Situationships, Spotlight, and Side-Eye with Sydney Kane

Summary

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Detox Retox with Tom Schwartz

Episode: "Situationships, Spotlight, and Side-Eye" with Sydney Kane
Release Date: February 11, 2026
Guest: Sydney Kane (NYC-based actor, singer, comedian, writer)
Notable Segment: Alex Baskin (EP of Vanderpump Rules, The Valley, etc.)

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Episode Overview

In this vibrant, candid episode, Tom Schwartz sits down with Sydney Kane—multihyphenate performer and creator of the acclaimed one-woman musical comedy Wife Material. Together, they unpack relationships, the realities of showbiz, creative inspiration, and the sometimes-messy journey from pain to performance. The conversation is warm, funny, and at times deeply vulnerable, highlighting both the chaos and beauty of pursuing art and love in LA and NYC. There’s also plenty of insider nostalgia about LA’s iconic Belmont bar, musical theater confessions, and millennial musings on dating, self-worth, and the “ick.”

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Belmont: Vanderpump History & Nostalgia

[01:25 - 06:10]

• Alex Baskin opens with a “forward” on The Belmont: its significance in the Vanderpump Rules universe and personal stories with Tom Schwartz.
  • Quote (Alex Baskin, 01:25):
    “Few places in the history and the lore of Vanderpump Rules loom quite as large as the Belmont...it’s where Tom Schwartz and I would get together to catch up and check in. It was where he made his ultimately compelling pitch to be on the show.”
• Tom and the team reminisce about the Belmont as a “third space” for the VPR cast—comparing it to Cheers, emphasizing its role as an emotional anchor beyond just a backdrop.
  • Quote (Tom Schwartz, 05:01):
    “Not at home, not at work, you just feel cozy there...like McLaren's pub in How I Met Your Mother.”
• Personal stories of karaoke nights, first kisses, friendships, and infamous VPR moments all rooted in Belmont lore.

2. Getting to Know Sydney Kane: Identity & Artistic Drive

[06:42 - 14:14]

• Tom introduces Sydney—highlighting her artist's hustle, humor, and the upcoming show “Wife Material.”
• Rapid-fire banter about Route 66, LA landmarks, and Disneyland’s Cars ride—lighthearted, self-deprecating admissions about “not knowing where anything is on a map.”
• Schwartz praises Sydney’s jack-of-all-trades creativity; Sydney jokes her sexuality is “artist.”
  • Quote (Sydney Kane, 10:55):
    “My sexuality is artist—which actually, that kind of tracks.”
• Discussion of artistic identity, imposter syndrome, and creative programs. Sydney critiques the lack of nurturing in competitive musical theater education, calling for more balance between toughness and support.
  • Quote (Sydney Kane, 13:11): “These cutthroat programs force you into these boxes and tropes…it’s not productive…Artists need to be nurtured, like plants.”

3. Theater Kids, College Life & Vices

[13:36 - 18:50]

• The pair swap stories about high school/college theater productions and unexpected vices (weed, underage drinking).
  • Both did “Grease”—Sydney as Rizzo, Tom as Eugene (until underage drinking got him kicked out).
  • Stereotype-busting: “Most theater kids are secret stoners.”
  • Sydney’s endearing story about being caught with tiny airplane bottles of vodka at theater camp and what it taught her about consequences and being “too honest.”
  • Quote (Sydney Kane, 17:31):
    “It was such a small amount and that ratted me out…Instead of flushing it, I go, it’s me, here are the bottles, I’m so sorry. I get kicked out.”

4. The State of Pop Culture: Super Bowl, Love, and Divorce

[19:31 - 23:00]

• They rave about the recent Super Bowl halftime show by Bad Bunny—its theatricality, inclusivity, and unifying power.
  • Quote (Sydney Kane, 20:09):
    “He’s literally American...and he’s Bad motherfucking Bunny.”
  • Discuss performative outrage and political backlash, especially around culture and language.
  • Schwartz: “Music transcends borders and language, right? It’s the universal love language.” [20:53]
• Light but real talk about love, marriage, and (amicable) divorce.
  • Schwartz makes divorce sound liberating, joking: “I’m a big fan of divorce. Staying together when it’s not right is sad.”

5. Wife Material: Sydney’s One-Woman Show

[25:49 - 34:46]

• The heart of the episode: Sydney introduces Wife Material, born from a “bad situationship” and a sarcastic comment (“you’re not wife material”).
  • Quote (Sydney Kane, 26:16): “It’s a one woman musical comedy…I wrote it because someone told me I wasn’t wife material. I was in a really bad situationship, and now it’s just a very...pointed [and] telling of it.”
• The creative process: turning messy dating scenarios into cathartic art, the push from deadlines, and growing the show from NYC cabaret to multiple cities.
• Honest discussion of emotional labor:
  • Sydney sees the show as her “baby” and confesses to both moments of pride and love/hate (“It has given me everything in my career…it’s stressful being a mom, but I’m a mess at all times.”)
• A peek at her musical team and admiration for her collaborators, especially her long-standing musical director David Davin.

6. Creativity, Confidence, and Vulnerability

[35:09 - 36:04]

• Dissecting the word "creative"—feeling both pride and cringing at its pretentiousness.
  • “You can’t be confident and talk about yourself nowadays…confidence is key, but it makes people cringe.”
• Real talk about loving your own art, and how love and hate for your own work can exist side by side.
  • Quote (Sydney Kane, 35:56):
    “Love and hate are really closely correlated. Sometimes I literally have moments where I hate my show, but I love it so much.”

7. The Art of Bearing (Almost) All

[36:15 - 37:29]

• Sydney literally and metaphorically bares all in her show (revealing costumes, honest scripts), making performance an act of vulnerability.
• Shoutouts to her costume designers (Griffin Petria, Rachel Hyman) and stylistic choices that reflect her journey.

8. Music, Performance and Pre-Show Rituals

[47:37 - 51:12]

• Musical influences: Charlie XCX, Jesse Murph, Taylor Swift, Amy Winehouse, Ariana Grande.
• Sydney speaks about the transformative, looping quality of music—and even sings a bit of “Sympathy is a Knife” by Charli XCX (Ariana Grande version), putting her vocal talents and impressions (especially Ariana) on display.
  • Quote (Sydney Kane, singing, 50:16):
    “It’s a knife when you know they’re counting on your mistakes...”

9. Navigating Social Media, Validation & Criticism

[52:16 - 53:04]

• Sydney discusses the challenge of internet criticism—especially men uncomfortable with funny women or her appearance.
  • “Men don’t like it when women are funny…One thing men have commented on is my nose. It’s so random. I look like Squidward—they say that. I love Squidward.”

10. Love, Dating, & Situationships in LA & NYC

[58:41 - 67:01]

• Both share their outlooks on love: Tom considers himself lucky; Sydney is more self-effacing, admitting she’s a “lover girl” but often picks the wrong person, ignores red flags (“I’m colorblind. Red looks like green to me”).
  • Exploration of “limerence” (obsessive love/infatuation), ADHD/neurodiversity and attachment patterns.
  • Dating app war stories, including a frustrating run-in with “Raya” and how even her “situationship” inspired Wife Material.
  • The difference between dating in LA and NYC; how LA’s reputation masks the importance of finding one’s people.
  • Sydney on introspection: “If you do go through a breakup, don’t just wallow. Turn it into musical comedy.”

11. Advice, Friendship, and Artistic Audacity

[74:03 - 79:34]

• How to process breakups and rejection: journal, talk to friends, don’t settle, and embrace the growth that comes from making mistakes.
  • “My advice: get third-degree burns. If you don’t learn the first time, it’s the sixth time you finally get it.”
• Schwartz muses about how “people will choose a familiar hell over an unfamiliar heaven”—the challenge and temptation to stay stuck.

12. Endnotes & Show Details

[80:41 - 83:20]

• Final promo: Wife Material at the Hudson Theater, Feb 16, 7:00pm (tickets via Sydney’s social or Onstage411.com).
• Tom promises: “If you come and say you listen to the podcast, I’ll buy you a drink. We’ll go to the Belmont after.”
• Sydney thanks exes for “fueling the fire”—turning painful situations into comedic gold.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the Belmont:
  “They aren’t just like backdrop settings. They’re emotional museums. From ass tats to relationship spats… there’s joy, nostalgia, and some pain, but more joy than pain.” — Tom Schwartz, [05:01]
• On Artistic Identity:
  “My sexuality is artist. It kind of tracks.” – Sydney Kane, [10:55]
• On Nurturing Artists:
  “In these cutthroat programs, you’re forced into boxes and tropes… it’s not productive for artists. Artists need to be nurtured, like plants.” — Sydney Kane, [13:11]
• On Pain to Performance:
  “I wrote [Wife Material] because someone told me I wasn’t wife material. I was in a bad situationship, and now it’s a very pointed telling of it, because he put me through hell.” – Sydney Kane, [26:16]
• On Catharsis:
  “Everything stems from pain…is it cathartic? Yes!” — Sydney Kane, [30:40]
• On Love & Dating:
  “I’m a pessimist because it protects me, but I’m actually a lover girl. I crave connection.” — Sydney Kane, [64:09]
• On Red Flags:
  “You ignore red flags?” (Schwartz) “Like it’s my job. I’m colorblind. Red looks like green to me.” — Sydney Kane, [66:21]
• On Advice:
  “Get third degree burns. If you don’t learn from the first time… you’ll probably learn from the sixth. That’s the only way you’re not going to do it again.” — Sydney Kane, [76:16]
• On Audacity:
  “She’s living out her dreams. The art of painting, or any art, begins with audacity.” — Schwartz (quoting Churchill), [83:20]

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Noteworthy Timestamps

• 01:25: Alex Baskin’s “forward” on the Belmont
• 10:46: Sydney on identity as an “artist”
• 13:11: Discussion on nurturing vs. cutthroat creative programs
• 17:31: The story about being kicked out for vodka at theater camp
• 26:16: Sydney introduces Wife Material and its origin
• 30:40: Catharsis in performance
• 35:56: The love/hate relationship with creative work
• 47:42: Sydney’s musical influences and vocal performance
• 52:16: Dealing with criticism on social media (“I love Squidward!”)
• 64:09: “I’m a pessimist because it protects me, but I am a lover girl.”
• 66:21: “I ignore red flags like it’s my job...I’m colorblind. Red looks like green to me.”
• 76:16: “Get third degree burns. That’s the way you learn.”
• 83:20: Final credits; tickets for Wife Material

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Episode Flow & Vibes

The tone is warm, mischievous, self-aware, often hilarious, with a mix of LA/NYC creative grit and vulnerable honesty. Tom is supportive, playful, and candid about his own highs and lows, while Sydney oscillates between witty, self-deprecating humor and glimpses of earnest, relatable struggle—especially when it comes to love, ambition, and self-worth.

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Summary Takeaway

If you’ve ever juggled ambition and heartbreak, or dreamed of turning your pain into performance, this episode is both validating and inspiring. Schwartz and Kane find the harmony in life’s contrasts—mindfulness vs. mischief, healing vs. hilarity—and remind us why audacity, honesty, and a good group of friends are the real wife material. Catch Sydney Kane’s show if you want the pure energy of a woman who turned bullshit into a Broadway-ready comedy and isn’t afraid to laugh at herself (or at men, or at parkour in trees).

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Where to Find Sydney:

• @SydneyMorganKane on Instagram & TikTok
• Wife Material: Feb 16, 7pm, Hudson Theater, West Hollywood – Tickets via Instagram bio or Onstage411.com

Podcast Guarantee:
Tell Tom at the show you listened—he’ll buy you a drink and might even take you to the Belmont.

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Transcript

[Tom Schwartz]

Foreign.

[Sydney Kane]

For your weekly Retox with Tom Schwartz.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

Gang, what is up today on the show? The lovely Sydney Kane. She's an NYC based actor, singer, comedian, writer, but she has a show coming up in LA. It's called wife material. I'm going February 16th. She's got something special cooking.

[Sydney Kane]

I'm a straight passing by. No one ever thinks I'm into girls. Only guys.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

Yes, I am gonna go sit down with her. Well, I was supposed to sit down with her at the iconic Belmont in West Hollywood. It is a landmark, historic location. If you've ever watched Vanderpump Rules, you, you know it, even if you don't know it. We've filmed there so many times, so many momentous occasions. How about a little forward from the legend executive producer, 32 Flavors, Alex Baskin. He's created some of your favorite shows. VPR, the Valley, the Valley, Persian Style, Housewives, O.C. he's an OG. Without further ado, a little forward about the Belmont from Alex Baskin.

