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This week's guest is one of

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2:34

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2:36

actually produces, she's on TV, she's

2:39

in film, she's on stage, she's

2:41

in cabaret, okay? You know her

2:44

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2:48

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2:51

I'm going, I'm going with that.

2:53

I am going with that. And

2:55

she's hilarious. It's Bridget Everett. Welcome

2:58

to Off the Cup. Hi. Thank

3:00

you for having me. I'm so

3:02

glad you're here. I'm a fan.

3:05

Thank you for that big, that

3:07

intro. Thank you. It was so

3:09

nice. I love what you do.

3:12

I love the energy you bring

3:14

to everything that you do. It's

3:17

just, how do you feel about

3:19

being this generation's Bet Miller. I

3:21

mean, that would, that's, Bet Miller's

3:24

like a, she's like the person

3:26

I kind of idolized the most

3:28

when I was growing up. So,

3:31

you know, you look at that.

3:33

You hit a good one for

3:35

me. I had a good one.

3:38

Okay, well, it feels like you're

3:40

really one of those like old

3:42

school performers. We don't see enough

3:45

of these days, like a vaudeville,

3:47

like a throwback. Do you, do

3:50

you see yourself in that way?

3:52

I think that I don't see

3:54

a lot of people around me

3:57

that do the same thing. So

3:59

in that way, I feel like

4:01

making something my own feels very

4:04

of that generation and just kind of

4:06

carving my own path. So yeah, I

4:08

think a little bit. I mean, you know,

4:10

I got started with in the cabaret

4:12

scene, which is not as like

4:15

a hip as everybody thinks of it.

4:17

Well, I love it. I'm a fan of

4:19

theater, so I think I just love it.

4:21

But you know, the people that were around me,

4:23

you know, are doing really well now. There's

4:25

like Cola Scola of doing, oh, Mary on

4:27

Broadway and like doing crazy things and Justin

4:29

Vivian Bond, just one that, um, MacArthur Grant.

4:32

So you know, it's like all those people

4:34

that were shaping me when I was in

4:36

my start, my start of years are doing

4:38

great things and they've always been their own

4:40

person. So it's been pretty cool. I

4:42

love it. I want to talk

4:45

about your whole career. But can

4:47

we start about your whole career.

4:49

the real housewives. I'm a bravaholic.

4:51

I know, I know every franchise,

4:53

every every housewife, and seeing you

4:56

with Luan and Sonia,

4:58

doing cabaret, it just

5:00

made my heart happy. What

5:02

was that like? Look, I... I

5:04

love the housewives. You know, I'm actually

5:06

filming Watch What Happens Lives Tonight, Salt

5:09

Lake City with Mary, which I'm very,

5:11

I'm excited and I'm nervous. But you

5:13

know, they're like their own sort of

5:15

subset of celebrity and kind of... Yes,

5:17

they are. Their whole world is, it's

5:20

just wild. It's like, once you sort

5:22

of get like an inner glimpse of

5:24

the inside, it's just... It's so

5:26

huge, it's so colorful, it's so

5:28

full on, and Sonia and Luan

5:30

and all of them are,

5:32

they're real characters, but I

5:34

think it's genuinely who they

5:36

are. Yes, I mean, Luan's really

5:39

special. I've worked with her a

5:41

little, I've had the job of

5:43

trying to interview a number of

5:45

housewives at like BravoCon and

5:47

stuff like that, when she's in

5:50

one of those panels, I'll just

5:52

say, it's tough. Because she's real,

5:54

I mean, she just does her own thing and

5:56

she wants to kind of be the, you know,

5:58

the spotlight. She loves being on. she says. She

6:00

does and you know you have to give

6:02

it to Luann is what she gifted

6:04

with the the textbook version of the

6:07

voice of an angel? No. No. No

6:09

but she sells it. She's the voice

6:11

of Marlboro is what she is. I

6:13

mean I'm like more power to her

6:16

because people want to come see her

6:18

and she has fun doing it and

6:20

good for her. Yes and you gave

6:22

a very diplomatic answer to Andy on

6:25

another watch what happens live when he

6:27

asked you to rate her singing you.

6:29

She just said what you just said which

6:31

was I give her credit. She's a 10

6:33

out of 10 you said because anyone who

6:36

gets up there I get it but

6:38

between us girls She got a great act

6:40

girl cannot sing and when I say that

6:42

I mean like hit notes Well, she's

6:44

got a good, you know four or five

6:46

that she can dance around and that that

6:48

does it Her act is great. I

6:50

mean she looks incredible. She like she

6:53

really like what I love about her

6:55

is that She is aware of who

6:57

she is, and she has fun with

6:59

it, and like, she just, she celebrates

7:01

it. I think it's pretty,

7:03

pretty cool. It's incredible because she's

7:05

been through some shit, and like,

7:07

how have I gone through one of

7:09

the things she had gone through? 100%

7:11

I'd be in a hole. I would

7:13

not be on television, and I certainly

7:16

wouldn't be putting it all in an

7:18

act for everyone to enjoy. I mean,

7:20

that's so balzy and body and all

7:22

the things. Yeah, totally. I love it.

7:24

I love it for her. Okay, let's

7:26

talk about you. Yeah, okay. Sorry, go

7:29

ahead. You grew up in Manhattan,

7:31

Kansas. It's funny because,

7:33

you know, I do like

7:36

politics and sometimes to make a

7:38

point when I'm trying to make

7:40

a point about like the rest

7:42

of the country as opposed

7:44

to the coasts. I'll say something

7:46

like, you know, what matters to

7:48

people in Manhattan. isn't what

7:51

matters to people and I'll say

7:53

Manhattan Kansas that is sort of like yeah

7:55

yeah so that's you but you grew up

7:57

in a political family right sort of

7:59

well Sort of, yeah, my dad was a

8:01

state senator, a state representative, and

8:04

my dad and my brother were

8:06

both mayor of my hometown, so.

8:08

Yeah. You know, we're sort of

8:10

a small town political royals here.

8:12

Are you like, if you go back,

8:14

people know your family from that? No,

8:17

no, I think, I just laugh at it

8:19

because, you know, being

8:21

a politician in a small town

8:23

in Kansas certainly doesn't have the

8:26

same, you know, we're not the

8:28

Kennedys, let's just put it that

8:30

way. And nobody cared, like, when

8:32

I started, nobody cared. Yeah, exactly,

8:34

exactly. Thank God. Yeah. You

8:37

were very popular in high school. I

8:40

mean, you're not supposed to admit that, but

8:43

I guess I was, I mean, I

8:45

was homecoming queen, so, you know, what are

8:47

you going to do? You were most

8:49

likely to be ruler of the world and

8:51

most likely to win an Academy Award.

