Giggly Squad - Giggling with Brenda Song, Kate Hudson, and Mindy Kaling

Episode Date: May 26, 2026

We had the honor of interviewing Brenda Song, Kate Hudson, and Mindy Kaling. We discuss revenge, how to thrive in male dominated spaces, and what it's like to create and act in a tv show. Hosted on A...cast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:02 Sup Gigglers. Gary, fix the Wi-Fi. Manifest that shit. We can't be managed. Got away from me? Hello, my giggly-pigly-wigglys. I'm currently in Vegas about to present at the AMA Awards with The Queen. Lisa Rittena, I've never met her before.
Starting point is 00:00:26 I know her daughter, but I've never met The Queen. So hopefully I don't say anything weird or awkward, but we'll let you know next episode, how that goes. We have a very special episode for you today. It took a lot of back and forth to get permission to post this, but we were able to get the footage from our interview with Kate Hudson, Mindy Kaling, and Brenda Song from our live show that we did. Now, this is not a normal Gigli Squad live show. We didn't have guys on stage calling them trash.
Starting point is 00:00:58 This was an interview we did at the Netflix as a joke festival, and we're just so happy that we can share it with everyone who wasn't able to make it that day. So I'm gonna shut up and let you guys enjoy the live show. Hollywood. She loves Tor. So let's fucking do. She's, she could bash her head through a wall. What is up LA? Yes, I just have to tell a really quick Hannah story because she's been torturing me all day.
Starting point is 00:01:41 I thought you're gonna say year. I was. I honestly was. Okay, so Monday we're at my apartment, right? my apartment, right? We're getting our nails done. We're having like a very cute best friend day. I say, Hannah, what are you wearing Friday night to do our interview? She was like, oh, I want to
Starting point is 00:01:57 dress like really cool. I just want to wear caprice and like a windbreaker. And I was like, great, where did you order the windbreaker from? And she said fashion nova. No shade, no hate. No shade, no tea. I said, Kate Hudson's going to be on the fucking stage. I need you to lock
Starting point is 00:02:13 eyes and get it together. I'm a good friend. I go upstairs. I get my YSL windbreaker. You fully devil wears Prada at it. I say you can wear that Saturday night. A couple days goes by, we're in the airport. We're on our way to L.A. We had something in the morning. I said, Hannah,
Starting point is 00:02:28 what are you wearing to brunch tomorrow morning? She goes, a YSL windbreaker. She also has to record a podcast. I go, what are you wearing to the podcast? She goes, a YSL windbreaker. She's been wearing the same fucking outfit all day. I literally want to kill myself. She looks gorgeous.
Starting point is 00:02:50 I said, Sweaty Magoo, if you sweat in my Yassel, windbreaker, I will kill you. No, but I was like, I'm getting my money's worth, and she's like, I paid for it. No, I'm asleep in this. I'm not taking it off. You're never lending me anything again. You're never doing it. You guys, also, we've never done a show like this before. It's going to give Barbara Walters realness. What man just spoke up?
Starting point is 00:03:14 Yeah. Is your handler with you? Yeah, I love the Wiltern. It's so cute. I was going to say cute. That's not the right word. Sophisticated. So we have three superstars that we're interviewing. You guys know, we don't interview. We've never asked a question and listened to the answer. This is going to be so, so, so fun. I hope they remember that they're coming out because they probably left. They could have left. They're like, what are they talking about on stage? So this is such an honor for us. to be interviewing
Starting point is 00:03:51 the women. Okay. Powerpoint's ready. Perfect. Downloaded. Awesome. That was Mindy Kaly being like, I'm out.
Starting point is 00:04:01 Provers here. That was Mindy's super awesome. I want you guys to put your hands together. I want you to go fucking crazy for the cast of Running Point
Starting point is 00:04:12 and creator of Running Point. Give it up for Kate Hudson. Mindy Kaling. Barbara Walter's Realness. Here we go. I have to figure out to sit in this dress. I'm just in your shoes for the first one.
Starting point is 00:04:49 Those are incredible. Wait, Paige, can you first justing my... Can you give a little review of the looks? No, I'm obsessed with everything. This skirt is so good. I don't know how to sit in that. You're perfect. But it's fashion.
Starting point is 00:05:01 Yeah, right? You can stand the whole time if you want. I can't. Brenda said she wore a very giggly squad-coated outfit, and I feel like she nailed it. Can I just say we had to dress up because this fucking audience, I was driving in
Starting point is 00:05:19 and it was just like little cliques of hot baddies. It's the hottest girls ever. Night out, like Korea Town just turned into Vegas. Like everyone looks so good. And they're like doctors and lawyers. And they just look like hot sluts. We're so biased, but they're hot,
Starting point is 00:05:35 as smartest, funniest people in L.A. I rolled down the window and took a selfie with them. I've got a couple of boyfriends that slid their way in. We don't do that. This isn't a Gicky Squad show. This is in conversation with important people. We don't do that anymore. We're professionals.
Starting point is 00:05:54 We've actually, this is the first day we're meeting these three, so we're a little starstruck right now. And we wanted to get to know you guys a little better with a PowerPoint. You weren't lying. She said backstage, she's like, we have a PowerPoint. I'm like, uh-huh. We actually can't remember what's going to happen if we don't have our visuals. We're visual learners.
Starting point is 00:06:20 to how the sausage is made, but give some important questions about, like, the state of our nation. Okay. Okay, so we're going to show you different things, and you're going to say if you like it, if you don't like it, and then we'll let you know if that's Paige or Hannah-coded. Okay. This is how we're going to really know who you are to your core. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:53 So excited. There's no wrong answers. Ballet pink nails. It's kind of like you get the same nail polish every single time. Wow. Yes. Not every time. Not every time, but, like, it's your go-to.
Starting point is 00:07:05 I love. It's easy. For work. I do it for work. Okay. So none of you guys have a crazy nail? I love a crazy nail. I love a crazy nail.
Starting point is 00:07:13 In the aughts I did, and then I feel like we've all been shamed into doing neutral nails. Yeah, a little bit. It's like, it's a culture. It's the Cape Middleton effect. You're not classy. I used to have, like, checkerboard nails when I was on the Mindy Project, and then now I know. That was like Keshe's time. Like, bring back glitter.
Starting point is 00:07:28 Or like the French manicure where half the nail was the white part. All white. It's all white. And now I know that that's lame. I love a crazy nail. Yeah. Okay. Okay, and we're going to tell you guys what you are at the end.
Starting point is 00:07:39 Yep. So, Paige is doing math in her head for the first time. That was mean. That was really mean. Cottage cheese. Let's start with Mindy and go down. I get the hype. I know that it's good to get protein this way.
Starting point is 00:07:56 I don't fuck with cottage cheese. In any form. No, and I know you can make delicious pancakes and things. You can blend it up, put in the freezer. or put it in a smoothie. No, I put in your coffee. Yeah, there's girls on TikTok that, like, make bread out of it. You're out.
Starting point is 00:08:10 You're out. You're so different than I. Yeah, yeah. I've tried, I'm Asian. Lactose intolerance. I can't. I've tried. Wow.
Starting point is 00:08:18 I love cottage. Wait, I like to stand up during the show's page will move. Paige will move the whole time. Girl after my own heart. Okay. Chandeliers. 100,000 percent. She loves a chandelier.
