1000th Episode + Monica Barbaro Interview

Summary

Chicks in the Office 1000th Episode + Monica Barbaro Interview

Date: July 29, 2026
Hosts: Rhea & Fran (Barstool Sports)
Special Guest: Monica Barbaro

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Episode Overview

Chicks in the Office celebrates its monumental 1000th episode with high energy, lots of emotion, nostalgia, and a special in-studio interview with actress Monica Barbaro. The episode features a heartfelt toast, a video montage of congratulations from friends and celebrities, deep reflections on the show's journey, funny behind-the-scenes insights, and an engaging conversation with Monica about her career and her new film “One Night Only.”

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Celebrating 1000 Episodes: Reflections and Milestones

• Opening Celebration (01:05–04:44):
  • The team celebrates with confetti, champagne, and jokes about the “underwhelming” confetti poppers.
  • Fran gives an emotional toast, highlighting their journey from SiriusXM to podcasting milestones, and expressing gratitude to listeners and each team member.
    • Quote:

      "Here's a toast to our 1000th episode... The amount of stories, memories, journeys we've been on, all the highs, not a lot of lows. This podcast has only gone up and up, and I can't wait to see what we do in the future." – Fran (04:47)

• Surprise Video Montage (05:00–23:00):
  • Features shoutouts and messages from former and notable guests, friends, celebrities like Andy Cohen, Glenn Powell, Drew Barrymore, and Bachelor Nation favorites.
  • The montage makes both hosts emotional, even joking it “feels like we're dead.”
    • Quote:

      "It kind of kind of feels like we're dead. Kind of feels like we're dead." – Rhea (22:56)

• Nostalgic Reflection (25:45–40:00):
  • Fran and Rhea reminisce about growing up on the show ("our entire 20s were this show"), iconic guests, missed opportunities (notably the Jonas Brothers not sending a video), behind-the-scenes memories, and absurd/funny off-camera stories.

2. The Team and Audience: Core of the Show

• Acknowledgment of Team (38:31–40:32):
  • Shoutouts to Noah, Sarah, Maddie, and the extended production team for their hard work, reliability, and dedication.
    • Quote:

      "Noah, he really does this show's literally nothing without Noah. He has been here from the beginning. He's worked his ass off. He has been available 24/7." – Rhea (38:46)

• Listener Community (37:32–39:00):
  • Deep appreciation for the podcast community, long-time listeners, and the support system that has enabled the show to thrive and surpass a thousand episodes.
    • Quote:

      "Once again, thank you to our listeners who are the reason we were able to do a thousand episodes. Because if you don't listen to the show, then the show ends. And that is not the case." – Fran (33:17)

3. Personal Anecdotes & Inside Jokes

• Running Bits & Guest Tales (26:53–29:46):
  • Stories about guests like Howie Mandel, Glenn Powell, the Bachelor Nation crew, and podcast inside jokes ("Octopus Love," “Jonas Con,” etc.).
• Eventful Off-Camera Moments (30:00–36:07):
  • Rhea and Fran discuss journaling, memorable guest experiences (good and bad), and the challenges of remembering every funny or poignant moment.
• Jonas Brothers Snafu (31:53–34:00, 47:23–49:10):
  • Several lighthearted jabs at the Jonas Brothers for not sending a congratulatory video, turning their absence into a running joke.

4. Looking Back and Ahead: Favorite Memories, The Show’s Evolution

• Favorite Moments (35:43–36:48):
  • Hard to pick a top three, but highlights include Fiji trip, JonasCon, Bachelor recaps, red carpets, and surprise interviews.
• Yearly Growth (36:36–37:00):
  • The hosts reflect on how each year seems impossible to top, yet they keep exceeding their own expectations.
    • Quote:

      "I do this every single year. I get nervous for the year, and then it somehow tops the year before." – Fran (36:36)

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Monica Barbaro Interview (50:56–End)

Monica’s New Film: One Night Only

• Excitement for the Movie (51:13–51:46):
  • Monica discusses her enthusiasm for the film, highlighting its absurdist premise and desire for people to have a fun, cathartic experience at the movies, especially in the summer.
• Absurd Premise & Relatability (51:57–54:16):
  • The plot: a world where premarital sex is government-regulated and only allowed one night a year.
  • Monica recounts her reaction upon hearing the pitch and why she was intrigued.

On-Set Dynamics and Banter

• Working with Callum Turner (55:57–56:57):
  • First time meeting on set, instant rapport, and fun collaborative energy.
  • Monica notes the importance of safety and freedom to try comedic takes, even if they fall flat.
• Tonal Direction (53:01–53:43):
  • Director Will Gluck’s inspirations (Uncut Gems, Midnight Run) — not typical rom-coms — and the unique vibe they created on set.

New York Filming & Pressures

• Filming in NYC (63:00–64:00):
  • Monica describes the chaos and hilarity of shooting in real NYC streets, dealing with crowds, paparazzi, and using real couples as extras.
• Handling Paparazzi and Internet Reactions (64:18–66:32):
  • Monica shares how she deals with online speculation, spoilers, and interacting directly with photographers to keep scenes authentic.

Broadway/West End and Career Path

• Jump to Acting from Ballet (74:04–77:56):
  • Monica’s background in ballet, struggles leaving it behind, and how strict ballet training shaped her approach to performance.
• Audition Stories and Early Career (80:00–83:07):
  • Humorous/awkward casting moments, including a “water fight” improv audition and feeling embarrassed yet persistent.

Singing in Film and Jingles

• Singing in Movies (82:09–84:46):
  • Monica talks about her fears of singing on screen, working with a coach, and how comedic jingles for pharmaceutical commercials in “One Night Only” provided catharsis and fun.

Notable Quotes & Lighthearted Moments

• On Will Gluck’s Brand of Comedy (59:11):
  • “He's like young and with it, but then also there's something, I'm so sorry Will, there's something deeply kind of dweeby about him in a really adorable, wonderful way.”
• On Navigating the Oscars (70:42–72:40):
  • Monica describes the “nuts” feeling of receiving an Academy Award nomination and attending the ceremony with her nonplussed, calming father.
• Desert Island with a Co-star (91:15–93:50):
  • When asked which of her famous co-stars she’d want to be stranded on an island with (Glenn Powell, Timothée Chalamet, or Callum Turner), Monica jokingly chooses Glenn Powell for his “Top Gun” skills, but muses on their real-life friendship.

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Notable Quotes (with Timestamps)

• Toast to the Team:

  "To this team. We would not be chicks in the office without each of us on this team... That's what makes us work." – Fran (04:08)

• Reflecting on 1000 Episodes:

  "Our entire 20s were this show." – Fran (25:45)

• On Monica’s Acting Journey:

  "I was in ballet... It took me years to get the artistic director's voice out of my head." – Monica Barbaro (75:59)

• On Singing in Films:

  “I thought I would be more prepared for it this time around, and I found out that I am just as terrified as I always was.” – Monica (82:09)

• On the Podcast Community:

  "We love our beautiful community that we have... always so supportive." – Fran (37:35)

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Important Timestamps

| Segment | Start | Details | |---------------------------------------|----------|------------------------------------------------------------| | Celebration Begins / Toast | 01:05 | Confetti, champagne, Fran’s toast | | Emotional Montage Segment | 05:00 | Messages from friends, celebs, team, listeners | | Post-Montage Reflections | 23:06 | Fran & Rhea discuss video, nostalgia, growth | | Team Acknowledgements | 38:31 | Praises for Noah, Maddie, Sarah, production team | | Monica Barbaro Interview Begins | 50:56 | Fran and Rhea welcome Monica in-studio | | Absurd Rom-Com Plot Discussion | 52:47 | Exploring movie's premise and comedic tone | | On-Set Chemistry & Banter | 55:57 | Working with Callum Turner | | Singing in Film & Jingles | 82:09 | Monica on singing/performing comedic jingles | | Desert Island Co-Star Question | 91:15 | Monica’s humorous choice among Timothée, Glenn, Callum | | Episode Closing Thoughts | 94:14 | Final thanks & sign-off |

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Memorable Moments

• Confetti mishap and champagne popping (01:18–04:14)
• Fran’s emotional toast (04:45)
• Fran and Rhea getting teary from the montage (22:56)
• Jokes about “being dead” because of the tribute video (22:56)
• Monica’s improv audition “water fight” story (80:02)
• Monica and hosts quoting lines from “Fired Up” together (54:46)
• Monica describing being comforted by her dad at the Oscars (71:16)
• Playful debate on who would save Monica on a deserted island (91:15–93:50)

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Episode Tone & Language

• Fun, candid, and emotionally open: The hosts share intimately about their journey, occasionally poke fun at themselves and each other, and keep a light, celebratory tone even during more touching moments.
• Supportive and grateful: Both to the team and the audience, as well as their celebrity guests.
• Conversational with Monica Barbaro: The interview is genuine, filled with laughter, industry insights, and playful banter.

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Conclusion

This 1000th episode is a warm, engaging celebration of the show's history, team, and thriving podcast community. The nostalgic tone, combined with laughter, personal stories, and an insightful conversation with Monica Barbaro, offers both long-time listeners and new fans an inside look at what makes Chicks in the Office a pop culture staple. Whether you’re here for behind-the-scenes podcast tales, an A-list interview, or to bask in some Friday energy, this episode is a heartfelt tribute to a thousand episodes of friendship, hustle, and fun.

Transcript

[Rhea]

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[Fran]

What's up, everyone? It's Chicks in the Office with Brian Fran giving you that Friday energy on a Wednesday. And Today is our 1000th episode

[Rhea]

round of applause. Shall we pop our Confetti goes wild.

[Fran]

Ready?

[Noah]

What am I aiming?

[Rhea]

Not at us. Wait. Hold on to shoot. Rotate base in direction.

[Fran]

Oh, my God.

[Noah]

Just arrows pointing this way. Turn it that way.

[Rhea]

Okay, okay, okay, okay.

[Fran]

Three, two, one. Oh, it's taped. Oh, what the hell?

[Noah]

Wow. Mine went off.

[Fran]

Why isn't this working? Oh, shit.

[Rhea]

Whoa.

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Rhea]

I don't know. I mean. Yeah.

[Fran]

You know what? Confetti is always underwhelming.

[Rhea]

This is it.

[Fran]

It's always underwhelming. I can't even just pop the top off and then sprinkle like I just said.

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Fran]

It's always underwhelming confetti if it doesn't work out.

[Listener/Caller]

Yeah.

[Rhea]

I mean, look at the inside of that. There's no way that thing was working.

[Fran]

No, these are broken. Guys. You guys got us bullshit.

[Monica Barbaro]

Confetti.

[Fran]

Just kidding. Thank you guys for setting this up.

[Noah]

Is that a nice cake?

[Fran]

It is a beautiful cake. Champagne.

[Noah]

So we pop some champagne. Come on, we gotta. Let's have a drink.

[Rhea]

He's really trying to drink in the million.

[Noah]

Let's have a drink.

[Monica Barbaro]

He is, he is.

[Fran]

And listen, it's 1,000. You're right. You're right.

[Rhea]

You're absolutely right. I personally don't want it. Like, that's nice stuff. And when I have one sip, then I'm like.

[Monica Barbaro]

Goes to waste.

[Noah]

No, no, because we're gonna drink it.

[Fran]

The whole bottle.

[Noah]

All of us.

[Fran]

Come on, pop it open. Okay, you know what? All Right.

[Rhea]

We're popping champagne.

[Fran]

Popping champagne. I'm covering my eyes. I have a very big fear of getting a cork to the eye, so I never pop champagne. I always let somebody else do the honors.

[Listener/Caller]

It's.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Rhea]

And. Which means it's always me.

[Fran]

Yeah. So don't aim it in this direction

[Rhea]

to shoot it right at you.

[Fran]

The way you're opening it, though, is kind of.

[Rhea]

You just have to twist the lid. The lid's not coming off.

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[Fran]

Three, two, one. Happy 1000. Everybody. Let's get some glasses going. Noah, would you do the honors? Come here. Come on. Bartender, bartender, come here.

[Rhea]

Here, I'll pour yours all the way to the tippy top.

[Fran]

You guys want me to, like, do a speech or something?

[Monica Barbaro]

Sure.

[Noah]

Yeah?

[Fran]

Okay. Should we all go around and make one? No.

[Rhea]

I don't know. We all need to. But how about just a toast?

[Fran]

Okay, I'll do a little toast. I'll keep it short and sweet.

[Rhea]

Yep.

[Fran]

All right. Are we ready?

[Rhea]

I'm ready.

[Fran]

All right, Here's a toast to our 1000th episode. I just want to say thank you to all of you who've been on the journey with us, our listeners who are listening to this right now. First and foremost, you guys have been along this journey. Maybe it's from the first episode when we were on Sirius xm, to now, the thousandth episode. For all the people that joined along the way, whether it was last week, a couple years ago, we appreciate you more than anything.

[Monica Barbaro]

And.

[Fran]

And then to this team. We would not be chicks in the office without each of us on this team. The amount of stories, memories, journeys we've been on, all the highs, not a lot of lows. This podcast has only gone up and up, and I can't wait to see what we do in the future. It only gets better and better, and it truly is a joy working with all of you. Everyone has a very special, unique thing about them in this group, and that's what makes us work. So congratulations to everybody on the team. I love you all so much. And here's to a thousand more.

