The Commercial Break - One Hell Of A Day! w/ Felicia Day

Episode Date: January 3, 2024

Bryan remains quarantined from the gift of C-19 gifted to his whole house by Santa! The interview with Felicia Day is revisited as one of the favorite episode of Season 4! LINKS: Send us show ideas, comments, questions or concerns? 626.ASK.TCB3 text or leave us a voicemail Watch TCB on YouTube Creator: Bryan Green Co-Host: Bryan Green Co-Host: Krissy Hoadley Producer: Christina A.  Producer: Gustavo B. 

On this episode of the Commercial Break Hello cats and kittens, welcome back to the Commercial Break and best of you and all that shit. I am still stuck, quarantined in this house with literal lunatics and a dog whose voicebox should be removed, but I can't do that until I can actually get to the veterinarian without spreading this lowly disease all over the place. While lockdowns and masks might be a thing of the past, I begrudgingly under-protest and in quarantine for the safety of others.

So in lieu of new content which I had hoped to put out today, I'm going to re-warn my favorite episode from season number 4, that is our interview with Miss Felicia Day. If you know, you know. Felicia Day is a prolific artist, web series, gamer girl, movies, television, and now she has a audio series out on Amazon's Audible. She's truly a Renaissance woman, and we hit it off from the moment she jumped on camera. Chrissy and I will be back tomorrow with fresh episodes, but until then, send something to my house.

Groceries, games, sex robot. You know how sometimes you drink yourself sober? I think I'm bored beyond the point of no return. And it's not easy to be bored when there's 26 people in your house, 15 of which are under the age of 5, but I won't bore you any longer. Let's get to Felicia Day. My favorite episode from season number 4, and we'll get back with you tomorrow, fresh episodes, Chrissy, back in studio, can't wait!

Season number 5 starts next Tuesday, big exciting announcement, and no Frankie B's not coming on the show, stop texting me, I don't want to blow our cover just yet. Best to you, I hope you're having a wonderful new year. Here's Felicia Day, and goodbye! The next episode of the commercial break starts now. Hey Felicia. Thank you. Thank you for clapping.

I was clapping. I don't know. Are we syncing our audio? Yes, that's exactly what we're doing. She got it. She knew it. She's in the biz. She is in the biz.

I have one overarching question for you. Write off the bat. How in the St. Captain Crunch do you do all the things that you do and still have time to be apparent because if I take a shower in the morning, I feel extraordinarily accomplished. And you are in so many television shows, you have two podcasts, you have the third eye on Audible, you have so much stuff that you're doing,

how do you find the time to accomplish it all? You're making us the rest of us look terrible. I know, congratulations to you, ma'am. Thank you. Well, I mean, I will say that first of all, I don't have dozens of children like you. That's true, five to 10. Yeah, five to 10.

Sometimes six to 12, depends on what day it is. I have to say ever since I had a kid, I had to readjust my life. A lot of the bulk of the, wow, she does everything was done before I had a kid, she's six years old now. And I had to really be ruthless about my schedule and what I can concentrate on. And I tried to do it still

and then I just drew myself crazy. And then I was like, girl, you gotta get the machete out and just cut it out. Cut it out. I like this, I make an analogy about having a kid. It's like, you know get the machete out and just cut it out. Cut it out. I like this. I make an analogy about having a kid. It's like, you know when you go on Amazon and you buy a chair or a couch? Yeah.

And then you order it and it comes and it's like eight times as big as you thought. That's right. It's like what, I gotta get rid of everything around this couch. Yeah, so that's my analogy to parenthood. I tell Chrissy all the time, I said, when we had our first child, I already felt tired, like I was doing a lot, when I wasn't doing a lot, at all actually, and then there's this pool of energy that somehow I pull from with the first child,

and then the second child, then the third child, then the twelfth child. It's like, I don't know, so there's somehow there's this energy to keep going, but the time does, you might don't get more hours on the day. And so I just look at your resume and I am so extraordinarily impressed at you as a human being and how much you've accomplished and I want to get into a little bit. Oh yeah. Thank you. You've worn and hunts fill Alabama, which is not too far off the road from from.

I was excited to hear you got y'all were in Atlanta. I can tell you how many people going oh. They've got a big space program over there too. I went to space camp. Yeah, I bet you went to space camp also. I never got to go, but my grandfather was a nuclear physicist, so he worked at Lock Plays. He also worked for the government, and then my uncle actually helped design, you know,

the arm on the space station. Yeah. Yeah. I got a lot of science in my family. Yeah. So it's in your DNA. Yeah. She comes from a line of overachievers, which is the most lip the space station. Yeah. I got a lot of time to be family. Yeah. So it's in your DNA. Yeah. She comes from a line of overachievers, which she's the most lived best.

That's right. You're born in Huntsville, but you were homeschooled, right? For most of your childhood? I was. My dad was in the, I come from military families. So my dad's family, my dad's dad was worked on redstone arsenal. He was like, I think a lieutenant colonel or something like that or a full colonel.

My dad was in the military. He enlisted in order to get his medical degree done. We moved around everywhere. He lived a lot in Mississippi and all around the South Texas, Louisiana everywhere. That's how I kind of became homeschool because we would move around so much. My mom was just like, well, I don't want to keep rolling human school.

So it's just stay in the house. Yeah. Fair enough. I've got this. Did you enjoy homeschooling? But there, but I really You're like the opposite of somebody by the way that I feel like is the typical homeschool stereotype.

Well, I'm so outgoing and so beautiful and have done so much. It has been a monumental effort for me and a lot of therapy to get. Yeah, I'm going. I'd rather be in my house any day of the week. Well, I was not home school and I'll tell you what, I'm keeping my therapist's mortgage paid for the last six months. So, but you went to one year of like, did you go to a private school, one year,

like the second grade? I did. Yeah, it was first grade. I went to preschool and a little bit of kindergarten and a half of first grade. And then my mom pulled me out because it was like, she sent me to this super religious school and this is a true story.

They actually had chapel every day, which you know, it's fine and it was like she sent me to the Super Religious School and this is a true story. They actually had chapel every day, which you know it's fine. And it was really, I guess, very reputable school in Huntsville. But then one day in chapel, I remember this woman, Ms. Geraldine, held up a bunch of $20 bills and just burned them and told me that it was the devil's fuel was money. And we were so poor that my mom was like no I've never So she burned the $20 bills in a the almost a protestation to one to first graders 100% happen and as a kid who only got her stuff from good will I was like no

Money I mean even as a five-year-old I was was like, no, that money is precious. I needed for my mom. So yeah, she just pulled me out. She was like, this is not happening. And we just never went back. And I'm not saying that it was the most thorough education, but I turned out fine, Ish. I would say so. I think you're right.

I had to have something had to have gone right for you to become graduated with 16. You grad, no, I read that you graduated of college at 19 years old. You went to college at 16? Yeah, I went to college at 16. I was 20 when I graduated. And then I got a math and a music performance degree because I was so poor at home, I would just practice my violin all day.

And so, now I'm getting a Southern accent, y'all. Yeah, come on down. Come on down the water's water. Come on, come on, come on, come on. From Chicago. I Yeah, from Chicago. So I mean, I am, but I've been here for almost 30 years. So it's not like I just fell off the turn up chart. I think mine maybe a little bit more.

