson Rayas, but
my handle is still just Angela Johns Riz.
Speaker 4 (39:35):
Hello Angela Johnson Riz Angela So I was like, how
did you not say this before?
Speaker 3 (39:45):
No, Ray, Yes, she's so funny.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
If you get a chance. Thank you h see her
in person. Her live comedy is amazing. Listener podcast, yay, it.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Was so nice to me. Thanks so much for listening.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
Thank you for giving us the space.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Yeah, oh god, shut up.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Goodbye you later, bye.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
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I'm Mari, and you're listening to.
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And I like your greens on greens.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Yeah, I like a good monochromatic.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
I love that. I'll be honest, though, I don't typically
like dress up cute, but I looked at your guys' podcast,
and you guys are always cute, so I was all, well,
forget it. Then now I have to care.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
I know, well, yeah, great, you could have come in
a baseball hat and sweatpants and it would.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Have been thank you. I mean, sometimes I'm like, sometimes
we're not wearing shoes.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah, you guys, you went with the browns, you went
with the greens, and I'm.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
The blacksh I stayed at the gym a little too
long this morning.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I wish I could spend a time at the gym. Yeah.
One moment and I tell myself, like, I got I
gotta start working out again. I'll start working out again.
And I don't do it, Like I just don't do it,
and I don't know why I don't do it, but
I feel my body like atrophy, Like I feel like
(01:09):
myself just going.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Riga mortis.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Set in.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Wait a minute, I see little cute like in home
yoga videos.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yeah, and that's it.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Oh that's great, that's all you need.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
No, but I'm not even doing them as often. I
used to do them like three times a week. Now
it's like once every couple of weeks because I'm like,
I have to move my body. It hurts.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yeah, we have a day and you are a touring comedian.
So she has a little.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
She's give me eighteen months.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Oh yeah, what's her name, Rosie?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
She's so funny. Eighteen months is so funny.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah, so cute.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
She's just like, yes, like chocolate.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Yeahs a cute little sass delicious.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Well, you look like you do a pull up, So
I feel like that's all that happens, you know, I
like you want to do. I have a video of me
and this was even like I don't know, four years ago,
and it still stands. We're doing a pull up competition
and then my friends are full on like geese, just
like getting it. And then I'm like, I couldn't even
(02:15):
pull one. I couldn't even pull one, not even one.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
And I couldn't do any negative one. I can go
down like I go down.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
It's not easy.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
It's not even well, I want to know what you
did your hair this morning, because I love the way
it looks.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Thank you so much. I did the dice in air wrap, okay,
and I did it yesterday.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
What and it still looks like that?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I did it yesterday and.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Still looks that.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Right.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
It's just like this kind of Jennifer Aniston.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
It's very jenn Aniston right now, so much. I know
how I feel about the dice. I think they're good
for like personal use dyce INDs, but I don't think
they're great to use every day, like as hard as
like we use them.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
I think there's like the pro version and then like
a regular person who's not using it all day.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Long, okay, copy that, copy that.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I'm pretty sure that's what they do.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
I just remember hearing they would always like circ it
out or something.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
I had to use it on a client one time.
She was like, I have the I only use the
dicon wrap. And I was like, she's like, can you
use it on me?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Totally no, I couldn't. It's pretty embarrassing. Really yeah, well
I just couldn't.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
I just the first time I ever used whatever, and
I lied about it.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I was like, I could use it. Yeah, I couldn't.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
The dice catch you girl? Oh my gosh, which one
do you have? No?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
I like them, I don't know. I don't like to
use them on people. I will use them on people.
You know what I just got though, is this thing
I got on TikTok. It's a hot brush. A hot
roll brush. Okay, so you know how there's like a
dyce in essentially is like you put something on it
and you can blow dry a round brush. This is
a hot round brush, so you just like brush your hair.
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And I really enjoyed it. Barely did it today and
I was like, oh.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
It gives you the Jennifer Aniston has a brush, but
it gets hot like a curling iron.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yes, so you can get really close to and you
want to get your scalp because of the bristles.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Oh it's nice for I have like and there's no
air coming out of it.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
No, no, no, no no no, it's it was sixty dollars.
