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Middle-Aged Women, Anxiety Over Talking, & A Little Drunk (with Cara Statham Serber)
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What happens when stage mishaps turn into unforgettable theater moments? Join us for an unforgettable episode as we sit down with the phenomenal Cara Statham Serber, to share hilarious backstage stories and explore the vibrant Dallas-Fort Worth theater scene. You'll hear delightful anecdotes involving fellow local talents like Mary Grim and Megan Kelly Bates, along with Cara’s memorable role as Lin in Trailer Park. From the joy of performing to the chaos of unexpected blunders, Cara brings us into the heart of the DFW theater community with humor and charm.
Ever wondered what it’s like to understudy for a powerhouse like Angela Turner Wilson? We dive into the exhilarating highs and nerve-wracking lows of stepping in for other performers, with Cara providing a window into the world of auditions, early theater passions, and unforgettable stage mishaps. Listen as we reminisce about our own performances, imagine dream roles, and share personal stories that highlight the passion and determination required for a career in theater.
Cara doesn't hold back as she recounts her breakthrough in the DFW theater world, from her breakout role in "Down South" with Uptown Players to securing a commercial agent. You'll be entertained by tales of emotional performances, roller-skating incidents, and the incredible camaraderie within the DFW acting community. We wrap up with a light-hearted game, blending laughter and heartfelt reflections on the journey of an actor. This episode is packed with humor, inspiration, and a touch of nostalgia, making it a must-listen for theater enthusiasts and dreamers alike.
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Theater Talk
Speaker 1Hi guys and welcome back to Daniel Does DFW Theater, where we talk about everything theater. I am your host, daniel Hernandez. Today we have an amazing guest with us. I know I say it every single week, but I kind of mean it this week. I know I really mean it this week. Uh, someone that I have just like started making contact with because they are freaking amazing, or should I say fucking amazing. Oh, I know they were nervous we do get to swear.
Speaker 1they were nervous about swearing on the show and I'm leading with the f-bomb so children change the channel, but no so excited. I've seen this person on stage multiple times and finally had the courage to talk to them after one show, and they are amazing. So please help me welcome my guest for this episode, Kara Server, Full name.
Speaker 3Kara Statum, server Statum for us, that is the equity name lovely, great, and pronouns he, she, I'm old okay, I'm old, she her, but I saw that I was thinking the her. But I said he buckle up, kids, we're in for a bumpy ride, all right check a lot of poo bear.
Speaker 1Here we go, okay, piglet oh you obviously haven't seen 16 candles.
Speaker 3Are you tigger, oh?
Speaker 1okay, check a lot of poo there oh, I have okay, it's just been a really long time and I think I was eight. I'm just just be prepared. This whole episode is gonna be that.
Speaker 3Um, no, okay, so pronouncer she heard right good it's a good choice.
Speaker 1I'm just kidding. Just be prepared. This whole episode is going to be that.
Speaker 3No, okay, so pronouns are she her right? Good, it's a good choice.
Speaker 1Amanda's great at picking out our guess. It should have been right before that. I love it. Go at home. When she said should we get Boone's Farm?
Speaker 3Yes, I think we're the same age. Yes, we're the same age. Yes Is yes, I think we're the same age.
Speaker 1Yes, yes, is there a bad answer there?
Speaker 3It's like do they have?
Speaker 1MD 2020? No Great, I love me some peach schnapps. I'm going to have to drink some of that tonight after this episode. So let's talk about Kara for a little bit. I want to backtrack. Just, I saw you in where I got the courage to talk to you, because I've seen you in multiple things, but it was after Trailer Park, because I went to see Mary Grimm. Well, mary Grimm gave tickets for me and my mom because my mom is her number one fan.
Speaker 2I love Mary.
Speaker 1Grimm. Yeah, everybody loves Mary Grimm. Right, she probably doesn't even watch this, but we love you, mary.
Speaker 3Grimm, we love you and you're the best singer in Dallas yeah, I mean valid.
Speaker 1I think your children watch this more than you do, rose is constantly liking stuff.
Speaker 3Max, please tell your mom she's the best singer in Dallas yeah, I think Hans even watches this.
Speaker 1Hi, hans. So the whole family Maddie just love her. Yeah, julia, julia Roberts, grimm, their dog.
Speaker 3I don't know.
Speaker 1Julia Roberts, grimm, her name is Jules, but I named her Julia Roberts Grimm. I'd like to meet her. She's great, but no, I went to see Mary Grimm in Trailer Park at Lyric Stage, and you were in your 45th turn as Lynn.
Speaker 3I think it was 8th. I think it was 8th. Ih, I think it was eighth. Yeah, I'm pretty sure. I mean I could count them, but that wouldn't be interesting. But I think it's about eighth.
Speaker 1I mean you really do just shine in that role, though I think it's that's one of the We've talked about it with multiple guests, like that's the role that you would do for the rest of your life it.
Speaker 3It's just complete trash, which I actually am, and it's screen singing, which I'm not, but then nobody cares if you're doing it well or not in that show, and stupid costumes and stupid fun and lots of f-bombs so, yeah, no, the hair, the hair and the black tattoo that all started at the water tower production.
Speaker 3They used to do a thing called out of the loop at Water Tower. It was kind of like their fringe festival and the first time we did it we did it there and they added the gap. And then I started crimping my hair because you can still buy crimpers. I mean, I was alive when you actually did crimp your hair. Now you just do it in that part of Florida and I would just I do still like jack it up and all this and I did. The first time I did the show was with Patty Breckenridge, who's also. You need to have her on. Oh, she's amazing, patty. Oh, come on Patty. But one day she walked up to me backstage and she held my hair and she goes your hair makes me thirsty Because it just looks so dry and crunchy and so great.
Speaker 1No, and you have it down pat. Like I love it every, like you gave everything actually that whole cast.
Speaker 3Oh so great. I love pam, sweet pam pam is amazing.
Speaker 1Pam and esteban are like the powerhouse couple. They are angels.
Speaker 3Yes, they are really angels and, uh, I'm doing big fish with them oh yes, that's right, she told me, yes, yes I love them and esteban's in the company now at the theater center, love it.
Speaker 1Uh, so just wonderful. But yeah, I love pam. And then I mean, I know megan was part of the production team as well and uh, oh, uh b was in it.
