From Boca to the LA Stage: A Conversation with Lexie Skye (Part 1)

In this episode, we talk about Lexie’s life before Los Angeles, growing up in Boca Raton, Florida and what led her to make the move out west. We get into what those first few years in LA were really like, navigating the chaos of the city, figuring things out as you go, and what it means to build a life here from scratch. We also talk about the LA fires and how moments like that shape the experience of living in this city and the communities within it. Toward the end we start to dip our toes into Lexie’s improv world, but don’t worry, we really get into all things improv in Part 2.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:00

Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of 15 years in LA. I'm your host, Sam Atler. I have an amazing guest for you guys today. My guest today is Lexi Skye. Lexi is a comedian, improviser, and creator originally from Boca Ratone, now based in Los Angeles. Lexi performs regularly with several improv teams, including Nepo Mommy, Revolution 2 Prov, and Turntable Prov, bringing a mix of playful chaos, sharp character work, and music nerd energy to the stage. Outside of improv, Lexi is a content creator and longtime rock music enthusiast who grew up immersed in film, comedy, and record collecting. They studied production and started creating videos and sketches early on, blending storytelling, music culture, and comedy into their work online and on stage. Whether they're riffing in an improvised scene, talking music, or building a weird little world on stage, Lexi is known for their high-energy presence and love of collaborative comedy. I am so excited for you guys to listen to part one of my conversation with Lexi. And I hope you guys enjoy. We're sharing a mic. We're sharing a mic. We're just trying to make sure we can hear each other here.

SPEAKER_02 1:21

We had to do a lot of research before. We women in STEM to setup, don't worry about it.

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We are using a Scategories box.

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It's working.

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It is working, and we're putting two mics next to one another. And then my butter is in betwixt. Two uh couch cushions. It's a good look for us. It is a good look.

SPEAKER_02 1:50

Lexi, welcome to the show! Sam, thanks for having me!

SPEAKER_03 2:00

Um, that was epic. Wait, I feel like this is something you're gonna like.

SPEAKER_02 2:15

She really did have her jaw to the floor. That was incredible.

SPEAKER_03 2:19

Um, I wanna start off by saying how much we're like twinning right now. Oh, absol in every way. Every way. Tell the people. Um, Lexi and I both I'm hey, I'm an open book.

SPEAKER_02 2:33

Go for it.

SPEAKER_03 2:34

Lexi and I both started our moon shedding the same day, the same night. So I feel like we're already sister twins. We're bonded. And then this morning I was like, hey, I'm running late. I'm gonna get us coffee. Where do you uh where do you want to get me? Like, where do you want me to get coffee from? And she's like, Oh, go wherever. And I was like, There's this place nearby you. Um, have you ever heard of it? She's like, Yes. Tell them what you order.

SPEAKER_02 2:59

Well, I was like, I'm like one of those people who likes a really sweet coffee. Like, if my coffee doesn't taste like dessert, I don't want it. So they have like this insane cookie butter latte. So I was like, Yeah, give me a cookie butter iced latte with oat milk, whatever. And then you were like, I get the same. Um, which makes so much sense.

SPEAKER_03 3:20

It makes so much sense. So much sense. And we're um we're shalom sisters. Yes, we are Jews. Shalom. Shalom. Um, so alrighty, we and we both are like wearing very similar outfits. We're we're cool chic. We're cool she. We're so she. We're so she's so she's like the fact that I can say that I feel cool around you.

SPEAKER_00 3:42

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 3:43

You are cool. No, but like you are cool. Okay, but like we're both cool. Okay, fine. Yeah, yeah, we're both cool. Um, okay, so we did talk a lot. What I said, let's yap. Let's wrap it up. Sam. Sam, let's yap. Let's let's schmooze for the people at home. We're smoothing. We're schmoozing. Um, this is for the people that are cleaning their apartments right now. This is for the people that are like driving log communes. This is for the people that really hate their nine to fives and just want to drown out their their bosses. So everyone in LA. Everyone in LA. Yeah. This is for the improv people that like shout out to the comedy community. Shout out to everyone on the Hollywood Boulevard uh radius. They're listening. They're listening. Um, okay. Well, as you know, I'm looking at my notes, not texting. No, go ahead. I mean, you could have been too. I don't judge. That's fine. What if I was? No, I'm not. What if? What if? What if, hey. Hey. Um, I still need help with my pod. Looking for the love of our life on the podcast. Oh no. Um, uh, so um we talked so much already in the beginning before we recorded. But they don't know. They don't know that. No. But I just was like, I loved how we organically got there, and I feel like we're gonna get there again. Okay. But I guess let's start with the opening. So with the basics. What brought you out to LA?

SPEAKER_02 5:36

Okay, so I uh am from Florida, which I don't love admitting, especially on air. Well, you're from somewhere that's like not awful. Yeah. Yeah, I'm from South Florida, from a town called Boca Raton. And if you don't know Boca Raton, it's just like a bunch of rich Jewish people. Um, but like reform Jews. Everyone's like Yes. This feels very Boca to hear that. Like when I say reform, for anyone who doesn't know, it's like the lowest level of Judaism. Not like in the sense that we're not fully Jewish, it's more like we're not really religious. Uh so we're just like, oh, we're Jews, and everyone's like from New York, you know, and they all like snowbird down there.

unknown 6:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:17

But I grew up like loving comedy and filming. I got like in high school got really into like uh production and I fell in love with all that. So I was like, I want to do this. Like I think I watched you remember watching 30 Rock? Did you? I watched like Oh Little. You could it's a TV studio and they're running a show. Um I remember watching that and I was like, that's exactly what I want to be doing with my life. Uh running around a damn studio somewhere.

SPEAKER_03 6:47

TNFA.

SPEAKER_02 6:47

I wanted to be TFA, pretty much. Um I wanted to be Tina Fa or at least Pete the producer in the slightest. Like I wanted to run around and run a show. So I went to college in Orlando for production.

SPEAKER_03 6:57

Wait, where'd you go?

SPEAKER_02 6:58

UCF.

SPEAKER_03 6:59

You want to go to wholesale?

SPEAKER_02 7:01

What? Oh no. Oh no! Folesale was the online one, right? I think it's both. Yeah, it was like uh you like an online school you paid like a lot of money for.

SPEAKER_03 7:12

It was like have you heard of Brooks Institute? No, but I I definitely heard of wholesale. Yeah, ful sale was like equivalent or Brooks Institute was like equivalent to wholesale. In a good way or a bad way?

