Giggly Squad - Giggling about red carpets, mahjong, and imposter syndrome
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What's up gigglers?
Gary, fix the Wi-Fi.
Manifest that shit.
We can't be managed.
Got away from me?
Hello, my gay gigglers.
Happy pride.
Our favorite...
How have we never used that during pride?
Because I saved it.
Even though every month with the gigglers is gay.
Thank God.
Not to immediately talk about myself.
I was going to talk about you.
Oh my God, thank you.
But you're welcome.
People have been messaging me like, oh my God, like, you've been more cunty lately or you've been like serving more lately.
And I realize it's all since drag race.
Because like drag race taught me that like to be the moment where like before I'm like I'm just Hannah.
So like I kind of feel like, yeah, I'm wearing a dress where now I'm like I'm not Hannah.
I'm just I'm just Hannah in a dress.
I'm just Hannah in a dress.
Like that's what I was doing.
And like I know like like other people there like she's an eye.
icon she's the moment and I'm like well I'm just wearing a dress and now I walk in and I'm like I can be
the moment you guys it's all in your head and now people are like oh Hannah like the gays are
starting to like me more yep and I just wore a scarf do you want to know also what the gays respond
to confidence like they can sniff a certain confidence yeah and yeah I was actually at a
shoot recently and they were like I had to like answer
questions and one of them was like okay like what makes you feel confident and uh which is like
obviously like a question people ask all the time of like in general and for a second i was just like
i just like made it up in my head that i was yeah i literally made it up like i just said it one day
and then that was it i didn't understand like red carpets and stuff i'm like okay so i have to put
makeup on i have to be here and i think the gaze like knew that like deep down i didn't have my heart
and my soul into it.
But now I'm like, no, have fun with this.
You get to like be this character and be this like version of you.
Dare I say the gays have the best radar when someone's pretending?
Well, the gays call out bullshit.
Yeah.
There's this Kathy Griffin TikTok where it's like I, um, someone get a gay.
I need a gay.
I need a gay right now.
I have this old TikTok was posted where I said when someone says something mean to me and
I need to think of a good comeback.
I'm like, I need a gay.
I need a gay right now.
Can someone find a gay for me?
That's so true.
They read everything.
They're great readers.
They are.
And listeners.
And listeners when they have to be.
But speaking of the gays, yeah, we were at Las Coltristas, which was a parade.
Did you have so much fun?
I had so much fun.
The, like, combination of people was so good.
Like, it's like when you get invited to a party and I was like, I can't believe we're going to invite
at this party.
It's just a night of.
comedy and fun and outfits and it's my dream.
Well, I feel like I have to thank you because the gays first noticed us because of you.
And then you showed up in that hat last time and they lost their fucking, they were gagging.
They gagged.
You were so dominant with the gays.
The hat was intentional because I knew, like, I knew my audience there.
You had them in the palm of your hands and they ate it up.
and it was so good that to this point
they were like you could bring your weird friend
like they were like Paige you can do whatever you want
you could bring your weird friend and then I came and they kind of were like
okay kind of serving thanks for showing up
they were like they're like Paige you can bring her anytime you want
oh that's literally I felt like I got invited to the cool gay party
I'm like I told you guys you were gonna like her just give her a chance
you were literally looked at me and you were like this is your moment you're ready for the gays
what were we talking about this week and you were like oh
that's kind of like shoot I lost it
you said something really funny this week
but it was like a comparison of something and I feel like we were at last
colteris and now I can't remember oh I did a metaphor it was so
funny and it just made me think of it well thanks for acknowledging something I said
made you laugh I don't do a lot of metaphors but when I do so this week is my
special week it comes out Friday I've been doing some press and I had a
funny moment during press because wait before you say that can i just say that hannah was the so
hannah about her special coming out like a couple weeks ago she was like okay so who should i
invite to my party and this is like what i think i'm going to do and then like a week later she was
like nix the party think it's stupid not doing it no i had a 200 person guest list 200 people and i was
like no we're not doing this but actually i'll tell you right now on the pod
something new just came out.
Well, we were going to do a screening, and it got canceled.
Logistics weren't working, and I have an idea.
I don't know if you're around, though, but Taylor Strucker just had a baby that I haven't seen.
I think I'm just going to throw a catered, like, dinner get together from like seven to ten at Taylor Struckers.
What does her having a baby have to do at that?
A baby makes a party.
Oh.
Perfect. You're going to do a Friday night.
And she has a rooftop if you don't like babies.
Oh, perfect. I'm out of town.
Are you actually?
Oh, my God.
Because I was like, oh, you love this Taylor Stricker.
Okay, fine.
I do love Taylor Stricker.
And I would love to meet her baby.
I've only ever gifted her baby something.
And I haven't even looked her in the eyes and introduced myself.
That's actually so you.
You love a baby gift.
I love a baby gift.
Did you get her the trunk?
Yeah.
Of course.
That's what I give everyone who wants a baby.
I'm like, and here's a memorabilia trunk monogrammed with your baby's name.
Now, like, I have, everyone knows I send that trunk.
So, like, now my girlfriends who are having babies aren't even waiting for me to send the trunk.
They're sending their color requests.
They're like, not going to leave it up to you because I have a vision in mind.
Can you use these colors when you send my trunk?
I'm like, sure.