Speaker 3Can I say at this point in the interview, anxiety makes me forget everyone's names, so it will seem like I don't care, I'm just. I like they go away. Like Megan Kelly Bates. When you just said Megan was in there, she is truly one of my best friends in the world. And when you said Megan, I was like, oh God, who's Megan? I mean, I'm sure she so just can.
Speaker 2I just say that now that any show?
Speaker 3we talk about that. I'm in if I say, oh so, and so is in that, and I can't remember. It's not that I'm an ass. I mean, I am an asshole, but I'm not that kind of asshole it's just anxiety, asshole um drink every time Kara curses on the episode.
Speaker 1That's today's drinking game.
Speaker 2Get that bottle over there.
Speaker 3Asshole, asshole. What about when we say fuck, I won the interview, literally, we don't even need to continue.
Speaker 1Yeah, and this is the end Thank you. Thanks so much, thanks so much. Yeah, and don't forget about Florence, was in that show too.
Speaker 3Now you're making me laugh For just a second, I was like and Louie, louie.
Speaker 1Well, that's what Greg Holland goes by now is Louie. Oh well darn. No, I'm kidding, but such a great cast, alina.
Speaker 3Alina shut up. I've never met Alina before that.
Speaker 1We did nonsense together Me, her, Mary Grimm and Megan Kelly Bates, Rachel Poole, Christine Fiala at Irving.
Speaker 3You are making that up. That did not happen, I swear.
Speaker 1I was in that production.
Speaker 2What year?
Speaker 1It was post-COVID, so 2021?.
Speaker 3We were all still in a haze. Were you wearing masks?
Speaker 1I think we had to have masks in rehearsal. Still in a haze, were you wearing masks? Uh, I think we had to have masks in rehearsal In rehearsal, but you didn't have to on stage.
Speaker 3Yeah, no.
Speaker 1And I was called in as a cover swing for any of I had to learn all of their tracks.
Speaker 3That is amazing, I had no idea.
Speaker 1Yeah, michael Sorakia asked me if I would cover because of COVID and he's like we don't know if somebody and I was prepared to cover for everyone except for Mary.
Speaker 3I was like, was she the mother Abbess or whatever? No, no, no Uh.
Speaker 1Megan Kelly dates was mother superior. Uh, Mary played. Uh, the one who can remember stuff, Sister amnesia.
Speaker 3Yes, you.
Speaker 1Mary played sister yeah. Um, and so I that's the only, because she has an operatic, like when she does the the puppet and her. She switches back and forth and I was like Mary, you cannot be out can I do a quick story?
Speaker 3yeah, go for it. So no, this is not. This is it, kara? Shut up, stop talking.
Speaker 1I'm trying to do my agenda here.
Speaker 3I have points to hit okay, so I did the sound of music at the theater center, which was good.
Speaker 1So then, the other thing that I want, that wasn't your story shut up.
Musical Theater Memories and Dreams
Speaker 3Here's more of it. It's gonna. It's so interesting you're just not gonna know what to do. So that was the ninth time I did the sound of music. Um, first time I played sister margaretta. Okay, I was understudying angela turner wilson, who is now the head of the fort worth opera she has performed across the world with.
Speaker 2I mean, I can't see here I'm like I can't even remember all the she's phenomenal.
Speaker 3Okay, first time she'd ever worn a microphone because you don't put a microphone on that woman. I mean, she is a goddess and I had to understudy her and like she needed me she never needed me, but like I knew it and I could have done it, but I would tell her. I'm like okay, I need you to feel secure that I do know the role, I can sing it. However, if you get sick, you just need to visualize me diving into I-35 because no one wants to see me do that. Angela was perfect, so that kind of tied into what you said. No, exactly Right, that's exactly what I told Mary.
Speaker 1I was like you know, but on the flip side when I was under studying sorry, ryan, michael Friedman, and probably I was like you can get sick.
Speaker 2I got this. I got this. I got this.
Speaker 3He did it once and I was like ah, and you went on, yeah, I went on, yay, so I can add that to my list. That is such an amazing thing coming out of COVID is, first of all, that we have understudies, because we've never had understudies before understudies before ever and a skill that people are showing like that's a really incredible thing, to show that you're that reliable, that you're that talented that you can cover that. I mean, that's scarier than anything I've ever had to do you learning all those roles it was wild with tap.
Speaker 1No, what with tap? That sounds terrible. And megan was like do you tap? And I was like sure, I guess, I do now Teach me Megan. Like in my mouth I was like, yeah, like can I get a little finger? Megan would love that actually.
Speaker 3She would have been like yes, that's what we're doing.
Speaker 1Cracked me up, so yeah, so that's the first time I had ever worked with Alina and her is just, I mean, and Santa Padilla, standing on the rooftop shouting her lungs out in that one, they're just number.
Speaker 3I could not believe it and then there was little Ben Ashcraft who played the little, my little psycho crazy kid, and he was perfect yeah, I was honestly scared of him he's insane I thought I was gonna get run over he would come off stage with this testosterone. That was like because he was so amped up, because he was so funny and the audience loved him and I thought he could, like, pull that out of the wall.
Speaker 1He was just so amped, he was really huffing those markers. He really was so good, goodness. Okay so um tell me how Kara started.
Speaker 3I started in Wichita, kansas, wichita, and um, I lived down the street from the artistic director of music theater of Wichita, which is actually a really great regional house where lots of kids in college go and like from OCU and Michigan and do their summers there. And when I was six I was the littlest workhouse boy in Oliver and then after that it was psychotic, like that's all I wanted to do and we had an art section called Lively Arts and every Sunday I'd open it up and be like what can I audition for? And then I'd go and I wouldn't get something and I'd cry and my mom would be like we're done, we're not doing this anymore. And then the next Sunday I was like uh-huh, so do it, and I'm going back here, and so it's just kind of all I did. I did it all through grade school, junior high, high school.
Speaker 2Wow.
Speaker 1I love that so much where you just got bit by the bug Totally and had to keep doing it. I didn't know how not to do it Well and I think at that age you can put up with more like rejection and just move on from it, whereas you know at our age, we get one rejection and then we want to audition for another year.
Speaker 3Everyone hates me. I'm terrible.
Speaker 1Yeah, so we should take a lesson from young Kara and just open up the Living Arts page every week. And I always wanted to be.
Speaker 3Annie and I was never Annie, Like I'm not an Annie.
Speaker 1We can do it now.
Speaker 3Can we do it now? Yeah, I just did it, not just I. Yeah, I just did it, not just I pretend like COVID didn't happen 2019. I did it at Casa and I fell down the stairs. That's a story I didn't put in there.