Starting point is 00:08:36 Love a good chandelier. Love a chandelier. Okay. It's kind of a weird, I'm not. Crocs. Here's the thing. I have them for gardening.
Starting point is 00:08:46 My partner said he would never wear crocs, and now he wears them all the time everywhere we go, and I regret it so much. Wait, I'm still not past the gardening part. Yes, I love gardening. I love gardening. I love crocs. I love gardening. I love crocs, but I personally do not. So, I'm sexist.
Starting point is 00:09:04 I think women and children should be able to wear them, but when like... Save them. Save them. them first. I'm telling that. When Ike Baranholz wears crocks to the writer's room, I'm like, you should care more about what I think of you sexually. Like, you know, it's because of the patriarchy. Wait, I need to say that to people more.
Starting point is 00:09:23 Like, you should care more about what I think of you sexually. I love his wife. I love his wife. I love that. No men can wear them. I'm sorry. No. I think every single one of them should be melted and just put it like, something else should be created.
Starting point is 00:09:39 They're the worst shoes of all time. Wait, how have you ever tried it on, though? I'm not going to say I haven't worn them. But I am not. It's a hard note for me. See, I love crocs because they are comfy. However, if you ever walk in an airport with crox, you ever, like, get stuck?
Starting point is 00:09:57 No. I've never worked in there with cross. You don't need to get stuck and you could, like, tear an ACL? No, I don't go sport mode. I just got boot-ups. Why would you wear crocs when you have burk and stocks? There's so L.A. of you. Okay. Okay.
Starting point is 00:10:19 Now this is not a body shame moment. This is about body positivity and finger positivity. Do you have nubbs or do you have witch long fingers or do you have something in between? Okay, you didn't have done which. I have child like hands. Child like hands. I have like baby hands too. But Brenda, look at that rock.
Starting point is 00:10:42 Wow. That's nice But you still have like So you would classify yourself as having small Like long fingers I have I don't know what I'm What are these? You have nice hands though you have long fingers
Starting point is 00:10:55 They're like nuttick and your teeth They're like knuckles Yeah Yeah You have long fingers I told you I have nuts I have very long fingers
Starting point is 00:11:06 But I have like orangutanang arms Wait And I'll tell you why I did this Wait so do I We did this, Kate and I did this thing to promote Running Point where we, the Dracula song, right? And so Kate was so cool and she walked into frame and she did the first line. And I came in, my arms were singing and I was like, my arms looked so goddamn long. And then like, immediately I read the comments where they were like, why are her arms so long?
Starting point is 00:11:30 My knuckles were like dragging on the floor. And I thought I looked really cool. But Mindy, you could dunk a basketball. Thank you. Yes, okay. No one believed me. Okay. Have you guys ever played fantasy football?
Starting point is 00:11:44 I'm not allowed. Oh, you get too competitive? I'm not allowed. You've been banned? Have you been banned? Me too. Not allowed. Who is what?
Starting point is 00:11:54 Okay. It's like a doorbell. I think it's your email. I think it's me. I'm like a boomer with a phone and I don't know what's going on. So you were banned because what did you do, Brenda? I already care too much about football and so I can't have added stage. I have children, I have a life.
Starting point is 00:12:13 It runs my whole life. It's like I will be just stat ridding all day. We already have a rolling TV just for sports. It's a problem. I'm not allowed. A rolling TV? We have a rolling monitor just for sports. Women in STEM.
Starting point is 00:12:28 Like in your house and you roll it around to different rooms? Because also like when our kids, so we try to limit screens with our kids. So if they want to watch something, they have to share the big TV. And if they're sharing the big TV and a game is on, mom and papa roll out their TV and the kids know that that TV is just for sports and on Sundays we watch the local game and then we have our Sunday ticket on the rolling TV
Starting point is 00:12:55 you run a tight ship I like that yes we do do you fantasy football I I how dare you ask me that question I'm so offended no I just I don't have I have no interest and I I don't know what about you I have yeah I have but but I but I I get bored like halfway through the season.
Starting point is 00:13:16 I'm like, I don't want to watch all the games. Yeah. Well, no, I like my teams. And then I'm like, oh, God, did so and so. I hate watch all the time. I hate watch games. I love it. Do you have any picking strategy in the draft?
Starting point is 00:13:27 No, no. You pick the tall ones. The cute ones. I'm not going to watch lovely men play every week. I feel like I'm the Bachelorette. I'm like, you, you, you and you. But I did just start wanting to get into betting on goal. Oh. Do you play?
Starting point is 00:13:47 Because I play and I'm getting kind of obsessed with it and I really want to be able... Yeah, Guzente. And I really want to be able to like, you know, really understand golf and the way you do that is you start betting on it. I put on the golf channel when I need to hit REM sleep. Because they have such a calm whisper, you know?
Starting point is 00:14:09 Yeah, it's like a warm... It's like a heavy blanket. Well, we've spoken about sports betting and how men are putting their homes up for sale to, like, keep a broad is going to win a game or something. So we just wanted to raise awareness. Put this in. And she was in Sports Illustrated recently,
Starting point is 00:14:36 until we just wanted to, like, bring awareness. Yes. Paris, at first I thought it was funny, now I'm embarrassed, but I get ashamed because I have a really long torso, and Paige is all legs, no torso. How is your guys' torsos? Zero torso. Zero torso.
Starting point is 00:14:58 So you're a page. Everything has to be like hemmed in my, it goes, it goes nipples belly button. Your nipple hits your hip. I just need to say, Mindy has been so page-coated this whole time. I know, I'm getting jealous. I'm a little page-coated. I'm long-wasted, short-legged. I'm the exact opposite.
Starting point is 00:15:19 It's literally waist feet. You look tall on a zoo. Yeah. I'm taller than Kate right now, but if we stand, I'm as tall as Kate right now. But if we stand up, I'm like, Two feet shorter. When you sit, you get tall. I'm so tall right now.
Starting point is 00:15:33 We should do the whole, see, we should do the whole season just sitting down. I'm your height. Because I have to wear like these gigantic shoes. Yeah. I'm like on ample boxes all the time and in gigantic shoes and I'm still not as solid. I'm also long torso.
Starting point is 00:15:47 But you also have long legs. Oh, so you're both perfect. Like I guess moderate. Corsions are perfect. She's like, sorry, I don't understand this imperfection of body ratio. I guess I have the platonic ideal. A woman?
Starting point is 00:16:00 She was trying not. to answer she's like someone else can go. I don't know. Matthew McCona he says I have the perfect figure. It's whatever. We just say we didn't get to say this we are so honored to be here. Oh my gosh. Thank you for having us. Of each and every one of you in so many ways, oh everyone got serious that got me nervous. You're like London Tiddy put you on the I know hello. London's here. But yeah you guys this is such an honor and for the gigglers to come and support all this and just everything. Giggle the best word ever. No, it literally is.
Starting point is 00:16:49 It literally is. Okay, this one is when you're on FaceTime with your friend, and something happens, call drops. Are you calling them back, or you've missed the moment's over. You'll get them next time. Yeah. You know, and you're like, the universe doesn't want this anymore. No, an unnecessary wrap it up is to not, yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:06 We ain't got the time for that. It ended. It was God's way of saying, you're busy. You're done to the next thing. She's so pageful. It's crazy. Oh, I'm the opposite. I'm like, oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:17:16 I'm so sorry, something happened. I'm just calling to say goodbye, I love you. That's me. That is really nice. I'm with Mindy. I'm out. I'm like, oh. I know.