Yeah, she's a little bit more southern than I am. Yeah, yours is pretty. And you're not like Madonna who just moved to England. Well, it's pretty cool. Yeah. Madonna can be quite ridiculous. Yeah, you know, let you be you. I'm not going to judge anybody if nobody's being harmed. Just do what you need. Fair enough.

Fair enough. You're facing your voice. I forget what you asked me. You graduated 20 years old. Yeah. My dad was like, you can't be an actor in Hollywood until you get a quote-unquote real degree So I was like I'll show you and I got my math degree and my violin degree and I was like on a bus Chulose angiolus to be an actor no reason why

Just on a whim and so you went to UT in Austin Mm-hmm UT Austin. Yeah, yeah, it was it was a big that's a big college just like 50,000. Oh, yeah That's a huge show. Yeah That's a good, that's a big college, just like 50,000. Oh yeah, that's a huge thing. That's not like, yeah, that's a little different. That's gotta be a culture shock. But let me tell the listeners, she went to University of Austin in Texas but got accepted to Juilliard.

So you are a homeschooled young lady, went to one year off of what they would call regular and classroom education. And you got accepted to Juilliard and University of Texas, Austin. Like, my mind is blown, it's complicated to understand. It was only because I was bored. I'm telling you, man, I had hours a day.

Kids, they go to school, they learn maybe an hour and a half, and then they're just kinda housing. Like, that's fine, it's what we need in this world. It's not, I don't know if it's, so I was just home all day, and I had no friends, so what am I gonna do? I'm gonna play video games, and I'm gonna play the violin. So, I don't know, I think it was just home all day and I had no friends. So what am I gonna do? I'm gonna play video games and I'm gonna play the violin so I don't know I think it was just a question of like it got time you get to fill it up

It's the opposite of my life now. I got no time as a parent and somebody who hasn't tried to have a career And then as a kid, I'm just like dude to do what am I gonna do today watch lost in space and play my violin? That's it. Do you have any kind of like regular And interactions with children when you're homeschooled? I'm just so fascinated to understand how you ended up being so well-rounded. Did you like?

I'm not well-rounded. I'll tell you that. I mean, it's a complete artifice. I'll tell you that right now. Well, you are an actress. Like, yes, I'm an actor. I can act like I'm socially a deaf. I am not.

You know, it was really, I contemplated homeschooling my kid because I do feel like there's some awesome things like, you know, that I was able to get from that experience. Like, I love learning outside of grades. I just like reading, I love learning things. I'm very good at a bunch of different extracurricular, I was a really great dancer. I was a good, you know, I did theater, I did my violin,

I did karate, I did a lot of, basically my life was just extracurriculars. Yeah. So I have huge gaps when it comes to like geology or getting along with other people, but at the same time, I know a lot of really good stuff. So I did contemplate it and I think if you're conscientious and you create sort of a social world for your kid,

homeschooling could be really, and you have the bandwidth, it's come schooling would be awesome. But my mom didn't, you know, I think she could have made more efforts in the social side, and so we didn't really have a lot of interaction with other kids outside of lessons.

So that's how I socialize, kind of in the back room between ballet classes. So you've got a little bit of a taste of what it was like to be out there in the real world. But for the most part, you insulated, and that little bit of a taste of what it was like to be out there in the real world But for the most part you insulated and that little brain of yours just exploded because you were obviously super smart and Accomplished even at a young age because you're going to college at 16. What is it like going to college at 16 years old? I mean you have a total fish out of water Nobody would date me legally they could

I was a for Iought and people were like, ah, they're getting away from me like a cross at a vampire. I didn't even think about this. You're right. It's completely illegal to state that girl. Just showed up at college. Wow. Did you date anybody in college? Did you have any experiences? Not many. Well, I had to wait several years. Yeah, of course. And then I did date a percussionist because I thought the way he played the Marimba was really hot. Oh.

But that was the, it was a very, yeah. Percussionists are cool. They are. Classical music percussionists can play a lot of things, but drummers in general just hot, right? Yeah, they are. I have to agree with you. I have to agree that the drummers are hot.

I was in bandal all of my education. Also, I played saxophone. Third chair saxophone, I'm to agree with you. I have to agree that the drummer's hot. I was in bandalim all of my education Also, I played saxophone third chair saxophone. I'm really proud of it because there was a fourth chair. So I beat somebody out But fucking Russell Russell always got first chair But those drummers Russell still plays the saxophone where I haven't had a saxophone in ten. Russell still plays the saxophone, where I haven't had a saxophone in 10 years. Russell's still playing the saxophone, and he's so good at it, and I wish I would have stuck with him, but I didn't,

but I will tell you this, is that even with a saxophone in my hand, no girl paid attention to us. They paid attention to the drummers, because the drummers had longer hair, and they were sexy, and they were cool, and they could play the drums really good. I don't know what it is about drummers.

I should tell my kids this. Get into percussion. That's what the action is. I got the beat. Yeah. Yeah. It's not like, for some reason it's way hotter than a guy pulling out an acoustic guitar to party.

That's like, that's the most disgusting thing I've ever seen in my opinion at a party. Like just get away from me, sir. We've got guitar. Yeah. I will not be seduced here, sir. Yeah, exactly. Felicia, I have to tell you this story. So I'm on Instagram the other day and I've got this guy that I was friends with once.

It's like one of those people that you meet for like six months, you guys go out and have a beer occasionally, but then you never talk to him again. He is on my Instagram and he is throwing a house party for Christmas. And there's probably, I don't know, let's get say 25 people. It all looks very lovely. It's a very rather adult affair, everyone's drinking wine. And but he posts in this story, then the last, uh, real in the story is him sitting on the couch

while everyone's gathered around playing acoustic guitar. A terrible cover of a terrible song. And the whoever's doing the camera pans around to the faces and they're all, I think it was what but you put a brand of faces in everyone just desperately looking for it out there all like to say are there serving more cheese is there more cheese because I'm going to go over there and even and I thought to myself I was that idiot for a long time

I thought the accrued think guitar but when you got you you got your saxophone at a party, no, what are you getting at? I learned how to play guitar just as terribly as I learned how to play saxophone. So to casually. So to talk, so to talk, which means I know three songs that I play. And then I put it down and I say,

that's enough for now, everybody. And they thanked me. So when you graduate with this dual degree in math and music, did you take music theory by the way? Oh yeah, all of it. I took ear training, you know, history, history. Yeah, I had to do all of it. It was fun. I mean, some of it was, I was wonderful. I just didn't really see that I was going to be, I did a lot of like gig playing as well to pay, you know, I actually, it was a very good job.

I would play lots of like church services and weddings, and that's why I will never have a wedding because I've seen the dark employees side of a wedding. I'm like, never. This is a horror show. Yeah. And I was just like, I didn't know what I was gonna do. I didn't know, I didn't think, hey, this is it.

I'm gonna do the same thing I was doing. I was in the symphony in often. I was playing all these gigs. I was making a good living. I was like, what more is there? And so I needed to jump in a wild blind pool to see what would happen. It was, you know, traumatic and interesting.

When you get on the bus, do you like literally get on a bus and go to L.I.? Are you picking up your stuff or go? No, I'm all tiered. No, no, no. I have never been on a bus. No, I'm not. I'm just kidding. I didn't go to school. So you took, you never got on a bus and go to L.A. Or you pick up your stuff and go? No, I'm all tiered. No, no, no, I have never been on a bus. I'm sorry. I didn't go to school.