I think there's a chi one, but that's probably.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
You got this from the TikTok store.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I did get it from the TikTok store.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I got got you got I got.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I got got recently with a cheese grater, but I
love it nice. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
See, it's like.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Potatoes Angela, I mean hash browns. You just put the
potato in and you just spin it so easily and hot,
and you don't have to plug it in. It's not
electric or anything, so you just you change the blade
of whatever shape you want the shape. So I did
hash bombs and then I just put the potato. I
peeled the potato, I put it in and then you
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just turn it and then you push down on the
potato and.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
Oh, I see, and it just shreds it and your
fingers are never in jeopardy.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Ever in jeopardy. Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I love TikTok. I don't know why they say that
they're going to ban it every Yeah, it's so weird.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
I got a last minute massage at just one of
those you know, Asian massage pallors, and I'd been there
before and I wanted one. Now that's how I am
with massage. I was like, get appointment.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I don't need a massage in a month. I need
a massage right now.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I do, but now right now.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
So I go in and it's like really clean too.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
It's not sketchy or anything. But he I was laying
on my belly and he put the sheet like way
too low. It was like a lot of Yeah, it
was uncomfortable from the get go. And so I'm laying
there and he's doing his thing and my hand like
this right below and yeah, and I literally in my
head because you're in shock when this happens to you,
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said to myself.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Is that as a banana?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Is that a banana?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
And I moved my hand, I put it back, and
then it went back in my hand, the banana.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
I didn't say anything, and shame on me.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
For not getting up. I froze, Yeah, of.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Course you did. I would freeze. I'm a frozen right now.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Because in my head I was like, it's a banana.
But it was clearly in my hand through his sweatpants.
And when he turned me over, he.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Like I showed him.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
He juged the sheet and went way too high, like
a couple of times.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I hate him.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I hate him, I hate what did we do?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
What did we do?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I have dignity, dignity, I can't even say.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
It went home.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
I told my husband at the time, but told it
what I was I called you, and I was laughing
hysterically because I was still in shock until the anger
kicked in right now, and then I got angry.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
We should do that, We should call Yeah, we should
leave reviews. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I mean I've had so many massages by men, and
I've never felt unco.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Now that's my story about the time.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
That I've had many uncomfortable massages. Some are like where
they get like they do things inappropriate like that, maybe
like once or twice where it's like not, that's pretty bad.
But I've had like where they just get too close
to my and I'm like, you don't need to massage
all the way up there, like this is not.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
That's where he went to he got close.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
It was like I went like that, Yeah, I think
about it now. Yeah, I go shame on me.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
But not shame on you. Crazy what happens to you
in moments like that? That's right, we freeze, we're what
do you do? And then it's that whole thing of
like am I overreacting? Is this? Do I say something
I don't? I don't want him to feel bad.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
We hate us, don't want did not want some douche
to not feel bad?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah, like what now.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
I know if that ever happens to me again, bad
like lesson learned. Yeah sure, but then you think about
all those.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Girls, like and let this be a lesson to anybody
watching right now. If you are ever in an uncomfortable
situation while you're getting a massage or any kind of
professional anything, if you feel an ounce of being uncomfortable,
just say those words I'm sorry, I feel uncomfortable with that.
Immediately they're gonna go, yeah, that's it. I'm sorry, I
feel unomfortable with that.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Yeah done, Yeah yeah, And then we'll take that advice too.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
I've had a couple of uncomfortable massages, but that are
actual not borderlining assault, but like funny where there was
one time I was getting a massage from this lady
and all of a sudden she started eating an apple.
No stop, massage in me, and then pulls an apple
out or a bag and goes, oh no, and you
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know the sound of a crunch of an apple, Like
my eyes were closed and I know that is an
apple while she's a massage, And I was like, oh,
that's interesting. And then there was one time I had
a massage. Did you say where No?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Again, I was like well, she's a hungry I guess.
I don't know, but I was like, this is Yeah.
Then I had another time somebody's message. I guess he
had ordered food or something, so they brought his food
into the room where he was massaging. And you know
the smell of French fries when they're not your French fries,
like they're in an elevator, like the French fries that
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you're looking at. You I want one of those, But
then like the smell of French fry that was just
in an elevator before you got there is disgusted to
very specific smell, and I understand that, yeah, and that's
kind of what it smelled like. It smelled like, I
think because I wasn't expecting French fries. I was explaining
lavender and eucalyptus, and all of a sudden it was
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it was like peanut oil and just full on fry.
And I was like, oh my god, this is disgusting.
