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Speaker 1 (00:04):
This is Later with Lee Matthews, The Lee Matthews Podcast
more what you hear weekday afternoons on the Drive.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
You know Lauren Lipcus from Orange is the New Black.
You've also seen her on the Wrong Missy with David Spade.
I will always remember her as Stuart's girl Denise in
The Big Bang Theory. She is now in a new
scripted podcast and it is out wherever you see podcasts
to hear podcasts, including the iHeartRadio app. And it is
called Haunting. This is a different kind of paranormal podcast, isn't.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
It it is? I mean, well, for one thing, it
mixes comedy and horror together. I play a dead influencer
named Terreza, who is like weaving you into these stories
and giving you a little backstory about me and what's
going on with me. But then we get to hear
really really scary stories from real people.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
What was being a part of such an iconic TV
show like Big Bang Theory inspirational for you? And do
you draw on that experience in this podcast?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Oh? I loved being on that show. It was so fun.
I mean it was amazing because I got to come
into that show when it was in season eleven, and
so you know, it obviously had a rabid fan base
at that point. So it was so much fun to
go do the tapings where audiences were live in person,
so excited to be there. The energy was really amazing,
and I loved being a part of that. And I,
(01:27):
you know, I think, do I take that into this
horror podcast. I don't know if I take that into
the horror podcast, but I think the feeling of loving
to perform for people is always there.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
How'd you like that hook? I was just trying to
kind of weave it all together.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I loved that.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Laura Lovekis is with us. Her new podcast is Haunting.
What's funny about death?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
God, you know, not much. I mean, I think when
we're talking about ghosts, it feels so removed from the
actual experience of death that we can separate those things
a bit, or we do in our minds. This character
that I play, this influencer, she dies in a very
you know, embarrassing way that I'll let be revealed on
(02:10):
the podcast. But you know, all the stories that we're
hearing are real. So it's I guess you automatically think
of death, But when I think of ghots, I just
think more being scared. I don't think about the actual
person who was alive, who is now a ghost, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Well, you know, as many funerals as I've been to
and as many times as I've been a pall bearer,
I'm the one that is usually at the funeral thinking
of wow, that's kind of funny. I'll give you well, yeah, please,
I'll give you an example. My grandfather's funeral, he used
to call my aunt, who was a bit of a snob,
(02:48):
he used to call her house the Sanctum sanctorum. Well,
in the midst of the funeral, he was a Freemason,
and in the Freemason service, they kept bringing up the
Sanctum sanctorum and I looked over my mom, and my
mom looked at me, and we had to stifle the
giggles that we at this funeral because it was supposed
to be so Yeah, that's an example too. I mean
(03:09):
I read about a woman who buried her husband on
her own property and it took so long to get
the headstone she lost track of exactly where it was,
so in the end she lost her husband twice.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
You know, Oh my god, you know I've had that
where I can't stop laughing at a funeral. So I
totally relate that. I mean, I honestly kind of love
those moments in life where you can't stop laughing and
you're really not supposed to. I had it at a
wedding recently, which seems like it wouldn't be bad to laugh,
but this guy was introduced. It was really sweet. It
was I mean, I'm a comedian and a bunch of
(03:41):
comedians were at this wedding, so we're naturally, you know,
going to laugh at things that other people are not
laughing at. But the officient was like making jokes about
the weather and they just weren't landing, and it was
so funny. And then there's that feeling of like I
don't want to laugh because I don't want to ruin
this like beautiful moment. But then we all start laughing
and could not stop. And it's one of my favorite memories.
(04:02):
I just I love that feeling of like trying to
hold back laughter.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Laura Locus she doesn't do that. She lets you laugh
as much as you want in her podcast Haunting, which
is out. Now, what are some of the what are
some of the plot twists we're going to hear about
and this is this is a scripted thing. This isn't
you add living.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
The parts where I'm thereza are scripted. And then the stories,
the ghost stories are all real, so it's not scripted.
It's people calling in and leaving audio messages telling their story.