So you never got on a bus. I volunteer for a lot of film festivals. While it was in Austin, if you know this about Austin, they do a lot of indie films. So I was like a volunteer for South by Southwest and Austin Film Festival and all that stuff. So when I moved to L.A., I didn't take a bus. I knew a lot of people at least.

So I did have sort of a network of people I knew who helped me. And I saved up all my money from playing the violin because I lived at home the whole time, which is so sad. But at the same time, I did have a nice nest egg to get me at least a year in. You're also 16 years old. So I mean, we're fast, which is funny. 20, yeah.

Oh, 20 when you graduated. Yeah, okay, gotcha. Yeah, yeah. When you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When you moved to LA, so you get into this network of people that you already knew from the film festivals in Austin and South by Southwest. And so you go there and what, like, how do you get into the business?

You just, what's that decision? What's that first audition like? You, it was a backstage West. A backstage West was like a paper that used to be printed and it had like non- was a backstage west. A backstage west was like a paper that used to be printed and it had like non-union jobs in there. And I did a bunch of student films with no dialogue. I did auditions where I go and they'd ask me to take my clothes off just for the character.

And so I had to go through, yeah, and then I, it was like two years before I even got the legitimate agent. So it was very hard for me. And as somebody who was a 4.0 student and always worked, I practiced eight hours a day on the violin. I was like, if I just practice more, I'll get ahead. And that is not how Hollywood works. Yeah, well, can imagine.

So when you have 4.0, you're highly accomplished. You're playing eight hours a day. Do you, is it like this a recurring theme in your life? Like I have to win. I have to get the 4.0, you're highly accomplished. You're playing eight hours a day. Do you, is it like this a recurring theme in your life? Like I have to win. I have to get the 4.0, I have to get the A, I have to be the best in the violin. Is this a recurring theme in your life? And when exactly do you break?

Because it's so fun. I broke. No, it's true, I did. And like when I look back, I even broke. I wrote an autobiography called, You're Never Weird on the internet almost I saw that we read it. Yeah, it's really you know, it's really funny. It's like a geeky girl. It's very good And if there's one story I told where one of the bath professors was like

Felicia if you just got to be your life would be so much better. I was like no I think back on that moment. I was like yeah yeah, it would have made my life better because the whole, this false sort of front I needed to put up for everybody of being perfect and being the best. It is, you're right, it's just something ready to break. It is. I definitely did break myself later when I started a company and I just was making like 40 hours of video a month that it was just insane. At a certain point,

you've got to care for yourself and not just worry about your outsides. And I broke and that was probably when I started becoming a functional human, or at least pretended. I see some of my kids they get anxious sometimes when they don't do something right or they can't get something.

And I'm always just quick to remind them that you're perfectly imperfect. Like, no one's going to get it right 100% of the time. And there's, there are, in my mind, there are huge lessons in failure. just quick to remind them that you're perfectly imperfect. Like no one's gonna get it right 100% of the time and there are in my mind, there are huge lessons in failure. And from a guy who's failed more often than he's succeeded, I understand that. Yeah, yeah, it's very true.

My biggest life lessons come from failure. Now I was never a 4.0 student, it does not say I didn't try, but I was never a 4.0 student, but do you kind of wish you had had that B in that class? So that it would have like 100% yeah, it may have I wish I had been a total slacker Like doing like whatever it is in a closet you need to be doing as a total person who isn't applying them So I had a percent do that and like for my daughter

Like I think you're that's a wonderful thing to to give as a parent. I'm a mindset of growth, personal growth versus like trying to achieve for other people. And when she wants to drop out of a lesson, I'm like, okay, great. And I know that she'll probably use it. You try it with me one day, like, yeah, you tried it. If it's not for you, I'm not going to make this you. And also, like, if she tends to be something really good at something, I'm not going to be like, great, now you're a violinist, go! You know, that's right. People use that.

Yeah, I mean, I think when you teach as a person, when you put so much internal pressure on yourself to accomplish someone, what some people might call the pursuit of perfection, you're just so in the seeds of your own disappointment, right? There's no such thing as perfect 99% of the time in this world. And so I think it's just such an important lesson to learn about failure.

But one that I did not learn myself until I started the commercial break. And then I was like, it just can't be perfect. It just can't be perfect. I can't put out these many episodes and be perfect every time. I have to give myself some grace here, some grace and some space.

When you got to Hollywood, did you, originally you were a commercial actor, like you were doing commercial commercials? I did a lot of commercials. If you look on YouTube, you can see me eating Cheetos and selling starbursts and all, you know, like 20 different products. And I was so blessed because I tended to do really well in those situations. Yeah. And I got, I paid my bills, but I was super unfulfilled.

And I would, I had such an anxiety problem that when I got really close to anything like legitimate and theatrical, not that commercials aren't legitimate, but like anything like, you know, TV show wise. Yeah, I would just choke. I would be so nervous that I could not control myself. Because again, I had this idea that I needed to be good for everybody else and Not mess up and you're totally right like

You grow as a person and being a perfectionist is more like I need to be stuck in who I am right now And I need to hold it with all my might whereas if you make mistakes You know you push yourself to places that you never would have thought you be and so I wish I could have just told myself that or given myself some Xanax either way I think that therapist is working. I think that's there Let me ask you something about commercial work because I've always been curious about this But never talked to anybody that did like a Cheetos commercial. I talked to some people that have done like the local, you know like a Cheetos commercial. I talked to some people that did like the local, you know, Bob, me, for instance, promoting the real estate channel, some cable network. Chrissy used to do infomercials about retirement villages. Local, like, public access.

It's crazy. I'll send a clip. I'll send a clip. So besides doing, you know, Bob Hammock's local Ford dealership type of commercials, when you do those, those national commercials, there's good money in that, isn't there? Like, you get paid a pretty good chunk of change to do those commercials. You used to. I will say that, I don't know if you guys were familiar that we just had a big strike.

Yeah, of course. It was a magical team. A heavy strike, but the same thing happened with commercials. And unfortunately, the result of the commercial strike several years ago made a lot of who go a non-union. So like, and a lot of them are not playing on network. And like, of course, streaming and cable don't pay as much. So unless you got one of those Super Bowl ads, you're not making a good living. Like, back in the day, I would do two commercials. And I pretty much have my bills, at least, you know, my assistant, it's paid. And anything else I got was kind of gravy.