8:53

Yes. You were in the Pops Choir, the

8:55

Chamber Choir, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes,

8:58

Sad, Student Council Vice President, Tribe Council, MC

9:00

of MHS Live, Winter Homecoming Queen, and

9:02

Maggie Jones in 42nd Street. Did you ever

9:04

go to class, Bridget? How did

9:06

you find this out? This is

9:08

like, that is like such a deep

9:10

dive. Oh! This

9:12

is Bridget. For people who can't

9:14

see, this is Bridget. She's homecoming queen. Who's

9:17

your gentleman? Who's your squire? That's

9:19

Jason Kastner. Yes, it

9:22

is. I still have the crown,

9:24

by the way. It's in my bedroom. Amazing.

9:28

And there you are. Oh my God.

9:30

Yeah, my mom made me get that real, you

9:32

know, everybody had the claw, like the bangs, but,

9:34

you know, I had a bob and like, you

9:36

know, I was trying to look real timeless in

9:38

my senior picture. Class of 1990, man.

9:41

Yeah. Yeah. There you go. Oh my God.

9:43

I got your yearbook is how I know

9:45

all of this. I got your yearbook. That

9:47

is incredible. I don't, I'd like a copy of my

9:49

yearbook. I haven't found that thing. Um,

9:53

speaking of Amy Jones said of your

9:55

performance in 42nd Street, I liked

9:57

Bridget Everett the best because she was

9:59

funny. acted crazy. Was that your

10:01

first review? That's my first poll quote. My

10:03

first poll quote, and probably still the best one.

10:06

I mean, he's so good. Because I was so

10:08

pissed that I didn't have a bigger part and

10:10

my friend Rachel, my friend Rachel and I, if

10:12

you go to the cast photo, we're like, because

10:14

we thought we should have the two leads and

10:17

we were sitting in the group photo just scowl

10:19

on our face. So when I got the poll

10:21

quote in the yearbook, I was like, okay,

10:23

okay, okay. Do you see? See? Told

10:25

you so. You were robbed. Yeah. That's

10:27

so funny. No, but really, you did

10:30

a lot. What was tribe

10:32

council, Bridget? Oh, tribe council.

10:34

God, it's so, this has been

10:36

like, you know, 30 blah, blah,

10:38

blah, blah years ago. Yeah. No

10:40

one's asked you this before. I

10:43

mean, I remember tribe council,

10:45

but I can't remember what it

10:47

was. I've just, just

10:49

too many years of

10:52

Chardonnayard nay. Like I hated high school,

10:54

I was not popular in high

10:56

school. Look like you had a

10:58

great high school experience, at least

11:00

according to your senior year photos.

11:02

Yeah, I mean, you know, I had, you know,

11:04

the issues that linger with you through life, you

11:06

know, but as far as like friends and

11:09

activities and I enjoyed it, I,

11:11

you know, growing up in Kansas is a

11:13

good place to be, you know, you can,

11:15

it was pretty safe, you could walk places,

11:17

we had cake parties by the lake,

11:19

you know, Still all the drama that

11:22

goes with high school, but it was

11:24

in general, it was, it was fun.

11:26

Oh my God, I can't believe I

11:29

said that. It looked like it, it

11:31

looked like you killed it. Like it

11:33

looked like, like my husband

11:35

always talks about how great high

11:37

school was, and I'm like, I

11:39

don't know what planet you were

11:41

on. High school was, high school

11:44

was, and I don't know what

11:46

planet you were on. High school

11:48

was torto. Very popular and and

11:50

and it wasn't because he was like

11:52

he just was he just he was

11:54

curious about other people he was nice

11:56

to other people and he was very funny

11:58

and and I like that too. I

12:01

mean, I'm not like that anymore

12:03

at all, but I was used

12:05

to be very curious about people.

12:07

I like to talk to all

12:09

different groups. You know, I thought it was

12:11

sit by different people in class.

12:13

I liked it. Yeah. But now I'm

12:15

not like that at all. I mean,

12:17

I'm like, just leaving my apartment. I'll

12:19

be fine. Leave me alone. Right.

12:22

If you're not one of my people,

12:24

I don't want anything to

12:26

do with you. Totally. You go to

12:28

ASU in a full scholarship for music

12:30

and opera. You were set on being

12:32

a performer. Yeah, well I wanted to be

12:34

a singer and I also just wanted to

12:37

get out of Kansas. Even though I loved

12:39

it I wanted to see other things and

12:41

yeah. And my one of my best friends

12:43

at the time her older brother was like

12:46

oh Arizona State's a party school and

12:48

I was like oh it is. Yeah. Turned out

12:50

he was right and I had a real good

12:52

time. I had a fake ID taken there once

12:54

by a police officer. I think it's a rate

12:56

of passage. Oh no! Did you get put in

12:59

the back of the car or did they just

13:01

take it? No, no, he just let me walk

13:03

away, which was very kind. That's good. Yeah, I

13:05

got, because I got put in the back of a car

13:07

at a high school keg party and it was

13:09

because I had this like, this like

13:11

squeezy refillable thing that I used

13:13

to take my. You know my like I'd stop at

13:16

quick shop and get sodas every day and before school

13:18

and then anyway I took it to this cake party

13:20

because I loved it so much you could just like

13:22

squeeze it was like sort of like a boxer thing

13:24

you know how boxes have on the corner you squeeze

13:26

it in your mouth. And I took it to a

13:29

keg party, I filled up with beer, and the

13:31

cops came, and I didn't want to lose my

13:33

little squeezy thing, so I held on to it.

13:35

And I emptied it out, but they came and

13:38

they could still smell the beer, so they put

13:40

me in the back of the car, and my

13:42

mom had to come pick me up at the

13:44

police station, and she was not happy.

13:46

Yeah. And they took your squeezy thing?

13:49

They took my squeezy thing. I sucked

13:51

on a penny. Yeah, and then my

13:53

mom, when my mom picked me up,

13:55

she has so much booze on her

13:57

breath, she couldn't tell.

14:00

That's perfect. Small town

14:02

living. So how did you, did

14:04

you enjoy college? Yeah, I mean,

14:06

it was, college was like, you know,

14:08

I sort of got lost because

14:10

it was such a big place,

14:13

Arizona State's so huge. And I have

14:15

fun because I could be by the

14:17

pool, I could get a tan. I

14:20

was on the swim team for a

14:22

little bit. And like I said, I

14:24

was a party school, but I

14:27

wasn't like getting any parts.