[Alex Baskin]

Few places in the history and the lore of Vanderpump Rules loom quite as large as the Belmont. It's probably the second most important and consequential location to Sur itself. And I say that with apologies, not just to TomTom, but to the dearly departed Schwartz and Sandys. All right, the Belmont is where the the group of friends that was at the center of Vanderpump Rules would get together frequently, and I spent many occasions with them there, especially during the development of the series. We had countless brunches there where the show really came to life. And then during the show itself, Tom Schwartz and I would get together at the Belmont to catch up and check in. And it was also where he made his ultimately very compelling pitch to be a part of the show. He wasn't sure that he wanted to be in the show in the first place because he was an aspiring actor and the show wasn't sure that he made sense as a primary cast member because he didn't work at sir, which was a prerequisite for being a part of the show. So Tom presented me with a list of pros and cons for his participation in the show. And the pros were about his glowing personality and his centrality in the lives of all of the cast members. And the cons had one, which was he didn't work at Sur. Ultimately, he tried working at Pump. That didn't work out. But we love Tom and are thrilled that he became a part of the Vanderpump Rules family, which he already was from the outside. The Belmont is also where Tom and Tom Sandoval got together post Scandoval, to talk about the fallout, which they nor anyone else really fully understood at that point, and scores of other occasions, both on and off camera. So we. We salute the Belmont, which will always be a part of the illustrious history of the show. And we thank you for letting us be a part of your memories as well.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

Yes, the Belmont. Have you guys been there? Like, if there was a Vander tour, that would be one of the stops for sure. A premier stop. It's like, yeah, the Belmont. Sir TomTom, they aren't. They're not just like backdrop settings. They're kind of like emotional museums.

[Tom Schwartz]

Right?

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

They are steeped and steeped with vpr history, lore, a lot of nostalgia, joy, maybe, maybe some pain, too, but I think more joy than pain, you know what I'm saying? It's like there are Cheers bars. It's like sometimes you want to go where everyone knows your name. The back alley, haunted in the best way possible, with history, from ass tats to relationship spats, all that good stuff in between. I've had some of my best and worst moments at all of these places, you know, But I feel at home at Sir TomTom. The Belmont. And, yeah, man, they're cut. The Belmont's kind of like a third space for the cast for the OGs. A third space, if you don't know, is like a place where you can just hang out.

[Tom Schwartz]

Not at.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

Not at home, not at work, and you just feel cozy there. It's like, think of how I met your mother. It's like McLaren's pub, if you will. So, yeah, man, I just wanted to give a little shout out to the Belly, AKA the Belmont. Meet me at the Belmont. Filmed so many iconic moments there. And, yeah, man, just like, that's where I first met Tom and Jax and we would sing karaoke with Kristen every Sunday. I think the first time I kissed Katie was at the Belmont. Yeah, we lived like, less than a half a mile and we'd walk there every Sunday. Lunches, brunches. Also, I'm really good friends with the owner, Dylan, who we went to Stasi and Bo's wedding together in Italy, which was gorgeous, but he's become a great friend.

[Tom Schwartz]

I also, Greg, our partner at Schwartz.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

And Sandy's, opened the Belmont. OG owner. So all things lead back to the Belmont.

[Tom Schwartz]

Thank you for that.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

Forward Baskin. You know I love you and I'm so happy I became a cast member on VPR and, you know, took the.

[Tom Schwartz]

Took the foot off the gas pedal.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

Of the acting life. Yeah, man.

[Tom Schwartz]

So anyways, I forgot that they're not.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

Open for lunch, at least on Mondays anymore. So we had to pivot, go to Bottega Louie. So we're gonna pick up with the lovely Sydney Kane right next to TomTom Bottega Louie. We had such a great chat, and.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

Without further ado, Sydney Kane.

[Tom Schwartz]

Sydney Kane. Tom Schwartz sitting right in front of me.

[Sydney Kane]

I'm honored.

[Tom Schwartz]

Route. The iconic Santa Monica Boulevard.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, my God. I was like, Route 66. We're in, like. Is that what this is?

[Tom Schwartz]

We're supposed to be at the Belmont, though. The theme. Well, the. You are the star of the episode. But the co star was going to be the Belmont, and it's always open for lunch. But I think it's because the day after the super bowl, people take off. Yeah. People are hungover.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, that's a good point.

[Tom Schwartz]

Should it be a national holiday or. I know. It's such a lazy take the Super Bowl. No, the day after.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, yeah, right. I think everything should be a national holiday if you want it to be. Oh. But I will be honest. When you said Route 66, I immediately thought of Cars, the movie. I was like. But I don't even know where that Radiator Springs is. What I immediately thought of. And I lived here for two years, and I am just now learning today that. That. That Santa Monica Boulevard is Route 66.

[Tom Schwartz]

It's Route 66.

[Sydney Kane]

Are there multiple Route 66s?

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah. Well, I think. I think it traverses the entire country. I think you can.

[Sydney Kane]

I think I should just say now that I don't know where anything is on a map.

[Tom Schwartz]

I'm an idiot.

[Sydney Kane]

Me, too.

[Tom Schwartz]

Have you been on the cars ride at Disneyland?

[Sydney Kane]

No.

[Tom Schwartz]

It's amazing.

[Sydney Kane]

What is it?

[Tom Schwartz]

I think it's my favorite ride there.

[Sydney Kane]

Why?

[Tom Schwartz]

I'm not gonna spoil it for you.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, okay.

[Tom Schwartz]

You guys, welcome. By the way, we're just chat.

[Sydney Kane]

Does that have anything to do with the movie? I'm gonna. Yes.

[Tom Schwartz]

Oh, I got everything to do with the movie.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah. I'm gonna take off my earrings because they are pinching me. One second, but keep talking.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah, yeah. By the way. So we had to pivot. We're at Bottega Louis. We're drinking palomas with tequila and fresh apple juice. We're retoxing, if you will, but light. Light on the retox.

[Sydney Kane]

I'm taking off my earrings, but not in, like a I'm mad way.

[Tom Schwartz]

By the way, I love hanging out with people who Are doing the damn thing. She's got her mic down right now. But I'm gonna praise you for a second because you do everything. You're a singer. You're an actress. Performer.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, my God.

[Tom Schwartz]

A great human being.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, wow.

[Tom Schwartz]

Maestro. What am I missing?

[Sydney Kane]

Maestro is. What does that mean?

[Tom Schwartz]

Just good. Like, really good at.

[Sydney Kane]

I'm like the Bradley Cooper movie.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah, exactly. Shout out to Bradley Cooper.

[Sydney Kane]

Shout.

[Tom Schwartz]

Very handsome.

[Sydney Kane]

Bradley. Come to the. Come on. The pod.

[Tom Schwartz]

Silver lining playbook. This is our Silver Lining Playbook today.

[Sydney Kane]

Yes.

[Tom Schwartz]

We're keeping it positive, Bradley.

[Sydney Kane]

And I'm Jennifer.

[Tom Schwartz]

We already set our intentions.

[Sydney Kane]

We did set our intentions. Today we're actually gonna. Tom is gonna accomplish all of his goals today on the podcast.

[Tom Schwartz]

You. Cindy was nice enough to come straight from rehearsals for her show, which we're gonna get into later. But first, I just wanted to check in. How are you?

[Sydney Kane]

How am I?

[Tom Schwartz]

I wrote some stuff down, but, like, we're just riffing now.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah, that's fine. I love to riff.

[Tom Schwartz]

I was gonna tell you a little bit about the Belmont because, like. But please, I can do it in the intro. It's like, if there was ever a Vanderpump tour, they would go to the old spots. Villa Blanca. Sir. We're right next to TomTom, by the way.

[Sydney Kane]

Sir.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

Love.

[Tom Schwartz]

Sir. Shout out to Go Cheese balls.

[Sydney Kane]

Shout out to Go Cheeseballs.

[Tom Schwartz]

RIP Schwartz and Sandy's. We would go there, but you would also go to the Belmont.

[Sydney Kane]

Okay.

[Tom Schwartz]

I used. My first apartment in LA was like, maybe 0.4 miles away, so we would walk there every Sunday.

[Sydney Kane]

Where did you live?

[Tom Schwartz]

Right over in West Hollywood, just south of Melrose on Kings Road. I lived with Tom and Jax and Kristen, who were all OGs on the show.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah.

[Tom Schwartz]

And we used to walk to the Belmont every Sunday, sing karaoke, and it's just.

[Sydney Kane]

Okay, wait, wait. Go to kids karaoke song.

[Tom Schwartz]

Okay.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

Lately.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah, well, no, back then and now.

[Tom Schwartz]

Lately, it's been like a little Johnny Cash.

[Sydney Kane]

Like that.

[Tom Schwartz]

I like a little Johnny Cash. I used to do the Four Non Blondes, but now everyone's doing it.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, really?

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah. You know what I'm talking about. I don't. Hey.

[Sydney Kane]

Going.

[Tom Schwartz]

I said, hey, what's going on?

[Sydney Kane]

What's going on? Yeah.

[Tom Schwartz]

Okay, now every. It's become.

[Sydney Kane]

Almost showed my age. I'm sorry.

[Tom Schwartz]

It's become trite. Like, everyone's doing it.

[Sydney Kane]

I thought. Wait, I thought, I'm a hipster. I thought, hey, yeah, yeah, wait, that's it. I thought that was Alanis Morissette, by the way.

[Tom Schwartz]

I'm going to play some of your music at the top of the show. Is that okay?

[Sydney Kane]

Wait, what?

[Tom Schwartz]

I, I didn't bring it right now, but I'm going to. Is that okay?

[Sydney Kane]

What music? Oh, Passing By.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, that's fine. Yeah.

[Tom Schwartz]

It's so good.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, thank you. I wrote that with my friend Matt and my. And my collaborator David. It was, like, so. Such a fun song.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yes. Like, what do you, how do you identify just as an artist.

[Sydney Kane]

Okay, can I actually say something so funny? So wait, wait, identify like, wait, in what way? I did my. As an artist.

[Tom Schwartz]

Because you do everything.

[Sydney Kane]

My sexuality is artist. Which actually, that kind of tracks. No, wait. Identify away as an artist.

[Tom Schwartz]

No, like, what do you. Do you think of yourself as an actress, a performer, a singer?

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, my God. Yeah. I feel like nowadays you're supposed to say, like, like, I'm a creative.

[Tom Schwartz]

Oh, God, I don't like the sound of. But you are. We are creatives.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah, we are creatives. Yeah. I think that. Well, I, When I, I've been doing. I've been doing singing is what I said. Great. Also, I'm. I should mention now I am having a plumber and I am a lightweight, so we'll see how this turns out. I've been, I mean, I sang ever since I was, like, 6 years old. I was my first musical I ever did. So, like, really, this is all I, I've done. I know how to do.

[Tom Schwartz]

Really?

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah, yeah. So it's really, like, I, I do love it, but unfortunately, also, I can't do anything else because I don't know how. So, like, all I do is just kind of, like, do the. I mean, I get to do the fun stuff.

[Tom Schwartz]

Have you ever had a real job? Like, I tried to have a real job after college. I was terrible at it.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, yeah. I was really bad at it.

[Tom Schwartz]

What did you do?

[Sydney Kane]

I worked at Lululemon for a little while, which was really fun. That's like, what you're supposed to do, like, when you graduate from. I, I, I can't speak. I had a BFA in musical theater.

[Tom Schwartz]

Where'd you go?

[Sydney Kane]

Pace University in New York.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

Respect.

[Sydney Kane]

Thank you so much. Do you know it?

[Tom Schwartz]

No, but it's cool.

[Sydney Kane]

It's fine.

[Tom Schwartz]

I love New York. We talked about this earlier.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah, Yeah. I like, I like that tattoo. Also, it looks like raised skin, which I said earlier, but it's kind of cool. It's like, it's like it's in your veins. Yeah, yeah.

[Tom Schwartz]

Acting, performing is in your veins. It's in your blood. It sounds like you were born with it. Is it. Is it more nature or nurture?

[Sydney Kane]

Both, I think. Actually. I really do think it's both. Because if you're not, like, that's one thing, actually, that. About musical theater programs that I can't. Can I cuss?

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah.

[Sydney Kane]

I can't.

[Tom Schwartz]

Fuck you.

[Sydney Kane]

Stand, actually, because it's like, if you. It doesn't nurture. We don't. They don't nurture us enough, actually. I think. I think that, like, sometimes if they're too cutthroat, we don't get nurtured as artists. And, like, I feel like if we're, like, a plant, you know, like, if you want to think of it, which Tom's sitting next to right now, we're.

[Tom Schwartz]

So happy to not be in a studio with fake plants. We have real plants.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah, we have real plants. I love that. We already have inside jokes like, no one's gonna know what we're talking about.

[Tom Schwartz]

You guys. Yeah. All right, wait.

[Sydney Kane]

You guys literally don't. It's fine. I'm kidding. We'll let you in on it.

[Tom Schwartz]

If you know. You know, if you know.

[Sydney Kane]

You know, girls who get it.

[Tom Schwartz]

Get it.

[Sydney Kane]

It's like there are these cutthroat programs that kind of, like, force you into these boxes and of, like, tropes that you're supposed to play, and it's just not productive or. Or good because, like, turns out, like, workers. Right. Like, to, like, do the thing. But, like, artists, though, that's like, a learned skill that you have to, like, be. You have to have nurtured in order to become an artist, I think.