Speaker 2I did I think.
Speaker 3I know this story should I tell it super fast, I don't know. I was wearing palazzo pants and five, four inch heels.
Speaker 3That way was still in the round was not in the round, um, but my heel got caught in the palazzo pants and I had like five steps left to go down to. So we're going to NYC. So I'm like I've got my coat and I'm hopping down the stairs and my heel got caught and I barrel rolled down four steps. My heel came off and Annie and daddy Warbucks were just and I was like fuck this, we are go. I like put my heel on. I was like NYC, let's go. That did not happen. And then afterwards my mom was there and she's like honey, no one saw. I was like mom, there are 1500 seats there, everyone saw. So anyway, I play Grace, not Annie.
Speaker 1Well, here's the thing. I urge you, DFW, to cast Kira.
Speaker 3Silver, God don't no, stop Cut.
Speaker 1And I will be playing the role of Sandy. I was thinking what's her name? Rooster's girlfriend, what's her name?
Speaker 3Lily St.
Speaker 1Regis. I will be Lily St Regis, okay.
Speaker 3Then I'll be Miss Hannigan with you. Oh, that would be fun.
Speaker 1Yeah, I would love to. I think Rooster would be a fun role one day. Oh, absolutely yeah. But I would love to play, but Annie's just so like nobody wants to do it because it's so many children.
Speaker 3I don't ever want to see it again.
Speaker 2I think I've done it. It's just so many children, because I did play every other orphan, just not Annie, as a kid. I could see it was a pepper.
Breaking Into Dallas Theater World
Speaker 3Yeah, not quite mean enough. Enough now, I wasn't enough really yeah.
Speaker 1And then, uh, what started you in dfw? What was the like start? What was your breakout role in dfw?
Speaker 3it was at down, it was at uptown players and it was called down south and um, this was in 2003 and I auditioned. I moved here in 2000, okay, and auditioned for three years and couldn't get a call back. I remember I did get a call back for the Sound of Music at Casa. I didn't get it and then went to this audition at Uptown and it was a newish script and it was filthy like filthy your type of stuff.
Speaker 3And I present as conservative Baptist but I'm not any of those things. And so after I got the role, craig lynch called me and he's like have you read the script? Because this is filthy. And I was like I have read it and let's fucking go, yeah. So, um, that was it. And then I, it was like it just took one, two, because I was equity when I came here, because I took my card when I was still traveling doing theater in my twenties and it's hard to break. I mean, it's hard to break in anyway, and then with equity, that makes it even harder. But I think once I had shown once that I knew what I was doing, then I started to get cast other places and I got my commercial agent from that show as well, somebody that came to see the show, and that was it to see the show and that was it, 2003, lovely.
Miss Baltimore Crabs
Speaker 1So, um, actually we're going to cut to a segment here, okay, um, speaking of dirty um, because I do want you and auditioning is where I want to go with this next um, so I want to do your little audition cut and something super dirty, okay, and you know, maybe talk about, you know some dirty things. So find out as we head over to the piano and finding, uh, find out if Kara can sing. All right, thanks, see you there. Have you had crabs before? Did?
Speaker 3you know this was that kind of interview.
Speaker 1I mean, it's an anything. I mean anything goes been on several medications, I mean.
Speaker 3I just, I mean.
Speaker 2I've been on several medications. I mean I just had to get the shot in my butt.
Speaker 3I mean are we talking past tense.
Speaker 1Oh goodness, no, I'm crying, no, okay.
Speaker 3Not that there's anything wrong with that. There is nothing wrong with it.
Speaker 1That is your life and you can live it however you want.
Speaker 3And sometimes it just happens, it's not even like you, just whatevs.
Speaker 1Yeah, exactly, yeah, stop it Okay. Yeah, stop it. Okay, so have you played this role before I?
Speaker 3have. I've played it twice. I played it at Casa Manana in 2011. Okay, oh, I did have two babies then. There you go. And then I did it at the Winspear with the Theater Center in 2017?.
Speaker 2Okay, I think Okay cool 18.
Speaker 1Okay. You don't care I do no, he doesn't, he doesn't care.
Speaker 3I don't really, but I think it was later than that.
Speaker 1We're gonna fact check you and it's gonna be right here about whether or not it was those years, nobody cares. And we actually have the pictures from those productions. No, I'm just kidding, we might not. Why, amanda, actually have the pictures from those productions? No, I'm just kidding, we might not. Amanda, my producer will be searching for those later on today. No but yeah, so tell them what you're singing.
Speaker 3So I'm singing the end of Baltimore Crabs, which I will pull out if I have to do like a quick up-tempo callback or a first audition.
Speaker 1Yeah, so can you slate for us?
Speaker 2You've never had to sleep before in your life.
Speaker 1Have you well this is.
Speaker 3This is why because I'm old, because we didn't grow up slaving, we didn't grow up videoing. So like you walked into a room and introduced yourself and then sometimes they'd say what are you singing today? And you'd say and then sometimes you just started singing this whole slate thing. I mean I slayed for commercial, I didn't.
Speaker 1You're like, just shut up, carrot those words do not come out of my mouth, my eyes may say it.
Speaker 3So where am I slating? We have to. Uh, why don't you go to your camera right there? Hi see, I don't even know if I could use my full equity name when I slate, because if I'm slating for commercials, I would say Kara Server. I guess equity name, I would say Kara Statum Server. Look at this face. I know right now we're going Hi, I'm Kara Statum Server and I will be singing a cut from Miss Baltimore Crabbs, baltimore Crabs. And so, my dear, so short and stout, you'll never be in. So we're kicking you out With your phone in your face. Well, it isn't your fault, you're just caught with a case of Miss Baltimore Crabs. Tempor CRABZ, zuh Zuh, zuh-zuh-zuh.
Speaker 2Cha-cha-cha. Yeah, I was like and we're back, hi guys, hey.
Speaker 3Um, we're just checking for crabs.
Speaker 1Special skill Um, Kara is gonna put this on her resume.
Speaker 3I'm gonna continue to work, I'll take one for you. I can't do it.
Speaker 1I'm gonna continue to work. No, um, so great uh, you can sing.