14:29

But I did find karaoke at the

14:31

end of my, and I started

14:33

seeing it at professional, spring training

14:35

baseball games, which is fun. I

14:37

met a lot of athletes because

14:40

I used to work at PF

14:42

Changs, in Scottsdale, the original PF

14:44

Changs. That is my favorite PF

14:46

Changs. Yeah, that's the one that was

14:48

the original and I used to wait on

14:50

like Charles Barkley and and He came in

14:53

a lot and I waited on a lot

14:55

of the baseball players because they'd be there

14:57

for spring training like I said and right

14:59

Mark McGuire and And Dusty Baker the old

15:01

the old? Yes, and they like would have me

15:03

come and sing at their spring training games.

15:06

I was seeing the national anthem.

15:08

So I don't know I was

15:10

like cactus league. Yeah That's so

15:12

cool. That's right. I covered sports

15:14

for a long time and then

15:17

also I was a kid as

15:19

a kid I grew up

15:21

in Arizona in Scottsdale

15:24

and so when that P.F.

15:26

Chang's came. It was the

15:28

top of town. You know

15:30

what? I might have been

15:32

your waitress at some point.

15:34

You know what? Oh, it's

15:36

still there. I was just

15:39

there in April. Because we

15:41

went for spring break to visit family

15:43

and it's a must. It's a must

15:45

every time I'm in Scottsdale. Gotta

15:48

go. You gotta go. So the chicken

15:50

motor straps and a glass of sardine.

15:52

You got it. You got it. That is it.

15:54

My very close friend Megan McCain,

15:56

daughter of Arizona obviously, the

15:58

lettuce wraps. of Chang's or

16:01

her all-time favorite. It's all she

16:03

wants on a special occasion. I

16:05

love it. Okay, so where do you

16:07

go from college? After college, do you

16:10

go to New York? Yeah, I

16:12

was spending my summers in

16:14

Maine at this place called

16:16

Quissusana, which is sort of like

16:18

a dirty dancing kind of resort.

16:20

And so you would, you know,

16:22

wait tables during the day and

16:25

you'd do shows at night and... So they

16:27

would bring people from performing art schools all

16:29

over the country that would go there. So

16:31

that's where I met some of my

16:33

friends from New York. And I was like,

16:35

you know what, I'm just gonna, I'm just

16:38

gonna go. So the last summer I worked

16:40

there, I worked there seven summers. I just

16:42

packed up my car, my Nissan Central, and

16:44

I drove to New York, and I found a place

16:46

to live. And I just was like, I think this

16:48

is where I want to be, and I haven't

16:50

left. Was it scary? but not so

16:52

scary because I knew all these people and

16:54

they were all singers and yeah and

16:56

performers and I think there's no way

16:59

I could have done it without meeting all

17:01

those people first and they and they were

17:03

like just so confident in themselves like no

17:05

I'm gonna go to New York I'm gonna

17:07

be on Broadway and then I'm gonna do

17:10

TV some film and you know maybe maybe

17:12

a little time in LA but mostly New

17:14

York because I'm more about theater and you

17:16

know just like I was like I came

17:18

here and I came here and I came

17:20

here and I came here and It's like,

17:22

well, I can't believe it. I know.

17:24

Oh, and it was like, you know,

17:26

with those little bus and track

17:28

things. We were all like in

17:31

a little van together, essentially, and

17:33

there was five of us driving

17:35

around, and it was absolute hell.

17:38

I hated it. I was like, this

17:40

is what. And so I was like,

17:42

when I ended up waiting tables for

17:44

years, I was like, well, at least

17:47

I'm not doing theater. I

17:49

worked at rain, which is on the Upper

17:51

West Side, and then I worked at P.F.

17:53

Chang's for... Not P.P. Chang's, I'm sorry, who

17:56

got it? Ruby Fu's. I worked at Ruby

17:58

Fu's on the Upper West Side. from

18:00

the day it

18:02

opened until the day

18:05

it closed. I love

18:07

Ruby Foos! Yeah, that

18:10

was, and I got

18:12

hired there because I

18:14

saw P.F. Chang's

18:16

on my resume

18:19

and they're like, oh

18:21

my God, we have a

18:23

star. And I was like,

18:26

yes. But while you're clutching

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awful. And I should have

21:56

seen it coming. Interesting

22:00

to think of like things in terms of a

22:03

big break. I guess like in 2006 I

22:05

met Michael Patrick King who is behind

22:07

Sex in the City and just like that

22:09

to come back and everything. And we did

22:12

a show at ours Nova called At Lease

22:14

It's Pink and that was and I thought

22:16

that was going to be my big

22:18

break but in a way it was

22:20

like an off-off Broadway show that got

22:22

great reviews but just kind of came

22:24

and went and I was back at Ruby

22:26

Foos. But the good part about that

22:28

was that I met Michael and he

22:31

sort of set Things in motion

22:33

for me because he gave me a

22:35

part in the original sex in the

22:37

city movie and It was just a

22:39

it is a very memorable short

22:41

but memorable scene Yeah, happy. Okay.

22:43

Okay. I mean. Yeah. That is a great

22:46

scene. Are you drunk a little bit? In

22:48

fact like there for wrap their wrap

22:50

gift I think for the sex in the

22:52

city movie was like things that

22:54

said a little bit on it.

22:56

And I was like, oh my

22:58

God, that's amazing. But yeah, I

23:01

just, I, that was kind of the

23:03

just hard things because I

23:05

met Michael and, you know, we

23:07

did a pilot together and, and

23:10

then, you know, Amy Schumer took me

23:12

on the road with her and that

23:14

was a really big thing. But,

23:16

you know, God, I didn't start

23:19

stop waiting tables until

23:21

like 10 years ago. Maybe

23:23

somebody somewhere has been my big break. I

23:25

don't know. It's hard to say. Well, and how

23:27

did you meet Amy? At the Montreal Comedy

23:29

Festival. Have you ever been to that?

23:32

Like this is the just for last

23:34

Montreal Comedy Festival and it's it's

23:36

you know hundreds of comedians all comedian,

23:38

you know TV and film executives and

23:40

everybody goes down. They stay at the

23:42

Hyatt and they all party every night

23:44

at the big and this big Hyatt

23:46

lobby bar. And I was like, no thank

23:48

you. I will be in my room and

23:50

that's where you can find me. But Amy,

23:52

I think, knew me from Arznova and, you

23:54

know, Lisa's Pink and some of this stuff.

