October 14, 2024 • 48 mins
From shy middle schooler to comic genius, Mo Collins is proof that it pays to follow your talent and dreams. Since Mad TV and Parks and Recreation, Mo has taken on dramatic roles and expanded her work as a commissioned artist. Meet the versatile, inspiring and very funny mom, Mo Collins, on this episode of ITMC.
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Hi, Welcome to inside the Mom's Club, where being a
mom is the coolest place to be. Here in the
Mom's Club, we believe that what embarrasses you now will
make a great story later. And let's face it, you
don't laugh sometimes you're gonna cry. Join us in having
a good laugh together. I'm Monica Samuels. You are now
(00:35):
inside the Mom's Club, your private destination for all things mom. Okay,
welcome moms. Welcome to inside the Mom's Club. I'm your host,
Monica Samuels, and I'm here with my cost Julie Orchid.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Well, hey, Monica, this is a different look today.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
It is.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I found these great legs. I'm always looking for my
shop like crazy. I'll buy it pretty much anything. As
evidence by that the fact I'm wearing these I found
these gray glasses because for those in podcast world, I'm
wearing glasses that around the rim says bless your heart.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Now I have a different definition of what that means.
But why are you wearing bless your heart glasses today?
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Okay? This is how you use them. I figured it out.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Okay, Okay, so as we all know, for those who
are not from the South, bless your heart means well. Okay,
So my mother sometimes when I'm not feeling well.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
So she'll say bless your heart. She does not mean that.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
In the South though, there's another way to say it,
which is well, bless your heart, which is not nice.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
So I don't think I can say it on the
She's glass.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
This is the great thing.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
So so, for example, yesterday I had a very belligerent,
arrogant TSA officer who was giving me a hard time
because I just tried to push my bin because it
wasn't moving, and he wheeled around. It told me that
just because I'm pre checked does not mean I'm entitled.
Whatever that means my complaint to the complate department at TSA.
(02:08):
We'll determine what that really means.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Right it.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Had I had my glasses handy, you could have just
got because you can't say anything to these people, right,
so I could have just said.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Exactly. I think it would have gotten the message.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
You think, you know anytime you feel like saying it,
but you know that that wouldn't be a good idea.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
I think it's great. I think most people would get
the message.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Well, we have.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Had a little bit of time off and now we're
back we're back in La filming our podcast. We're super
excited to be here. But I have to say getting
back into it, the whole thing of flying again yesterday
and coming and doing all this, like people that barge
all the way from the back to the front to
get off first, and they're taking your head off with
oh here, all.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
You need is you bless your heart, the glasses to.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
You.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Thanks, very fashionable.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
All right, back into it has been a you know, well, Tony.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
When I when I look at this, so bless your heart.
That that just started me? Can me think about so
they had so I did some tiktoks and you did
them with me. Actually where we the word demure has
been a like popular thing and somebody told me, oh,
you know what, demure is a bad thing.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
It's not a good thing, which really, well.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
It's kind of setting us back late is back a
little bit.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I think if so he's like, oh, you don't want
to be demure.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Now it's a play on words. It's been a fun
week doing it.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Well it was fun, but so but then that so
then so my son is not dating a lovely girl
from Minneapolis.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
She's so sweet, very nice.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
And I did my book tour years ago. I went
to Minneapolis and then someone told me the other day
Minnesota nice is not nice?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Is that it's passive aggressive?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I don't know about that. Park and I have to say.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Had nothing but good experiences in Minneapol. And of course, uh,
my son's girlfriend, assuming that's still his girlfriend.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
I don't know what article you were reading, but where
we need to find out if that's true.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
You know, we have an expert.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Oh, we have an expert here today who can tell
us all about that.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
And not only that.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
She has had an impressive improv and sketch comedy career.
She was among the cast of Mad TV, where she
created characters like Lorraine Yes and Stuart's mom who I
think is his named Jerene. But I can't remember exactly.
But my favorite character and I can. I don't want
say I can relate to it because that would not
that that would sound terrible. But it was Joan Callametzo
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on Parks and Recreation, where she was the host of
Pawnee Today, Money Today, and I always enjoyed saying that
I wish we had some Gotcha some Gotcha girls show.
She is an Emmy nominee and she's qualified as the
Mom's Club. She's the mother of one son. Please welcome,
Moe Collins. Welcome to the Mom's play Low Mo, Well,
(05:03):
straighten this out for us. Is Minnesota nice?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Nice?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Well that's what I thought. Somebody said, Oh, that's passive aggressive.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I'm like, what being nice? Your pat What does that mean?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
I think it's nice? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Minnesota people in general, Yeah, yeah, they're very nice. Yeah.
In fact, like right now, I've been so excited because
through Tim Walls, people are seeing the true character of Minnesota.
Through him, he's the epitome. Like it's just so I
love watching him because I'm like, yeah, that's.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
Like community, changing your tire in the snow, like all
of that.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
It's a true story.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Truth.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Well, it's a true story. I mean it's coined because
it's true, you know. I mean it's true. Which isn't
to say that there aren't bad people everywhere and assholes everywhere. Yeah,
there's a general rule. Minnesota is a very kind place.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
There you go. I really enjoyed it. When I went
on my book tour. It was jew so it was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
And I thought, wow, I'd like to live here. And
then someone else said, well, do you see all those
tunnels are those you know? You may not be so
I'm from Texas, so that might be hard. But and
in fairness, the person who told me that about Minnesota
and ice was actually from another local state.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
And maybe they weren't so nice.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Well they also well, I kind of wonder what's going
on up there because this person's from Wisconsin, and they
also don't like people from Illinois.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
So maybe there's a state.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Thing going on there. But yes, I've had nothing but
good experiences.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
So I think we all need to straighten that out.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Unlike bless your heart, which will never be redeemed, as
I saying, trust me, So tell so you are from Minneapolis,
and tell us how your career took you from Minneapolis
to all of the amazing things you've done. When you
just touched on your career, it's been it's been amazing,
as we say here on the Mom's Club.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Thanks well. I mean, when my son was two, I
had come out to LA and friends and myself we'd
written a show and put it up, and you know,
I was really dreaming of living in Los Angeles, And
when my son was too I did. I sold the house,
packed him up in a U haul with the three
cats and headed out to LA and within the first
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year I got mad TV. So it was the right
choice because ultimately I did it. You know, It's like
if I was going to lead by example with my child, Yeah,
I had to show him what it looked like to
go for it and to go for your dreams and
do what you love and be who you are.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
And does he say that he looks back he was two,
you know what I mean, like over your career that
he's so glad that you went for it and did
everything that you did. I mean he's adult, an adult now, right.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Yeah, he's twenty nine. It's not like he has anything
to compare it to because he was too young to
remember life in Minnesota. So for him, he's just he's
in La yep, person and that's really all he's ever known.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
So he he's glad. He loves it here.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
So does he live here?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Amazing, that's cool.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
He lives up in Beechwood Canyon.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Yeah, it would be nice for adult children to live
in the same town.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
He just recently moved from an apartment across the street
where he lived for six or seven years, and that
was nice. Too. Even though I didn't see him a lot,
I still just like to see his car park down
the street or the light on in his apartment. I
was like a.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Comfort that saves you from having to check life three
sixty all the time, like.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Here, Oh, I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Yeah, every day.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Did you do improv in Minneapolis or so that's where
you started?
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Because improv?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I started doing improv in eighth grade.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
And then after kind of getting asked to leave college
a little early, Oh, and I didn't know what to
do with my life. I remember improv that thing that
I loved. And there's a company up in Minneapolis, much
like Groundlings or Second City. And I signed up for
Dudley Riggs Bring New Workshop in Minneapolis and sign up
for classes, and then got into the touring company, and
(09:11):
before you know it, I had a check and I
was with people I love. Yeah, you know, it's on
my my hive and it just went on from there.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Now, for those moms out there who don't know, so
explain a little bit how improv works, Like it takes
a really do you have to be really smart and
on your toes to be successful at that?
Speaker 4 (09:30):
I would think, I don't.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Know if you have to be really smart, Well.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
That's good news. You aren't smart.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
No, you have to be I don't know, have a
certain level of three, I guess I don't know.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Quick.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
But improv is you know, you get suggestions from the
audience and then you create a scene out of nothing.
It's theater without a net. So yeah, that's really all
it is, and anybody can do it.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
When did you know that improv was like in your blood,
like your you know, dear friend, like that you just
like ate it up.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
How did you know you had the ninth grade?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
In eighth grade? I mean, up until that point, everybody
knew me as Maureen. I was a very painfully shy person.
And then the the theater teacher, mister Hermiting, he he
was in the busy hall of the Junior high that year.