[Tom Schwartz]

And you have to be a little bit of a masochist.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah.

[Tom Schwartz]

Because you're gonna get a lot of rejection, even if you're kidding as well. Seriously. Yeah. Wait, what? Were you. Were you a theater kid? You had to have been.

[Sydney Kane]

Of course. Yeah.

[Tom Schwartz]

What show. Can I ask you what shows you did growing up?

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah, my first show I ever did was Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

[Tom Schwartz]

Very cool.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah, I was a. I was one of the little school kids that. And I had a really big crush on the person who played Joseph and also one of the narrators who was a girl. Yeah. I realize that now. I was like, oh, I liked both of them. And then. Yeah, I think that was my first one. And then I did theater, like, in high school as well.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah, I did, too. I did.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, my God. Tell me everything.

[Tom Schwartz]

I wasn't a theater guy, per se. I was more of. I guess What? I consider myself a stoner type of guy.

[Sydney Kane]

Well, a lot of. Wait, no one talks about this. Most theater people, most Broadway people, we're all stoners.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

Really?

[Sydney Kane]

Yes, really. Well, I don't want to. Well, I'm speaking for myself. I love smoking weed, but most people are. But, like, I sing. I've been singing since I was 6 years old, and I love smoking weed. Something about it doesn't really affect me.

[Tom Schwartz]

I do, too. One of our sponsors is Indie Cloud, which is Send me Stuff all legal. Oh, it's so good. I like smoking before I go to bed, but. Yeah, I didn't know this. This is. This is news to me. Theater kids are secret, sneaky stoners.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah. And I feel like don't come for me, but, yeah, I did.

[Tom Schwartz]

I did. I did the dining room.

[Sydney Kane]

I don't. I don't know what that is.

[Tom Schwartz]

I don't even remember the plot, but I was in it. And then I also did Grease, and I played Eugene.

[Sydney Kane]

I was in Greece, and I played Rizzo.

[Tom Schwartz]

Are you serious? I got. Guess what, though.

[Sydney Kane]

What?

[Tom Schwartz]

Plot twist.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, no.

[Tom Schwartz]

I got kicked out for underage drinking. I got caught drinking at a party, and they kicked me out of the play. So on brand.

[Sydney Kane]

I got kicked out of a. I actually didn't get caught drinking. I, like, turned myself in. I was doing a.

[Tom Schwartz]

You're so pure.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, I didn't. Well, so. So because of the whole weed thing, this is why. I know. I didn't start smoking weed until I was in college, where I went to get a BFA in musical theater, and I smoked with other people who were in my program who were also getting a BFA in musical theater. And I was like, oh, everyone here smokes weed. What? And I think it's the only way we can stay sane. So that's my one point on the. So when I was going into my senior year of high school, I was going to a musical theater summer camp where it's like, you, like, learn things before you do college auditions and stuff.

[Tom Schwartz]

Wait, can you tell us just a little, like, what else do you do there? Just what you would think you would do. You just.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah. It's like, literally imagine, like, what is, like, some, like, fame.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah.

[Sydney Kane]

Like, over the summer.

[Tom Schwartz]

Okay.

[Sydney Kane]

So it's like you're, like, you're, like, in class and, like, you're learning and, like, you're, like, doing. I think, did we do a show? Maybe a cabaret thing.

[Tom Schwartz]

Very cool.

[Sydney Kane]

You're, like, doing dance class and acting class and, like, monologue class and, like.

[Tom Schwartz]

Lots of jazz hands.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah. Because, like, the most important thing at. In your life at that time is, like, going to school for musical theater. Like, you just want to get into a college. So, like, you're, like, going to these colleges and doing their summer programs.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah.

[Sydney Kane]

So that being said, my. A very good family friend of mine also lived in the area, and, you know, I went over to see her on one of my days off and probably shouldn't be talking about this, but, you know, whatever. We look back and we laugh now. I thank you so much. Those look so good.

[Tom Schwartz]

We got bread and butter coming. We're doing this live.

[Sydney Kane]

Is that bread and butter? I thought it was the fries.

[Tom Schwartz]

I think it's bread and butter. Thank you very much. Oh. Oh, wow. Thank you so much.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, thanks.

[Tom Schwartz]

Appreciate that. It's beautiful.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, my God.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

Thank you.

[Tom Schwartz]

Looks yummy and cheesy.

[Sydney Kane]

Very young. Yummy.

[Tom Schwartz]

Oh, so theaters. Theater's been your. Like, you eat, sleep, breathe.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah. I was about to talk about how I illegally got.

[Tom Schwartz]

Oh, yeah, yeah. You got to finish that.

[Sydney Kane]

Well, so I was given these two. I asked. I instigated this. She had to get alcohol for a party she was throwing.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah.

[Sydney Kane]

And so I was like, oh, I'll go with you to the liquor store. Sure. And then so I get two airplane bottles of absolute Vodka gifted to me because I asked. Okay. This is not her fault at all. This is all my fault. I tell my roommate that I go back, and I'm like. I'm like, oh, my God. Listen. Like, I have these two airplane bottles of vodka. Blah, blah, blah. Like, so small. Like, what if we, like, did them one night?

[Tom Schwartz]

It's almost comical.

[Sydney Kane]

It is the most small. I don't even think. Like, even if I did both of those shots, I don't think I blow up. What are you. What's, like, the alcoholic thing that you blow on a. On a test thing?

[Tom Schwartz]

Breathalyzer.

[Sydney Kane]

A breathalyzer. I don't even think I get. I don't even think I could pass on a breathalyzer with that amount of alcohol. I. It was so. It was such a small amount, and that ratted me out. I found out. And so instead of like, flushing it down the drain and being like, I have no idea what you're talking about. I then go, it's me. Here are the bottles. Unopened. I'm so sorry. I get kicked out.

[Tom Schwartz]

What? Snit. You know what? You know what happens to snitches? They get stitches. Wow.

[Sydney Kane]

I got kicked out. Yeah. So that's my story.

[Tom Schwartz]

Honestly, I feel like karma's coming for her.

[Sydney Kane]

So mad at me. She's like, why did you not flush it down the fucking toilet? And I was like, I'm sorry. I didn't realize being a bad. I didn't realize being a good person would get me in trouble.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

This is insane.

[Sydney Kane]

I. Oh, yeah.

[Tom Schwartz]

This is.

[Sydney Kane]

Also. I'm on a college campus, and you're gonna kick me off for having shooters?

[Tom Schwartz]

It's a rite of passage.

[Sydney Kane]

I won't say what college, but that musical theater program does even exist anymore, so.

[Tom Schwartz]

You're. So. You're so much better than them.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah.

[Tom Schwartz]

No sense I exist. Yeah, exactly.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

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[Tom Schwartz]

A little.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

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[Tom Schwartz]

Wait, while we're on music, can I ask you.

[Sydney Kane]

Yes.

[Tom Schwartz]

Did you watch the super bowl halftime show?

[Sydney Kane]

Of course I did.

[Tom Schwartz]

Bad motherfucking Bunny.

[Sydney Kane]

That was probably one of the best super bowl halftime shows I've ever seen.

[Tom Schwartz]

I've ever seen in my life.

[Sydney Kane]

It was a Broadway production.

[Tom Schwartz]

I was online. It's weird, the recreational outrage. It seems very performative. Like this. Performative. Patriotism. Patriotism.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

Patriotism.

[Tom Schwartz]

Patriotism.

[Sydney Kane]

Other thing. Kid Rock. What was the other thing?

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah, I get it. Like, listen, Kid Rock's cool and everything, but, like, it just seems like the laziest boycott ever. Like, there's a. There's a large fraction of the country that's like, I'm not watching the super.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

Bowl, because that's insane.

[Tom Schwartz]

Bunny, first of all, he's Puerto Rican. He's American.

[Sydney Kane]

He's literally American.

[Tom Schwartz]

And he's Bad motherfucking Buddy.

[Sydney Kane]

Also is. He also is one of the best artists of our time, I think. Like, his music is like, I 1. I don't speak Spanish. I don't. But, like, I. I was following. I knew. I knew what the. Was going on in that performance. That's how good of a storyteller.

[Tom Schwartz]

A lot of. Lot of symbolism, of course. A lot of stuff about his heritage. A lot of cultural references. Puerto Rico, A lot of Puerto Rico love. But ultimately, it was about unifying, not dividing.

[Sydney Kane]

Love.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

Love.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

Love wins.

[Tom Schwartz]

Love conquers all.

[Sydney Kane]

Love conquers all.

[Tom Schwartz]

I saw this one. I was being bad, being mad at a bad money. Being bad being mad at bad bunny for singing Spanish while eating chips, salsa, guac and drinking tequila.

[Sydney Kane]

Period. Period. Yes, that is so true.

[Tom Schwartz]

Like, music transcends borders and language, right?

[Sydney Kane]

Yes.

[Tom Schwartz]

It's the language of love. It's the universal love language.

[Sydney Kane]

It literally also, like, it was so, like, it was just such a beautiful performance.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

I loved it.

[Sydney Kane]

People got married. He. That was marriage.

[Tom Schwartz]

I thought that was staged. Like it was.

[Sydney Kane]

I thought it was real, actually. I was just with my friend earlier and she was like. I was watching my friend who's casting director and she immediately goes, those are not actors. She's like, I can tell. Those are not actors. I was like, oh, I could tell too, that the, the. The girl was looking at her, I guess now husband, like just like in the eyes, you know, like when you're like. Like I'm just going to look at you and I'm not to going to panic. It was really adorable and so cute.

[Tom Schwartz]

By the way, getting. I've been married. I'm divorced now. Amicably. We're very. We're very good friends.

[Sydney Kane]

It's so chic. It's so easy to get divorced.

[Tom Schwartz]

I think she's amazing. We're friends, like. Yeah, she's thriving. She has a sandwich shop right around the corner.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah, let's go.

[Tom Schwartz]

Something about her. We should go after this.

[Sydney Kane]

Okay.

[Tom Schwartz]

It's amazing.

[Sydney Kane]

That's amazing.

[Tom Schwartz]

What was I going to say? Oh, I. I love, love. Where was I going? Oh, divorce. By the way, big fan of divorce. I know it's sad, but I'm an advocate.

[Sydney Kane]

Is it though?

[Tom Schwartz]

Because staying together with someone when you know it's not right anymore is that. I've seen that play out.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah.

[Tom Schwartz]

I'm not gonna say with who, but it's very sad.

[Sydney Kane]

I think that divorce is a right. And how. Think how. Thank God we have that right.

[Tom Schwartz]

You. Wait, you've never been married?

[Sydney Kane]

No.

[Tom Schwartz]

You need to get married just so you can experience divorce. You are missing out, Sydney.

[Sydney Kane]

No, I've never married.

[Tom Schwartz]

Wait, this is. I gotta be careful.

[Sydney Kane]

That's kind of a good. That's kind of a good. Like. No, I've never been married.

[Tom Schwartz]

Anyway, super bowl show, shout out to Bad Bunny. That was freaking awesome. I hate. I don't know, I just. I. I was. There's. I love their bread here. Bottega Louie.

[Sydney Kane]

These are the portobello fries.

[Tom Schwartz]

Oh, they are. Okay, I'm gonna have one you guys.

[Sydney Kane]

Please dip it in whatever.

[Tom Schwartz]

I want people to get mad that I'm eating on Mike. We don't care. But no, I, I. Before we move on, like, I just, I was deep in the comments. I stay out of the comments. But I was just curious because it was so, like, polarizing, and I hate to see people's, like, humanity stripped away for their fucking thinly veiled political affiliation. I don't, I don't know. Anyways, I will.

[Sydney Kane]

I mean. No, no, it's fine. I. Trump. I don't know if you saw Trump's tweet about it. It was insane. His tweets are very funny to me because I, I've been wanting to do a bit for a really long time where, like, I like, look at one of Trump's Twitter tweets and I basically am like, oh, he's a. He's a swifty. Like, these are written like swifty Easter eggs. Like. And so I, like, posted a thing. Aren't they so good?

[Tom Schwartz]

So good.

[Sydney Kane]

Sorry, not Trump's tweets. The Portobello fries.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah, yeah.

[Sydney Kane]

No, not Trump Street.

[Tom Schwartz]

He tweets like.

[Sydney Kane]

Or wait, are they called tweets anymore? What, what, what are they called now? What do I say? Truths. That's crazy.

[Tom Schwartz]

He tweets like a 16 year old.

[Sydney Kane]

How sad is it that it's called. You know what's so embarrassing? The fact that it's called retru thing. That's insane.

[Tom Schwartz]

Insane retro thing.

[Sydney Kane]

That's what, like, a retweet is now.

[Tom Schwartz]

I don't even like that.

[Sydney Kane]

Are you joking?

[Tom Schwartz]

I don't like the way that feels coming out of my mouth.