[Rhea]

Yes.

[Noah]

Mazel tov.

[Rhea]

Cheers. Cheers. Clink, clink, clink.

[Noah]

You know, it would be great right now if we just had something to watch.

[Monica Barbaro]

Oh,

[Fran]

do they have something?

[Noah]

I was just saying we could watch some YouTube videos or.

[Rhea]

I love watching you.

[Noah]

No, no. Yeah. There is a little video. A big video, actually.

[Fran]

It's a big video.

[Noah]

It's a big video.

[Fran]

Oh, my God.

[Noah]

Get comfortable.

[Fran]

Okay.

[Rhea]

I'm glad.

[Fran]

I need our headphones.

[Monica Barbaro]

All right.

[Rhea]

I'm glad I poured the champagne.

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[Fran]

Listen, I said I wasn't going to drink this week, and here I am again. Because, let me tell you, this summer, we are celebrating. I got no problem with it. But this summer has been drink after drink, and I can't get enough. I'm loving it.

[Noah]

Listen, what's a little champagne going to do?

[Fran]

Nothing. We're just going to have some fun

[Noah]

and then you pee it out.

[Fran]

Fuck yeah. All right.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Okay.

[Rhea]

That's one way to think about it. Pee out everything you.

[Fran]

I was just going to give myself a week break, but now I hear back again, wow. Like, what's this freaking video going to be?

[Rhea]

Will it be 500?

[Noah]

Yeah, it's a better video.

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Okay.

[Fran]

It's 16 minutes long. All right. No, I'm.

[Noah]

I'm a thousand episodes into 16 minutes.

[Rhea]

Oh, my God.

[Listener/Caller]

Wow.

[Rhea]

Yeah. Seriously.

[Fran]

Oh, my God. Am I going to cry? Don't. I can't do that.

[Rhea]

We're crying for sure.

[Fran]

I can't do that.

[Rhea]

I feel it coming on already.

[Fran]

Oh, wow.

[Rhea]

I'm envisioning 16 minutes of Dave telling

[Fran]

us how he is. I literally was thinking the same thing. That's so fucking funny. Oh, my God.

[Rhea]

Tea by the sea. Yeah, we should text him that today. By the way, boss, thousands of today.

[Fran]

I know Madison beer and Justin Herbert just got engaged, but.

[Noah]

Okay, you ready?

[Listener/Caller]

We're ready.

[Fran]

Yes.

[Rhea]

I think our best bet is to just start it from the beginning.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Rhea]

And.

[Monica Barbaro]

Oh, my God, I'll start it like this. Hey, guys, we have some news for you.

[Rhea]

We're bringing you a Chicks in the

[Fran]

Office podcast featuring the best segments from our radio show.

[Noah]

Let's restart.

[Fran]

Let's restart.

[Rhea]

I had no voice in the beginning.

[Fran]

And then you're like, hey, Fran, you hear our big news? Hey, guys, we have some big news for you. Fran,

[Guest/Various Guests]

no.

[Fran]

All right, redo it. We're going to nail it this time. Hey, guys, we have some news for you.

[Noah]

Big news.

[Rhea]

What's up, everyone?

[Fran]

It's Chicks in the Office with Rhea and Fran.

[Rhea]

We've had a lot of really great moments for chicks in the office.

[Guest/Various Guests]

I'M a chick in the office.

[Rhea]

Yes, you are.

[Monica Barbaro]

Welcome.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Congratulations, Rhea and Fran, on your 1000th episode of Chicks in the Office. Hey, ladies. Hey, chicks. Over at the bar, we have two more Bravo fans, Rhea and Fran from Barstool, Florida. You guys are low key, like the Barbara Walters of our generation. I'm not kidding. This was really good.

[Fran]

Chicks in the Office.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Dear Sam.

[Fran]

Dear Sam.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Ronnie motorboated two.

[Fran]

Finally, you made it to the 100th episode. And here they are, the goddamn Jonas Brothers. They're here. Cheers. Thank you, guys.

[Rhea]

Thank you guys so much.

[Guest/Various Guests]

World's most refreshing podcast.

[Rhea]

Give it up for the Jonas Brothers. There's so many episodes we've done since then.

[Guest/Various Guests]

100.

[Fran]

500.

[Monica Barbaro]

800 episodes.

[Rhea]

Like, episode 800.

[Listener/Caller]

Make some noise.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Chicks in the office.

[Fran]

800 and counting.

[Monica Barbaro]

I know your fans go out and,

[Rhea]

like, they do so much.

[Monica Barbaro]

I've seen your.

[Fran]

They couldn't send in a video.

[Monica Barbaro]

Hi, Rhea and Fran.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Hi, Brian.

[Rhea]

Sticks in the office.

[Fran]

I've been shot.

[Monica Barbaro]

I just want to say happy 1000th episode.

[Fran]

I was lucky enough to be your

[Monica Barbaro]

500th episode, so I feel kind of in the sandwich.

[Fran]

Noah. Oh, my God. I got goosebumps. Gooseies.

[Monica Barbaro]

It's amazing. Congratulations, and I hope I can come

[Fran]

back as soon as possible.

[Rhea]

Drew, please smash that subscribe button. And she is sitting right there.

[Guest/Various Guests]

I cannot believe it. 1,000 episodes.

[Fran]

Oh, my God.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Chips in the oven.

[Noah]

What?

[Guest/Various Guests]

I'll tell you what it is when we come back in order to celebrate. I said, is there any way I could be part of this montage? They said, no, and I said, I don't care. I'm gonna be in the montage.

[Listener/Caller]

Stop.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Because it's their thousandth episod and I'm in the montage. And why I'm in the montage for you. I hope you appreciate me. I appreciate you.

[Noah]

I do.

[Fran]

I do. Our scrubbers were, like, in our Facebook

[Rhea]

group, and they were like, chicks in the office are ragging on you guys.

[Fran]

And so I was like, who are these? What is going on? I love you so much.

[Rhea]

Congratulations on girls. I love them. Love you guys so, so much.

[Monica Barbaro]

You're an inspiration.

[Rhea]

And keep on going to a thousand

[Monica Barbaro]

more, a thousand more, and 10,000 more. We love you so much.

[Listener/Caller]

Love you. Bye.

[Fran]

We are here with a very sketch special guest.

[Rhea]

Special guest.

[Fran]

We are here with a very tongue tie.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Sketchy, definitely nervous, but this is sick. Again, I've never done a podcast. It's one of the first.

[Rhea]

I'm like, I specifically requested this interview.

[Noah]

Wow.

[Fran]

You know we're very serious. Yeah, look, right?

[Rhea]

Very serious today. Ticketmaster says we're not putting out general sale.

[Fran]

What?

[Rhea]

They're not doing the sale. No tickets for you. They're just not putting them on sale.

[Fran]

You guys hate each other.

[Guest/Various Guests]

If you're gonna tell me in that entire 20 minute period at one point you're not gonna have an awkward face on, then you're better than I am. And I'm cool with that. I'm sorry. For starters, who said I have temper tantrums?

[Fran]

Not us. Who said that? Not us.

[Rhea]

It wasn't us.

[Fran]

It wasn't us. Cause I'll duck you.

[Guest/Various Guests]

No shit gets real on this podcast. I'm so proud of you guys. Oh, my God. Dozen episodes. I mean, what a milestone. And you bitches doing it looking hot like that. Like, what the hell?

[Fran]

I wouldn't expect anything.

[Guest/Various Guests]

You're walking out of your car into a locker room, and you're carrying a Birkin that looks a little stiff and a little fake. I'mma call your ass out.

[Fran]

You two walked in here. You guys came in with matching Birkin.

[Rhea]

Yours looks like you use yours, you know.

[Fran]

Oh, I really use.

[Listener/Caller]

Mine has just.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Mine's just been to the spa to be fair.

[Noah]

Yeah, okay.

[Monica Barbaro]

Fair.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Fair.

[Noah]

Hi, guys. Your 1,000.

[Fran]

Wait, you've been working on this bed?

[Guest/Various Guests]

Congratulations.

[Fran]

Yeah, like this.

[Monica Barbaro]

The Green Room.

[Fran]

Not to put our producer on the spot, but it's his favorite movie of all time, so not to be weird,

[Noah]

but have, like, a giant poster of your face.

[Fran]

Such an awkward laugh.

[Monica Barbaro]

You will call you Penny Lane all the time.

[Rhea]

As a matter of fact, I did

[Monica Barbaro]

a podcast yesterday, and the producer. That's the only poster he has in his house.

[Fran]

My face showed me. You're a little weird.

[Monica Barbaro]

I'm interviewing you on the spot. Sorry, this is not. I'm not supposed to be interviewing y', all, but.

[Rhea]

Oh, my God.

[Monica Barbaro]

Did you guys see Cadillac?

[Noah]

No.

[Guest/Various Guests]

No. Yeah, you missed that one.

[Fran]

We could have lied. We could have.

[Rhea]

We could.

[Fran]

I thought about lying.

[Noah]

He did.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Thought about it.

[Rhea]

We paused for one second.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Guess that one didn't make the round.

[Fran]

Pete Davidson is also in this movie.

[Guest/Various Guests]

I love this FaceTime feedback.

[Noah]

Glenn. Wow.

[Rhea]

Why would you tell us that?

[Fran]

I'm sweating right now.

[Guest/Various Guests]

You're sweating.

[Fran]

Glenn was one of our first guests in those early radio days.

[Guest/Various Guests]

You guys are kicking ass.

[Fran]

That's how I showed up to interview Glenn.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Hey, Rhea, Fran.

[Fran]

Congrats on a thousand episodes.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Here's to a thousand more.

[Fran]

So you were deep into this past season, Love Island.

[Monica Barbaro]

Oh, yeah.

[Fran]

And how did that feel for you guys? You, like, broke the news that everyone

[Rhea]

in America wanted to be the one to break the news.

[Fran]

We are reporting to you live from Fiji.

[Rhea]

I saw your TikTok. So you were like on it, talking about it and then being like, we want to come to Fiji.

[Fran]

We are here with the queen of Love island usa, Leah, the queen of Love island usa.

[Rhea]

We're breaking a lot of news to you, honey.

[Fran]

I have something very exciting for you. We posted a video and cheez it commented on our video and they said,

[Guest/Various Guests]

get the fuck out of here.

[Fran]

Cheez it said, say hi to Cordell for me.

[Rhea]

You have some of the most flawless skin I've ever seen. We gotta know what the. We gotta know what the routine is.

[Fran]

What the skincare routine.

[Rhea]

At one point on the show, I thought you had foundation on.

[Fran]

Oh, my God. A legend needs no introduction.

[Monica Barbaro]

We're just talking about my fire ass music.

[Rhea]

Happy ending. Love that song. I love it's full circle because I

[Monica Barbaro]

wrote that with my husband.

[Fran]

Hey, Rhea and Fran. Happy 1000th episode.

[Monica Barbaro]

Miss you and love you so much.

[Fran]

We officially reached Is this better than his videos subscribers on YouTube. When that happened, we would bleach Noah's hair. That's what happens on this podcast. I feel like I have no mine. Look at my face right now.

[Monica Barbaro]

We are at the finale of the Bachelor.

[Rhea]

That kills me.

[Monica Barbaro]

We're in the crown.

[Fran]

Let's get into the Bachelorette recap.

[Rhea]

Better be in this motherfucker.

[Fran]

There's no video from Trent. I'm going to be pissed.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Our very own Trent, Ria and Fran, congratulations on 1000 episodes of Chicks in the Office. You guys should be incredibly proud of what you built. 1000 episodes is an amazing accomplishment. So, yeah, I'm really proud of you guys. I love you guys. Here's to a thousand more episodes. And shout out to Noah too. He does a pretty good job. Yeah, he just got dead quiet the

[Noah]

second we jumped out. It was like, that went out. I didn't think about anything. I was just like, what the really is crazy. This is crazy.

[Fran]

Please reveal matching.

[Rhea]

This is a big one. You've been on our list for a while as guests that we want. You're so on our show on your list. Yes. Is that like Noah's list? Yeah.

[Noah]

Gabby Wendy's going to Tampa. What?

[Rhea]

Gabby Wendy's coming to Tampa.

[Noah]

Gabby Wendy's going to Tampa.

[Rhea]

Huge, huge, big moment.

[Fran]

Hey, Diego.

[Rhea]

What's the sitch?

[Monica Barbaro]

I'm having an out of my experience.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Where the hell you been, loca?

[Rhea]

Happy Birthday to. To you.

[Fran]

Ria and Fran, Congratulations on a thousand episodes. You're Both only like 10 years old combined, so I don't know how you guys have shot a thousand episodes. I mean, that's like child labor. Congratulations. Here's to a thousand more episodes.

[Guest/Various Guests]

So true.

[Fran]

And I love you, Mina. My son thought I died. He was like, well, it feels like it.

[Rhea]

Yeah, we saw this story.

[Fran]

Yes.