He goes hey, mo, and I'm like, oh my god,
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whoever he is, I would not want to be him. Yeah,
because mister Hermiting had a big, booming, scary voice and
he was pointing at me and he goes, yeah, you
get over here and sign up for this. And it
was for it was to be a part of a
you know, we would write sketches, we would learn improv
and do improv and perform, and he basically in he
(10:57):
kind of split my personality for me and made space
for Mo this other part of who I am, this
creative gave MO the freedom to do this. I was
able to kind of just separate my shy self from
what he saw in me, and then I built it
from there. So, I mean, honestly, I fell in love
(11:18):
with it in eighth grade and it's been my BAF
ever since.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Have you found it a lot?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Because you heard this a lot people that are pretty.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Shy are actually some of the best comedians and entertainers
that do that are really shy people like in their
own lives, they don't like they're not out there all
the time, which is kind of funny too, because people
expect them then when they see them in public to think.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Oh, this, she's gotta be hilarious.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Because she's as yeah yeah, and the opposite com he's
had too. A lot of the loud miles out there
that think they're funny.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Oh yeah, so funny.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yeah. But I do think that, and I say this
a lot about people in comedy is that at the
root of it is this desire to be taken seriously, right,
and it's it's a tool to that, I guess. But
and I mean, if you are shy, it's a tool
to it's it's like another persona to step away from
(12:13):
your your shy self and get out and get your
ideas out.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Yeah, So if your child is sort of introverted, you
might want to explore that a little bit with them.
Maybe they maybe they mean improv theater, Yeah, do some
things that they can kind of be outside of themselves,
which is a great thing. Well, here on the Mom's Club,
we our motto is if you don't laugh, sometimes you're
gonna cry.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
So we're all about laughter.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
And in Mad TV you delivered it all the time.
So what was your I mean, humor and comedy. Have
you ever thought about trying more dramatic stuff or you're
like you think comedy.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Is Yeah, I have. I mean the last job I
really had was Fear of the Walking Dead. Oh yeah,
that was AMA series. And I've done other sporadic drama
projects over the years, and yeah, I want to do
it all. Unfortunately, you know, Hollywood doesn't love me right now,
so it's.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Just not it's a hard it's a hard business.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Do you have a favorite like, do you have a
favorite role, favorite audition.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
That you were like? Really, you know, I was able
to dive into I dive.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Into everything I do. That's just that's me. When I work,
I'm a diver. I give two hundred percent. For me,
the favorite parts are just the moments with the people
that I've gotten to work with. Yeah, you know, like
I really have gotten to have great times with great
people like I I've gotten my share of fun experiences
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and just really incredible people.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Well, I'm really dying to know how many takes when
the gotcha girls would come across the stage did you
have to do when you weren't losing it? Or was
it always like able to roll with it? I mean
that always kills me every time.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Oh, I don't know how many takes. I mean, it's
hard to say. It's usually like, I don't know, three
or four takes of things that they were just getting.
And of course when you do it, it's like they
do the wide shot, they do the medium shot, they
do close up shots, so you're actually doing the same
scene multiple times, right, and then they put it all together.
(14:27):
But yeah, we certainly had our laughs. The tough times
is when you can't stop, you know, if you get
into I'm sure you all have had those times where
you just, you know, laughter hits that funny bone so hard.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Yeah, you get the giggles and you can't.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
You just can't. It's like, you know, my cousin and
I when we used to go to church together, It's
like we'd always end up having to leave the church, right,
you just couldn't come back, you know. Well, yeah, it
too hard.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
And it's interesting to you on Mad TV and some
of the clips that are out there on YouTube now
our clips were you actually were laughing and I couldn't
stop because yeah, whoever you were working with was pretty funny.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Yeah, funny, so hard not to laugh so hard. I
mean they used to take bets when you know, yeah,
how long it would take before I would crack up,
And man, I would do everything I could just try
to try and win win those bets, but uh, I
think I lost every time.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Well, you were entertaining either way. Yes, So where did
the character, because it.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Was developed over time, where did Joan Calametso come from?
I mean, what did you draw on your.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
They wrote her, they wrote her, yeah, and I auditioned
for it.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
So we're not going to break news like your.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Alcohol from my friends and I. You know, we used
to watch like those kind of sad cable access shows
that we're out there. Yeah, I used to love those.
They were just so odd and kitchy, and so it
kind of kind of just drew from that for the
character just pretending to be professional you don't know what
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you're doing. That's where I started with Joan. And of
course over time producers and writers realize that they could
expand the character with me because like every time I
chow to set, Amy Poehler would just say, most here,
keep the camera rolling because of the improv. You know,
(16:20):
it's like until they say cut, I'm gonna keep going.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Okay, Yeah, yeah, I love that. That's full support and yeah,
you know what I mean, letting you shine and do
your things.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
And it's all about First of all, there were no
egos on this show, because when the captain of the
ship Amy has no ego, you can't come aboard and
have an ego yourself, you know. So it was a
great playground. It was just a fantastic playground. And it's
you know, when you when you let when you let
the cameras go beyond the script and such. You're essentially
(16:53):
mining for comedy gold and usually find some, you know,
and then you have that for in the editing. It's great.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Well, I mean I can only speak as a parent, like,
listen when you hear your kids belly laughing from the
other room and you're on in the other room.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
And they you know, So it was it was classic.
It was good and you could tell, you could tell,
So thanks for sharing that story.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Yeah. Well, you know, I always say, if you're gonna
be doing comedy making comedy, you should probably be having
fun doing it. Is I just kind of feel like
that's going to come across if you don't. I've been
on some things I don't specifically remember what, but it
was like, yeah, this isn't very this isn't fun, you guys,
this isn't supposed to be comedy. Let's have fun, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
For sure.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Yeah, that should be the main rule.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Yeah, if you're not having fun, I don't know how
you can be funny. Actually yeah, well and what's not
so fun? But you hit you hit on it. So
that's kind of a You've been in a tough business,
I mean, the ups and downs. How have you stayed
grounded and gone through the years. You know, and no
matter who you are, you can win an Academy award
one year and the next year it's like, oh, who's that?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
I mean, so what super calling me grounded? That feels
really good.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I just met you, but I that Yeah, she's that.
Say you want to see the contrast right here you are?
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Yeah, I mean it's yeah. You know, a lot of
the resilience in this business is about what you're doing
when you're not working, and that's been most of my career.
Most of my career is not working. You know, that's
just fact. So yeah, I've certainly had my moments of
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going crazy, and you know, you try and keep busy,
trying to and now it's like I have not really
I have not worked on camera for a couple of years,
and not a lot of auditions coming through either. So
I paint I've.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Gone back to what you're doing right now, to when
you are you know, yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
I mean I've been an artist all my life. I
thought that was actually what I was going to be.
And you know, I joke that I'm not actually going
to Plan B. I'm going back to Plan ah.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
That's a good way to put it.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
You know, it makes it less sad.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
This was plan A all along.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
It was plan A. You know.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
So what are you painting?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I'm in my studio painting every day. I have my websites,
I sell, I do commissions.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Wow like that.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yeah, you need to come to Round Top, Texas.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yeah, that's a whole different story.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Yeah, that's very Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
We couldn't paint anything, Monica.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
No, I can't paint. I can't sing, I can't dance.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
It's a sad state of my fear.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
But I can write. I wrote a book. So there
was quite an experience in and of itself.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Well, I have questions about you being a mom. Just
be because we are inside the mom's club and we
do talk to a lot of people, whether you know
they have kids or not. But I'd love to hear
about were you that football mom? Did you you know,
did you do it all? And if we were to
ask your son, what would he say about you as
a mom and parenting?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Well he's very quiet, but yeah, I was a very
active mom, even though you know, like I was working
man TV for you know, from what five to ten
years old? I think he was three I don't know. Yeah,
a lot of the years I was working, and you know,
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there would be times I would I didn't. I never
had a nanny or anything like that. That's the Minnesota
and me, yes, you you raise your own children. And
so there will be times I'd have to leave the
makeup chair, you know, halfway into Doreen Larkin and go
pick up my kid from school and I bring him
back to the studio. Yeah, and you know I had
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stuff for him to do in my room. But he
was also I was the only mom on that show,
and so it was really cool how everybody just sort
of they were all the aunts and uncles of my kid.
It was great, Like he'd spend time up in hair
and makeup. They'd do his hair, they'd dress him up
in capes and all this fun stuff. So he got
to experience that. But he was also my son was
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very athletic, and so he was in all the sports,
all of them, and he was really good. So you know,
he would get like brought into these more private baseball
leagues and stuff like that, and so it was a lot. Man,
it was a lot a lot of taking him around
to practice and games. And then he was captain of
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the football team in high school. He was a quarterback.
So I went to the trauma being that mom up
in the stands and watching your kid get hit.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Oh yeah, that's not easy.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Yeah, that was not easy. Two concussions.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Was a baseball mom, so I totally get the whole thing.
So I was team mom, So I had to collect
everybody's birth certificates and then make sure make sure the
other team wasn't cheating by putting kids on who professed
to be nine but had mustaches, and we were like,
I don't think that's actually a real birth certificate.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
So but so you did all that I got, because
that's a.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Lot I did, and I did, and I really liked
being the mom that had all the kids over to
her house. Yeah ay, so I can kind of keep
tabs on what my son is doing. But a lot
of the kids on our block did not have the
same you know, security sure that my son did. And
(22:42):
so there are even times, you know, like where we
had for a while, one of his friend's mother was
she was she was in prison, and it just sort
of happened and he was left at our house and
I'm like, well, I guess you I guess you're staying
spending the night year. For he spent almost a year here.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
But that's that's sort of what our household was was
just an open place for a safe place for These
are all boys, you know, and I loved it, like
the slumber parties. And and then my son a bunch
of them they formed a band, and so they had
the garage. They played the band, and then they had
(23:27):
gigs down in Hollywood even and I had a tahoe
at the time, and so I get all the instruments
in my car and take them to their gigs. I
liked being that mom.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Yeah, I mean so far, you've got to figure it out.
