From Boca to the LA Stage: A Conversation with Lexie Skye (Part 2)

In Part 2 of our conversation with Lexie Skye, we dive deeper into her improv journey and the spaces that helped shape her as a performer. 

Lexie shares her experience training at WGIS (World’s Greatest Improv School), the Los Angeles-based improv school founded by Will Hines, Sarah Claspell, and Jim Woods, and how its unique philosophy challenged her to grow both on and off stage.

She also talks about The Shared Experience, another LA-based improv school, founded by James Mastraieni and how different approaches to their theatre helped expand her range, instincts, and confidence as a performer. 

Lexie goes into how the indie improv scene focuses on ensemble connection and emotional truth, which influenced the way Lexie shows up on stage.

Lexie has performed across some of LA’s most beloved comedy spaces, including Upright Citizens Brigade, WE Improv, WGIS, Shared Experience and The Pack Theater, along with various indie stages throughout the city, giving her a well-rounded perspective on the improv scene.

A special moment in this episode: Lexie’s partner Marco Torres also joins us and makes an appearance on the show, where we interview him and get to hear his perspective as well.

Shout out to The Sauce improv team and Sahil Desai from WGIS + The Sauce for giving Lexie and her team Nepo Mommy their first big encouragement to begin their journey into the indie improv scene! 

This episode is all about trust, growth, and finding your voice in LA’s ever-evolving comedy scene. Whether you’re an improviser or just love hearing about the creative grind, Part 2 is full of insight, heart, and behind-the-scenes perspective.

Plus, a fun note: Jim Woods can be seen in Season 2 of Jury Duty on Amazon Prime Video, bringing his improv sensibility to the screen.

Transcript

SPEAKER_04 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 Book of 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'm so excited for you guys to listen to part two of my conversation with Lexi, and I hope you guys enjoy.

SPEAKER_00 1:56

Oh my god. But trust me, like when I say this, like it was everything, it oh, I I found it. You know, that was fast. Girl, you know I love phone. I don't know if you knew this. I love phone. Um people like who become really good improv friends of mine. Um like me hesitating to make sure I like say everyone's name cards. They're such good friends of mine. Um, people like Ryan Murphy, people like Ryan Murphy. Yeah, Ryan Murphy. Not Ryan Murphy, from American Heart Sorry, um, Jake Chandler, who's a wonderful friend of mine. Anique, she's amazing. Kim Johnson. And most importantly, I was on a team with uh Marco, Marco Torres, um, who is now first and last name. Um I'm giving everyone a shout out. Kim Johnson, okay. Everyone deserves a shout-out. Jake Chandler, shout out. And my, you know, everyone deserves it. But um, I met all these amazing people for doing this, and it really changed everything because these people are so important to me now in my improv journey and not only that, but like in the cheesiest way possible, if I never did draft night, I don't think I would be with my partner and have my boyfriend I do now. Yeah. Um, so it's kind of crazy. Oh my god, like it's true though, it's insane. But it really it changed my life. And then from there on, I just locked in and you know, Nepo Mommy became a thing, and we got put on MILFest in April, and we were locked in doing shows, and I just fell so much harder in love with the improv scene. Because at first I was Sam's fixing my catch. I was just doing the classes and I loved it and I loved the structure of it.

SPEAKER_04 3:27

MILF was in April. That was the first, that was the second year.

unknown 3:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 3:32

So Death Bobby was in MILF.

SPEAKER_00 3:34

Yeah. That's huge. I mean, it's crazy because we only ever did like one show, but like we got put on and two big shows, BYOT and MILF. And those are our first two shows, which is crazy. That's those are hard to get. We and I oh trust me, we know now. We're so grateful.

SPEAKER_04 3:46

BYOT for those who don't know is bring your own team and it's at UCB. Yes. Um, in the annex. And then MILF is a um, it stands for Mock Improv. Improv Los Angeles Festival. Something like that, yeah. So Mock Improv is a show that's every Tuesday at the clubhouse and it's been going on for like 10 years.

SPEAKER_00 4:06

Oh yeah, they've been running that for a while.

SPEAKER_04 4:08

And they just started doing a festival, and every year it's been getting bigger. I think this year it's gonna be even bigger. It's gonna be like three days. Probably. First day was one, second day was two.

SPEAKER_00 4:18

No, it was it was two days, one night last year, Friday, night, Saturday, Sunday. I don't know. Oh, yeah. Whatever it was, but it was crazy because we got put on it and there was a coachella of like improv. That's the best way to put it. Yeah, we got put on it only having done one show before. And we were like, why? But sure. But they actually someone who was running the committee was like, Oh, which we took no offense at we were honored. They're like, we put you on because of your name, because they put us on a family block. It was like Nepo Mommy, Daddy, cool, and grandma's favorite. And we were like, you know what? We're so honored. Thank you. Like without our name, shout out to like Monica and her partner Charlie for thinking of that name. Like, it's so incredible, like it's so stupid how much people love Nepo Mommy, Nepo Mommy and saying it. It's great. But it got us opportunities, but yeah, I so I fell in love and I locked in fully to doing like so many shows. And because of Draft Night 2 and meeting Marco, um, we locked in as friends and started like I needed help like doing sketches for my Instagram, and Marco volunteered to help me, and we became good friends, and we uh obviously talked about our improv and our goals, and we formed our two prov team, Revolution 2, in the summer, which is is a music kind of based thing, and we both love it, and we like the Beatles, and it made sense, and I just fell even more in love with getting to do weird shows. I took a funk shuffle class and I fell in love with crawling on the goddamn floor and climbing chairs during my sets and being loud and having fun, and that was I mean, and then it's just gone from there. Like I just fell so head over heels, and now it's everything I want to do all the time.

SPEAKER_04 5:52

Yeah, it's once you do improv, like after you do the curriculum that you have to do, the real fun starts in like indie improving.

SPEAKER_00 6:01

Yeah, which I didn't even like really knew existed because like I just jumped in to take classes and I was already like so out of it and like working jobs and like had a boyfriend, I just didn't even care. And then I once I like freed myself of everything and just invested into it, I'm like, oh my god, this is everything. Like I met so many important people and so many of my friends and made such a community out of this, and I god, I feel so I feel so welcome and seen here too.

SPEAKER_04 6:23

Absolutely, everyone knows who you are.

SPEAKER_00 6:25

I'm not even kidding. Um someone someone was a couple people recently have given me because like I always feel like I'm not like doing enough, not a self-deprecating way, more like in a competitive spirit way, like I want to always do more. Um, but people are like, Do you understand? Like you just really started in the scene like a year ago and like already like everyone knows who you are, and you're like pushing your way through and it's like impressive. Um and I'm like, thanks. Seriously. I'm trying. I it's not like I need people to know my name, it's more like I just want to be involved. I really do. I just want to be a part of it. I love it's because I love something so much I want to fully invest in it. I'm sure I know you get that.

SPEAKER_04 6:57

I do because I started improv for serial. First serial in like 2019.

SPEAKER_01 7:04

Yeah, you start before me for sure.

SPEAKER_04 7:05

Or 2018. Pre-pan pre-panny. Pre-panny. So this is when UCB was on sunset, yes, and they had like a huge factory. And then this is when um it was just UCB Franklin and then Sunset, and the Inner Sanctum was there, and they had a mess hall, and PJ and Joe were working at the UCB on Sunset, and Joe was my Joe Fehi. Shout out to Joe Fehey. You and Molly Don, shout out to Molly. They were both my bosses when I was interning at UCB. Cut to like I know, and cut to like years later, like Molly's on one of my teams, and Joe is like my improv mentor. Yeah, it's just like it's so wild. Wild, right? Yeah. Um come a long way, baby. And it's just I love I love improv and I'm gonna be able to do it. I wish people would like understand how amazing this community is. It's so amazing. So amazing.

SPEAKER_00 8:04

Like that's what's like you know, back when people go, Oh, you should do comm, you should do stand-up. It was never appealing to me. Like, what to stand there on a mic by myself. It's so solo. No, it's so solo, and it's feels a little sadder, and like not it's just for me at least, but God, I didn't realize like I'm like, oh, because I love especially big part of production was creating things with my friends, creating things together with people. And that's all improv is. It's literally getting up there and creating an entire world with friends and people you like and goofing off for 20 minutes. It's so much fun. It's so much fun. Like, even my bad sets, I'm still happy to be there, man. I know a lot of people disagree with that, but I I always have fun. Yes. Even if even if I bomb I'll have fun. I don't care. I just love it. It's great, but I'm just happy birds community. But anyway, what's your next question? What's your next question? I'm I'm side tangent a lot.

SPEAKER_04 8:53

No, you're fine. Um what's like one word to describe your relationship with LA now? Just one word. One word only. Think about it. You don't have to answer right away. You can take your time.