Starting point is 00:17:33 I know. I'll be telling you. There are times I'm talking. I'm like, oh, Kate's gone. Forever. I called her back and it's like called and I'm like, oh, okay. I guess we were done. You could, you could see, you know, what you could do is send the text.
Starting point is 00:17:49 hey, I think the call dropped, we're good. Right? Yeah, like, just to make sure they're not mad at you. We're done here. No, I'll be in the most vulnerable mid-sentence, like, and then when my parents, and then it cuts off, and Paige, never to be heard of again. And, like, we'll pick this back up next week.
Starting point is 00:18:05 Leave me for dead. Cats. This is controversial. Think before you speak. I don't like Kate's face right now. Well, do I have to me. Is it, like, cats or dogs? No, it's just...
Starting point is 00:18:17 Cats? Oh. I... It's just cats. I will snuggle any animal. I love cats. I love cats. I never had a cat until I started dating Mac.
Starting point is 00:18:28 He's like a Manhattanite, so I always had dogs, but now we have three cats. I love all animals, though, so we have so many animals. I am not an animal person. I just want to say, no, this is my long-lost sister. This is so page. But also I just want to say dogs are the patriarchy. You continue. I think, and then this is bad.
Starting point is 00:18:51 is bad. People love animals living in their home. Yeah. Rubbing their genitalia on their, on their pillows that they go to sleep on, licking their faces. They love this. I don't know if this is like an Indian thing, but I think like germ-wise, it's not, I love a cat attitude, you know, I love, I think there's a lot to learn from cats about, you know, don't give too much, you know, just, I, but I, I, um, I'm not like an animal in the house person. I want to, only human germs in my house. That's Butter and Daphne. They're huge fans of all of you.
Starting point is 00:19:27 Unfortunately, they do sleep in our beds, though. Also, Butter has, like, it looks like Cindy Crawford. She has a little birthmark, but no one talks about it. Everyone's just like, Daphne's so pretty, and I'm like, Butter's literally Cindy Crawford.
Starting point is 00:19:37 Is it Butter? Butter, the name's Butter? Oh my God. I'm really into food names. Oh. And she likes British names. Okay, well, I had two cats named Mac and Cheese.
Starting point is 00:19:47 I had two. Oh, so you too love cats. I had two. Yeah, they were Persian cat. They were mac and cheese and they were so cute. And I thought you were going to talk shit about cats.
Starting point is 00:19:57 I have to formally apologize to you because I was ahead of my time. Oh. Voice notes. Sometimes you don't want it in writing. You know? You're like, if I ever get subpoenaed, it's going to be back.
Starting point is 00:20:12 Someone saves a voice note, eight cents shivers down my spine. When someone saves a rant that you went on, you're like, why did you save that? Yeah, for evidence. Yeah. Love a voice note. Yes.
Starting point is 00:20:24 Love a voice note. Especially because we're busy, we're walking around. We're like, I can't call. I've learned to love it. I used to give me anxiety when I saw someone. I would just read the voice note like a crazy person and not listen to it. I'm like, oh my God. But now I understand and I'm here for it.
Starting point is 00:20:38 Except when Scotty MacArthur sends voice notes because they're like 30 minutes long. Call them out by name. Call them out. Scotty, he plays Ness. He literally sends the longest voice notes about nothing. And you get to like a minute You get to like a minute 10 and you're like I'm out You know you can speed them up now
Starting point is 00:20:55 Well I say if I look at a voice note and there's a two Is it like anything over two minutes? I'm not listening to it I kind of read it Yeah you skim it I think of the thing I read it Doesn't Scott you like play music? He'll be like I got this song I want you guys to hear
Starting point is 00:21:11 Like he'll play a long song for you guys That's crazy Does he have anyone in his life who could be honest with him No, that's the problem. Everybody is. Everyone is honest with him. Literally, everybody has told him. I'm so sorry
Starting point is 00:21:25 that a man's doing that to you guys. Bed rotting. Huge fans. Yeah, huge fans. This is just staying in bed all day. Do you wake up early? Yes.
Starting point is 00:21:41 You're fucking running or something. Yeah, but I'm also, I also I can get into bed and I can get into bed for a long time. but I wouldn't say it's rotting yeah rotting is a bad word I get the I get it but yeah the kids are saying
Starting point is 00:21:58 I love being in bed I love I love our bed like do you guys ever work horizontal like do emails in bed and like Zoom's I do my emails at night and then I schedule them to be sent out in the morning I raise my kids from bed she goes like full fights with my whole family
Starting point is 00:22:15 from the bed I have three kids under the age of eight. So like bed rot, it would be my dream to do it. So I was on bed rest for my last baby, who was two, and the last six weeks I was confined to bed. We're so jealous. It was heaven to just lay in bed, take all my zooms.
Starting point is 00:22:36 And it's clinical. And it was like, I have a medical condition. You've been doctors. I have to look bad, like zooming with Bella Bajaria from bed, wearing my sweatpants, and she just has to deal with it. It's the best. Yeah, it's the best. We need to get a medical note.
Starting point is 00:22:50 No, I really do. Last one. Last one is... How do you feel about revenge? I'm a petty bitch. I'm a petty bitch. Yeah. Petty bitch.
Starting point is 00:23:00 Do you believe the best revenge is living well, or do you believe the best revenge is literal revenge? Great question. No, I think it's living well, but also if there's a chance to be petty, you know I'll do it. Revenge, sometimes, like, you don't have to do it. The universe does it for you. Because I'm a big believer in that too. And that I love. I love.
Starting point is 00:23:19 Yeah. I'm gonna be so cheesy. Yeah, please. I believe that forgiveness is the only way to peace. Aww. How dare you booed Kate Hudson? And no, guys, she actually means it. Can you believe that?
Starting point is 00:23:34 Wait, no, but that is beautiful because when you're angry and you wish bad upon people, it comes around back to you sometimes. You're so fucked if revenge is your way. You just want to be friends with Kate Hudson, you're not being yourself. I'm not being right.
Starting point is 00:23:53 I've been saying it, this whole time. But like, you did work on yourself to get there. She has time. She literally called me two weeks ago at 11 p.m. and was like, and then I think this will happen.
Starting point is 00:24:08 Yeah, I have an essay which but like so does that. Oh, okay. Before we go, we'll say what we think on... Oh, okay. Let's decide. I mean, Mindy. Is page coded? I think this is a same.
Starting point is 00:24:22 100% page coded. I'm honored. Honored. I think Brenda is smack dab in the middle. She's Hannah's son, Paige Moon. Yes. And Kate is all Hannah. And Kate's me.
Starting point is 00:24:36 This is good representation. Kate is like, she holds herself a little with more, like, respect. Yeah. For sure. She's like a regalness that I'll never have, but... Cool. Like, Kate's never, like, shit in the middle of the street.
Starting point is 00:24:51 Okay. That was a bridesmaid scene. Like, I never. I'm like, well. Look, sometimes you don't know if it's a fart or not. Okay, never over trust a fart. See, that's her hand are coming out. Oh, wait, which brings us to a perfect segue.