A you know, you need a village to raise your kid.
I'm a big believer in that. And then you have
them all over to your house. I mean, you get
to know them, and you get to keep tabs on them.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I think that, you.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Know, I try to keep that thing about women is
that we are also within each and every one of us,
an entire village.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
That's true. That is so true.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Well, and so our show kind of got started is
we're there's five of us who are really close friends. Yeah,
through our kids, and so we're sort of the mom's club,
even though we're just really good friends.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
But since you were such an involved mom.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Did you have a group of mom friends who you know,
you got close to or did you find some moms
that would always, you know, say, you know.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Oh, bless her heart. What was it like with the
other moms?
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Well, a lot of them didn't have another a mom
that was available. So I did not meet a lot
of the moms. Oh, to be honest, you know, I
had friends at the games and stuff. You know, we
sit in the bleachers and talk.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Yeah, a group of friends. Now you're close girlfriends just
oh tight.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Love it.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Yeah, it's a smaller circle. Yeah, you know, it's like
I don't I don't feel this need to just be
everybody's you know, on everybody's list. I just don't need
that anymore. Sure my list is tight.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Yeah, it changes, it becomes more intimate and more you
get to be more real, you get.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
To be more honest, and yeah, you need all that
other fluff. I totally agree with you. Yeah for sure.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Well what's what what's your next act? The being a
famous artist? And remember artist?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
That sounds good. I like that.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
That sounds good. Look. It's like, you know, I'm I
don't ever cut off any of my limbs as it were.
It's like, I'm a lot of things. Mo is short
for more and in the meantime, you know, I'm I
am pushing my art and doing my stuff with that.
But you know, if any if, at any time, some
director producer wants to pull me out Betty White Jennifer
(25:43):
Coolidge style and put me to work on camera again.
Mm hmm, where to find me?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
For sure? I can speak. I would love to see that,
for sure.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Yeah, I would love to see that too, Yes, because
I don't I don't feel like I'm done there, and
God knows, I've got more character qualities now than ever, you.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Know, sitting up straight, Yeah, for sure. So what are
you painting? I'm really curious, like what are you painting?
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Things?
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Is it? You know? It's I work in oil. I
work in acrylic a lot. Yeah, my work is not
put into a box kind of like just just like
my acting, you can't kind of can't put me into box.
I do a lot of abstract stuff. Lately, a lot
of people have been having me do abstract wilderness stuff.
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I do a lot of heads, I just call them heads,
but they're they're honestly just kind of like characters, which
is funny because I'm also a character actor. But I
call them heads. They're abstract. Yeah, I paint whatever I'm
working on a I just got a trip tick, which
is three pieces of art that go together. Got a
commission to do that.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
I like it.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Yeah. Yeah, So so.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I have one question for you besides the art.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
I just read a little while ago this morning that
the Dances with the Stars list came out? Would that
be today? I saw that Eric Roberts signed up. If
anybody ever tapped you for that, would you do Dances
with the stars?
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Not with my knees?
Speaker 5 (27:18):
We'd have to keep hit on the ground, right like Yeah,
I mean, unless they.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Just want to over time. I just don't know that
it's feasible.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
To be honestly, Miracles happened. Miracles happen. So I just
thought it was funny that, Yeah, the list came out.
I wonder if Moe would sign up for that.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
I wouldn't sign up for it, No, yeah, but you
might do it? Maybe maybe, I hear, Yeah, what's the number?
Would it afford me new knees?
Speaker 4 (27:53):
We'll put a plug in for you.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Well, there you could. Yeah, it could be sponsored by
some you know, medtronics.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
They can replace you and put you on Dancing with
the Stars and say look at her.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
She's like the first round. It's like Collins is down.
But at least I could say I did it. We'll
take that check.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Yeah, absolutely love that.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Well, we have some women and young women who would
like to ask you some questions the way they are
our zoomer moms and our zoomer daughters a special treat
this time. So welcome Zoomer mom and Zoomer daughters. Welcome
to the Mom's Club. Well, hello, ladies, and we are
(28:39):
so glad to have you introduce yourself. Tell us a
little bit about yourself, and then do you have a
question for Moe Monroe.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Welcome to the Mom's Club.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
I know, there you go.
Speaker 6 (28:52):
I am doing well. It is such a pleasure to
meet you. Be junkie, a mad TV job. I like
being able to do something on a whim, and you
are awesome at that. So I want to tell you
that first, but I want what I want to ask
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you is what is it on your bucket list as
it relates to acting that you would like to tackle
in your career at this point in your life.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Drama, Yeah, you know, I do. I want to do drama.
I want to do things. I mean, yeah, I do
feel like I'm headed into more character and more richer
characters to do. I'd love to do some. I mean,
even if it's like some like not gory horror, but
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a thriller or something where I'm some evil woman. I
think that would be super fun to do. I like
playing broken people really, yeah, awesome? Yeah, I like broken
people underlings? Is that the right way to say it. Yeah.
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I like doing those kinds of characters, you know, bringing
them to light.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
That's that's so what So that's interesting. So Lorraine on
Mad TV was funny but sort of you could have
it's a little bit broken, right, I mean that you
know you find her when there.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
That she's broken. You know. That's the thing about broken people.
It's often perception that they are broken, and quite honestly,
you could look at every one of us and say broken,
you know, I mean we're all here to to break
and repair and break and repair, and you know it's
not a perfect journey. Yeah. So I like going into
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those characters, including Lorraine, and going how how do they operate?
What moves them? You know, those those things, and then
you know, I put myself into that. What similarities do
I have to that person? God knows, I'm coming to
be more and more like Lorraine all the time. Yeah, yeah,
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but yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
That's a good answer.
Speaker 7 (31:20):
Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
It wasn't expecting that.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Well we have also zoomer daughters.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
And this one more quick.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
Yeah, So have you considered that maybe this downtime is
a time where you're just really preparing for that biggest
role that you want.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
I am, do you know what I mean? It's like
I am, I am preparing. There is no direct way
in my mind to prepare other than to you know,
just keep being me and learning my lessons, and those
are the things I'll bring whenever the thing dangles itself
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and presents itself. But you know, my husband actually coined this,
and I think it's so true. Being an actors, like
you're kind of like an assassin. You always have to
be ready for when you do get that call. You know.
So those things to me mean keeping myself healthy and
(32:26):
ready to just go. You know, it's something in the
mind that is ready. That's the prep Yeah, it is
to always be ready to jump. But in the meantime,
you know, being creative is just at least keeping creativity
flowing through my old bones.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Yeah, but not only are you creative.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
I forgot to mention this that you're really involved like
with animals and yeah, do you have a certain number
of rescue dogs cats?
Speaker 2 (32:56):
I really don't know the answer to this. I just
was like, wait a second, you do a lot of yeah, saving.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Yeah, I do. I'm on the board with Stand Up
for Pits, which is a pit bull advocacy. I've been
with them from the start. We currently have Walter, who's
one hundred and sixty five pound Dane mastuff. He's huge.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I thought you're going to say one hundred and sixty
five years old, but yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Yeah, no, if he's only two, oh my god. And
then we got Beanie, who is just a hot mess
and she's an eight year old. She was bred for
eight years, dumped in the desert. She's a staffy pit
bull mix and we we deal with her. She's a lot.
There's Toodles, the cat who's still with us, who we
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literally found under our bed.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Oh yeah, yeah, like found our bed.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
We heard me owing for a couple of nights, couldn't
figure out where it was coming from, like a little
kid and us, We're looking outside out the screen door,
like where the hell is this?
Speaker 4 (33:59):
What is going to do?
Speaker 2 (34:00):
You have a new weird habit? Like why are you meowing?
Like what is that? Like? I can't imagine find a
kitten on your bed?
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Yeah, I mean, maybe that's not where he was. The
first couple nights we were hearing maybe he was outside somewhere,
but somehow maybe my other cat actually brought him in
and under the mat. No idea, But we did ultimately
find Dusty Toodles under the bed, just a little tiny kitten. Well,
so that's who lives in the house now. And then
there's Scalley Wags who's outside and we also take care
(34:29):
of him. Oh my god, that's an interesting but yeah,
we get animals here.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
It's just yeah, it's hard to say no, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Yeah, you don't say no.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
How about your story? So Julie picked up a cat
at a rest stop. His name is Sippy. So I
thought that was.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
The strangest adoption story I had heard. But yeah, finding
one under your bed that you can't cut.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Monica is going to write a book. Rest Stop Kitty.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Yes, rest Stop Kitty is one on my list of
things that I will be doing in my in my downtime,
I will ride rest.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
I just had to mention it because I forgot that,
you know. I saw a glimpse of that and.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
We all love animals. We have plenty of them, you
know in our household.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
So very important.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Yeah, and it's very healed.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
It is very cool.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
And yeah, my son has a dog that he talked
to us into letting him have. He's part Great Dane
and we think he's part Great Dane and part Beagle
because he's marked like a beagle. But he's and he's
just he's hyper and he's destructive at times. And he
even we even had an incident recently. I was kicking
(35:29):
a ball for him and I accidentally kicked it where
he bit my leg and so I ended up in
the er and I had my sins like, don't tell
them Max bit you.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
They will take him down.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
I said, I will cover for Max if you do
one favor for me, and that is if you take
Max to the vet, because I did kick him in
the face. You explain that my mother did not mean
to kick my dog in the fright. One of us
want to go to prison over this. Yeah, so we've
had some but but it means very important.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
I think that's great that you do that. That is amazing,
And I.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Think there's nothing better than raising kids with pets.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
Oh yeah, I've been talked into snakes, ferrets, stinky Smoky.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
I could do a whole show on Stinky Smoky.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
Yeah, yeah show. Yeah, that's for sure.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
Hamsters that didn't make it very long, you know, not
mentioning anyone on the show that.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Waited to teach and show empathy, you know.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
One hundred people.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Well, and speaking of that, on the show today, we
have a Zoomer. We have two Zoomer daughters, and one
of them is Julie's daughter, and so we were so
excited to have her because like my son, Well, one
time I posted something on Instagram and I saw a
comment and it said I believe it was from him.