And then the other time I actually wrote a joke
about it is I had somebody fall asleep well giving
me massage. No, yeah, you're like hello, hello, I'm sorry hello.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
On two food scenarios, and then someone fell.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Just well, okay, being honest in my joke, it's in
my my fifth Hour special.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I say, yes, you're you have five specials.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
I have six.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I'm working on my seventh, right, Narcoleptic.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
It's in my fifth Hour special. And when I tell
the story, it's it's one story, one person this happened,
but in real life it was twice, two different people.
One time was in Phoenix, one time was in Denver,
And the story that I tell it's mainly the Phoenix
story with like a touch of Denver, but it was
really two different situations. And one the first time was
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in Phoenix and it was towards the end of the
massage and he was rubbing my feet and he started
to slow down. Now, oh god, yeah, and then it
just kind of stopped, and in my brain, I go,
is he doing like some meditation thing right?
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Like?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
He like, he's exactly, he's energying the stress out of
my foot right now. But then I heard his breathing
go like oh, and I was like, oh my god,
he's asleep. And then he just like woke himself up
and then kept going, and I was like, this guy
just fell asleep. He was massaging you.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Did you like open one.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I did, but I didn't like look up or anything like,
I was still like facing. I was like, wait, is
he sleeping? And then he woke himself up and then
the Denver story actually had to stop the massage because
it was like fifteen minutes into the massage and it
had happened a couple of times. He was massaging. He
was standing up massaging my back like this, and then
he just kind of stopped with his hands my back
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and then I was like, are you okay? And he goes, oh, sorry,
must be the music.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Yeah, that's amazing, that's amazing, amusing. He was like, got
my ultra tranquil music on today, like this one.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Oh. So then it happened a couple more times and
I was like, hey, I think we need to end
this massage now, thank you.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Oh and yet passing out.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Yeah. So then we stopped the massage about thirty minutes
in and I was checking out. Obviously I didn't have
to pay for the service, but they were like so sorry.
And then I felt bad because she was like so sorry.
He's a new dad and they have a new baby
at home, so he's like up all night with the
baby and at the time. I don't have understanding for
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like new parents. So I was like, okay, great, that
doesn't affect me other than I just really wanted a
massage today and I didn't get a massage. Like I
didn't say that to her. I was just like, okay, yeah,
that's fine whatever, but I was annoyed. Sure, now that
I'm a parent, I get it. I'm like, oh, it's understandable,
but probably still you shouldn't fall asleep on your clients.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Just take another month, broa.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Take another month. Drink a red Bull.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Drink a red Bull.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
You can't take another month because you have to provide
for your new baby that you have drink red Bull.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Bro replace the tranquil music with some seazy topic in
your AirPod.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Music on your gangster rap something.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
That's the most aggressive massage ever. I'm like, oh, thank you, sure, Wow.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Dam talking to I'm the boss.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I want to dive into comedy.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Yeah, And how you do it?
Speaker 3 (14:05):
It's just so wild to me.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
I could never wrap my brain around. Like just anybody
who's on the road a lot, like your makeup and haroutine,
your skin ca routine, Like how do you take care
of yourself?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
How do you sleep?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
How do you have sleep?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
How do you right? Which? On?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
First? Oh my god, well, I mean how do you
be a mom?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Because does she?
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Sometimes? She comes?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Sometimes she comes. If I'm on the road for longer
than two days, I will bring her, Okay, Like if
it's three or more days, then I'm gonna bring her
with me. Yeah. The longest I've been without seeing her
is three days. And even that was kind of like
an accident. Was supposed to be two days, ended up
being three and I was like, no.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Yeah, but you want a tour bus or do you
just fly?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
No, I'll be on a tour bus next year. I'm
very excited. It's my first time with a toddler on
a tour bus. So that be fun.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
It's gonna be cute.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
That's it's gonna be really Yeah, it'll be an adventure. Yeah,
and that's what I'm looking forward to. Like the family band.