SPEAKER_00 9:06

No, I think there's no rush. I know, 'cause I honestly, like, as much as I don't want to rush, I also want to like hit like the first cut feeling. Is it weird to say like e evolving or evolution in a way? Like growth, like something like that. Um that's all LA's been for me, is every year I feel like I'm just growing and evolving into what I've always wanted to be without knowing it. Um that's a really good word. Yeah. I I'm evolving and and growing really. Um Yeah, 'cause like I couldn't have imagined me doing this years ago, but it also makes perfect sense. Like I I always wanted to like lead and produce and be involved in comedy. I just never thought I'd take an improv route through an improv performing. But I'm happy and I'm full-time creative. So are you kidding me? But every year I've just like grown and learned more and like kind of put boundaries down of what I deserve and who I should be hanging out with and who like uh the love I d want from people. And I just feel like right now, um, despite like money being an annoying thing, everything else is so uh good. Yeah, I'm so happy. And I just can't wait to see what this keeps going. So hell yeah.

SPEAKER_04 10:12

Remember I was telling you before we were recording, I was like, the reason why get closer, get closer. We're getting real close. Getting real close. I just my butt is literally in betwixt these two seconds cushions. Get on this cushion and get closer. Get close. Um what I was telling you before, before we recorded was remember when you were telling me you're both talking about like corporate floor and like freelancing. And I was like, it's a blessing that you left that because now you can spend more time on freelancing and creativity because in a corporate like world, you just like lose everything. You can't do it, you can't do it. And I was like, it's a blessing that that happened to you. And yeah in the moment we don't think it's a blessing because you're just like I lost my financial stability.

SPEAKER_00 11:08

Yeah, it's all about the money, really.

SPEAKER_04 11:09

It's all about the money, but then like when when you like see creatives that are getting interviewed anywhere, they like rarely talk about like the money aspect. It's more just like the the creativity was driving them to the point of like not madness, but to the point where they're just like, if I don't create, I will die. Yeah, that's not saying you're gonna die.

SPEAKER_00 11:33

No, but I might, but I might and we're all gonna. That's how I feel. I feel the same way. Like I have to do this, yeah. Whatever that means, I have to do something creative. Yeah. Or else I'll die.

SPEAKER_04 11:51

All these years. If like I don't have any type of creativity, what's the point?

SPEAKER_00 11:57

What's the point?

SPEAKER_04 11:58

And improv like really does it doesn't just give you opportunities on stage, it gives you opportunities outside of improv because you're meeting so many people that are like you to be like, hey, I'm thinking of you, I wanna have you on my show, like my show, or like, oh, you're a writer, um, but my show is staffing up. Yeah, like more opportunities, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:24

It's amazing. No, I've I've gotten so many opportunities and met so many people through this. It's um it's incredible. It changed my life completely. So shout out improv. Shout out improv. Really? Improv if you're listening. You changed my life. I love you. Thanks for the award.

SPEAKER_04 12:42

Um what's the craziest or most embarrassing thing you said yes to? Out here in LA.

SPEAKER_03 12:53

Craziest or yes to?

SPEAKER_04 13:01

Like opportunity-wise? It could be anything. This whole podcast isn't just about like your career. It's literally about like your life.

SPEAKER_00 13:11

Half of the men I've dated it for sure is the first thing that comes to my head. Oh, I like that. Why? Um because I think it's like weird, it's a juxtaposition thing of how odd it is and ironic, you know, big words, um, that I always like loved myself and felt confident, but I still settled for less with men because I had like higher expectations, maybe. Um, I think I just got fooled easily. Yes, um, I just kept going to the uh rock star guys with tattoos and long hair, the um that my friends are like, they're gonna hurt you. I'm like, but this one's so nice. Yeah, let me believe in the first. He's different. He bought me dinner, he drove, he opened my car door. Oh, I've said that before. Um in a way, like that's why I say it's embarrassing because I look back and like obviously, like it's not I don't blame myself. I get that part of it all, but like it's embarrassing that like um I did it and it took me like a lot of time to get through those situations and like speak up for myself and like be see better people. Um bet you improv help with that. Oh god, yeah, honestly. It did like seriously, no, like it fully did. Um, of like how to like talk to people and like what to look for and like what's right or what's wrong or what's weird or unusual about a scene. What who's the unusual one here? Um is it is it the guy I'm dating who um doesn't have a bed and missing a car door? Um or is it me? Like who's the straight man in this? Do you ever feel like you're so voice of reason in a weird world all the time?

SPEAKER_04 14:51

No, like literally all the time. I'll tell you something. I remember because this reminds me of when I was breaking up with my ex-fiance. Um I've never told anyone this, so I guess I'll tell you this and the rest of me and all the people at home. All the people at home. Um the the show that just came out physical on Apple TV with Rose Brynn. Okay, yeah. She was in a loveless marriage and she started focusing on fitness and she started focusing on herself and her mental health. And I was watching that show in real time as I was trying to figure out and I was doing more improv. This is like after I've already graduated, like 401, and I was um I just started on Ladies Night. So this was during the time where I was at like my lowest of like uh something needs to change. And as I was watching Rose Brynn in the same moment being like something needs to change, when she started to put all of her eggs in her own basket and decentered men and de-centered like men in general, I was like, I need to do that.

SPEAKER_00 16:03

Yeah, yeah, I feel that.

SPEAKER_04 16:05

Yeah, and improv really helped us. Improv helped me so much because I don't think I would have had the exemption, the confidence, because when you're in a loveless relationship or just a toxic relationship, or just a relationship that like is draining you and your partner's at energy vampire. Yes. Yeah. And because I could say all the negative things about this guy, because he was a very negative person. I don't think there's any positive going on this man's body. Um I mean, one of the reasons why I'm so financially unstable at the moment is because I had to pay I had I didn't really tell anyone this. Um I had to during the dual dual strikes, I took out three loans $15,000 to pay our rent for the apartment we shared that he didn't pay back the rent. Um paid for the groceries, utility bills, all that dog stuff, had to pay my credit card bill to then use it again to then get back into debt, and then another loan. Um so I had like a credit card loan, fifteen thousand dollar loan, and then like the other loan was like a five thousand. It was it was so much. So I'm and he never paid me back and promised he would, all that shit. So when I was going through all of that while also like figuring out my life, watching Roseberyton Physical, and just like having that like the last bit of confidence I had left from improv, I was like, I need to leave this man. This man is not good for me. And once I left him and like was like, you need to fucking leave my life, that's when life shifted. It took a little bit for me to like get to where I am now with like confidence and like building back my self-esteem and getting back to like the badass bitch that I know I am and who I was, but like men took that from me. Because when men see that light, they want to take it from you and dim it because they don't want there's something about control, I don't know. But what you're telling me with what you're going through reminded me of my own personal like journey of just like improv helped so much build your confidence and then once like you're in that I don't know, man. Like it just it feels so good to feel like this community's got your back.

SPEAKER_00 18:31

Okay, for you that is true. That's all like incredible. I'm obviously like I'm it's like you know, we can say in a circle, but it's true, like I'm so sorry you went through that. Yeah, but God, I'm so happy you're out of that. Yeah, and it's like shitty because obviously, like none of us should have to go through like strife. But God, do we come at the other end so fucking awesome from it, right? Another book literally, like it's so true. Because like, and I hate that, like like a lot of I every time I talk to like other women in the scene, especially. Why is it like in different ways, always the same story? And it like sucks, but God, it's like all the coolest women I know, the coolest, strongest women I know, or like here's my story, and I'm like, preached, right? Yeah, but it we all go through and it sucks and shitty, but God, like it makes us funnier, maybe.

SPEAKER_04 19:24

Honestly, though, like it it makes us so funny, it makes us so funny because there's moments in improv scenes where like I'll think back to like those moments, and I'll just like look at even like in life, I'll like look at men and be like, Oh, do you feel really powerful right now? Like hurting a woman's ego because it makes you feel better. Yeah, yeah, okay. Like, no, I'm with you. Can you pick up my dog shit now? Lovely.

SPEAKER_01 19:54

True, honestly. So, yeah, once again, shout out improv.

SPEAKER_04 19:59

It's true. It's so true.

SPEAKER_01 20:01

Love it.

SPEAKER_04 20:02

Do you feel like you ever almost left LA?

SPEAKER_00 20:04

No. I'm so confident. No, no, I know this is like for some people this is not relatable. Um, I guess I came from Florida. I didn't like living in Florida, so it was a no-brainer for me to leave. Not even like thinking about New York. The only time I've ever thought about New York is like quite literally like, oh SNL calls me, sure. But other than that, no. I I love LA. I would love to die here. Like, not now, but you know what I mean. Not now. Not now. Um, I love it here. Um, this is where everything I love is. Um, unless I get an SNL call, then we'll think about it. But God, I love it here. Why would I want to leave it? Package deal.

unknown 20:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:39

Is that right? And we're doing it. You you're we're gonna we're gonna send it. We're gonna SNL, baby. We're we're writing and performing on SNL. They want these two Jews on SNL. Lauren. You know who to call. These these two Jews in the LA improv scene. You can find us at UCB. Come find us.