[Monica Barbaro]

He was absolutely thrilled when I was eliminated.

[Fran]

Listen, he was texting Andy 2152310 times from multiple devices. Iria and Fran, congratulations on 1,000 episodes. You guys just can't shut up. Love you guys. If you add your year. Oh, my God. And how old you are, it comes out to 2023 today. What? I saw this online today.

[Rhea]

Are you joking, though? Of course. The year you were born in and the age that you are. You add those together, you get the current year, year that we're in.

[Fran]

I don't feel good right now.

[Guest/Various Guests]

But also, I feel like we kind

[Noah]

of miss a lot of.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Just keep wanting to hit this thing.

[Listener/Caller]

Sorry,

[Fran]

sorry, Lois.

[Guest/Various Guests]

I don't know my own strength.

[Rhea]

Like, really professional here.

[Monica Barbaro]

You got to go barefoot. People are paying for this.

[Fran]

Here you go. Ending on an amazing shot.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Congrats, ria and Fran. 1000 episodes of tricks in the Office is incredible. I don't know what's happening to my hair. I think I'm about to be electrocuted. What an electric show you've got. Keep it rolling. Many, many more. Thanks for including us.

[Fran]

We've grown up, you know. Yes, exactly. Look at us now. Third album.

[Rhea]

We're still doing podcasts, but we've done over 300 episodes. 500. 600 almost now.

[Noah]

Congrats.

[Fran]

Congratulations. Yeah, that's a lot of episodes.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Amazing.

[Monica Barbaro]

So happy to be here. I'm huge fans of you guys, so

[Fran]

this is really cool.

[Monica Barbaro]

I was really honored to be asking.

[Fran]

Jenna, you don't have to lie to us. I have listened.

[Guest/Various Guests]

I think you're both my paisan, so

[Monica Barbaro]

I love both of you so much, and I can't wait.

[Fran]

I'm on this couch. Thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for that intro. Of course.

[Monica Barbaro]

I'm very excited to be here.

[Noah]

What's up?

[Guest/Various Guests]

Ria, friend, Congratulations on a thousand episodes.

[Noah]

God damn, that's a lot of talking.

[Monica Barbaro]

We love you guys. Thank you for always supporting us, and we wish you the very best. And a thousand more episodes.

[Fran]

Yes. We are recording live from the Dancing with the Stars rehearsal studio

[Guest/Various Guests]

on a kick and foot.

[Fran]

Do you guys have a message to the haters out there.

[Rhea]

A message to the haters.

[Monica Barbaro]

I think what you really want to say to me is, who the hell

[Rhea]

do you think you are? No, no.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Am I right?

[Rhea]

Am I right? Ria ran a thousand episodes.

[Fran]

Are you kidding me?

[Rhea]

Congratulations, ladies.

[Fran]

Or as us Jews like to say, mazel tov. Not only are you the most talented duo, you are also the kindest ladies I have ever met. And I will never forget how kind you were to me and Christy when we were just starting out with our podcast. So cheers to a thousand more. I'll be honest with you. We had a shirt go viral with your face on it.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Legally.

[Fran]

Legally, yes.

[Rhea]

Maybe.

[Monica Barbaro]

Yes.

[Fran]

Next question.

[Listener/Caller]

I like that.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Josh's intro is Josh Peck, and mine

[Fran]

is Ben Saver, AKA Boy with no

[Guest/Various Guests]

Job, AKA you should Google him, because nobody knows who he is but Josh Peck. That's not true. Damn it.

[Fran]

You are on the rise.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Congratulations. A thousand episodes. It's amazing. Jordan, your producer, told me I was one of your favorite guests, and she wanted me to record this. I find that hard to believe. I think Jordan's a liar. Anyway, guys, you're the best. Congratulations.

[Sponsor/Advertisement]

Much success.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Well deserved.

[Fran]

Is this about to be. Tyler

[Guest/Various Guests]

watch you go to work.

[Fran]

And welcome back to the show, Tyler.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Thank you. Is it even special anymore after.

[Monica Barbaro]

I don't know.

[Fran]

That's.

[Rhea]

We did kind of say that, too.

[Fran]

We were like.

[Rhea]

Tyler's armed, like, the 12th time.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Bria. Fran. Well, just want to congratulate you on a thousand episodes. Ladies, that is. You girls are a cultural phenomenon. Phenomenon Episodes. Keep so lucky to call you all our friends.

[Fran]

I don't even want to look at your face. I don't want to see what happens.

[Guest/Various Guests]

But, like, I don't think you can read me.

[Fran]

You love one show, and all of

[Guest/Various Guests]

a sudden, you got the skills right

[Fran]

out like that One show.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Little surviving box. All of a sudden. Ria's pro. Yo, what's up? It's Boston Rob. I just wanted to send a big congratulations to Fran and ria on your 1000th episode.

[Rhea]

Thanks, cousin.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Chicks in the office. I got my own chicks right here.

[Fran]

How we doing, Detroit?

[Guest/Various Guests]

On behalf of Andrew and myself, we just wanted to say congratulations. 1000 episodes is absolutely nothing to sneeze at. Keep up the good fight, ladies. Noah, everyone on the team, keep fighting. Finally out of the bathroom. Happy thousandth episode to my favorite people. People, thank you for letting me come

[Listener/Caller]

on the podcast and speak my mind.

[Guest/Various Guests]

And, as always, screw Conrad.

[Fran]

Wait, I think we need someone for Santa to kiss.

[Rhea]

Congratulations.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Happy thousand episodes.

[Rhea]

So happy for you guys favorites.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Hope you do A Thousand More.

[Rhea]

You guys are truly the best, incredible podcast host and people.

[Listener/Caller]

We love you.

[Fran]

Congratulations.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Hey, Ria, friend, Congrats. Thousand episodes by the sea. Proud of you guys. Obviously, I think we had a great relationship. Thousand episodes is no joke. So again, congrats. Glad you're part of us. Proud that you're part of Barstool. And hopefully there are a thousand episodes.

[Fran]

It's gonna be an emotional episode. Yeah, it's gonna be a happy episode, but it's also gonna be emotional.

[Rhea]

It's a testament to Matt. You couldn't get a better person to

[Fran]

marry your best friend. And you know, I feel the same way about you too. I was texting you the other night and I was like, I just love you and Joe so much.

[Noah]

A lot of people being like, my two favorite podcast host got engaged.

[Rhea]

When you listen to the podcast, you get our Friday energy on Monday.

[Fran]

Wow, friend. You know you keep hitting us with those.

[Rhea]

I know.

[Fran]

Friday energy on a Monday.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Stay together.

[Monica Barbaro]

Don't let anyone break you up. Stay together.

[Fran]

Oh, we will.

[Monica Barbaro]

We will.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Hey, girls. Just wanted to reach out and wish you both a huge congratulations. Chicks in the office. So well deserved. You guys know that I love our yearly catch ups on the podcast, but even more so, I love our ketchups off the podcast. So what a testament to both of you that your guests love to hang out with you off the pod just as much as they do on the pod. Cheers to A Thousand More.

[Rhea]

Hey, guys. Justin Bieber told me to burn with car.

[Fran]

I love you so much. I mean, literally, y' all are still

[Guest/Various Guests]

one of my favorite parts of joining this crazy world that we're all in. Whether it's the live shows or Brian, Champagne.

[Fran]

Champagne office on getting uncomfortable Wednesday.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Thanks for being the people that you are. Shout out to Noah too. Congratulations, Re and Fran on a thousand episodes. Cheers to Barstool. Look forward to seeing you soon.

[Rhea]

Y' all are amazing.

[Monica Barbaro]

Thank you for always putting a smile on my face.

[Rhea]

I wish you all the absolute best.

[Monica Barbaro]

I hope you're celebrating hard and I hope you get a thousand more.

[Guest/Various Guests]

We love you guys so much. Whether it was the live shows or the podcast studio, we have loved.

[Fran]

See you soon, Joey.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Can't wait to see you guys again soon. Have the best time celebrating Rhea and Pran.

[Listener/Caller]

Oh, my God.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Congratulations on the thousandth episode of Tips in the Office.

[Fran]

He's everywhere.

[Rhea]

So much. I miss you.

[Guest/Various Guests]

I love A Thousand More.

[Fran]

Congratulations. Honestly love it.

[Rhea]

So sweet. Sounded amazing.

[Fran]

I'm going to cry.

[Rhea]

It kind of kind of feels like we're dead. Kind of feels like we're dead.

[Noah]

Rest in peace.

[Fran]

That was so incredible.

[Listener/Caller]

Wow.

[Fran]

Oh, my God. Well, first of all, thank you guys so much for making that video.

[Noah]

Well, first of all, shout out to Chris Heimsoth. He was the same guy who edited the 500 video, so I was like, he's the only guy for the job.

[Monica Barbaro]

Yeah.

[Noah]

So he again, took, like, 30 of my hard drives and has just been like, wow, Sending me cuts in the middle of the night. That is so shout out to him, because he spent how many hours, I don't know, on this video?

[Fran]

I mean, he put in so much effort.

[Noah]

Javon and Jordan, for reaching out to all these people.

[Rhea]

So nice.

[Fran]

That was incredible. Thank you so much. That really made me emotional.

[Rhea]

Yeah.

[Fran]

I don't know why.

[Rhea]

Like, there were some amazing people in there, but, like, when you popped up in your wedding dress, I just heard,

[Fran]

like, I was like.

[Rhea]

Like, I kind of held it in until then. And then I was like, well, no.

[Fran]

Well, because we fully have grown up on this show, like, and it's crazy

[Rhea]

seeing us in those beginning days to that, like, to that moment specifically.

[Fran]

I.

[Rhea]

We were just so little.

[Fran]

I really don't.

[Noah]

Like.

[Rhea]

Heather McMahon said, We're only a combined 10 years old, so it's true.

[Fran]

When I. I'm just a baby. We're really so young, and we've been doing this for so long.

[Rhea]

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[Fran]

No, I mean, I. Listen, we're gonna get sappy at some point. It's a thousand episodes, but at the same time, there's so many funny moments. Like, I think the reason we got so emotional at that part of, like, both of us getting married, we have accomplished so much, and we've just grown up so much, and we have seen each other through, like, every single aspect of life. Basically, like our entire 20s were this show.

[Rhea]

Yeah.

[Fran]

And now it's just so. It's so insane. And we've had so many, like, damn. We've done some really cool stuff. A very successful show.

[Rhea]

Yeah. You know, personally, the cut from 100 episodes with Jonas Brothers to hosting Jonas Con, I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Fran]

I mean, here's the thing, though.

[Rhea]

They couldn't do it.

[Fran]

They couldn't do one. They were.

[Rhea]

I'm sure.

[Fran]

Yeah, I know. I'm.

[Rhea]

Believe me.

[Fran]

I'm sure we asked. The thing is. I'm sure. But here's the thing, by the way.

[Rhea]

I'm not gonna stop.

[Fran]

I'm gonna appreciate everybody.

[Rhea]

Appreciate all the amazing people that we have and not the ones that we didn't, but we will remember.

[Fran]

We will remember who did it, and we will remember who did and the ones that did. Seriously, thank you so much for taking the time. That's so sweet.

[Noah]

The Howie Mandel one. Just like. Howie Mandel's just a running. Like, it's a running.

[Rhea]

Running bit.

[Noah]

It's a running bit of like, you met. You met him one time in 2019 or 2018, and if it happens five years from now, I'll ask him again.

[Fran]

Yes. Yeah. It was so good.

[Rhea]

I mean, started, like, the best.

[Fran]

First of all, starting off with Andy Cohen in the Clubhouse.

[Rhea]

No, that was.

[Fran]

Fucking kidding me. That was so.

[Rhea]

I was confused for a second. I was like, wait, what?

[Fran]

No, that was so sick. I can't get over that. That was so cool.

[Rhea]

Drew Barry, everybody.

[Fran]

Glenn. Oh, God.

[Rhea]

He just keeps reminding us how great he is.

[Fran]

He is. And one day we'll be able to talk about it more. But reliable.

[Rhea]

Everybody's like, truly everybody. Why did I get emotional?

[Fran]

Sweet. I think maybe because Austin and Craig were right after the.

[Rhea]

Yeah, yeah. They were like, in between our.

[Noah]

No, I'll show You like the raw Craig video, But I was watching it, and I'm like, it sounds like he's, like, on the verge of crying himself.

[Rhea]

Hey, you know what? We all mean a lot to each other.

[Fran]

We do.

[Rhea]

And I think it's very special. And, like, I love. I love everyone from these big stars that we've had on that are so generous and thoughtful with their time. Drew Demi to do that, too. It's just, like, so incredible. And also, like, our peers, our friends, our fellow podcasters that also, like, we have so much respect for them. And feeling the love back is so. I couldn't love Beck and Tanya more. Like, they are. They are the sweetest. All of our wonderful Bachelor Nation family that we have made.

[Fran]

Serena and Joe, I mean, everybody, everybody. Val and Jenna, we're gonna see them this weekend. Just the whole thing is so incredible. Thank you. Dave saying he's proud of us. Yeah.

[Rhea]

Thanks, dad.