Starting point is 00:25:08 We just want to get to know you guys a little more about your sense of humor. And you all are so iconic in the comedy space. Like, I don't mean, there's no words to it. So we just want to know, this is too late because we've been trying to make you laugh. So we should have done this in the beginning. But we just want to know your sense of humor real quick. People falling. Yes.
Starting point is 00:25:28 A thousand percent, yes. Does that get a laugh from you guys? Yes. I'm the awful friend. You're pointing? You could be bleeding and I'd be like, that's hilarious. You're like, here's your tooth, you're done. You're going to be fun.
Starting point is 00:25:41 A cousin of this is when Kate walks into a wall, which is like every episode of the show. Oh, yeah. So falling out of frame, I think, is the best version of falling. Kate was talking about real life, like when I trip on falls, she's like, ha ha ha ha, you'll be fine, it's hilarious. Where she's a director, she's like out of frame, perfect, fall into the mattress. Fart jokes. Like, Mindy, when you see a script, how often are you like, okay?
Starting point is 00:26:07 I'm not highbrow, okay, I'm not, but I think I like, you know, I've, again, three children under eight, they think it's hilarious. Oh my God, when you call them a poopy head? And they're constantly doing it. So I think I've just had a lot of, like, toots, we call them at our house. A lot of, like, toot comedy in my, home. We have like three books with toot in the title. So I think you're, she's so you know so I'm obsessed. She's like we call it tooting my home. I love that.
Starting point is 00:26:32 Because it's like because they have like, they have Asian grandparents, you know, like we're not gonna say fart. But so I'm to me I'm not as into it I think. Yeah. Yeah. I think same. I think I'm so desensitized because of my kids they think it's so funny and I'm like I'm tired of it. Yeah you're like get a new bit. Stop. We've seen this one. My kids are also trying to fart on me now. My kids are also trying to fart on me They think it's so funny when they fart on me. And I'm like, it's never gonna be funny. No.
Starting point is 00:27:00 I have a thousand brothers, which basically means I spent my entire life with them farting thinking it was funny. And it's disgusting. And but, but every once in a while, a perfect fart joke is really fucking funny. Like if it's just, if it's perfect, it's, you can't not laugh, you know. You know. Hannah loves a fart joke. My brother has an insane sphincture muscle. And his...
Starting point is 00:27:35 Oliver Rwagia. If you listen to our... No, I'm serious. This is real. If you listen to our podcast, you'd hear this because he farts a lot on my podcast. But he can control it. So he'll... He does things where he'll walk in my room and go, do you hear that?
Starting point is 00:27:53 And then all of a sudden he'll fart. and close the door like it's creaking. Oh my God. And control the farm. So he's an artist. You've never seen anything like it. Wait, has he seen a doctor about it? Like is that?
Starting point is 00:28:10 Are they like, you're an anomaly or that's like a thing? Kind of. He's a butt Beethoven. Sorry, I'll stop. I hate puns. I hate puns. But Beethoven's pretty great. Also, this is so random and I don't want to raise awareness about a man,
Starting point is 00:28:23 but I recently just started watching Nashville, and I had no idea. He's in it, right? Yes, yes. He's so good in it. Nashville is, how much, how much did we love that show? And I never watched it. Okay, anyway, this is...
Starting point is 00:28:35 Why are you starting Nashville? No. I'm sorry, like, didn't it come out in, like, 2008? No, I'm not allowed to go through something. You're like, I love... She tried to make me started. I was like, can, I can't. Everything Hayden Panitaire will ever do.
Starting point is 00:28:48 I mean, it's a great show, but it feels random. Good, good. It was, like, on T&T back in the day. I didn't even know how to get to T&T. You're like, I'm going to watch Royal Pain. Royal pains after that. I love it. I'm just, I'm surprised.
Starting point is 00:29:01 How unbusy you are. We all wear, yeah. She's so page, because she literally just said Hannah. She's disgusted by you. And that is us. No, I love it. Yeah, you love it. And she's wearing a matching set.
Starting point is 00:29:15 She's like, this is gross, but I need more. I can't look away, but what makes us laugh. Running point. The reason we're here. Real quick, can you just. go around to tell us, I swear to God, I'll fight you. Are these texts? What is that? What's happening? I'm like my Tinder's going off or something.
Starting point is 00:29:40 Can you guys just go around and say what you, how involved you are with Running Point? Are you in it? Were you there when they filmed it? How are you? You're working on our interviews. You're like I've seen National, but I've never seen Running Point. What is Running Point? So it's... What is it about?
Starting point is 00:30:02 So it's on Netflix. Yes. That's why we're here tonight. And we love Netflix. Thank you for having this and thank you for having. We love you guys. We love your work. I'm a co-creator with our good friends, Ike,
Starting point is 00:30:15 Berenholtz, and David Stassen. Love. Who are wonderful Dave is the showrunner on the show. And Jeannie Bus, the wonderful Jeannie Bus, who is the president of the Lakers several years ago approached me and said, and said, I'd love to do a show about what it's like to run the Lakers. There had been so many shows written about
Starting point is 00:30:35 the Lakers, but never that mentioned her as anything but a side character in it, which is, again, typical of living in the patriarchy. I won't bore us with all this now. But she really wanted to do that. We developed the show. Kate wanted to be in it, which was,
Starting point is 00:30:52 I mean, took it to the absolute next level and because Kate was involved, we had these incredible other cast members, and that's But it started like pre-pandemic we were thinking about this. I had one child before this. At any point where you like, shoot, I don't know basketball? Or like...
Starting point is 00:31:10 I happen to, and as you know, don't know anything. I'm very indifferent to most sports. Randomly growing up, my dad was a huge Celtics fan and grew up in Boston. I'm so sorry. I know. This is the reaction. Larry Bird.
Starting point is 00:31:24 What's the score of the game right now? Larry Bird. Look at you. My dad loves Larry Bird. Larry Bird. See, we're connected. We're connecting. Larry Bird.
Starting point is 00:31:31 And so he, we, he grew up loving basketball. I think basketball is the best sport in the world, the most athleticism, the most entertaining. And the Lakers, I mean, love the Celtics, but it's like showbiz for a reason. Like showtime, love it. And so, yeah, that's how it happened. And Ike and Dave co-wrote the pilot with me, and now they're showrunners and actors on the show. It was on this season. He's super funny.
Starting point is 00:31:58 And, yeah, that's how I'm involved. She is the show. Yes. This is our boss. By the way, Mindy's created like 3,247 shows in the last decade. So shout out to Mindy for running the comedy industry. Truly. And for me, I sat with Mindy.
Starting point is 00:32:21 We had a margarita and fell in love. You guys didn't know each other before. We didn't really. We had met once before. At Reese Witherspoon's Christmas party. We met at Reese's Christmas. Of course. I have a lot of A-list.
Starting point is 00:32:33 A lot of A-list celebrity friends. What is Reese Witherspoon's Christmas party life? Like, what does she serve food-wise? There was a lot of, like, southern food, right? Yeah, she's a, you know, she likes her fried chicken. Oh, okay. Shrimping grids. No, she, yeah, southern food.
Starting point is 00:32:52 A lot of singers, like you sing. A lot of cocktails. There was a part of the evening that turned into Christmas carols around a grand piano. Which for me is, like, fucking terrifying. my worst nightmare. For me, is like my favorite part of the night. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:06 She's on the piano. Was there a fountain? A fountain. I feel like there'd be a fountain. Yeah. You know what? There was a fountain. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:14 There was a fountain. Like in her driveway. Yeah. Somewhere there was a fountain. That's where we met there, but we had a fancy lunch. And you were, you wanted the show to be cool.