SPEAKER_05 20:57

That's where you got Jeremy Colein. And also, Carl. You don't know Carl?

unknown 21:07

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 21:08

Tell me. Carl's heart.

SPEAKER_04 21:12

Why am I losing my mind? Which one is he, though? There is a guy from uh shared experience that is a writer on SNL. Is that him? No, this is a different person. Oh shit, we don't know. Yeah, it didn't me out.

SPEAKER_00 21:24

Um I hope I know most people.

SPEAKER_04 21:27

Yeah, anyway. Wait, his name is uh Carl? No, not Carl, it's another person. Uh I think his name is Trevor. Let's cut this burnout, we're remote idiots. He was he was um I've seen him uh perform a bunch with uh one of Molly's It was um Hey, I believe you

SPEAKER_05 22:06

Oh yeah. I don't even hear it. It was odd.

SPEAKER_04 22:20

I didn't realize that he worked at at Harvard. Tucker. Tucker Floodman.

SPEAKER_01 22:25

So Tucker, uh I don't know everyone. I don't know everyone.

SPEAKER_00 22:31

I'm still I'm still learning. He was from Shared Experience. I was like, I had told Sure.

SPEAKER_05 22:39

That's a helpful profile.

SPEAKER_04 22:41

Well he does. Um he doesn't. I believe you. But yeah, so he was a shared experience guy. And I told Molly, I was like, Molly, shared experience should do a post about him. Because he is from shared experience. Yeah. But I don't know what happened there.

SPEAKER_01 22:59

Well anyway. Anyway. What's next?

SPEAKER_04 23:02

We'll delete we'll delete all that.

SPEAKER_01 23:04

What's next? What's next? What else we got?

SPEAKER_04 23:07

Um make sure I cover all the bases. What do you now think about quote unquote making it in LA?

SPEAKER_00 23:14

Um I that's I think I'm weird enough, it's exactly what I said. It's like uh in weird ways I didn't expect to be doing what I'm doing. So I always thought it was one thing. I was like, oh, I'm gonna like have my own TV show. But now I'm like, oh, there's like a hundred different avenues. Like I think making it doesn't like mean there's one big goal you did. It's just like you're doing it. And like I'm doing it. Like I'm on stages doing shows, producing my own shows, and sure I'm not making much money, but I'm doing it. People know my name, I'm out there, and I think that's making it in your own way. It's not like you have to be a rich, successful Hollywood big shot. It's really just doing what you love is making it.

unknown 23:54

I love that.

SPEAKER_03 23:55

I agree.

SPEAKER_00 23:55

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:57

Yeah, plain and simple, baby. When did things start clicking for you?

SPEAKER_00 24:02

Improv. It's exactly that. I think it's all about improv when I started doing it, um, but with my teams, like when my team started shows and people started hitting us up and being like, Hey, can you do this? Yeah. I'm like, you want us to do that? You want me? Like it was crazy. And that's it. I'm like, oh, I can actually do this and like enjoy this, and this is a thing. Yeah. And I love it. Yeah. It's just improv. It's just improv. It's just improv.

SPEAKER_04 24:26

Um who or what? I feel like I'm gonna know this answer because I feel like most of this is improv based. It's all improv. It's all improv. Uh, who or what helped you through the hard parts? Improv.

SPEAKER_00 24:38

Improv. Um, improv and my best friends, Joe and Jacinda again. I cannot thank them enough. Um, they've been my friends for this year eight now, and they've seen me go through a million and five different things, and likewise, and us just doing this together is so special. Like a lot of people like, oh my god, wait, you three knew each other before this? These are friends.

SPEAKER_04 24:59

That's like a huge thing. That's like very rare to find improvisers that have been friends before LA or New York improv.

SPEAKER_00 25:07

Friends for years, like they're my best friends, and it's just so special, and we just help each other for everything. Thank God I love them so much. Um, and I love doing improv with them. Like, what a treat. I would still love them regardless. It's like what a treat.

SPEAKER_04 25:19

Yeah, it is. Like, it's nice to like be like, hey, you guys are my friends, but we can also perform together. It's a treat. It is a treat. I'm so lucky. I need a bubble of my nose to get go for it. How have you changed when you first moved here versus now? Personally, artistically. Oh, like I mean like in every emotionally, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:55

In every way, yet no ways at all in a weird way. Cause I've always, at least since college, I kind of figured out who I was, which is crazy to say because you're like so young in 2021. I've always like kind of no way knew who I was. Um I've always like marched to be my own drum, always been the odd one, a little weird, a little alternative, whatever you want to put it. Um I've always confidently worn it on my sleeve. And I've always said, No, I I want to do comedy in some way. I love production, I love all that. I want to I'm a creative. Um, always a classic rock music lover, a loud voice. Um I've always just been very me. So really what LA's just done for me is just like brought out like all the great sides of it and evolved. That's why I kept saying evolved. Because it wasn't like I changed drastically. I think I'm just like leveling up in a way. Um evolving my already good things, polishing myself and my character. Um, I've gained like even more confidence, which is crazy, because in college I was like, I'm so confident. I'm like, oh my god, I even know I can get more confident. I've learned to treat myself even better by also surrounding myself with better people. I've made amazing friends, which was new for me. Um I'm so like not like I'm telling Joe how like stressed I've been lately keeping up with all my friends, because I've never had this many friends before, which is insane because like growing up like in high school Mills kind of like a little loserish and friendless, as the emo kid really.

SPEAKER_04 27:16

Yeah, I had like no friends in high school.

SPEAKER_00 27:17

I had like no friends. So I'm like not even used to this. Like even in college, I had like friends, but like this is like different. This is like I everyone's my friend and I love everyone and everyone's blowing up my phone and I don't know how to respond to all this. Like it's such a special feeling, a little stressful, but special. Um I've um just fallen into new passions, like I said, like improv and doing all this, and it's just given me a new outlook on life and like so much happiness and joy that I never thought I could have. Um you know, finding love was crazy too. Um everything's so good. So really it's just made me such a better person, I think, in a way, for myself. And I'm I'm just yeah, I'm just so happy with this person I've run into, which is just like the same person I was six years ago, but just happier and more fulfilled now, if that makes sense.

SPEAKER_04 28:09

First of all, what would you tell 2020 Lexi that 2026 Lexi knows?

SPEAKER_00 28:18

Uh like advice. Yeah, the number isn't thing is so I'd say it's just so funny because I hate being told this, but it's so true. Relax. Um you don't have to be so strict and regimented on what you think you need to be doing. It's gonna fall into place, it's gonna happen for you. Just trust the avenues that you're going down, trust some of the people around you to steer you in the right ways, and don't trust some of these men that are going to steer you in the wrong ways. Um, but granted at the same time, shitty as it was. I obviously had to go through that to get where I'm yeah, yeah. It's like weird, like I shouldn't have to go through it, but I'm so glad I did in ways, like went through the bad times because I learned and it made me better. Um, so that's why I would just I would say just trust the process. It's gonna get weird and you're gonna get hesitant, but it's gonna be like so awesome. Like in the cheese rate's so awesome now, and you're so cool now. There's that one right there. Which one is that one again?

SPEAKER_07 29:16

Awesome!

SPEAKER_00 29:18

So awesome. No, literally though. It's so awesome. Yeah. Life's so good. Like life is so good. I'm like I'm so I think I used to be so much more cynical and sad and pessimistic. And because I would always become the world's so dark, and like sure. But it's you can find so many pockets of a light in it and enjoy it. And I think right now my goal is like just to enjoy things and like be happy. Like, why would I waste time not doing things I love with the people I love? Like it's too short. No, too short. Yeah. No, it's not cheesy. Oh cheesy's a good thing. I'm also embracing that, like embracing the cringe and cheesiness of certain things. Like just cringe.

SPEAKER_04 29:58

Enjoy it. Be happy. Because like what we're talking about before, before um we were recording, was that like we couldn't have gone through those like shitty relationships without realizing that like we had to go through them to understand like what we won't tolerate and what we will tolerate, what we think is like we have to know what those red flags are. We have to know like who those bad guys are, because if we don't know, then like we will never know. And we won't learn from our lessons and mistakes.

SPEAKER_00 30:28

It's so true. Yeah. It's so true. It's so true. It's why we are the way we are now, which is awesome, awesome. Everything is awesome. Everything is awesome.

SPEAKER_01 30:39

Are they gonna don't copyright us?

SPEAKER_05 30:41

Shit.

SPEAKER_04 30:42

Oh, I think we can only do it for like five seconds, and then it's okay. Oh, but that was less than we're so gold. We're so good.

SPEAKER_03 30:47

We're so good.