[Fran]

You know, it doesn't come often, but when it does, it's meaningful.

[Rhea]

Hold on tight.

[Fran]

You hold on. Yeah, you just hold on. Boston Rob, Tyler and Tate, just everybody.

[Rhea]

Amazing. I love you guys. I love it.

[Fran]

That was incredible. I don't even want to talk about it.

[Rhea]

I think that we were probably one of the earliest, like, podcasts that Jake Shane has done it.

[Fran]

We were.

[Rhea]

And I remember, if not his service,

[Noah]

we were saying that, like, I think it's still titled, unless we changed it, like, October. We didn't even write his name on the episode. We wrote Octopus Love.

[Rhea]

That's hilarious.

[Fran]

But also, I remember seeing Jake Shane at the Lemons foundation party that the Lautners, the, you know, party that they had in la. And he told me, you know, I'm very nervous. I'm starting a podcast. Like, I'm launching a podcast. It's called Therapist. I don't know how. And I'm like, oh, you're going to crush it.

[Rhea]

And look at him.

[Fran]

Like, it's just crazy.

[Rhea]

Has.

[Fran]

It's just crazy to look at everything and. Wow. I mean, gosh, though I've been through some looks. I mean, we didn't have.

[Rhea]

I mean, we really. We all have.

[Monica Barbaro]

We.

[Fran]

Not many clips of my black hair with blonde stripes, but, man, there was a time.

[Rhea]

There was a time. And you know what? I kind of forgot what Chris Briney wore when he came on the show. I'm really like. I'm, like, remembering that again. When he popped up, I went, whoa.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Rhea]

Kind of forgot about that outfit.

[Fran]

Yeah, it was something. It's just so funny looking at everything. Like we were Literally babies.

[Rhea]

Yeah.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Yeah.

[Fran]

My hair was falling out of my head at one point. Like, not good. Not good at all. You know, been through some time.

[Rhea]

Bleach in your hair so much.

[Fran]

Yeah. And also just was, you know, miserable. But now.

[Rhea]

But just a lot of different factors.

[Fran]

Yeah. So many different, like, behind the scenes stories, too, that are so funny. And we were actually talking about before this episode, I was like, should we try to think of some stories that we've never told on the podcast? But it's so hard to kind of go back in your brain and be like, this story we should tell or that story we should tell.

[Rhea]

Every year I think about, and I know, like, you had them and you lost them, but every year I'm like, God, I really should be journaling because my memory is so bad.

[Fran]

It's so annoying.

[Rhea]

And then I'm like.

[Fran]

And I.

[Rhea]

And. And I have to watch things to be reminded of things. I'm like, oh, my God. Yeah, but I need to, like, I wish I wrote everything down, like, how I was feeling in that time. I guess there's no time like the present to start, right?

[Fran]

Exactly. I had a journal when I first started Barstool, and, oh, my gosh, the stories in there were probably even before we started the podcast. And then I kept it for a while, and then when we moved offices, we moved offices. In 2019, I had lost the journal. I then started a new journal in 2023 that I still have. And I wrote some feelings down about some things which are so funny looking back on.

[Rhea]

Like, I wrote about some guests, like, oh, you're thirsty. Yeah, just go ahead.

[Fran]

I wrote about some guests in the journal, like, yeah, I was nervous for this guest to come on today, and rightfully so, because they sucked.

[Rhea]

Like, that's like something I wrote in

[Fran]

my journal in 2023. And it's like, not that long ago. Not long ago at all. Like, is literally like, yeah, I was nervous. And you know what? I had every reason to be because they weren't great, so. But I honestly stopped shortly after that. But we have so many. Yeah.

[Rhea]

What a fun video. For a second, I really got. I was like, oh, my God, is James Marsden about to pop up?

[Fran]

I thought so, too. I really thought James Marsden was about to pop up. And I, you know, I'm not gonna harp on the Jonas Fellers, but whatever.

[Rhea]

Yeah, not even.

[Fran]

Couldn't even get Kevin.

[Noah]

The thing that hurt with the Jonas Brothers most, if we're just talking about it, is that it was a. Oh,

[Fran]

look at how much he Left them nothing.

[Rhea]

Oh, thanks, Noah, for leaving Sarah and Maggie.

[Fran]

We got two bottles. We got another bottle. Don't worry.

[Noah]

No, but the Jonas Brothers, like, for a while, it was like, they're sending it. Like, it was like, a yes.

[Fran]

And then it was just, Oh, I see. I didn't need.

[Rhea]

I didn't need to know that, you know, I wouldn't.

[Fran]

Busy.

[Rhea]

Like, I wouldn't.

[Fran]

I'm okay with knowing that.

[Rhea]

I prefer that. Like, you know.

[Listener/Caller]

Yeah.

[Rhea]

But what's worse, it's like, oh, they said yes, and they just never got around to it. Or like, they were like, nah, you know, they have been on vacation for quite some time, so.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Rhea]

But it's like one of those times they sat down to record. Hey, Jonas.

[Fran]

They've been recording a lot lately. It doesn't matter. We put it out there.

[Rhea]

You know how you guys can make it up to us? Little shouted in the pod.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Rhea]

Hey, Jonas. You can say, hey, you know what? Chicks in the office. We celebrate their 1000th episode. Proud of them.

[Fran]

Proud of them.

[Rhea]

And then I'll be good.

[Fran]

Yeah. But it doesn't matter because.

[Rhea]

No, no, no. The whole video, everyone who did make

[Fran]

a video was incredible.

[Rhea]

That was amazing, Truly. And I'm gonna say it again. Thank you so much to everybody that sent one in. Because you. You, like. We are on the other side of that sometimes, too, when someone's like, hey, can you send this video? And you do forget.

[Fran]

You do. Yeah.

[Listener/Caller]

So.

[Rhea]

And it's no. Like, it's not anything on the person. It's just sometimes you do forget. So it means extra to us to see the people who did take the time to do it.

[Fran]

Yes. You know, it really, really does. It's very meaningful. And once again, thank you to our listeners who are the reason we were able to do a thousand episodes. Because you don't listen to the show, then the show ends. And that is not the case. We're gonna keep going.

[Rhea]

Yeah.

[Fran]

Like everyone said, a thousand more.

[Rhea]

Thanks to everyone that's listened to three episodes. 100 episodes. 500 episodes. The ones that have listened to a thousand. To have every single episode.

[Listener/Caller]

Yeah.

[Rhea]

We love you.

[Fran]

And also after I said special guest, I thought Josh Chobel was popping up for sure. And honestly, I'm a little. I really would have turned red.

[Noah]

That would have been awesome.

[Fran]

That would have been.

[Rhea]

Imagine he was like, congrats on this very special number.

[Fran]

No, I would have died. I would have ran out of the room. I would have literally scurried out of here. But so 1000 episodes.

[Rhea]

Is so special.

[Fran]

It's so special to me. I can't. Oh, God. Too many good times. But even off, like, not even with the guest or the show itself, we've had so many funny stories, like, off camera, that we just haven't told, but not even really purposely.

[Rhea]

It's just like.

[Fran]

You're like, I will tell a story another time. Then you just never really got to it. And then it's like, all right, should we tell this random story? There are stories we've told at live shows that we haven't told on the podcast. Yeah, so buy tickets. Yeah, so buy tickets to the live show.

[Rhea]

You never know what you're gonna hear.

[Fran]

Yeah. You really don't see. We really do tell some secret stories at that show, which is always funny, like some Singapore stuff. But, you know, if you were at the live show, you saw.

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Rhea]

It's an elite group. It is. Why. And you can come join us this fall.

[Fran]

Imagine we were like. And there's our. We literally are the Jonas Brothers. And here's our next tour announcement.

[Noah]

And we're releasing a book.

[Rhea]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Fran]

Here's the thing. We would write a spectacular book. We were actually to include stories that people don't know. Oh, man. Yeah, oh, man. I'd write a bestseller. I fucking would. Oh, my God. Sometimes I dream about it. I literally toss and turn and dream about telling stories that people get to that point I could maybe. Where I just tell stories that I fucking wish people knew.

[Noah]

They.

[Fran]

And they don't. And then I just expose every. Now that's not. That's not it. But sometimes I do think, wow, if only people knew this story. The only people knew that story. I'd be good in a book.

[Rhea]

Yeah.

[Fran]

But, you know, we're not like that.

[Noah]

Well, what are your favorite three moments from the show?

[Fran]

From the show as a whole.

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Fran]

Just as a whole. God, I. I can't. So hard.

[Noah]

But not as much. Like, I would say Fiji's, like, in my top three, but that.

[Fran]

That's obviously right. But I feel like there are obvious ones, right. Like Fiji and Jonas Khan and, you know, the humongous guests that we've had. It's so hard to.

[Rhea]

Yeah.

[Fran]

Differentiate people's choice. Some of my favorite moments are the ones carpets pre and post show, you know?

[Guest/Various Guests]

Yeah.

[Noah]

You guys think.

[Rhea]

You know the show. Age video.

[Fran]

The age video never gets old.

[Listener/Caller]

Yeah.

[Noah]

Kate Hudson is.

[Fran]

Kate Hudson always gets old. I'm trying to think. I. It's hard to pinpoint three.

[Noah]

Drew Barrymore is cool.

[Rhea]

And I will Also say that's, like, even more. Just not even, like, guests surrounded, you

[Fran]

know, I will also say, each year I say to myself, how will we top the last year? I do this every single year. I get nervous for the year, and then it somehow tops the year before.

[Rhea]

And it's amazing.

[Fran]

And I hope that we continue on that path because that's the only thing you could wish and hope for when you are doing this job, is to always be better than the year prior.

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But,

[Fran]

like, we ended the year on an amazing note. We come back, the first thing we do or one of the first things we do is Dylan O' Brien and Rachel McAdams. Like, and then I go, oh, my God, this is going to be a great year. And, yeah, you know what I mean? It's just those moments where you never know what you're going to get and you get worried, like, oh, no, what if people don't want to come on our show anymore? And look at all these amazing shows that people do that are, you know, blasting off and becoming huge. But every year, it only gets better, in my opinion. So I'm happy to keep on that path.

[Rhea]

We love our beautiful community that we have.

[Fran]

We do. We really do. We have the best. Always when we meet you guys, we're always like, we have the best listeners. Always so supportive.

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[Rhea]

And you guys have been amazing. I'm talking to you three.

[Fran]

Yes, the team.

[Rhea]

Sarah, Maddie, we love you guys. You guys are amazing.

[Fran]

The best.

[Rhea]

We couldn't do everything that we do without you guys and all of your hard work and even Noah.

[Fran]

No, I mean, listen, Noah really does this together.

[Rhea]

Noah, he really does this show's literally nothing without Noah?

[Fran]

Yes.

[Rhea]

He has been here from the beginning. He's worked his ass off. He has been available 24 7.

[Fran]

24 7.

[Rhea]

And has always, like I said, for his dating profile, dare I say, very reliable.

[Monica Barbaro]

Extremely reliable.

[Rhea]

He's always been. Always been there, always willing to get shit done, always willing to work late, always willing to make sure he's putting out the best possible product he can. And the show's only excelled because of how much work he puts into it.

[Fran]

Absolutely.

[Noah]

Thanks, guys.

[Rhea]

And I mean that.

[Noah]

Wow.

[Fran]

As you should.

[Noah]

You guys have been pretty good, too.

[Fran]

Thank you. I appreciate it. I mean, for those who don't know, Noah was the first. We've been together since the beginning.

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Fran]

Me, Fran, Noah, those videos of us,

[Rhea]

like, sitting in the merch closet. Like, Noah was behind the camera. Yeah.

[Fran]

He. He was the one filming and editing. And he is a perfectionist in the best way. He is the best of the best. He's the best producer in this place by far. And I don't care if anybody else gets mad at me for saying that. There is nobody at barstool that is a producer like Noah. Everyone's fantastic, but he is the best of the best. And we're happy that we're de la creme. Yes. And our whole team is. And I would put our team up against anybody and say we have the best team in the business, because the amount of times we've been to meetings and they got to show people the ropes.

[Rhea]

Yeah. Or outside, people are so shocked. Like, I've done other podcasts where they're like, your team is just a monster.

[Fran]

Absolutely.

[Rhea]

They're like, how do you turn. You get your episodes out so quick. You do things so quickly. You're so on top of your social. I'm like. I'm like, literally, there's. Maddie runs our. Like, there's one person, like, it is there, and everyone is always so impressed and, like, in shock of how they do that. So I think it's always nice to hear.

[Fran]

And you all work so well together as well. Like.

[Rhea]

Yeah.

[Noah]

You know, that's why I'm excited for this trip. We're going on tomorrow because weekend with Palm Springs.

[Fran]

Palm Springs, here we come. What's funny is Fran is arriving a little bit later than the rest of

[Rhea]

the team, and, well, not to. Not to completely change the subject, but I got dumped. I got dumped by my dog walker.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Yeah.

[Fran]

It's bullshit.

[Rhea]

So I'm not quite sure what to do about it.