[Sydney Kane]

I don't like it either. It's really scary. Retrouth. I feel like he reach ruthed me. That's so weird.

[Tom Schwartz]

Culty undertones.

[Sydney Kane]

Yes.

[Tom Schwartz]

I don't like 100.

[Sydney Kane]

Anyway, so I posted a video basically being like, he's teasing. It's like, it's like, I understand what he's actually saying in this tweet. It was criticizing Bad Bunny's performance and I'm like, actually, no, no. What he's doing here is he's hinting at Taylor Swift doing a Super bowl halftime show next year. People are commenting on it as if I am Satan. They're literally like, shut the fuck up. You have no idea what you're fucking talking about. You're insane. I hope this is satire. I'm like, oh, my God.

[Tom Schwartz]

I think people are extra fired up because there was a disgusting tweet that he sent out about The Obama's during Black History Month. I don't know if you saw. That's absolutely extra fired up online. Rightfully so. We don't have to go there. I want to keep it light today.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah, let's keep it light.

[Tom Schwartz]

To keep it light. Yeah, let's talk about Palomas. I want to go back to theater.

[Sydney Kane]

Yes. Yes. Let's go back to theater. Go back to theater.

[Tom Schwartz]

All right. So you're okay. Is. Is being called a theater kid?

[Sydney Kane]

I. Yes. I feel like.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

Whoa.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, my God.

[Tom Schwartz]

We just got the most beautiful plate of bruschetta. Thank you so much. Appreciate it.

[Alex Baskin]

Can I do.

[Tom Schwartz]

Can I do another Paloma? Can I order another Paloma? Thank you.

[Sydney Kane]

So this is a Retox episode.

[Tom Schwartz]

Oh, we're drinking today.

[Sydney Kane]

Okay. Okay.

[Tom Schwartz]

Not crazy.

[Sydney Kane]

No, it's fine.

[Tom Schwartz]

But wait. Okay. Going back. You just got back from rehearsals, which I'm so grateful that you came all the way from the west side. That's a big deal.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, no, I'm in West Hollywood.

[Tom Schwartz]

Oh. I thought the show was in Santa.

[Sydney Kane]

Monica, but, you know, the Hudson's on Santa Monica Boulevard.

[Tom Schwartz]

Oh, it is?

[Sydney Kane]

Yes, it's in Hollywood. Don't worry, you won't have to go to the west side. I could do that.

[Tom Schwartz]

I was so scared.

[Sydney Kane]

No, never.

[Tom Schwartz]

Okay. You scared me.

[Sydney Kane]

Theater in Santa Monica. That sounds weird, actually. I don't know if there's theater in there, and I'm sure it's great. Sorry, I don't know la. No, I am.

[Tom Schwartz]

I know. I love the west side, but it's like, it's a.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

It's a thing.

[Tom Schwartz]

Do you know it's a thing here when you move to the west side? Like, you never see your friends.

[Sydney Kane]

My brother used to live in Satell, and I was. I stayed with him a couple of years ago when I moved here. And I literally, like, it was a pain to get. I was like, why do you live here? Don't live here.

[Tom Schwartz]

It's. It's a one way trip. You never come back from the west side.

[Sydney Kane]

No.

[Tom Schwartz]

Wife material.

[Sydney Kane]

I thought you were gonna segue. When you asked if I'd ever been married, that's when I thought you were.

[Tom Schwartz]

Gonna segue into great opportunity. That was the perfect segue.

[Sydney Kane]

I don't want to say it because this is your podcast and I don't. I feel like if it's your podcast, you get to do the segues.

[Tom Schwartz]

That was a non sequitur, but still.

[Sydney Kane]

Is that what Segway is?

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah.

[Sydney Kane]

Okay, great.

[Tom Schwartz]

Wait, can we talk about. Where did this come From Is this your baby?

[Sydney Kane]

I thought you're talking about segue. I go, I don't know. I was like, I don't, I don't know. Yeah, this is my child.

[Tom Schwartz]

What is it?

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah, that's a great question. It's a one woman musical comedy, but it started as a cabaret. But yeah, it's a one woman musical comedy. And I wrote it because someone told me I wasn't wife material. I was in a really bad situationship, and now it has turned into kind of like. Now it has turned into just a very, like, not accurate, but just, like, pretty. Like, I don't care if, like, he ever sees anything about it. Kind of like telling of it, because he put me through hell and I, I wish him nothing, honestly. But he was at the first two performances of it. Yeah, we. Like, when I wrote this, when I wrote the songs for the show, I was offered, like, this slot at, like, a cabaret venue in New York, and I was like, well, I don't want to, like, sing songs, like, from my book, you know, like, popular songs from, like, musical theater. I'm like, I'd rather just, like, write sketches and do them with my friends and, like, write my own comedy songs. And so it just all, like, kind of churned out because I, I, I've gone viral a couple times online for, like, dating culture, so I'm like, well, I have a lot to say about dating and whatnot. Why not just, like, write songs about it? And then I kind of, like, created like, this whole, like, story. And at that point, it wasn't so. It wasn't so, like, pointed. Pointed.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah. Now it's become.

[Sydney Kane]

Now it is. It's never been more sharp.

[Tom Schwartz]

You're niching the down.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, yeah. I mean, it has. Every time I've done it, it's gotten, like, smaller and smaller to where, like, now it's just me and a mannequin and.

[Tom Schwartz]

Do you want to get any, you know, anything else?

[Sydney Kane]

I think I'm okay, actually. Can I try a different drink?

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah, let's get some food too, if you want.

[Sydney Kane]

Can I do. I'm gonna order in the mic. Can I do the.

[Tom Schwartz]

We're doing this live.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

Love you guys.

[Tom Schwartz]

Want to try? Can we do a margarita pizza too? Thank you. Is that okay?

[Sydney Kane]

Yes, absolutely.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

Thank.

[Tom Schwartz]

Can I do a Paloma? Thank you. I'll do a classic one. Feeling classic.

[Sydney Kane]

You're so classic, Sydney.

[Tom Schwartz]

You got me feeling classic.

[Sydney Kane]

Thank God.

[Tom Schwartz]

Wait, so, okay. Yeah. So this is your baby. It's been incubating. You've. It's Been in your mind? When did you decide to take it from outside of your mind and bring it to fruition? Fruition? Was there like one. Was it.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

Was it the pain?

[Tom Schwartz]

Was it the pain that motivated you from the situationship?

[Sydney Kane]

It was almost like a, like, kinda, I guess. But it was also kind of like a thing where it's like, I don't know what I'm doing. And I got offered this thing. Why not like, do the thing that I'm scared of and like write my own stuff and then if it doesn't work, it doesn't work. But at least I know and I have. You know what it was? It was a deadline. I had a deadline because I chose the show date to be in April. I didn't, but I just fist bumped.

[Tom Schwartz]

Because I love deadlines.

[Sydney Kane]

Are you. Are you a procrastinator though?

[Tom Schwartz]

Yes. I love deadlines.

[Sydney Kane]

Yes. So my show was April 5th. I didn't start writing the show actually. I pitched like. I gave like a PowerPoint to my collaborator on. Are you ready for this Valentine's Day? I'm not.

[Tom Schwartz]

I know the irony.

[Sydney Kane]

The irony that is rich. And my show's on the 16th of February, which I think is fun, by the way.

[Tom Schwartz]

Can we just. We'll plug it at the end too. But can we plug your show real quick?

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, yeah. It's February 16th at 7:00pm at the Hudson Theater on Santa Monica. Not in Santa Monica.

[Tom Schwartz]

And I'll be there too.

[Sydney Kane]

Crazy.

[Tom Schwartz]

If you come and you say, I listen to the podcast, I will buy you a drink.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, period.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah.

[Sydney Kane]

Cuz we're going out after 100. Yeah, we can go to the Belmont.

[Tom Schwartz]

Oh my God. Meet me at the Belmont. That's their. That's their slogan.

[Sydney Kane]

Slogan.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah.

[Sydney Kane]

Amazing.

[Tom Schwartz]

Okay, so can we talk more about your show?

[Sydney Kane]

Yes.

[Tom Schwartz]

How. How are you feeling right now?

[Sydney Kane]

I'm nervous. I'm really nervous.

[Tom Schwartz]

Is this your friend? First show on the 16th, like ever?

[Sydney Kane]

Like to do a show on the.

[Tom Schwartz]

16Th, your first date? Is it the debut?

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, no, no, no, no, no. It was April. No, this is like the seventh time I've done it, but every time it's been different.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

Okay.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah. So this is like the seventh time I've done the show. I've done it and I did it here back in September and then I did it again in New York. I did it in New York. April in New York in June and then in LA in September, New York in December, San Francisco, Francisco for Sketch Fest in January, and now I'm doing it here.

[Tom Schwartz]

So you're Locked in. You're.

[Sydney Kane]

This is my life right now.

[Tom Schwartz]

You are in your flow state. I can see it. We talked about.

[Sydney Kane]

My Vyvanse is in.

[Tom Schwartz]

You're vi. Don't get me started on Vyvanse. I'm a late adopter. It is a godsend.

[Sydney Kane]

Yes.

[Tom Schwartz]

It's like going into the Matrix, but without the tweakiness of at all.

[Sydney Kane]

Pills.

[Tom Schwartz]

Let's just do the episode about pills.

[Sydney Kane]

My show, like, wife material is like a pill in the show too. So, like, I love pills, I imagine.

[Tom Schwartz]

Well, some of it stems from pain. It's rooted in some pain.

[Sydney Kane]

Doesn't everything.

[Tom Schwartz]

Is it cathartic?

[Alex Baskin]

Does it?

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

Does it?

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah.

[Tom Schwartz]

Everything release when you do it.

[Sydney Kane]

Yes.

[Tom Schwartz]

I love that. If you. I love that you said it feels fresh every time.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

Because I'm making.

[Sydney Kane]

Because I keep changing it.

[Tom Schwartz]

How emotional do you. I don't want. I don't want to spoil it because I'm coming to see.

[Sydney Kane]

I Do I cry? Of course. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, like, it's kind of like, I feel like it's like my calling card.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah.

[Sydney Kane]

This show, like, it's kind of given me everything I have right now in my career. So, like. And I, I, Yeah, I'm like, giving. I'm like a mom. I'm like, this is my baby. And I'm watching her grow up and, like, she's turning a year on literally, like, this, like, this show, like, she's turning a year old. Almost, like, technically, April 5th is when she turns 1 year old of when I did it, but, like, when I. When I started writing it, which is, like, crazy that I wrote seven songs in, like, three weeks. But, like, yeah, so she's like, she's. She's growing so much, and so am I. Oh, my God. Yeah.

[Tom Schwartz]

It's your beautiful baby.

[Sydney Kane]

This is my beautiful baby. God. So I've never been married, but I have given birth seven times.

[Tom Schwartz]

But it's. But as they say, it's stressful being a mom. But you're, like, a pro now.

[Sydney Kane]

No, I am a mess at all times. I've been a tyrant to everyone who has been involved in the show. I don't know why people still stick around me. Like, I am not, like, okay ever.

[Tom Schwartz]

So. So from what I understand, it's just you on the stage.

[Sydney Kane]

Me, I have a band, which is awesome.

[Tom Schwartz]

That's so cool.

[Sydney Kane]

I'm so excited about my band, too. Like, I, I, I love them. We get. Usually the guitar and bass, like, are different every time. My, my. One of my best Friends was the drummer, but he's not here this time. But instead, we have Lucy Ritter, who, like, I have not actually met yet, but I'm a fan of it.

[Tom Schwartz]

Was.

[Sydney Kane]

She was Chapel Ron's drummer.

[Tom Schwartz]

What?

[Sydney Kane]

She is? No, no, no. I am. I'm such a huge fan of hers, and turns out my friend is friends with her and she's doing the show. I know I'm. I'm, like, not okay about it. And I don't know if she'll ever listen to this, but I'm freaking out.

[Tom Schwartz]

I'm freaking out with you. By the way, people who have listened to Pink Pony Club. It's one of our biggest hits.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah.

[Tom Schwartz]

Pink Pony Club is a reference to the Abbey. Right.

[Sydney Kane]

Next.

[Tom Schwartz]

Which we can go to afterwards if you want, period. But anyways, I don't know if people know that.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah, no, I am obsessed with.

[Tom Schwartz]

That's so cool. You have a. So you have a. Live. Like an. Or not. Almost like an orchestra.

[Sydney Kane]

Well, so my. My collaborator, David Davin, who's a. On the piano, he arranged all the songs. It sounds as if it's an orchestra. Like, he. He is so unbelievably talented and has known me for 10 years. And this is like, we've. He's been with me through every show, at every waking hour when I'll call. Like, he's. He's like my. Like, honestly, like a. Like, not a father figure because he's not that much older than me, but. Yeah. Yeah, he's like my mentor. Yeah.

[Tom Schwartz]

That's so cool.

[Sydney Kane]

He's on the piano and he's just. He's fantastic. Fantastic.