23:57

So, you know, she was like, why, why you come

23:59

down meet me? You know down at

24:01

the bar for a glass of Chardonnay and I was

24:03

like I'm not I'm not going down there

24:05

She's like what's you know,

24:07

what's the worst that can happen? Uh -huh and

24:09

so I went down and we just became

24:11

like chart We'd have the same kind of

24:14

you know similar sense of humor. Yeah, and

24:16

we both love Chardonnay and The

24:18

great uniter Yeah, she's very confident.

24:20

She'll talk to anyone, you know, she's all you

24:22

know And I'll just I'll just sort of sit

24:24

back and watch her and be like, oh, yeah

24:26

I'm Bridget and you know, I met people she

24:28

she she helped get me out of my shell

24:30

You know bring me back to 1990s tribe council

24:32

Bridget ever the one that you know, you know,

24:34

like the high school girl Mhs

24:37

mc of mhs live. Yes

24:39

Exactly Amy found that that

24:41

Bridget in you. Um, did

24:43

you guys ever like write material for each other? Well,

24:47

she she has she's put me in stuff, you

24:49

know, she put me in trainwrecks. She wrote a little part for

24:51

me She wrote a part

24:53

for me in another movie and I didn't

24:55

end up getting it I ended up

24:57

reading with uh to play the part

24:59

of Bridget Everett. Um, and I've read with Jed

25:01

Apatow and I didn't get that part Wait,

25:04

someone else got the part of Bridget

25:06

Everett Yeah, but it was I can't

25:08

I can't remember which movie it was but

25:10

it got the the whole storyline got

25:12

cut out Oh, um, it might have

25:14

it might have been trainwreck. It might have been

25:16

There was like originally going to be like

25:18

She was doing a story on like a you know,

25:20

a killer and I was gonna play the killer

25:22

and And I think when I when I read

25:24

with him, he you know, he ultimately said to

25:26

Amy, he's like Bridget doesn't seem

25:28

like she would kill anyone So

25:32

I didn't get the part but I got another part to

25:34

stay in the movie so it worked out. Okay How

25:38

do you come to cabaret at

25:40

this point in your career? Well,

25:43

because um, I was doing a

25:45

lot of when I was waiting tables

25:47

I was just singing in karaoke bars

25:49

and like Going wild like getting on

25:51

top of the bar ripping my shirt

25:53

off like, you know Taking flaming zambuca

25:55

shots while I'm singing a piece of

25:57

my heart and like, you know know

26:00

just absolutely out of my

26:02

skin crazy and my friend

26:04

Jason Egan who's now my

26:06

friend saw me perform you know

26:08

performing a karaoke bar singing in

26:11

a karaoke bar yes and he

26:13

was like I think you should do

26:15

a show and so he he was

26:17

the one that got me to perform

26:19

it ours Nova his show and yeah

26:21

his is his theater and yeah and

26:23

I've just it's honestly it's

26:26

so such a Huge part of who

26:28

I am. I love singing. It's the

26:30

love of my life. There's nothing that

26:32

makes me happier and it makes

26:34

me Connect to people, but yeah, in

26:36

a way that I can be in

26:38

charge. I have the microphone I sort

26:41

of control the temperature of the room

26:43

totally, but I love it because

26:45

there's there are no rules, you know,

26:47

it's just it's low necklines Yeah,

26:49

high notes and trim ankles and

26:51

we're all going for it all three

26:54

at the same time. Great How does

26:56

one want to, like if I want,

26:58

I don't, but if I wanted

27:00

to go into cabaret. Yeah.

27:02

How does one, because you're

27:04

just like, seeing that a

27:06

karaoke bar, I know how this

27:08

happens to Luan. How does

27:10

what, are there agents for

27:12

cabaret? No. No. It's not like a,

27:15

it's not like a, I don't know

27:17

how one gets to cabaret. If one

27:19

wanted to, how would one go

27:22

about trying to get to cabaret?

27:24

and he asked me to, you

27:26

know, anytime, anytime anybody ever asked

27:29

me to sing or perform anywhere,

27:31

I'd be like, yes, yes, even if

27:33

it was in the back room in

27:35

a sex club, you know, like I

27:37

was always, honestly, like I've seen it

27:40

all and I've done it all and

27:42

I performed weddings, birthdays. clubs, you know,

27:44

everything I could get my hands on. Yeah. And

27:46

I think that's kind of the way that

27:48

you do it. You just keep singing until

27:50

someone listens. That's what it seems. Yeah, that's

27:52

what it seems like. There's not like a

27:55

direct route from A to B if someone

27:57

wanted. You just have to be like talented,

27:59

hungry, lucky. work hard, be places,

28:01

be seen, kind of thing, yeah. And

28:03

not care about, you know, having health insurance

28:05

or money or success. Retirement

28:08

account, yeah. Yeah, or

28:10

acceptance by your family, perhaps.

28:13

Right. Tell

28:15

me about the tender moments

28:17

and how did you meet

28:19

Adam? Well, I,

28:21

so I had been doing this

28:23

show at Joe's Pub called Our Hip

28:25

Parade, which is, we would cover downtown

28:28

performance artists in Cabaret, people that's

28:30

where I met Cole Skull and some

28:32

other folks and like, you

28:34

would take a pop song and you would do

28:36

your own spin on it. And it was a

28:38

wild, really fun show. And we did it for

28:40

a number of years. And then, so

28:42

he, Adam, I think you're talking about

28:44

Ad Rock, the King Ad Rock. Yeah.