SPEAKER_04 30:48

Um well you've lived here for six years, but what's a neighborhood or area that's defined a time in your life for you? Is there a specific area or neighborhood? I feel like it's just I feel like it's Los Villa's.

SPEAKER_01 31:02

Specifically, um the plaza where this is the clubhouse and the pack art. Specifically that triangle street where Hollywood and the other one. What's the other street? Uh what is that other street?

SPEAKER_04 31:18

Hollywood Vermont and Vermont me. But there's like that three is it prospect? Yeah, prospect. Prospect, Hollywood, and Vermont all meet at that one triangle. And they create comedy. And they recreate comedy where the right aid used to be. Where the right aid. I remember we were still open.

SPEAKER_00 31:36

Um yeah, that's R I P. My mom tracks my location. She always jokes. Um why are you always at right aid? She'll be like, Why are you always on Vermont? And she she learned now, like, she won't bother me. She's like, I saw you in Vermont, so I knew you were busy doing improv. Yeah. She's like, she's like, I knew you were in Vermont today. That's what she'll say. Yeah. I'm always there. You're always there.

SPEAKER_04 31:54

I'm always there. Always there.

SPEAKER_00 31:55

So it's like it's the era of my life that I'm still in, but it just defined everything. I started going there this time two years ago. So we're locked in for life, baby.

SPEAKER_02 32:20

Okay, we have a little guest. Come here, Mindel. We have a guest.

SPEAKER_04 32:28

These these microphones are.

SPEAKER_01 32:29

Did you see what we're doing over here?

SPEAKER_04 32:32

There's a sound effect toward the Yeah. Do you want to press some buttons? You love pressing buttons. Um, only have the green ones. But you have to introduce yourself to you while you.

SPEAKER_08 32:43

Hi, my name is Marco.

SPEAKER_04 32:44

What's your last name?

SPEAKER_08 32:45

My name is Marco Torres.

SPEAKER_01 32:50

Wait, this is so cute. Hold on. I need to take a picture of this. It's us doing things.

SPEAKER_00 33:00

That give you the wrong headphones.

SPEAKER_08 33:01

Uh just start sticking in my ears.

SPEAKER_00 33:06

I can hear it.

unknown 33:06

I can hear stuff.

SPEAKER_00 33:08

Um we're recording, right? Yeah, we're recording. This is my boyfriend.

SPEAKER_08 33:13

Hello.

SPEAKER_00 33:14

And we met doing improv.

SPEAKER_08 33:16

That's right.

SPEAKER_00 33:17

Which is sweet.

SPEAKER_08 33:19

We actually met um in January. Yeah. Well, we didn't really. A year ago. Yeah, about a year ago now.

SPEAKER_01 33:25

A year ago today. Happy one year of knowing each other.

SPEAKER_08 33:27

Yeah, it's actually been about a year. And I think February, like around like the end of February, is when we got to like actually know each other. Draft night, yeah. I talked about that. Yeah. Oh yeah. And then after that, um, we started legitimate. I just started coming over because you were like, you wanted help um filming sketches. And I was like, okay, I'll help you film sketches.

SPEAKER_04 33:47

But I had like Did you feel the connection? Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 33:50

Were you just like platonic, like, it was literally it was actually outside of even my normal um like thing I would do. Like I didn't really like filming sketches or being on camera.

SPEAKER_04 34:02

So why did you do it with Lexi?

SPEAKER_08 34:04

Because I'm I I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 34:06

Wait, why did you? You always just say because you were just like, why not?

SPEAKER_08 34:10

Um in a big group and you were like, oh yeah, I'm looking for like stuff.

SPEAKER_00 34:15

But no, I mean you didn't have to.

SPEAKER_08 34:18

I didn't have to, no, and I was like, oh yeah, I got like me and my friend, we can help you out because like we had filmed some stuff before, but um that was basically it.

SPEAKER_00 34:27

Yeah, well, the funny thing was about all that like neither of us, I don't think we like it wasn't like a connection, oh my god, we like it wasn't like that, like each other. But when we it was all business. If anything for Marco was even worse for me, when we met and started doing improv together, I was like, because I kind of like can clock really easily when I'm gonna be friends with someone or they're gonna be important in my life. And I clocked at first of us being friends. I was like, this person's gonna be important to me. I feel it, like we're gonna be like friends, we're gonna be good friends, we're gonna be creative partners in some way. Like I felt that, and then you were like, I don't know about this one. I think Marco liked me as a friend, not because I did anything.

SPEAKER_08 35:09

At the beginning, I was like, oh, this girl's crazy. No, not in like a not in like a fuck that like fuck that bitch way, but in like a oh, I like this. She was like, she's never been, or she was somebody I've like never really like encountered in my life to begin with.

SPEAKER_06 35:24

What do you mean by that?

SPEAKER_08 35:25

She just like personality-wise, she's very she was like good. Well, not in a bad way, just like a lot of my friends have a very not similar personality, but I guess I've just known them longer. Yeah, you just had like a different personality than anyone else really I knew at the time. Which was how I was like, oh, I don't know about this. Um but not in a bad way. It was just like I just like didn't really know you that well. That makes sense.

SPEAKER_00 35:57

Yeah, I think just more hesitant.

SPEAKER_08 35:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:00

Maybe you were hesitant?

SPEAKER_08 36:01

Yeah, but I like as like as I would be for like any person, I feel like.

SPEAKER_00 36:05

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_08 36:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 36:06

Were you intimidated by Alex?

SPEAKER_00 36:08

Was I intimidating? I did walk around in like boots and flare pants and like rocker attire. Yeah, you have straight style.

unknown 36:16

Thank you.

SPEAKER_08 36:18

I don't even I don't know if intimidation is the right word. I just like it it really was kind of like a she's so distinctly a specific vibe that I'm like like I don't like it wasn't even that I'm like, oh I shouldn't even talk to her. It was more so like a she probably has her own thing going on type deal.

SPEAKER_00 36:35

And she did.

SPEAKER_08 36:36

And she did.

SPEAKER_00 36:37

I did. But yeah, I mean then we started filming sketches, hanging out more, becoming friends. And really that's what it was. Yeah. We were friends. And we were friends when we were like, hey, why don't we do more improv and doing it I think I forgot like the let's do something together.

SPEAKER_08 36:59

We started we started like um yeah, two prop actually that happened around like June. The end of June. No, yeah, yeah, it was towards the end of June or July. Um I was looking at my my notes, so but we were we had just been like doing improv at the same time and like your indie team was like booking shows and my indie team was booking shows. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 37:20

What was your indie team?

SPEAKER_08 37:20

My indie team is Rat City.

SPEAKER_04 37:22

Yes.

SPEAKER_08 37:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 37:23

San Diego. Yeah, I remember your guys' as one of your guys' first shows.

unknown 37:27

That was fun.

SPEAKER_08 37:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 37:28

Yeah, we were all there together. What is surreal moment? Ah, okay. So your indie team was booking shows, your indie team is booking shows.

SPEAKER_00 37:36

We were around the same places and hanging out more.

SPEAKER_08 37:38

Yeah. And then uh I remember it was like um at the clubhouse it was like MILFest.

SPEAKER_00 37:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 37:43

That was like one of the first times we were like, okay, let's actually collaborate and like put something together.

SPEAKER_07 37:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 37:48

And then after that, we started like I think that just the two of us just started hanging out way more after that.

SPEAKER_00 37:53

Yeah. I don't remember why we just did. We started hanging out more.

SPEAKER_08 37:56

We started hanging out more. It was just like you were just like a cool person. I was like, yeah, you're a cool person. Yeah, but I'm a cool person.

SPEAKER_04 38:00

You are a cool person. What's like, since I have you both here, what's like your favorite LA meal or restaurant that you guys like going to?

SPEAKER_08 38:09

That we like going to?

SPEAKER_03 38:11

Or don't. I don't know.

SPEAKER_08 38:13

We like eat everything.

SPEAKER_03 38:14

We eat everything. We're such easy people to go to.

SPEAKER_08 38:17

I really, I really do like wooden. Is it wooden spoon that's down the street?

SPEAKER_00 38:20

Rustic spoon. Rustic spoon. What's rustic spoon? Thai place where I done like walking distance from here.

SPEAKER_08 38:24

That's so good. We had um a soft shell crab like meal. It's like one of their specials.

SPEAKER_00 38:28

It was like enough crop with like noodles. It was so good. So good. We we eat everything. What else do you eat? Um second favorite. Well you made curry and that was really good. I was like, but like it was really good.

SPEAKER_08 38:40

I made curry the other day. I we I think we just like we really like like pan-a panasiatic foods.

SPEAKER_00 38:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 38:47

Okay, like pizza and burger. Yeah, I mean we eat everything.

SPEAKER_04 38:52

So you guys, that's like sohi. We love well. I'm bringing favorite sushi because I I have some places I like.