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[Rhea]

Summer's tough. I Haven't been in the city that much. That's fair. Olive's been out on Long island and, you know, my schedule hasn't been very consistent. And I understand, you know, you need consistency in dog walker, but we there. There's been. Has been a couple weeks of non communication. Normally they would check in, be like, what's your schedule like this week? And we would give it to them, the whole thing. It's been a couple weeks, we haven't heard anything. And I said, oh, you know, text them a few days ago. Traveling, we're back in the city. I know we haven't been around for a while and it's just like, all booked up. Sorry. I said, damn, I've been dumped. And it sucks because they were so great. It's so reliable. And I trusted them. You know, it's your. It's your dog that you love so much, and you want to want them to be with someone you trust. And, like, they're also in your home, in and out of your home, you know, and now I got.

[Fran]

Now I gotta, like, I got a stranger.

[Rhea]

Gotta fucking start from square one again.

[Fran]

Yeah, that sucks. Well, we feel bad for you and.

[Rhea]

But that is what led me to move my. That. That led me to move my flight back France.

[Noah]

Gonna get to the Airbnb. We're going to be.

[Fran]

Project X is going to be happening. Well, I'm cooking dinner for team Wednesday night, and Fran was like, save me some. I said, obviously, if Noah doesn't eat at all. Remember when. You remember when you tricked me at the Jersey store, said, you ate all the pasta salad?

[Noah]

And I said, oh, yeah.

[Fran]

Wow. Gay.

[Noah]

Oh, that pasta was good.

[Fran]

All right, maybe I'll make it this week. I don't know. But we will be there and we're going to have so much fun. I. Yesterday, I have to talk about this very quickly. My license expired on Sunday, my birthday, and I haven't gone around to legally changing my last name yet because I realized, like, our travel is pretty much booked until the end of the year with, like, shows and work travel that we have. And I'm like, okay, well, now I can't change, right?

[Rhea]

Well, there's no way to, like, change the name, is there is. Like, those flights that are already booked, would you just have to cancel them?

[Fran]

Seems just like a whole process.

[Noah]

But you're never going to not have a trip booked when you go to change.

[Fran]

I know. It's. It's very hard. So that's why I'm like, oh, my God, I have to do this. But it's, like, just taking me a while. But it's fine. Like, no, like, now what? Like, it's fine.

[Rhea]

I don't think anyone's like, give me your fucking driver's license to see that I see your last name.

[Noah]

Well, because you have a new password too.

[Fran]

And like, yeah, I literally have to change everything. And I haven't done it. But that's fine because personally, I go by my husband's last name. Professionally. Yeah, go by. But I do plan on changing it legally, but I just haven't done it yet. But besides the point, I was like, okay, I'll just renew my license online and then when I actually change my last name, like, I'll go through the whole process. Go through the whole process. But I don't want to go to the dmv. So I'll just renew it online for now. But I needed a vision test and.

[Noah]

Really?

[Fran]

Yeah, because it's. I don't know, I just needed a vision test to, like, renew it online. So I was like, oh, okay, I'll like, oh, I. Yes, whatever. To get a vision test.

[Rhea]

Yeah.

[Fran]

But then Matt was like, no, you can do a vision test online. And they just like, update, Upload it to the DMV and just renews your presence. And I was like, okay, how can I cheat on that? So he sent, no, it's not che thing. It's like a. A website that you get on zoom with, like a Whatever. So let me tell you, it was

[Rhea]

like, on like a zoom with a

[Fran]

stranger of all time. I got on a zoom.

[Rhea]

Are you looking at the eye chart? Yeah.

[Noah]

What if it's like a little blurry? No.

[Fran]

Through zoom with. What are they? An optimologist. Optimal optimist.

[Noah]

Optomet.

[Fran]

Optometrist. An optometrist. I don't know. It literally was like, boom, boom. Read two things.

[Rhea]

Yeah.

[Fran]

And optomet. Yeah, optometrist.

[Rhea]

It's an ophthalmologist.

[Monica Barbaro]

Also a thing.

[Fran]

Yeah. I think there's multiple.

[Rhea]

There's multiple types of ops, right?

[Fran]

Yeah. Opta eyes got on. Read like two things. They were like, you passed. Congratulations. I said, perfect.

[Rhea]

Wow, that's amazing. You're right. I do think there's a certain amount of time for. And I don't know if it's like every state where it's like, you do have to go redo it, because I remember when I did my license, when I renewed my license, but I guess I was getting my New York license and saying bye bye to my New Jersey license. And then I had to go. I did the eye test in the dmv.

[Fran]

I'm gonna have to go to the DMV at one point, but this one I was able to just renew. And they, no, well, you'll have this

[Rhea]

one for as long as you need.

[Fran]

Eye test.

[Rhea]

That's crazy.

[Fran]

Uploaded right to the dmv.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Boom.

[Fran]

Renewed my license immediately. It was the fakest shit ever. I mean, I guess it's.

[Rhea]

And that's maybe why we have so many bad drivers on the road.

[Fran]

That was my thought. I said, oh, well, no wonder everyone's getting approved, because they told me to take the amount of steps back from the screen, and they watched me take the steps back. And then they're like, all right, you're good right there. How do you know?

[Rhea]

How do you know how far I

[Fran]

really am from the screen?

[Rhea]

Yeah.

[Fran]

And then, boom, I passed. And Doris was like, you could also,

[Rhea]

like, could have had someone off to the side.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Rhea]

Like, being telling you.

[Fran]

I don't know. It was, like, too long. It was so fast. And that was it.

[Rhea]

What's your vision these days? Good.

[Fran]

Perfect.

[Rhea]

Yeah.

[Fran]

Was that basically so.

[Guest/Various Guests]

I don't know.

[Fran]

They said, congratulations, you passed. I didn't really get a score.

[Rhea]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Fran]

But good stuff. Good stuff. Yeah. So that was. That was almost just like, pause. I know. I literally would like his smirk.

[Rhea]

I keep looking up and just seeing him and being like, oh, my God, there he is.

[Fran]

Yeah, it was a nice smirk.

[Noah]

Ah.

[Fran]

Wow. You know what? It's, like, hard to talk about anything else with this being our thousandth episode, you know? Glenn, leave it on. Glenn, Glenn, Glenn. Soon enough we'll be able to talk about our time with Glenn.

[Monica Barbaro]

Yeah.

[Fran]

Soon. I tease. All right, well, beautiful green eyes.

[Rhea]

Did you notice that?

[Fran]

Yeah, he's Glenn fucking Powell, man.

[Rhea]

Yeah, so does Trent.

[Monica Barbaro]

Honestly.

[Fran]

Yes, Trent does have beautiful eyes.

[Rhea]

He's got beautiful eyes, too. Should we go through those bad boys?

[Fran]

We think about everyone's eyes, everybody's eyes,

[Rhea]

you know, everybody's looking good. Greg, this is Dave, obviously, pre haircut.

[Fran]

Yeah. It seemed like he got a haircut recently.

[Rhea]

He did.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Rhea]

Yeah, yeah. Greg also always cracks me up.

[Listener/Caller]

He's.

[Fran]

Keep fighting, keep fighting. Yeah. It's like, all right, well, thanks.

[Rhea]

He's always being. He's always a jokester.

[Fran]

I couldn't believe I said, I like

[Noah]

that it ended on Jake Shane.

[Fran]

I loved it because I like. He really is everywhere. I loved it, and we love it,

[Rhea]

and I love him, and I. You know, I like to think that he likes us.

[Monica Barbaro]

Too.

[Fran]

No, I like to think that he loves us as well, but he has so many friends.

[Rhea]

It's so true.

[Fran]

He has so many friends that it's like. I don't know if we crack. Crack it.

[Rhea]

Yeah. You know, enough to make the video, though. So I think that's.

[Fran]

Yeah. He went out of his way to make the video, and that's big. Yeah.

[Noah]

More than the Jonas Brothers can say.

[Rhea]

Well, no. Okay, you know, stop bringing it up.

[Fran]

It is what it is at this point.

[Rhea]

Okay, stop bringing it up. I'm going to continue to listen.

[Fran]

I'll.

[Rhea]

You know what? I'm gonna make a sign. Should I make a sign?

[Noah]

A sign.

[Rhea]

I got floor seats for msg. Oh, fun for burning up Tour all over again.

[Fran]

Yeah, make a sign.

[Rhea]

Giant sign. You did wish the office a happy.

[Fran]

Yes, absolutely. You should. Absolutely, you should. You have to make a sign. All right, I think that's it for the episode. I mean, we just wanted to celebrate a thousand, and we have this amazing video that we did not know was happening. Truly.

[Rhea]

I kind of had a feeling yesterday.

[Noah]

Fran was like, oh, is something. I'm like, no.

[Rhea]

Well, we were talking some logistics about the. About our next few episodes, and I could just read it on Noah's face because he, like, he. He was just. We were on Zoom or whatever when we were recording. He's like, yeah, I. I don't think

[Fran]

we should do that.

[Noah]

But did it not come out?

[Rhea]

And I'm like, okay. I just. I was picking up on the scent a little bit.

[Noah]

Didn't. Were you ever like, oh, I wonder if there. I feel like you had said it once, being like, are you making another video like the 5?

[Fran]

No. I genuinely didn't think anything of it. I'm not gonna lie.

[Rhea]

We only said it one time as a joke, and it was, like, months ago. Like, when we were. When we were in, like, the 900s, I think we were like, yeah, oh, what, are we gonna have another video?

[Fran]

And.

[Rhea]

But I don't think we.

[Fran]

I didn't think anything of it, so it was a genuine nice surprise. Yeah.

[Noah]

And it's like, 1,000 is like. There's not many milestones after a thousand. I was like, even 2000 doesn't sound that bad.

[Rhea]

No, a thousand is the big one. And because after a thousand, it's like maybe 5,000. 5,000 is insane.

[Fran]

Not many podcasts, I feel like, have reached that yet.

[Noah]

No, no.

[Fran]

So this is big.

[Noah]

Hey, Jonas, if they ever reached a thousand, good luck. We will not be fucking sending you a congrats.

[Fran]

Don't even ask. Oh, man.

[Rhea]

All right, well, see you at msg. I'll be there. Don't worry, guys.

[Fran]

Yeah, with a sign and everything. Well, thank you guys so much. And we'll, we'll talk to you on Friday. We'll be live from Palm Springs, so maybe we'll have topics, we'll have stories.

[Rhea]

I'm getting my dance on this weekend.

[Fran]

Yeah, we're gonna be dancing. It's gonna be great. We do have a great interview on today's episode.

[Rhea]

We do.

[Fran]

It does feel reminiscent of we're engaged. Plus out of the vine. It is the thousandth episode. Plus Monica Barbara.

[Rhea]

Yes. And you know what? We had so much fun with her and she is so fantastic that it does feel like a fantastic matchup.

[Fran]

It does. You know, she was so fun. Loved her. I really loved the interview.

[Rhea]

Yeah. So, yeah, I walked out of here gushing about her. So I feel like it's a. We're in such a happy mood right now. Everything's been so great. Celebrating a big thing and I feel like it's a good way to end the episode.

[Fran]

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[Rhea]

All right, everyone, we are here with a very special guest. We have Monica Barbaro in studio. We are so excited to have you here. We love you. We are such big fans and we watch One Night Only and we loved it. It is so fun.

[Monica Barbaro]

Thank you so much.

[Rhea]

And I just how excited are you for people to see this movie? Because it's, it's a little different from the last few things that you've done.

[Monica Barbaro]

Yeah, yeah. It's a little more absurd.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Monica Barbaro]

I'm so excited for people to see it. I, I genuine. This is one where like, yes, of course it's best for everyone if a movie does well in the box office. But like, this is one where I really feel like a lot of people would just have to such a fun time seeing it that I really. I want people to have that experience. I know that sounds. That may sound crazy, but that may

[Fran]

sound like, I don't think that fake so much sense. It's summer. We want fun movies. We love fun rom coms. Like, I think that makes total sense to want people just to have a good time while watching a movie.

[Monica Barbaro]

Yeah. There's something, like, cathartic about the movie, too. The way it talks about dating and, like, that kind of, again, absurdity. And then also just, like, it's in this world where, like, the government feels out of control, but, like, everyone's just trying to find love and do their thing.

[Rhea]

Yeah.

[Monica Barbaro]

And, like, live their lives, you know, Like.

[Rhea]

Yeah.

[Fran]

Because you.

[Rhea]

You kind of have to get Pat. Like, at first, you're kind of like, wait, I'm sorry, the government? And when you. And then you're like, oh, my God, they all have, like, their bio scanned. And you're like, wow. But then there's also funny commentary because you're kind of like, oh, this is absurd. But, like, crazy shit happens in this. In. In this world. And, like, but these people just want to find love.

[Monica Barbaro]

Yeah. And when, like, Molly Ringwald and LeVar Burton have this banter, like, they go back and forth about, like, why this happened. It's just like. It just feels, like, so real. It feels like every household in Covid just, like.

[Fran]

Right, exactly. How did you join the film? Like, when you received the premise, the script, how did you feel about it?