Starting point is 00:33:24 You didn't want to be involved in like a loser show. Yeah. Basically. That's what I said to her. I'm like, is this going to be cool or am I going to look like a loser?
Starting point is 00:33:33 Um, no, we sat, we talked. I, I, I've known Jeannie Bus since I was young, um, uh, because I was, I'm a big Kings fan and I used to go to, yeah, hockey. Hockey kings, not the Sacramento Kings, just to be clear. And, uh, and I got to meet Jeannie when I was young at the forum club. And, um, and I just felt like when I, when I, when I, I remember reading the log line of the show. And I was like, I'm going to, I'm going to do the show. I knew it in my gut
Starting point is 00:34:04 and then when we met I had I have so much trust in Mindy and we've had like the time of our lives and then I got to meet Brenda
Starting point is 00:34:13 who's become Oh so you guys met on the show to you didn't because your chemistry like when you went to Toronto I was like sorry what's going on like I really felt like
Starting point is 00:34:23 it was like a real friendship breakup I would have thought you guys knew each other before you film it's out it's out that's what we do documentaries we're like don't tell them what happened to Ted Bundy.
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Starting point is 00:36:02 Allie, there was a pregnant pause. Now I know what that means. I think it's finally our time. Hmm. Okay, that's a very judgy. Hmm. You just got out of an eight-year relationship. Have some fun. I am trying to have fun, Alley. I'm trying to have fun with Jay. Eila, your first post-left hookup needs to be low stakes. Someone you'll never see again.
Starting point is 00:36:22 You don't like that guy when we're in Vegas. Or that guy in Kava. Or that other guy in Kava. Okay, I get the point. I'm a retired slut. And it's time for you to get back to the streets. So please don't know. text Jay or send him conspiracy reels on Instagram. Ali, the sinking of the Titanic, was not an accident. There is proof.
Starting point is 00:36:39 I'm leaving. I have to know, as artists, do you guys like watching yourselves or does it? No, that was painful. I'm so sorry we put you through that. That was, that was rude. Every time, it's always weird. It's never. I'll never get used to it.
Starting point is 00:37:00 And like hearing your own voice. Oh, thank you. They're saying you're so hot. I was, I love how I'm like the giggler let me translate. They said you're really hot. Also, we loved your fits. We loved your hair. The suits, the ties.
Starting point is 00:37:17 How much, like, say do you get in your outfits? And do you get to keep anything? Some things. Some things I keep you? She looks at Mindy. Maybe. Maybe I've taken some things. You guys have kind of a lot of say, right?
Starting point is 00:37:30 Yeah. No, no. Oh, yeah. It's so wonderful because the thing is our shower, Dave Stassen, is always like, I'm a man. I don't know. You choose. When it comes down to it, we have a lot of say, and our costume designer is incredible.
Starting point is 00:37:43 So we, it's so much fun. Yeah. And I work with my stylist Sophie, and she kind of helps curate everything, and it's been awesome. I love it. I love the Ila looks. Yeah, it looks like. Yeah, it looks like here, crazy. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:55 Who takes the longest in glam? Justin Thoreau. How long does he take? Way too long. Is it the brows? Like, what is he working on? Okay, in defense of Justin, right? He's a handsome guy, right?
Starting point is 00:38:13 And you get to a certain age, that doesn't come easy. Right? You got to kickstart that. Advil. A lot of massaging, a lot of ice, face, ice baths. Lots of theology. A lot of lymphatic drainage in the morning. He's 70.
Starting point is 00:38:30 And so for him to look, no, he's a young man. handsome guy. You didn't look that handsome in Devil Wars Prada though. That probably took a while in glam. I was a quick as in glam. That was him not in glam. That was him just showing up and going straight to work.
Starting point is 00:38:48 I saw the movie and I was like, where's my Adrian Grene? Where's my man candy? It was like the journalist friend that she had. They had like a guy with an accent. They were like, that'll do. Sorry, this is Devil Wars Prada 2 talk. I'm like, I have to see this.
Starting point is 00:39:04 movie. I haven't seen either. It's really, they did it justice. Yes, very cute. Mindy, do you have any casting regrets? What if I was just like, yeah, I wish it was Anne Hathaway and Sandra O. But somehow, we made it work with these two.
Starting point is 00:39:26 I think the casting is spectacular on the show. Everyone is such a great character, the chemistry is so good in the room. We were so lucky, and it just felt like, and this is really a test. to Kate. Like once Kate wanted to do it, it was, you know, getting Jay Ellis and all the great Octavia Spencer. They had this prior relationship and everyone just wanted to act with the cast. It was amazing. To the point where I was like, I'm jealous. Why can't I be on the show?
Starting point is 00:39:52 We feel really lucky with who was on it. I think Max Greenfield. It's so funny and great when you guys broke up this season. I was like, can I step in? He's such a cutie. So, yeah, we were really like. Do you have any dream characters that you would like to cast? Like any actor that you're like, I really want them in it. Chet is, we love Chet so much. I would love Tom Hanks to be on the show in some way. That's your long game.
Starting point is 00:40:21 You're like, Chet, come on the show. It does seem like that. No, Chet is so funny on the show. And whenever we see, we're like, where's your dad this weekend? Can we FaceTime? Don't you feel like Tom Hanks? He's one of the funniest people alive.
Starting point is 00:40:36 be so funny in S&L, but he does these movies now, and I love them, like, Greyhound and Bridget Spies, that he does, like, the dad movies now, and I want him to be, and you've got me, I want him to be something really funny. And so I'd love to have him on the show. And we also love Ray Romano. Yeah, I love.
Starting point is 00:40:53 He's great. I also just, like, crazy comedians, like Tim Robinson. Yeah. I met him today at the brunch, so name-dropping. I knew, too, and I got so excited. I was like, I love you so much. I didn't say anything. I went.
Starting point is 00:41:07 Yeah, but I, you literally did, I watch you do that. Yeah, I was like, and then I walked away because I didn't know what to say. What's great about our show is that it sort of lends itself. We've kind of opened this world up to where anything's possible. You know, anybody could come on and do something fun for like a day. And we have so much fun on set that that's exactly what we're doing. You know, like this year when we did the basketball game and, We had my brother and Speedman, and we had so much fun when we were doing that, you know.
Starting point is 00:41:44 So it's great. I'm sure we'll have a lot of people. We also, like, and this is getting increasingly rare. We get to shoot in L.A., which is so, it's such a huge part of the show. We just, like, if we can, you know, I just think getting actors to come here, we feel so proud to be able to shoot here. Our crew is incredible. And, yeah, so we hope that we can kickstart a trend where more and more comedies are shot here.
Starting point is 00:42:08 We've all been there as women in the arts and women in STEM. Have you ever walked into a room and felt underestimated because you're a woman? And how do you deal with that energy in the room and then overcome it? Wow, big shift in the show. Let's bring out Michelle Obama. I actually get, okay, this is going to sound awful. I get a little bit of a weird, like, hit off of when I can see. when I'm pissing a guy off.