And that was like, you can't really do that nowadays. Unfortunately, you do a lot and then you'll get your day rate. And maybe a little tiny bit of residuals, but you won't get those big paydays that people used to get, which is, you know, it's frankly sad. It's really hard to be a middle class actor now. And that's one of the examples. But it was a good living, it kept me in the business because I think I would have quit

and gone back to violin if I couldn't have paid my bills at all for years. It took me to get into a place where I can get TV work. Do you think you would feel fulfilled as a violinist? Do you ever look back on that and go, man, I'd love to be sitting in a chair somewhere playing in front of a couple thousand people as a violinist. You know, I, again, I know what my life would have been like. I had to teach. I would have done my weddings and church, you know, in Easter and then I would have been

in the symphony and then maybe done some cool like gig work, session work, and that would have been it. And, yeah, I think if you look at my resume, you'll see a ton of stuff. Yeah. Earlier, you're like, how do you do it? I was like, I just at my resume you'll see a ton of stuff. Yeah. Earlier you're like how do you do it? I was like I just changed my mind every time I do something. I'm just saying I get bored. I'm just like I don't want to do what I did before and I just jump in to I want to see

what'll happen and that's why I did this you know audible project and then I'm doing a stage play next year and it's like can you just settle on something? Absolutely can't. Yeah tell us about your audible project. Yeah tell us a little bit about the audible project. and then I'm doing a stage play next year, and it's like, can you just settle on something? Hopefully, no, absolutely can't. Tell us about your audible project. Yeah, tell us a little bit about the audible project. Yeah, so the audible project is called Third Eye. It's a fantasy comedy adventure,

and it's kind of like a TV show for your ears. Yeah. So it's like seven hours of a TV show, but it's only audio, and it stars me, and Neil Gaiman, and Will Wheaton, and Sean Astin, and all these amazing people. Weird Al does a cameo for me. He's amazing and it's about a failed chosen one who kind of gets her life blown up by this

girl who comes in and amires her for the first time in her life because she actually failed her big battle with the big bad guy and life has been crap for all the supernatural creatures since. So it's kind of like a Harry Potter trope, what would happen? Can you tell you later? I love it. And it's been very successful, by the way. And you can catch it. Just let me tell the listeners, you can catch this exclusively on Audible, by the way,

and for a Amazon. Yeah, audible.com slash there, now you can download it. And yeah, it was a TV show that I originally pitched that nobody wanted to buy. Oh, really? And loved it so much. And I love that you're talking about the perfectionist syndrome because this show is kind of about that. Like, it's about a woman who fails

who was supposed to be the chosen one. And she chokes and like, how do you live with yourself as a perfectionist who let everyone down? And that's kind of like, when I broke, quote unquote, yeah, after overworking, I experienced that. I was like, I'm a failure. Nobody wants to be around me. And I kind of channeled that into the show.

And again, got some free therapy out of it. Ha, ha, ha, ha. I'm so long to do that free therapy. Chrissy, we've had like 500 hours of free therapy right here at the commercial break. Ha, ha, ha, ha. I think we win just because we put out so much content from here on. We can't get away from us.

When you start a project like this, how long did it take you to write? What eventually became seven hours of audio fantasy? I know that must be extremely difficult. Must be a long time. Well, if you'll look at my resume, you'll notice that I came from short form videos. So I created one of the very first web scripted web series. The wheel? It was just when YouTube started.

It was called The Guild. It was awesome. It was awesome. Yeah, thank you so much. You're welcome. And thank you. And so basically, this is the opposite of that. So I had the privilege of closing my contract right before COVID started.

And I had three years to basically write this thing and it almost took that long to get through all the revisions and recording and all of that. So yeah, it was a different process for me but it actually gave me confidence to kind of work for myself versus other people. And that really was a lesson that I hope I'll take to the grave, you know.

That's a great feeling. Yeah. You shop this around to all the TV networks and they just all kind of were like, not interested, not interested, not interested. And at some point, you're like, okay, I'm gonna do this for Garbos. Yeah, I'm doing this.

Well, yeah, I was kind of like that except there was a couple years of depression between these two things. Right. I mean, Hollywood is like Yura's shoe salesman and you're going to every door knocking and say, hey, do you like my shoes? And nobody wants your shoes, generally nobody wants your shoes. And really, you should have the resilience to like put those shoes away and get another

pair out and go knock on the door. Do you like these shoes? And that is really the Hollywood life. Unfortunately, I love these shoes so much that I just kind of put them in a closet and I put myself in the closet and I stared at them for two years and cried. Oh, I think that. It must feel good that people are enjoying it,

that people like it, that it's out there and you manifested this on your own. I mean, it must just feel super great that you took this place as people pooped it but you said, hey, I'm gonna go do this anyway and it became a success. It's the ultimate f you to the people who said yeah, it is and congratulations to you Thank you my my career is mostly based on spite I love that

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I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not of the things that when I'm looking over your life and I'm reading about you And we're doing research about you one of the things that hits me is that you and I are of similar age and Me being a little bit older than you by the way, and you look much better than I do, but It's all it's all a Hollywood. It's a holiday Me or make up our My dad it well here's the irony my dad's a plastic surgeon

What he just retired so now I all the work I need done Yeah, really. My dad, well, here's the irony, my dad's a plastic surgeon. What? He just retired. So now all the work I need done, I can't get that for free. And I'm like, dad, this is not good timing. I know. Your dad cannot even hook you up with a little bit of Botox here in there. No, illegal.

And he's, you know, he was in the military. He's like, no, sorry. Very strange. Very black and white. Yeah. I don't know. Let me get you. Let me get to your dad. We'll have a few drinks,

and I'll see if he can just cut me up a little bit. Put some food. Put a fridge in his hand. Get in there, sir. I'm losing my butt. Can you put some things in there to stuff it up? The older I get, the less butt I get. One of the things that I recognize about

the parody in our life, or really not the parody in our life, is that we were born no internet. We come into adolescence and some form of internet is coming, right? Emails and dial up and AOL and all this other stuff. You really embrace this from the get. You're like, you are one of the first web series on YouTube. You're there, you're in it, you're embracing it. And that really, I think, tells a story about how you just had the foresight to understand that this platform, called Collectively the Internet,

could be a great place for a creative outlet. Did you, am I reading that right? Were you like from the beginning, you were like, oh my gosh, this is a great way that I can, you know, get out there or do things. No, okay, great. You must admire me more than I do.

I'm myself. So, but no, I mean, listen, let me repeat, I was locked in a house with a computer in a violin. So that was my childhood. And actually, my grandfather being a nuclear physicist used the early internet because it was primarily for scientists. He gave us a computer and I used like early, early internet like comp you serve and all these services that went bankrupt before the internet started.

So yes, you're right, I was way before the times there. But like, when I wrote the Gild, I wrote that as a television show too. And nobody wanted to do it because they didn't understand that people could play games together online at that time. It was like 2006 or 2007.

And so when my friend who had done some sketch comedy was like, hey, we could do little videos and upload them. I was like, I'm desperate because I've been rejected so much by Hollywood, let's just do this. And the minute I got comments on a video and I got a hold of fans who actually enjoyed my work. I was like, oh, I could do this myself and people enjoy it.

I'm not making money, but I love it. And it was the fulfillment that I needed in my life that I didn't have anywhere else. And we are living in a beautiful time when people can do that. They can make a podcast, they can make a video, they can make anything they want a book, and they can, you know, the release of it. Yeah, I do. Yeah.

I totally agree with you. I mean, if it wasn't for the RSS feed, that's Chris, you know, I would still be two unknown human beings knocking around somewhere. I do think the beautiful thing about the day and age that we're in now is that no matter what you're into, no matter who you are, no matter what message you have to deliver, good better and different. Creativity knows no bounds and you will find the audience or the audience will find you. If you keep at it and you know where to serve up the goods, so to speak.

And I think you're just... Yeah, and I think, yeah. Go ahead. I'm just saying, I mean, listen, there's a lot of people, people, Pupu TikTok and podcasts, but there are people talking about things that mainstream Hollywood would never be okay with.