SPEAKER_02 7:24

Um in the Ponzi scene. Yeah, that's what I meant. Yeah. Um didn't want to do that. So I went to UCF um because it was the biggest and the cheaper one in the in the state. Yeah. Um I s studied my major sounds not real. It was radio slash TV production, which I didn't even know of the major. And I minored in cinema and I completely fell in love with being in a studio. I used to like produce a college late night TV show and all that. What was it called? It was called Storming the Castle. That was the name because it was UCF Nights, go nights. So it's like Storm the Castle. Oh, that's cute. Cute. Um and I ran that and actually it's where I met my best friends, was pretty much doing that and being in that program. My best friends who are out here now, Joe and Jacinda, who I'm on an improv team with now. They met them. This was eight years ago. No, they're on Neppo Mommy.

SPEAKER_03 8:12

You're doing our show next week.

SPEAKER_02 8:14

Yes, we are. Nepo Mommy is on Ladies' Night Slumber Party. Yeah. And we're very excited. It's in the calendar. So exciting. We're so jazzed, and we're all gonna be there. Yay! I think we're getting all five of us. Don't quote me on that. Um, I met Jo and Jacinda in college. We were all doing this, like I needed like people to help me with my show too. I remember hearing that Joe was like a good technical director, a good director in general. I remember my first impression of him was just going up to him being like, Please help me, please help me do my show. You don't know me, I don't know you, please. And he eventually caved and it was great. And then Jacinda was like my head writer and then ran my floor, and it was amazing. I just loved the thrill of having like 30 people on this production running around like headless chickens. We got like we did got talent, a host, and like guests, and it was so much fun. And I loved the thrill and the stress. God, I was so stressed, it was great. So I was like, I need to be doing this for like the rest of my life. I got like an internship working at Universal doing like production stuff in Florida or in Florida. It was like through like the production company who did Universal stuff, but I would be like on set all the time at Universal, it's really cool. Um, I actually like slightly pivoted weirdly, but not that much difference. There was a local radio station in Orlando that was a classic rock station, and I was like, How do I get there? That's your jam. Yeah, my teach one of my teachers like gave me a contact there to the woman who ran the station, and I remember calling her up. I'm like, please, like help me. And I remember shadowing her for like weeks just begging for you are so good. I'm so sorry. Don't be. I like sneezing and sniffling. Santa's sticking it up on me and it's fine. I'm so sorry. Anyway, yeah, so you were shadowing her for how many months? Like almost probably a month or two, like pretty much and like I was a full-time student and like running shows and being in a production major, so I was like doing like five short films for school pretty much at a time, and then after class running to the station to go shadow her because I was so passionate. I didn't. I think I ran off of like monster energies, you know, and like a protein bar every now and then. Like I didn't, I was so I was running off pure willpower. I wanted it, I was so passionate. Still am, but I was so passionate about it, I didn't care. Um, and finally, like they were like, look, we don't have a job at the rock station, but to get you there, we're gonna offer you a position on the news station. Um, but it's a graveyard shift. And I was like, anything it takes. I used to work for like six months from like midnight to six a.m. just running the board for a radio news station. Um, it was just hitting buttons by myself in a building, and it was miserable, and I was so tired because I would like go home at like 6 a.m., wake up five hours later for like a noon or one p.m. class. But it was worth it because then they got I got a producing gig at the rock station, and it was the coolest job ever. I fell in love with it, it was awesome. I was like that kind of person on there. I was like 98.9 WMMO Orlando's classic hits. You just won two tickets to see Bon Jovi. Like, that was what I was doing. It was oh, that's so sick. I loved it. It was so me. And for those of you who don't know, I am a huge rock music fan, classic rock fan.

SPEAKER_03 11:18

Can I just say, when you walk into Lexi's apartment, the first thing you'll notice is the memorabilia of classic rock. There's Queen, there's Kiss, there's not Kiss. The Stones. There's Rolling Stones. I love the Stones. The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, the Beatles, Pink Floyd, everyone. Keith Richards. She has a Keith Richards, I don't memorabilia that like is from the Hollywood Palladium. Which year is this? 1988.

SPEAKER_02 11:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:51

So this is like 26, sorry, 36 years old.

SPEAKER_02 11:55

You know, Matt.

SPEAKER_03 11:55

37 years old. I don't know Matt. No, I don't either. No, I love Keith Richards. I keep thinking that like we're 20 years from the 80s when we're really more disporning.

SPEAKER_02 12:06

Yeah. But no, I yeah, I am. If you look at me too, like it's uh written all over my style. I am obsessed with classic rock. Your style is so we'll get to the we'll get there.

SPEAKER_03 12:15

But anyway, the journey.

SPEAKER_02 12:16

Um we'll go back to my interest later. Um and then I the plan though was always I'm gonna move to LA. This is worth struggling to because that's where production is, it would be in Hollywood. But I was the unlucky class of spring 2020. And so as I was getting ready to graduate and move to LA, the world shut down. Um COVID hit yeah, right in March. And yeah, and I was waiting to graduate May 2020.

SPEAKER_03 12:44

So two months before your graduation.

SPEAKER_02 12:46

Yeah, we were the first class. Wow, um, it was crazy. And how do you like deal with a bunch of production people who were like doing physical production? Everything had to like halt and it was frustrating and we didn't know what we were doing. Um, and I started working like remotely for the radio station, just writing them some articles, whatever I could. But my plan was still like, no, screw it. I'm still gonna go to LA. Um, whether that means a radio job or a TV job or film job, I'm gonna figure it out. And I was gonna move out with my best friends, but even they were like, hey, this seems pretty bad. We should stay back for a year and like save money and like live at home. Right. You're you're so me for real. Because I was like, absolutely not, I'm getting out of here. Because the rent the rent was cheap. The rent was cheap. So I I I said promise you'll come out next year to my friends, annoy them every day about it. But I moved out here. Um I did the damn thing to LA. This particular spot. No, I moved to um like near the Grove, La Brea building.

SPEAKER_03 13:40

A lot of people, yeah. You know, Lauren Conrad moved there.

SPEAKER_02 13:43

Yeah, is that true? Yeah. Yeah, like I was just like, let me, this was it was so cheap. It was so cheap. It was so cheap during 2020. Yeah, so I just screw it, and I because I was like, I need to be out here doing production. Like any minute that I'm not out here, I feel like I'm wasting my time. Absolutely. Which is insane, but true.

SPEAKER_03 14:01

No, it's so true. Yeah, I get it. I moved out here in 2010 and I still feel like man, I should have moved out here in two.

SPEAKER_02 14:07

I should have moved out here in the nineties when I was a baby. I should have done it. I should have done it. I should have known better, but I guess the answer to the question is I moved out here to do production.

SPEAKER_03 14:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:18

If do you want me to get more into that? We can get more into that. I'll let you ask the questions.

SPEAKER_03 14:22

You're in charge. I'm in charge. Yes, you are. You are. Um so you moved here in 2020 or 2021?