SPEAKER_08 39:00

Alexi probably has more.

SPEAKER_00 39:01

I don't I don't have a favorite, I just order from anywhere.

SPEAKER_08 39:04

Oh, you know what that place that we went with Mark and Aubin. Oh, um there's a tiny little like hole in the wall shop that's on was it like Lankersham?

SPEAKER_00 39:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 39:12

That um we we walked into and it's literally like a hole in the wall, and we're like there's no there's no way to do it.

SPEAKER_01 39:17

Noho or Studio City? Noho.

SPEAKER_08 39:18

It's in Noho.

SPEAKER_01 39:19

Oh, I don't know that one. Um I'm not really familiar with that.

SPEAKER_08 39:22

It's like it's literally just called like it's like the sketchiest name is like gourmet sushi.

SPEAKER_00 39:26

Oh yeah, that's place gourmet something. It's like the best.

SPEAKER_08 39:28

And it was like we were like, oh, this looks like terrible because it's like a a bland little room, um, and like an L shape. It was tiny. I'll find it. And we're like, oh, this must be the wrong place. Let's go because they didn't even have like um alcohol there. And we were like, we wanted to get cocktails and like um just have because we were on a double date.

SPEAKER_00 39:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 39:47

Um and Mark was like, I saw like on TikTok, like they had sushi boats here. And we were looking on the menu. They all we were looking at the menu, we're like, they don't, they don't even there's nothing, no mention of a sushi boat.

SPEAKER_00 39:57

What's this place called? I'm looking right now, hold on. Um because we ordered from them.

SPEAKER_08 40:01

We ordered. Yeah, we we ordered takeout after we went there because it was so good.

SPEAKER_00 40:04

It was so good. Give me two seconds. I'm gonna.

SPEAKER_08 40:07

This is a huge shout out to Sushi Gourmet. Sushi Gourmet, which is on uh people are uh I'm looking uh Lankersham.

SPEAKER_00 40:16

It is Noho. Yeah. 6331 Lankersham Boulevard.

SPEAKER_08 40:20

Oh to die for it was incredible. You if you if you get like four rolls and you can you can ask them to put it on a sushi boat and bring on a huge boat and it's like the rolls are incredible.

SPEAKER_04 40:30

It's epic. I need to go there. I have a big sushi being hot sick if you feel like you gotta go when you're when you're feeling good.

SPEAKER_08 40:37

We're seafood MFs.

SPEAKER_00 40:38

We love we'll eat like Wickers and all that. We're motherfucking seafood.

SPEAKER_08 40:44

We motherfucking love seafood. No, I literally it's so fucking good.

SPEAKER_04 40:47

I love seafood. What's like uh I mean Lexi knows this about me.

SPEAKER_08 40:55

Like I will I will like drag her through like a grocery store just to be like, I hope they have good sardines here.

SPEAKER_00 40:59

Oh yeah, we always get sardines. So you make Caesar salads?

SPEAKER_08 41:04

No, you use anchovies for that.

SPEAKER_00 41:08

We all knew that.

SPEAKER_08 41:09

I should try making Caesar salads.

SPEAKER_01 41:10

Wait, I was just gonna say, you like sardines? Yeah. I like sardines. You like sardines? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:16

I eat everything.

SPEAKER_04 41:17

So that's why you guys get along so well.

SPEAKER_01 41:19

We eat everything.

SPEAKER_08 41:20

Because fish is good.

SPEAKER_00 41:21

Yeah, we both love fish.

SPEAKER_04 41:22

I've never had a sardine. And if I have, I it's good.

SPEAKER_08 41:25

Do you like fish?

SPEAKER_04 41:26

You like fish? Yeah, but like it's good.

SPEAKER_08 41:29

It's just fish.

SPEAKER_04 41:30

It's fish.

unknown 41:30

All right.

SPEAKER_08 41:31

You'll like it. It's just fish with small. You're thinking you have this idea that you're you're probably confusing anchovies and sardines.

SPEAKER_04 41:36

Probably. There aren't anchovies.

SPEAKER_08 41:38

The bad ones.

SPEAKER_03 41:39

Caesar salad?

SPEAKER_08 41:40

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 41:41

They're good in a Caesar salad.

SPEAKER_08 41:43

Anchovies are intense.

SPEAKER_03 41:44

Yeah. That's like the only thing they're good at is a Caesar salad. Yes, I agree.

SPEAKER_08 41:48

Or you can put them on top of a pizza and fuck up your whole meal.

SPEAKER_03 41:52

Exactly.

SPEAKER_04 41:53

Oh god. Um, what's like a super weird or very LA moment y'all have?

unknown 41:59

LA moment.

SPEAKER_03 42:00

Together or separate? Together.

SPEAKER_04 42:02

I mean, this is your interview and Marco's here to just hang out. So it could be both. It could be separate. It could also just be both of you separately talking about it. Like I would whatever.

SPEAKER_00 42:15

Could we have a weird moment together out here?

SPEAKER_08 42:17

A moment where we're like, oh MG.

SPEAKER_00 42:19

Yeah. Like something.

SPEAKER_08 42:21

You're just L. I can't even think of anything right now because I feel like it all meshes together. Like I think I feel like every moment in LA is kind of insane.

SPEAKER_04 42:28

How long have you been out here?

SPEAKER_08 42:29

I've been out here for like a year and a half.

SPEAKER_04 42:31

It's a similar timeline almost. A little bit you've been here a little bit more. This is my six years ago.

SPEAKER_00 42:37

You're so good.

SPEAKER_04 42:38

You're like, girl, we've been talking about it.

SPEAKER_00 42:40

Girl, we've been yapping.

SPEAKER_04 42:41

We've been yapping. Wait, so you've been here since 2020. You've been here since 2024?

SPEAKER_08 42:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 42:47

Wait, so you've met like a month into living here?

SPEAKER_08 42:50

No, no. I met Meg um I moved here in the year 2024, like uh No, I met in 2025. Yeah, we met in 2025.

SPEAKER_03 43:03

That's what you've got.

SPEAKER_04 43:04

That's why I was like, wait a minute. Same amount of the same amount of time you've been in the improv scene, you have lived in this city.

SPEAKER_00 43:11

Basically, yes.

SPEAKER_04 43:12

Any weird celebrity run-ins left?

SPEAKER_00 43:14

Yeah, I um went to a bar in Silver Lake, a little like fuck, I forgot what it's called. They have like a little stage. It's it's on a corner. I'm trying to remember as an Akbar. Maybe. It's like a really divey kind of place, really dark and dingy. It's an Akbar. Maybe. It could have been. But I was seeing at the Times a couple years ago, it was my ex-boyfriend's co-workers band, as you have to do when you're in a relationship.

SPEAKER_08 43:39

Can we repeat that?

SPEAKER_00 43:40

My ex-boyfriend's co-workers band. Ex-boyfriend's co-workers band. Um that should be like a band.

SPEAKER_04 43:46

Right?

SPEAKER_00 43:47

Or an improvement. But we went to go see the show, and Joe and Jacinda actually came with me. Um and standing at the bar, we were all looking over and we're like, is that Quentin Tarantino? And it was. He was just there watching this random band and he stood the bar by himself, nodded his head a bit, and then walked out and left at some point.

SPEAKER_03 44:07

No one wanted to show their feet.

SPEAKER_00 44:09

No, I should have. Who knows?

SPEAKER_08 44:11

He he didn't see any open cloth any open-toed shoes and decided to.

SPEAKER_00 44:15

No, no, but it was good. That was kinda crazy. Did anyone talk to him? No, we didn't talk. No one did. He just was there. It felt weird. I mean other than that, like I've like obviously worked in production and like seen people on sets. Yeah. And I've talked to him. Like I like uh they were filming what's this what's the fire show that Roblo does? Because he was like on the lot a lot. Oh, that's uh for FX. For Fox. I know exactly what it is. Some 911 show. Lone Star. Whatever. Anyway, so he was there a lot. Um any like people like that. Like I just saw them randomly in a lot. But that was my definitely my weirdest one was seeing Tarantino standing at a bar. That was weird.

SPEAKER_08 44:58

Uh I saw Adam Scott in line uh for a Please Don't Destroy conc that concert uh sketch show.

SPEAKER_04 45:04

Where? Here?

SPEAKER_08 45:05

It was here, it was at the Woltern.

SPEAKER_04 45:07

He was at a Please Don't Destroy?

SPEAKER_08 45:09

Yeah, Adam Scott, um he has like a big head. Like I guess it's just I guess like like I noticed him and I was like, oh, he has a big face.

SPEAKER_04 45:18

I believe it. Yeah. That's like there's like a theory where like in the bigger your head, the more you're gonna take in Hollywood, apparently. It's a thing. Look it up, it's a legit theory.

SPEAKER_08 45:27

We have to get bigger heads.