We're traveling all over the country.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
You know, Oh my god, that's gonna be so cute.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Yeah. Yeah, everybody's coming to you every ready.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Your husband a comedian?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Is he funny?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
No? Sometimes sometimes he's funny, like he does music. When
he used to tour doing music, he would be funny
on stage and like in between songs he would say
funny things. But I think he probably thinks he's funnier
than he is.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Probably I think that's men.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, but he is funny, like I laugh, Yeah,
but he probably thinks he's hilarious. You're like, he.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
No, he's he's funny. Yeah, I do laugh.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
I think that's because I get more nervous when he's funny,
because I'm nervous for what he's gonna say, because he
doesn't have a filter, so he can like offend people
sometimes people I know, but I'm like, h like, I'm
very like, I know timing, I know my limits, I
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know whatever, and I know like, oh, that's.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Gonna be whatever. I can read a room, yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yes, I can read the room. And sometimes I think
he does not read the room. And I think that's
why I get nervous. So anytime we've been asked to
like host something together or whatever, I'm like, okay, here
we go, you know, like.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
And a lot of times, yeah, my dad's like that
very much.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
It's scary to be around kill.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
A lot of times he'll ace it and he's great. Yeah,
and I'm like, oh, I was nervous for no, for
no reason, and then a different situation will happen. I'd
be like, see, there's the reason, that's why, that's why
I was nervous last time. But we got out scott free,
and now this time.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
We did the other one.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
That's right, that's right, that's so funny.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Now let's talk about like skincare and makeup any care,
because you have to do your own stuff right. You
don't bring.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Yes, I do my own stuff, And every now and
then I'll be in a city where somebody's like, hey,
can I do your makeup when you're here? And absolutely
there There's been times when I'm like yes, and I've
made relationships, and then there's other times where I'm so
like tired then like the thought of somebody coming in
setting up, I have to talk and then do your
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thing when I could just real quick for sure, I'm
my n girl.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Sometimes if it's a big theater, I'll be like, yeah,
come do my makeup. But if I'm just doing clubs,
you after clubs you, I'm like, yeah, yeah, I'm ground
wearing ma lululemons and a hoodie on stage. I don't
need my makeup done. Yeah, because I get I don't know.
Sometimes just sitting in the chair is tiring, like posture,
Let me move, let me not be on my phone,
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so I can you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
Like getting to know somebody for the first time too
write You're like, let's talk, let's have your whole life story.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Here we go, and it's like, I hate this this, Yeah,
please don't do this. Yeah, it's yeah, I can see that.
I mean, I hate getting like my hair done, like
sitting at a salon. I'm like, oh, just cut it off.
I'm over this. Get me out of hair. So I
can I get I get.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
That, I really, but I do my own makeup and
I do a really nice skin. You thank you god.
This she does just got great eyes, thank you. Thank
you so much. Every positive thing you say about me,
I have a negative one to go right with it.
I was like, oh, but did you see this your eyes?
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Did you see my eyelids? How it's over here like this.
I'm always the first person to call out like something
like you look great, you like, I love your hair.
Let me tell you why you shouldn't. This weekend, I
thought I brought dry shampoo and I brought a little
moose instead, and I went like this, I shook it
and went amazing, and I made my greasy head greasier.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Yep. For my shows, you just do a low pony then,
or like I did it.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
But here's the thing. Forgot my hair brush. I had
a clock clip, so I was using my c to
brush through her hair. I forgot a hair tie. Who
forgets a hair tie? Yeah, so I had to ask
Danielle who's her rooms, like across the hall. So then
she gives me one of her hair ties. And I
just had to do it like a slick pony because
of my greased out the moosehead. Yeah, my moosehead.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Do you want to start a podcast?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Well, you're like, I'm really cool. A lot a lot
of people said that I should, and I didn't want to.
For a long time, I didn't want to do a podcast,
mainly because I was nervous about There was a few reasons.
I was nervous about sound bites, like somebody taking something
out of context that I've said, Like I'm always too
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concerned with offending people, which.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Is not imagine that though not everybody's offended by everything
I know.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
So that was like one reason, I was like, no,
I'm going to say something that's going to offend somebody.
And same thing for like hosting talk shows and stuff
like I've been asked to audition for certain time shows
to be a panel.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Would love for you to be some kind of I
would hate it because I'm.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Wait, like, what do you mean the panel for a
talk show? Like The View, the Talk, the Real like
that kind of stuff. Yeah. I always would get nervous
because I don't want to like say something in the moment.
That's anytime I'm asked to give my opinion on something,
I always get nervous because now it's up for debate.
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My opinion is this, Well, my opinion is this, and
then you put it out on the internet and now
everybody has an opinion about your opinion. But that's the
world that we live in, I know, And that's why
I don't want to invite more of that into my life.