Speaker 3I mean, I am a uh, I'm a serviceable singer like I in my head. I was like like I don't, oh, I don't oh. There it is Just to get it lingered. Boom, got it. I know that I like I am very okay with where I fall into things. Like I know that I am not Mary Grimm, I know that there are people with extraordinary voices in town and I have a good voice, but I bring other things to the table, so I'm really okay with that. I mean, I'm fine.
Speaker 1Yeah, no, I think that. So I did not get a chance, and I'm going to talk about the show in just a little bit, but I didn't get a chance to see you in next to normal, which I heard was phenomenal. I mean, you extended everything right, Didn't y'all move to another venue as well?
Speaker 3That was part of it. I mean, we knew we were going to do that, but yes, we went to another venue, just so great.
Speaker 1But I mean the stuff that I have seen you in. Like I saw you in the Christmas show and you really didn't have any big feature features. Like you had a tiny little song, yeah, Remember.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's super simple.
Speaker 1Nothing really big. And then as a Lynn yeah, you're not really singing, singing.
Speaker 3In my 20s when I did all ingenue roles, then I was singing. I mean, that's where my training was was in just lyric soprano singing. Then I moved to Dallas and in my 30s everyone wanted me to be funny and belt and I'm not a belter, but I just kind of bullshit my way through stuff.
Speaker 1No, you can do it, but that's actually so much more fun.
Speaker 3You just belted out crabs, I mean, you know it's fine, it's like but I just I know that I never want to take away from someone like Mary, or I mean I can name five other women who are Go ahead. No, you know, I don't know. You said you can name, I can see their faces. Did y'all hear it?
Speaker 1She here, I'll just I can name five.
Speaker 3Come back to me in ten minutes when you're not looking at me, and then I'll be able to remember. But, no, the terrible thing, but there are extraordinary singers in town who are so well-trained. I mean, my degree is in theater with an emphasis in music. It's not, I don't have a music degree, but I'm super comfortable with that.
Speaker 1Like I'm not being like, oh, I'm terrible, I'm just, I'm fine with what it is. Yeah, no, it's just funny to me that. It's just funny to me that, yeah, no, because you, shannon, was the same exact way, right when she's. Like I don't sing, but I've heard Shannon sing as well. Yes, she sings.
Speaker 2Yes.
Speaker 1Yes, and I'm like y'all are singers.
Speaker 3I mean I would, if someone asked me, I would say yes, I'm a singer. I would say that With qualifications.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's like me saying I'm a mover.
Speaker 3I would not say that about myself.
Speaker 2No, well, yes, I'm a mover, I'm a poser.
Speaker 3In both ways. Poser, and like Megan Kelly Bates and Paula Moreland, may she rest in peace. Who just passed said that I am an extraordinary beveler and I can move as if I am a dancer. I'm not Just put really pretty people around me dancing and that's it.
Speaker 1I'm really good at beveling too, yeah, so much so I was yelled at to stop because I was playing a straight man.
Speaker 3Oh, take the note, not take the note.
Speaker 1Goodness, I did take the note.
Speaker 3Who gave the note? Steve Morris, okay, from Steve. That's funny. Could Steve take the note?
Speaker 1Definitely not I think I was going to kick up his leg when he kissed the girl Can can.
Emotional Rollercoaster of Musical Theater
Speaker 1No, because I was playing Dwayne in 9 to 5. And we were like center stage, me and the dolly what is her name? Dora Lee, and like we turned to each other and of course, my leg just beveled. It just beveled and like literally stops rehearsal and he's like you're straight, don't bevel. Literally stops her hair and he's like you're straight, don't bevel. Okay, I respect your style. All right, thank you so much. Thanks, I will remember not to bevel anymore. No, um, but back to uh, next to normal. Tell me your process, because that is such a difficult I can't imagine doing it. I mean, let alone for what? Three weeks or four weeks, that y'all did it.
Speaker 3We ran it four and then another week after that.
Speaker 1But imagine doing that every single night.
Speaker 3It was really uh, cathartic in an almost easy way, okay, um, my, my life history kind of lends itself. My daughter had stage four cancer. She's fine now, she's getting ready to go to college, like we made it through that. But it makes a lot of those types of emotions super accessible, okay, um, because even when you're past that stuff it's I always say, it's just like sitting just under, it's like on that second layer of skin, because you can go back to that moment at any time. And so I always said, you know, just barely touch it and it's there, and so, and the cast was incredible and, um, we did it in at theater three, which is a really intimate setting, so, like when Uptown Player did it, patty Breckenridge played it and Patty has a huge voice and so it was like the broadway show. It was like a rock version of it was perfect.
Speaker 3I have a smaller voice and I'm more of like a storyteller, storyteller, singer like I'm. I'm doing it as a, not that everybody has to do that, but that's like how I take on. A song is it's a monologue and um, it was almost claustrophobic for the people in the audience because it was like they were looking down into our house but couldn't leave, and so people who saw both productions because I loved that production said it was so different because we just handled it in such different ways. I loved it. I could have done it forever. Really, it was amazing. I doubt I'll ever get to do it again, but I would do it in a heartbeat no, there are just so many roles like that that I mean your dream role, right?
Speaker 3Did I say it? Yeah, okay, it's Heidi in Dear Evan Hansen, the mom I have to give the qualification of again 10 women in town who it's also their dream role. So like we have a lot of good people in this town that can play it, but I'd like to throw my name in if it ever comes here.
Speaker 1Yeah, no, I think that still is just the emotional rollercoaster of that role, and that song at the end is just and as a mom of a teenager two teenagers again, that's also accessible because we're living it every day.
Speaker 3Everything she says in that song is what we live through with our kids, whether they've gone through something that traumatic or not. It's all kind of easy to hit. I just remember that was just such an emotional moment.
Speaker 1Well, I mean, don't get me wrong, that act one closer he will be found as just. I hate that they put it there too, because the lights come up and everybody's just sobbing.
Speaker 3Yes, I saw it twice. I went the first time. I bought my ticket and a week before Ben announced that he was going to be on vacation, I was like, but I did get to see Rachel Bay Jones. Then I sold a couple organs and went back his closing week and saw him because he's, he's unbelievable, yeah, unbelievable.
Speaker 1So great, I just but that role is just so much.
Speaker 3And then I, I remember specifically, like hearing her song was just the second moment in the show and she's one of those actors that makes me feel okay about the way I approach things, because she doesn't sound pretty in that song on Broadway.
Speaker 3She sounds beautiful on the recording, in the studio, but on stage she's just feeling it and that's what I, as an actor and as a an audience member, I want to feel it. If it's the prettiest notes in the world, I don't care, I want to, and she just, oh, she just rips your heart out and it's not pretty.