28:46

BC Boys. He and his wife, Kathleen

28:48

Hanna, were big fans of the show

28:50

and they would come. And

28:53

eventually, I,

28:55

you know, we became friends. I joined

28:57

his softball team. My friend, Murray, took me

28:59

to be on the softball team, team

29:01

pressure, because I was depressed. And Murray's like,

29:03

you gotta get some vitamin D kid. So

29:05

we went outside to play. And that's when

29:08

I found out Adam was a fan and

29:10

we became friends. He's so funny. He's such

29:12

a great guy. And

29:14

at one point I was just like, you know, I think I'm

29:16

going to start a band. And he was like, well, can I

29:18

be in it? And I was like,

29:20

you want to be, yeah. You

29:22

want to be in my cabaret act,

29:24

Ad Rock, King Ad Rock

29:26

of the BC Boys. He's like,

29:28

yeah. And so he was the, you

29:31

know, the first person that signed

29:33

up to be in my band. And

29:35

then everybody, you know, I got

29:37

my, my Jackson, Carmine, Covelli and Matt

29:39

Ray. And then we all, and we,

29:42

we decided to call it the tender moments because that's when

29:44

I, when I used to hang out with

29:46

my nieces and nephews, I'd be like, come sit

29:48

with me. Let's have a tender moment. And we

29:50

would just sit there very quietly. And I don't

29:52

know. I've always kind of loved that. So that

29:54

is cute. That is cute. What

29:56

is your, what's your connection to

29:58

Janice Joplin? famously sung

30:01

a number of her songs on

30:03

Jimmy Fallon and because she's like

30:05

one of the you know the

30:07

way I connect with anybody is

30:09

when their their own thing like

30:12

she her voice is very unique

30:14

sounding yeah she seemed like she

30:16

just was her own in her

30:18

own special little planet but her

30:21

voice to me is like just

30:23

ripped from the heart just so

30:25

raw so Like full it's a full

30:27

force. It's like it's a it's

30:29

a it's a punch of Energy

30:32

emotion and vitality and I just

30:34

she lights me up man. I

30:36

can't help it. Oh, she's great.

30:38

And you're so great. You

30:41

know singing her songs You've made

30:43

you did me and Bobby McGee

30:45

with Patti Lupone at Carnegie

30:47

Hall. How does that happen?

30:50

She saw me at a show

30:52

that I was doing downtown and

30:54

Oh my god. I remember her,

30:56

she was, she's good friends with

30:58

my friend Scott Whitman, songwriter with

31:01

Mark Shaiman for like, hairspray and

31:03

Smash and all these other great shows.

31:05

And anyway, they called me while I was

31:07

at my bank depositing tips from

31:09

the shift of my shift from

31:11

the night before at Ruby Foos

31:13

or something and Patty was like,

31:15

I was wondering if you'd want to

31:18

sing with me at Carnegie Hall and

31:20

I was just like... I was putting

31:22

in my $200 into the things like

31:24

beep beep beep and I was like

31:26

let me think about it I'm like

31:29

and I and because Connie calls a

31:31

place I'd never thought that I would

31:33

ever get to walk across that

31:35

stage and and so she you know so

31:37

they had me on the show and I was

31:39

you know to me Patty is like the

31:42

great broad living diva for me

31:44

you know I mean there's so

31:46

many great Broadway performers and stuff

31:48

but to me she's like. a

31:50

diva but she's also like a broad and

31:53

really cool and just does not give a

31:55

shit about any yes she's and I just

31:57

love that you would think that somebody

31:59

like her with her Tony's and her

32:02

you know and her Juilliard background and

32:04

all this that she would just be

32:06

kind of buttoned up or stuffy or

32:08

something that is absolutely not

32:10

true. She is like throw down lay down

32:13

fun is she's so fun yeah very

32:15

funny and and she really cares about

32:17

like you know she's taught me a

32:19

lot about like performance because she

32:21

cares about every little detail

32:23

after all these years of

32:25

performing it's important to her and

32:27

I don't know I just think that I think

32:30

she's pretty magical. She's incredible.

32:32

It was incredibly generous

32:34

of her to bring me like this sort

32:36

of whatever cab racing her at the time

32:38

and and bring me on to the stage and

32:40

she basically stopped the show and gave me

32:42

such an effusive introduction like she was

32:45

like sort of anointing me in a

32:47

way or something. Yeah. She's like get

32:49

down to Joe's pub you have to

32:51

see bridge it ever there's oh my

32:53

god. There's nobody else like her and

32:55

people did. Like I was doing shows,

32:58

and I was like, my

33:00

audience looks a little different

33:02

tonight. Oh my God, that's so

33:04

cool. I'm like, what are you

33:06

doing here? Because I talked to

33:08

the audience a lot and they're

33:10

like, Patty sent me and I

33:12

was like, oh, okay, well, welcome. Yeah,

33:14

I have goosebumps. Oh my God. Listening

33:17

to her talk about Andrew Lloyd Weber

33:19

gives me life. like don't don't shit

33:21

on Patty because you're gonna get shit

33:24

on right back exactly oh I would

33:26

I would never I would never no

33:28

I know I'm just saying in the

33:31

in the you know that's what happens

33:33

like she does not care like she's

33:35

like I don't care for Sandra Lloyd

33:38

Weber like I don't like Andrew Lloyd

33:40

Weber's musicals for the most

33:42

part either yeah a little overrated

33:44

but I interviewed Fran Leba Witt

33:46

once who also is not a fan

33:49

And the way she talks about Andrew

33:51

Led Weber is very similar to the

33:53

way that Patty LuPone talks about Andrew

33:55

Led Weber, which is just, I just

33:57

want one day to have so few folks to.

34:00

that I can talk about legends, living

34:02

legends, the way that she

34:04

talks about Madonna and Angela

34:06

everywhere, with like no cares

34:08

in the world. Does not

34:10

care. I mean, Patty and

34:12

I are developing something right now

34:15

for Broadway. I hope it gets

34:17

a long road where, you know,

34:19

it's been ruined first and we're

34:21

developing and we've had a little,

34:24

we just had a workshop and,

34:26

and you know, I told them like day

34:28

one, I was like. like is there

34:30

anything anybody wants to stay to sort

34:33

of you know kick things off and I

34:35

was like I'll start I'm scared to

34:37

work with Patty because because first of

34:39

all she she brings her a game

34:41

to everything like she's not resting on

34:43

anything she is always showing up and

34:45

and I can I can be a little

34:47

lazy but I'm also just like I don't

34:50

want to I don't want to disappoint

34:52

her because I don't want to you know

34:54

she'll tell you right and I want

34:56

to be able to show up do

34:58

a good job do a good job

35:00

And so Patty can be proud of

35:02

me and not disappointed. Oh, yeah, she's

35:04

very, she's very intimidating.

35:07

And when she, she did this

35:09

whole thing years ago, where she

35:12

talked about how like the

35:14

standing ovation at theaters has

35:16

become so overdone. And like

35:19

very few people actually deserve

35:21

a standing ovation in the

35:24

theater and like they're just

35:26

handing them out now. She both

35:29

stand up and I'm like and I

35:31

love it like that's another thing like

35:33

that's patties like she's I love

35:35

it. She does not care. I don't want

35:37

to be like paddy me too because

35:40

I stand up. I'm like oh God I got

35:42

it You know, your body's all tight after two hours.