I believe I may have a lawsuit for definition. So
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he is not allowed on the show yet.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
Well he kind of figures that out.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
But we were so happy to have Georgia on the
show today.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
So, Georgia, do you have a question for mo.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
She is beaming. It's so amazing to finally meet you.
Speaker 7 (37:05):
And I had no idea that I was going to
get to talk to you this week, but I'm a
part Trek fan, and when I put it together that
you were Joan Kalams was your character, it was amazing
and her character arch throughout the entire show is really
really impressive, and that shows how much skill you have.
(37:29):
You talked a bit about the positive experience that you
had working on that set, and as somebody who's going into, well,
my first job out of college and I'm going in
and working with a lot of people and meeting them,
can you talk a bit about.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
What a really positive, like.
Speaker 7 (37:48):
Really positive work environment in the studio and what it's
like to you know, want to work with people and.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
What kind of I.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Think I think part of what it is is, you know,
if what was so great about going there was that
the people that are there all the time, the series
regular cast, the crew, the directors, producers and stuff. They're
so welcoming, right, you know, It's like they don't treat
you like some other You're brought in like a cousin
or something to the party. And I think that any
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workplace can do that. It's how you welcome people. It's
how you make them feel comfortable, ask them questions about themselves,
you know, engage and beyond anything, it's just be considerate.
It's just so simple. Consider other people, be considerate, be kind,
(38:43):
and engage.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
Yeah, that's great, it's.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
A great Yeah, engage.
Speaker 7 (38:47):
Was that really funny to be really mean to Amy
Poehler or the normal basis?
Speaker 3 (38:55):
I know, jn't.
Speaker 7 (38:56):
I mean, it's the nicest people play funniest villains.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
I know. Oh we would just howl after a take,
you know, And I mean there was some time where
I would just be like, oh, Amy, I feel just
you know, and just give her a hug or something, because.
Speaker 7 (39:14):
Yeah, but the worst you made her feel, the more
funny it was to the audience.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
Oh yeah, and the harder we would laugh when the
take was over. You know. It's just like we talked
like just so rotten, like Joan was just so rotten,
you know. But I would be sure to you know,
jump right back into myself afterwards. I did not want
to be misconstrued. But I mean, I have a history
(39:40):
of playing some real bitchy characters, you know. I just
I don't know, I'm good at it. I don't know
what to say.
Speaker 7 (39:50):
About ever get to help write the character after a while,
or you know, include some of your improv. Say that again,
you ever get to include some of your improv or
ideas that made it in there?
Speaker 3 (40:03):
Oh? Absolutely, yeah, that's what I say. Like when Amy
said keep the camera rolling, you know, because Moe's here,
It's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, right, good stuff.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Emily, we have another daughter here. He's not my daughter,
she's my brother in law's daughter.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
She's my niece.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
Emily, Welcome to the Mom's Club. Do you have a
question for mo?
Speaker 2 (40:25):
Hello?
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Yes, I was wondering what the most rewarding experience or
role in your career has been.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Get to reach deep today?
Speaker 3 (40:39):
Yeah, it's always a hard question because, like I say,
it's like moments with people. But but doing Sarah on
Fear of the Walking Dead was a very deeply personal journey.
I would say. She was just this badass and like
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I was cast as Sarah when I was fifty three
and after my first season, my my cancer came back
and I didn't tell anybody just because denial it was
a big part of my program. But Sarah gave me
(41:23):
so much strength, you know, I just I drew from her.
And so even like you know, when I was home
or whatever and feeling weak from because I was on
a chemo pill for years and just feeling like poop,
and I was like, I can say the other here,
I would have Sarah take me for a walk, you know,
(41:46):
and I would literally go out, take on her stature
and feel her strength and go for a walk, and
then I would feel strong. So that was just this
really beautiful symbiotic relationship that I had with Sarah and
vice verse. It's like Sarah being as hot kind of
hard as she was, I brought MO into her and
(42:08):
softened her in some interesting ways, only because like half
the time in sad scenes, I couldn't MO became overly
emotional and it was just and my emotions would come
through Sarah. But so that that was a very satisfying
and the other the other side of it, of course,
(42:28):
was those were super duper hard, hard days, Like that
is the hardest job I ever did. Like we're talking
sixteen eighteen hour days out in whether it's heat cold.
We weren't in trailers, we weren't in nice comfy places.
You know. It's like between takes. I'm squatting in the
(42:49):
grass or whatever, like watching out for scorpions because we
shot in Austin, Texas.
Speaker 4 (42:54):
I did it.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
But at the end of you know, I remember, just
like one time particular, pulled into the hotel room eight
in the morning, you know, and and I just took
a moment to congratulate myself, you know, for because I knew,
I knew what I was going through with my health
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and and that I did it so well. I got
through it all so well, and so those are that's
a great victory, right like when we have those moments
where you just you just get through some tough stuff
and you're like, I didn't It's that's just about one
(43:39):
of the coolest things you can walk away with in
any aspect of life, when you go I did it,
and then it's character building. It becomes who you are.
And of course, as my body gets weaker and weaker
and weaker, I know I'm more badass than ever because
I did those things. I've gone through those things, and
I am more resilient as a result. I should end
(44:00):
this by saying I am cancer free.
Speaker 4 (44:02):
Yes, congratulations, yay.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
I love that.
Speaker 5 (44:08):
I was going to ask you when you you know,
the kids asked you a question is like, you know,
as a mom and especially my daughter being on the
show today, I was like, well, what advice, But you
need to say no more because everything that you just
said to these young ladies who are you know, in
their young twenties, you draw from the strengths around you,
and you know what I mean, engage Like all of
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this is excellent advice. It's not a perfect road, and
everything you just said, I just feel like I went
to church.
Speaker 4 (44:34):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
Yeah, And I think I was like, I think you
fully said Minnesota is nice.
Speaker 2 (44:40):
That's right what.
Speaker 3 (44:43):
I wanted to clear up.
Speaker 4 (44:44):
You proved it right here by being on the show.
Will weak so much, you know, it's.
Speaker 3 (44:48):
Like that's what life is you young ones listening. It's like,
it's about finding out your capacity in life.
Speaker 4 (44:56):
Right.
Speaker 3 (44:57):
Hard things are only put in front of you because
the universe knows before you do that you can get
through it. And then you get through it and you go,
holy crap, I got through it, and I'm better for it.
I'm bigger, I've expanded my capacity for life. Yeah, yep,
big stuff.
Speaker 4 (45:18):
Thanks, great great advice.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
George is taking notes like she's in past. She's like,
hold on, can you say that again?
Speaker 4 (45:24):
She can listen to podcast your capacity for life exactly.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
Well, we want to thank our zoomer moms and zoomer
daughters here. Great to have you. You guys have been ladies. Amazing. Yeah,
awesome questions. We'll have to have zoomer daughters on more often.
They've greatly and the zoomer mom.
Speaker 2 (45:47):
I learned from.
Speaker 5 (45:48):
I learned from everyone's kids. I learned from my own.
They are my greatest teachers, you know, even when I
don't want to.
Speaker 4 (45:54):
Admit it on camera.
Speaker 1 (45:57):
Well, mo, where can we find your art? Where can
they people find you on social media and get your
art and commission you. I was gonna send you a
picture of Julie's head and maybe you can do an
abstract for me.
Speaker 2 (46:09):
We can give it to your for birthday.
Speaker 3 (46:11):
That Yeah. My website is mocollinsart dot com. Pretty simple,
and on Instagram, I have my you know, just sort
of my page, but then I also separately have at
mocollins art on the Instagram site.
Speaker 4 (46:26):
Okay, well, Gret, that's.
Speaker 3 (46:27):
Where I do a lot of fun videos and stuff
and show how I work and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (46:31):
Oh, that's great. We'll check it out with moms out there.
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I have a problem, and I think that's gonna solve it.
Speaker 4 (47:52):
So I'm very excited about that.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
Well, we will be back next time with celebrities and
extraordinary moms just like you. We know your me time
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so much. Oh and remember our motto, as you're out
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gonna cry. You do not want to cry if you
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you next time inside the Mom's Club.
Hi, Welcome to inside the Mom's Club, where being a
mom is the coolest place to be. Here in the
Mom's Club, we believe that what embarrasses you now will
make a great story later. And let's face it, you
don't laugh sometimes you're gonna cry. Join us in having
a good laugh together. I'm Monica Samuels. You are now
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inside the Mom's Club, your private destination for all things mom. Okay,
welcome moms. Welcome to inside the Mom's Club. I'm your host,
Monica Samuels, and I'm here with my cost Julie Orchid.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Well, hey, Monica, this is a different look today.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
It is.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
I found these great legs. I'm always looking for my
shop like crazy. I'll buy it pretty much anything. As
evidence by that the fact I'm wearing these I found
these gray glasses because for those in podcast world, I'm
wearing glasses that around the rim says bless your heart.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Now I have a different definition of what that means.