Speaker 1I think they've said multiple times that like that whole cast like does therapy and stuff like that, because they have to write for what they really dig into in that I can't. Imagine exactly, um, and then you've already closed this show by the time that we've released this in July. But another role. That is just funny. You really do all these hard hitting roles, but Malin.
Speaker 3Yeah, which I had. Steve had asked Shannon and I to do the show. We didn't know who would be doing Malin and who would be doing Truby, and my first thought was people have seen me cry this year Like, let's see, let's see Shannon cry. But Steve, because of Next to Normal he said this on Theater Arlington's Facebook live because of that he wanted me to do Malin. And it's that same kind of thing.
Speaker 3It's very accessible to me because being with your daughter in the hospital and hearing the beeps and all of that like, and my um, my dad died during the run of steel magnolias and we sat with him the day that he died and it was, um, just very accessible. In fact, in our run my dad passed, shannon's mom passed and olivia's grandmother passed, all in one week. And so we're like don't sit on this side of the dressing room because things don't go well, but it's made it super emotional, but in the best way, like it doesn't feel overwhelming or anything like that. And then it was also a challenge because I grew up on the movie and I know every line of it and no one wants to see someone do a bad impersonation of Sally Field, and so I just kind of had to forget that I'd seen any of that, and just because that is iconic, I mean it really is.
Speaker 3Everybody knows that speech and every I mean, and she throws her little Sally Field things into it that aren't in the actual monologue, and so it's like you almost have to make the decision that it's not going to have anything to do with what I'm doing. I have to go this way with it, and it turned out pretty well. I mean, it was a good experience, and getting to be with Shannon was. I'll do anything with Shannon.
Speaker 1No, I had heard from Maria. She's like this cast has been through it. She's like this cast has been through it. She's like it really has been. You know, but it she goes. Unfortunately, it also makes for a really good show. She's like it's really heightens everybody's.
Speaker 3You know everybody. Really, you can feel the care for each other like we. There's a lot of hand holding and touching each other and it feels very genuine. There's nothing put upon, like we all just really care for each other, and it feels very supported.
Speaker 1Oh, that makes my heart so happy. Yeah, just, and that's the kind of show that you can do that in, absolutely right.
Speaker 3I mean, you can do it in the comedy shows too, because you find the laughter in that right, and so but it is so genuine and the what you just said is true as well, like the laughter, is very genuine as well. It feels it doesn't feel put upon in any way.
Speaker 1I love that and you have such a wonderful, or had such a wonderful cast. I know we're recording this as you're doing the show right now, but I mean, I love Myesha as well.
Speaker 3I didn't know her before this. She's wonderful so great. Camry is new. It's her second show that she's ever done. Cheryl is a Theater Arlington institution. I think she did the second show that Theater Arlington ever did.
Speaker 1I know she was on Breaking Bad.
Speaker 3And I think she had a cable. I think she said it was a cable access show For like 13 years in Theater Arlington In Arlington, cable access? Well, we'll have to ask her. She said it was mostly cooking shows, naked cooking. Let's ask Cheryll.
Speaker 1Cheryl, come on hop on put in the comments, cheryl, if you were naked while cooking, no, um, okay. So, um, speaking of getting naked, are you ready to get naked? Oh shit, it's about bedtime, so we're going to move on to your full song that you're going to sing for us, okay, and I'm going to sit down at the piano and hopefully play it correctly.
Speaker 3Okay, why am I singing it? Because, because no one would ever have me sing this song now, so that's why I'm singing it again.
Goodnight My Someone
Speaker 1We're going to find out because you might, after you hear it. We'll see. You know, I think you could still play this well, seven did yeah I'm a little older than seven not a lot
Speaker 2y'all are the same age.
Speaker 1What is this much? Maybe like a year and a half, okay, five, oh no, I think we're in the same decade okay, then that's fair. Yeah, no, I think we're in the same decade. Okay, then that's fair. You're right? Yeah, no, I think this song is beautiful, no matter who sings it, and I know that you will sing it beautifully, thank you.
Speaker 3I played it in high school a couple times and then I played it in Grown.
Speaker 1Up.
Speaker 3World a couple times. A couple times, yeah, a theater in Indianapolis when I was 20-something and then I played at a water tower, oh, wow, and sometimes I don't remember dates, but I think I had two kids. Then that's when I gauge everything, like how many kids I had.
Speaker 1I think I had two babies then that's how I gauge everything too Really yeah by how many kids you have no, okay, so tell the people what you're singing today.
Speaker 3So so tell the people what you're singing today. So I'm singing Goodnight. My Someone Pretend that I am 22.
Speaker 2A lot of pretending I don't know.
Speaker 3Goodnight, my someone good night my love Sleep tight my someone sleep tight, my love.
Speaker 2Our star is shining its brightest light. For good night, my love for good night my someone.
Speaker 3Good night. I don't breathe at the end, that's fine. I don't sing it anymore, it's fine.
Speaker 1I mean, they're already asleep at that point.
Speaker 3Exactly, it's the bathroom song. All my 20s ingenues. You see the people stand up and go to the bathroom while you're singing. So you really, as long as you get the beginning, well, they might not be back at the end.
Speaker 1I mean, so hopefully y'all are still watching the podcast If you're in the bathroom now's your chance to come back, and we're about to get back Ballad's over. See you back at the couch, hey guys. So hopefully you're back from the bathroom. If not, please make your way to your seats. Or maybe you took your headphones into the bathroom with you. Sometimes I do that because why?
Speaker 2Take your headphones into.
Speaker 1So I don't have to hear the noise when you're in a theater. Oh, I meant to the bathroom, just in general. Yeah, oh, um, I'm gonna get you with this. Um, I hope that while you were in the bathroom if you did have to go number two that you used Poopery and saw the commercial featuring our very own KRS server that we're going to show right here. Here's a picture.
Speaker 2Yay.
Speaker 1How Words hold on really quickly Okay words, I get it. Did it pay really well.
Speaker 3Not well enough.
Speaker 1No.
Speaker 3I mean it was fine, it was not. It wasn't like it was super low day rate, Okay okay, but for the usage that it got and how it will be. The only thing anyone really ever remembers about me is that I was in this Poo-Pourri commercial. I feel like I should have been paid a little bit more, but Do you still see it out there?