35:44

It's like, all right, here we go. All right, we're

35:46

doing this. And then, you know, whoever's up there

35:48

who's just phoned in their performance is like,

35:50

oh, thank you. Thank you. They've never been

35:52

awake for the two hours they've been up

35:54

on stage, but when they get to take

35:56

their bow and receive all the love, they're

35:58

finally, there's, there's the 20. on their eyes

36:00

is like no if you don't give

36:02

it to me from the moment it's

36:04

like action like get off the stage

36:07

yes yes okay well when you when

36:09

you see her just tell her tell

36:11

her don't don't I love her I'll

36:13

never say anything bad about her I

36:15

don't ever want to be on Padua

36:17

Bones bad side I love her so

36:19

much none of us do but you

36:21

know there's I don't I don't think

36:23

you know she if you're great she

36:25

loves you and that's that's that's good

36:27

enough for me well then you better

36:29

be great you better be great exactly

36:31

you are great you're lucky you're great

36:33

you're great she loves you but not

36:35

everyone's great Madonna's

36:38

not great according to Paddy Lapone

36:40

and Paddy Lapone is right about about

36:43

the way she talks about Madonna

36:45

but I mean yeah you gotta be

36:47

great um talk about somebody somewhere

36:49

talk about how that came to be

36:51

and how how how autobiographical it

36:53

is because it's sort of well I

36:55

got a deal with HBO a

36:58

number of years ago and and I

37:00

I remember when that happened because

37:02

that did feel like a this feels

37:04

like a big deal that feels

37:06

like a big deal yeah and so

37:08

I called up Carolyn Strauss who

37:10

is who I'd met through Michael Patrick

37:13

King so all the you know

37:15

everything sort of leads to what it's

37:17

supposed to lead to but I

37:19

was like I just got the field

37:21

HBO and I was wondering if

37:23

you would want to work with me

37:25

and like and if you don't

37:28

know who Carolyn is she is behind

37:30

some shows like Game of Thrones

37:32

Last of Us she was you know

37:34

running HBO it's you know during

37:36

this the Sex in the City in

37:38

Soprano days you know so yeah

37:40

she's the the the deal not just

37:43

a big deal she is yeah

37:45

the big deal yeah and so she

37:47

was like because she'd seen my

37:49

cabaret show and and she's like yeah

37:51

I'd love to work with you

37:53

and I was like oh my jaw

37:55

just like smacking on the floor

37:58

and yeah and Anyway, she was like,

38:00

I think we should, you know,

38:02

talk to Paul and Hannah,

38:04

Paul Thoreen and Hannah Boss, who she,

38:06

you know, they're, they're sort of from

38:08

the similar community as I am in

38:10

the city and in New York. And

38:12

they came up with this idea

38:14

for somebody somewhere and we have,

38:17

you know, it's been a very collaborative

38:19

process over the three seasons. And, but

38:22

as we've gone into it more and

38:24

more, I've put more and more of

38:26

myself into it, more of my own

38:28

story, more of like my feelings. And

38:30

my feelings about grief and

38:33

about the love of singing and music

38:35

and about and about self

38:37

worth and all these things.

38:39

And, and we, we all

38:41

sort of had the same way that we

38:43

wanted to tell a story that felt not

38:45

like document, not documentary, documentary

38:47

style, but like that

38:49

felt, that felt natural, that

38:52

felt lived in, that

38:54

felt slice of life E and

38:56

I remember watching a pilot

38:58

and I cried first because I

39:00

was like, I was moved that we

39:02

did it. And then I cried because

39:04

I was like, nobody is going to like this because

39:06

this is not a cool show. And

39:09

Carol and Carol was like, no, this

39:11

is, there's something special about this. And

39:13

then we, and then our pilot got picked

39:15

up. We shot our first season, second

39:17

season, and now third season, which is wrapping

39:19

up. But, you

39:22

know, it's, if you know me

39:24

from the cabaret world, you know, you've, it's,

39:26

I'm sort of like a wildebeest or something

39:28

like a real wild, like sort of

39:30

unhinged, but this is a different side of

39:32

me. And I mean, I

39:34

do sing and stuff in the show,

39:36

but it's more about like the human side

39:38

of me, like the things that make

39:40

me, me laugh and then make me cry.

39:42

And the, and the, I've learned through

39:44

the experience of doing the show that other

39:46

people see themselves in it. And that's

39:48

been great. You know, it's been

39:50

really rewarding. Yeah. You

39:53

love being on stage so much.

39:55

Did this like scratch a part of

39:57

your brain you didn't know you would love

39:59

so Yeah, I

40:01

mean, I just didn't think I could do it.

40:03

I'm not a trained actor. I've never written a

40:05

TV show before. I've never produced But

40:08

you learn very quickly and luckily because

40:10

Paul and Hannah and I had Carolyn

40:12

is like a reference like she was such a

40:14

great Sort of like a coach

40:17

and a mentor and a champion and like

40:19

never treated us like she was Above

40:22

us. She just kind of lifted us up

40:24

helped us grow and we all learned

40:26

so much during the filming of the show

40:28

And now I know I can I can

40:30

do a TV show, you know, I can do

40:32

it all. Yeah. Yeah, you just you For

40:34

people like me. I'm not somebody who's like And

40:37

I'm gonna do this one day and I'm gonna do that

40:39

one day It's like I sort of fall into

40:41

it Uh -huh, and I and I try to

40:43

rise to the occasion And you know for

40:45

the best yeah, and that's and the and

40:48

this time it just happened to be a

40:50

TV show for HBO That's

40:52

just happened to be right Yeah,

40:54

if you know just saying it out loud like

40:56

when I when I sit down I watch a

40:58

show usually watch by myself And I turn on

41:00

the TV and it's got that HBO logo at

41:02

the you know, they go Yeah Every

41:08

time I'm like And

41:12

and I'll continue to be you know for a

41:14

long time as long as they keep running it You

41:16

know somewhere on deep on the channel or whatever.