But why are you wearing bless your heart glasses today?
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Okay? This is how you use them. I figured it out.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Okay, Okay, so as we all know, for those who
are not from the South, bless your heart means well. Okay,
So my mother sometimes when I'm not feeling well.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
So she'll say bless your heart. She does not mean that.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
In the South though, there's another way to say it,
which is well, bless your heart, which is not nice.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
So I don't think I can say it on the
She's glass.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
This is the great thing.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
So so, for example, yesterday I had a very belligerent,
arrogant TSA officer who was giving me a hard time
because I just tried to push my bin because it
wasn't moving, and he wheeled around. It told me that
just because I'm pre checked does not mean I'm entitled.
Whatever that means my complaint to the complate department at TSA.
(02:08):
We'll determine what that really means.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Right it.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Had I had my glasses handy, you could have just
got because you can't say anything to these people, right,
so I could have just said.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Exactly. I think it would have gotten the message.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
You think, you know anytime you feel like saying it,
but you know that that wouldn't be a good idea.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
I think it's great. I think most people would get
the message.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Well, we have.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Had a little bit of time off and now we're
back we're back in La filming our podcast. We're super
excited to be here. But I have to say getting
back into it, the whole thing of flying again yesterday
and coming and doing all this, like people that barge
all the way from the back to the front to
get off first, and they're taking your head off with
oh here, all.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
You need is you bless your heart, the glasses to.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
You.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Thanks, very fashionable.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
All right, back into it has been a you know, well, Tony.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
When I when I look at this, so bless your heart.
That that just started me? Can me think about so
they had so I did some tiktoks and you did
them with me. Actually where we the word demure has
been a like popular thing and somebody told me, oh,
you know what, demure is a bad thing.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
It's not a good thing, which really, well.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
It's kind of setting us back late is back a
little bit.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I think if so he's like, oh, you don't want
to be demure.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Now it's a play on words. It's been a fun
week doing it.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Well it was fun, but so but then that so
then so my son is not dating a lovely girl
from Minneapolis.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
She's so sweet, very nice.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
And I did my book tour years ago. I went
to Minneapolis and then someone told me the other day
Minnesota nice is not nice?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Is that it's passive aggressive?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I don't know about that. Park and I have to say.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Had nothing but good experiences in Minneapol. And of course, uh,
my son's girlfriend, assuming that's still his girlfriend.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
I don't know what article you were reading, but where
we need to find out if that's true.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
You know, we have an expert.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Oh, we have an expert here today who can tell
us all about that.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
And not only that.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
She has had an impressive improv and sketch comedy career.
She was among the cast of Mad TV, where she
created characters like Lorraine Yes and Stuart's mom who I
think is his named Jerene. But I can't remember exactly.
But my favorite character and I can. I don't want
say I can relate to it because that would not
that that would sound terrible. But it was Joan Callametzo
(04:38):
on Parks and Recreation, where she was the host of
Pawnee Today, Money Today, and I always enjoyed saying that
I wish we had some Gotcha some Gotcha girls show.
She is an Emmy nominee and she's qualified as the
Mom's Club. She's the mother of one son. Please welcome,
Moe Collins. Welcome to the Mom's play Low Mo, Well,
(05:03):
straighten this out for us. Is Minnesota nice?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Nice?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Well that's what I thought. Somebody said, Oh, that's passive aggressive.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I'm like, what being nice? Your pat What does that mean?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
I think it's nice? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Minnesota people in general, Yeah, yeah, they're very nice. Yeah.
In fact, like right now, I've been so excited because
through Tim Walls, people are seeing the true character of Minnesota.
Through him, he's the epitome. Like it's just so I
love watching him because I'm like, yeah, that's.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
Like community, changing your tire in the snow, like all
of that.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
It's a true story.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Truth.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Well, it's a true story. I mean it's coined because
it's true, you know. I mean it's true. Which isn't
to say that there aren't bad people everywhere and assholes everywhere. Yeah,
there's a general rule. Minnesota is a very kind place.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
There you go. I really enjoyed it. When I went
on my book tour. It was jew so it was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
And I thought, wow, I'd like to live here. And
then someone else said, well, do you see all those
tunnels are those you know? You may not be so
I'm from Texas, so that might be hard. But and
in fairness, the person who told me that about Minnesota
and ice was actually from another local state.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
And maybe they weren't so nice.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Well they also well, I kind of wonder what's going
on up there because this person's from Wisconsin, and they
also don't like people from Illinois.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
So maybe there's a state.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Thing going on there. But yes, I've had nothing but
good experiences.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
So I think we all need to straighten that out.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Unlike bless your heart, which will never be redeemed, as
I saying, trust me, So tell so you are from Minneapolis,
and tell us how your career took you from Minneapolis
to all of the amazing things you've done. When you
just touched on your career, it's been it's been amazing,
as we say here on the Mom's Club.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Thanks well. I mean, when my son was two, I
had come out to LA and friends and myself we'd
written a show and put it up, and you know,
I was really dreaming of living in Los Angeles, And
when my son was too I did. I sold the house,
packed him up in a U haul with the three
cats and headed out to LA and within the first
(07:15):
year I got mad TV. So it was the right
choice because ultimately I did it. You know, It's like
if I was going to lead by example with my child, Yeah,
I had to show him what it looked like to
go for it and to go for your dreams and
do what you love and be who you are.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
And does he say that he looks back he was two,
you know what I mean, like over your career that
he's so glad that you went for it and did
everything that you did. I mean he's adult, an adult now, right.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Yeah, he's twenty nine. It's not like he has anything
to compare it to because he was too young to
remember life in Minnesota. So for him, he's just he's
in La yep, person and that's really all he's ever known.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
So he he's glad. He loves it here.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
So does he live here?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Amazing, that's cool.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
He lives up in Beechwood Canyon.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Yeah, it would be nice for adult children to live
in the same town.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
He just recently moved from an apartment across the street
where he lived for six or seven years, and that
was nice. Too. Even though I didn't see him a lot,
I still just like to see his car park down
the street or the light on in his apartment. I
was like a.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Comfort that saves you from having to check life three
sixty all the time, like.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Here, Oh, I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Yeah, every day.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Did you do improv in Minneapolis or so that's where
you started?
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Because improv?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I started doing improv in eighth grade.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
And then after kind of getting asked to leave college
a little early, Oh, and I didn't know what to
do with my life. I remember improv that thing that
I loved. And there's a company up in Minneapolis, much
like Groundlings or Second City. And I signed up for
Dudley Riggs Bring New Workshop in Minneapolis and sign up
for classes, and then got into the touring company, and
(09:11):
before you know it, I had a check and I
was with people I love. Yeah, you know, it's on
my my hive and it just went on from there.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Now, for those moms out there who don't know, so
explain a little bit how improv works, Like it takes
a really do you have to be really smart and
on your toes to be successful at that?
Speaker 4 (09:30):
I would think, I don't.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Know if you have to be really smart, Well.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
That's good news. You aren't smart.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
No, you have to be I don't know, have a
certain level of three, I guess I don't know.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Quick.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
But improv is you know, you get suggestions from the
audience and then you create a scene out of nothing.
It's theater without a net. So yeah, that's really all
it is, and anybody can do it.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
When did you know that improv was like in your blood,
like your you know, dear friend, like that you just
like ate it up.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
How did you know you had the ninth grade?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
In eighth grade? I mean, up until that point, everybody
knew me as Maureen. I was a very painfully shy person.
And then the the theater teacher, mister Hermiting, he he
was in the busy hall of the Junior high that year.
He goes hey, mo, and I'm like, oh my god,
(10:35):
whoever he is, I would not want to be him. Yeah,
because mister Hermiting had a big, booming, scary voice and
he was pointing at me and he goes, yeah, you
get over here and sign up for this. And it
was for it was to be a part of a
you know, we would write sketches, we would learn improv
and do improv and perform, and he basically in he
(10:57):
kind of split my personality for me and made space
for Mo this other part of who I am, this
creative gave MO the freedom to do this. I was
able to kind of just separate my shy self from
what he saw in me, and then I built it
from there. So, I mean, honestly, I fell in love
(11:18):
with it in eighth grade and it's been my BAF
ever since.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Have you found it a lot?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Because you heard this a lot people that are pretty.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Shy are actually some of the best comedians and entertainers
that do that are really shy people like in their
own lives, they don't like they're not out there all
the time, which is kind of funny too, because people
expect them then when they see them in public to think.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Oh, this, she's gotta be hilarious.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Because she's as yeah yeah, and the opposite com he's
had too. A lot of the loud miles out there
that think they're funny.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Oh yeah, so funny.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yeah. But I do think that, and I say this
a lot about people in comedy is that at the
root of it is this desire to be taken seriously, right,
and it's it's a tool to that, I guess. But
and I mean, if you are shy, it's a tool
to it's it's like another persona to step away from
(12:13):
your your shy self and get out and get your
ideas out.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Yeah, So if your child is sort of introverted, you
might want to explore that a little bit with them.