Yeah you know what I'm saying. So, which is a
lot of my comedy is storytelling and not so much
my opinion on even though if you listen deep intently
(20:51):
you can see like, oh, this is my opinion about
social media these days, I guess I just try in
my comedy to not start debates, even if it's like
not offensive. I don't want a debate, yeah, interest in debating.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
I'm not a debater.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I always have been afraid to put myself out there
just because it's like, well, then people get to comment
on what you look like and what you said. There's
gonna be people that think we're not funny, or we're
not entertainment, or we're bad makeup artists or like whatever.
But now I just don't care.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
And that was part of me saying yes to doing
a podcast and wanting to do it. Fungula, Yes, that's
the name of your podcast. A story, Yeah, thank you.
I think I just like talking to different people who
are like, listen, there is your voice is needed for someone.
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It's not for everyone, obviously, but there there are people
who need what you have to say. Yeah, And I
on stage and doing stand up, it's there's a rhythm
to it. There's punchline, there's set up punchline, there's you
cut the fat, you take out the details so you
can get to the comedy of it. And I love
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when I have the opportunity to go deeper and like
actually just have like real conversations with people, So it
makes sense that I would want to do a podcast. Yeah,
And then I went through the whole thing of oh,
but I'm a comedian, so people are going to expect
me to just have a comedy podcast. But I don't
want to do just a silly, funny comedy podcast, like
I would want to do something with heart as well.
And so that's where it came to gratitude because gratitude
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is one of my tools that I use with my
mental health and it's one of the things that I practice.
And so then I said, Okay, I'll do a mental
health and comedy podcast and it's going to be focused
on gratitude. So that's what we do, is we share
matitudes and gratitudes. When we do one mattitude, which is
the thing that's making you mad these days, and like
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what's pissing you off, giving you a bad attitude? What
is your maratitude? And then we talk about that and
then we move into gratitude and we're like, what are
five things that you're right before in life? And usually
those five things will like lead us into a story
in your life. And it's been great, it's been so
fun and it's really just like elevating your vibration and
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putting good vibes out there into the world.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
That's the most important thing too. And also it's so
therapeutic that you get to like do this and share
your like you're listening to other people share their stories,
and it's like healing for you too because you're it's
giving you that space that you can be like, oh, okay,
this is I can get to be that person on
stage being a comedian making people laugh, but this is.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Truly who I am and really what I want to
talk about, and I love to connect with me. You're like, yeah,
surface talk is like hard for me. When you're at
a party, you're an event, Oh my gosh, you have
to like schmooze schmooziness.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
That's why I don't. That's why we don't go to
those things.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Hate schmoozing. I can't. It's so staying on the surface.
I can't do it. But having an opportunity to go
deep with someone and being like, oh, so, tell me
about your relationship with your mom, Like how did that
work out? WHOA, why do you think this? Blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Can I take three guesses where you're from Angela because
I think you have an accent.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
I hear that a lot. I'm curious what you think
the accent is Calgary? Where's Calgary? Oh? No, a map.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Girl, Minnesota now like a Dakota Minnesuta. No, not not Minnesota. Okay,
hold on, there's like something in there home like a Midwest.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
I feel like youngers California like me, I'm from California.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
From California.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
It was like some kind of thing that there was
an accent in there though that was not like a
Midwest Raiders.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Fan like I'm from the Bay. Yeah. Okay, you might
be the first person.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Actually, but I always hear that my whole life. I
hear I have an accent, but I feel like it's
whatever you sound like. I'm going to start sounding a
little bit like it, so then my voice just starts
sounding weird.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Okay, you know what I mean? Yeah, racket, did you
I want one more question? Did you always know that
you wanted to be a comedian?