41:18

Yeah I should say

41:21

for honesty full disclosure HBO is

41:23

also my parent company. I'm at CNN

41:26

But uh, I I pitched a

41:28

pilot to HBO and years

41:30

ago and It was

41:32

coming right out. They had just stopped to

41:34

beep and the pilot

41:36

I pitched was for um a

41:39

sitcom set in a newsroom

41:42

like beep in a newsroom and and I had

41:44

a great meeting and I was so excited I

41:46

couldn't believe I was in like HBO offices and

41:48

like that this was happening and I had a

41:50

great meeting and there was some interest and then

41:52

Someone said it was a little too close to

41:54

beep and they were moving to a new direction

41:56

and that new direction was eventually Game of Thrones And

42:00

they wanted, that was not what

42:02

I was pitching. Very different. So

42:04

they were becoming something a little

42:06

different, kind of getting away from

42:08

the, sort of the, the sitcommy

42:10

content. But it was even just

42:12

getting close, like even just having

42:14

a meeting at HBO was thrilling

42:16

for me. So I can only

42:19

imagine just like life changing that

42:21

you have a show there and

42:23

a successful one. It's still exciting

42:25

to go on to their offices

42:27

and to feel like, yeah. You're

42:29

like a part of, even though

42:31

our show is very small and

42:33

our audience is small, loving and

42:35

loyal, but small, like, yeah. I'm,

42:37

I'm a part of the fabric

42:39

of HBO now, like there's no,

42:41

you can't, you can't take that,

42:44

I cannot take that away from

42:46

myself, like that, and this happened,

42:48

yeah, this happened, and, and it's

42:50

not the first time I've been

42:52

on HBO, and I hope to

42:54

be on HBO again, and it's,

42:56

it's, to me, it's, it's, Mecca

42:58

is other than that where it's

43:00

like yes me HBO was like

43:02

the yes the pinnacle yes it

43:04

is I'm not saying I wouldn't

43:06

work for other networks don't get

43:08

me wrong of course of course

43:11

Netflix we love you too but

43:13

but you know as far as

43:15

like television goes yeah but you

43:17

didn't just make up a pilot

43:19

which in and of itself incredible

43:21

you you got picked up season

43:23

and another season like yeah you

43:25

made it you made it yeah

43:27

I guess so I guess when

43:29

you put it that way yeah

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Women's Sports. Before we get

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46:09

I just want to talk to

46:11

you about isms. I'll explain.

46:13

And the isms you might have

46:16

faced in your career, because for

46:18

me, I love talking to women in

46:20

this business. For me, there

46:22

was a lot of sexism. early in

46:25

my career in the news of

46:27

course men not taking you seriously

46:29

or of course hitting on you

46:31

or even sexually assaulting you

46:34

like on camera. But now as I

46:36

get older it's ageism and it

46:38

is so wild Bridget for women

46:40

in my business. It is like you

46:43

hit 40s and it's suddenly

46:45

you are no longer good at your

46:47

job and you're like I

46:49

have done nothing differently. I'm doing

46:51

the same thing, but I have so

46:53

many friends and colleagues who are no

46:56

longer in work. Suddenly their contract

46:58

is not renewed, they are shown the

47:00

door and hung out to dry, and it's

47:02

crazy. And it's such a mindfought, because

47:04

you're like, I'm still me. I'm doing

47:06

the same work, if not better work,

47:09

you know, than I've ever done. And

47:11

thanks to modern skin care, I look

47:13

better at 46 than Barbara Walters did

47:15

at 20. What the fuck is going

47:17

on. But what are you using

47:20

I want to know? That

47:22

is a, oh yeah, ironic

47:24

acid, and retinal. But no,

47:26

that is, the age is,

47:28

is such a mind fuck.

47:30

And I have obviously hate

47:32

it. I'm wondering what

47:34

isms you have faced

47:36

as a woman in your

47:39

career. Well, I think like.

47:41

My size, you know, I'm

47:43

a, I'm a, I'm a,

47:45

a lot I like to

47:47

call a post-athletic bill, but

47:49

you know, I'm a

47:51

middle-aged, which is wild

47:53

to say, but like, you

47:55

know, like people would,

47:58

people were flocking. television

48:00

executives you know people were

48:02

flocking to my show like my live show

48:05

but they're like we just can't see

48:07

her on television and then I do

48:09

ultimately feel like it had a lot

48:11

to do with my body and the

48:13

way that I looked I'm not conventionally

48:15

like cutie little girl you know I'm

48:17

not like attractive in that way and like

48:19

how can you make that person how can

48:21

you put them on the poster of a

48:24

TV show and I have to give HBO

48:26

a lot of credit that they They

48:28

wanted me to be me but I

48:30

I'm tell I can't tell you how

48:32

many meetings I went into and people

48:35

were just like No, thank you

48:37

like just checked out and then

48:39

and also like there's The

48:41

stuff on line like I I did

48:43

a talk show and I wore the stress

48:45

and like you know I can't find a

48:47

bra for my boobs, you know, because

48:50

I'm as I said I'm Plus I was

48:52

woman and I take boobs and so I

48:54

tape him and anyway I sat down on

48:56

the couch for the thing and my dress

48:58

sort of flipped open in a certain way

49:00

and the way I taped him was very

49:02

sloppy and so you know it's so it's

49:04

just sort of how it's like weird

49:06

look and whatever anyway the clip is

49:08

on the internet and it's like been

49:10

viewed by you know 13 million people

49:13

or something like that and there's thousands

49:15

of comments about my body. And

49:17

I'm like, I'm like, you are missing

49:20

the point. I'm wearing the stress. I'm,

49:22

if you came seeing my show, like

49:24

I try to make everybody feel good

49:26

about who they are in their own

49:28

skin. And like, people just, they

49:30

can't see past what my, what my,

49:32

what I'm walking around in, the skin

49:35

I'm walking around in. Yeah. And

49:37

that's, you know, that's it that obviously

49:40

is, you know, can be different

49:42

for different people. you know, however that

49:44

looks about how you look, but my point

49:46

is just like, I had to kind of,

49:48

whatever I've done, I've always had to

49:51

force myself in the room. I've always

49:53

had to thrust myself upon people. I've

49:55

had to make it happen for myself

49:57

because people can see it because it...

50:00

didn't look like what they thought it

50:02

should be. So I don't know if

50:04

that's the right, if that's

50:06

sort of what you're talking

50:08

about, but for me, that's what

50:10

it's been. I mean, I don't know a

50:12

woman who hasn't dealt with an

50:14

ism somewhere over the course of

50:17

her life or career. And yeah, I

50:19

mean, it's just sort of how you

50:21

move through them. Yeah, and also, you

50:23

know, another thing is like, because some

50:25

of my stuff, like now you let

50:28

me let me let me up. I

50:30

want to Arizona State, but I'm not

50:32

like a scholar. You know, I'm not

50:34

like a smarty pants person, but I

50:36

so I've worked with people who have

50:38

looked down on some of my blue humor,

50:41

like that it's not smart. So it's

50:43

not valid and like, and I think

50:45

if something makes people laugh and

50:47

it makes them feel good and

50:50

you're not hurting anybody. But I've

50:52

literally worked with somebody who was

50:54

like, you know, you're lyrics aren't

50:56

smart, you're whatever. And I go

50:58

out to. You know, now thousands

51:01

of people come to see me

51:03

sing, and I may sing

51:05

a very simple lyric, but

51:07

it's everything that I embody, that

51:09

it works, it works for

51:11

them, it works for me.