So you get a little bit of both. But yeah,
so from my part, you know, it's really it's it's
fun and light and this influencer as a very superficial
person who has all the wrong priorities as far as
(04:43):
I'm concerned, and you get to just hear a little
behind the scenes of her recording the podcast and what's
going on in her after life as she's hoping to
land in heaven ideally. And then we cut to these
stories where we hear people share terrifying things that have
happened to them. There's a story about a school trip
where kids go to a haunted house and obviously something
(05:04):
supernatural happens. There's one that's really really scary where women
are on a care free trip together, just having a
vacation and then this scary figure appears at the foot
of their bed and they have to deal with that.
These there are all things that really happen to people,
and that's what makes it so fun because you get
to hear you know, these are I love a true story.
I love a true ghost story.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Lauren Lopcis is with us. Okay, I don't know that
I've had any ghost stories. I've had things happen to
me that I attribute to being a ghost. One example,
I was staying at my grandmother's house, who had passed
away a good ten years previous to that. She was
always obsessing about light. She was worried if you had
a subdued light, you were hurting your eyes, so she
(05:46):
was always turning lights on. I'm walking into the bedroom
where I'm staying, which is in her house, and it's
in her bedroom, and right as I walk in, the
lamp by the bedside comes on. And my first reaction was, well,
as a matter of fact, Grandma, I did need a
light on.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I mean, I believe that was her. That sounds like
so perfect.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I've told that story so many times. I'm sure the
producers are rolling their eyes. Oh, here we go again.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
But that's the perfect context to share it right now.
I mean, we've definitely my family has had moments like
that where you're talking about someone in a light slickers
like things like that that you just can't attribute to anything,
and it just feels like it has to be that person.
And even if there are definitely skeptics out there, people
aren't going to say that's not real. But if it
(06:34):
gives you some comfort in those moments, I think that's
totally great. I mean, I'd rather take the moments where
it's somebody that I love sending me a message than
a terrifying ghost that I have no connection to who's
trying to scare me. That's that's not my favorite.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
You know her from Orange is the New Black. You've
also seen her in the Wrong Missy with David Spade.
I remember her Stuart's Girl and the Big Bang Theory
Lauren Lipkus and her podcast Hunting with Lauren Lipkis. That
was my question, Have you had a scary paranormal experience?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I did have one when I was a kid that
my family can we cannot explain, and it's really crazy.
We were at home and there was a voicemail or
you know, an answering machine had a message on it. It
was the nineties, so it was a long time and
we played the message and it said you have a
Collect call. It was like, if you remember Collect calls,
I'm actually just making it telling the oldest story in
(07:26):
the world, but okay, it was. And it said you
have a Collect call from and then you hear some
like clinking of glasses, and then you hear a voice
say Grandpa Joe, which was my great grandpa who had
a bar. And we heard that clear as day. And
I remember my whole family screaming and freaking out and
(07:46):
playing the message over and over again. And I can't
explain it, and I think it was real, and I
choose to believe it was real because it's way more
exciting than somebody prank calling us.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Imagine if you had been home when the call came
through and you that would have been better answered the phone.
What would have happened to them?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
I don't know. What did you want to say? Why
was he calling? He was calling Collect? I mean he
didn't have a coin, so it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Scary. Do you do you do a lot of production
elements in the podcast in The Haunting with Lauren Lipkuz.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I don't. We have an amazing team. It's all done
by this company, Glass Podcast, and they are so amazing
compiling the stories and you know, putting it together with
amazing sound effects and giving it a really nice feel.
So thankfully I don't have to do that part because
that's not my expertise.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Okay, well, we will be listening to Haunting with Lauren Loppez,
the podcast available on the iHeartRadio app and everywhere you
get podcasts. Thank you for so much great comedy, Lauren,
and for joining us today.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Thank you, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Thanks for listening to Later with Lee Matthews, the Lee
Matthews podcast, and remember to listen to The Drive Live
weekday afternoons from five to seven. An iHeartMedia presentation
This is Later with Lee Matthews, The Lee Matthews Podcast
more what you hear weekday afternoons on the Drive.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
You know Lauren Lipcus from Orange is the New Black.