I love that, though.
Yeah.
If you don't have a trunk, you don't have a baby.
No, that's what I'm saying.
What came first?
The baby or the trunk?
If I haven't sent you a trunk for your baby, just know, I don't fuck with that baby.
If you have a trunkless baby.
If you have not received a trunk from me for your baby, I'm sorry, we're not real friends.
If you thought you were, now you know where you stay in.
Now you know.
If you haven't received a trunk.
Wait, also anything else from Las Cultureistas, it was fun to, like, sit back and, like,
enjoy a performance.
Yes.
It's so fun to like walk into a theater and not have a panic attack.
I know.
We're like never in that side of the theater.
Yeah.
You know, waiting for it to start and we were just whispering to each other, which is really fun.
Look, I wanted to wear a bandana.
It ended up giving pirate and it also wasn't the normal size of a bandana.
It was like a big Italian Cavali scarf.
So when we wrapped it up, it was like bundling.
Too much fabric.
And I vetoed it.
I said, girls, gays, we can't do this.
Paige has been through a lot.
She had a long day.
She just got off a six-hour flight.
I don't want to like have to emotionally process this.
I said, we're doing a scarf, babe.
We're doing a scarf.
But then the scarf was causing drama all night.
Poor Josephine had to keep redoing my scarf.
I mean, was on scarf through deep.
My favorite comment was that I was dressed very you-coded and you were just very me-coded.
And like together we were still ourselves.
Oh.
And I loved it.
Well, you were wearing Tom Brown.
Tom Ford.
Oh, Tom Ford.
I was wearing Tom Ford top and then I was wearing an area skirt.
The theme was a gay fever dream.
I thought the theme was evening wear.
I think maybe that was the attire, but the theme was gay fever dream, which I think you could wear whatever.
Wait, attire and theme are different?
Yeah, well, like the attire is, like how fancy it is.
So, like, if you got an invitation to a wedding, it's black tie.
Got it.
Attire, cocktail attire.
But, like, the overall theme was gay fever dream, which I think is whatever you wanted to mean.
When do you decide when to smoke?
smile or not in a photo.
Because I've been really playing with that.
I'm like, I'm not smiling today.
It's just like whenever the wind hits me, you know, in a certain direction, I'm like,
I'll give a smile.
You know what I don't do when people tell me to smile?
Because I'm like, you're not in charge of my aesthetic on Instagram.
You've actually never a full tooth smiled on a carpet.
Well, I feel like I have because I've been like bullied into it.
Not to like fully chapel roan over here.
Yeah.
But like I was bullied into smile.
The photographer will just be right there, like, five feet wave.
Yeah.
And you'll be like, give us a smile.
Yeah.
And you just are like, hmm.
And then that's the photo they use.
No one talks about this because I may come off as unrelatable in this situation.
But you ever been on a red carpet?
And when there's like a, and there's like all the camera people and a particular one like doesn't care about you.
Not for like any particular reason.
Just like doesn't give a shit.
So like they just turn to the side and wait for the next person.
and it's so and you're standing there and you know that like other people are taking pictures but this
one guy just like doesn't give a fuck and it's so you're like okay so like did i do something like do you
know you do not give a fuck because you just don't care or like you specifically don't it's very jarring
but everything is fake in this world so like i've i've gone to a carpet before and like
everything is fake and everything is owned by everything but people weren't excited and then like one
camera guy recognized me. It was like, hey, Hannah. And then the other one got excited and started
taking pictures. Next, you know, they're all excited taking pictures. It's like, so sometimes, like,
they'll start not knowing and then they see other people care. So then they're like, oh, I'm supposed
to care. So everything's made up. It's kind of like, if you fake paparazzi, people think you're
important. You know what I mean? And I don't think people at home know that before you get on the red
carpet, there's a whiteboard that they write your name on. Oh, yeah, that's humbling.
Before you get on the carpet so that they know who the fuck you are. Makes you feel like a substitute teacher.
They're like, this is Hannah.
Now everyone's going to be nice to Hannah today, right?
Burner with B-E-R-N-E-R.
I, at, oh, my God, Sports Illustrated two weeks ago, you have a bigger aura than me sometimes.
When you, like, get out of a car, I feel like people are like, that's a celebrity.
Okay, thank you so much.
But you've, like, I feel like this is something that you've had since, like, the womb.
Like, you came out and the doctors were like,
She photo, photo, photo, photo.
They say, get her out of the nursery.
She needs security.
Put her in a private room.
Yeah, you came out with sunglasses.
Yeah.
And a lip gloss.
And someone was powdering your nose.
They were like, okay, she got a little shiny in there.
Taylor was literally there as a baby powdering me.
They're like, don't let her come out looking a mess.
I, like, will get out of a car and people assume I'm a publicist, I think.
I can definitely walk in a way that no one will notice that I'm there, if that makes sense.
So you Marilyn Monroe yourself?
I can.
I don't know if I can make myself look important, but I could definitely like make myself look unimportant.
I walk out and I'm walking to this event and I guess there's always someone who's supposed to be your like handler and be like, okay, here's your ID.
Here's whatever you need to get into the event.
I always walk past them and they never see me.
And then at Sports Illustrated, I was like with my little cousin, Andrea, and she was helping me out.
And I was like, girl, we're going to have a fun day, VIP, Sports Illustrated.