SPEAKER_02 14:31

2020. That same summer. I I graduated summer. Yeah, graduated in May, moved out here in July.

SPEAKER_03 14:36

Damn. So you you really were like, I'm not wasting time.

SPEAKER_02 14:40

Packed my damn car and moved. I was like, Did you drive here? Uh yeah, I did. Alone? No, I moved out here for another girl from my college. Um, we don't really talk now, but yeah, like we weren't super close, but yeah. But I was pretty much doing it alone, if that makes sense. Your parents didn't come out? They were nervous.

SPEAKER_00 14:56

No, my 2020.

SPEAKER_02 14:57

Uh no, my parents like my mom eventually came. Like my parents did come visit me, come help me at some point. My mom came like I think like a couple weeks after to help a bit. No, my parents wanted this for me. I think they were just heads in about like the whole thing too of like, is this a good idea right now? Mostly because like how are you gonna find work? But they're they were pretty supportive.

SPEAKER_03 15:14

There was a lot of work during the pandemic, which was insane. It at first though, it felt like nightmare. Because then there was like COVID coordinators, and then there was because I worked in talent management during that time. Yeah, there was like COVID coordinators, and then um there was just like so much production happening because they were like, we can't not work. And they were figuring out ways to get around it by like doing masks. Everyone was wearing a mask, everyone had like a mask and like one of those like classic uh like advisor to a lot of production, even though it wasn't particularly in LA, they were doing a lot like Atlanta or uh New Orleans or like in Canada uh or like New York in LA. But like they were they were just like pilot things that went crazy at the time. And then after COVID, it's just like I don't know what happened. I mean we all know what that happened, but like just crash. I think they were making way too much content.

SPEAKER_02 16:18

Yeah. Yeah. I know. Yeah, you know. I worked I was in production through all of it pretty much. So you yeah, you know. Yeah, you're we're we're in production where you're running. Alright, well, I started the first gig I was able to get was like casting.

SPEAKER_03 16:33

Oh hell yeah, where?

SPEAKER_02 16:34

Um Direct Summit? Direct Summit? Yeah Dream Dreamcaster, whatever they're called. Yeah, direct submit. Um I was just like it was like me, one other girl, and the one guy running it, and I would we would like to go to his apartment sometimes and like it was mostly remote. I I remember so little from this gig, but it was just like sending out casting stuff. Yeah. Um it was the first gig I could get, and I was getting paid like practically nothing. That's good to have casting experience. I was like, hey, yeah, job. Yeah, no, literally casting experience is good in this industry. It really is. It's so hard to get into casting. It is. So I was like, I'm happy to have anything, but I really was not getting paid, so it was frustrating. Um and then the first actual job, because like I said, doing production and having dreams like watching 30 rock, I was like, okay, I wanna be on a set, I wanna be in the studio, I wanna be working and doing production.

SPEAKER_00 17:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:23

I never I mean like of course I knew, but like I never wanted to do like post or like too much pre. I like producing, but I like hands-on producing. Yeah. So the only jobs though that were interested, I had a great resume too. I was like third in my class, like stacked internships, the job at the radio. I was doing the damn thing. I was like a very proactive person and had like a ton under my belt, a great resume, great demo reel.

SPEAKER_03 17:50

You guys hear that?

SPEAKER_02 17:51

I'm I was baller, but yeah. Um, of course, you know, in in the industries, you know, there's a million people like you and me who are passionate, it's a million Sam's and Lexis, which is sucks. Um, but it's true. So I was competing as everyone. But the only jobs I could really get, especially during 2020 and during everything with what I had, like I remember MBC was like, hey, how about a contract job for like 10 months and you're going to be a commercial scheduler? A job I didn't even know existed. Because you study production, you're like, I'm gonna do the 10 main jobs. And they're like a commercial scheduler. Pretty much it was a remote job where I scheduled like commercials for like the e-channel, like quite literally just placing things in the slots. That's cool. It's cool sounding, but really all it was was a nine to six of me putting things into things like like data entry, it felt like I was moving around things on a computer, doing some Zoom meetings, slacking people for content that I needed. It like I quickly realized I'm like, oh this is what this is gonna be right now. But it's fine. It's this will pass, and I'll get some things.

SPEAKER_03 18:57

This was the corporate jobs you were talking about before.

SPEAKER_02 18:59

Yeah. And pretty much what happens though, it snowballs because now that I have scheduling on my Rides of my scheduler.

SPEAKER_03 19:04

Um they only think that's all you do.

SPEAKER_02 19:06

Right. Or it's all they want me for. The next thing's like that contract ended and they didn't want to renew me, which was fine. Um here was that. This was 2021. It ended. It ended for everyone. Um and then I got um a job the same thing from which like uh Disney reached out, and this was a full-time job at least, salaried, which was nice for FX, but it was it was scheduling, but they're like, You could be a scheduling specialist. I'm like, okay. What does that even mean, scheduling specialists? Um, it wouldn't be commercial scheduling anymore, I'd be TV scheduling. So I was gonna work for Hulu for FX pretty much, and uh Sam split Sam split my couch apart. It does that. You didn't mess up or anything, you just sat in the crevice.

SPEAKER_03 19:51

I'm Winona Ryder.

SPEAKER_02 19:53

Well, woo! Woo! Um, I it was like pretty much like chose like the bear or what we do in the shadows or always sunny. I would take the schedule, like, oh, this the bear needs to be uh Friday at 8 p.m. and uh what we do has to be Thursday at 7, whatever it was. An hour. Yeah, and I would just enter them into the system to make sure they aired. Yeah, of course, if I messed up, it's gonna air at the wrong time. I held so much power. She held so much power. If you want to watch the bear, you gotta please me. Like, I I was worse than putting them up there, like just being like this is scheduled into this block.

SPEAKER_03 20:29

You have to do like 8-7 central.

SPEAKER_02 20:31

Yeah, like it would be like, yeah, having to do like central times and like keeping up with that.

SPEAKER_03 20:35

Because remember when we were kids on Nickelodeon, and they'd be like, Yeah, rocket power is on 8-7 central, and I'm like, what the fuck is that? Central time zone. But like where? The middle of the country.

SPEAKER_02 20:49

But where? Um because we have East Coast, Eastern Pacific, Central. Is there a fourth one? There definitely isn't. I'm gonna sound so stupid. But central's like the middle of the country, the middle states. Why would they always say 8-7 central? For the middle people. No, but it was but I was but I was living in New Jersey. Yeah, so you'd see the eastern and then the central. No, I'd see 8-7 central always. Yeah, well, eight would always be the eastern time than an hour back. I don't know. It just I just wanted to know whatever. Nah, I just mostly was just scheduled to make sure it was in the right time zones, period. So I was always sure about different it's to air at like 10 p.m. Eastern, so maybe 7 p.m. U.S. you were doing?

unknown 21:26

Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 21:27

Um, so yeah, any like show you'd see on Hulu. I was the one who kind of put it there.