Speaker 1sometimes it shows on like banner ads ads or access exactly and cheryl um, but it will.
Speaker 3People will just send it to you. Do you remember when um biden won and um, everybody did the bernie in the chair? Yes, then megan kelly bates did my poopery ad with bernie in the chair next to it, Like it just keeps coming up, so it's fine. There's worse things.
Speaker 1Are there any other commercials that you've done or anything else that we would know you from?
Speaker 3Not that you'd know me from, but like I did, Barney, I did Did you do Barney as well.
Speaker 1I did. I didn't know that, like I knew Shannon did it, but I didn't know you were a Barney person as well.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, I sing with Barney and push around a little baby cart that didn't have a baby in it, but we pretended it did. Barney passed out on the set that day we had to hold because he passed out and we had to wait three hours for him to go. They don't want any of the kids to know that he's not really a dinosaur, so you have to clear the set first. It was a mess. Yeah, so you have to clear the set for the mess. Yeah, so I did Barney, I did Prison Break, um, and then I've done a bunch of just regular commercials because that's like how you pay the bills for the day, because theater, you know doesn't sorry, it doesn't obviously yeah, no so don't get your BFA or get it, get it, get it and double major yeah or get another job with it.
Speaker 1But um here to dash. Stamp out your dreams so, speaking of um shitting, um, uh sorry, I was looking out I'm laughing as well.
Speaker 3Not only that no, I saw your eyeline did you see?
Speaker 1okay, because come on in, have some fun. Yeah, I was like it'll be great, we are recording live. Come in, come in I've already talked about you I've already talked about you like this is about kara and sh Shannon.
Speaker 3Okay, well, this is our show. Get up, get here. Oh my, okay, here we go. What are we doing? Can you do this? Here we go, cast us forever, all of us. Yeah, this is it well.
Speaker 1I'm sorry, I don't have a job anymore but oh my god, this is the girl.
Speaker 3why are you here? Because I was doing a TikTok. Bye, alright, bye guys.
Speaker 1Special guest appearance by Shannon McGrann. Do you know what makes me so happy? As soon as I saw her in the window, I was like I didn't know.
Speaker 3That's what you saw. I saw your eye line hit something and I didn't know it was not a straight eye.
Speaker 1That was hilarious. Yeah, you get a two for one y'all this time, so you're welcome um, I was like speaking of shit. I can't wait for her to hear that part she's gonna be like thanks, thanks, um, no, uh. So that's probably my biggest mishap in do not as dfw is that moment. Your biggest mishap was in Mary Poppins yes, it actually happened twice.
Speaker 3I flew at the end she flies out at the end of act one and one time when I was doing it, there was a hole. No, that's not a hole, what's a hole? I?
Speaker 1can tell you that much.
Speaker 3I'm not too it uh, she's had a glass of wine and no food. Um I, there was a knot in the rope.
Speaker 1Wow, that's different from hole, different from hole.
Speaker 3See, we have to edit. Now it's time to edit any who's all. So there's a big knot in the road, and that it was. I don't understand how all that kind of thing works, but there were people backstage doing this and then they would release.
Speaker 1We can't hang out, can we?
Speaker 3I mean not in front of places where we're supposed to be well behaved, okay. Um, when, no, I don't even know how to tell a story without being dirty. But no kidding, I mean not in front of places where we're supposed to be well-behaved Okay. Now.
Speaker 1I don't even know how to tell a story without being dirty. Now I'm going to close my eyes and picture it so what were they doing again?
Speaker 3Okay so backstage, they pulled up and then, once I was up, there was some sort of release.
Speaker 2But it didn't release.
Speaker 1I don't know what to do, like I don't know how to not make, but it was good enough. It was good I was not, but it just wouldn't release what I was, just a lot to drink anyway, I'm up above the audience and I just I'm on top.
Speaker 3I can turn anything sexual I love it Okay, and I just hung there Like I didn't and it was hung, and it was hung and it was well hung. I was well hung and it felt like forever.
Speaker 1And then they released it. That's when you just got to push your heels to Jesus.
Speaker 3And then I just shot like a rocket to the stage manager's booth. It was like all of that that was built up just shot me to the stage manager's booth and that has never been told as a filthy story before. Wow, there we go, yeah.
Speaker 1I now want to start a new segment called Filthy.
Speaker 3Stories with Kira, where we turn every single story into a filthy story.
DFW Theater Community and Roller Skates
Speaker 1I can really get it. Yeah, no, yeah, you do. It was a good setup. Thank you, I appreciate that.
Speaker 3The other one I almost got decapitated. That's not I mean. I guess some people are, but she was giving head. It's really more of like the auto-erotic. It's really more of like the auto-erotic Asphyxiation. So they hooked me into what's this called A harness A harness.
Speaker 1She was wearing a harness, I was wearing a harness.
Speaker 3God, there's no way to tell these stories. Okay, they hooked the harness opposite, so it was crossed. So as they raised it it went up to my neck and I had to move my head under so I would flip. But then I went backwards to the stage manager's booth because she had to reverse cowgirl.
Speaker 1That's it so you learn something new every time you listen to this podcast cheers we're going to release the Dano. Does DFW con? This, okay, involves the harness and Mary Poppins. What would we call that one?
Speaker 2We're going to release the Deanna Does DFW.
Speaker 1Comma suit Okay, it involves the harness and Mary Poppins yeah, what would we call that one? Poles and not, on a more lighter note, backing away from sexual conversations Okay, but intense conversations. Something I did want to talk about and bring back up was just that community that you were saying that you have. I mean, we saw Shannon herself right, and how important that is for you.
Speaker 3I love the women. I mean I love all the women in DFW. But the women in my generation we all audition together all the time, and probably in another market I wouldn't be you also I don't want to say up against, but I can't think of another phrase to use but like Sarah Gay, mary Grimm, like we're not really the same type, but it's a small enough pool in DFW that I see the same women at all auditions Shannon and I all it's all the Collins sisters. Like you know, we're all there together and we really love each other and we really root for each other together and we really love each other and we really root for each other.
Speaker 3I mean, it is a true admiration for each other and when we go we're like I hope you get it and we mean it. I mean like we, because we know you really need the weeks right now, or you really need the work, or you're going through a hard time, and we respect each other's talent so much and I just kind of I wish everybody had that experience, because we're not carrying cancer like you know, we're just doing skits and the friendships to me are the most important and the support kind of no.