I walk in and we're at the elevator and they're like, do you have a wristband?
And I was like, no.
And they're like, did someone give it to you?
And I was like, no.
And they're like, well, you need to get a wristband.
And I'm like, I'm on, I'm in the magazine.
Yeah.
And this is like a big event with like lots of different people.
But I'm like, I'm in the magazine.
Like I'm not trying to be a bitch, but like, I'm like, I'm the, you're like, I'm the
prettiest girl in America.
So then I went to another place where they were giving out bands, but I guess it was for
like general public.
And I said to the girl like, hey, can I have a band?
And she's like, what's your name?
And I was like, Hannah.
And she was like, I don't have you on anything.
And my little cousin Andrea is literally dying laughing because I walked in being like,
you're about to hang out with your cool cousin.
And we're about to rock this town together.
And the lady looked at me.
She's like, bitch, I don't know who you are and why you're bothering me.
And I was like, okay.
And then finally.
someone saw me. It was like, Hannah, you walk past the person. And I was like, I just walked in.
Yeah. So that happens to me all the time, all the time. But I also realize that I'd be a good spy.
I'd also say that in my life, if someone said who's the most confident person that you know, I would say you.
And I think that that's why I gravitate toward you because your confidence like comes off onto me.
and then I feel more confident.
So basically I use you.
Well, I would argue that we both are really confident
just in very different ways.
Here's the thing with your best friend.
And look, me and Hannah have been in some like peculiar situations together
that are so niche.
True pickles.
That like if we even explained it to you guys,
it'd be like, I don't get, like, I don't know.
Because it's so nuanced and so niche.
But everyone can relate to being in a situation with your friend
and you look at them.
and like in your brains you're locking eyes and you're saying to each other we only have each other
in this weird life and the amount of times even just this week that like I haven't even been in
the same room with you but I've had the thought where I'm like and I only have Hannah in this
life like well you actually got quiet at one point this weekend and I never felt more connected to
you because you knew that I knew you were being quiet and I was
was letting you be quiet because one thing you don't do is the best friend in public is start
poking your friend to be like what's going on are you okay so i was just like i'm going to let her have
this and acknowledge give her an eye and she literally was like i'll talk to you later and i was like i'm
ready i can't wait the second she's in the car my phone's blowing up i felt you sorry i just like got
like a 1930s wave and i didn't even like no sorry i like caught a glimpse in my
he said wait it's just going to hear you're like grace screenshot okay continue
I forget what I was saying.
But yeah.
Oh, no, no, no.
I did have a moment where, like, I felt your presence next to me, but I wasn't looking at you.
And I knew that you knew that I was annoyed about something, but I couldn't say it in the moment or around people.
And you just looked at me like, okay?
And I said, yeah.
And we had a full conversation.
Because I'm also not blowing up your spot.
I'm not blowing up your spot.
I'm just letting you know we're clocked.
We clocked it.
And we'll discuss this later.
We talk about as women.
so much how like your friendships change when you get married when you have kids and like
it's hard to like balance everything and I truly think that you and your friend just need to have
one of those moments every six months and it keeps it on track you can keep on like you can go
and not speak to them for a month because they're busy as long as the next time you see each other
like you have that type of moment there's just nothing worse than being in a social
being outside
and experiencing something
and looking around
and no one gets it
and you're just like
I'm alone in this world
where like I didn't even know
what you were thinking
but I knew that I would agree
does that make sense?
And isn't that what life is?
Isn't it just finding people
that agree with?
Like you want to know what?
I actually don't care
if people think I'm wrong
because I know that I have a group
of six girls
that 100%
agree with.
me at all times like butter that's a great example like you think butter is disagree with me
butter is fighting for me every second wait not to bring up like an actual cat combo but like serious
question because i've only had daphne for two years she's my first cat obviously like don't you have a
short-haired cat so i like can't call you sometimes because i'm like what like she's in a different
situation. I need to know if one, I need to know how often you're brushing your long haired cats.
And second, I need to know if my cat is AI because I'm not kidding, when Daphne gets like a mat on
her, I genuinely feel like she comes to me, shows it to me and like lets me get it off of her.
Like I feel like other cats, you have to like fight with them to brush it or like, you know,
they don't want you like digging at the.
They're like, I genuinely feel like kitty comes up to me and is like, you're going to let me walk around the house like this.
Like, fix this.
Yeah.
And so I need to know that from the long haired cat moms.
So my one thing I know is my mom brushes her cats, even though they're kind of short hair, but like they love getting brushed.
Like, okay.
They walk up to her to be like, brush me bitch.
Yeah.
That's what I feel.
And the back.
And don't forget the front.
Thank you.
Sometimes I feel like she's judging my brushing.
Like I feel like she wants to be like, and this isn't what I pay you for, bitch.
Like, do it better.
Like, if she could physically grab her brush and bring it to me, I feel like she would.
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I was in a long conversation this morning in DMs with a giggler who sent me a photo of a cat,
and she sent me options for names.
Guys, I can't come up with names off of nothing.
I need to know, like, so she gave me some good options.
Wait, there's a girl on TikTok that literally started a business
where you can pay her.
she'll brainstorm baby names for you.
You give her like certain things about you and your husband and she'll brainstorm based on
your personality.