SPEAKER_03 21:31

I typed in the caption, sent it off for a final review, and I just wanted to go back and look and be like lefty did that.

SPEAKER_02 21:36

Yeah. It's like one of those jobs that was so thankless for what it was because like, yeah, I know I did that, but like no one else does. I wasn't like in the credits. You know, there's nothing worse, like, 'cause I'm so passionate about production that of course I was there. Like I worked on the Fox Law in the FX building and it was so cool. Century sitting. It was gorgeous. But you know, like I'm sitting in this cubicle from nine to six doing essentially data entry. Yeah. It's like, oh, like the bear just won an Emmy. We won. I'm like, we. We. Like I felt so far removed from it. Yeah. Even though it was there. Cause like my name's not in the credits. Not that that matters, but like wasn't the credits? No, it wasn't for anything. Because I was just scheduling.

SPEAKER_00 22:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:13

But like I just felt like so far. I wasn't doing anything. I was just entering data. So I so badly wanted to be a part. I felt so close, get so far away. Um, so that job lasted for a bit, and then I was like in 2022 or 2023, whatever year it was. Um my timelines get messed up. But um what is what is time, but an illusion. But I was one of like the 4,000 Bob Iger layoffs. Um so it was it is what it was. Like obviously I wasn't didn't do anything, but uh it was a blessing because I didn't want to be there. Because genuinely it was much as I love production, it's so hard being a creative person who wants to do production and stuck at a desk from nine to six.

SPEAKER_03 22:54

Yes, I yeah, you're talking to the right person because I yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:57

It was miserable, but what was it supposed to do? So after that ended, I was like, I should go do something creative, but I need a job. And I wasn't like ready, I guess, to make the leap. I wanted to mentally, I was ready, but like I think I had a lot of pressure from like my family and people around me but to keep having jobs. So uh then I got like another job, but not the same exact thing. I was working for Paramount for Pluto TV.

SPEAKER_03 23:19

I was like still existed?

SPEAKER_02 23:21

Yeah.

unknown 23:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 23:22

Would you believe it? Um no, I was um my title was on air marketing, which was doing like uh you know, like when you watch channels and you see ads for the channel, yeah. Like watch this show at seven on Pluto. Your own I was doing that. So I was helping like schedule those and coordinate those. Um so it's kind of the same thing, but a little different, but kind of the same thing. Um, but now of course, like right when I was like kind of leaving Disney, we started going back into office a couple times a week. So soon had Pluto, um, which was nicer because it was a good environment there, good people, genuinely very good people there. Um, but it was still that thing of like I it wasn't for me, like I wasn't satisfied. As nice and lovely as they were, it wasn't what I wanted to do. And I was a contractor there too. The only job I really the only full-time one was salary was Disney, but the rest of them were still full-time contracts, but I was getting better at benefits at Disney. But you guys are still a contractor.

SPEAKER_03 24:16

You go to Disney at all?

SPEAKER_02 24:18

Well, yes, oh yeah, I mean uh duh. I uh look, the best thing about Disney, I guess, was having the perks as a full-time employee, so I can go to the parks as long as I schedule and I can take up the three people with me. I had extra comps, that's cool discounts, so it was nice, but I'm Disney now. Like I went to Disney so many times during that, and it's so inconveniently far away to go to Anaheim.

SPEAKER_03 24:38

Anaheim, people don't realize like how far it's far things are. They're like, Oh, I'm gonna be in LA and I'm gonna go to Malibu and Disney in the same day. And you're like, No, you're no you're not. You're like, I'm gonna go to Malibu at like 7:30. Crazy. You're just like, that's when people are waking up. No, literally. And then like you're just like, uh, you're gonna go to Disney the same day. Yeah, no.

SPEAKER_02 25:04

This traffic is not gonna happen, baby. This economy? In this economy? No, but like I didn't have, but it was it was fun. I will say it was um nice perks at Disney. So I was cool. Um, but Disney's low-key, like a little, you know, culty-ish. I don't want to say this too much, but you know what I'm saying. So it was a little uh I didn't love working. We're gonna talk one cult, so that's but yeah, Pluto was less culty because it wasn't like Paramount headquarters, it was Pluto itself, and working in that office was nice. Um, but yeah, it was just like even like I had um a boss who really cared about me. I was yeah, and I was a good worker and she was a really strong worker. Um, and I remember her so badly fighting for me and wanting me to get more out of it and more money and more like a better position there, and I really appreciated it, but I was always honest with her and she knew that like I kind of wanted to freelance too much more. So I remember they offered to like make me full-time. And like I think like path like two paths kind of ran through my head in that moment. Like I visualized it, like I stay here or I go. Yeah. And of course, staying would have been nice money and a good stable job, but I was like, is this really what I'm gonna do and lock myself into this? Um, the other path was of uncertainty of like let me go leave freelance, figure it out, screw myself a little bit, but probably be happier. And I just had to. It really just I just couldn't do anymore um for me. It wasn't like anyone was torturing me. It was my own like prison of like I can't do corporate. It's not the fluorescent lights. The fluorescent lights. That office was a lot better with it though, but yeah, no, the fluorescent light corporate and just sitting at a desk and like the nine to six of it all and in meetings and emailing and data entries just so not me.

SPEAKER_03 26:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:38

Um, I have mad respect for everyone who could do it. It's just um I'm so at HD and so and I so yearn for the creative life and I want to be hands-on and I want to make things, and it's just I guess it was hard.

SPEAKER_03 26:50

It fucked the life out of you.

SPEAKER_02 26:52

It did. It was um, yeah, it's draining. Because then you when you come home, there's n you don't want to do anything else. I I was telling people this. It was like, yeah, because like you'd wake up at like what, 7 30 for work, have to leave by like 8 30, then you're stuck there from nine to six, you don't get home until like seven. Yeah. And then I'm like, I don't want to do anything. I'm tired, I'm going to bed. Like, I want to order in, take out, yeah. I mean, God, for those like three years, three, four years of working corporate stuff, um, I like was like I don't have to team my butt I was so miserable. I was so miserable. No, I was so depressed. I know. I truly was. I was like that. Yeah. Yeah. So you have no time. No time. Like, um, it was like and I I was so stressed, and I'm sure you would too about like being creative. Like I didn't have the time to because everyone's like, Oh, you moved out there to be creative, go make a short film. And like me and my friends, who were all doing corporate stuff too, like my friends Joan Jacinda wind up doing corporate jobs too, because all we could get in production. We just couldn't motivate ourselves or each other, which sucked because that's what we wanted to do so badly. We wanted to create together. The three of us are like a team, we wanted to, but we couldn't. Um, so I just had to get out of there. Um it's hard. It is hard. Um, and obviously I'm in a very privileged place. Um, I saved a lot of money. Um, it was hard, but um it was the best choice I made. Yeah, I had to.