I'm looking on TikTok and people are like animating, stuffed, taxidermice. And I'm like, I wanna watch more of this. Nobody in Hollywood would say, go with it, but it's just beautiful. Talking about women's issues, I saw, there's a huge underground thing about menopause and women who have no voice in mainstream media, they're huge on TikTok because people are like, hey, no one's talking about that. I want to go here and learn about it. I want to learn about the Roman history. I want to learn about the bird health. Everything you can get serves people's interests and people

have, people are just so much more interesting than Hollywood lets them be. And I understand you had a appeal to a mass audience, but that's not the world anymore. And that's what I love about the time we're living in. Yeah, I mean, I think Hollywood has its place, right? It is there to serve the mass audience, the mass entertainment and good, but really what sits under that, and even under that, the sub-subcultures, are people who are finding and becoming more themselves by connecting with other people

who enjoy the similar things that they do, or the creative tastes, or their opinions, or whatever it is. I mean, there's something to be said, I think also for kind of living in a echo chamber, so to speak, but that's a whole different conversation. But I- Yeah, well, yeah, that's exactly what you got. You're right, there's good and bad.

There's good and bad. But it's like everything in life, right? There's good and bad. And you just have to kind of roll with the punches. But it does allow, like, you know, the RSS feed allows us to find an audience. Otherwise, we would have never known. Had we start to try this-

And the world would be poor for it. Oh, that's very sweet. And that's the first time anybody said anything nice about the commercial break. Wrap that up. Interviews over. Let's just come here and talk again, Felicia, and just pump each other up. Yeah, we'll just pump each other up. I love this.

We'll call each other every Monday morning, but I'm ready to knock my toe through. Oh, I can't free you. Yeah. Yeah. Colin from Atlanta. Oh. When, let me ask you about when you start to get into TV, because I think this is probably where most people will know you from. What do you think is you're like, you?

What do you consider your big breakout role? After the commercials and you're starting to get into some television roles, what do you think is the thing that I go, oh wow, I'm accomplished now. I have a good credit for my name. It was, I did a movie called Bring It On Again, and then I got a role name, I'm Buffy. And so I think it was Buffy

because I had never been like recurring on anything. I ended up doing seven or eight episodes in the last season of that show. And that was really, I felt a belonging on a show. I felt like even though every week we get a new script, right? And this is when they actually dropped off paper scripts. This is long ago. Now it's just email and you let go of the door. Exactly. And you literally flip to the back page to see if you got killed or not. Yeah. So like there was no job security because it was a sci-fi show.

But at the end of the day, like I got to stick around until the end of this and I got to see how So like there was no job security because it was a sci-fi show. But at the end of the day, I got to stick around until the end of this. And I got to see how being on a show really creates a family. And it's probably dysfunctional, whatever. But at the end of the day, I felt like I found a place where I belong, especially in the nerd and sci-fi world. Because as you'll see behind me, I have board games and comics and video game things. I love those, those are my interests and my hobbies and my passions and I made my whole career around them because that's who I am. You are a verified nerd girl.

You are verified nerd and I love it. I love every minute of it. Yeah, I love all that stuff too. So, it's hard to say that you love that stuff, especially as a woman. And so, I was just like, I've found my niche man. Let's just do it. Well, my dad's a huge nerd. And so that just, I think, really would be one dude. Yeah, so it was mine.

He's an engineer, went to Georgia Tech, and as we had computers and all of the, I mean, your dad's the same way, Brian. I know we talk about him. My dad had the first desktop computer ever. And what he did was he put a desktop in his office at he worked in the meat packing plant in Chicago which a lot of people did is a huge you know meat packing town and so he puts a computer there and he puts a

computer here at the house and he connects them via telephone line so one of those old modems where you would stick the phone on the modem and it was making sounds back and forth, right? And so my dad, I know, we're science. And then a damn printer, the damn printer. Ta it's like an early form of the internet, right? He was communicating and he set this all up himself. He is nerd to the core.

And he's really like, you know, a technology first kind of person when he finds out about some new technology. And he thinks it's interesting. He really gets himself into it. So we grew up around that culture. But I was one of those guys when the internet came along, honestly, I swear to God, I was like, internet's a fad.

It's gonna go away in a couple of weeks. It's only good for bankers and meat packing people. It's like, it's not gonna stick around. I just was so off base about it. I think it my first email address so I was like, 20 years old. So, our lives are not dissimilar in that way. When you go out into the universe, right?

You're out there shopping or whatever. People recognize you, they go, oh my gosh, hey, it's flea-shed day. What are they most, what is the project that they most refer to? Is it supernatural or is it mystery science theater 3000? You know, I could tell you your MST M you're Missed. No, it's not it's not mst3k although I am very privileged to be on that show

It's probably supernatural or the gill because if you know, you know the gill got millions and millions and millions and millions of views Right, but it was not mainstream whatsoever So it's always like baristas or somebody with a gager shirt or like the IT guy that you'd be like, oh nice button up. You know, like those are the people who recognize me. Or nowadays, because I've been in the business so long, it's a lot of women, which is like the biggest compliment. Because when I first started doing Thief, it was there were no women in, you know, conventions or ethnic culture at the game store, you know, and now it's like a very big almost gender parody. And I think it's wonderful, because now we're just all game store. And now it's like a very big, almost gender parity.

And I think it's wonderful because now we're just all gaming together. And I think, you know, that's something that's an ulterior motive of mine. Just like showing up and being who I am and representing in a sort of male biased area. Just showing up is like, okay, we'll make room for you. Most of the time, a lot of the time, you know, there'll be, there'll be some a-holes. But, you know, you just stand there and stand proud and people will link arms with you, man and women, and be like, no, they belong here. And that's what's beautiful about the last like 15 years. I think you're kind of a flag bearer for that to be honest with you. I think a lot of people

look at you and they say, oh, well, she helped bridge that gap, right? Or she helped bring that into the fold. I think that's, in my opinion, something to be proud of, right? Yeah, I'm very proud of it. Let me talk to you because I am an amiss, let me talk to you about this recently. I love this show. I love, love, love this show. I have loved it since the day that it came on Comedy Central.

It is just an incredible, it's just a simple idea with such incredible execution. And it's so fucking funny every single time that I watch an episode. Were you a huge fan before you actually got the gig? Well, as I mentioned, my whole career is about spite. I'll just imagine that. So the reason that I got this job was that I sold Joel

in a green room at a convention. I was like, I'm gonna take a selfie and rub it in my brother's face. Joel, because we used to watch MS2 3K together as kids. It's the one thing we ever agreed on on the television. He wanted to watch Monster, you know, truck racing. I wanted to watch on Estacia, you know, movie series. So like, the one thing we'd agree on was Kung Fu movies and MS2 2K and sometimes the combination thereof. The lead agree on was Kung Fu movies and M. Stewart K. And sometimes the combination they're up. And so when I saw Joel, I was like,

ha ha ha ha. Right. We exchanged information and he ended up like emailing me and saying you want to be in the show. And I was like, oh, you should. No, I want you. Yeah, I was like, I was trembling when he said, I want you to be a forester because that's the bad guy

at the show. And I got to be, yeah, it's whenever I hear his voice in real life, I think, oh, I'm listening to a television show. That's how iconic Joel is for me. And yeah, it's a great show. I'm fun. Me too. I would freak out.