Starting point is 00:42:50 Like, I had moments where I've sat and I've had to like stand up for myself in certain things and you can just feel them hating it and I fucking love it. There's a part of me that's like, I don't know, I just, when I see that and I, and I say this not as a generalization
Starting point is 00:43:13 because I work with a lot of great men and I've had a lot of great support from men, women like, But there are just, we all know them. And those moments for me, when I know that I have a little bit of the upper hand and they fucking hate it, I'm like, oh, I'm enjoying every second of this. It's not revenge. That's the only way I orgasm.
Starting point is 00:43:42 Sorry, okay, we took it too far. That was my bad. But do you know what I mean? Like, there is a moment, you know, I think a lot of times there's, sort of like those kinds of people who like want, you know, they want to pull the wool over your eyes and you're sitting there and they think they're going to sweet talk you or they think that they can make you feel a little bit like, oh, you should be doing it like this and then we're going to kind of steamroll you a little bit. And I enjoy those moments when I'm like, nope. I'm all jacked up right now. But that's how I feel. What about you? I know you're like, you're similar. Come on. No, I'm like always at like a simmer. Like my rage is right under the surface. You're so page. No, I feel like I am, I feel so lucky.
Starting point is 00:44:30 I have like the career of my dreams. Like, it's everything, but also the scrutiny that I face versus my contemporaries is like absolutely crazy. When I fail, I fail huge. And when my contemporaries fail, it's like a quiet little whatever. If a guy does a show with about a bunch of guys and it's really guy coded, it's like a, it's considered like high art. But if I do a show with women talking about stuff, it's like,
Starting point is 00:44:54 What a cute little trifle. Something to watch as a guilty pleasure when you're on the treadmill. Yeah. This is what's happening. Yeah, and then it's just a simmer. I also feel rageful when I'm trying to parallel park a car and a man is like, jumps in and is like, I'm gonna help you. And they're just being friendly and I'm like, I don't need this.
Starting point is 00:45:17 Back away from my car and I don't know, but that's not answering the question, but I got it too. Well, that one you might want to. I can't, I haven't handled. I have a backup crammer because I don't. fucking 2026. You're like, this isn't a self-driving car, dude. And women don't do that. And a woman wouldn't say,
Starting point is 00:45:34 I'm going to help you. Imagine. Women are like, I'm going to go do my own thing. Yeah. And they're just trying to be helpful, but I'm like, you know, go away. So that's, was that anything? And you guys have been in rooms
Starting point is 00:45:46 with some of the most powerful, influential men in Hollywood. And you've had a hold, and you've held your own. And we commend you for that. I've never said, amend before. That was crazy.
Starting point is 00:46:01 Brenda, how about you? I'm the opposite. No, I'm kidding. No, here's the thing that I feel as an Asian-American woman in trying to get seed in anything, especially in this industry, I feel like you always walk in a room feeling underestimated, feeling like it's going to be a no. And for me, it's always been about proving to myself, my own self-worth. And honestly, I say this all the time, and I truly mean it, being on this. being on this show is one of the first times.
Starting point is 00:46:29 I've been doing this as I was three years old. I'm 38. This show has really has been one of the few places where I truly feel seen, heard, taken care of, and where I truly feel like I have a voice. And that's really rare. And this show, being with women like Kate and Mindy have really taught me to be unafraid to speak,
Starting point is 00:46:51 like to speak up, period. Because the truth is, like, I'll be honest, there have been so many times in my career where people are like, well, why did you do that rule? I was like, I'm just trying to work. You've got to say in it. And that's what's really hard. They make you feel like you have to defend every choice that you make.
Starting point is 00:47:08 When you realize that you're just trying to survive. And being on this show has really helped me and really given me so much motivation to speak up for myself and to advocate for myself and to take risks that I don't think I would have taken. Like, it's the truth though. When I started this show, Kate says, said something amazing to me because she was starring in a show and also having an album come out and I, when we were talking about it and she's like, you did this because for you, you
Starting point is 00:47:37 didn't want to have any regrets, you didn't care. And it, like, she said it so casually, but it hit so hard for me because I feel like I was always so afraid to do something because I was afraid to fail because as women, if we have a misstep, it's like a huge failure. We'll never get another shot. And so truly being with these women has, inspired me so much to be more like that. That is so nice. And that comes from the top down. Like that's from leadership.
Starting point is 00:48:06 That's from like having Mindy and Kate. The men that we work at Thunder Show are feminists, right? Like they all like, Ike and Dave have worked on somebody. They were on the Mindy Project for 117 episodes. Like they want to, they want to write stories about women, like demented women, but they think demented women should have a voice. and Scotty and all the guys here. That's not always the case.
Starting point is 00:48:30 Like you do a movie and, you know, there's, I don't know, Kate, you've done this, Rubin and Markeld and there's a couple guys who maybe aren't so happy about having it be that way. And that's, like, this cast is incredible. The writers are incredible. And so we feel really supported by the men in our world. And that's, I would say it's not as common as you would think. So we are so blessed.
Starting point is 00:48:52 Also, for you guys to get to this point in your career, you've had to do scary things. Like, you haven't been comfortable. I know you all have done things that scared the hell out of you, and that's how you became great. Do you have any advice for Paige when she's nervous?
Starting point is 00:49:07 I'm just kidding. No, Paige is beta-blockered out. She's fine. I'm numb. But, like, we're in, like, this early part of our career. We're only 34. We're babies.
Starting point is 00:49:16 We're children. We're small. Child brides. We don't know what to do. We're doing a lot of things for the first time. That's really scary. When you're insecure, doubting yourself, how do you overcome that, especially when you're in the public eye?
Starting point is 00:49:31 In all seriousness, there is no creative field that you can get into without having to be completely terrified of putting yourself out there. So if you're not going to do it, then you're probably not in the right business, right? So like if creatively, also what's so fun about what we do is that everything's new, which means, that should always feel a little bit like, you know, kinetic and a little fearful and have those nerves. It's like anything that is a new idea, anything that's a new experience, every time you walk out here and you do something like this,
Starting point is 00:50:07 it's going to be a completely different crowd. You never know what that is going to be. That's part of why we love doing it, but it's also like you have to risk the fall. If not, then it's just you've got to get in like accounting or something. Like, you know, you got to do something. I need a beta blocker for that too. My advice for you guys, because I know you have a show that you're working on,
Starting point is 00:50:32 which is going to be huge hit. Oh, thank you. And you are mere children, I know. So I'm going to, I hope this doesn't have condescending, is when you're putting together the team for the show, which I know you're working on right now, it just has to be people that you're like, oh, that person is like obsessed with me in my voice.
Starting point is 00:50:51 That director, that cast member, that writer, because it's so hard to make a show. There's so many heartbreaks. They're such a roller coaster. But it's like dating someone. The people that you get in bed with, they can't be doing like for the money or because of this and that or whatever.