Maybe they maybe they mean improv theater, Yeah, do some
things that they can kind of be outside of themselves,
which is a great thing. Well, here on the Mom's Club,
we our motto is if you don't laugh, sometimes you're
gonna cry.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
So we're all about laughter.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
And in Mad TV you delivered it all the time.
So what was your I mean, humor and comedy. Have
you ever thought about trying more dramatic stuff or you're
like you think comedy.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Is Yeah, I have. I mean the last job I
really had was Fear of the Walking Dead. Oh yeah,
that was AMA series. And I've done other sporadic drama
projects over the years, and yeah, I want to do
it all. Unfortunately, you know, Hollywood doesn't love me right now,
so it's.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Just not it's a hard it's a hard business.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Do you have a favorite like, do you have a
favorite role, favorite audition.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
That you were like? Really, you know, I was able
to dive into I dive.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Into everything I do. That's just that's me. When I work,
I'm a diver. I give two hundred percent. For me,
the favorite parts are just the moments with the people
that I've gotten to work with. Yeah, you know, like
I really have gotten to have great times with great
people like I I've gotten my share of fun experiences
(13:46):
and just really incredible people.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Well, I'm really dying to know how many takes when
the gotcha girls would come across the stage did you
have to do when you weren't losing it? Or was
it always like able to roll with it? I mean
that always kills me every time.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Oh, I don't know how many takes. I mean, it's
hard to say. It's usually like, I don't know, three
or four takes of things that they were just getting.
And of course when you do it, it's like they
do the wide shot, they do the medium shot, they
do close up shots, so you're actually doing the same
scene multiple times, right, and then they put it all together.
(14:27):
But yeah, we certainly had our laughs. The tough times
is when you can't stop, you know, if you get
into I'm sure you all have had those times where
you just, you know, laughter hits that funny bone so hard.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Yeah, you get the giggles and you can't.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
You just can't. It's like, you know, my cousin and
I when we used to go to church together, It's
like we'd always end up having to leave the church, right,
you just couldn't come back, you know. Well, yeah, it
too hard.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
And it's interesting to you on Mad TV and some
of the clips that are out there on YouTube now
our clips were you actually were laughing and I couldn't
stop because yeah, whoever you were working with was pretty funny.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Yeah, funny, so hard not to laugh so hard. I
mean they used to take bets when you know, yeah,
how long it would take before I would crack up,
And man, I would do everything I could just try
to try and win win those bets, but uh, I
think I lost every time.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Well, you were entertaining either way. Yes, So where did
the character, because it.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Was developed over time, where did Joan Calametso come from?
I mean, what did you draw on your.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
They wrote her, they wrote her, yeah, and I auditioned
for it.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
So we're not going to break news like your.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Alcohol from my friends and I. You know, we used
to watch like those kind of sad cable access shows
that we're out there. Yeah, I used to love those.
They were just so odd and kitchy, and so it
kind of kind of just drew from that for the
character just pretending to be professional you don't know what
(16:00):
you're doing. That's where I started with Joan. And of
course over time producers and writers realize that they could
expand the character with me because like every time I
chow to set, Amy Poehler would just say, most here,
keep the camera rolling because of the improv. You know,
(16:20):
it's like until they say cut, I'm gonna keep going.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Okay, Yeah, yeah, I love that. That's full support and yeah,
you know what I mean, letting you shine and do
your things.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
And it's all about First of all, there were no
egos on this show, because when the captain of the
ship Amy has no ego, you can't come aboard and
have an ego yourself, you know. So it was a
great playground. It was just a fantastic playground. And it's
you know, when you when you let when you let
the cameras go beyond the script and such. You're essentially
(16:53):
mining for comedy gold and usually find some, you know,
and then you have that for in the editing. It's great.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Well, I mean I can only speak as a parent, like,
listen when you hear your kids belly laughing from the
other room and you're on in the other room.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
And they you know, So it was it was classic.
It was good and you could tell, you could tell,
So thanks for sharing that story.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Yeah. Well, you know, I always say, if you're gonna
be doing comedy making comedy, you should probably be having
fun doing it. Is I just kind of feel like
that's going to come across if you don't. I've been
on some things I don't specifically remember what, but it
was like, yeah, this isn't very this isn't fun, you guys,
this isn't supposed to be comedy. Let's have fun, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
For sure.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Yeah, that should be the main rule.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Yeah, if you're not having fun, I don't know how
you can be funny. Actually yeah, well and what's not
so fun? But you hit you hit on it. So
that's kind of a You've been in a tough business,
I mean, the ups and downs. How have you stayed
grounded and gone through the years. You know, and no
matter who you are, you can win an Academy award
one year and the next year it's like, oh, who's that?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
I mean, so what super calling me grounded? That feels
really good.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I just met you, but I that Yeah, she's that.
Say you want to see the contrast right here you are?
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Yeah, I mean it's yeah. You know, a lot of
the resilience in this business is about what you're doing
when you're not working, and that's been most of my career.
Most of my career is not working. You know, that's
just fact. So yeah, I've certainly had my moments of
(18:39):
going crazy, and you know, you try and keep busy,
trying to and now it's like I have not really
I have not worked on camera for a couple of years,
and not a lot of auditions coming through either. So
I paint I've.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Gone back to what you're doing right now, to when
you are you know, yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
I mean I've been an artist all my life. I
thought that was actually what I was going to be.
And you know, I joke that I'm not actually going
to Plan B. I'm going back to Plan ah.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
That's a good way to put it.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
You know, it makes it less sad.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
This was plan A all along.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
It was plan A. You know.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
So what are you painting?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I'm in my studio painting every day. I have my websites,
I sell, I do commissions.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Wow like that.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yeah, you need to come to Round Top, Texas.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yeah, that's a whole different story.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Yeah, that's very Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
We couldn't paint anything, Monica.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
No, I can't paint. I can't sing, I can't dance.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
It's a sad state of my fear.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
But I can write. I wrote a book. So there
was quite an experience in and of itself.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Well, I have questions about you being a mom. Just
be because we are inside the mom's club and we
do talk to a lot of people, whether you know
they have kids or not. But I'd love to hear
about were you that football mom? Did you you know,
did you do it all? And if we were to
ask your son, what would he say about you as
a mom and parenting?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Well he's very quiet, but yeah, I was a very
active mom, even though you know, like I was working
man TV for you know, from what five to ten
years old? I think he was three I don't know. Yeah,
a lot of the years I was working, and you know,
(20:38):
there would be times I would I didn't. I never
had a nanny or anything like that. That's the Minnesota
and me, yes, you you raise your own children. And
so there will be times I'd have to leave the
makeup chair, you know, halfway into Doreen Larkin and go
pick up my kid from school and I bring him
back to the studio. Yeah, and you know I had
(21:01):
stuff for him to do in my room. But he
was also I was the only mom on that show,
and so it was really cool how everybody just sort
of they were all the aunts and uncles of my kid.
It was great, Like he'd spend time up in hair
and makeup. They'd do his hair, they'd dress him up
in capes and all this fun stuff. So he got
to experience that. But he was also my son was
(21:23):
very athletic, and so he was in all the sports,
all of them, and he was really good. So you know,
he would get like brought into these more private baseball
leagues and stuff like that, and so it was a lot. Man,
it was a lot a lot of taking him around
to practice and games. And then he was captain of
(21:45):
the football team in high school. He was a quarterback.
So I went to the trauma being that mom up
in the stands and watching your kid get hit.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Oh yeah, that's not easy.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Yeah, that was not easy. Two concussions.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Was a baseball mom, so I totally get the whole thing.
So I was team mom, So I had to collect
everybody's birth certificates and then make sure make sure the
other team wasn't cheating by putting kids on who professed
to be nine but had mustaches, and we were like,
I don't think that's actually a real birth certificate.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
So but so you did all that I got, because
that's a.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Lot I did, and I did, and I really liked
being the mom that had all the kids over to
her house. Yeah ay, so I can kind of keep
tabs on what my son is doing. But a lot
of the kids on our block did not have the
same you know, security sure that my son did. And
(22:42):
so there are even times, you know, like where we
had for a while, one of his friend's mother was
she was she was in prison, and it just sort
of happened and he was left at our house and
I'm like, well, I guess you I guess you're staying
spending the night year. For he spent almost a year here.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
But that's that's sort of what our household was was
just an open place for a safe place for These
are all boys, you know, and I loved it, like
the slumber parties. And and then my son a bunch
of them they formed a band, and so they had
the garage. They played the band, and then they had
(23:27):
gigs down in Hollywood even and I had a tahoe
at the time, and so I get all the instruments
in my car and take them to their gigs. I
liked being that mom.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Yeah, I mean so far, you've got to figure it out.
A you know, you need a village to raise your kid.
I'm a big believer in that. And then you have
them all over to your house. I mean, you get
to know them, and you get to keep tabs on them.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I think that, you.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Know, I try to keep that thing about women is
that we are also within each and every one of us,
an entire village.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
That's true. That is so true.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Well, and so our show kind of got started is
we're there's five of us who are really close friends. Yeah,
through our kids, and so we're sort of the mom's club,
even though we're just really good friends.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
But since you were such an involved mom.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Did you have a group of mom friends who you know,
you got close to or did you find some moms
that would always, you know, say, you know.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Oh, bless her heart. What was it like with the
other moms?