Just a little like, you know, kind of fan question. Do you think there's going to be a season 14? I know you're crowdfunding for it right now. Am I mistaken? I think the crowdfunding, they missed their mark on the crowdfunding, but Joel said he's regrouping and next year he's gonna go back and try a different tactic and kind of re-figure the show so that he can continue.

And the wonderful thing is it's been going on for 30 years. We did two crowdfunded years or one crowdfunded year, one year on Netflix, one year crowdfunding, and hopefully we'll be able to do another one weather through distribution or another crowdfunding thing that's a little bit different. So yeah, I'm really excited and I hope to be part of the Misty World forever. But you can see all the episodes on either 2B or the gizmoplex.com is a website they built out. So go ahead and check it out because it is

very, very funny. If you have not seen mystery science theater 3000 and you're a commercial brand fan and you're a fleaicia Day fan, you will love it because if I don't even wanna explain it, you just have to go watch it, but just know. You're in good hands with Mystery Science Theatre 3000. Give it a chance. Drink some wine, eat your edibles, sit down, relax, we'll watch a couple of things.

I don't think you've ever spent a whole day. I'm not suggesting you do drugs, but if you're going to do drugs, do them while you're watching this three-size theater three thousand. That's it. That's really fine. And I'm in California. I remember when they legalized, like, weed here. Yeah.

And I was like, oh no, the neighborhood's going to go down. And I was like, it literally is not different. It's the same. It's fine. It's just you can just walk into the store and buy it. And, you know, I agree with it 1,000%. Georgia will be the last state. Maybe Mississippi, but Georgia will be one of the last states.

Oh, Mississippi. Yeah, Mississippi. Yeah, they are not tech-forward. Mississippi, I'll just tell you that. No. I was, that's where I was homeschool. Yeah. That was one of the reasons why my mom did socializes.

We went to one homeschool meetup and we were not religious, but the people who were in the Gulf Coast of Mississippi were very religious. And I remember a girl wouldn't swing with me because she said that her, and this was when I was nine years old, she was like, oh, I can't swing my skirt, my go up and see people might see my ankles.

Oh my God. Oh, this little girl said that. Yes, so ankles. Not our seat. Not our seat. Oh yeah. Chrissy's showing her ankles today Not our team. Not our team. Oh, yeah. Chrissy's showing her ankles today in the studio. And I got to tell you, I got to surely control myself. Yeah. I love that narrative. Men can't control themselves. Just control yourself. You'll be okay. Exactly. You can do it, sir.

I have a question. I have a question from our producer, who is a big fan of yours. Okay, here is the question. Her name is Christina. Christina has to know. Christina has to know, are you still into fan thick? What is your relationship with fan thick these days? You know, I, okay, I do, I do love fan thick. I love it when people write take stories, because let's be honest, it's hard to write your own story. I have been delaying my own fictional novel like for years. I actually have one day I'm gonna, it's either next year or the year after,

or maybe the year after that. So I don't know how, but there's a year when I'll get my crap together. But I think fanfic is wonderful because it gives you a world and some characters to play with and put together and build a story. And if that gives you confidence to start your own thing or that's the end all be all, God bless you.

You go with it. As somebody who's created worlds and stories and characters to see other people take ownership of it to create their own little playground. I think it's fantastic. I am now really, I haven't read it a lot of fanfic lately, but I've been reading Lit RPG, which is like this. It's basically a video game in novel form, and I read like three of these books a week.

It's literally about how a person power-leveled. I know, it's an addiction. I gotta write my own to deduct them all. They're so fun. So anyway, that's an addiction. I gotta write my own to deduct them all. They're so fun. So anyway, that's my latest passion, Christina. Okay, and the second question that Christina has, which don't play me, it's coming from Christina, I'm just the messenger who also agrees

to ask the question. So, tell us your story about Hentai. You had a moment with Hentai. She dug deep. Oh wow, okay, Hentai. Okay, so if you guys aren't familiar, Hentai is pornographic Japanese cartoon. I may or may not have, Hentai, okay. So if you guys aren't familiar, Hentai is pornographic, Japanese cartoon. I may or may not have seen Hentai.

I've seen it before, yeah, it's crazy. It's crazy. It's a little, and I, it was years ago, and I was like, I'm gonna spice up my relationship, and I'm gonna get some of this, because I love nerd things. I was like, well, regular stuff doesn't do it for me. I think it's kind of, you know, not for me. Yeah.'s, I, so I ordered some Hentai and I, I really like

Sub-Jonress, so I ordered some Nurse Hentai. I ordered some Teacher Hentai and I ordered some weird Monster Tentacle stuff anyway. I pop it in and the Nurse one starts and I'm like, hey, yeah, and my partner's like, uh, uh, no way. Cartoon, cartoon nipples are not for me. So, he, he, he, he, he. So anyway, I put him on the shelf. They weren't even played. Like, just the nurse one got half done

and we were like, okay, let's just watch British baking show or whatever. So, doesn't turn me on like cupcakes. I mean, let's be honest, it's true. That's how I grew up. I was cleaning my house out and I was like getting rid of DVDs. I'm like, I'm just gonna get rid of this.

And I kind of put them, I just threw them on top of the box and I closed the box and I took it to Goodwill. And I didn't think the guy was gonna open it. He's like, well, I gotta go through this. And I'm like, what? And in horror. All right, I see this 80 plus year old man. Open the top and see just nurse nipples.

The nurse animated nurse nipples. And he's like, oh, and I'm like, oh, I'm so bad in there. I didn't want those anymore, but I don't think this is appropriate. He's like, no, no, don't worry, man. I'll take it. I'll take it from here.

I'll check that out. I'll be the judge of that. I'll take it from here. I'll check that out. I'll take it from here. Do you have any tentacle hentai? That's what I saw. I'm like right below there. That's what I saw. When I looked, we were talking about hentai and I was doing some research,

like you know, deep down in the web. And I saw this tentacle hentai and I was like, this is fucking intense. Like, I don't even know if I could get into this. Yeah, it's way too much. It's way too much. I was like, whoa is fucking intense. Like, I don't even know if I could get into this. Get's way too much. It's way too much. I was like, whoo. Yes.

There's not one for every orifice, so thank you. No, thank you. I want before we let you go, I want to make sure you talk about causes near near near heart, the birds. Talk about the birds. Yes. I was so excited that you guys were from Atlanta. The minute I logged on, I was like, oh, they're southerners.

And they're from Atlanta. So I want to give a plug to a charity that is my passion lately. It is called Papa Yago Rescue House and it is in Marietta, Georgia. And if you are a local Georgia person, please, either if you could support them, that would be wonderful. But also, they need volunteers

and it is a wonderful parent rescue. They helped me out with my grandmother had to go and assisted living and she had a maca and unfortunately, we have a very small family and nobody could take it. And they helped me out. You could adopt this bird if you want. But anyway, they have adoptions, but also they have amazing education there. If you are a bird owner, they give lessons. They also consult.