Speaker 1 (25:05):
No, no, this is a good story. No, I wanted
to be an actress.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
I was a cheerleader for the Oakland Raiders, Yes, honey, yeah,
I was a cheerleader. Yees him, like.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
I don't know anything about you.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
So you're a dancer. No, that's why you have a
banging body.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
You were. I was a cheerleader. I didn't grow up
technically trained as a dancer. I did pop warner cheerleading,
so I had rhythm yep that one. Hey, yeah, let's go,
let's go. Yeah, I did that, And cheerleading is more
like purouet.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Yeah sure.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
So I didn't like cowboys.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
It's the same kind of yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Yeah, yeah, so I I went. The long story is
I was in junior college. I wanted to be an actress,
but it was like a fantasy. I would never say
it out loud because I was embarrassed, Like how embarrassing
I want to be an actress? Like I might as
well say I want to be a princess apprentice. I
might as well say that, right. So I had a
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friend who moved to LA and she became an actress
and she was in commercials, music videos, and so we
see her, Oh, there she's in a Ros commercial. There
she is in the Insign music video, and we were like,
oh my gosh. And I remember talked to her one
time and I was like, I want to do what
you're doing. And she's like, Okay, if you move to La,
i'll help you. I'll help you get started and i'll
show you how to do it. And I'm like, new way,
Like now it's an actual dream, not so much a fantasy.
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So then I ran into another friend who I grew
up with doing Pop Warner cheerleading, and she was like, yeah,
I'm a raiderrette. Now I cheve with Oakland Raiders. You
should come try out. We're about to have tryouts. And
I was like, oh, no, that's not my thing at all.
And then basically I was at this place in my
life where I didn't know what I wanted to do
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and I had my friend in La saying if you
come here, I'll help you. But I feel like I
needed a sign if that was going to make that
big of a move to move to Hollywood. I've never
lived outside of my mom's house before, and I'm going
to move to a whole different city and live with
strangers and like chase a dream of something I don't
know how to do. I need a sign. So I said,
(27:17):
I'm gonna go try out for the Oakland Raiders and
if I make the squad crazy I'm gonna do it
for one year and then I'm going to move to Hollywood.
I'm gonna try to be an actress. So I went
to the Raider at tryouts in Oakland by myself. I've
always been tom Boy. I remember I went to Forever
twenty one and I bought like some heels from for
twenty one. You know, I have those twelve dollars heels
(27:38):
like in the front of the store. I just bought
some heels and like a little miniskirt and like a
little tank top. And I went to this audition and
I made it to the next round. There was seven
hundred and fifty girls at this audition. Oh my, everybody,
everybody a whole root vision. Then after that, I had
to learn a routine. I had to learn a dance routine,
(27:58):
and then I had to get like these little dance
shorts and stuff. Because I'm not a trained dancer, so
I had to like go to a dance door and
get like dance shoes. I never had dance shoes. I
had to get dance shoes and I it's now down
to like maybe three hundred girls at this hotel in Oakland.
I think it was like the Hilton or something, and
(28:19):
there's all these three hundred girls learning dance routine, and
on the stage is the director and choreographer, and she
has her little Britney Spears microphone off, and she has
her like her two radaretes with her that are current
radaretes that are you know, teaching, helping us learn this routine.
At some point, we're learning and then play the music.
Now let's try it again. We woo woo. We're learning
(28:39):
this routine. At some point, the director comes off the
stage and she's she's walking through the audience and she
weaves her way through the audience and she walks up
to me and she says, clearly, you have no dance training,
but you have something that cannot be taught. Rise Is that? Rise? Honey? Does?
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Is that? Drip? Drip?
Speaker 1 (29:03):
And I was just like thank you, and I that
was the best backhanded compliment I had ever received because
it was really just so powerful.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
I think it's.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Exactly what she was saying. Yeah, you don't, you don't
have training, but you have the it. Yeah you got qua,
Yeah you have it.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
You are him.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
And then I auditioned and I made the squad. I
cheered for that one year and I was named Rookie
of the Year for the squad for the Raider It's
and then the.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
One who had no formal training was renamed rookie of
the year.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
In all fairness, I was co Rookie of the year.
There was two of us who were rookies of the year.
But yeah, we went to the super Bowl that year.
It was like the best year to pick the open Raiders.
And the super Bowl was in San Diego. And the
very next weekend after the super Bowl, I came home,
I packed up my room, put in my station wagon.
(30:05):
My mom handed me down her station wagon and I
drove to LA the very next weekend and started my career.
And my friend kept her word. She helped me get started.
She helped me register as an extra, to be an extra.