SPEAKER_04 45:28

You know, like it's like legit theory where like if your head is a little bit larger than like your skeletal body, like more more room on the body. I don't know, it's a fucking weird ass thing. Anyway, yeah. I randomly saw uh when did I say that? I was like, Yeah, I just saw that. Oh, you know who I saw? I wonder, uh Yeah I'll tell it. Um I was walking the dogs in my neighborhood. I live in like the Hollywood Hills, but like not touching. I live at the bottom of the Hollywood Hills and I was walking the dogs. This was a couple months ago, and some like British man came up to me and was like, I'm so sorry, but I think or do you know whose dog that is on my porch? And it was like a husky. And I was like, no, sorry, I don't know whose dog that is. And then my neighbor was like, Yeah, do you know whose dog this is? I'm like, no, but like it looks familiar, but I'm not really sure. And then I'm as I'm looking at this guy, I'm like, that's Matt Healy, right? From the 1970s. From the 1975, and then I work at a dog store right now, because it's just life right now, whatever. Um, and a few months later, after that incident, he like comes into the store to like get stuff, and I was like, That's him, right? And I'm ringing him up, and then sure enough, it was him, and I was like, Hey, did you ever find out whose dog that was? And he was like, Oh, that was you, and I was like, Yeah, he goes, turns out it was the person living next to me, it was their dog, and I'm like, Oh wow! Epic crazy Matt Healy story, crazy Matt Healy story. He was actually a very nice person. I'm sure. Like, I know that there's people that say whatever, but he was very nice. I didn't have any any bad experience. Yeah. Love that. That was my celebrity run in recently. Um LA. What do you feel like people don't get about living here? I feel like you would know more. Well, both of you. I mean, you lived in San Diego.

SPEAKER_08 47:33

I live in San Diego your whole life. Like, all I will say that like all of Southern California is basically the same.

SPEAKER_04 47:39

So be careful now because I feel like San Diego's are gonna be San Diego, San Diego.

SPEAKER_08 47:44

San Diegans.

SPEAKER_04 47:45

San Diegans are gonna be like, no, we are not like the LA or Orange County.

SPEAKER_08 47:49

Um no, they're all the same. They're all pretty like like in terms of like it's all the same weather, it's all the same like landscape. Um like city cultures aside, it's like I think I think people's biggest gripe with like the cities is like the infrastructure. And all of the infrastructure in like Southern California is pretty similar because it's California. So I it's it's LA does not bother me because I'm already used to like how California works to begin with. So it's like yeah, of course, people are gonna be insane because like the the way the cities are built are is insane.

SPEAKER_04 48:25

Were you like did you have like some sense of like culture shock moving from San Diego to here? Because it's like I've been going from one big city. Both of you guys have gone from like two big cities, like massively different you go for.

SPEAKER_08 48:38

No. Really? I've I already had um because I I didn't even I don't even I didn't grow up like in San Diego, I grew up like north of San Diego, like 30 minutes. Yeah, but like more inland, like Escondido. Um and so I would have to drive 30 minutes to get to San Diego. And it's like so I'm already used to driving a long time. Like I'm already used to city life kind of. And so there was I never really got a big culture shock in terms of like everything outside of like LA proper, like all of like the valley, like Pasadena, like everything around there. That all that made sense to me because that's what I've seen basically my entire life. It's when you get into like the actual dense city where I'm like, oh, this is this feels a little bit different, but not even yeah.

SPEAKER_04 49:23

Like where is where do you feel like it's dense?

SPEAKER_08 49:25

Like Hollywood Hollywood, because it's that's such a specifically distinct and sane part of the city. Um downtown. Downtown.

SPEAKER_04 49:33

I like honestly, like um mid-city, like there's no freeways, you just have to go through side streets.

SPEAKER_08 49:40

I that's the most interesting part to me, is just like the lack of freeways, which is like I think that's the most telling part of like, oh, that's the difference is um in in terms of the cities. But I don't I mean that's just my experience. I have a difficult.

SPEAKER_00 49:53

I mean, for me, it was like night and day. I mean, coming from first of all, the state itself is so different, Florida versus California. Even any part of each state is different from each other. Um, I mean, like coming, I remember coming to LA for the first time, I was like, whoa, mountains. That's crazy. Hills, there's houses on hills. That's insane. Like Volcoratona is like all on water, right? Yeah, it's it's swamp land, it's water. You're right. Like I was surrounded by lakes and flatland and and swamp and the Everglades, and it was a whole different world. And not only that, but like the biggest thing was the culture shock, it was even just the land, because it's just such a different vibe out here. But in a way, that was like I think people in Florida didn't a lot of them didn't like a likes, like, oh, everyone there is so fake and and plastic and whatever, and they're just Hollywood hustlers, and and then of course, sure, is there truth? Maybe. Um, but I think the biggest misconception is I came out here and I'm like, no, this place is full of artists and incredible people and community and vibrant scenes, and I've met so many different types of people from different places and backgrounds I never would have met somewhere like South Florida. Like, truly, this is such a melting pot of everything. And I have I've met more good people than I've ever met bad people out here, like that's for sure. I've met so many wonderful people, and I can't believe like how many different communities of people they're like talking about like how we're all a part of this improv community. There's a million other things for other people, like you don't you don't get this in Florida. This isn't a thing where I was from, and I think I always yearned for that and wanted that. So I just I never get when people are so like LA's so whatever, and I'm like amazing. Yes, yeah, it is.

SPEAKER_08 51:46

I that I will like attest to that because I think growing up like and being in San Diego, um, there actually wasn't like that many like different demographics like in like their different communities. It was like majority like um Latino, majority like Japanese, um and like Chinese communities. Um and like so that like for the most part that was like that was a cuisine, that was a culture, that was the vibe of like San Diego. Um at least for me. And then coming up here, I'm like, oh my god, it's like every single nationality under the sun has its own community. Which I think that's the coolest part to me. Yeah, which is like it's very multi um cultural, um, and like everybody knows Armenian. All my coworkers are Armenian. I'm like, this is so cool, I want to learn Armenian.

SPEAKER_04 52:34

I don't even know any Armenian. I know some Armenian people, but I don't know if they're like well, RC.

SPEAKER_00 52:41

Yeah, I mean there's isn't it so interesting too like um for me coming from a pretty much all Jewish place, and of course there's like a big Jewish scene in LA, but I went from being like one of many to like one of few in my circles, which is interesting, which is not like a good or bad thing, it's just like so different for me.

SPEAKER_02 52:57

It's like sorry, damn. I know.

SPEAKER_00 53:00

Stop ruining my interview. It's fucked up. Um yeah, like start coughing. It's more like I was in such a bubble. Um now I've like learned, like I said, I've met so many different people from different backgrounds and like their stories and learned all different like cultures and everything, and it's it's something that like I try to encourage like people I know back still in Florida to be like, go somewhere, go outside of our bubble and go learn and talk to people and experience the world. Like, you're not gonna lose your light and your thing. People are gonna be fascinated by you and what you have, and it's just like that's the beauty of it all. We want to like meet different people and like blend together, and like with like especially in like a scene, like a creative scene. It's so important to not be in a room with just ten people who all think and feel the same way and went through the same things, have the same backgrounds. Like, all my friends and people I care about aren't people who are just like me. Everyone's different from me. I mean, we're different from each other, and I think that's like what makes it special. Like, I would probably hate to date myself. God, I'd be so annoying. But also hot and cool. No, like it's important. Like, I love I love the celebration of it all. Yeah, LA's awesome.

SPEAKER_05 54:24

Okay. Um you want okay.

SPEAKER_04 54:30

I was gonna say because we're like wrapping up now. Let me finish up.

SPEAKER_00 54:33

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 54:33

I'll hop out of here. I'm gonna get out of here.

SPEAKER_02 54:35

Bye, Marco. Thank you for everything.

SPEAKER_01 54:53

Would you do it all over again? Yeah. If I had to. Yeah. I mean the first few years.

SPEAKER_04 55:01

Like your whole like everything. Like do it everything exactly the same to get to where you are.

SPEAKER_00 55:06

If I had to, yes.

SPEAKER_04 55:07

Yeah. Do I want to? No.

SPEAKER_00 55:09

No. Um, if I had to, yes. It's what's worth it. Um, but the first few years were definitely rough, but worth it.

SPEAKER_04 55:14

Yeah.

unknown 55:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 55:15

If LA was a person, how would you describe them?

SPEAKER_00 55:18

Um LA is like maybe uh this is just relevant to me right now because like I just started taking these kind of classes and introduced to this world. LA is a fucking clown. LA's a clown. But LA's a modern clown. And I've been getting really into the modern clown clown clown through people like Chad Damiani took his course and like and I watched like Stamp Town at the Elysian the other night and uh Amazing Banana Brothers, all these like clown stuff and introduces modern clown world, and it's so LA to be like doing modern clown. I'm even the guy from um he did a rivalry used to take clown classes in modern clown, the one with the darker hair. Oh um, I forgot his name. Like at the clubhouse? Yeah. What? No joke. Shut up. I'm serious. Google this, but it's real. But um I that's so LA is not just like a like what you picture is a clown, but the modern clown. Yeah. And like that style of comedy and confidence and everything that goes with it, and it it's so LA and I love it, and I love the authenticness of it. Yeah. Yeah. That's so LA.