They also will train you. If you want to adopt a bird, they have parakeets, they have cockatooes, they have parrots, macaues, all of them. These are very intelligent long-lived creatures, and they really need a lot of care. And unfortunately, circumstances sometimes turn out, or they find rescue birds that got out,

and they try to find their own Earth. It is it is a local charity with so much heart and so much passion and love for these birds So you know, I just want to give Papa Yago rescue house a big shout out in the Atlanta era You can donate if you're from afar or they always also are always looking for volunteers So you want to go volunteer go do it. So if you're hearing the plug. Yeah, if you're here in Georgia Check them out. And I do have to say, I do think this is an important animal cause also because I think a lot of people

get involved with birds. And they may not, they think it's cool, they think it's interesting, they've got a bird, they've got a, whatever. They don't realize everything that's entailed. It's a lot like most domesticated animals, cats and dogs and everybody else, they take them in, three weeks later, they didn't realize

they had to do so much work. It was very expensive or whatever the case. And then they leave them somewhere or three weeks later, they didn't realize they had to do so much work, it was very expensive, or whatever the case, and then they leave them somewhere, or they don't take care of them, and the truth of the matter is, is there are too many people giving them back, and not enough people taking them away. And so it ends up being a sad thing

for everybody involved. So get yourself educated and check out the Papiago bird rescue here in Georgia. If you get a chance. I mean, if you're thinking about, if you're thinking about it as a bird, I like a friend of mine was like, I really want to horse on, like go volunteer at a rescue

and spend some time with more tourists or birds and see if this is, this is part of your lifestyle. If it fits, if you, if the hard stuff is as fun as the fun stuff with the animal because you don't want to, and certainly don't buy an animal Like there are many restful places definitely go and rescue any kind of animals

So one that thousands of people I personally agree with. Of course and somebody by the way some of these birds lived a hundred years old Yeah, they'll be long time you need to have a succession plan for the bird because the bird will probably outlive you Yes, it's true. I mean in my case too and like I'm'm a lifelong supporter of Papaya Go, but a lot of people can't do that. So at the end of the day, I want to support people who do something well and do it with their whole heart. And yeah, this is the charity for it. If you want a bird, go volunteer for a couple of months first before you get the bird.

And then you'll know what you're getting yourself into. That's a good advice. And then you can either just get a bird or you can just show up and volunteer and have the bird when you want the bird. Yeah, absolutely. It's like grandparents. They get them, they get to drop them back off at the end of the night. Third eye is available on Audible.

It's getting a lot of praise. It has been very successful. I hope that our listeners go check it out. You are a national treasure Felicia Day and to all nerds everywhere, you are one of the best. And I really appreciate you coming on today. Thank you so much for the pleasure. And I do hope that you come back. For you guys a story. Yeah, I would love to come back. You haven't come back any day. And also you guys are hilarious and inspiring. And I fully subscribed to everything you do.

Thank you. Felicia, we love you. And to everything you do. So thank you, guys. Thank you. We love you, and we stay around here. Best to you, my friends. Best to you, Felicia. Yay. Look, I know you guys are getting really sick of me, but that is too bad.

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And if you can't even be seen doing that, just listen to these sponsors and let's get back to the show. Wow. Felicia could not have been better if you had, I mean, I feel like it was a third member of the group. It was like a third member of the band just showing up. That's right. And we had so much in common. And she's just so lovely.

She's beautiful. Yeah. Yeah. Beautiful inside it out. So intelligent has done so much. Had we 300 episodes ago, had guests of this caliber come in the door our whole lives might have changed We had our whole opinion on guessing might have changed you know what I'm saying. I'm so afraid of it. Yeah, we had the The one guy that we never aired that came on comedian

Suppose it's comedian we thought it was a comedian And so there here's let me break the fourth wall for you. It's just a little bit here There is a this is well known. You should know this. When someone goes on Jimmy Kimmel or Conan O'Brien or wherever they go, when they go on one of those shows and they're a comedian, the host, if he's good at his job or her, if she's good at her job,

they will tee up material. Sorry. So that that comedian can run over some familiar ground, tell some jokes and do what they're there to do. Right now, I understand Felicia's not a comedian, like, but that's not her job title, right? But we had this guy on one time. And I didn't want this job title.

That was his job title. As a matter of fact, that's how he pitched himself to us. Like, you know, comedian, extraordinaire. I had billions of views on all the social media platforms. Turned out to be not true. But anyway, regardless, that's shame on us for not doing our homework. But we don't talk to the guests ahead of time. Usually, we don't.

We wouldn't say hi to them right before, as they're coming. We do our own little research, and we have a bunch of people that help us do that. Christina, Tina, and Mary Ann, all the people you've heard about. But this guy comes on long before I need these people involved in the show. And long before we had anybody listening to the show, he comes on. And, but the day before, not really knowing what I'm doing, like I still don't right now.

Right. I get on the phone with the guy, and we have a long conversation. And I say, hey, listen, you know, I've just watched, you know, some of your stuff. And let me tee up a couple of these for you. And he says, yeah, that's great.

Let's do it that way. Okay, great. Let's keep it natural. Let's keep it organic. But I'll make sure I throw in a few questions that can lead to some of your more, you, that's great. Let's do it that way. Okay, great. Let's keep it natural, let's keep it organic, but I'll make sure I throw in a few questions that can lead to some of your more famous material. I guess if you could call that when people watch it. I swear to God, TCB universe, I swear.

Chrissy was in the room with me. It was the most uncomfortable thing that most uncomfortable conversation maybe I've ever been involved in. Because I started asking these questions to tee up this material, and he goes from World War II to the Civil War in conversation, and it's not like

he just briefly mentioned it as a joke. He was talking about it as if he was a historian for an hour. Yeah, it wasn't funny. There was nothing funny about it. Not a fucking thing funny about it. We had to endure, too, for a while. Oh my God.

And then we got time. We were like, uh, bye. Yeah, that's not gonna happen. Now, the good news, I forgot to press record. So the great news was, at least we fucked up the technology. So we actually couldn't run it. But I'll tell you what,

that guy called me for months and he was like, Hey man, I'd come back on and rerecord that. And I was like, yeah, listen, we're not doing guests right now. I think, yeah, listen, we're not doing guests right now. I think that's what started. We're not doing guests because I just didn't want to call that guy back. So I'm not going to have guests on. But Felicia is the exact opposite of that.

So easy to talk to. All of our guests have been wonderful, but I feel like Felicia, one, here's my concern with Felicia. When I initially, when we get together and decide we're going to do this, my concern with Felicia is she is into so much of the nerdest culture, right? That's her whole thing. And she is very popular in that culture.

I am not, I'm a nerd in my own way. Like I'm a nerd when it comes to like Dr. Niles Arden on TLC. I can tell you every episode of my 600 pound life, right? Or I can tell you about my little family or whatever I can tell you about that stuff. I'm a nerd in my own way. We all are in our own way about our own things. But I'm not a gamer necessarily.

I'm not necessarily into the nerd culture. I'm into MST, but that's an exception, not the rule. And so you get a little nervous that you may not, you know, they're coming. You'll talk the Linga. Yeah, you just do you want to be able to talk the Linga. I could not have been more wrong. Oh, we had so much other stuff to talk about.

We didn't even get to the fact that she had just been to Costa Rica. We have that our Costa Rica connection. Just like Steve O, I wrote, you know, 26 bullet points down that I could like, you know, go over and I got to three of them. I wrote 36 for Felicia. I think we got to four of them. So I guess we're doing better. Every time we'll try and get some more actual research.

It flows. It flows. Thanks for wasting your time, Tita and Christina. We appreciate it. It's so much fun. So go check out her audible with her series. Seven hours long. It's a fantasy series.