SPEAKER_03 28:11

No, seriously, you have to like listen. More power to you to do corporate. We had to do a lot of research before.

SPEAKER_02 28:32

We we women in STEM the setup, don't worry about it.

SPEAKER_03 28:35

We are using a Scategories box.

SPEAKER_02 28:39

And it's working.

SPEAKER_03 28:40

And it is working, and we're putting two mics next to one another, and then my buttocks is in betwixt two uh couch cushions. It's a good look for us. It is a good look. Um anyway. But no, like more power to people to do corporate. I when I got laid off from the law firm, like I was already working corporate within my time living here from like 2010 till 2025, like to those 15 years. I think I was working in corporate maybe like 10 years out of those 15 years, and like the five years I was either at school or doing like um I don't know, like production or whatever, but I was like, oh, freelance really is hard. And that's a time when I was out here I was like I was literally just like you being like I want to create things and I would still create things while at a corporate job, but it would only be on weekends and I would like write scripts while I was at my corporate job.

SPEAKER_02 29:40

Is that and I get it, I would try to plan things too.

SPEAKER_03 29:43

It's so no, it's hard, but like as life like kept moving, I think everyone just kept getting busier and busier to the point where like it is so hard to create like anything now. So I'm appreciative that at least like with podcasting, like you can just like set up and just like come up. Set up and go. Set up and go, and then like edit, and then like it's low stakes. Sure. Um but no, I just I think that what you're doing is like the right thing. Like it feels like it's no, it is because you're able to like open more opportunities for yourself, like I was saying before, like freelance, it's a tough thing, but you're doing it for you. Yes, like you're working for yourself, you're creating for yourself, you're doing the opportunities that you want to do and work on and not working for like the you know, big brother of it all.

SPEAKER_02 30:33

Yeah, I think that always bugged me, like as a creative, like the dream was like, Oh, I mean, work with these big studios and make my own costs but at what cost, especially when you're like not doing your own like obviously if like NBC Disney or Paramount was like, We're giving you time and you put on your own show and they're still my bosses, but at least I'm getting my own show. Yeah. When you're just working at their desk and you're a number doing their business, it's just yeah, it's so like cog in the machine. It felt very demeaning. It felt like that, yeah. It was very big brother, very cog in the machine. I just um I struggled with it, and I'm very like, I don't want to say I'm anti-establishment per se, but I'm very much like you know, I don't want to do that. That's not me. Like I that's not wrecking for a little. So it felt wrong. Yeah. So it's better to like now, like I try to take Gigsburg. I work like work with other people, work for other people to help them do their creative thing, like social media.

SPEAKER_03 31:24

Um You're so good at that. No, guys, you should look at Lexi's. We'll plug. Oh, we'll plug. Don't worry. I mean you're so good at that stuff. We'll circle back.

SPEAKER_02 31:34

We'll circle back.

unknown 31:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:36

Table it. We're gonna every corporate lingo I know.

SPEAKER_03 31:38

Every corporate lingo.

SPEAKER_02 31:40

Um, I mean, part of the reason I left because I was um confident in my social media skills, whether it's my own or for their people to do things. So, but now like it's different working for their people and their projects. Doesn't feel like, oh, I'm working for a corporate entity. I'm like, oh no, I'm like collaborating with someone to help them on a creative project while I'm doing my own stuff.

SPEAKER_03 31:57

That's the difference in freelance versus corporate, is like in corporate, you're not collaborating to benefit both parties, you're only benefiting one and then you're losing yourself in the mix. Whereas freelancing, you're collaborating for a combined and collective project where like you both benefit in certain ways. So that's what I think you're doing the right thing. I'd like to think so. Thank you. Thank you. Oh my god, of course. I want to like save this a lot.

SPEAKER_02 32:28

Okay, cool. What else you got for me? Ah we might have dropped a mic, might have dropped.

SPEAKER_03 32:35

Um, ah I'm making sure that my phone is turned off. Not turned off, but um, okay, we're still in the opening. That's okay. Well, well, kind of, because we also talked about like first gig hustle and like okay. Um so how did you get because we met, me and Lexi met in improv and I loved how I remember this so well. We got paired, paired, put on a team. Yeah. We got put on an improv team last year.

SPEAKER_02 33:10

Uh oh my god, yeah, this was last year, 2022.

SPEAKER_03 33:12

A year a year ago?

SPEAKER_02 33:13

Well, not a full year ago. I'd say what, like uh not in the summer. No, like I think like it started like September, October. Was it right? September probably, like right after spring, like fall season, fall. It was fall.

SPEAKER_01 33:24

It was because we've been we went on two rounds.

SPEAKER_03 33:32

I was on a team and then we left. Because we Killer Queens was asked to do was it only this one? Recent in the in the fall, summer? Yeah. So like seven months ago? Yeah. Really? Probably. It does longer than that. It does. Um but I I've seen you around the improv community because I remember seeing you and Marco doing um at the pack theater. I remember that I saw you guys.

SPEAKER_02 34:01

You saw us in the pack? That's funny. Was it the packing?

SPEAKER_03 34:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 34:04

You saw us in the packing? Yeah. We did like a song. I don't know if it was a song.

SPEAKER_03 34:08

It could have been something else, but whatever. Anyway, we performed. But I've seen you perform, I've seen you guys perform, and then I think I've seen Neppo Mami perform. And then um, I remember we were put on a team and we were all just like trying to like figure out like who everyone knew.

SPEAKER_01 34:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 34:25

And then at that same, the same day we got put on a team. That same night, I was at the clubhouse, and you were at the clubhouse. And I remember it was so packed, and you were going either into the main theater or like going upstairs. I think I was going in somewhere, yeah. Main theater, and I think I was leaving from upstairs, walking down. So we were like two ships in the night, but then we we looked at each other and we stopped, and we were both like, Is it you? Is it you?

SPEAKER_02 34:56

Um I caught you immediately because we never like actually met in person, but I've also seen you around through improv. Um, yeah, and I am like, I gotta say hi. I know, me too.

SPEAKER_03 35:05

I was like, this girl looks so fucking cool. Like my first impression of you was at that moment, I was like, look at how she's dressed. Look at how fucking cool she is. I'm like, oh my god, I'm so embarrassed. Like I was like, wait, like this girl is so I'm not saying anything. But I was like, oh my god, I have to say hi. I think we both said hi at the same time. We're both like, wait.