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Well, a lot of them didn't have another a mom
that was available. So I did not meet a lot
of the moms. Oh, to be honest, you know, I
had friends at the games and stuff. You know, we
sit in the bleachers and talk.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Yeah, a group of friends. Now you're close girlfriends just
oh tight.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Love it.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
Yeah, it's a smaller circle. Yeah, you know, it's like
I don't I don't feel this need to just be
everybody's you know, on everybody's list. I just don't need
that anymore. Sure my list is tight.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Yeah, it changes, it becomes more intimate and more you
get to be more real, you get.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
To be more honest, and yeah, you need all that
other fluff. I totally agree with you. Yeah for sure.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Well what's what what's your next act? The being a
famous artist? And remember artist?
Speaker 2 (25:19):
That sounds good. I like that.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
That sounds good. Look. It's like, you know, I'm I
don't ever cut off any of my limbs as it were.
It's like, I'm a lot of things. Mo is short
for more and in the meantime, you know, I'm I
am pushing my art and doing my stuff with that.
But you know, if any if, at any time, some
director producer wants to pull me out Betty White Jennifer
(25:43):
Coolidge style and put me to work on camera again.
Mm hmm, where to find me?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
For sure? I can speak. I would love to see that,
for sure.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Yeah, I would love to see that too, Yes, because
I don't I don't feel like I'm done there, and
God knows, I've got more character qualities now than ever, you.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Know, sitting up straight, Yeah, for sure. So what are
you painting? I'm really curious, like what are you painting?
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Things?
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Is it? You know? It's I work in oil. I
work in acrylic a lot. Yeah, my work is not
put into a box kind of like just just like
my acting, you can't kind of can't put me into box.
I do a lot of abstract stuff. Lately, a lot
of people have been having me do abstract wilderness stuff.
(26:37):
I do a lot of heads, I just call them heads,
but they're they're honestly just kind of like characters, which
is funny because I'm also a character actor. But I
call them heads. They're abstract. Yeah, I paint whatever I'm
working on a I just got a trip tick, which
is three pieces of art that go together. Got a
commission to do that.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
I like it.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Yeah. Yeah, So so.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I have one question for you besides the art.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
I just read a little while ago this morning that
the Dances with the Stars list came out? Would that
be today? I saw that Eric Roberts signed up. If
anybody ever tapped you for that, would you do Dances
with the stars?
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Not with my knees?
Speaker 5 (27:18):
We'd have to keep hit on the ground, right like Yeah,
I mean, unless they.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Just want to over time. I just don't know that
it's feasible.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
To be honestly, Miracles happened. Miracles happen. So I just
thought it was funny that, Yeah, the list came out.
I wonder if Moe would sign up for that.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
I wouldn't sign up for it, No, yeah, but you
might do it? Maybe maybe, I hear, Yeah, what's the number?
Would it afford me new knees?
Speaker 4 (27:53):
We'll put a plug in for you.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Well, there you could. Yeah, it could be sponsored by
some you know, medtronics.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
They can replace you and put you on Dancing with
the Stars and say look at her.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
She's like the first round. It's like Collins is down.
But at least I could say I did it. We'll
take that check.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Yeah, absolutely love that.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Well, we have some women and young women who would
like to ask you some questions the way they are
our zoomer moms and our zoomer daughters a special treat
this time. So welcome Zoomer mom and Zoomer daughters. Welcome
to the Mom's Club. Well, hello, ladies, and we are
(28:39):
so glad to have you introduce yourself. Tell us a
little bit about yourself, and then do you have a
question for Moe Monroe.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Welcome to the Mom's Club.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
I know, there you go.
Speaker 6 (28:52):
I am doing well. It is such a pleasure to
meet you. Be junkie, a mad TV job. I like
being able to do something on a whim, and you
are awesome at that. So I want to tell you
that first, but I want what I want to ask
(29:14):
you is what is it on your bucket list as
it relates to acting that you would like to tackle
in your career at this point in your life.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Drama, Yeah, you know, I do. I want to do drama.
I want to do things. I mean, yeah, I do
feel like I'm headed into more character and more richer
characters to do. I'd love to do some. I mean,
even if it's like some like not gory horror, but
(29:51):
a thriller or something where I'm some evil woman. I
think that would be super fun to do. I like
playing broken people really, yeah, awesome? Yeah, I like broken
people underlings? Is that the right way to say it. Yeah.
(30:13):
I like doing those kinds of characters, you know, bringing
them to light.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
That's that's so what So that's interesting. So Lorraine on
Mad TV was funny but sort of you could have
it's a little bit broken, right, I mean that you
know you find her when there.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
That she's broken. You know. That's the thing about broken people.
It's often perception that they are broken, and quite honestly,
you could look at every one of us and say broken,
you know, I mean we're all here to to break
and repair and break and repair, and you know it's
not a perfect journey. Yeah. So I like going into
(30:57):
those characters, including Lorraine, and going how how do they operate?
What moves them? You know, those those things, and then
you know, I put myself into that. What similarities do
I have to that person? God knows, I'm coming to
be more and more like Lorraine all the time. Yeah, yeah,
(31:18):
but yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
That's a good answer.
Speaker 7 (31:20):
Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
It wasn't expecting that.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
Well we have also zoomer daughters.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
And this one more quick.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
Yeah, So have you considered that maybe this downtime is
a time where you're just really preparing for that biggest
role that you want.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
I am, do you know what I mean? It's like
I am, I am preparing. There is no direct way
in my mind to prepare other than to you know,
just keep being me and learning my lessons, and those
are the things I'll bring whenever the thing dangles itself
(32:04):
and presents itself. But you know, my husband actually coined this,
and I think it's so true. Being an actors, like
you're kind of like an assassin. You always have to
be ready for when you do get that call. You know.
So those things to me mean keeping myself healthy and
(32:26):
ready to just go. You know, it's something in the
mind that is ready. That's the prep Yeah, it is
to always be ready to jump. But in the meantime,
you know, being creative is just at least keeping creativity
flowing through my old bones.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Yeah, but not only are you creative.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
I forgot to mention this that you're really involved like
with animals and yeah, do you have a certain number
of rescue dogs cats?
Speaker 2 (32:56):
I really don't know the answer to this. I just
was like, wait a second, you do a lot of yeah, saving.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Yeah, I do. I'm on the board with Stand Up
for Pits, which is a pit bull advocacy. I've been
with them from the start. We currently have Walter, who's
one hundred and sixty five pound Dane mastuff. He's huge.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I thought you're going to say one hundred and sixty
five years old, but yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Yeah, no, if he's only two, oh my god. And
then we got Beanie, who is just a hot mess
and she's an eight year old. She was bred for
eight years, dumped in the desert. She's a staffy pit
bull mix and we we deal with her. She's a lot.
There's Toodles, the cat who's still with us, who we
(33:42):
literally found under our bed.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Oh yeah, yeah, like found our bed.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
We heard me owing for a couple of nights, couldn't
figure out where it was coming from, like a little
kid and us, We're looking outside out the screen door,
like where the hell is this?
Speaker 4 (33:59):
What is going to do?
Speaker 2 (34:00):
You have a new weird habit? Like why are you meowing?
Like what is that? Like? I can't imagine find a
kitten on your bed?
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Yeah, I mean, maybe that's not where he was. The
first couple nights we were hearing maybe he was outside somewhere,
but somehow maybe my other cat actually brought him in
and under the mat. No idea, But we did ultimately
find Dusty Toodles under the bed, just a little tiny kitten. Well,
so that's who lives in the house now. And then
there's Scalley Wags who's outside and we also take care
(34:29):
of him. Oh my god, that's an interesting but yeah,
we get animals here.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
It's just yeah, it's hard to say no, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Yeah, you don't say no.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
How about your story? So Julie picked up a cat
at a rest stop. His name is Sippy. So I
thought that was.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
The strangest adoption story I had heard. But yeah, finding
one under your bed that you can't cut.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Monica is going to write a book. Rest Stop Kitty.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Yes, rest Stop Kitty is one on my list of
things that I will be doing in my in my downtime,
I will ride rest.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
I just had to mention it because I forgot that,
you know. I saw a glimpse of that and.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
We all love animals. We have plenty of them, you
know in our household.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
So very important.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Yeah, and it's very healed.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
It is very cool.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
And yeah, my son has a dog that he talked
to us into letting him have. He's part Great Dane
and we think he's part Great Dane and part Beagle
because he's marked like a beagle. But he's and he's
just he's hyper and he's destructive at times. And he
even we even had an incident recently. I was kicking
(35:29):
a ball for him and I accidentally kicked it where
he bit my leg and so I ended up in
the er and I had my sins like, don't tell
them Max bit you.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
They will take him down.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
I said, I will cover for Max if you do
one favor for me, and that is if you take
Max to the vet, because I did kick him in
the face. You explain that my mother did not mean
to kick my dog in the fright. One of us
want to go to prison over this. Yeah, so we've
had some but but it means very important.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
I think that's great that you do that. That is amazing,
And I.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Think there's nothing better than raising kids with pets.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
Oh yeah, I've been talked into snakes, ferrets, stinky Smoky.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
I could do a whole show on Stinky Smoky.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
Yeah, yeah show. Yeah, that's for sure.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
Hamsters that didn't make it very long, you know, not
mentioning anyone on the show that.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Waited to teach and show empathy, you know.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
One hundred people.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Well, and speaking of that, on the show today, we
have a Zoomer. We have two Zoomer daughters, and one
of them is Julie's daughter, and so we were so
excited to have her because like my son, Well, one
time I posted something on Instagram and I saw a
comment and it said I believe it was from him.