[Monica Barbaro]

I feel like absurd is the name of the game. I. I was pitched this, and I was like, I. I just. It was that kind of, like, what. That sounds crazy, but also made me laugh. And I just felt kind of immediately intrigued. And they were like, will wants to meet with you before you read the script. So I was like, like, for us, sometimes that's like a red flag. Like, as if the script is not going to be great. And then we had this meeting. He was like, super funny, super great. We have a friends in common. And. And he had a really interesting take on this movie where he was like, okay, I want you to watch Uncut Gems. I want you to watch Midnight Run and what was the other one? After Hours.

[Rhea]

Okay.

[Monica Barbaro]

And so I was like, you. That. That's not. You haven't mentioned a single rom com. But, like, tonally, it's such a specific take on this film. And then he sent the script, and I was, like, laughing out loud reading the whole thing. And so. And everyone that I trust who also read it Was like texting me live. Like, I keep laughing. It's really great. So it just kind of felt like a no brainer. And it's. It's a concept that's crazy. But it also makes you go like, what would I, what would I do? Or what does the rest of the world look like in that alternate universe?

[Fran]

That's the best kind of conversations after you leave a movie. When you leave the movie theater and you're talking to whoever you went with, you're like, what would you do? Also, we love so many of Will's movies. I feel like, like you said, like, watching just a fun movie is exactly what we get. Will Glock, the director, writer. So fun. I mean, we were just talking about Fired up right before this. We were like, we can't believe you did that movie. One of our favorites.

[Rhea]

Not one that's talked about enough in our opinion. No, Truly? Yeah.

[Monica Barbaro]

No one has mentioned Fired Up. I need to like, rewatch that.

[Rhea]

That is what is worth a rewatch because it is also so absurd. But you laugh at every single part and has done so many amazing rom coms. Easy A Friends with benefits. Like all these great movies.

[Fran]

And you know when you have those movies with your friends that you quote really often that maybe some people don't like, that's fired up for you.

[Rhea]

Yeah, I don't know. Really hit bro Heavy Dado.

[Noah]

Yeah, yeah,

[Rhea]

yeah.

[Fran]

No, no, no, don't say it.

[Rhea]

What does he say? Ted and Crocs.

[Fran]

I mean, we can go back and forth.

[Listener/Caller]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Fran]

I get knocked down. The whole movie is upset.

[Monica Barbaro]

Will is going to enjoy watching, watching you guys do this so much.

[Fran]

Like, get her off the screen.

[Monica Barbaro]

I've seen too much of Monica. I just want to watch them quote my movie.

[Fran]

Carly Davidson. Yeah, it's just one of those back and forth. So you have to rewatch it.

[Monica Barbaro]

I really need to rewatch it because

[Fran]

you're kind of like missing the inside joke here.

[Rhea]

So it is.

[Fran]

I'm missing everything.

[Rhea]

So good. But he also has some amazing pairings. You know, we watched anyone but you was so great. And Glenn and Sydney Sweeney were so great in that movie. And you and Callum Turner are so good in this. In this movie. What was your first interactions like with Callum? Had you met him before?

[Monica Barbaro]

No, we'd never met before. We met. Our first day that we met was at the beginning of like a short rehearsal period with Will. And he's just a great, nice, easygoing guy who also takes the work really seriously. So it's like that great combination of having high standards, but also really wonderful to work with. Oh, God. Bravery Smoothie is fighting back. My body's like, you're eating. Thank you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Guest/Various Guests]

He's.

[Monica Barbaro]

He's great. He's. And it was just, yeah, like, silly and fun and easy and. And Will, like, famously, with his rom coms, he loves that bite banter, kind of like ribbing comedy, and so that just felt very easy to do. I think my dog was there, and he was really great with my dog, and I was like, oh, you're a good person, you know?

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Fran]

That's like a telltale sign.

[Monica Barbaro]

It just kind of.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Monica Barbaro]

Is.

[Fran]

I feel like your press that you have been doing together has been so fun. Was that kind of the vibe on set?

[Monica Barbaro]

Yeah, it was just. I, like, I wouldn't say making the movie was easy because making a movie is always challenging and hard, and it was like 20 degrees in the middle of the night pretending it's the dead heat of summer. But it was easy in terms of the relationship with Callum and Will, and just like, we were like a. We were like a familial trio and just sort of, like, giving each other shit all the time. And. And also we had a lot of safety, which I think you need comedically to be able to try things and fall on your face and then try again. And, yeah, Will really fostered that kind of, like, freedom environment.

[Fran]

What's that feeling like when you sort of take a risk? Maybe you go off script and you want to try something funny and then it works or it doesn't work.

[Monica Barbaro]

I feel like you must. Well, never mind. You're funny all the time. I'm sure.

[Fran]

Yeah, I was just gonna say. Excuse me.

[Monica Barbaro]

I'm so sorry. Veronica, what's it like to fail at being funny?

[Fran]

I don't relate.

[Monica Barbaro]

I'm so sorry. I've never had that happen before.

[Fran]

So can you tell us more about it?

[Rhea]

Meanwhile, she made us do a whole bit for the podcast yesterday that she. Then she said we weren't being funny enough, and we cut the whole thing.

[Monica Barbaro]

What did that feel like for them?

[Fran]

Not good.

[Rhea]

For us, it was.

[Fran]

I was doing great. Just kidding.

[Monica Barbaro]

You just got the Will and us dynamic of. Yeah, scrap that. It's not funny.

[Fran]

Cut, cut. Yeah, but, yeah, that's the.

[Monica Barbaro]

Doing it. Like, I think the worst is trying to do something maybe five times and then him coming forward and being like, yeah, that's not working. You're like, we got that.

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Monica Barbaro]

Clear.

[Fran]

Picked up from your reaction.

[Monica Barbaro]

Yeah.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Yeah.

[Listener/Caller]

What's A.

[Monica Barbaro]

And the lack of crew smiling, everyone.

[Rhea]

Right?

[Fran]

Yeah. I feel like there's been more discussion lately about the way directors or the crew react to actors on set. What's a good reaction from Will?

[Monica Barbaro]

From Will? He gets this, like, cheeky smile. His shoulders are, like, up, and he'll, like, walk in like this and be like, that's really funny. That's really funny. He's, like, kind. He's, like, very cool. But he's also kind of an absolute nerd.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Monica Barbaro]

I don't know how to explain it. He's like. He's, like, young and with it. But then also there's, like, something. I'm so sorry, Will. There's something, like, deeply kind of dweeby about him in a really adorable, wonderful way. Kind of. Kind of like the Owen character in this movie where you're like, I think I love him even more when he's embarrassing himself in some capacity in a more endearing way. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're sort of like, oh, you're kind of a nerd.

[Rhea]

Yeah. And is it fun? Like, I feel like comedians talk about this all the time when they're in a room and they want a laugh, but maybe the audience can't laugh for some reason, so they're like, I don't know what. I don't know if this is funny or not. I really think of. Cause I always think of.

[Monica Barbaro]

That's what people tell themselves. They couldn't laugh, famously.

[Rhea]

The SNL audition musicians is like, no, they're all in the room.

[Fran]

No one laughs.

[Monica Barbaro]

Yes, I've heard.

[Rhea]

So it's like, you don't know. Like, you could have bombed or been really good, but no one really has a reaction. With a massive crew around you and you're. You're telling jokes, they can't audibly be laughing.

[Monica Barbaro]

Yes. They can't make noise, but. Oh, Luke on the Handicap. So we had. There was. It was a lot of, like, handheld cam, like I said, like, the Uncut Gems kind of energy of, like, that frenetic, kind of chaotic New York City energy was a part of how they filmed this. So. Poor thing. Especially when you're going through loads of comedic attempts and in these long scenes, like, a handheld camera is heavy. So he's just, like, living that way. But we knew we were onto something good when, like, you try to not know that the camera's there, but you kind of do. And we could always just see, like, from behind his. All you could see was this part of him, and you could just see. See when something was funny. He'd just get this really big grin. And so that was, like, our little tip off that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Rhea]

But they were going good.

[Monica Barbaro]

Yeah. But if we were in. In a giggle state and, like, couldn't control it and then he was doing that.

[Listener/Caller]

It was. It.

[Monica Barbaro]

That was. That was really hard. But, yeah, I think maybe that's the. Maybe that's the blessing of not waiting to hear laughter, like, because they can't. We can tell ourselves, like, oh, well, they would be laughing if they could.

[Fran]

Yeah, Right. We crushed that.

[Rhea]

Yeah, absolutely. Callum has, you know, famously British, although people may not realize that.

[Monica Barbaro]

Yeah.

[Rhea]

Because I think he does an amazing, like, New York.

[Monica Barbaro]

Yeah. Incredible accent.

[Rhea]

And it feels fairly authentic where it's like. But I do find that his American accent just in general, like, feels like a New York accent.

[Fran]

And he's done it multiple times now.

[Monica Barbaro]

Yeah. Masters of the air. He's an American pilot. Yeah. I think I. I thought it was flawless. Will would sometimes, like, catch a sound and I'd be like, will, I disagree. Yeah, it's perfect.

[Rhea]

Yeah. I thought it was great. Like, I thought he does a great, like. Like, good New York words. Not like. Like a character of a New York accent. Like.

[Monica Barbaro]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Rhea]

Like, it was. It was good. It was good.

[Monica Barbaro]

I think, if anything, that was maybe more of the. Like, Will would be like, that sounded like really New York.

[Fran]

You're gonna.

[Rhea]

Tore it down just a little bit.

[Monica Barbaro]

Yeah. We don't sound like that. Yeah, yeah.

[Fran]

I know you own a pizza shop,

[Rhea]

but just bring it down a little bit. And I guess also we're talking about the movie, like, everybody knows. We're talking about. The premise of this movie is that there's only one night a year that premarital sex is allowed.

[Monica Barbaro]

Yes.

[Rhea]

There's a ban on premarital sex. Government mandated. And there is one night. So it is a. It's a hilarious watch because when you see that clock hit. Chaos in the streets.

[Monica Barbaro]

Yes.

[Noah]

How.

[Rhea]

What were those moments like, filming in the streets of New York? Because everything is in New York City.

[Monica Barbaro]

That was. I mean, that was a test of my own ability to not. To try and not laugh at very hilarious things that were happening all around me.

[Rhea]

It was.

[Monica Barbaro]

It's hard to shoot in New York City because there's a lot of paparazzi, but also just, like, people walking by and staring. And also, we were shooting for summer, but it was the fall and winter, so we couldn't. You couldn't just blend the background into the shot. Like, we had to clear we had to wait and clear all of the people on the street a lot. And I just. I have adhd. So, like, anytime someone, like, stops and is like, is that Callum Turner? I'm like, I'm sorry, I can't. I don't know how to stay in the scene, which he was much, much better at. But, yeah, I mean, we had incredible background. Actually, most of them are actual couples. There was this one duo where I was like, you're a couple, right? And they're like, we're just friends. I was like, oh, okay.

[Listener/Caller]

Okay.

[Rhea]

Well, maybe not after today.

[Fran]

Eight hours later, are you guys still just friends?

[Guest/Various Guests]

Yeah.

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Rhea]

You guys have had to make out a lot in the back of this scene. Is it doing anything for you?

[Monica Barbaro]

Yeah. And that was the thing, too. Like, you'd start the day, and people were like, let's do it. And then, like, the eighth hour, they were like,

[Fran]

like, you guys don't need to kiss me.

[Monica Barbaro]

Here we go again.

[Fran]

What was it like? You know, you mentioned paparazzi. Maybe you go online, you see a shot from what you're filming. What's that reaction? Like, are you upset about it? Or you're like, this is just the name of the game now

[Monica Barbaro]

for this movie. It didn't bother me nearly as much as, like, for a complete unknown. It was sort of like I had to just, like, shut down, like, not look at any Internet anything. Because I know the number one comment is gonna be how wrong we are for the part or how, like, inaccurate it is or so. And I was, like, so terrified, so concerned with, like, getting everything right in that. In that film. And it's really distracting. Cause it doesn't feel like 1960s New York.

[Fran]

Yeah, it shot near me in Jersey.

[Monica Barbaro]

Oh, yeah.

[Fran]

I was actually stalking you guys. Do you live in Jersey? Yeah, I live in. Yeah, that was me. No, I live in Jersey City. And you. That's where a lot of the filming took place.

[Monica Barbaro]

Yes.

[Fran]

Because it looks I minded my business.

[Rhea]

I wasn't.

[Fran]

You know what I mean? Like, I was like, let them shoot.

[Rhea]

Just want to clarify.

[Fran]

I just want to clarify. I was telling everyone on the street to let you guys be.

[Monica Barbaro]

I would love for, like, footage to

[Fran]

leak of you just, like, it's me. She's not right for this. Yeah. Nominated for an Academy Award. Really?

[Rhea]

Oh, my gosh.

[Fran]

I disagree.

[Rhea]

But you're right. Like, it's playing. You're playing a real. Having to play a real person and then having the feedback from that paparazzi pictures from this is like, they don't know who I am. They don't know my character. They don't know really the details.