SPEAKER_02 35:32

Yeah, it was it's simultaneous. No, I I felt the same way. I because I like obviously once I got everyone's names that early that day, I'm like, I gotta look at their Instagram. So yeah, one of my stupid. Yeah. And I also am like, I'm like, this girl's cool as hell. It's gonna be great. We're gonna go along well. And it was it was so obvious, so it I saw you. That's why I saw you immediately because I remember seeing your pictures.

SPEAKER_03 35:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:51

And I was like, hell yeah.

SPEAKER_03 35:53

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:54

Like, let's go. Let's fucking go. I think I was still a brunette. Yeah, I think so. Wait, no, I think you had blonde when I met you. I think some of your pictures you had brown in.

SPEAKER_01 36:04

Really?

SPEAKER_02 36:04

When did you go blonde? I went blonde. I think you were blonde the whole time on that team. Did you go blonde in the summer?

SPEAKER_03 36:13

Yeah. We're checking. I went I went blonde in July. June. July. July. Because I went blonde.

SPEAKER_02 36:22

Yeah, you were blonde when I met you.

unknown 36:25

Let's see.

SPEAKER_03 36:26

Killer Queen's Boulevard. Yeah. September 18th. So our first show is September 17th. Yeah, September 18th. So I was blonde the whole time.

SPEAKER_02 36:37

Yeah, but I saw pictures where you weren't. Um I also had seen you around before. Yes. Hey. I'm also naturally a brunette. Hey, if you didn't notice. I've dyed my hair before, too. I get it. I've been there. I love I love dying. You gotta change up your look sometimes. Gotta. You gotta. Stay sane. Stay sane. Stay stay sane.

unknown 36:57

Oh my nose.

SPEAKER_02 36:58

Blow your nose.

SPEAKER_03 36:59

Guys, I'm sick, by the way.

unknown 37:00

We'll take a second.

SPEAKER_02 37:01

Here, I'll pause real quick.

SPEAKER_03 37:19

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 37:19

We're talking about what meeting at improvia. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 37:22

So that's how we met. That's how we met. And then we were on a team. Yes. Only one cycle, right? Yes.

SPEAKER_02 37:32

Yeah, you guys chill together.

SPEAKER_03 37:34

Just you and Ian are gone.

SPEAKER_02 37:35

Yes. Um, Ian and I, our friend Ian Fens, um Ian and I were already on a team together before that I had recently joined in the summer. Um we're called Turntable, and we like run a show twice a month. So we at the clubhouse. At the clubhouse, uh Jamwich come support us. Um, but we just I think we both were aligned of like, hey, we got let's go focus on our team. We already have teams. And like with me, which I know you're busy too and have other priorities, you get it. Like I have Nepo Mommy and Revolution 2, and I was just like, I'm tired. Like I just want. Yeah, I'm like three teams with which all three teams have shows. But uh like Nepo Mommy now is a monthly show as well. At Clubhouse? At the pack. We're uh f every first Friday at the pack at 8 p.m. Right. And we're just like, and now Marco and I are doing improp to say music show. Uh shared. Yes. And it's it's exhausting. So I'm like, I just want to focus on what I can. Um that was really uh no hard feelings.

SPEAKER_03 38:30

Um no, I'm not upset. I get it. Like with with uh Ladies' Night Killer Queens, and now I'm on a Herald team. Yes, you are shared. Yeah. Hell yeah. Or Herald Night.

SPEAKER_00 38:40

Weird Herald Sunday fun day.

SPEAKER_02 38:47

Nope, keep it. That was great. What does Din mean? It's Din and it was bird noises. What does that mean, folks? It's dinner time. The birds are the birds are coming, they're hungry. God, that was so stupid.

SPEAKER_03 39:03

The fact that you're like, leave it. No, leave it. James is gonna hear this and be like, is that how you feel about weird herald? Like, no. Yeah, no. James, we love Weird Herald Knight.

SPEAKER_02 39:15

We do. We love you. That was good. This is so funny. I love a show with sound effects. Me too. You wanna click on it? What uh what have we not? Oh that was a kiss. I didn't like that. You know, we're gonna leave it there. My bad. Okay. My bad, folks. This is the din din.

SPEAKER_00 39:39

Ding ding ding.

SPEAKER_02 39:41

Wait, then what why was din bird? Okay, you know what? Sure. Awesome!

unknown 39:48

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 39:54

You can click any of these. Honestly, here's what I'm gonna do. Give me freedom. You're gonna, yeah, freedom to click any of these. At any time. I'm flattered. And there's also like different things happening, and I don't know what to do. Yeah, well, you know what? Anyway. Yeah. Okay. What were we talking about? Oh, um, improv.

SPEAKER_02 40:11

Wait, how did you get into improv? Uh, funny story. That's really oh, okay. Funny story. So obviously, from everything I've said, it was always production and comedy for me. Um, I am like a very confident person, love myself, love being out there, very attention seeking in a way.

SPEAKER_03 40:27

Um, but I was never so crazy because you're a cancer.

SPEAKER_02 40:30

Just so I'm you're so ironic. It's got it's look anyone at home, I'm a cancer son. Gemini moon cap rising. Do us that issue, please. I just also have an ego. I don't know why.

SPEAKER_03 40:42

But um, but oh you're fucking cool.

SPEAKER_00 40:47

My heart.

SPEAKER_02 40:58

I was never a stage person, not of a fear thing. Like I can walk up on a stage and talk to a crowd, I don't care. Yeah, I just loved being behind the scenes and running things and producing and doing productions. I never thought to be on stage. That was really it. I just loved running a show. Um, but when I, you know, being out here and everything I said in the corporate slum and feeling a lack of creativity was getting me down. But it's gonna sound like sad for a second, but bear with me. Um for a couple years I was out here, like 2021 through uh the beginning of four. Um, my nana, my mom's mom, got really sick with cancer. I'm so sorry. Yeah, it was it was Rob, and she was like my other mom. Like she's really a best friend to me, and I really looked up to her and she really understood me. I was a weird Florida. Yeah. I was a weird kid and she understood me in a different way. Like, she would be the kind of woman that'd be like, like, I don't really get what you just said, but God, I love you and you're a star. Like, she was that woman. She was a supportive mom.

SPEAKER_03 41:57

Uh she was supportive grandmom.

SPEAKER_02 41:59

Sort of grandmom. She was she was a baddie and she was great and she was wonderful, and I loved her. But um the point of this all was she passed away January 2024. Um, like a week after New Year's Remember, got the call. Obviously, the next two days, like, flew on a plane, went to Florida. And uh um, of course, my mom was like write a eulogy for you to give. And my like I said, my Nana like genuinely always thought I was like a star. And it wasn't just to inflate my ego, because she was like one of those like really like tough women too. Like, if someone like did like a really poor like show or something, she'd be like, I did not like that.