It's professionally voiced and acted, voice acted, and I know you're gonna like it. I actually started to listen to it this morning but I didn't get through much of it, so I'm gonna pick up where I left off because I wanna hear the weird alienkivic part of the month desperately. So what just so wonderful,

and Felicia has a website Felicia.de, you can go there too and find out all about the things she's doing. I think she's doing like a Comic Con cruise coming up to Cozamel. If you're going to Cozamel. I have not been to Cozamel. You've not been to Cozamel. Which parts of Mexico have you been to? I have been to Cancun.

Yeah. That was a trip after high school. Okay. It was a total debauchery as you can imagine. And then I've been to playa. Playa, Del Carmen? Yeah, I think that's it. Is that playa Del Carmen?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Okay. I don't know all the towns. I've been to Cozumel. I've been to Cabo, Mexico City. I've been to both. I do want to go to Mexico City. I heard that that's beautiful.

It's absolutely beautiful. And when I was there, it was back in the 90s. And it wasn't quite, you know, Mexico wasn't quite as quote unquote dangerous as some people might think it is now, but I actually think that Mexico City is a very metropolitan city. I'll tell you the story, I'll share this story real quick, as I'm trying to convince you that Mexico's safe.

One of my dad's employees got kidnapped in Mexico City one time. So freaking insane. And they had like that whole kidnapping insurance and everything and they got him back. They got him back. He like disappeared from the hotel, from the front of the hotel.

And he got dropped off at the front of the hotel in his underwear. Oh my God. Yeah, not a thing on him except for his underwear. Disoriented not knowing where he was going. And I guess they paid the ransom because I got back or whatever. But that's not, you know, that happens all around the world. It's not just Mexico. But I loved Mexico City. I spent a bit of time there. I loved it. I loved it.

I loved it. Loved it. Loved it. I thought it was so wonderful. But I was also a teenager. And I think I just loved it because I could, you could buy cigarettes. Drank. Yeah. My dad leaves us. Listen, this is a story of a funny story from Mexico. My dad brings us to the Nestle hotel down there It's like one of the big nice hotels in Mexico City But he's there for business and we're just traveling along with him For this long business trip that he has in Mexico going to different places So in Mexico City for a while Kevin and I are kind of bored. It's Kevin and I were kind of bored and so my dad says listen I got a guy. He's gonna come pick you up in the lobby

He's gonna take you to go do some sightseeing stuff. You guys wanna go to the pyramids, he'll take you to the pyramids, whatever you wanna do, I got business meetings, I'll be back tonight. So I'm giving you some money, be good, and wait down in the lobby for this guy. That was nice of you, man. This guy shows up and he looks like the world's most interesting man.

And I know me, he looks like the world's most interesting man, he looks like the guy who plays the world's most interesting man. The great air, the sw's most interesting man. He looks like the guy who plays the world's most interesting man. The great air and a swav. Debenar. Yes. He brings us into his Cadillac, Deville. The big, long, old Cadillac. And he's got the little, like the little,

I don't even what you call them, the dangly things. The little balls, the fuzz balls that are hanging. You know what I'm saying? He's got those things in his car. But otherwise the car is like a limousine, except for these dangly things that are running around the entire thing. And so he's letting us smoke back there. He's, you know, he's joking with us, but we're smoking cigarettes.

We're laughing it up with this guy. Hey, man, I'll tell you what, why don't I take you to one of Mexico City's most wonderful places, and we're like, yeah, take us there. And he's like, and I go, what is it? One of the pyramids, don't you worry. You'll know when you get there. Okay, pull up in this Cadillac de Vil, this old dusty road in the middle of the fucking desert.

And there's like a shack in the middle of the desert, right? We go in there, it is in a Gave plant, a tequila plant. And they are making tequila there. And they are making tequila there. And they have a tequila tasting table. But the table is not where like a bartender is setting up there pouring you a little nip of the tequila. It's just shots of tequila hanging out ready for you to take. A basket of limes, plate with salt,

and hundreds of shots of tequila. Your teenage fantasy. Well, I'm not a big drinker. So I don't like, I didn't drink as a teenager really, but I took a shot, right? Well, Kevin gets into it. He's like, yeah, wow, no, no, no. He's like going shot for shot

with the world's most interesting man. The guy drives a Cadillac DeVille. You're not gonna out drink him. And so, Kevin does this. Then the next stop is the pyramid. It's like the sun pyramid and the moon building and the rock and reen, whatever that stuff is. So you can climb up this, but it is like at a 90 degree angle.

You have to literally climb like a ladder. Yes. And people don't make it up there. And some people fall sometimes. So Kevin and I manage to make our way up to the top of the sun god pyramid. And Kevin is fucking hammered. I think he threw up on the top of the pyramid

if I'm big enough. Yeah. Adding more to the lure of the Americans don't know how to travel. Right. So on the top of the pyramid, I'm wearing this belt. Right, I got a belt jeans on, whatever I'm wearing. I'm sure, actually, I'm sure I'm wearing my blue

Doc Martin's with my baggy jeans. So I get up at the top of this pyramid and there's a guy standing there and he goes, Hey, man, I'm much for the belt. And I go, what? I'm much at the top of this pyramid and there's a guy standing there and he goes, Hey man, how much for the belt? And I go, what? How much for the belt? He liked your belt? He liked my belt and I said, I'm not selling my belt, but he had these trinkets.

He had like a clay sun god and a moon god, right? These two clay trinkets, probably worth collective 30 cents. And I go, but I really like those two trinkets that you got there on your, he's like a blanket out or whatever. And I was like but I really like those two trinkets that you got there on your, he's like, like a blanket out or whatever. And I was like, but I like those two trinkets. I gave you the trinkets for the belt. And I was like, oh, really? And he was like, yeah.

So the entire trip, I only brought one belt. My pants are falling off. Every time we go somewhere, my pants are falling. But you had your trinkets. Yes, my dad had to buy me a belt downstairs in the lobby because that's Brian decided he going to give his a way. Oh, you know, listen, I can't be, I can't be the world's most interesting man because I don't know how to behave.

I love that they were selling trinkets at the top of this famous pyramid. Exactly. Yeah. Well, listen, you know, they sell trinkets at our most famous places too, like Walt Disney World at the hit-off. Washington, DC, like, you know, to any of those monuments, there's somebody at their cell in a t-shirt and some kind. That's true. Yeah, but in 2023, you got to be careful about which t-shirt you buy. You know, so you want to give the wrong message or end up at the wrong protest. Right. That's

all I got to say. Thanks so much to Felicia Day for coming on the commercial break. We just had an absolute blast. We will have her back. There's no doubt about that. She comes in April. If we can find a way to put a third chair here, maybe we do that.

Let's do that. Maybe we just bring her here to my, in a one story, double wide trailer. My daughter's, what should be my daughter's room? What are my daughters? Ugh. So thanks to Felicia Day. go to her website Felicia.day. Please check out her audible series, The Third Eye, and once you get done doing all that, go to our website,

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But I'll tell you that I love you. I love you. Best to you. And best to you. Best to you out there in, Chrissy, I guess that's all I can do for today. I think so. But I'll tell you that I love you. I love you. Best of you. And best of you. Best of you out there in the podcast universe. Until next time, Chrissy and I do say we always say and we must say. Good bye. Good bye. O que é o mesmo? O que é o mesmo? O que é o mesmo?

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