Speaker 1I think that is so valid and real where? And I've seen it a lot the fact that y'all are all so close, whereas I feel in other areas it is more cutthroat, right yeah, and it's a bit more.
Speaker 3Not very nice yeah.
Speaker 1Even with some of our younger people here in DFW it can be a little, you know, touch and go and that may just be something.
Speaker 3As you get older you realize that it's just not all that important. I mean, it's art and we're doing important things, but not if you're going to hurt somebody in the process. And that's my kind of thing across the board. I only want to work with nice people, kind people. So why do you work with Shannon? She's the nicest. Why do you work with yourself? I'm not the nicest, I'm kind, I am. I may not always be nice. You're kind of Kind of, kind of a bitch, kira Kira, kira, kira, kira Kira.
Speaker 1You need to get some self-awareness because that's who you should play one day, kira, and.
Speaker 3Xanadu no she roller skates.
Speaker 1Do you not roller skate?
Speaker 3I did when I was eight.
Speaker 1Well, you're going to be really sad about this next segment.
Speaker 3Do I have to roller skate?
Speaker 1Yeah, we have a pair of rollerskates, can.
Speaker 3Shannon hear them? Can Shannon roller skate?
Speaker 1we're going to find out can you imagine just the two of y'all?
Speaker 3do you remember when you used to go in the circles?
Speaker 1no, we don't roller skate with your little skirt on no, I do not roller skate. I can tell you that I tried roller skating when I was younger. I just don't have the equilibrium, do not roller skate. I can tell you that I tried roller skating when I was younger. I just don't have the equilibrium.
Speaker 3Do you roller blade? Because I could never do. No, no, no, I could get the four going. No, not at all.
Speaker 1No, to the point that, like I think I was like 13 and I went to one of my little cousin's birthday parties and she was, like, come and roller skate with us. This bitch out with a skate buddy like the little thing 13 years old, and I may have even been older than that and there's still pictures.
Speaker 3I say, please tell me someone.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, my family still has the photos of me with the skate buddy just like I didn't even know there was a yeah and me telling them like. Can you tighten the wheels?
Speaker 3because, no of my roller skates. Wouldn't that make them not move?
Speaker 1yeah, so that you're more just walking out there instead of like so that's my life, okay so we're not doing xanadu is what I'm here. We are not unless we have fake skates or something like Kimberly and Kimbo. What were they really skating? I don't know.
Speaker 3I didn't get to see it.
Speaker 1You would also like in like 20 years, you would kill in that role. Yeah, you're still too young for it, cause I think she's supposed to look like 60 or 70.
Speaker 2Yeah, so I'm 30.
Speaker 1So like, because that one also. It's very like what did you say?
Speaker 3I'm 30 there we go.
Speaker 1I was trying to give you an opportunity to make fun of me, you're not 30, you're 30 plus, you're 30 plus we've had too much wine, obviously, and I had lunch today. It's just no food here. Well, there we go. Um, oh so Kimberly, that like she sings pretty sometimes, but it's also like raw, but it's also like it's also like like she gives you all the emotion and everything that she sings as well, and so like one day like that's what I love you you need to do like if it ever becomes available I, yeah, you need to do it for sure.
Speaker 1Let's tell jeff and craig, jeff, craig. Come on, kimberly akimbo, let's do it and it it is, um, uh, just close, legitimate to qua friendly.
Speaker 2Oh, it is Legitiqua friendly.
Speaker 3Oh, just took me a second.
Speaker 1Legitiqua. I'm with you now?
Speaker 3Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1Yeah, it is. It is Legitiqua friendly. So okay, we were. They're telling us shut up.
Speaker 3They're like do not have this bitch back. She never shuts up. No, no, she doesn't.
Speaker 1I think every. It's now the Daniel and Kara show. I'm drunk, obviously, because I'm telling her to be on every show. It's whoever can get their legs up. Okay, so where can they follow you, kara? Do you do social media?
Speaker 3Instagram. I'm so old I mean, yes, I'm in. I'm in the Instagrams.
Speaker 1She's in the Instagrams.
Speaker 3She's at Kara, I'm on. I think it's Karastatum2023.
Speaker 1Follow her there.
Speaker 3I don't know.
Speaker 1She might even have a website that we can go Nope she doesn't have a website.
Speaker 3I think my agency has a website.
Speaker 1She is with the Mary Collins agency, mary.
Speaker 3Collins agency. I am the worst self-promoter in all of ever.
Speaker 1Well, because you don't audition. Yeah, I do I have?
Speaker 3Facebook. I have a MySpace. I don't.
Speaker 2You did I used to have a You'd so be in my top eight.
Speaker 1Oh my God, You'd be in my top eight. Oh, oh my God, you'd be in my top eight too. Oh my God, oh my God.
Speaker 2No, okay, so we have one more segment.
Speaker 1But before we go, I'm going to plug our socials so that we can close out this, so please make sure you are following us at DanielDoesDFW, that's, on Instagram, facebook, all the social medias. Hopefully you're watching this on YouTube today so that you can see all the silly faces that Kara has made, and you saw her legs up in the air. That was a great shot. I'm probably going to save it for something. And then you're listening on wherever you get your podcasts, whether it's Apple Podcasts, spotify, google, et cetera all of the above for our audio content. So please make sure you're paying attention, you're following all of the above and you stick around to see our next segment of fun where we play a game together.
Speaker 3Thank you for joining me today. Kira, Thank you for having me. This is a blast. I had tons of fun and you need to come back.
Speaker 1So we'll see you. Bye y'all.
Speaker 2Kira.
Speaker 3I feel, like I need to get ready. I've got to put my shoe in. Yeah, that's fine, I'm scared.
Speaker 1We're going to play a very intense game. Okay, okay, it's called Go ahead.
Speaker 2As it should be. Honestly, Go ahead as it should be.
Speaker 1So, before we get into the game, though I did want to talk about. So this game is all about roles that kara has played, um, but speaking of roles that you have played, you have a couple shows that are coming up that we didn't get to plug in the original segment. Um, right now you are doing the prom. The prom, yes, which so amazing, so excited.
Speaker 3Yeah, I love that show so much. Megan kelly bates and I saw it on Broadway and then the movie came out during COVID and so I'm super excited about that. So doing that, and then I'm doing Big Fish at Theater Arlington and then I'm always sure that that's the last time I'm ever going to work again. Like then everyone's going to figure out, I have no idea what I'm doing and I'm going to become a paralegal. Everyone's going to figure out.