Starting point is 00:51:06 It's like when you leave it, you're like, when Ike and Dave Stassen came to be interviewed to be writers on the Mindy Project, they came to my house. They were both in full suits. They came, there weren't these comedy writer slobs
Starting point is 00:51:19 showing up after the gym because it was like a female-led show and they didn't care. They came in and there were these well-raised Chicago guys who were, and they brought, because the show had been picked up, they brought me flowers to congratulate me, right? These two straight men from Chicago came in three Cs because they wanted the gig. And they were like, and that takes a lot. So like, my advice to you guys is you're so talented, you clearly have such an audience, is when you are staffing,
Starting point is 00:51:46 staffing up for this show that'll be inevitable hit from guest star to director for anybody, like, just get people who are obsessed with you, which won't be hard. I love that. I need more people like, yeah, I know. She's like, can my dad work on the show? Yeah, I'm like, I know the perfect showrunner. And Brenda, you talked about being scared. I always say when you're scared to do something,
Starting point is 00:52:12 you know change is about to happen and change can be scary. But I always say, if you're not, if you don't want to make that leap, then you have to be okay with where your life is at. You know what this life is, and if you want to keep living that way, great. great, but no change. You have to take that risk. I always just say, when I'm scared, just do it anyway. It's how I get into a lot of trouble.
Starting point is 00:52:36 I love that so much. Let's see what... Okay. We have a special guest video. Oh, no. We tried to get Tom Hanks. We couldn't. What's up, Giggly podcast? Yeah, I got the giggles over here too. Hannah, Paige, what's up?
Starting point is 00:53:02 Mindy, Kate, Brenda, I miss you guys. Had so much fun working with you guys this season. But, you know, we can hang out for Kate if you want to throw another game night and invite me here. What type of that going on, Brenda? If you and Nicole, you want to have you have me over for dinner or something. Okay, it was too long. That went on too long.
Starting point is 00:53:23 Like, I was nervous. I was like, oh, God, please. remember my name. Same. I thought he was gonna forget me. I thought he was going to forget me. I think he was worried. He was like he did not. Brenda, Mindy. Yes. I felt like you were psyched after he said it. Well, the funny
Starting point is 00:53:37 thing is that's also how, um, I love Chet, how he does all of our table reads that are zooms. They're usually in a car like that. I'm obsessed with him. He's, no, it's in busy eyes. We're always like, where's Chad? No, he's getting on. He's late. He's a little late, but he's just
Starting point is 00:53:53 like in his car. He's like, oh. In front of a planet fitness with his phone propped up on the dashboard and he's in a sleeveless shirt. I literally was we were like, what should we do for the show? And clearly we had no idea.
Starting point is 00:54:09 And I was like, can we get a video from Chet? And they were like, actually that's one thing we can't do. We love fashion, so we obviously wanted to show some of the favorite looks. And this is Mindy and Kate's favorite look they submitted. Can we discuss the dance routine? and what went into this process. How long did it take you to learn it?
Starting point is 00:54:31 I didn't have much time, and I haven't danced in a while. So, like, Chloe, the choreographer. She learned it a day. Yeah. But she literally learned it the day before. And they're like, and they're like, okay, we're going to show you the dance. And they were just like, but I can't do it. Kate is a scam artist.
Starting point is 00:54:48 She did that thing where she's like, guys, I don't know. I don't think I'll be able to get it. It's very complicated. And then just did that. on like the second you were in, so dance comes, you were easy. She's a performer, yeah.
Starting point is 00:55:01 I used to dance a lot. And then of course, you know, you get older and you don't dance at all. And so it kind of, it's like riding a bike, it sort of comes back a little bit. But then, you know, I look at it and I'm like, I got to go back to dance class. But it was so much fun.
Starting point is 00:55:15 You know what they call that, she's a triple threat. That's what they say in the business in this town. It was fun. It was so great. But I really, the best part was the outfit. It's so. I just like those little shorts. And you're glowing.
Starting point is 00:55:30 You were like, this is where I'm into being. I was having so. We had so much fun. Also, this is me selfishly preparing for our show. When you're trying to remember your lines, because you can have new lines the day of. Are you guys quick with it? Or you leave me alone in my trailer?
Starting point is 00:55:47 Like, what's your process? We're very nervous about remembering our lines. Hannah's really nervous about remembering our lines. Can I tell you guys? Kate, Kate's like on a phone, on a FaceTime. She was, I don't know what the scene is yet. Hold on. Okay. And then she'll get the whole entire scene. I don't know how she does it. I'm not kidding you.
Starting point is 00:56:03 She does it all the time. You just have, you just have a photographic. I think I might have a little bit of, I really actually have one of those weird. I could learn a monologue. Like, right now, if, if, if I had like about 35 minutes, I could probably do a monologue. This is annoying. She's like, does that weird? Is that weird? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:56:21 I'm not easy. It's my legs and my toes. I'm gonna start watching. Stick my brain, and I forget it. Then I forget you not. We've been on set before where the kids like,
Starting point is 00:56:34 oh yeah, we're doing this scene. We're like, no, no, no, we're doing this other scene. She goes, what? And she likes like, okay, well, give me the signs. And she, like, sits there while they're, like, touching her up and she has it in her desk. And she's like, and then she, like, knows every single word.
Starting point is 00:56:46 It's kind of insane. So you never have to yell, like, line. Do people actually do that? Paige, they did it. with us. We did something. I will say that here's a trick that I use that I love
Starting point is 00:57:00 is I, the night before, I don't, I read it, it's the last thing I do because our study is that if you read it, it repeats in your brain, it's the last thing. So I go over my side. It's the very last thing I do when I fall asleep and I wake up and it's usually memorized. Wow.
Starting point is 00:57:15 What if you have sex that night? Yeah. What if it goes like you read it? Oh yeah. And then I have to go wash my face and get all ready. I have to do a whole routine. You have makeup on when you have sex. No. But I so much. You're so important questions.
Starting point is 00:57:27 Thank you, Mindy. But also, like, I so have, like, but even you do, I can't just, like, roll. I have a, like, it's. You don't roll over and go right to bed? Because, but I, like, I don't follow. I don't follow. I'm like, I'm not a good sleeper. I'm not a good sleeper.
Starting point is 00:57:39 I'm obsessed with her. She's like, and then I'm a rolling TV. I can't hold a seat with rolling TV. I got, like, I need a rolling TV. Yeah, now why don't we have a rolling TV? Nice. You are nice. You're having that.
Starting point is 00:57:51 We'll talk after about the routine. routine after you read your lines and have sex and go to bed. No, I just wonder if it needs to imprint on you and then you just nothing has to go straight to sleep. You can't be distracted by something. No, no, no. I can like, it's just the thing that I do like in, like the, it's one of the last things I do.
Starting point is 00:58:07 That's a good trick. Yeah. I will say because you guys are going to be the stars of this show. I think it was so much easier for me to know my lines when I was on the Mindy Project than I was on the office because I'd be waiting all day for my one line and the pressure's on and you're like, I'm going to mess this up because we've seen this sometimes
Starting point is 00:58:22 we'll have like a guest star who's to come on. And somehow it's harder to know your line on the spot because you're like, I don't want to blow it. But then when you have a ton of lines, you get into the zone where, yeah, it'll be great. I've been, like, auditioning a little and every now and then I'll just get one line audition. I overthink that one line so bad.
Starting point is 00:58:39 I'm doing different. I'm like, that's not how people say that. I forget how words were. That's like when you're on mushrooms and like, and like there's a word and you're like, I think it's I think it's popsicle
Starting point is 00:58:55 Is that the word popsicle? And in your mind you're like, no, it's not. Our favorite looks from the show, Brenda's giving Hannah-coded. I thought that was me. I thought that was me on the right.