She was like, I just realized I was good at it on TikTok a couple years ago because celebrities
would get pregnant.
I'd predict the baby name and I would like kind of get it right a lot of the time.
Oh, so she's magical.
So she started an entire business where she will brainstorm baby names for you based on
you.
Instead of Etsy Witch Breakup, she's doing Etsy.
which babies. I'm obsessed with her. Also, I was talking to someone yesterday who had a baby,
and I was like, what's your baby's name? And they were like, my wife and I actually haven't
decided yet. So we just call it baby. And I was like, how old is his baby? And they were like,
eight months. And they're like, we can't decide. Just baby. But they have another kid. So
they just call it like, there's this kid and baby. Wait, I thought like they, there's a brief certificate or
something. I was under the impression that like they don't let you leave the hospital. I know.
But named your baby. So many things in this life just seem like a movie. And,
easy but it's not like i think if you're at home it's also so much pressure what you named the baby because
that's like their whole identity for the rest of their life and like i don't know i think sometimes people are too
casual about it also i was asking my friend katie who literally just had a baby i was just thinking
to say just had a baby drop last one new baby dropping dropped her new baby
hell yeah baby dropping a week and like we've been chatting oh and also i was like oh i want to come
see the baby and I completely forgot that you have to like wait a certain amount of weeks
oh yeah to like see a baby yeah so it was like totally forgot about that but when the eight weeks is
up I am in fact busy so I'll catch him later you go do you have another baby dropping
when's the next drop I mean once next no but we were talking about how like she was saying how
how after you give birth and everything's over and you like sleep and you're ready to leave that
you just leave and she was like and it is
so weird that they're just like, okay, bye, good luck.
Like, see ya.
Like, in my head, they send a police officer home with me.
So, like, make sure where you're even bringing this baby home is suitable.
Like, no one's coming and checking.
It's such a crazy concept.
Yeah.
But then I thought, just like Hannah losing her bag at Sports Illustrated, you're handing it to a woman.
So what bad could happen?
Literally.
The doctor, if it's a man, he's like, please take this away from me.
I'm exhausted.
Like, you're just handing it over to a woman who you know is going to do the right thing.
And honestly, what's changed my brain chemistry is I saw a quote that said,
the only people that live on earth are women and their children.
And I'm obsessed because that is the only humans that live on earth is women and their children.
And their children can include cats.
I do have to say, this cat that was sent, she sent me options.
And then I thought of, I really want someone to name their cat pepper.
I think pepper's so cute.
but she was like,
this cat has some like brown undertones
and I was like, how about mocha?
And we ended up going with cinnamon
and her nickname's Minnie.
Cute.
They're never going to call that cat cinnamon.
Unless she's really naughty.
Cinnamon.
If you've named a cat
and you already have their nickname,
you're never calling it their real name.
Yeah.
Or, yeah.
Yeah.
That's true.
But now I feel like I have,
you know how, didn't sheena or didn't you
like get bought a penguin
by like you know i can't believe you would bring this up right now wait that was so fucked up
i bought a penguin for an ex-boyfriend one time and i genuinely think i was scammed but also was the cutest i
it was such a sweet gift that's why i feel about every giggler's cat i'm like give me updates on our cat
yes but where is that penguin i don't know where that penguin is because they never
responded to my emails but then i like still get emails from the place like to this
day. Honestly, that penguin sensed the energy and was like, not here. You're not adopted me.
No, what's going on over there? You got me fucked up. I'd rather be in the wild.
Please page six or whatever put a headline, Paige and her ex abandoned penguin.
Decide they don't want to co-parent. No one knows who the penguin is. I used to get asked about that penguin all the time.
Oh, my God. I think sheena had a penguin.
Gwen at one point.
Oh, I think she might have.
I'm, like, such a fan girl.
Like, Sheena can do no wrong to me, like, ever.
When she commented on this, um, advertisement we have up for Hulu dropping and she wrote,
it's all happening.
And I'm like, does no one understand the gravity of this?
Wait, I saw Sheena.
Also, nobody gives credit to Sheena and how funny she is.
Like, like.
Inconsistent.
No, her comedic timing is actually hilarious.
and people literally don't give her credit.
There was something about, like, Summerhouse,
and I think it was something about, like, Jesse Solomon,
and he was, like, making a post about himself or, like, I don't know, something.
And Sheena commented and was like, okay, Sheena, like, making the whole scandal about you.
Like, and I was just like, that's hilarious, and that's funny.
Also, not to get in the weeds, but she, like told a story about how her ex put up a TV,
and it took him, like, only, like, three minutes, seven minutes.
seven minutes.
That's hilarious.
Like why is everyone taking shit so seriously?
If my friend was like he put up a thing in seven minutes, I'd be like, that's fucking
hilarious.
She's obviously like.
It was like.
So funny.
Just starting a good conversation about how long it takes men to do things.
Like why was that turned into like, oh, we're really mean to her because of that.
In like the beginning years of Vanderpumped you, like they were really mean to her.
And I'm like, this girl is hilarious.