[Tom Schwartz]

I mean, I imagine there's so many people listening, including myself. I've had so many ideas I thought were great that I've never brought to fruition.

[Sydney Kane]

Just do them.

[Tom Schwartz]

They just died in my iPhone. Notes.

[Sydney Kane]

No, those are so. No, no, wait. But you have them on the cloud.

[Tom Schwartz]

This podcast was in my notes forever. And now. I always wanted to.

[Sydney Kane]

What happened?

[Tom Schwartz]

It's. It's just starting now. It's in its infancy, but. Yeah, I'll turn it into it.

[Sydney Kane]

Anyways, You're a dad.

[Tom Schwartz]

It's not about me. It's about you today.

[Sydney Kane]

Why.

[Tom Schwartz]

But no, that's so cool. That's cool. So you're feeling good. You got. You.

[Sydney Kane]

You got.

[Tom Schwartz]

You got your stride. You got your flow state.

[Sydney Kane]

I'm. I feel like I'm in. I feel like I'm on a wave.

[Tom Schwartz]

You got your moxy. Like, you go out. Do you. Do you get nervous before you go on or not really anymore.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah, I get, yeah. I mean, yes, I, but I, I learned once someone said nerves are nerves mean you care. So, like, I think that, like, I, I care so, so much about this. But like, truly, I think what helps me, like, not freak out is that like, I mean, the show starts and ends with me. I, I, I'm not no one else. Like, I mean, I have my, there's another voiceover character, but like, I mean, I'm the driving, I'm, I'm at the steering wheel. So, like, I have to lock in.

[Tom Schwartz]

You have to lock the.

[Sydney Kane]

But it's also like, I love, I love doing it. Like, I love making people laugh is like my favorite thing in the world.

[Tom Schwartz]

Do you do stand up?

[Sydney Kane]

No, I am not a stand up. I actually like, whenever people are like, oh, you do comedy is stand up. No, people work very hard at that and they're very good at that and they practice that. I don't do stand up.

[Tom Schwartz]

You did improv though, right?

[Sydney Kane]

I love improv.

[Tom Schwartz]

You did Second City?

[Sydney Kane]

I, I, I did two, I, I did two levels at Second City, but I, I'm, I did everything at ucb.

[Tom Schwartz]

Cool. I did Groundlings, which I really enjoyed.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh my God. I just performed with them at Sketch Fest. I, I did, I, I got to guest on a show. I had no idea what I was doing. I have never, I learned so much in that, like, hour and a half. It was the most fun I've ever had.

[Tom Schwartz]

Isn't it great now, just like sitting in your presence? It's so fun to be surrounded by talented people who are creatives. What did you say earlier? Creatives.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah, but it's a word.

[Tom Schwartz]

It's such a, Is it pretentious?

[Sydney Kane]

Yes.

[Tom Schwartz]

I'm a creative.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah.

[Tom Schwartz]

You can't say it.

[Sydney Kane]

No.

[Tom Schwartz]

It really ruins it.

[Sydney Kane]

You can't be confident and talk about yourself nowadays.

[Tom Schwartz]

I mean, there's an art, there is.

[Sydney Kane]

An art to it, I think. But that's why I think it's like, but confidence is like me being like, but confidence is key. No, I, but it is like, I.

[Tom Schwartz]

Think you gotta believe in yourself.

[Sydney Kane]

You have to like what you do.

[Tom Schwartz]

You have to love it.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah, you have to love it.

[Tom Schwartz]

You have to love yourself.

[Sydney Kane]

But love and hate are really closely correlated. So like, sometimes I, I literally have had moments where I'm literally like, I hate my show or, like, I hate what I'm doing. I don't want to do this, but he says, I love it so much.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yes. Wait, that's beautiful. That's Poignant.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, my God. Thanks.

[Tom Schwartz]

That is so poignant. And I just want to take a moment to appreciate that moment of silence. I'm letting it breathe.

[Sydney Kane]

Moment of silence.

[Tom Schwartz]

Moment of silence. Let's mourn for your love, hate relationship with your show. I think every artist, like, it's. You're bearing a piece of your soul.

[Sydney Kane]

I'm bearing. And I'm not even joking. Like.

[Tom Schwartz]

We. We bear all.

[Sydney Kane]

I'm bearing every. I. I don't know if you've seen. There are clips like, I'm. I'm. I'm only wearing, like, a small. Like, I wear, like, this, like, leotard, but it's actually. Actually getting like, a new costume. But, like, I'm very, like, not clothed.

[Tom Schwartz]

Did you. Did you do all the styling for your show?

[Sydney Kane]

No, I worked with a very talented costume designer. Designer. His name is Griffin Petria. But this time I'm working with someone new and. Wait one second. Let me, like, figure out. Actually, her name is Rachel, but I actually don't know if I know her last name, but she's doing the new costume for this round and let me get her name really fast. She lives.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah. No, it's all good. But I love that this is like a full production and it's in motion and I just want to give you props for executing it. Shout out to deadlines.

[Sydney Kane]

Thanks. Oh, yeah. Rachel Hyman. And actually, I don't know if you do you edit the pod before it goes out or you just kind of post it.

[Tom Schwartz]

I have an editor.

[Sydney Kane]

Okay. The. Maybe this time it's like they actually go by they. Them. So.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Sydney Kane]

Their name is Rachel Hyman and they're doing the costume for this round, and I'm really excited about it.

[Tom Schwartz]

Rachel Hyman.

[Sydney Kane]

Rachel Hyman.

[Tom Schwartz]

Shout out to Rachel Hyman.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah.

[Tom Schwartz]

I'm really hyped for your show.

[Sydney Kane]

I. I'm honored that you're. I literally. When you were like. And I got tickets, and I literally was like, what?

[Tom Schwartz]

I bought three tickets immediately.

[Sydney Kane]

Who. Who can I.

[Tom Schwartz]

Well, hopefully I'm going to bring my girlfriend and her best friend if she's in town.

[Sydney Kane]

It is for the girls. I mean, you're welcome to come too, but, like, it is like, I mean, I. It's for. I mean, it is for everyone, but, like, really, like, it's. I love the girlies that come. I think that it's, like, it's cool to know that, like, I feel like what this show brings is, like, these very specific. I. I had a very. I had a very specific circumstance and very Specific situationship, literally. And like. But people will come up to me after the, The. After the show and be like, I totally related to what you were saying. And I'm like, that's insane. Because it was a. I've. I don't think I've ever been more specific in what I'm speaking out of my mouth right now, but people are like, I get it. And I'm like, that's insane.

[Tom Schwartz]

Doesn't it feel good when you put yourself out there and it's not. Not. I'm not looking for validation, but just like the, the camaraderie for people who have been through similar situations.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

It feels good.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah.

[Tom Schwartz]

I love the reconnection, the humanity behind it. Yeah, it's. It just. It's. It's very rewarding. That sounds pretentious. No, eat, dude. Honestly, we're riffing here. We're riffing. But isn't it rewarding after a show to hear that from someone? Yeah, like, I went through the same.

[Sydney Kane]

It's also, like, I'm barely new to getting followers. Like, yeah, I started posting a couple years ago, like two years ago. And I've gained, like a following. And I don't know, listen, like, I'll go to cities and like, I know some people that come, but I'm always shocked when it's like, people I don't know come because I feel like I'm like, that's insane. You just follow me and you came to my show. I'm very new here.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah.

[Sydney Kane]

And so. But one girl came up to me after my show in San Francisco and she literally was like, my situation. Chip sent me one of your videos. We're not talking anymore, but since then I followed you and I have, like, loved you and I. I wanted to come to your show. And she came to the show in San Francisco and like, that to me, me, like, if you. For people who are listening, if you want to go to someone's like, like, show or whatever and they did something that meant something to you, literally do go up to them and do say that thing. Because it. I think about it non stop. It was like so rewarding.

[Tom Schwartz]

It is so heartwarming. And I love to hear it. And it keeps you. It's like fuel for the fire. Right?

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

Right.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah.

[Tom Schwartz]

How was they? How's your dating life? Like, are you right now, Are you good at dating?

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

Are you good at love?

[Sydney Kane]

No. No. You're like, I wouldn't have showed you. I just told you about my job.

[Tom Schwartz]

Clearly I'm. Clearly, I'm not a Good listener.

[Sydney Kane]

Literally, someone told me, I don't think you're my wife. And I said, well, I'll prove you wrong and try really hard.

[Tom Schwartz]

Have you. Have you been. You've been in love?

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah, of course. Well, actually. Okay, wait. Have you heard of limerence?

[Tom Schwartz]

No.

[Sydney Kane]

Okay. I just now learned about this a couple years ago, and I feel like I'm. A couple years ago. I don't know what I'm saying out loud. I learned about this. I learned about limerence, like, like, not too long ago. And if limerence is, like, this thing that people with ADHD and, like, people who are neurodiverse.

[Tom Schwartz]

She's pointing at me.

[Sydney Kane]

And because you have it. Because you have it, it's this thing that happens where it's like we get really fixated on an idea of someone or an idea of something and not. And it almost, like, takes us out of, like, the reality of it, and we get really fixated on, like, the. The like, not potential, but just, like, what we think of the. Of the thing, not what it actually is.

[Tom Schwartz]

So almost like. Almost like fantasize. Not fetishizing, but fantasizing.

[Sydney Kane]

No, definitely not fetishizing.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah, but, like, fantasizing. You're. You're.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah, yeah, kind of. But I. And also, if I'm wrong again, don't fact check me.

[Tom Schwartz]

It's okay. There's no fact checks here.

[Sydney Kane]

If anyone fact checks this podcast. That's really rude.

[Tom Schwartz]

Listen, you better not fact check either of us.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah, please.

[Tom Schwartz]

I'm not sure if Route 66 traverses.

[Sydney Kane]

Don't reach with me. Don't reach with me right now.

[Tom Schwartz]

I saw this thing on Overheard L. A today. I wrote it down here.

[Sydney Kane]

I love Overheard L. A.

[Tom Schwartz]

The worst part of dating in L. A is seeing two people you've had sex with in a Super bowl commercial, which is so true.

[Sydney Kane]

Wait, that's so crazy.

[Tom Schwartz]

Thank you so much.

[Sydney Kane]

Which. Did you see that? Which super bowl commercial?

[Tom Schwartz]

Can you say no? That's never happened to me. I've auditioned for super bowl commercials.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, tell me everything.

[Tom Schwartz]

I've never gotten one. One, like. I think one was a Pepsi one. Have you ever booked? You do. You're. You're an actress, too?

[Sydney Kane]

Yes, but I've never booked anything.

[Tom Schwartz]

No commercials?

[Sydney Kane]

No, I don't have. Well, I just signed with new management, and I love them very much, but I. I know I've never had a commercial agent. I hope so soon.

[Tom Schwartz]

The last real job I did before I started doing my reality tv, whatever you want to call this journey, it was a Kohl's commercial. Okay, thank you. Whoa. Oh, my.

[Sydney Kane]

Beautiful. We got so much food.

[Tom Schwartz]

That looks like a movie prop. It's so beautiful. I'm gonna take a picture, listeners, one.

[Sydney Kane]

Day Tom will make this visual.

[Tom Schwartz]

But yeah, you guys, you need to see this.

[Sydney Kane]

This is a very beautiful pizza.

[Tom Schwartz]

Oh, I'm gonna take a video of this. Oh, my God.

[Sydney Kane]

When you post. Hi, this is the pizza. You shouldn't post a picture of me. You should just post a picture of that pizza. Actually, can I request that? Can I request that when you post the selfie of. Cuz I saw that you post selfies of your guests, will you not post a picture of me and just post a picture of the pizza and just tag you.

[Tom Schwartz]

Just tag you in it?

[Sydney Kane]

No, actually, I need to be in a picture. People need to know I was here.

[Tom Schwartz]

Wait, so you, You. You reside in New York?

[Sydney Kane]

I don't know anymore.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

You still love la?

[Sydney Kane]

I. You know what? I didn't when I was here a couple years ago, but now I have to be honest. I love la. Like, I might move back. I really kind of. I think I want to. I don't know. I'm kind of like, I'm in my Saturn return right now.

[Tom Schwartz]

Totally.

[Sydney Kane]

I mean, I just started and apparently she's coming back in February. Like, I had a bit of a break, I guess, but now she's coming back and I have no idea what I'm doing at all times.

[Tom Schwartz]

January in New York, I think is the worst.

[Sydney Kane]

It's cold January and February in New York.

[Tom Schwartz]

The holidays are over. It's all the lights are down, the charm is gone. But then February, it gets its mojo back. It gets its zest. It's.

[Sydney Kane]

I don't think you're right, actually. I'm so sorry to.

[Tom Schwartz]

Thank you.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah, I don't.

[Tom Schwartz]

Vanderpump has taught me to say that. I just can't say it.

[Sydney Kane]

I love her. At least if you're listening, I love you.

[Tom Schwartz]

Who doesn't?