SPEAKER_04 56:27

I like that. Yeah. Um so now that like you live here and this is your home, I'm assuming, yes? Yes. Okay. So what does quote unquote home mean to you now?

SPEAKER_00 56:38

So I'm someone who's like moved so many times in the past, like ever. Actually, no, nothing about a kid. We were always moving around a lot. Um, my parents and divorced, and like my dad hopped around apartments a lot, and my mom moved houses, and then I went to college and moved apartments there, and then I came out uh here and moved apartments a lot, and like I've never like really had one place to live for a long time. So for me, home was never the building, never, because I never really was at a home that long enough. Like this current apartment I've been here for four years, which is already pretty crazy. That's like the longest I've been somewhere in a long time. Besides like my mom's house when I lived there. That was no, actually, this is like the longest I've stayed somewhere. Yeah. Um, so home was never like the four walls and roof around me. It was always the people and the mindset. Yeah, the mindset and the overall location. Um, so for me, LA is home, period. Um, and the people I'm with are my home. Like, I found home. Like, I have a tough time. Like, I love my family. I know they're gonna listen to this, so I love them so much. I'm so grateful and lucky we're very, very close. Yeah. Um I have wonderful parents and wonderful stepparents and wonderful sister, wonderful steps, and grandparents, and everyone in between. Um, but I have a hard time relating when I go back home. Like my my parents know I'm like the black sheep. Uh I'm they're the they're boca people, and I'm this, you know? Yeah. So they've I've always been a struggle to fit in and they know that, and I've always struggled with it. Um, but even like I disagree with them a lot and we argue sometimes. But when I was down, my sister, um, who's also a Sam, she's my Sammy. She's a Samantha. Shout out to Sam. And she's blonde.

SPEAKER_01 58:17

Oh my god. So that's why we're sisters. It makes perfect sense. Makes perfect sense. Oh, and you'd love her.

SPEAKER_00 58:23

She's great.

SPEAKER_01 58:23

I want to see her.

SPEAKER_00 58:24

Fabulous. But she's 25, so when we grew up two years apart, um, but when I was down for Thanksgiving, I was having a hard time. I was struggling just being back in Florida. Yeah. Okay. A couple months ago being back in Florida and just being in that environment again makes me feel it makes me feel like I'm regressing back to being my teenage loner self and no one understands me. Yeah. Um, you know, and she was giving me, which is so crazy when your little sister gives you words of wisdom, because I always still look at her like she's eight, you know? Yeah. Um, but she's so smart. Um, but we're such opposites. So sometimes we don't even agree. Like she's generally my complete opposite. Uh, but we love each other. But she was saying something along the lines of, you know, like don't stress so much about it when you come here. Like, this isn't, you know, we're all we're still your family, but this isn't your home anymore. Like, you found home out there and you found family, and you've such wonderful friends, and like that's your home.

SPEAKER_04 59:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 59:14

And you're gonna be home soon. Like, we're just gonna get through this week here, like, and you're gonna be home soon with your family. It was beautiful.

SPEAKER_04 59:20

Your sister's very wise beyond her years.

SPEAKER_00 59:22

She's also a little bit of a bitch, but I love her so much. But she would say the same thing about me, she would call me weird. I love she's so wise, Sammy. Sammy, you're you are so wise, and she's she's gonna be like a millionaire one day, I believe. But like, I don't know what the hell she's gonna do about it, but she's gonna do it.

SPEAKER_04 59:36

Like, she's that kind of get that millions with her. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 59:38

I told her I'm like, can we we're trying to like go into business together, but we don't know how. But we're trying to figure out because she's so business and I'm so creative. There's gotta be something.

SPEAKER_04 59:44

She could be your business manager, she should. She could be your manager, your agent.

SPEAKER_00 59:49

Sammy, call me the creative, and she's your agent.

SPEAKER_04 59:51

I know. There you go.

SPEAKER_00 59:54

This is this is the home is the people and the the place, not the building I'm in. So yeah, that's that's it for me. I think that yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, what's like your favorite spot or venue out here? Hmm. Um, like for shows, anything okay. Um, I'm gonna give like besides like improv, so it doesn't talk about improv. Go go to Ouija's, go to share experience, go to the pack, go to the class, go to UCV, obviously support your local comedy scene and improv scene, sure. I can yap about them all, you know, but fun things because I I'm a music lover first and foremost, um, which I barely even talked about. I just if you looked at my apartment, you know I love music so much. I'm a huge passionate rock music fan. Um, there are a couple of really interesting places besides like the big ones. I think everyone kind of knows the LA concert venues. It's not that, it's weirder settings. Um, right here in Studio City, God, what a gem. What a truly gem that no one knows. I don't know why, but they're always packed, so it's interesting. It's called Verse. It's right here on Lankersham. It's like literally two minutes drive from here. It's a restaurant in a recording studio, and it's it's they're expensive. It's incredible food, like beyond incredible food, and they record live sets while you eat. Like we saw um a jazz show there the other week. Um, Marco and I did uh that's like a kind of Christmas date night thing. Um and it yeah, it's very nice. And it was incredible. It was incre I think the it was Terr Terrence Martin who um produces like pretender Glomar and he like ran a whole jazz show and they were recording it through the studio while you're eating, and it was so unreal. And I'm like, how do people not like none of my friends know about this place and they should so verse, it's incredible, it's so expensive, so brace yourself, go once a year, treat yourself. I once saw Cole Sprouss there, random. I guess that's another celebrity. Um he was just there. Um, another place I want to shout out is um the Sunrose on Sunset. It's a small intimate jazz club as well, but they do like show, like not just jazz. I saw Mike Garson there a couple times, who's Bowie, he used to be Bowie's piano man. Whoa! He's done some really cool shows, like people like Beck go there and Dave Carroll like do like live random performances. It's like a small venue too, like like maybe like 20 tables. Sam sneezing again on my guest time. Um I don't know if you guys can believe this, but it's it's now she's walking away, so she can blow her nose. Oh, but yes, anyway, Sunrose is wonderful. Where's that? I have a step on Sunset. It's literally on Sunset Boulevard. It's new it's next, it's a part of the Pendry Hotel. Um, it's I can't recommend checking it out enough and seeing a show there. And they're the staff there are so nice too. Um, but yeah, I love like intimate little music venues like that, and also any place that has food, I'm always there. So I'm obsessed. I think more places should have food while they have a show.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:59

Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:00

Imagine if the show had food, yeah. Can you imagine if improv had shit fucking food? I think people would be happier to be there and more willing to come see us. Yeah. I know how hard it is to be like, hey friends, come see my improv show on a Thursday night at 8 30 p.m. Like no one wants to come. So you're like, there's pizza, they're all coming. So just food for thought.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:21

There's pizza from Triple Beam Pizza. Food for thought for thought to all the theaters, food for thought. That's a really good improv uh name for something.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:31

Someone write that down. Food for thought. Not me, I'm booked, but someone else write that down. Someone else wrote down. Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:36

Um, what's a song that defines an LA era for you? That's such a good question.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:41

For someone like me to think it who loves music, you get me. I do. Um, so like when it comes to like obviously I have like my favorite songs, like Queen and the Stones, The Beatles, Floyd, everyone, those are all my favorites. Yeah, I'm such a a dad inside of this body. It's ridiculous. My father gave me his music taste, and it's the best thing he ever did for me, besides teach me comedy. Um, so shout out my dad for that. Um and I oh, she'll kill me if I don't do this. Shout out my mom as well for everything too. She's giving me so much confidence. I wouldn't be buying without her. Uh, she would also kill me if I shout out my father and not her. Um, I love my I love them. Um, but um uh weirdly enough, I'm gonna shout out a smaller artist. That's not my typical genre. Um I like um this artist, their name is Dorian Electra. They are a smaller hyper pop. I wouldn't even say they're small, so I think they're brilliant and they have a great fan base. They are a hyper pop artist who was also really rock inspired growing up. And I got really into their music during the pandemic, and there was um it's very like odd, strange, awesome, cool music. I really know the way to put it. It's like really edgy um and experimental and inspirational and really cool. Um, it's it's like a hard to explain. It's like very electronically weird. It's worth a listen. But while my first map here, my first moved out here, my first year I was seeing this guy who was not a good person and a very bad guy and like quite very borderline abusive, like really, really bad. But I need to get out of that. Uh I mean every girl's got the same story, unfortunately. That's true. Um, but I was fine. Like I didn't came out unscathed in the physical sense, sure, right? Um messed me up a little immensely, but there was they had an album come out, um was it um the My Agenda album, and uh a lot of it was like parody themes of like you know, kind of calling out some people, and there's a song called Edgelord about you know, like guys who are like those edgy meme edgelords online and they just like no, not like that. No, no, no, no, no, like the like the internet like edgelords, like like the internet online bullies being shitty and like these men who like are like my women are beneath me. Yeah, like can't keep a roars. And the song was so like I just could listen to it and I was like looking at my ex at time as. Staring at me all the time. I'm like, oh my god, I gotta get out of here. And that album like was the soundtrack of me being like, time to grow up, time to put myself first. Oh my god, it woke me up to like the world around me. It's a very like reflective album to me in a way of like people and like I was just like, I gotta get out.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:18