Like even when she first got on the show, I was like, everyone thinks I look like Britney
Spears. I'm like, this is a TV goal. I'm obsessed with this person. Obsessed. Obsessed. Um, so yeah,
I had this interview and the lady who's actually like giggler, hilarious. We had such a good
conversation. And then there's a part of the interview they always like to get a little deeper after
what's going on in your life. And she was like, you talk about having imposter syndrome,
especially as a stand-up comedian who came from reality TV. Like, what do you do to, you know,
be confident in yourself? And I was just,
kind of like answering questions but like this light bulb goes up and I was like I've never
said that I've never like I was going to go with it but then I was like you cannot be a people
please right now like that's literally everything you stand against and I go I'm so sorry I don't know
where you read that I need to have imposter syndrome like I could actually benefit from like a little
bit of imposter syndrome because I'm out here like singing I literally to this day still think I can
hit the Cynthia Areva note.
Right.
And it almost cost me my friendship with Paige.
During tour.
And she, wait, wait, before you finish the story, we're sitting at Las Coltristas.
We're in the middle of the show.
I feel a tap on my shoulder.
I look over and go, so, you really would never sing and dance on the stage?
Like, I could tell she's watching this performance.
And in, like, a normal person's like, wow, they're doing so well.
My friend is like, I could fucking do this.
I could get up there.
I could learn this dance right now.
And I knew she was thinking, next Giggly Squad Live tour,
there will be a singing and dance moment.
And I looked at her and I go, no, I would have joined the theater.
And I was like, you don't have some move.
Like, I'll do something around you.
And you literally like, I can't do this right now.
I'm trying to understand.
And I was like, okay, well, I'm planning choreography.
Just let you know.
I'm like, we're in and build the show.
We'll talk about this after.
We were literally a married couple.
She's like, can we talk about this in the car?
I'm not doing this in front of everyone.
Oh, my God, there's a clip going around from our Zoom dance.
You dancing on Zoom was so funny.
You were doing like, she was a different girl.
Sometimes I see old photos of you and I just love looking at it because I was, I'm like, I miss her.
I mean, I'm biased, but I feel like we're exactly the same, except we're smarter and less reactive.
So anyway, I feel like it's assumed a lot of the time that women have imposter syndrome.
Like I feel like whenever anyone's successful, they're always like, how are you handling the fact that you're successful?
And I'm like, because this is the only way I will survive or I'll feel like I have no purpose in life because I've been chasing this since I was born because this is all I meant to do.
Like what do you want me?
And I don't know if they would ask men that.
Like when a man blows up or they like, Alex Warren, do you have imposter syndrome?
Or somber, do you have imposter syndrome?
Master syndrome.
Never one time have I seen a guy answer that question.
Because the equivalent to that question for men, I feel like, is, oh, my God, can you
believe you've made it to this point in your career?
It's not that you've like, where with women, it's like you've had to have been doubting
the whole time.
This is shocking.
You're doubting yourself.
You're shocked.
We're shocked.
You're shocked that we're here where men, it's like, doesn't it feel good?
No, but like when you start in reality TV, everything gets harder because everyone's like,
but you're on reality TV, so you can't do this, you can't do this, you can't do this, you can't do this,
you can't do this, you can't do this. And you're like, I'm sorry that I got casted for something.
And it actually wasn't my dream.
You were like, if we really think about it, I couldn't do reality TV.
I actually can do that.
I try for that. We're really breaking it down.
Instead of calling me a reality TV star, we should just be like she wasn't able to do it.
She wasn't really on that much.
No, I don't know what it is.
I think probably also I think because reality TV is mainly women.
So I think it's also looked at as like not skilled, stupid.
When in reality, it's like the number one connection we have to like anthropology.
Like watching how women react to certain situations, watching how friendships evolve,
watching how like just your lives change in general from different ages you can watch in real time now
granted there's obviously editing but like you so there's some people on reality tv that have you've watched
them for 20 years can i actually give a metaphor i love that reality tv is like anthropology but it's
more like reading a history book where at the time you're like this is facts but then you realize
that the history book was in fact written by humans and there's always a bias
for example.
I'd have to literally smoke a joint to get through the...
Start, start over.
Like his three books were written differently in the South than the North.
Yes.
They tell the story of our nation differently based on what they want you to know and how they want you to perceive it.
Yes.
Okay.
So what I'm saying is reality TV, when you look back, you realize like, oh, that was a time when it was popular for this or they wanted this angle.
and it's not straight facts.
It's through the lens and the narrative they want you to see it from.
So that's why I love when people get more information when they go back and they're able to be like, wait, now that I know this, this scene looks completely different.
Wait, okay, were you done with the imposter syndrome story?
If you want me to be.
Oh, no, I just.
No, I mean, I could talk about it forever.
I didn't know if you finished the story.
So what did you end up saying?
to the person.
Oh, I just, I was kind of proud.
I stood up for myself and I was like, I actually don't think I've said that,
which is like kind of awkward.
Like, you don't want to have to say that.
But I was like, I've never said that.
And it's not what I.
Yeah.
I don't have imposter syndrome and I'm happy to be here.
I'm just happy to be here.
Happy to be involved.
I'm happy to be involved.
And you're doing great at your job.
You're doing great.
I'm doing great.
I'm doing great.
Did you ever have imposter syndrome and think how to, whatever?
Imposter syndrome is like you telling yourself you shouldn't be here,
which I have had in other things.
Yeah, like tennis, I had imposter syndrome before because I'm like, I'm not.
Being a successful comedian, you're like, I know.