[Monica Barbaro]

And the main thing with this, I mean, again, it was just sort of the distracting element. But I found that in this kind of a situation, if you do talk to them directly, rather than, like, have someone, like, throw them off your set and, like, not treat them like a human being. Helps because, like, actually, a lot of them are. They understand. The ones who, like, come to sets, they seem to understand eyeline. So, like, if I was like, I have to look in that direction and act like something else is happening in front of me. Can you please get out of the eye line? They would understand that. Or, like, if our ad went to them and. And we're like, hey, can you guys just move over here? Like, often they were willing. Not always.

[Rhea]

Yeah, but yeah.

[Monica Barbaro]

Yeah. More often than not, the ones who are, like, really dedicated and are always on sets seem to kind of, I don't know, understand that. Which is weird, because then you're like, I don't know. It feels like there's, like, a machine around it that I just never knew about before.

[Rhea]

You made your job about this is your whole job, like, to do showing up at sets kind of.

[Monica Barbaro]

Kind of.

[Rhea]

Well.

[Monica Barbaro]

And then you're like, oh, I really don't want this element to leak. Or, like, you know, you don't want the end of the movie to be out in the press before it gets to happen in the. But luckily, the fun thing about this is that Ali fantasizes a lot. So, like, whatever has been seen on the Internet as you're watching the movie, that may or may not be really what happens in this.

[Rhea]

I do. That is a smart way to do it, too, because I actually do really remember seeing all the paparazzi shots of Pete Davidson and, oh, yeah, Bobby. Bobby Cannavale are like. I remember seeing those shots of them filming, and everyone was like, oh, they're in this movie. It's the whole thing. And then watching it, I'm like, there they. There they are. That's their moment. Because it's really just like a. Like a kind of a quick cameo type thing.

[Monica Barbaro]

Yeah.

[Rhea]

So you don't know until you watch the movie. Like, you're looking at these pictures, you don't really know what's going on.

[Fran]

Right. And as consumers, like, we don't want to be spoiled either. So it is a weird line of being excited. People love you guys, seeing you guys film a movie together, but then being like, wait, we don't want it to be spoiled. Yeah, we want to be surprised as well.

[Monica Barbaro]

Yeah.

[Rhea]

Which I still felt we got with them. Like, I. Yeah, it was.

[Monica Barbaro]

You didn't feel spoiled?

[Fran]

No.

[Monica Barbaro]

Amazing. Also, when you've got, like, boob tape or like a harness or like something, you're like, can you. Can you please, please just not share

[Fran]

the one where my.

[Rhea]

Right, right.

[Monica Barbaro]

Actual tits are out? Yeah, that would be.

[Fran]

That would be kind.

[Monica Barbaro]

So appreciate that.

[Listener/Caller]

Thank you.

[Rhea]

Really appreciate that. Asria did just joke, but in all seriousness, Academy Award nominee.

[Monica Barbaro]

Oh, yeah.

[Rhea]

Which is so incredible. That movie was.

[Fran]

I thought you were gonna talk about my tits.

[Rhea]

Yeah, I thought about it, but I decided to spin it to a tier Academy Award nominee.

[Fran]

We'd like to take the next 20 minutes.

[Rhea]

Yeah. Thank God I have that.

[Monica Barbaro]

We don't have to just talk about my tits.

[Rhea]

Yeah. Instead of the being an Academy, the Oscars.

[Noah]

No, no, no.

[Fran]

Let's go back.

[Rhea]

Let's go back, but let's elevate it. That is. That has got to be just one of the most fulfilling feelings, getting that nomination. Where were you when you were told about it or watched it?

[Monica Barbaro]

I was in London, so it was like middle of the day, and I was in a fitting with an incredible costume designer who is friends with our costume designer. And we were actually kind of looking more to see if the costume designer got it and, like, who of the group got it. But I. I didn't. I did not have any expectation that, that. That I would be in that on that list. That was a. That was like a nuts. That was crazy. I mean, like, I had to kind of like process it the night before a little bit because people told me it could happen, but there was no, like, oh, for sure this is happening. I don't know that anyone feels that way, but some people, like, through the process of an awards season, are constantly getting nominations. So it maybe is a little bit more like, still exciting, but kind of like, okay, we thought this would happen. I was definitely more of like a late kind of surprise. So it was truly nuts is the

[Rhea]

timing of, like when that movie was released was definitely on the. On the later side of the year.

[Monica Barbaro]

Yeah.

[Rhea]

So it was like, I remember trying to kind of rush to make sure I saw it before all the nominations and things started to come out well

[Monica Barbaro]

and like, Timmy and Ed had gotten Golden Globe recognition and BAFTA recognition and so, you know, maybe critics choice too. And so I just. I didn't. There was no assumption that I would be a part of that. And so that was kind. It was kind of mind blowing and like, just the coolest. So amazing ever.

[Fran]

How did you prepare for that? Because you go in and, like, you said, you weren't even expecting a nomination, but then you do get the nomination. Now you have to sit there and be like, am I gonna win this? What's gonna happen? How do I react when I win? How do I react if I don't win? Like, what is the thought process going into that night?

[Monica Barbaro]

This sounds kind of crazy, but, like, you do get a sense. I mean, there are a lot of online bets going on about these things. Like, people study it, and that doesn't mean you can predict it.

[Fran]

There's a lot of stats.

[Monica Barbaro]

Yeah, there's a lot of stats involved. And the stats about me said, she's not gonna win it. So I actually felt so certain that I wasn't going to get it. But I also felt like maybe this is the only time in my entire life that this. This will have ever happened. And everything I've done up until this point has gotten me here. And, you know, like, you don't want to do a disservice to it just because, like, you want to just embrace it and be present and really enjoy it. I had my dad with me because he's just, like, the least starstruck person in the world. And so it was really just, like, a very calming energy. Like, he's just there to. I mean, and yet, when we walked into the theater right before it started, he kind, Like. I could hear his. He, like, kind of held his breath and was like, whoa. Because it's just this huge. I mean, it's larger than life. And I was like, oh, yeah. Cause I'd been two years prior, and because I'd just been in this sort of publicity hole, I forgot to, like, take that moment and look. And he was really receiving it. And I was like, oh, oh, yeah. I'm so glad you're here. Someone who is not used to this or not jaded by it or overly experienced, he just. It was like, really, when he's impressed, it's, like, genuine, you know, and really

[Fran]

grounding, because it can really take you to that moment, which is hard to do, especially I feel like, with the recent years that you had. Because starting with Top Gun, I feel like, you know, when people talk about your career, they go back to Top Gun, and they're like this breakthrough moment. And then from there, did it kind of feel just like, oh, my gosh, I'm so booked and busy now. My whole world is changing? Yeah.

[Noah]

Yes.

[Listener/Caller]

And no.

[Monica Barbaro]

I mean, we also filmed top gun in 2018. 2019. So we sat on it for a really long time, and that felt like the slowest, longest period of time in my whole life.

[Fran]

And then.

[Monica Barbaro]

Yeah. I mean, I don't know. It's funny. It's like all. I guess it's all perspective because I think to other. To some other people, it feels like it's rapid fire, like, building so quickly. And to me, maybe because I've been doing this for so long, it feels less like that. And yet I haven't been home for more than, like, five days, I feel like, in three years.

[Rhea]

Right.

[Monica Barbaro]

So I don't know. I don't know that I, like, have perspective.

[Fran]

Right. Well, you have been working in this industry for so long as well. Like you said, how did you initially get into it? Like, is it. Is acting something you did when you were younger? Is it something you always had love for? Like, what is more of your earlier story?

[Monica Barbaro]

I. I was in ballet. I was put in ballet, like, very, very young. And. But then when I was 12, in my school, like, everyone was required. It was, like, required Shakespeare. And we did A Midsummer Night's Dream. And I. I just felt it was that thing where I was like, oh, this is, like, what. I love this so much. This is the hardest I've ever worked on anything. And I, like, memorized everyone's lines and was like, time didn't cease to exist when I had that play open and was just reading through it. And I still didn't do it for a really long time. Cause I was kind of afraid of quitting ballet and also embracing what I felt would seem kind of like a pipe dream or, like. I don't know. I think I felt like it was. Like, if you say you want to be an actor, you're saying that you want to be famous or you want to, like. The associations with it, I felt like, were not as positive as it was certainly in my family. To be. To be. To excel at, like, a classical art form like ballet. Like that to my parents, I think was very special. And. Yeah, it's also, like, hard to leave something. Like, all my friends were in ballet and.

[Rhea]

And you were at. You were at NYU for. For dance.

[Monica Barbaro]

Yeah.

[Rhea]

And the acting was kind of like, did I still.

[Monica Barbaro]

I held out for a really long time.

[Rhea]

A few acting classes, but, like, really held on to. To. To dance. I mean, ballet has got to be one of the strictest disciplines to participate in. What was that like for you growing up? Because I know it can be very tough on a lot of young Girls being in ballet.

[Monica Barbaro]

Oh, completely.

[Rhea]

Yeah.

[Monica Barbaro]

Yeah. It took me years to get, you know, Whiplash. Yes. It took me years to get the artistic director of my ballet school to get her voice out of my head. And it was one that, for me, in my experience, was semi similar to that dynamic. Maybe not J.K. simmons. Yeah. I was like, oh, yep. And Miles character, like, also, like, wants more of it and becomes. It is a little bit chicken or the egg. Like, I know I was friends. Other friends of mine quit well before it got to that stage. So, like, the friends of mine I have who stayed in it with me, we sometimes are like. But also, was I kind of built for it? Did I like that kind of feedback? So, yeah.

[Fran]

That is an interesting conversation to have, though, Right. Because although very hard, you're like, is there a part of me that was thriving off that?

[Monica Barbaro]

Yeah. Cause I'm like, other kids quit. I remember there was a girl. We were about to have, like, one new teacher who was super strict, and I remember she was like. She was like, I. I'm so scared of that teacher. I'm quitting. And I was like, that's wild. But also makes a lot of sense and good for her. And my friends and I were like, nope. Yeah, gonna stay in it.

[Rhea]

Yeah.

[Monica Barbaro]

Yeah.

[Fran]

It's like proving something to yourself and to other people, weirdly.

[Monica Barbaro]

Yeah. You know, I think that maybe is a part of also why it. It felt hard to walk away from why I didn't just pivot into, like. I mean, I had. There were great drama programs in my hometown and at my high school and film, there was a. My school had, like, a public school in California. It had this amazing film program, which I also wanted to be a part of, but I just kept. I stayed in ballet.

[Rhea]

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[Monica Barbaro]

I actually kind of thought I was like, well, once I'm at nyu, maybe I can like, start auditioning while I'm in class for like 12 hours a day with the dance conservatory. It was just nuts. I don't know. Somehow in my fantasy I was like, I'll become an actor once I get there.

[Rhea]

Right. That's just step one.

[Listener/Caller]

Yeah.

[Rhea]

It's like, get to New York and we'll figure it out from there.

[Monica Barbaro]

It's like an old timey, like, musical. I'm like, once I'm in New York, I can do it.

[Rhea]

Okay.

[Fran]

Maybe not exactly in that way. But you did do it.

[Rhea]

Yes.

[Noah]

You know?

[Monica Barbaro]

Yeah. I then had to like, like after college, had no money, had to like, leave New York and move back home. But it was San Francisco, which was a smaller market, to kind of like, right. Start out in the commercial thing. So it's kind of the opposite. I was like, oh, New York's big.

[Fran]

Get out of here.

[Monica Barbaro]

And then. Yeah.

[Fran]

Do you remember those early auditions?

[Monica Barbaro]

Yeah. Some of them were so rough. I think the worst one I ever had was one where it was like, the group all comes in. There's a group of people watching, like, like, we all come in, we introduce ourselves. And then like six people were told to wait like, off to the side, like they would be over there while one person is pretending they're in a water fight. And I was first. I was the guinea pig. And it was like, pretend you're in a water fight and just like improvise like you're talking to someone. But they weren't going to improvise with me. I just had to respond to nobody in a corner while six people stood there and watched me. And I remember that being like, can I, Can I keep doing this? Can I? I do have just enough shame to feel like this is so embarrassing.

[Rhea]

Like, did you. Would you have to pretend the water was being, like, thrown on you?

[Monica Barbaro]

It was like, stop it.

[Rhea]

Like, literally.

[Fran]

That's what I did.

[Monica Barbaro]

And then I also found out, and then they let me go after. So, like, the last person got to do that with no one in the room. I had to do it with everyone in the room.

[Rhea]

Yeah, yeah.

[Monica Barbaro]

And it was kind of that thing where it was like, okay, let's try something else. Like, they weren't organized, so they were just trying things.

[Fran]

And I was like, okay, just try something else now. Sure. On me. Okay, cool. Okay. That's amazing.

[Rhea]

And okay. So really, you are a triple threat. Because the dancing.

[Noah]

Because I can pick.

[Fran]

Tend to be in a water fight.

[Rhea]

Yeah.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Rhea]

Quadruple, actually.

[Monica Barbaro]

I didn't get the job.

[Rhea]

Waterside down. And you have an amazing voice.

[Fran]

Thank you.

[Rhea]

Like, you're amazing singer. I loved seeing that be a part of one night only, because, you know, we. We saw, obviously, in a complete unknown, very different kind of singing for. For one night only. And I was, like, really laughing because these are some funny jingles that. That you're doing. But did you want to sing again in this movie, or was it something that maybe you were worried about because now people. Well, she's a singer.