SPEAKER_03 42:34

She's the Jewish one. Yeah, that makes sense.

SPEAKER_02 42:36

No, my whole family's Jew. Oh yeah, I'm full Jew. Okay, you're full Jew.

SPEAKER_03 42:40

I'm full Jewish, so that's why like I didn't know. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 42:42

I'm 99.9% Ashkenazi Jew babies. I don't know, that's just like the you know, whatever. But it's I'm the Jew. I'm a Jew. Yeah. Anyway, um, so she was always she always thought I was so funny, and she meant it. She always I would always crack her up. She always thought I was meant for something like that, right? Um, so I was like, you know what? What if I made the eulogy my my a tight 10? And I just did a stand-up routine essentially. Um my god, I'm obsessed. Because I I was like, you know, she would think this is so stupidly funny. Um and it's like a big room. She was a very popular woman, which is so ironic because she hated people and hated a crowd, and I loved her for that. She was so like neat, she was so cold. I loved it. I love that. But there's so many people in this room for the funeral. So I was like, you know, I'm gonna give a tight tense. Like, do you remember any of it?

SPEAKER_03 43:29

Can you do it?

SPEAKER_02 43:30

If you don't want to do it, I understand, but if there's some things you remember, I mean I have like a that's I mean I have the whole video somewhere, but like I remember like my first two lines was um they were you ever watched the movie Zoolander? Yes. Of course, great movie. I rewatched it for the fifteenth time this weekend. I'm obsessed. But he does this whole thing about him giving a Yuga Ghoulie. Uh the whole point of it of his character is he's like a dumb supermodel. Yes. He's like, I'm giving a Yuga Gully and I'm Yuga Ghoulizing at the Yuga Gully. And like my first two lines of my nanana's yu'll use me being like, I'm so excited to be here to be my Yuga Ghoulie. And like, I just had to like joke about that. No, but I said it in a way that people laughed anyway. Oh my god. Um, but like the whole time like I did that talk about how like I said the thing like she'd be so I it's so ironic that you know you're all here because you'd have absolutely hated this. I'm like she you know, she loved all of us in her own ways. Um and I'm like, you know, like God, I loved that woman, but she was such a bitch, but I loved her. Like um, she was the kind of woman that'd be like a second on the lips, forever on the hits. I'm like, maybe that's why I have trouble eating these days, but um, God, I loved her anyway. Like, I made a lot of jokes like that, and I I it was it was such a hit, I guess. People were laughing, which is so rough. Because in my viewpoint, it wasn't even just about me. It was more like this is so, so sad. Like, it really broke my heart. I was a mess for a long time about my nana. Yeah, and I'm like, everyone else in this room is too. So, like, I think the last thing she'd want is for everyone to just be miserable. Once again, she hated attention. So, god, she would have hated people sad and just crying over her. So, like, you know what? We're gonna take a 10-minute and we're just gonna be we're gonna laugh and like enjoy and celebrate her life. Um, but you know, it's great. It was a really good hit, I guess. And then, you know, it's a Shiva. For you non-Jews, it's just like what we do after the funeral to celebrate and we all get together. Really? Yeah. Did you ever watch Shiva Baby the movie? You should, Rachel Senate on Netflix. It's all about a Shiva.

SPEAKER_03 45:16

I've heard about it, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 45:17

Yeah, but it you know, I mean, it's just you all Jewish. Yeah, you know what I mean. Close enough. You all celebrate in a room and you just talk. It's just like uh it's like a wake essentially, I assume same thing. Um, but Jewish. But uh everyone and their mothers and people I've never seen before in my life, or people like I met you when you were a baby. I think probably 50 plus people came up to me that night and were like, You're so funny, you should do stand-up, you should do comedy, whatever it was. It was something I never considered doing. I always wrote comedy, produced it, but never like considered doing it and getting it there myself. Um, but God, it was so inspiring. And I remember I flew back a couple days later, I was on the phone with my friend Joe.

SPEAKER_03 45:54

Um, and we were talking from school slash the phone mommy.

SPEAKER_02 45:57

Yeah. Uh I'm gonna reference Joe and Jacinda a lot. Shout out, love them very much. Um but yeah, we were on the phone and we're like trying to figure out like I was feeling inspired. I'm like we should do something, right? And I think like I don't remember because Joe I took an improv class once in school or something. Um we do that. And we Googled and we found uh we just threw a Google search. Um mostly because one, it looked like it had good reviews, but also because it was half the price as a UCB class. Which is a huge win when you're half the price, right? Use so expensive. It's like 200 bucks for a class, relevant class.

SPEAKER_03 46:31

And for the same teachers.

SPEAKER_02 46:33

Yeah. Um and we signed up and just sent a sign up too, and we were like, let's do this together. And we went like, you know, over the weekend to class.

SPEAKER_03 46:40

And was this when we just was at the location they're at now, or was this when they were building. Building.

SPEAKER_02 46:46

Yeah, so it's 2024 and we were taking like in the clubhouse or like in those like what are the like Adobe kind of studios clo the kings like that, like those random classes.

SPEAKER_03 46:54

Yeah, yeah, where they're yeah.

SPEAKER_02 46:55

Yeah, but we were like, um, but like it it it really changed my life completely. Um I like fell in love with it pretty fast. Um I still love doing it, but I still wasn't fully ready yet to commit to it. Um but I loved it and that's how I got into it. Um during the time this is like nothing to do with things but everything to do with things. Um this was like all part of me figuring myself out and like this is a huge thing for me to like leave corporate, do improv, blah blah blah. It's all overlap, but the time I would say it's like in a really nice way, 'cause there's nothing really bad for me to say. I was dating someone. Um the person that I was with yeah, I was with someone for three and a half years. Um we met in LA, like on like a dating app in 2021. Um and I was only out here for a year. I had just got out of relationship with someone else with for like a year out in LA already.