That's just art.
Like, I'm like, if the people laughed, you were funny.
Right.
That really gets rid of your imposter syndrome once you get that first laugh.
But yeah, if you're a girl listening, you don't have to have imposter syndrome.
It's not like part of our DNA.
You can just like believe in yourself.
And then when the good things happen, you go, yeah, I knew.
Like, Paige, you don't have imposter syndrome.
No.
I knew from a very young age that I was meant for more.
I just knew it.
There's actually so many different situations in my life that I was telling people,
like I was being rude to people to be like,
how dare you say I'm not going to do what I say I'm going to do?
Like, okay, you don't think you're going to be famous.
I do.
Like, get away from.
I always thought I was going to be famous.
Actually, there was a moment when I was in my early 20s.
I had just graduated college.
I moved to New York City.
And I had a moment where I was like, oh, my God, I said I was going to be famous by 17.
And I'm like 23.
And I haven't done it yet.
And I remember thinking, like, am I just going to like stay at my job and not try?
And getting really upset that I had like missed becoming famous.
You're like, I'm 22, I missed it.
Well, I think I had a, like, modeling agent say, if you're not famous by 17, it's really hard to, like, break into it.
People love saying that stuff to people.
Yeah.
And I think that, like, stayed in my head for however many years.
And then I, remember, I got, like, got Summer House.
And I just thought, yeah, like, I'm, this was supposed to happen.
Because also, you were so ready for your moment.
Like, when that happened, you'd been so overprepared and ready.
Like, when you said, like, when you said,
that down, that confessional, you were like, let's train for this.
Go.
It wasn't like, oh no, what's happening to me?
This is all unfamiliar.
You had already seen it in your head a bazillion times.
I'd been performing.
You saw yourself walking at the premiere already.
You knew the outfit.
Totally.
I knew, yeah, I knew I was meant to be on a red carpet getting in a fight with a
paparazzi.
About smiling.
I think it's time for a woman in STEM of the week.
I have so many submissions now weekly in my day.
DMs.
We actually have to hire a new employee to handle all of those.
Because we want to highlight real women, like everything that started as a bit.
So now I feel bad when the real women in STEM are like, hey, how about highlight us?
And we're like, okay, but she like tied her hair with a cute bow.
Yeah, no, I know.
I was like, this girl was like, hey, I just graduated Cornell, like engineering science.
She's like, hey, I made the rocket.
Any rocket. I made it. And we're like, okay, but did you use a straw as a makeup brush?
No, these girls are so smart. One girl, I think she's like a doctor. She's like, I saved like the lives of two twins today. And I was like, hey, not really the right fit for the segment.
It's not really the voice and like the angle we want, but like obsessed with your work. And you do have imposter syndrome for our personal women of some of the week. But also would you ever?
Ask like a doctor, a female doctor, like, do you have imposter syndrome when you go into surgery?
It's like, no, this is who I am.
No, because if she said yes, you then realize you're dying in that moment.
Like, that's the, if your doctor has imposter syndrome, that's really, honestly, though, so many gynecologists I've gone to, definitely have got imposter syndrome because they had no idea what the fuck was going on.
Anyway, that's for a different pissed off of the week.
So Women of Snow
With the Week
Don't know her name or anything
But there is a girl going around
Who realized that you could do your own color analysis
By just going to Home Depot
And you walk
Behind the wall of colors
And you just take photos of yourself
And then color analysis are made up anyway
So you can then decide what you like
What's best for you
Hannah, we have to go
No, I know
Well, okay, do you think color analysis
Is made up?
But like, you know, but we know when they show it, you'll be like, I like her in that color and they're like, that's a horrible color. And I'm like, isn't like, it?
It would be like the most subtle. I don't know. I think there's obviously very, there can be subtle things that you're like, yeah, you could go either way. But I think it is real because there are sometimes like, okay.
Like colors wash me out for sure. But a bunch of girls went to like somewhere and did it like a bunch of influencers. I forget. It was like an influencer trip.
or something.
And you could, like, when they, like the blondes with blue eyes, when they did like the dark
colors, you could instantly tell that they looked way better in like the bright colors because
their eyes just popped and it looked.
So I definitely think it's real.
I think there are certain things if you have like a complex, like I think our complexion can
go like both ways sometimes.
I'm so flattered.
You're putting my complexion.
I know.
Then I look down at you and I'm sorry.
No, so I'm told.
She's way more a fair skin.
I have all of undertones because of my Sicilian, which you have.
But then because of my European mutt, I have kind of rosacea.
So I don't have rosacea.
I just have a reddish hue that like.
Yeah, yeah.
You don't have.
Yeah.
So do you know what colors you think you are or?
I like kind of, but like I would love to do a color analysis.
But like I'm also like, yeah.
Yeah, someone has blue eyes.
We're blue.
Okay?
I don't even pay someone to fucking...
I tell Des, we're blue.
We're navy.
We're this shade of blue.
No, I need to go get it down.
Also, I can't believe...
I didn't tell you this.
My mom visited.
And I don't know.
I feel like as you get older,
you just like cherish every day with your mom
where I'm...
You're not like, okay, we're not going to do anything.
I'm like, what do we do?
She told me that she had some friends playing mahjong
and she doesn't know how to play.
And I was like...
I think you can, like,
get mahjong lessons.