[Monica Barbaro]

I mean, I thought I would be more prepared for it this time around, and I found out that I am just as terrified as I always was. It was less pressure because I didn't have to emulate someone who is so beloved. And also, I kind of tailored the character to be anxious about it in a way that I could just be my anxious self about it and then some and, like, have that be a part of the character more so. So that. So that was nice to get to, like, kind of be honest about it and to have slightly less pressure, but at the same time, I still am just, like. I mean, ballet. I can be, like, really hard on myself and want it to sound really, really good and do my absolute best. And if it's not sounding like the best thing I've ever heard, I'll just keep, like, going back over it. But I. I got to work with the same vocal coach I did on a complete unknown. So he. He knew the game right away.

[Fran]

He was like, we're back.

[Monica Barbaro]

And we actually, like, that was another thing. We would. We would. We would rehearse the song, and we would just, like, bust up laugh. Particularly the psoriasis song.

[Fran]

Yes.

[Monica Barbaro]

We would just laugh so hard. It was, like, hard to get through it, which. That felt cathartic too. To kind of put music in that space and just have it be a little bit more free and just silly.

[Rhea]

Yeah. And it was so funny because we all see the commercials all the time.

[Fran]

So relatable.

[Rhea]

So it was funny to think, like, I was like, wow, who does sing those songs? You know, Like.

[Monica Barbaro]

Yeah.

[Rhea]

Which makes you laugh.

[Monica Barbaro]

Just like a working singer.

[Listener/Caller]

Yeah.

[Rhea]

And. And when it kind of. When the movie introduces your character, I was like, oh, that's so nice. Like, she's a singer in New York, and then you. Then psoriasis comes out. I was like, oh, this is a different. She's not, like, recording her new album.

[Fran]

Something we joke about on our podcast too, are these jingles. So it did feel very relatable.

[Rhea]

Apparently, they don't have so many funny ones.

[Monica Barbaro]

They don't have them in Australia or England. They're, like, illegal there.

[Rhea]

I could see. I could see that. I mean, because they are catchy. Yeah, but it's so catchy.

[Monica Barbaro]

It's dangerous.

[Noah]

Yeah.

[Rhea]

But it is really just a complete ripoff of an original song.

[Guest/Various Guests]

Yeah.

[Rhea]

Yeah. Someone else's song.

[Monica Barbaro]

Well, and maybe it's like the promotion of pharmaceutical.

[Rhea]

I don't know.

[Fran]

It really ropes you in music. Just gets you going.

[Monica Barbaro]

Yeah.

[Fran]

I was like, are they gonna get it in those?

[Monica Barbaro]

Will they be like, what?

[Fran]

No, no.

[Monica Barbaro]

But I think they will.

[Fran]

Yeah. Because you talked about how, you know, you're a perfectionist when it comes to these things and how singing in a movie can make you anxious. Is it something you want to keep doing? Is, you know, doing films where you are singing, or is it something you kind of just like, if it feels right?

[Monica Barbaro]

I think if it. I think if it feels right, I'm not seeking that out. And I wasn't for this, but I was like, okay. I actually think, yeah, it's nice to take some time off of it. But, yeah, if another one came up that I felt really excited about and had to do that, I'd be like, okay.

[Rhea]

Yeah. It makes so much sense in this movie. And I think Will has done, like, his. There's so many iconic musical moments in his movies that it. That it makes sense. You're like, well, this fits this movie. And working with him to do it this way, because there are so many, like, yeah, you know, you think about that big friends with benefits scene. Like, there's just so many big musical

[Monica Barbaro]

moments and, like, Pocket Full of Sun.

[Fran]

I was just gonna say that.

[Rhea]

Like, there's really so many things that it makes. And now when you hear the song, it makes you think of the movie.

[Monica Barbaro]

Yeah, yeah.

[Rhea]

And.

[Monica Barbaro]

And they're catchy for a reason. And also, I got to work with SD Haim, and she did, because she's, like, our composer on it. And not only am I just obsessed with her now, but she. She. She was just so great with understanding the comedy and also, like, getting my confidence up and, like, just playing. So our recording sessions were some of the most fun that I had. Even, like, Andrew Burnap, who, like, plays the song on the piano with me. We were with Will, like, trying to find the best possible song for that. And then once we found it, we're like, okay, how do we harmonize it? How do we do. And we had this. We had a little rehearsal thing moment in the recording studio set because there was a piano there where we were just trying stuff. And I was like, this is, like. I think this is literal heaven. This is so fun to get to just play with sd, try things, and design a song. I was like, I would love to work on music in some capacity if it can be the way SD does it, where it's just, like, fun and trying things and energy and, you know, free in that way. And she's so talented.

[Rhea]

Yeah.

[Fran]

I don't know if this is a weird thing to say, but you can tell by your speaking voice that you're a phenomenal singer.

[Monica Barbaro]

You know, you so much.

[Fran]

Like, you just can. Right.

[Monica Barbaro]

I.

[Rhea]

You're right.

[Fran]

It's just.

[Rhea]

I think you guys also would be great singers.

[Monica Barbaro]

Really.

[Fran]

Some of the worst you'll ever hear.

[Rhea]

Nope. Can. No, no.

[Fran]

Trust me. Our listeners are really tired of us.

[Rhea]

You know, I really love loving this interview. And we don't need to drop. We don't need people to drop.

[Fran]

We don't need you to think of us differently. We don't need other people to think of us differently. Like, it's okay.

[Monica Barbaro]

I do find. I think you guys both have incredible speaking voices.

[Fran]

Well, thank God we speak for a living. Thank you very much.

[Rhea]

But it does. Unfortunately for us, it does not translate.

[Monica Barbaro]

It doesn't translate.

[Fran]

I've always wanted it to translate. It's like, my dream, but it's actually so bad that it's not. Can't even be worked on.

[Monica Barbaro]

I don't think that's true.

[Fran]

No, it is true. Because when I was younger and my acting teacher said, hey, can I hear you sing Happy Birthday? But see, no, can I hear you just like, well, I want to see a tune, And I sang Happy Birthday. She said, it's not gonna be for you. We're just gonna Stick to the acting. You're not gonna be able to do the singing part, you know?

[Monica Barbaro]

Yeah, but I don't. That kid. I don't believe.

[Fran]

Monica.

[Rhea]

When we finish, maybe it's true.

[Monica Barbaro]

When we finish, can I hear a song?

[Rhea]

But when for you?

[Monica Barbaro]

Yeah.

[Rhea]

When did you find, like, who was the first person to tell you, wait, I think you can sing. Were you singing at a young age?

[Monica Barbaro]

No, I did a singular, like, season with a choir. Like, extracurricular. Should I try this? It was not real. And then I would sing at home to myself, but not much. And then.

[Rhea]

So was it really like a complete unknown where you were like, like, I'm going to sing for this.

[Monica Barbaro]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And like the occasional thing, maybe in an acting class capacity, it'd be like, ah, you should maybe do. Have you ever, like, thought about that? It was that kind of thing. But, yeah, I think it was a complete unknown where it was like, okay, just natural.

[Fran]

Yeah.

[Monica Barbaro]

No, truly, though, Eric Vetra, like, I could not sing the songs that she sang in the register that she did. And Eric is a magician. Yeah. I had strep at the beginning of. At the end of this play run that I was just doing in London, and I had to do some ADR for this movie, including, like, sing a note or two to, like, clean up some stuff from set. And. And he. I don't know how he did it. I was like, I came in like a toad and then I was singing

[Rhea]

and then they just fixed it.

[Monica Barbaro]

Suddenly I was like, I have to. I have to have like, an equal animal to, like, a songbird.

[Fran]

I don't know. How do.

[Monica Barbaro]

I came in like a toad and was a beautiful hummingbird.

[Rhea]

How did you like working on.

[Noah]

How did you.

[Rhea]

Yeah, seriously, how'd you like working on the. On the West End?

[Monica Barbaro]

Oh, London theater is like the best. It's the coolest. It. The community is just really gorgeous and funny and wild, and I had a really great time with that.

[Rhea]

Was theater something you were interested in, like, when you first. Cause I feel like there's people who want to be an actor and they're like, I want to be in movies and then I want to do theater. And sometimes they don't really overlap.

[Monica Barbaro]

Yeah, I've wanted to do anything and everything since I've started, and I missed being on stage. That was my first play, like, official play, and I really loved dancing on stage, so I was really excited about that. And it was incredible. And the national kind of was like, it sort of feels like going to college in a way. Or like drama school or something. It feels almost like you're in dorms and like they have all the resources available to you that you might need. And it's. They're like, there's a subscriber base, so the audiences are always like, really strong. And it just. Yeah. It was just like the best way to launch into it.

[Rhea]

That's amazing. We have to wrap up. We could probably talk for like another hour. I'm having so much fun. But my last question for you is a. You gotta pick somebody out of. You've had some amazing co stars.

[Sponsor/Advertisement]

Mm.

[Rhea]

If you were to be on a strand, you had to be on a stranded deserted island with one co star. I'll give you three to pick from. Glen Powell, Timothy Chalamet, Calum Turner. Who. Who would you like to be stranded on a desert island with? They're all great picks.

[Fran]

Also like a Mary Kill.

[Rhea]

We won't do that.

[Listener/Caller]

We won't do that.

[Fran]

But it's like, we could talk about that on a different show.

[Monica Barbaro]

Which also should be like a Mary kid. It should be like a Mary Be my friend.

[Rhea]

Right, right.

[Fran]

Friend zone.

[Monica Barbaro]

Because like, sometimes you're just like, I don't want to kill anyone.

[Rhea]

Totally.

[Fran]

Right, right, right.

[Monica Barbaro]

Stranded island.

[Rhea]

Who's that? Who's getting you off the island? Glenn can fly a plane.

[Monica Barbaro]

The trouble it.

[Rhea]

That is so true.

[Monica Barbaro]

He just there logistics a plane there.

[Rhea]

He could maybe build one.

[Monica Barbaro]

And Glenn's like.

[Fran]

But I.

[Monica Barbaro]

No, he's sort of like a friend of ours now. So it feels like like kind of that's what I'm going through. Like, I'm not sure, but because he and I are like friends. If he sees like, he sees this. He didn't pick me.

[Fran]

Possibly see it.

[Monica Barbaro]

And you don't even know that guy as well as me. Be like, yeah, okay, so we'll just whisper.

[Rhea]

That's got to be Glenn.

[Fran]

It's got to be Glenn. We can see it.

[Monica Barbaro]

I don't know. Like, how is like when actors have been doing this for a long time, like their survival skills, I feel like fall away because me included, like, I earlier today locked my entire team out of my hotel room because, like, I didn't even think to bring the hotel key.

[Fran]

Right?

[Monica Barbaro]

So like, we lose our sense of self sufficiency. So I feel like. I feel like Glenn when I knew him, Top Gun, like, would remember would. Would maybe be able to get us off the island nowadays. Like, I don't know how big movie.

[Rhea]

Starglone Powell.

[Monica Barbaro]

I don't know, maybe Stargirl and Powell, has he lost the ability to.

[Rhea]

So fair question.

[Fran]

I also think Glenn.

[Rhea]

He's got that Texas in him.

[Fran]

Yeah. And I also think Glenn would be pumped to be chosen. You know what I mean? Like, I don't know.

[Monica Barbaro]

Kellen would be like, all right.

[Fran]

Yeah. I don't know. You know what?

[Monica Barbaro]

I want the guy who's gonna be

[Fran]

excited that I chose him. I don't know the other two, so I can't speak to that. But Glenn I know would be like, yes.

[Rhea]

Yeah.

[Fran]

You know?

[Monica Barbaro]

Yeah. And that's, like, why we're friends. Cause he's just very. He's just such a fun, enthusiastic. Okay. I think for the record, I think Colin would do a great job getting off the island, but, like, yeah, I'd love to hang out.

[Rhea]

And Timothy doesn't stand a chance. That's what we. That's what we. That's what we. Also clarify.

[Monica Barbaro]

I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. I just saw him play guitar.

[Rhea]

Thank you so, so much for coming. This was so much fun. One night Only is out Friday, August 7th, in theaters. Go see it. It's such a fun summer rom com. You'll laugh. It's great. Music's great. You're gonna love it. So head to the theaters to check it out. Thank you so much.

[Fran]

Thank you so much.

[Monica Barbaro]

Thank you, guys.

[Fran]

So fun.

[Monica Barbaro]

It's so fun. It's as fun as it seems like it would be.

[Fran]

Oh, my God.

[Noah]

Really?

[Fran]

So lovely. All right, that wraps up the 1000th episode of Chicks in the Office. We love you so very much. Thank you so much for watching and listening. Thank you to the team. Thank you to the listeners. Thank you to Fran. Thank you to me.

[Monica Barbaro]

Yes.

[Rhea]

Thank you to you. Thank you to Rhea.

[Fran]

To pat myself on the back as well. And we'll talk to you on Friday. See you then.

[Guest/Various Guests]

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[Listener/Caller]

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[Guest/Various Guests]

first time caller

[Listener/Caller]

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