[Sydney Kane]

Am I allowed to talk about her on.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yes, of course.

[Sydney Kane]

Okay. So she really was a formative experience for me, like, as a child.

[Tom Schwartz]

Wait, let's dissect this.

[Sydney Kane]

No, because, well, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills was like, one of the first. Like, it was a very formative television experience for me. As a kid, I would sit in the living room with my mom. I was like. Not to be like, I'm so young. But I was like, I don't even know. Like, when did it come? Do you know when it aired? Like, first the. The first season I forget. Don't fact check me. I was young. I was definitely like not like old enough probably to be watching it. But like that first season with that dinner party scene, you were. Oh, oh, oh, I'm an og.

[Tom Schwartz]

Oh yeah. It's placened in your mind.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, of. Of course know that 2010 was the first year I was. I'm. I was. I was. Yeah. I was like 12, 13, I think.

[Tom Schwartz]

I just got to LA. I'm old.

[Sydney Kane]

That's crazy.

[Tom Schwartz]

I know.

[Sydney Kane]

I mean, yeah, I was like. But. But I was watching this and I was kind of like, who are these women? I am obsessed with them. I love this.

[Tom Schwartz]

All of them.

[Alex Baskin]

All.

[Sydney Kane]

Every single one of them. And I. I love and Lisa, literally like you are an icon to my family. We love you like so much. We've gone to sir so many times.

[Tom Schwartz]

I need to take you to Villa Rosa. Her house is heaven on earth.

[Sydney Kane]

If you introduce me to at least. I don't think you. I don't think I can do that.

[Tom Schwartz]

So when I die, I've talked about this public. When I die, I want to come back as one of her turtles on her property.

[Sydney Kane]

I want to be one of her.

[Tom Schwartz]

Dogs or one of her swans. She has so many swans.

[Sydney Kane]

There's so many swans. I would be a swan.

[Tom Schwartz]

It's majestic.

[Sydney Kane]

Wait. Let's wait. How about this? In our afterlife, Tom, we're gonna come back as swans, I believe, and we're gonna live on Lisa's property.

[Tom Schwartz]

Do you believe in reincarnation? I really do.

[Sydney Kane]

I don't. Sure.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah. Why not?

[Sydney Kane]

I think why not?

[Tom Schwartz]

Why not?

[Sydney Kane]

Why not? Yeah. I think it's actually insane to believe that like we have these souls within us and there's. And like you're telling me that this just like happened?

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah.

[Sydney Kane]

No, like I've lived before. There's no way I haven't.

[Tom Schwartz]

I. Well, I don't know if I'm so allowed to say this. She told me I'm not. I went to, I guess a psychic. She said I'm on my fourth life.

[Sydney Kane]

Why aren't you. Why aren't you allowed to say that?

[Tom Schwartz]

I don't know. Mission. I remember her mentioning that I shouldn't talk about it, cuz that's bad. Not why juju or karma. What words did you like?

[Sydney Kane]

This psychic. I really want to see one.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah, I have a. So my girl has a really good one on the west side that is like. Like insane. Like almost eerie.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh my God. Wait, maybe she can give me the info. I really want to see a Psychic.

[Tom Schwartz]

I'm going to get. I'm going to get the info.

[Sydney Kane]

Wait. I would be honored.

[Tom Schwartz]

We should have done an episode with the psychic reading. Would you do that or is. That's too intimate? That's very intimate.

[Sydney Kane]

If you invite me back, I will.

[Tom Schwartz]

Okay. I'll talk to Kiana and see if she'll.

[Sydney Kane]

I would do it.

[Tom Schwartz]

She said she's the best psychic in the world.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, my God.

[Tom Schwartz]

And she. My. And she's not Woo Woo per se. I like. Woo Woo's not a bad word on my show. We do a lot of, like, I had a pet. A pet psychic on, like, three episodes ago.

[Sydney Kane]

I love that stuff.

[Tom Schwartz]

He's amazing.

[Sydney Kane]

I subscribe to goop.com. i can't afford any. Anything on there, but, like, I am like, no, no, no, no, no. I am like, all about that.

[Tom Schwartz]

I order goop all the time. Oh, my God.

[Sydney Kane]

Goop Kitchen.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yes, of course. What do you get there?

[Sydney Kane]

I like the salmon. There's some.

[Tom Schwartz]

Salmon bowl is so good.

[Sydney Kane]

The salmon bowl.

[Tom Schwartz]

The chicken teriyaki bowl is good, too.

[Sydney Kane]

And the lettuce wraps.

[Tom Schwartz]

The soup.

[Sydney Kane]

The soup.

[Tom Schwartz]

What is it?

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

The.

[Tom Schwartz]

Sorry, guys. Sorry.

[Sydney Kane]

No, no. What is. What are those? Like, they're. They're like. They're like these little, like. They're squares, but they're like these, like, protein, like, chickpea things. I don't know what the fucking name is, but they're so.

[Tom Schwartz]

Shout out to Goop Kitchen.

[Sydney Kane]

I'm screaming also in public.

[Tom Schwartz]

It's every time, it's like $150. I'm like, well, yeah, it's. But it's worth it.

[Sydney Kane]

But it's Gwyneth, and we love Gwyneth.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

Who doesn't love Gwyneth?

[Sydney Kane]

I don't know, but she's one of my favorite people. She's like, this is why, like, listen, I'm not vegan and I don't think. And I have no hate against vegans, but, like, the fact that Gwyneth Paltrow drew drinks like bone broth is so, like, badass to me.

[Tom Schwartz]

She was the first person to have a candle that says, this smells like my vagina.

[Sydney Kane]

She's iconic in every way, and I'm obsessed with her. I'm saying, I'm gonna buy an 80 tongue scraper from her. Yeah. I love health.

[Tom Schwartz]

I love health.

[Sydney Kane]

I'm in la. I love health.

[Tom Schwartz]

Wait, wait, can I go back to music?

[Sydney Kane]

You? No.

[Tom Schwartz]

I need to know your musical influences. Wait, wait, what was.

[Sydney Kane]

God.

[Tom Schwartz]

What was. What was the. What's the. What's the last song that made you cry, if you can think of it.

[Sydney Kane]

Whoa.

[Tom Schwartz]

Or album that you just like last.

[Sydney Kane]

Time made me cry. Well, okay, wait. Oh, my God. Let me plug this. Actually. Well, one. Charlie XCX is one of the best artists of our time. Well, wicked. Oh, God, don't make me say this.

[Tom Schwartz]

I love Brat.

[Sydney Kane]

I love Brat. I've gone on her. I've gone as her for Halloween, every. For the. Every single year. I've been on it for two years in a row because people say I look like her. If I, like, do, like, the shades.

[Tom Schwartz]

Or whatever, I can see it.

[Sydney Kane]

I'll show you the costume. It. It's actually pretty crazy. But I'll do it until she notices, because I'm such a fan and I think she's so amazing and one of the best artists of our time.

[Tom Schwartz]

It's so confusing to be a girl.

[Sydney Kane]

Girl, girl.

[Tom Schwartz]

Sorry.

[Sydney Kane]

No. Why? No, please. But sorry. But her. The Withering Heights, the songs that she has released, released from Wuthering Heights, there's a song called Wall of Wall of Sound. It's one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. And it's so, like, I really just, like, relate to it because there's just, like, this looping aspect to it, and I'm very like, oh, I do this when I fall in love with people. Like, I'm like, oh, my God. Like, all these things. Like, I can't break out of it. Like, it's so good that. And then there's this other girl. Do you know who Jesse Murph is?

[Tom Schwartz]

No.

[Sydney Kane]

She's like, really? She is popular, but, like, Elton John, like, just had her on his thing or whatever. He's, like, obsessed with her. Her album. She's. She's amazing. She sounds like Amy Winehouse, Willie Nelson, and, like, I don't know, like. And then Jesse Murph, who just. She is as a person. She. Her voice is so distinct. But these songs, like, she kind of, like, raps.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah.

[Sydney Kane]

She's from, like, Alabama, I think her. Her songs are incredible. And she has this one song called Heroin.

[Tom Schwartz]

Heroin.

[Sydney Kane]

And also a certain kind of love. The songs make me cry.

[Tom Schwartz]

Okay, that's beautiful.

[Sydney Kane]

Listen to them.

[Tom Schwartz]

I'm. I'm a late. I'm a late adopter to, like. Yeah, Charlie xtx and, like, I'm going into some deep cuts with Taylor Swift. One song that makes me cry is Maroon.

[Sydney Kane]

I love Maroon. Oh, my God, Tom. Oh, my God.

[Tom Schwartz]

Giana taught me that. That's my girlfriend and I. And it's like, I cry every time I hear that song.

[Sydney Kane]

Why?

[Tom Schwartz]

It just reminds me of her. And also, it's, like, such a romantic song. I could cry just thinking about it right now.

[Sydney Kane]

Your favorite lyric in the song I love Maroon.

[Tom Schwartz]

Oh. When she talks about dancing with no shoes on in New York.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah.

[Tom Schwartz]

It makes me want to, like, go fall in love in New York all over again.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, my God. Yeah, you can just go back. When? Whenever she goes back again.

[Tom Schwartz]

She's on a flight there right now, but I'm gonna be going back soon.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, my God. Yeah. No, that song is. I loved Midnights. I love that album.

[Tom Schwartz]

Well, what. Do you listen to anything before your show to get hyped up? All right. What do you do before your show?

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, my God. Yeah, I do, actually.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

What do you do?

[Sydney Kane]

I listen to Sympathy is a Knife from Charli xcx, but I do this Ariana Grande version.

[Tom Schwartz]

Can you sing a little clip, or is that rude?

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, yeah. Are you kidding? I absolutely can. Well, so, so. So Ariana comes on. Well, I'm like, okay, Ariana will come on. And she's like, it's a knife when you know they're counting on your mistakes It's a knife when you're so pretty they think it must be fake It's a knife when they dissect your body on the front page It's a knife when they don't believe you why should you explain It's a knife with the old f. Honestly, it's so good. But, like, thank you for that. The whole song is really just, like, about, like, people, like, twisting your words and, like, not seeing you for who you are. And, like, who better to know that than Ariana Grande? Like, people love to think that she's so. She's my. Ariana Grande, I think, is actually one of my. I am obsessed with her. I have a really good impression of her, and I. I hope that. I don't know if she's seen it and if you have, and I hope you like it. It's not. Nothing bad to do with it. You wanted me to do it.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah. I'm sorry. I'm giving her the look.

[Sydney Kane]

Yes. Okay. Yes. And I'm so happy to be on this podcast with you right now. Honored to be with Tom on his podcast.

[Tom Schwartz]

I feel like I'm at a wicked press junket right now.

[Sydney Kane]

No. And I also. I'm so upset that they didn't get nominated for Oscars. They both gave it a performance of a lifetime and in the whole franchise. But that second Movie. I was. I love Wicked, obviously. It really brought me back to, like, my roots. Watching the first movie and that second movie was. Was. She was. So both of them were. Her and Cynthia were so good.

[Tom Schwartz]

I'm not a Wicked guy, per se, but I can objectively appreciate it now. I feel like Hansel from Zoolander. That's a deep cut. No, but he's talking about staying and he's like, the music. Music he's created. I don't really listen to it, but I appreciate it.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah, sure, sure.

[Tom Schwartz]

But no, yeah, she's an icon. She's a living legend. Yes, but she gets a lot of hate online. My God. Ariana Grande in love, but a lot of hate.

[Sydney Kane]

Too much.

[Tom Schwartz]

My God.

[Sydney Kane]

Stop talking about her body. She's doing what she's. Stop it.

[Tom Schwartz]

How do you fare with social media? Do you look at comments about your show and stuff? Are you okay with criticism?

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah, people have said insane things to me already. They don't like it when women are funny.

[Tom Schwartz]

Men.

[Sydney Kane]

They don't like meeting men, but men don't like it when, like, women, like, say what's on their mind. I realized. But the one thing that people will. One thing that men have commented on for me is they comment on my nose. It's so random.

[Tom Schwartz]

You have a great nose.

[Sydney Kane]

Thank you so much. No, I love it. I mean, I obviously am Jewish and, like, I. But, like, I've gotten, like, comments being like, you look, like, so Squidward. And I'm like, that's so funny. I love Squidward.

[Tom Schwartz]

Who doesn't?

[Sydney Kane]

Have you not seen Handsome Squidward?

[Tom Schwartz]

I know that. I know the meme.

[Sydney Kane]

Hello.

[Tom Schwartz]

I know the meme.

[Sydney Kane]

He's so hot. Thanks.

[Tom Schwartz]

That's so funny. I'm so happy. I'm so happy I got that reference.

[Sydney Kane]

Handsome Squidward.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah. I'm kind of old.

[Sydney Kane]

How old are you?

[Tom Schwartz]

I'm 43.

[Sydney Kane]

What?

[Tom Schwartz]

I know.

[Sydney Kane]

Are you joking?