So I went on Instagram and I was like,
mahjong lesson, DM someone.
Next day, they came over to our house,
me, my mom, and two professional mahjong girlies,
put down the mahjong map.
And for three hours, I felt like I was at Harvard.
We learned how to play mahjong.
It's really difficult,
but I felt like I was learning a new language
and I was like, I can't wait to be in like a mahjong group drama.
wait wait wait wait
Paige mahjong is taking over as like
because it's kind of a language that like
you need to know it to play it
and then once you're in it it's like an art form
and it could take three hours the game
it's basically like I don't know if you ever played
gin rummy with like your grandpa
yeah why would I bring her up um
it's like rummy cub but with tiles
it's like rumy cub if you were on mushrooms and cocaine
So it's, and what people like is.
Because aren't all the tiles like pictures?
They're gorgeous.
They're all like glass and they, the backs are really pretty.
And you could do all different styles, but they all have like a certain thing that they're called.
And it's based off of like the original game is Chinese.
And this is really confusing.
But every year there's a different card to like make the game more challenging that you play off of.
It's like crazy.
So now I have just so much respect for people who play mahjong because it's so complicated.
But like now I like kind of want to be in a mahjong league.
It's so funny because my assistant, Josephine, is always trying to play games.
Yeah, he loves a game.
Like anytime we're anywhere.
You're like, let's try responding to an email.
And we have five.
She'll be like, how about we play cards?
I'm like, we are in the middle of a shoe.
You also, when there's a second, you're watching your show, you're not like starting.
Also, you're not learning a game.
No, the one day, the one day she did make me play cards.
We were like at my apartment waiting for something and like we just had time and
she was like, you know, we could.
And I was like, well, do you even have it?
And she was like, of course, I keep it in my bag.
And now there's like this new game that she wants to teach me.
And we were at a shoot today.
And she was like, if I had brought it, like we could have played it on set.
And I'm like, we're at work technically.
She's like, no, I actually canceled the job.
So I can't start playing that unless I play with.
with unless I bring her.
So maybe like me,
you,
Grace and Josephine join like some type of
mahjong league.
Yeah,
mahjong call up.
I just think like before phones,
like people play cards and games.
I also heard,
because I was talking to some people,
this one woman has a 15 year old daughter
who's obsessed with like buying a walkman
and like all the nostalgia of like
the late 80s early 90s early
90s. So like the kids, I think after Gen Z, there's a generation that saw Gen Z and was like, wait, maybe we should not be online as much.
I don't know. Gen Alpha is just as fucking nuts. Maybe before Gen Alpha. But I think like it's funny the world is realizing like we got to undo some stuff because we've gone too far.
I think whatever our generation's kids are, they're going to be fine. I think once like the young, all the younger
millennials have kids, we'll save the world. It's fine. Just add it to our goddamn tab of things that we've
had to deal with. Now we have to fix the whole human race. Can I say one thing that pissed me off this week?
Yes, I love when other people get pissed off. A man, a man called me sweetheart. Give me the context.
Like, it was like in passing. Like, it was like an older man that was just like, do you know where this is
sweetheart? Like, not in a creepy way, but it's like, I think we're done with that.
that like i don't oh you love that i hate that i love that because like okay how old not like 80
that's fine that's okay he was probably like like 60 okay so he's someone's dad yeah don't call me
sweetheart also i'm 34 see i don't hate it because you like being a sweetheart am i around a lot of
creepy men.
I'm like, wait a minute.
No, because I feel like I've heard that growing up my whole life from either like my
uncles or my dad's being like sweetheart, can you get like.
Yeah, my dad never call me sweetheart.
I don't know.
But yeah, I guess like a man that you don't know.
But also I realize I am projecting.
But like, yeah, in my household, I wasn't sweetheart.
I was a bad bitch.
So like when a man tries to infantilize me and call me sweetheart, I'm like, I'm nobody's
sweetheart.
I'll ruin your fucking life.
Sweetheart?
Sweetheart.
I'm going to start calling men, sweetheart.
Imagine.
I go, thanks, sweetheart.
That's how you know what's wrong,
because if I can't do it back to you,
don't do it to me.
Even just the context in which I put that in,
like, oh, well, I feel like there's a lot of men in my life
that, like, in my life I've been called sweetheart.
Is there anything that, like, our moms have called the boy,
like any boy?
Well, it's funny to think of, like, what boys call each other.
They call each other boss, chief.
Like thanks chief.
Chief, they get Chief and boss and we get sweetheart or ma'am.
Yeah.
Have you been called ma'am yet?
Yeah, that's like a slur.
Yeah, I've been called ma'am by like a 15-year-old, well, I had to be 16 because it was like a valet parking attendant.
And I looked and I was like, that just made me really upset.
And then I ran the math in my head.
Like, yeah, he saw me and was like this old bitch as someone's mom.
See, I have imposter syndrome where I think we're 27.
Not when you talk to someone that's like 16.
Yes, with us, like around people like us.
Yeah, talking to you, I'm 27.
When I'm dealing with anyone under 25, I'm a strong 30.
I'm even pushing 40 because I'm like, you're doing what?
With who?
Even my friends that are like two years younger, I'm like, you're drinking at this hour.
It's 11 p.m.