You've also seen her on the Wrong Missy with David Spade.
I will always remember her as Stuart's girl Denise in
The Big Bang Theory. She is now in a new
scripted podcast and it is out wherever you see podcasts
to hear podcasts, including the iHeartRadio app. And it is
called Haunting. This is a different kind of paranormal podcast, isn't.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
It it is? I mean, well, for one thing, it
mixes comedy and horror together. I play a dead influencer
named Terreza, who is like weaving you into these stories
and giving you a little backstory about me and what's
going on with me. But then we get to hear
really really scary stories from real people.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
What was being a part of such an iconic TV
show like Big Bang Theory inspirational for you? And do
you draw on that experience in this podcast?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Oh? I loved being on that show. It was so fun.
I mean it was amazing because I got to come
into that show when it was in season eleven, and
so you know, it obviously had a rabid fan base
at that point. So it was so much fun to
go do the tapings where audiences were live in person,
so excited to be there. The energy was really amazing,
and I loved being a part of that. And I,
(01:27):
you know, I think, do I take that into this
horror podcast. I don't know if I take that into
the horror podcast, but I think the feeling of loving
to perform for people is always there.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
How'd you like that hook? I was just trying to
kind of weave it all together.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I loved that.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Laura Lovekis is with us. Her new podcast is Haunting.
What's funny about death?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
God, you know, not much. I mean, I think when
we're talking about ghosts, it feels so removed from the
actual experience of death that we can separate those things
a bit, or we do in our minds. This character
that I play, this influencer, she dies in a very
you know, embarrassing way that I'll let be revealed on
(02:10):
the podcast. But you know, all the stories that we're
hearing are real. So it's I guess you automatically think
of death, But when I think of ghots, I just
think more being scared. I don't think about the actual
person who was alive, who is now a ghost, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Well, you know, as many funerals as I've been to
and as many times as I've been a pall bearer,
I'm the one that is usually at the funeral thinking
of wow, that's kind of funny. I'll give you well, yeah, please,
I'll give you an example. My grandfather's funeral, he used
to call my aunt, who was a bit of a snob,
(02:48):
he used to call her house the Sanctum sanctorum. Well,
in the midst of the funeral, he was a Freemason,
and in the Freemason service, they kept bringing up the
Sanctum sanctorum and I looked over my mom, and my
mom looked at me, and we had to stifle the
giggles that we at this funeral because it was supposed
to be so Yeah, that's an example too. I mean
(03:09):
I read about a woman who buried her husband on
her own property and it took so long to get
the headstone she lost track of exactly where it was,
so in the end she lost her husband twice.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
You know, Oh my god, you know I've had that
where I can't stop laughing at a funeral. So I
totally relate that. I mean, I honestly kind of love
those moments in life where you can't stop laughing and
you're really not supposed to. I had it at a
wedding recently, which seems like it wouldn't be bad to laugh,
but this guy was introduced. It was really sweet. It
was I mean, I'm a comedian and a bunch of
(03:41):
comedians were at this wedding, so we're naturally, you know,
going to laugh at things that other people are not
laughing at. But the officient was like making jokes about
the weather and they just weren't landing, and it was
so funny. And then there's that feeling of like I
don't want to laugh because I don't want to ruin
this like beautiful moment. But then we all start laughing
and could not stop. And it's one of my favorite memories.
(04:02):
I just I love that feeling of like trying to
hold back laughter.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Laura Locus she doesn't do that. She lets you laugh
as much as you want in her podcast Haunting, which
is out. Now, what are some of the what are
some of the plot twists we're going to hear about
and this is this is a scripted thing. This isn't
you add living.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
The parts where I'm thereza are scripted. And then the stories,
the ghost stories are all real, so it's not scripted.
It's people calling in and leaving audio messages telling their story.