Starting point is 00:59:12 We love a tie. I joked it when you wear a tie. You feel powerful. Like, you can't help it. You feel like you have a dick. You know what I mean? Like I know how it feels to just have something swinging. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:59:25 And I start talking to people different. I'm like, what are you saying? I start explaining things and stuff. Like I'm... Yeah, she fires me. And I wear a tie when I was doing my stand-up tour and I walk on stage. And I think more women should wear ties. And they look sexy.
Starting point is 00:59:39 And the funny thing is, please do joke that, because I would tie my own ties, and all the boys on the show would need their dresser to do their ties. And I'm like, what? This makes no sense. And this guy is like, I know how to tie tie. I just don't want to. I was like, well, you lazy-ass tie your own tie. And then you love...
Starting point is 00:59:58 I feel like you had such good looks the whole season, but I love when you're in like a monochromatic, just like I'm coming in to fuck shit up. I was very monochromatic. I like the monochromatic. I loved that, too, although it was hard to wear. Yeah, remember, because it was a body suit. I remember this.
Starting point is 01:00:13 I had to tuck it in a couple times. It was hard. And it kept coming up, and it was hard to get my mic. Okay, back to advice for us. So many questions. I didn't actually run this by you, so this is a hard question, but like, you guys have been acting for a while. What's your kind of most, like, embarrassing mistake or moment that you've had on set? Because whatever it is, I feel like I'm going to do it. I feel like it's going to be with a toilet. That's what I...
Starting point is 01:00:39 Don't put it in the atmosphere. The trailers, that's stressful. Trailers are stressful. Oh, you mean being in a trailer on set? Yeah, because I get nervous tummies. I've never said tummies before. I was just looking at Kate Hudson in the eye and I freaked out. You didn't want to tell Kate Hudson you shay your pants all the time. Before I go on stage. She shit herself at the devil wears Prada premiere. Wait, really? I had a bug. I had a stomach bug. No, she didn't. She drank whole milk a couple hours earlier.
Starting point is 01:01:12 My mom tried to poison me with a latte. Hold on, so at the bathroom at the AMC or wherever where the premier was. I wish we were at the AMC we were at Lincoln Center okay we were at the real premiere she broke the toilet at Lincoln Center she literally sharded and it yeah you know when you're I was holding it in the whole car
Starting point is 01:01:35 but I was like and then I got to like the party area Heidi Klum looked at me and she didn't tell me until the end of the night because she didn't want to ruin my time that's a good friend but again what are like things I should look out for on set in terms of professionalism. Like, what could I do that? Be like, we'll never work with her again in this town.
Starting point is 01:01:55 Okay, it's for real. And you guys of all had experiences with us, don't get romantically involved with a co-star. She's married. You're married. Don't have an affair. That doesn't matter. Not in Hollywood.
Starting point is 01:02:10 Sorry. You see it all the time. Guys, don't have an affair with your co-star. Don't have an affair. Don't fall in love. Do you find it's like? like you're, it's like manifesting, like you're acting in your love, you're acting in love, and then you're in love.
Starting point is 01:02:22 Yeah, you're going to want to you and you're going to do it. But don't, just don't do it. And is it because you're just like with them all day, every day that you're like, that's the greatest person I've ever met? Yeah. It's like the bachelor. You're like, filming enough that you're like, okay, fine, he's my husband. And like, three weeks, you're like, he's the love of my life.
Starting point is 01:02:40 Yeah. Well, because acting, you have to be in that mindset. Having an emotional affair with a coaster. And you guys are kissed, like, you kiss. Have you guys had emotional? We're all like an inch of part. The Paine is kissing everyone in this movie. I mean, this TV show.
Starting point is 01:02:53 Listen, Mindy wants me to make out with every single person. She's like, you're going to have sex with a lot of guys. It's good TV. Is the rule, like, no shows a sad documentary? There are no rules in this business. Yes, no, it depends on how you... It depends. If it's a tongue kiss.
Starting point is 01:03:14 Yeah. Well, no, I mean, look, if you're doing baby, girl. You know, like what Nicole Kidman, yeah, you're going to get a little wild. But if you're doing running point, you know, we're not baby girling. But no, the one thing my
Starting point is 01:03:30 dad said to me was like one of the first pieces of advice my dad, Kurt, said, which he goes, enjoy it, have a great time. Do not fuck your co-stars. That's it. And I was like, you married my mom. What are you
Starting point is 01:03:46 talking about. He's like, well, you can fall in love with them, but you can't fuck them until you really know you're falling in love with them and that's your person. Okay, got it. But it's hard because that's the... So, you know. That's an amazing story. And I think it's great advice. And then in Hollywood, the guys actually are good looking. It's not just like a guy named Steve who, like, is in marketing. Oh, no. It's okay. It's part of the party trick. Okay. It's very whimsical. Yeah. It's fun. That's fun. That's fun. I'm going to be naked on stage, it'll be fun. Like Roger Federer, you just throw it out there
Starting point is 01:04:20 at the end. But you love tennis, don't you? I like, I like tennis. I've seen you with you as open, I feel like like or something. I go to tennis. I like tennis. I'm not, you know, I feel like it's my,
Starting point is 01:04:30 I'm not as into tennis as you are into sports. I feel like you were the sports person. You don't have a rolling TV. I don't have a, but I. But you can let love tennis casually. You can love it, however much you want. I've seen you in a good outfit. I'd be open before, I feel like.
Starting point is 01:04:44 Are they fun? I've never been to a tennis match. It's a little quiet. You're like for someone like me. Oh, I'd be, that's... You can't be yapping. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, and then you're stuck with your thoughts.
Starting point is 01:04:55 You're stuck with your thoughts. But I do love tennis. I think it's fun. You get to wear a luke. Do you play? No, but thank you for asking. But I could ever play tennis. Thank you.
Starting point is 01:05:06 Brenda, what's your advice based on a really traumatic time? Okay, so when I think about organic, like the most, like, embarrassing thing that's there. I mean, I mean, I had my first kiss in real life on set, like when I'm 16, yeah, on the Sweet Life. I had my first kiss. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, I know, child.
Starting point is 01:05:28 Like, like, Shelt, like, so sad. Shelter child actor. But I will say, so the, I think my most embarrassing moment is when you do a sitcom, they always, in the beginning of a show, because we're doing in front of live audience, they introduce the cast. So everyone runs out, we wave, when we stand off to the side. When I did this, we did two iterations, we did like almost 200 episodes of this show.
Starting point is 01:05:50 Like, I always did in high heels and like came out, nothing. The very, very, very last episode, the very weak, it's at the end. We're all crying. And I already wrapped up in my slippers. And I was like, okay, whatever. We go out. I'm like, my last one. I slip like it's a banana's on the floor, straight up on my back while I'm crying.
Starting point is 01:06:09 And I'm like, and I literally just lay there because I don't know what to do. That's traumatic. That's my most traumatic. And I literally still have like fever dreams about it. Because it's the most Yeah, so don't wear slippers and run on a set.
Starting point is 01:06:26 But I feel like it made you funny. It made you funny and it made you stronger. I don't know. Thank you for sharing that with us. Thank you. Thank you. You guys, I think we've really hit on everything.
Starting point is 01:06:38 And these women are really busy and like spared their time. I want you all to promise me you're gonna go home tonight, go to Netflix, turn on Running Point, and binge the fuck out of it. Please put our hands together for our amazing guests tonight. Thank you so much. This was so much fun.
Starting point is 01:07:01 Give it for Kate. We love you so much.

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