So it's your physical moment.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:20

Yeah, it was. It was like that. Yeah, it was you watching the show, it was like that. Like, I was like, Oh my god, like what this is like this thing. I'm like, Oh my god, I need to get out of here. Yeah, um, so shout out during a lecture. I met them at their they did a yard sale once for fans to come out and like buy some stuff. Um, and they were so awesome and such a cool person. So shout out and thank you for um telling me pretty much without saying it to leave my ex. So that was cool. Um yeah. Other than that, right now, um I'm always listening to the stones. The stones are always an LA era for me. Yeah, through and through all the stones are always here, like literally, always. So it's cool.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:58

Thanks. My last question is and it's rapid fire. Okay. So it's multiple. Well, this was all supposed to be rapid fire, but I okay. I love we just keep talking. Yeah, but one word to describe your LA journey other than what you already described.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:14

Another one?

SPEAKER_04 1:07:14

Another one.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:19

It's gonna cheesy too. Funny! Oh god, I've never laughed so much in my entire life that in my past two years out here, just being in a comedy scene, I just laughed. Like I'm I'm oh god, everything's so funny in a great way. Yeah, and funny how things worked out. We'll leave it there, it's rabbit fire.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:35

Is there anything you want to leave uh the audience with tonight?

SPEAKER_00 1:07:39

Today, um yeah, um, sure. Um everyone should listen to um all of the 60s and 70s Rolling Stones albums, including Let It Bleed, including Sticky Fingers, Exile on the Main Street. Please submerge yourself into the stones. Um I um want to give shout-outs to um everyone around me right now. Got in such a happy place. I love this community. Seriously, try I think to everyone try an improv class. It's amazing. Um, I want to shout out, especially with improv, um, over at Weaches to uh Will Hines, um, who's really become like a mentor to me. And um not just because we're both like classic rock uh nerds, um, and also both like the geekiness of they might be giants, but he's really helped me with my comedy and uh it's nice seeing you know people who like care about your journey and want to help. So sh and for building this school and also like genuinely because of all that, like because of Will, because of we just I've met everyone important to me right now, and like made my best friends and met people like Mitch and Monica and met people like Marco and found my partner through it all. And God's so beautiful. I met amazing people overall, even people like you. I met through this, and it's so crazy. So shout out to all that. Um God, I'm I'm just hoping to do more, man. I just want to keep doing more. I want to keep succeeding, I want to keep creating, and I like can't wait to see like already from like looking back from last year to now is so crazy. Next year, oh my, I don't even know. But this year, it's gonna be ours and we're gonna crush it. Yeah, it's gonna be amazing.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:25

Fire.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:28

Yeah, um, thanks for letting me up.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:31

That's cool.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:31

Yeah, of course. Thank you for being here. Thank you for letting me come to your apartment, and thank you for bearing with me while we were figuring out the technical difficulties.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:39

A literal honor. I wouldn't do it, I would do it over and over again.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:42

Honestly, I would love to have you back. So we could do like you could be like Billie Eilish, where she's an interview every year.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:50

All right, I'll see you guys next January.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:52

See you next January where Lexi Skye is doing her once-a-year interview.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:57

I'm doing it. I'm coming back next year.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:59

Is your middle name really that? My middle name's Elton.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:02

That's so good. My last name's Sky, yeah. My name is Oh yeah, my name is Lexi Elton Sky.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:06

So I was always like, did you put that because you love music so much? Or did your parents just my parents? So it was like in your blood that like always you were going to be Lexi Elton Sky.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:15

Dude, I was born for this shit. You really were. Oh yeah. Oh my gosh. Shout out Elton John. Seriously.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:21

Lexi Elton Sky. Thank you so much for being here on 15 Years in LA podcast. Um I don't know when this will be coming out because it is a one-woman show behind closed doors.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:33

One day. So um just know it's January 14th right now. Okay. So just put it that way.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:39

Um, where can everyone find you?

SPEAKER_00 1:10:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:41

Um plug your shows, plug everything. This is your time. Okay, plug time.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:45

This whole time has been yours, but oh god. Okay, knowing this show this might not come out for a minute. Let me think the things very clearly. Um me, I'm Lexi Sky. You can follow me at the Lexi Sky on Instagram and TikTok. Um, I'm always posting about my shows on Instagram because I'm an attention-seeking woman, but also I have really good stuff to say and good comedy. Um, I have some improv teams I'm really proud of and proud to be a part of. My main team is uh at Nepo.mommy. Nepo Mommy, fun team name. That's me, Mitch, Monica, Joe, Jacinda. We are five best friends who love each other, just want to have fun. We have a monthly show at the pack every first Friday of the month at 8 p.m. Come see us Nepo Mommy for dummies. It's real cute. Uh, what else? Of course, my lovely boyfriend and I um have a two-prop team together called Revolution 2, and you can find us at Revolution 2 Prov. We do a lot of local indie shows together, but we are also uh producing our first show together called Improv to Save Music, which will have live musicians accompanying an improv show. Um this will definitely happen by time this airs, but their hope is to do it again multiple more times. So actually, you know what? Come see because I know it's gonna happen again. Um so Marco and I are both very proud of that. Uh shout out my other team uh Turntable at Turntable Improv. That's um me, Daisy, Eric, Ian, and Steven. We perform at Shared Experience, we perform at the Clubhouse. We have our own show called Jam Witch every other Sunday at 7:30 p.m. And it's great because you can come and jam. And I think that's so important because doing jams is something that got me really into improv. Like the We just jam got me really into it in the show itself. Um, everyone deserves stage time. Even if you have no experience, we'd love to have you. Um, shout out all the theaters for letting me run around on their damn stage. We just clubhouse pack. Huge shout out to shared experience, um, which and it was near and dear to Sam. And recently, near and dear to me, shout out to James Mastriani and everyone over there who has given me a chance to work with them and help them out. And it's an honor. So if you look at their social media, that's me, baby. I'm making that. I'm running that thing. It's right. What a what amazing theater. What a great community. Oh my god. So um, I guess that's all my shout-outs. Um, that's all.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:05

You should have uh Matt Rabano. Have you guys met Matt Rabano yet? No, he was the bassist for uh Taking Back Sunday.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:12

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:13

And he does it for all revolution at shared experience. So for Revolution 2. I'm gonna hit him up now. Yeah, you should be, you should, he was at the shared show last Wednesday.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:22

At Matt Rabano, if you're listening to this, can you hit me up?

SPEAKER_04 1:13:26

But he's he's the bassist and he plays uh the uh touring artist, and like with other bands. I don't know when he'll be back, but we gotta get him back. He's gotta do the next one. He's does shared experience all the time.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:37

He should be doing the show with us.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:38

He should. Yeah, right now we have three crab musicians, um, Philip Labes, Tim Newman, and Zach Olson doing a whole music performance for us. But now I need to get this guy too. Great. Oh my god, I love this community, it's so cool. But yeah, that's it. Um I'm gonna be I'm doing things. I'm doing things, I'm doing a show tonight. I'm doing it, I'm literally doing two shows tonight. I'm doing two shows tonight. I'm so tired.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:00

I need and I need to get out of your hair because I've been here like five hours.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:03

And it I it felt like five minutes of joy. It really has been.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:07

Oh, I love you so much. In between the microphones, okay. It's beautiful. Have a good day, everybody. Um, I'll see you when I see you. Bye. Bye.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:19

Thanks so much for listening to another episode of 15 years in LA. I'm your host, Sam Adler. You can now stream 15 Years in LA on both Spotify and Apple Podcasts at 15 Years NLA Pod. We're also on Instagram, 15 the number dot years dot in dot LA dot pod. If you could be so awesome and like, subscribe, rate, review, share, do all the things for the podcast on both Apple, Spotify, and Instagram, that would be amazing. That would help tremendously with getting the word out and just having more people listen and being a part of this community that we're building. If you are interested in submitting questions for me to answer, or if you're interested in submitting for yourself to be interviewed, I would love that. I have an email address now. It's 15 the number years in la pod at gmail.com. So I'm not sure when I'll see you, but I'll see you when I see you. Bye, guys. Have a good day.