And even that story is incredible because I don't have
entertainment experience. And so she's like, Okay, listen, you're gonna
(30:27):
go sign up at this extra's casting agency as a
casting agency just for extras. They cast all the extras
and all the TV shows and movies. You got to
go register. She's like, but when you go and register,
there's gonna be a line of people out the door
that want to register to be an extra, because anybody
can register. Yeah. So she's like, this would I want
you to do. Don't wait in line. I want you
to walk up to the front window, and I want
you to ask for a guy named Sam okay, and
(30:50):
I want you to bring your raidar at headshot and
bring a tray of cookies. Oh and when Sam comes out,
I want you to give him the cookies, give him
your headshot, and just say I'm new in town. I
just wanted to leave this yere with you and let
you know I'm available to be an extra. That's it.
Don't sign up, don't do anything keys, okay, great cook
(31:12):
So I'm like, this feels real sleazy. First of all,
it feels like all the casting couches they told me
not to get involved with. But all right, here we go,
here we are. So I show up at the casting agency.
Sure enough, there's a line of people out the door,
just like she said, And here I come with my cookies,
just cutting in front of everybody. I'm like, oh, this
feels real nasty. Yeah, And I'm like, you know, I'm
here to see Sam. She's like, Okay, hold on, and
(31:33):
then here comes this guy Sam walking from the back
offices to the front lobby and he comes out wearing
a Raiders hat. And here I am with my radar
at headshot. We just came off the super Bowl like
a few weeks ago, so I'm like, oh, hi, I'm new.
I just wanted to leave this here with you. He
sees my headshot and he goes Raider's no way immediately yeah,
(31:54):
and he's like, all right, thanks for letting me know.
We'll be in touch. I'm like, okay, great, and I
leave in my phone number. Calls me like I don't know.
Three days later, Wow, hey, I have a spot for you.
Do you want to be an extra on Friends? Stop
the biggest show on television right now?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Go way?
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Yeah, yeah, I do want to be an extra on Friends.
He's like, okay, show up there on Thursday. Here's your information.
I go to Warner brother Studios to be an extra
on Friends. This is my first time doing anything in
the entertainment industry. And I'm walking through this huge lot,
walking by all the sound stages. I have no idea
what I'm doing. And I remember walking into the studio
(32:35):
seeing the stage, seeing like, oh, here's Joey and Chandler's apartment.
Here's Monica and Rachel's apartment, Here's Central Perk. Like, I
am on the set of Friends, like my favorite show
of all time. Yeah, I am on the set of Friends.
This is wild wild. So he ended up signing me
up to be an extra, and I made friends with
(32:55):
the ad the assistant director on the show, who was
really funny and I was funny. So me and him
would just be funny together and then he'd be like, Oh,
you're funny, I'm gonna bring you back tomorrow. Like okay, cool,
Oh you're funny, I'm gonna bring you back next week.
And then we just start vibing, right, It's like, yeah,
might bring you back next week, next next thing. You know.
I'm an extra on Friends for season nine and ten.
Oh my god, their final season.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
I want to watch news episodes.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Oh you'll see me in the season nine and ten.
It's the end of season nine to season ten and yeah.
And that's how I started my career, and it's incredible.
It's one of that's one of my favorite jobs I've
ever had, was being an extra on Friends.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
And what did you have to do? Is being an
extra you're just like.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
I'm in the coffee shop walking from the coffee bar
to the chair, walking from you know, this side of
the window to the door. When Joey says, how you doing,
you exit the building? Great, how you doing?
Speaker 3 (33:53):
I want to be an extra. I'm going to be
an extra. How much you get paid? How many moneys?
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Ninety five dollars and then if you were in the union,
you got one hundred and twenty five dollars for the
day and then money and you're on for a while too,
You're hanging around here for oh yeah. And then I
just it was like cool with everybody, and so like
(34:18):
you're not supposed to talk to the cast members, you
know what I mean? And like if they saw you
trying to talk to the cast member, immediately you removed.