51:14

Yeah. But, you know, maybe

51:16

I'm just not smart enough

51:18

for some people. And to

51:20

them, I say, I don't know if I

51:22

can say this, just bleed but

51:24

fuck off. Yeah. You can say it.

51:26

I'm glad you did. People

51:28

are worse. It's really hard

51:30

to become and remain

51:33

a confident woman in

51:35

this world no matter

51:37

because there's always

51:39

something coming at you. Yeah.

51:41

Well, what is next for

51:43

you? Oh, I don't know. I'm just

51:46

like taking a look at

51:48

my phone to see if

51:50

anybody called and they have

51:52

not. So I don't know. I

51:54

truly, I mean I hope this thing with Patty comes

51:56

together, I have a lot of faith in help with

51:58

that well, because that'll be cool. So cool. I'll

52:01

keep performing live and I hope

52:03

to dream up a new show

52:05

because I've loved doing it so

52:07

much I don't want it to

52:10

end so I've got to figure

52:12

out a new way to do

52:14

it. You will. You will. All

52:17

right let's get to a lightning

52:19

round. Okay. Okay, that's a good

52:21

one. What musical role would you

52:23

most like to play? I really

52:26

wanted to, when they did the

52:28

Little Mermaid, I really wanted to

52:30

play Ursula in some shape or

52:33

form. That one has been so

52:35

good! I know, they really missed

52:37

a mark. I mean, Melissa McCarthy

52:39

is incredible, but you know what?

52:42

I think I could have had

52:44

something wonderful to offer as well.

52:46

So keep that in mind for

52:48

the future. Oh, that is a

52:51

role for a singer, I mean,

52:53

that song, her song, her song

52:55

is really good and big and

52:58

big. That's a big song. But

53:00

when I see, I like to

53:02

see, I like to see, I

53:04

like to sing from my tits

53:07

up through my toes. I mean,

53:09

wait, my toes up through my

53:11

tits. Yes! And I think that

53:13

I could, I could give Ursula

53:16

something, something real meaty, something real

53:18

special. I love that. I hope

53:20

that happens someday. Me too. Sonia

53:23

or Luan? Oh man. You know,

53:25

it's different every day, but today

53:27

I'm going to give it to

53:29

Luwam because I know. I love

53:32

him both. I love him both.

53:34

But today, Luanne. I love it.

53:36

If you were a real housewife,

53:38

what would your tagline be? Big

53:41

tis trim ankles, come at me.

53:43

What was yours be? I don't

53:45

know. I thought about this, obviously.

53:48

But probably something, some pun on

53:50

the news like... You know I

53:52

read the news, but I'll read

53:54

you or I don't know something

53:57

Something like that, but I could

53:59

never be a housewife. I am

54:01

so boring, Bridget. I'm so, like,

54:03

a verse to, to conflict. And

54:06

I've never fought with a friend, like,

54:08

ever. Yeah, I'm like, I've been

54:10

watching, you know, Salt Lake City,

54:12

just getting up to speed on

54:14

what's going on. I'm like, this,

54:16

this is, I mean, I always feel

54:18

like I have to lay down

54:21

after I watch like, because it's

54:23

just so much, just back and

54:25

forth, and I'm conflict a verse

54:27

as well, so. It's for a certain

54:29

kind of person and yeah, God

54:31

bless them because that's giving me

54:33

so much entertainment, but I could

54:36

never. What's your favorite movie?

54:38

Um, I love ordinary people. I

54:40

love Rudy. Those are probably my

54:42

two favorite. Oh, Rudy's so good.

54:45

Yeah, my friend got me an

54:47

autographed Rudy, Rudiger, Jersey. When I

54:49

started doing the show. That's amazing.

54:52

I cry every time I see that

54:54

movie. And I know what's going to

54:56

happen. And more than

54:58

once by the way,

55:00

I like, like, when

55:02

he finally gets in

55:04

on like the fourth

55:06

time, I am a puddle.

55:08

So good, that movie

55:10

is great. Yeah. Do

55:13

you have a favorite

55:15

opera? Um, you know, I

55:17

used to sing this, uh,

55:20

Aria, to Katie Jel

55:22

from Turn Dot, and

55:24

so I'd love that.

55:26

Okay, this is the last

55:28

question that's very important to

55:31

me. When is iced coffee season? Well,

55:33

I feel like I'm going to get

55:35

this answer wrong, but for me, I think

55:37

it's always ice coffee season. That

55:40

is the correct answer. Yeah, because

55:42

look, I like to, you know, you

55:44

can have your hot coffee in the

55:46

morning, but in the afternoon I'm going

55:48

to have the... 100% year-round is

55:51

the right answer, Brigitte. It's the

55:53

right answer, Brigitte. You survived. Oh

55:55

my god, I got laid down.

55:57

Oh my god, that's a lot of...

56:00

Gosh, I didn't know that was going

56:02

to happen. Oh my God, I'm glad

56:04

I got it right. It's why we

56:06

end with it. How many people get

56:08

it right? You'd be surprised how many

56:11

people get that question wrong, either by

56:13

saying, I don't drink coffee, which is

56:15

like, get the fuck out of my

56:17

podcast. Yes. Or like, well, it's from

56:20

like June to shut the fuck up,

56:22

no, no, it isn't. It is 100%

56:24

year round. But a lot of people

56:26

have gotten it right. We have lots

56:28

of friends. We have lots of friends.

56:31

All right, good. Coffee family. Thank you

56:33

so much, Bridget. This is really great

56:35

and fun. Thank you so much. Appreciate

56:37

it. Next week on Off the Cup,

56:40

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podcast, Here's the Thing. I spoke

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with more actors, musicians, policy makers,

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and so many other fascinating people,

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like writer and actor Dan Ackroyd.

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I love writing more than anything.

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You're left alone. You do three

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hours in the morning, you write

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three hours in the afternoon, go

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pick up a kid from school,

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and write at night, and after

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nine hours, you come out with

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seven pages, and then you're moving

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on. Listen to Here's the

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Thing. on the I-HART radio

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app Apple Podcasts or wherever

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you get your podcasts. On the

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I-HART radio app Apple Podcasts

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or wherever you get your

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podcasts. Calling all Yellowstone

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fans. Let's go work.

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Join Bobby Bones on

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for exclusive cast interviews,

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behind-the-scenes insights insights, and

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a deep dive into

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the themes that have

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made yellow...