You know when you're talking to older people and they make references
of like movies and actors and you're like and they're like you don't know who that is and you're like no yeah
yeah yeah and you're like that's so annoying like why would you even say that but then you literally do it to
them you're like you don't know who just and timberlake is and they're like what i'm like you don't
fucking know you for well in our defense we didn't have social media to learn those things
they have social media all our famous people are still famous for them
des'll bring something up and be like you never saw that movie i'm like when did it come out and he's
like 1992. I'm like, I couldn't walk. I was, I couldn't even put a sense together. And what was
it? I had to wait for a rerun that my dad had to click. Like, you know the chances? I literally just
stepped out of my mom's vagina. Give me a minute. Like, I don't even have my own room yet.
I never happened to, hi, hello, how are you? And I guess some people's parents were a little more like,
you got to watch these cult classics. But like, I was busy. And I was busy. And I was,
also it literally was every night my dad was watching the Knicks and then during the commercial
breaks he would like go to the middle of the godfather and i'd watch it from the the middle and then i'd go back
i don't care as much like when i meet someone younger and we're talking about something that's very
millennial coded and they're like i haven't seen it or i don't know it i don't get upset about that
i'm like yeah why would you unless you had an older sibling but when i meet someone that's my
age and i bring up a show and i'm like for example like clarissa explains it all or
like Sabrina the teenage witch um boy meets world and someone's like oh I didn't watch that that's
when I'm like what were you doing because I was the same age and I know that it was a Friday night
and it was TGIF Friday so where were you when boy meets world was on what were you watching
wait what's what's Clarissa what's Clarissa who's Clarissa
Clarissa explains at all what is she explaining it was Melissa jose
heart who is Sabrina the teenage witch it was her show before it was Clarissa explains it all okay
and she sits in her room and the guy comes up from her window you know you know that was it's
okay that's from 1991 to 1996 so you were watching reruns no I was watching it in 1996
when you were four it was on oh maybe I was watching reruns that I'm just saying that was a throwback a
little bit. You know I hold you accountable. I have a distinct memory of watching. Even Stevens
like put it into my veins. Yes. Even Stevens. Okay. Yeah. And. Okay. You know what? I digress.
You know what? Like it's been a fucking long day. It's one o'clock. Like even Stevens came out in
2000. We were on that. Wait, this is this is actually really diabolical. Hannah's in a different time zone.
And last night it was like midnight New York time. And Hannah's like, we could do like a late night giggly
episode, I'm like, it's midnight.
I can't do giggily squad right now.
You're like, hey, I want to sit for an hour and talk about everything that annoys us, put it
on the internet.
I do have to say it would have been an epic episode.
I was like shooting something yesterday and a giggler was there and she's like, have you
record the pod yet?
I'm like, no.
Like, should we record it tonight?
While you texted me that, I was full face mask hair mask.
I was like, I'm a little busy.
Well, that's something with you.
At night, you actually like have a second job at night, which is.
is like undoing the day and like being prepared for the next day where I actually am kind of creatively
at my peak at 11 p.m. When you share a bed with a man like so many things can happen but like one of the
things is like them knowing your schedule and like if I want to get up because you've already
fallen asleep and I haven't even fallen asleep yet and I want to do things downstairs like
different projects on my own like it's none of your business. We projects. We have. We
have to do projects to stay sane. Yeah, like if I get a hankering to organize my hair closet and the
hair closet is right next to the bed, that's not my business. I literally, I have to do it. No, but my
problem is Des falls asleep during the MEC game around 730 and then he, I put him down around
eight and then obviously I have to brush my tea. Sometimes I have to shower like these this is
not conducive. And sometimes I'll truly be laying in bed and this male will be falling
asleep next to me and I will be wide awake and in my head I'll be like I didn't have enough time
with me today and so I physically have to get up from the bed go onto the couch do something different
do something that's just for me and I don't think there's enough women out here talking about
what we're doing from the hours of like 10 30 p.m. to like I'm going to say 2 a.m. I was going to say
Because I know there's a lot of women that are, we're up.
There's a word for it where it's like you have to make up for lost time and the day that you didn't spend by yourself.
Yes.
That's how I feel.
That's how I feel.
If I worked all day, if I woke up with a man in the morning, I worked all day and then I'm going home at, and I'm getting in bed with that same said man.
I had no time alone.
You're like, if it's a different man, that's a whole time.
Different situation.
That's just trying out different flavors.
Yeah, you've got new things.
Say, man, you're like, I need to be alone for a second.
That's when I scoop kitty up.
I was going to say, does Kitty love this, like, second time of the day where you hang out alone with her?
She loves it.
Yes.
Well, yeah, because, like, when there's a man in bed, it's a different aura.
Because, like, usually it's just the two of us.
She's on her side.
I'm on my side.
Like, she likes what I watch on TV.
We don't ever disagree about it.
Like, she doesn't want any of my snacks.
I don't want any of hers.
So when there's a man in the bed
It's she throws off the whole situation
Yeah, butter
When I'm just sleeping alone
She's literally you could tell in her eyes
She's like I could lay anyway
We're gonna be crazy
Don't even need a sound machine with us
Don't even need a sound machine
Just pet her head
It's the best
Anyway you guys
It is gonna be an amazing week for everyone
We love you so so so much
And thank you for giggling with us
Talk to you soon
Bye.