You're like nope and never welcomed back. You're like, nope,
out of here. I wouldn't talk to them, but they
would talk to me. Interesting, they just.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
Knew you just had that Yeah, I know when you
have that kind of energy and that vibration of people.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
I get it. Yeah, I get it. Are you please talk? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (34:40):
It would be no, it would just be like I'm
I'm here I'm just doing my job.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Corney Cox, you need to get to work.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
I'm just here to do my job.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
You got to get to work. Banling Falling, Yeah, rest
in peace.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
I know. I think i've I've had a personal conversation
probably with all of them, but not like anything memorable,
like we talked about family, just something like oh hey
do you blah blah blah blah, no blah blah okay, cool,
like something like that, like a simple whatever.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
And my story that I wrote about in my book
that I still to this day, I remember being at
the craft service table and then there was these little
teacakes that we loved and they were so good. And
I remember Lisa Kudro walking up and her and I
both were sitting there standing there eating the tea cakes
and her being like these are so good, right, and
I'm like they are good. And then that was my
(35:33):
moment with Lisa Coota, and I was just like all
she did was say a sentence of just like these
are good, right, But she said it to.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Me a fan.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
She said to me, yeah are good.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Yeah Yeah, what a what a story, what a career,
what a story, what a legacy? Yeah, icon you are yeah,
so much, so much. You had five specials, You've written
a book, You're going on a massive tour. Wow, you
have a podcast, you are raids cheerleader.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
What am I doing? Get here?
Speaker 3 (36:09):
I love people like that doing whatever you want to do.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
It sounds like, yeah, yeah, that's You're like a generating manifestor.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
You probably don't even know you're doing it, But I
think I have seasons of that, yeah, of being a manifestor,
and then seasons of what am I doing? And then
seasons of how do I do that? And then seasons
of dreaming and having dreams, and then seasons of not
(36:35):
having dreams. Like if you were to ask me right now,
like what's your dream? What do you want to do?
I'd be like, I mean I have my overall dream
of like I would love to have a sitcom one day,
But like, is that fueling my Is that fueling me
right now? Dream? And it's all representation, Like it's all
a sign to me at least I can tell, like
the fact that I'm not working out regularly. I know
(36:58):
for a fact my insides are not one hundred yeah,
meaning like I don't have vision, I don't have direction,
I don't have any of that. Like it's a little
messy on the inside, because I can see it in
my outside. I see it in the fact that I'm
not exercising. I'm not motivated to exercise. I'm not motivated
to like wake up in the morning and have some
(37:18):
me time, have some like devotion like me and God time.
I'm not motivated to any of that. I'm like just going,
I'm just wake up, go wake up, go okay, okay,
and then I'm fine with it.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
Yeah, until you're not.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Until you're not yeah, and then you make.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
That So it's so hard to be consistent. Yeah, we're
not perfect, like anyone who sits there and.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Is like I'm my healing journey every day and every
morning I do.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
You're like, great, that's amazing. Is that like really realistic?
Can you live every single day of your life like that?
Speaker 2 (37:49):
I don't, I know, because sometimes hard.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
I do want to be in that season again, though
I loved that season it.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Yeah, when you're ready to make space for that, then
you will be.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
That's what I gotta make space for it.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
Yeah, you do, because it takes time, effort and like
hmmm uh, mindfulness and doing things with purpose that's hard
to do.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
It's interesting because I'll have a conversation with someone who
is in that season, or like I'll be witnessing it
and I see it and I'll be like, yeah, I
want that again.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Yeah, it's inspiring.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Yeah. But then when it comes time to like I'll
be like, Okay, I'm gonna wake up tomorrow early and
I'm gonna like do some like journaling or like something.
And I'll wake up early and I'm like, where was
that inspiration that I had when I saw I know
I'm going through it. I'm like, it's not here this morning.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Yeah, well tomorrow, yeah, yeah, Yeah, I'll even.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Start journaling and be like, nothing's coming on, nothing's coming out.
Dear dear deard die, dear die, dear.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Yeah, I would take it up.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
My hand starts her. I don't write enough.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
That's a problem, right, oh god writing a check?
Speaker 3 (39:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Have you started seeing me post more workout videos in
my stories? And you know she getting together get together.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
Together in that season.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
Angela Johnson, Well, thank you so much for coming. Oh
my god, we can find you online. Just Angela Johnson
reyes on.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Instagram Angela Johnson, I go by Angela Johnson Rayas, but
my handle is still just Angela Johns Riz.
Speaker 4 (39:35):
Hello Angela Johnson Riz Angela So I was like, how
did you not say this before?
Speaker 3 (39:45):
No, Ray, Yes, she's so funny.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
If you get a chance. Thank you h see her
in person. Her live comedy is amazing. Listener podcast, yay, it.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Was so nice to me. Thanks so much for listening.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
Thank you for giving us the space.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Yeah, oh god, shut up.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Goodbye you later, bye.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
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If you have any beauty questions, give us a ring
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