I believe I may have a lawsuit for definition. So
(36:48):
he is not allowed on the show yet.
Speaker 4 (36:50):
Well he kind of figures that out.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
But we were so happy to have Georgia on the
show today.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
So, Georgia, do you have a question for mo.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
She is beaming. It's so amazing to finally meet you.
Speaker 7 (37:05):
And I had no idea that I was going to
get to talk to you this week, but I'm a
part Trek fan, and when I put it together that
you were Joan Kalams was your character, it was amazing
and her character arch throughout the entire show is really
really impressive, and that shows how much skill you have.
(37:29):
You talked a bit about the positive experience that you
had working on that set, and as somebody who's going into, well,
my first job out of college and I'm going in
and working with a lot of people and meeting them,
can you talk a bit about.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
What a really positive, like.
Speaker 7 (37:48):
Really positive work environment in the studio and what it's
like to you know, want to work with people and.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
What kind of I.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Think I think part of what it is is, you know,
if what was so great about going there was that
the people that are there all the time, the series
regular cast, the crew, the directors, producers and stuff. They're
so welcoming, right, you know, It's like they don't treat
you like some other You're brought in like a cousin
or something to the party. And I think that any
(38:21):
workplace can do that. It's how you welcome people. It's
how you make them feel comfortable, ask them questions about themselves,
you know, engage and beyond anything, it's just be considerate.
It's just so simple. Consider other people, be considerate, be kind,
(38:43):
and engage.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
Yeah, that's great, it's.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
A great Yeah, engage.
Speaker 7 (38:47):
Was that really funny to be really mean to Amy
Poehler or the normal basis?
Speaker 3 (38:55):
I know, jn't.
Speaker 7 (38:56):
I mean, it's the nicest people play funniest villains.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
I know. Oh we would just howl after a take,
you know, And I mean there was some time where
I would just be like, oh, Amy, I feel just
you know, and just give her a hug or something, because.
Speaker 7 (39:14):
Yeah, but the worst you made her feel, the more
funny it was to the audience.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
Oh yeah, and the harder we would laugh when the
take was over. You know. It's just like we talked
like just so rotten, like Joan was just so rotten,
you know. But I would be sure to you know,
jump right back into myself afterwards. I did not want
to be misconstrued. But I mean, I have a history
(39:40):
of playing some real bitchy characters, you know. I just
I don't know, I'm good at it. I don't know
what to say.
Speaker 7 (39:50):
About ever get to help write the character after a while,
or you know, include some of your improv. Say that again,
you ever get to include some of your improv or
ideas that made it in there?
Speaker 3 (40:03):
Oh? Absolutely, yeah, that's what I say. Like when Amy
said keep the camera rolling, you know, because Moe's here,
It's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, right, good stuff.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Emily, we have another daughter here. He's not my daughter,
she's my brother in law's daughter.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
She's my niece.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
Emily, Welcome to the Mom's Club. Do you have a
question for mo?
Speaker 2 (40:25):
Hello?
Speaker 3 (40:26):
Yes, I was wondering what the most rewarding experience or
role in your career has been.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Get to reach deep today?
Speaker 3 (40:39):
Yeah, it's always a hard question because, like I say,
it's like moments with people. But but doing Sarah on
Fear of the Walking Dead was a very deeply personal journey.
I would say. She was just this badass and like
(41:02):
I was cast as Sarah when I was fifty three
and after my first season, my my cancer came back
and I didn't tell anybody just because denial it was
a big part of my program. But Sarah gave me
(41:23):
so much strength, you know, I just I drew from her.
And so even like you know, when I was home
or whatever and feeling weak from because I was on
a chemo pill for years and just feeling like poop,
and I was like, I can say the other here,
I would have Sarah take me for a walk, you know,
(41:46):
and I would literally go out, take on her stature
and feel her strength and go for a walk, and
then I would feel strong. So that was just this
really beautiful symbiotic relationship that I had with Sarah and
vice verse. It's like Sarah being as hot kind of
hard as she was, I brought MO into her and
(42:08):
softened her in some interesting ways, only because like half
the time in sad scenes, I couldn't MO became overly
emotional and it was just and my emotions would come
through Sarah. But so that that was a very satisfying
and the other the other side of it, of course,
(42:28):
was those were super duper hard, hard days, Like that
is the hardest job I ever did. Like we're talking
sixteen eighteen hour days out in whether it's heat cold.
We weren't in trailers, we weren't in nice comfy places.
You know. It's like between takes. I'm squatting in the
(42:49):
grass or whatever, like watching out for scorpions because we
shot in Austin, Texas.
Speaker 4 (42:54):
I did it.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
But at the end of you know, I remember, just
like one time particular, pulled into the hotel room eight
in the morning, you know, and and I just took
a moment to congratulate myself, you know, for because I knew,
I knew what I was going through with my health
(43:18):
and and that I did it so well. I got
through it all so well, and so those are that's
a great victory, right like when we have those moments
where you just you just get through some tough stuff
and you're like, I didn't It's that's just about one
(43:39):
of the coolest things you can walk away with in
any aspect of life, when you go I did it,
and then it's character building. It becomes who you are.
And of course, as my body gets weaker and weaker
and weaker, I know I'm more badass than ever because
I did those things. I've gone through those things, and
I am more resilient as a result. I should end
(44:00):
this by saying I am cancer free.
Speaker 4 (44:02):
Yes, congratulations, yay.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
I love that.
Speaker 5 (44:08):
I was going to ask you when you you know,
the kids asked you a question is like, you know,
as a mom and especially my daughter being on the
show today, I was like, well, what advice, But you
need to say no more because everything that you just
said to these young ladies who are you know, in
their young twenties, you draw from the strengths around you,
and you know what I mean, engage Like all of
(44:29):
this is excellent advice. It's not a perfect road, and
everything you just said, I just feel like I went
to church.
Speaker 4 (44:34):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
Yeah, And I think I was like, I think you
fully said Minnesota is nice.
Speaker 2 (44:40):
That's right what.
Speaker 3 (44:43):
I wanted to clear up.
Speaker 4 (44:44):
You proved it right here by being on the show.
Will weak so much, you know, it's.
Speaker 3 (44:48):
Like that's what life is you young ones listening. It's like,
it's about finding out your capacity in life.
Speaker 4 (44:56):
Right.
Speaker 3 (44:57):
Hard things are only put in front of you because
the universe knows before you do that you can get
through it. And then you get through it and you go,
holy crap, I got through it, and I'm better for it.
I'm bigger, I've expanded my capacity for life. Yeah, yep,
big stuff.
Speaker 4 (45:18):
Thanks, great great advice.
Speaker 2 (45:20):
George is taking notes like she's in past. She's like,
hold on, can you say that again?
Speaker 4 (45:24):
She can listen to podcast your capacity for life exactly.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
Well, we want to thank our zoomer moms and zoomer
daughters here. Great to have you. You guys have been ladies. Amazing. Yeah,
awesome questions. We'll have to have zoomer daughters on more often.
They've greatly and the zoomer mom.
Speaker 2 (45:47):
I learned from.
Speaker 5 (45:48):
I learned from everyone's kids. I learned from my own.
They are my greatest teachers, you know, even when I
don't want to.
Speaker 4 (45:54):
Admit it on camera.
Speaker 1 (45:57):
Well, mo, where can we find your art? Where can
they people find you on social media and get your
art and commission you. I was gonna send you a
picture of Julie's head and maybe you can do an
abstract for me.
Speaker 2 (46:09):
We can give it to your for birthday.
Speaker 3 (46:11):
That Yeah. My website is mocollinsart dot com. Pretty simple,
and on Instagram, I have my you know, just sort
of my page, but then I also separately have at
mocollins art on the Instagram site.
Speaker 4 (46:26):
Okay, well, Gret, that's.
Speaker 3 (46:27):
Where I do a lot of fun videos and stuff
and show how I work and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (46:31):
Oh, that's great. We'll check it out with moms out there.
That is amazing and we want you to check us
out on Instagram, at inside the Mom's Club, on TikTok,
we have a YouTube chant.
Speaker 4 (46:44):
We're all over the place.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
It's at inside the Mom's Club or inside the Moom's
Club dot com. We also want to thank our sponsors,
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Speaker 4 (47:07):
Now do I agree with that?
Speaker 1 (47:09):
Well, no, not necessarily, but there is a lot of
stress involved and New Calm will help you relieve your stress.
I use it Julie. Well, Julie's using it more often.
So see she's not right there yet, but she's.
Speaker 4 (47:23):
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Speaker 1 (47:35):
Because at newcom they appreciate that moms need new calm
maybe more than anybody else, so definitely check that out. Well,
it has been so much fun as usual. I'm so excited.
I'm gonna go out there and wear your glass being
to anybody. I'm just gonna throw my glasses on if
I have a problem, and I think that's gonna solve it.
Speaker 4 (47:52):
So I'm very excited about that.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
Well, we will be back next time with celebrities and
extraordinary moms just like you. We know your me time
is pressure just invaluable out there, moms. We thank you
so much. Oh and remember our motto, as you're out
there all day long. If you don't laugh, sometimes you're
gonna cry. You do not want to cry if you
can help it, laugh out there, moms, and we'll see
you next time inside the Mom's Club.
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