SPEAKER_03 47:51

In LA? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 47:52

Okay. Which is crazy. Like my first time. I was dating someone out here for a while, then I stopped, and then like I was like, I'm gonna take a break from dating, and then I met this guy and went on one date, and I was like, This is gonna be my person now. Um I was never really single, which is a whole nother thing. Oh yeah, but I was seeing this guy for three and a half years, and I I loved him and I care about him, and we at that point when I started improv, we were living together. Um and it was like it was a really big struggle to put it that way. Um, I really don't want to like discredit him at all. Um we had our differences, he is a good person. Uh we just didn't i he wasn't the kind of person to do something like that. He was very introverted. Um like supporting an improviser when they first start improv is like a it's a i I I really wanted it, and of course he came to my shows and I cared. But for him it was also like, I wanted you pick something that we could do together. You know I can't do that, and now you're doing it with Joe and Gisenda and you guys are having fun. And it was it was a conflict, and he was also trying to get his like music going and he was struggling with that, and it was tough, and it put like a bit of a wedge between us because the more I got into improv, the more friends I made, yeah. Um, and the more I wanted to do it, and I was figuring out other parts of myself and gaining more confidence. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 49:06

Um I learning things you didn't even know about yourself. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 49:09

He can make comments of like how different I was and how he didn't like it really. But for me, I'm like, I love this for me. So it was hard, you know. It's hard to watch someone you love change and grow when you aren't in some way. Yeah, like one is going up, one's stagnant. I don't want it, it's really not me dissing on him, it's just what it was at the time. Um so I couldn't really I felt I couldn't really get my improv full start yet anyway, because I was still in that. But cut to like I did three of my improv class at this point. Um I did like one to three. Yeah, which is like technically the weakest curriculum or something I have that is advanced. Um that's all I did was three classes and I was still I was still in my corporate job. It was 2024. So put it this way, October 2024 is the same month I quit my corporate job and then I broke things off in my my boyfriend's time, um, which were two huge changes um at the same time, in the same month. It was crazy, but I like never felt more alive. Um it was really hard, but I was like, This is the right decision. I felt so secure in it. My ex moved out and the corporate job was over, and I was like, I want to do more of this. So I remember I took like the next level of Ouija's in an advanced class, like the Jim Woods Empathy class, which is fantastic. Um, and that really changed things for me too. And I I loved improv. I loved it, and uh I think I was still hesitant though, I was still like going through a lot. I started seeing another person who then cheated on me like right around New Year's and the fires were crazy 2025. It's a different guy, like someone not an improv, a musician, like which they're all musicians are the worst, no offense, everyone. Um every guy who most guys who have hurt me have been musicians. Um he cheated on me during the fires.

SPEAKER_01 50:49

During the fires, he cheated on you.

SPEAKER_02 50:51

I was away at my best friend's bathroom trip for two days in Scottsdale and he cheated on me. A girl, like I got one of those hey girl DMs.

SPEAKER_03 50:57

Did he wait? The girl texted you being like, hey girl, I just hooked up with your boyfriend. They didn't like hook up, but like they matched on a dating app. And he like DMs. Who has the time to match on the dating app when fucking LA is on fire evacuation?

SPEAKER_02 51:10

No, insane. I literally went to Scottsdale for two days because the Burbank Airport was open for my best friend's bachelorette and he cheat, he like was on dating apps. But anyway, I just like waiting.

SPEAKER_03 51:18

No, you're welcome to unpack it with it. Because like, hold on. I remember during the hold on. I remember during the fires, I was talking to someone, and a lot of people were like, I'm sure you remember this. People are like, who are you bunking with? Bunking, who are you like staying with during the fires if you're in an evacuation zone? Exactly. So you're just like, people are trying to figure out like I was in an evacuation zone, so I was trying to figure out where am I gonna stay, and I had to stay at my sister's place. But I texted this guy that I was seeing at the time, and I was like, Hope you're safe.

SPEAKER_02 51:50

Like it's like the new like signed to DMs like hope you're safe.

SPEAKER_03 51:55

Yeah, like during evacuated, exactly, like during like a fucking fire shouldn't affect you. Exactly. But like that's like the only and I didn't stay with anyone other than my sister, but like I just don't understand, like during an evacuation, you're like, let me cheat on my girlfriend. Um when when LA is like literally on fire.

SPEAKER_02 52:15

Rule of thumb. Um anyone out there who's um in their 20s and you're a 26-year-old woman at the time, yeah. Maybe don't date um this 35-year-old emo singer of a band. It's not gonna work. Um, and there's a reason he is single, I assure you. Um do we know him? Uh you don't know him.

SPEAKER_03 52:35

But I'm well I I know emo music.

SPEAKER_02 52:37

Um, it's not like a big band. It's a big tell me after. Yeah, I'll show you, I'll show you pictures after. But um he like begged to date me and I wasn't really ready because I just broke up my ex in October and this was December, and he begged to date me, and I was like, sure, why not? And he was really good for a minute and then he cheated on me. Um but anyway, all this to say was that I was like, okay, I was a little depressed and out of it because a lot was happening. It's all happened within like three, four months. I was really out of it. Yeah. And I remember like uh January, Joe and Jacinda started doing Ouija's Draft Nights, their first let's do more extracurricular at Ouija's. Um, if anyone doesn't know, Ouija's Draft Night is once at the beginning of the month, uh, the Ouija school will do like uh you could throw your name in a hat if you go to the school and they'll make matchup teams for a month. You perform like four times and get notes. It's good practice. I still do it. Yeah.

unknown 53:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 53:27

It's great. I recommend it. Um, shout out to Mark Dav Mark David over at the draft night. He's great, he runs a tight ship. It's wonderful. Um, but they were doing it and I like didn't do it because I had a lot going on. But they're like, Lexi, you have to come do it next month. And I'm like, I don't know, I'm going through a lot. I don't know if I can handle extracurricular right now. They're like, please, please come do it. Like, do it, it'll be good for you. So February I signed up for draft night.

SPEAKER_03 53:52

Um and this is now 2025.

SPEAKER_02 53:55

Yeah. Yeah. And more than anything, it really changed everything for me completely. Um, for so many reasons, because it realized I'm like, oh, improv is more than just classes, too. Um, it's it's a lot more. And around this time too, I met my other two best friends, Mitch and Monica from Nepo Mommy, doing classes. We took one-on-one and two and three together because we all liked each other. Yeah. And that same month, um, I'm gonna go all over the place, but don't worry. The same month, like I think like a week later, because of the empathy class, um uh, you know, Sahil, of course. Yeah. From Gunk, he's the best in the sauce. He's wonderful. Shout out Saw Hill. Um, him and Etai from the sauce as well were in our empathy class, and they were always so kind to us. Remember Sa Hill being like to the five of us, me, Joe, Jacinda, Monica, Mitch. Because we're always hanging out, always hung out together after class. He was like, Are you guys a team? And we're like, No, why? He's like, Well, Gunk needs a team for BYOT this weekend. Can you guys like be a team? And we're like, Ugh, like, I guess. He's like, Great, so let me know what your name is and done. And that's how Nepomami formed, um, which is incredible. So I already was like getting so much community. But like that week before was draft night, um, and I got put on a team.

SPEAKER_03 55:08

Hell yeah, you did.

SPEAKER_02 55:09

Hell yeah, they got drafted with Yeah, you know what I deserved.

SPEAKER_03 55:16

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