[Tom Schwartz]

But in LA years, I'm like, 33.

[Sydney Kane]

And then in Tom years. What are you, 10?

[Tom Schwartz]

Okay.

[Sydney Kane]

Have you seen it? Because I. Have you seen that Carol Burn?

[Tom Schwartz]

The audience is gonna love that you said that. Because I get roasted for having Peter Pan syndrome, which I don't. I. I had it up until I was, like, 40, but I don't want to get into.

[Sydney Kane]

Why. Why should we grow up?

[Tom Schwartz]

Well, I. But it's not cute. I don't know. I. I used to get sloppy drunk and I don't want to do it.

[Sydney Kane]

I don't do that.

[Tom Schwartz]

No, but I used to just be a sloppy. And I wasn't always great to any.

[Sydney Kane]

In my marriage, Joe Burnett has this. Harold Burnett always identifies when people ask like how old she is. Cuz she's old. But she goes, she goes, I think she's 94. And I might be wrong, but she was just on Amy Poehler's podcast.

[Tom Schwartz]

So good. Love Amy Poehler.

[Sydney Kane]

Love Amy Poehler.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah.

[Sydney Kane]

Massive fan. She was on there. And like one thing that she says and she said on Julia Louis Dreyfus's podcast as well, like when people ask like how old Carol Burnett is, she'll say her age. And then like, how and how old do you feel? She'll always say 11. And I, I, I'll say I feel like I'm 6. And so when I heard her say that for the first, I started, I'm obsessed with Carol Burnett, but she always says 11. And then Amy was like, I feel like I'm 11 when I'm around you.

[Tom Schwartz]

Tears, fairy tales can come true if you're young at heart.

[Sydney Kane]

And I think you should be around people who make you feel like you're a kid.

[Tom Schwartz]

I listen. I've had a lot of things happen to me where I can't. I couldn't afford to be a Peter Pan anymore. Sure, that life comes at you fast, but I'm still playful and curious.

[Sydney Kane]

You don't stop to look around once in a while, you might miss it. Sorry. Okay.

[Tom Schwartz]

Okay. Ferris Bueller. It's crazy how many people don't know that reference.

[Sydney Kane]

I was raised on those movies. My mom wouldn't let me watch movies that were coming out at the time until I watched all those movies. Like all John Hughes film is Ferris Bueller John Hughes?

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah. Yeah, I love John Hughes.

[Sydney Kane]

Me too.

[Tom Schwartz]

Trains, Planes and Automobiles.

[Sydney Kane]

Fantastic.

[Tom Schwartz]

Oh, my God. I watch it. Well, I only watch it. I only watch it on Thanksgiving. Yeah.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, wow. Oh, interesting. Oh, it's kind of.

[Tom Schwartz]

It's like the Thanksgiving movie.

[Sydney Kane]

Is it?

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah.

[Sydney Kane]

Is it? Does it take place over Thanksgiving?

[Tom Schwartz]

Well, yeah, he's trying to get home to see his family.

[Sydney Kane]

Is it John Candy, Right?

[Tom Schwartz]

John Candy and Steve.

[Sydney Kane]

And Steve Martin.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah.

[Sydney Kane]

What is he. You're gonna get my. What is it like my. I'm gonna get my ticket. Ticket. Yeah. That monologue is great. My mom loves that.

[Tom Schwartz]

It's so relatable.

[Sydney Kane]

Yes. Yeah. But I feel bad for the.

[Tom Schwartz]

I do too.

[Sydney Kane]

Just doing her job, but whatever. It's so funny.

[Tom Schwartz]

Do you like holidays?

[Sydney Kane]

I love, Yeah, I love holidays. Am I a Grinch?

[Tom Schwartz]

I don't think you are. I'm asking.

[Sydney Kane]

No, actually. And I I, I. But more and more that I like see clips of the Grinch. I'm like, totally.

[Tom Schwartz]

I, I get him. But I'm. I love the holidays.

[Sydney Kane]

No, I'm definitely not a Grinch. I am absolutely, like. I'm like the most annoying. I, I'm Jewish, but I love Christmas.

[Tom Schwartz]

Forget about it.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah. But I would like to make a Hanukkah movie that's just like a dumb movie and not at all about Judaism at all. I just want it to be like a holiday movie, but it's just Hanukkah instead of.

[Tom Schwartz]

It's like Home Alone, but more exactly.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah. I want to do that really badly.

[Tom Schwartz]

Oh, Catherine o' Hara just died.

[Sydney Kane]

She's.

[Tom Schwartz]

She's. She's a Second City legend.

[Sydney Kane]

Unbelievably, I cried. Shit's creek. Catherine o', Hara, period.

[Tom Schwartz]

She's my TV mom.

[Sydney Kane]

She was all of our TV mom. Yeah, she was all of our TV moms, Tom. Yeah. I. I can't believe I like. What? Out of nowhere, she also. My dog died the day before.

[Tom Schwartz]

Oh, my.

[Sydney Kane]

So wait.

[Tom Schwartz]

I'm so sorry.

[Sydney Kane]

It's okay. It's okay.

[Tom Schwartz]

I'm so sorry.

[Sydney Kane]

She was really. You want to see her picture of her? She's still my background best friends.

[Tom Schwartz]

Oh, my God.

[Sydney Kane]

This is Dolly. Yeah, she. She. She did so good.

[Tom Schwartz]

Do you want to do a session with the pet psychic? I.

[Sydney Kane]

Me.

[Tom Schwartz]

He's actually amazing.

[Sydney Kane]

Wait, will he, like.

[Tom Schwartz]

I bought one for my friend and he called me and he's like, dude, thank you so much. It was very, very therapeutic.

[Sydney Kane]

You can talk to dead dogs.

[Tom Schwartz]

I. My friend had just lost a dog and. Shut up. Yeah, I. I don't want to make any promises, but.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, that, like, the dog will come through.

[Tom Schwartz]

No, no. Yeah, but he said it was very healing.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, my God. Yeah, I would love.

[Tom Schwartz]

What was your dog's name?

[Sydney Kane]

Her name is Dolly.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

Dolly.

[Tom Schwartz]

I'm so sorry.

[Sydney Kane]

It's okay. She. She had cancer and, like, she was really holding. She was. She fought so hard, like, really so hard, but she was just in so much pain. And it's the hardest thing decision. You get to Dolly. Oh, my God.

[Tom Schwartz]

We're taking a sip right now of our palomas.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, my God. My family's going to freak out that you're, like, saying that to.

[Tom Schwartz]

Did I drink your drink? Sorry.

[Sydney Kane]

Wait, did we.

[Tom Schwartz]

I don't even know what this is.

[Sydney Kane]

I don't know what this.

[Tom Schwartz]

Wait, we're drinking?

[Sydney Kane]

Guys, Wait. Should we try? Wait, do we want to.

[Tom Schwartz]

We're dating.

[Sydney Kane]

I got no cuz Mine has passion fruit, lime and agave. And you got.

[Tom Schwartz]

I got your drink. This is passion fruit for sure.

[Sydney Kane]

Should we switch?

[Tom Schwartz]

Do you care?

[Sydney Kane]

I'm totally. No, I don't give a.

[Tom Schwartz]

Okay.

[Sydney Kane]

That's so funny.

[Tom Schwartz]

Cheers. But I'm really sorry, Dolly.

[Sydney Kane]

I'm really totally. That better?

[Tom Schwartz]

That's so much.

[Sydney Kane]

That's good.

[Tom Schwartz]

Wait, I'm jumping around now.

[Sydney Kane]

Mine's better than yours. This one's better than that one.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah. 100. Yeah, I miss it. I'm logging, I'm logging. Have you ever had fresh passion fruit, by the way? It's amazing.

[Sydney Kane]

I don't think I actually ever have.

[Tom Schwartz]

I never, ever had a porn star martini.

[Alex Baskin]

No.

[Tom Schwartz]

Oh, my God.

[Sydney Kane]

Wait, that's grapefruit.

[Tom Schwartz]

No, it's rare. But if you know it's rare. If you know you, it's. So the real deal is fresh passion fruit.

[Sydney Kane]

Okay.

[Tom Schwartz]

Vanilla, vodka, lemon. And that's it. That's it. And then, okay, so you get it as a martini and then they serve it with a little. A little shot glass of champagne. You could put it in there or you can sip it separately.

[Sydney Kane]

I have never had this before in my life and it sounds like everything I would like. I. So I don't like vodka.

[Tom Schwartz]

There's no way that they have them here.

[Sydney Kane]

But there's absolutely not.

[Tom Schwartz]

We can ask.

[Sydney Kane]

You can ask. Joy, go for it.

[Tom Schwartz]

Wait, wait. Date. You're dating officiana. Maestro.

[Sydney Kane]

Maestro. Bradley Cooper. Come on. The pod is it.

[Tom Schwartz]

What's it like dating in LA and New York?

[Sydney Kane]

Do you go.

[Tom Schwartz]

Do you have dating apps?

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah, well, I do. So I have dating apps, but mainly like for content you use.

[Tom Schwartz]

So you're using these poor saps for material. Of course, I love that. Of course.

[Sydney Kane]

Of course I do. Like there you have. Content comes from experience. And so I have to be like, I have a Raya membership. I think I've met one person from Raya, period.

[Tom Schwartz]

Raya's. So people don't know. It's like the. It's like. It's kind of like the high class.

[Sydney Kane]

It's like. It's really exciting. Exclusive this exclusive. You have to be kind of networking.

[Tom Schwartz]

Dating app famous or good looking.

[Sydney Kane]

You used to have to be. Now you can just. Now anyone can get on, right?

[Tom Schwartz]

Oh, really?

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah. Actually, the situationship that my show is about. A couple days after he like ended things with me the first time, because we were, you know, we did like six rounds the first time he asked me for a riot referral. Like two days later, I gave it to him. Dumb.

[Tom Schwartz]

Are you guys still friends?

[Sydney Kane]

No, we don't speak.

[Tom Schwartz]

But he came to two of your shows.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah. Yeah, that was last year. We haven't spoken since July, but he still texts me. He actually. Oh, of course he does. Yeah.

[Tom Schwartz]

Did you guys love each other? You don't have to go there if you don't watch.

[Sydney Kane]

I don't know if he loved me, but I definitely, like, it wasn't reciprocated. I, I was something towards him. I have no idea why I was so. But, like, I mean, I think it was like. Yeah, I think I, I, No, I. If he didn't de. If he didn't care about me, that's insane. But I, I, I don't know. Yeah, I think at one point. Yeah.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah. Sorry, I didn't. I don't want to make you. Why?

[Sydney Kane]

I don't care.

[Tom Schwartz]

I'm just curious because. Yeah.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

I don't know.

[Tom Schwartz]

I've always been really, really lucky with love. Like, I just bump into someone, I'm.

[Sydney Kane]

Like, okay, don't brag.

[Tom Schwartz]

Sorry. So sorry, Sydney. I'm good at that. I'm not saying I'm good at relationships and I'm good at love. I just, like.

[Sydney Kane]

Really?

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah.

[Sydney Kane]

Maybe you can teach me something.

[Tom Schwartz]

I don't know. It's like, it's.

[Sydney Kane]

Wait. Okay, so then can I tell you about something maybe that's currently going on and maybe I shouldn't talk about this.

[Tom Schwartz]

Actually, it's up to you, cuz I.

[Sydney Kane]

Don'T know, really what's going on and.

[Tom Schwartz]

Do you want to bite A pizza?

[Sydney Kane]

I forgot we had this pizza.

[Tom Schwartz]

It's so beautiful. I don't want to touch it.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah, maybe. No, take a picture. We should get a frame.

[Tom Schwartz]

I'm going to put, I'm going to put this in an epoxy bath and just like, in a.

[Sydney Kane]

What?

[Tom Schwartz]

An epoxy, like, b. Acrylic bath. So it just stays like this forever.

[Sydney Kane]

I have never heard that before in my life. What is that? So, so if that's like an acrylic.

[Tom Schwartz]

Bath, like, essentially putting in a clear, like, plastic that, like, once it dries, just will preserve whatever's in there forever.

[Sydney Kane]

So you can't take one? Yeah, like, people don't do that.

[Tom Schwartz]

I would die.

[Sydney Kane]

Right?

[Tom Schwartz]

Well, I would suffocate.

[Sydney Kane]

Right.

[Tom Schwartz]

But I mean, that's a good way to be mummified. Wait, maybe I'm gonna put that in my will.

[Sydney Kane]

Wait, maybe that's like your final detox episode.

[Tom Schwartz]

I want to be I want to be I want to be I want.

[Sydney Kane]

To Walt Disney had his head frozen. You want to be in an acrylic bath.

[Tom Schwartz]

I want to be mummified or what is it?

[Sydney Kane]

A proxy bath?

[Tom Schwartz]

An acrylic bath. I want to be. Now I got. Now I got a visual. Sydney, myself. My old ass. My old 43. Oh, my God.