Character Quote Guessing Game
Speaker 1I have no idea what I'm doing and I'm going to become a paralegal. Well, there we go. Yeah, let's get you a paralegal. So what we've done is we've compiled a list of quotes from famous roles that you have played. So I'm going to read off a quote from a character and, off your very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very long resume, you're going to have to select which character. It's not a multiple choice by the way it's not.
Speaker 1Nope, it's a you're going to have to pull it out of your ass. Oh, okay, all right, I think I'm just. Should I just go in order here, or okay, I really don't think you're the right man for me. You're much too independent and I need someone who needs me desperately, or at least needs my money desperately. I've never heard those words before we're off to a great start.
Speaker 3I've never heard those words before. Seriously, yes, I mean, I'm not kidding. I have no idea what you're talking about now I'll give you show options.
Speaker 1How about that?
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1Steel Magnolias Next to Norma Normal.
Speaker 2Norma.
Speaker 1Glad you took the one because Next to Norma, Part two. Yeah or the sequel, or the Sound of Music.
Speaker 3Is that in the oh? Is that Elsa in the Sound of Music? Yes, no, but never, never would have.
Speaker 1You're like I never said those lines.
Speaker 3Well, I didn't say it, Maybe in the script, but I didn't say it.
Speaker 1Drink.
Speaker 3Drink Goodness.
Speaker 1Okay, all right, here's the next one. Okay, sweetheart, what are you doing in my electricity?
Speaker 3That's next to Norma. Yes, yes, how did you remember that one? That's next to Norma.
Speaker 1Yes, how did you remember that?
Speaker 3one, because I fucked that scene so many times I couldn't ever get the lyrics at top of two, and my castmates were down below, specifically Ian Ferguson, who had glasses on, who would look up at me and laugh because I would biff those lyrics every night. So I think I have some trauma associated that those were the first words I said after I biffed the lyrics.
Speaker 1It was trauma. There you go. Trauma always helps us. It really does. All right, now let me at that zit.
Speaker 3Oh, velma von Tessel, there you go.
Speaker 1From Peer Spray Way to go. And you said you played that twice. We were talking about it earlier. You sang us Little Diddy. Yeah, I feel like that would be just a fun role.
Speaker 3I want to do it forever, there's like three of those that I just want to do the one in Mamma Mia that sings the slutty song. I played that once Tanya. Yeah, there's like three of those I just like to do in rotation. They have great songs, two scenes.
Speaker 1She wants to do three in rotation. Taking applications, taking applications.
Speaker 3Everybody knows, entertainment ain't entertainment unless it takes place on ice. Everybody knows, entertainment ain't entertainment. Unless it takes place on ice, it's Lynn, lynn.
Speaker 1Yes, when she's talking about the ass.
Speaker 2Everybody knows yes.
Speaker 1I love that whole like tickets to ice to make. I think that's such a funny way that that's how she's going to get out.
Speaker 3It's so ridiculous that that is like the dream that will propel her out of the home, out of her agoraphobia.
Speaker 1That's why she wants to get out of the house. So bad that honestly made it for me.
Speaker 3I was like this is how I know.
Speaker 2I'm going to love the show this is it because the eyes can be.
Speaker 1You're doing pretty good. You've gotten three back to back.
Speaker 3This may be the hardest one. That first one was hard.
Speaker 1I mean, you're used to a hard one, All right. So the sanctuary looks like it's been hosed down by Pepto-Bismol.
Speaker 3That is still Magnolia's Malin. Yeah, I was hoping you'd know that one. Yeah, I hope I still remember that one.
Speaker 1Because you have to play it tonight. Can you imagine, imagine if you mess with that one tonight, like it's?
Speaker 2been hosed down by my lanta.
Speaker 1It's been really pink. Yeah, you say like the wrong medication, et cetera. What?
Speaker 3Get her out. She's had enough.
Speaker 1Goodness. No, hey, I was really proud. You did four out of five of them, correct, is that?
Speaker 3it, did I get it.
Speaker 1Yeah, you got it.
Speaker 3That wasn't terrible right, you won the prize, but you also stayed within, like the last year, so thank you.
Speaker 1Yeah, well, we wanted to make it easy for you so you didn't look stupid.
Speaker 3Well, that's hard to do. I know and it still didn't work. It is it yeah do you still have to hold up?
Speaker 1yeah, what is it? I really don't think you're the right man for me. You're much too independent and I need someone who needs me desperately no, that is in the movie it's not in the show. Oh well, that's we flubbed way to go, producer.
Speaker 3No, no no, no, I didn't mean to call anybody out, I was just saying. I just know that I haven't said those words what words did you say? Is also. I don't know. I just know they weren't those. But I remember watching the movie and thinking you don't say that on stage. So you remember that yeah, but what's my name? I'm sorry you are.
Speaker 2Exactly.
Speaker 1No, and then before we completely check out for the day, I was going to say the evening, before we completely check out, I checked out. Before.
Speaker 2Norman and I go Before Norman and I Before Norman and I Somewhere else.
Speaker 3You said that you have done other projects as well. Seth Rudetsky and his husband, james, are friends because I did Disaster at Uptown Players. Well, they're more than friends. Well, they're my friends. There we go, they're my friends, they're more than friends, they are married and, um, I did disaster at uptown and then I had known james before because he lived here, and then uh became friendly with them again and uh produced for them during uh covid, when they did stars in the house and they did a vote-a-thon the day of the election, and I worked with Annette Bening and Martin Short and they're on the phone with me, which doesn't make me fancy because I'm the lowest on that totem pole, but it was really fun and it let me know that there's another side of what I like to do in this business.
Speaker 3So I'm kind of looking at that and so I still help them with some things and then I'm hoping to work with them in the future because seth is he's pretty great, amazing. James is one of my dearest, dearest friends. We're going to try to be on the amazing race together.
Speaker 1Don't tell lon barrera well, lon, you heard it here first. I'm so sorry you were not selected. This is your pit stop on the amazing race sorry, can you put me on broadway? For real. Did you remember all your words with lawn?
Speaker 3I'm sorry, who's lawn I love?
Speaker 1you, I love you long time we need to stop we do. This is the end of the episode so, as much as you want to hear us, continue to talk. This is unfortunately the end of the episode, so thanks again, kara. It's the best time ever, the blast and she drank all of our wine so we're out for the rest of the year, but we'll see you next time. Thank you so much. Bye.