So you get a little bit of both. But yeah,
so from my part, you know, it's really it's it's
fun and light and this influencer as a very superficial
person who has all the wrong priorities as far as
(04:43):
I'm concerned, and you get to just hear a little
behind the scenes of her recording the podcast and what's
going on in her after life as she's hoping to
land in heaven ideally. And then we cut to these
stories where we hear people share terrifying things that have
happened to them. There's a story about a school trip
where kids go to a haunted house and obviously something
(05:04):
supernatural happens. There's one that's really really scary where women
are on a care free trip together, just having a
vacation and then this scary figure appears at the foot
of their bed and they have to deal with that.
These there are all things that really happen to people,
and that's what makes it so fun because you get
to hear you know, these are I love a true story.
I love a true ghost story.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Lauren Lopcis is with us. Okay, I don't know that
I've had any ghost stories. I've had things happen to
me that I attribute to being a ghost. One example,
I was staying at my grandmother's house, who had passed
away a good ten years previous to that. She was
always obsessing about light. She was worried if you had
a subdued light, you were hurting your eyes, so she
(05:46):
was always turning lights on. I'm walking into the bedroom
where I'm staying, which is in her house, and it's
in her bedroom, and right as I walk in, the
lamp by the bedside comes on. And my first reaction was, well,
as a matter of fact, Grandma, I did need a
light on.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I mean, I believe that was her. That sounds like
so perfect.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I've told that story so many times. I'm sure the
producers are rolling their eyes. Oh, here we go again.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
But that's the perfect context to share it right now.
I mean, we've definitely my family has had moments like
that where you're talking about someone in a light slickers
like things like that that you just can't attribute to anything,
and it just feels like it has to be that person.
And even if there are definitely skeptics out there, people
aren't going to say that's not real. But if it
(06:34):
gives you some comfort in those moments, I think that's
totally great. I mean, I'd rather take the moments where
it's somebody that I love sending me a message than
a terrifying ghost that I have no connection to who's
trying to scare me. That's that's not my favorite.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
You know her from Orange is the New Black. You've
also seen her in the Wrong Missy with David Spade.
I remember her Stuart's Girl and the Big Bang Theory
Lauren Lipkus and her podcast Hunting with Lauren Lipkis. That
was my question, Have you had a scary paranormal experience?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I did have one when I was a kid that
my family can we cannot explain, and it's really crazy.
We were at home and there was a voicemail or
you know, an answering machine had a message on it. It
was the nineties, so it was a long time and
we played the message and it said you have a
Collect call. It was like, if you remember Collect calls,
I'm actually just making it telling the oldest story in
(07:26):
the world, but okay, it was. And it said you
have a Collect call from and then you hear some
like clinking of glasses, and then you hear a voice
say Grandpa Joe, which was my great grandpa who had
a bar. And we heard that clear as day. And
I remember my whole family screaming and freaking out and
(07:46):
playing the message over and over again. And I can't
explain it, and I think it was real, and I
choose to believe it was real because it's way more
exciting than somebody prank calling us.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Imagine if you had been home when the call came
through and you that would have been better answered the phone.
What would have happened to them?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
I don't know. What did you want to say? Why
was he calling? He was calling Collect? I mean he
didn't have a coin, so it makes sense.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Scary. Do you do you do a lot of production
elements in the podcast in The Haunting with Lauren Lipkuz.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I don't. We have an amazing team. It's all done
by this company, Glass Podcast, and they are so amazing
compiling the stories and you know, putting it together with
amazing sound effects and giving it a really nice feel.
So thankfully I don't have to do that part because
that's not my expertise.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Okay, well, we will be listening to Haunting with Lauren Loppez,
the podcast available on the iHeartRadio app and everywhere you
get podcasts. Thank you for so much great comedy, Lauren,
and for joining us today.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Thank you, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Thanks for listening to Later with Lee Matthews, the Lee
Matthews podcast, and remember to listen to The Drive Live
weekday afternoons from five to seven. An iHeartMedia presentation
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