[Sydney Kane]

Did you say you're old 43? You do look like you're, like, not 40. I don't. What does 43 even look like, actually? No, this is, like, a thing. I actually think that, like, so, like, I actually think people look younger when once they hit 40. Do you understand what I'm saying?

[Tom Schwartz]

And if you live in big cities, it keeps you young. I really believe that.

[Sydney Kane]

If you look at the news, I think it keeps one that might age you.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah, they. No. Exponentially. Just don't look at the news. Don't be.

[Sydney Kane]

Remain ignorant.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yes.

[Sydney Kane]

Sorry. Oh, my God.

[Tom Schwartz]

Remain uninformed.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah, I'll take a bite of this pizza.

[Tom Schwartz]

I'll have a bite of pizza with you. You guys. Sorry. I kind of makes me. I think it kind of makes it feel like the audience is here with us.

[Sydney Kane]

Do people, like. Do people. You love your audience?

[Tom Schwartz]

Yes.

[Sydney Kane]

Imagine you say, no.

[Tom Schwartz]

I'm always shocked when people come up to me and they're like, I listen to your podcast. I love it.

[Sydney Kane]

I'm like, I love. Who's this episode sponsored by? Who. Wait, what is this episode? Who?

[Tom Schwartz]

You're the star. But it was. Honestly, it's a little bit about the Belmont and the history of the Belmont, but it's about you and your show.

[Sydney Kane]

No, but, I mean, like, are there ads that are going to run?

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

Yeah.

[Tom Schwartz]

Indicloud. Which one of my sponsors.

[Sydney Kane]

What's your favorite? Oh, I can't.

[Tom Schwartz]

I love. Say I love their sleepy time gummies.

[Sydney Kane]

Amazing.

[Tom Schwartz]

They're amazing.

[Sydney Kane]

Well, if you're. If you're listening to this weed company, please send me stuff.

[Tom Schwartz]

I'll send you stuff.

[Sydney Kane]

Send me stuff. I really want brand partnerships. I. I need to start making money on social media.

[Tom Schwartz]

One of my friends just stopped smoking weed. I. I can't say his name, but he gave me a bag of weed this big. How many inches is that? Seven. It's, like, massive. Sorry. Sorry. You're making me seem like such a man. You're like, that's wishful thinking.

[Sydney Kane]

If your weed bag is. I'm kidding.

[Tom Schwartz]

All right, all right, all right. You get the idea. It was a lot of weed.

[Sydney Kane]

What were we talking about? Oh, my dating life.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

Dating.

[Tom Schwartz]

So.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah, but you said, you're lucky with love. Why do you Think you've been lucky with love.

[Tom Schwartz]

I'm just like. I think I'm just blessed. I don't know. All my. I don't know how deep I want to go, but everyone I've ever dated has been amazing. And, like, the. Like, the person I'm with right now, now I'm so madly in love. And she's so cool. Way out of my league. But period. Period.

[Sydney Kane]

Stay that way.

[Tom Schwartz]

Way out of my league.

[Sydney Kane]

And keep saying that.

[Tom Schwartz]

But no, I've just.

[Sydney Kane]

All women should be out of men's League.

[Tom Schwartz]

No, 100%. Well, I'm actually with you.

[Sydney Kane]

Yes, please.

[Tom Schwartz]

How about we just roast men for a while?

[Sydney Kane]

I would love that's. What do you think? I do want to do that. I'm kidding.

[Tom Schwartz]

Are you. Are. Do you think. Are you pessimistic about dating and men in general? Are you still an optimist, or do you like kind of being a pessimist because it's so good for your material?

[Sydney Kane]

I. I'm a pessimist because it protects me, but I don't know if I actually. But I actually am, like, a lover girl. Like, I really do want love.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah. I like. I, like, crave connection. I like love connecting with people. I love talk. And so, like. But, like, right now, I am talking to this guy who, like, I've actually known for, like, a long time. And, like, he lives. I can't believe I'm talking about this. Oh, my God. But, you know, I.

[Tom Schwartz]

We won't say his name.

[Sydney Kane]

I don't know what has come over me being like, I don't give a. What I say now. Like, I don't know what that is. Normally, I'd be like, alcohol. That's true. Serum retro serum.

[Tom Schwartz]

As we're crushing drinks on Route 66 on a Monday. Yeah, I know. By the way, listen, it's the day after the Super Bowl.

[Sydney Kane]

It's a holiday.

[Tom Schwartz]

Lay off.

[Sydney Kane]

It is a national holiday. What was I saying? Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. But he. Yeah, so. So. So we've been so. Like. He's known me for a while, even, like, when I lived out here, and then I moved to New York, and now I'm back, and, like, I don't know. He has called me every single day.

[Tom Schwartz]

That's cute.

[Sydney Kane]

We started talking, like, in December, Like. Like, actually talking, talking.

[Tom Schwartz]

That's fresh.

[Sydney Kane]

It is fresh. And I was just out here. But I will say this. He had to go home. He's home right now where he is. And we haven't really been talking as much, but we met and we saw each other in person. Like when I first got here, I went to a. His hockey game. I went to his recreational hockey game.

[Tom Schwartz]

Is he a professional hockey player?

[Sydney Kane]

No, but he could have gone pro. Yeah, he's really good, but he's playing like recreational hockey and I went to the hockey game. So I'm like, listen. And I'm not usually like, that's love. Shut up. But I'm kind of like, I stg. Swear to God, if this turns on, he's like, I just wasn't feeling it. I'm going to.

[Tom Schwartz]

Let's castrate him. No. Okay. Too far.

[Sydney Kane]

He is a sweet guy and we were friends before and if it doesn't work, we'll be friends after. But like, I'm kind of like along for the ride and I like him a lot.

[Tom Schwartz]

That's a beautiful thing, what you just said. Cuz it's hard. Not many people can do that. Like, if it doesn't work out, we'll remain friends afterwards.

[Sydney Kane]

I just can't tell if we're both secure attachment, actually, that I've learned. Anxious attachment. And so I'm just kind of like, well, he hasn't called me in like a couple days, like, blah, blah, blah, what's going on? And I'm kind of like, well, maybe he's just with family, maybe he doesn't want to. And I think that's actually fine.

[Tom Schwartz]

How's your track record with men?

[Sydney Kane]

Bad.

[Tom Schwartz]

Oh, how bad?

[Sydney Kane]

Bad.

[Tom Schwartz]

Really?

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah, like, like you.

[Tom Schwartz]

You ignore red flags.

[Sydney Kane]

Like, it's my job.

[Tom Schwartz]

Really.

[Sydney Kane]

I'm colorblind. I'm not red. Looks like green to me.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah. Not Christmas.

[Sydney Kane]

They go great together.

[Tom Schwartz]

We'll just say it's beige. Beige flag.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah, it's. They're really red, though.

[Tom Schwartz]

I will say, when you're in the moment, is it always hindsight? 20, 2020 or like sometimes, you know, but you're like, listen, I can fix him.

[Sydney Kane]

I always. Of course. No, it's. Or it's like, I can fix myself, actually. Oh, it's like, no, I can. I can do this. It's fine. I can be that girl.

[Tom Schwartz]

But it's so relatable.

[Sydney Kane]

But I'm not that girl. I'm not. And so I'm really trying right now to be like, I am. I'm really trying to be.

[Tom Schwartz]

Intentional dating in LA has like the worst reputation. Worse than New York from what I hear. Just like, I don't know what the. What are the stereotypes, the cliches everyone's in the industry are what do they say New Yorkers are not nice, but they're kind and LA people are.

[Sydney Kane]

Are not kind but nice? Yeah, I. And I. But I don't know.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, or no, something like that.

[Sydney Kane]

I don't know, cuz I. I mean, at least the friends I have out here are all really kind.

[Tom Schwartz]

Like, I see I've had the best experience in la. I've had so many people tell me that they hate it. It has a dark cloud over it.

[Sydney Kane]

I used to think that too. And then honestly, like, as I've come back here when I visited, like since I moved away from L. A I have found that like, my friends that I made here are like. I actually made like friends here in New York. There are still some of my favorite people in the world, but I went to college with them, so it's almost like a different kind of friendship. But it's really hard to make friends in New York. Actually for me, at least here it was like so easy because I think it's like so hard to find community here because everyone's so far away from each other.

[Tom Schwartz]

But when you do, you're lucky enough to find a good career.

[Sydney Kane]

And I think I have. That's why, kind of why I'm like, do I just move back here for a little bit?

[Tom Schwartz]

It's like the song Home is wherever I'm with you. When you have a good group of friends, it doesn't matter where you live.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh my God. What? Home. Home is wherever I'm with, period.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

Oh my God.

[Sydney Kane]

Do think you sing? You do sing.

[Tom Schwartz]

No, my God, I have the worst voice ever. We're doing karaoke after this.

[Sydney Kane]

Yes.

[Tom Schwartz]

Wait, overall, what's your relationship with LA like? It's love hate or it's love love?

[Sydney Kane]

I don't. I think it's like love reminisce at the moment.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah. Well, your baby, like you're doing, you're, you're, you're literally living your dream right now. How cool is that?

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah, I think it's like I've always said, like, I will come back here if I have a reason to come back. And like right now I'm kind of like, yeah, I feel like I have reason to come back now.

[Tom Schwartz]

All, all the reasons in the world.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah.

[Tom Schwartz]

You're doing what so many people wish they would have done. You're living so many other people.

[Sydney Kane]

Crazy of you to say.

[Tom Schwartz]

Is that negative? No, no, no, no, not negative.

[Sydney Kane]

It's just like, that's like really, it.

[Tom Schwartz]

Takes a certain amount of audacity or like bravado to know in a good way. I'm not saying cockiness, but confidence like we talked about earlier. To act, to write, star and produce in your own show. That takes moxie.

[Sydney Kane]

I mean I, I, at all times I'm kind of like these are the words that I wrote that are coming out of my mouth. Is this gonna resonate? And like. But I've kind of gotten to the point where I'm kind of like it's not gonna be perfect. And I think that's okay. Like I, I can't keep like ruminating on it because I'll drive myself.

[Tom Schwartz]

Well, it's not gonna be perfect. I'm not gonna come to the show.

[Sydney Kane]

That's okay. Sorry, did I say it's not gonna be perfect? I meant it's most perfect it's ever been.

[Tom Schwartz]

Do I need to bring tomatoes?

[Sydney Kane]

Please throw a to that. If you. Wait. If I get it. Wait. I will be so happy if you throw a tomato at me. Don't tell me when it's going to happen.

[Tom Schwartz]

Do it. Wait, I just wrote this. I wrote this down cuz I, I, I was taking a, a cold shower and my girlfriend was in there and she saw me reacting to the cold water she got. She said it was the, the worst ick she's had.

[Sydney Kane]

I was about to ask if she got the egg.

[Tom Schwartz]

I was like.

[Sydney Kane]

And she's like oh my God. Wait, that's so funny. If you want the ick, imagine them getting in a cold shower.

[Tom Schwartz]

Have you had any aches lately? I know, it's like kind of a almost cliche topic these days.

[Sydney Kane]

This is such a good question.

[Tom Schwartz]

Bad ones. Anyways, I, I'm traumatized. She's like, the way she looked at.

[Sydney Kane]

Me, she's like, yeah, I saw the guy who my show's about. He was doing, he, he's now getting a masters, a master's degree in dance. Sure. And look at this.

[Tom Schwartz]

Men circle. Man supporting best.

[Sydney Kane]

My best friend sent me a video recording cuz I don't, we don't follow each other anymore. But she still follows him. She sent me a video recording of him doing like a movement thing in a tree.

[Tom Schwartz]

I did this in my acting classes. I like you have to like embody different creatures and stuff and like to work on your movement.

[Sydney Kane]

Did you say more?

[Tom Schwartz]

The last one I remember being is like you have to be. I had to be a gorilla.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, animal work. Yes, that's fine. That's not a tree.

[Tom Schwartz]

Are you joking?

[Sydney Kane]

No, I know what animal work is. Yes, that's the Thing.

[Tom Schwartz]

He was pretending to be a tree.

[Sydney Kane]

You know, he was hanging in a tree and pretending to do, like, movement of a tree and, like, was hanging upside down from a tree. Oh, honestly, I have the video. I can show you it. It. But that immediately I was kind of like, this is insane. And then also my friend sent me a picture of him saying that he started taking parkour. So I was like, I think I'm done.

[Tom Schwartz]

Do you know the worst audition I ever had was a parkour for Levi.

[Sydney Kane]

Shut up.

[Tom Schwartz]

So in la, you just. Hey, do you want anything?

[Sydney Kane]

I'll do whatever this are you gonna get? Are you.

[Tom Schwartz]

I'll do one more. I'll do one more.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah, this one.

[Tom Schwartz]

Thank you.

[Sydney Kane]

Which one was this? Right.

[Tom Schwartz]

I accidentally drank hers.

[Sydney Kane]

Okay.

[Tom Schwartz]

It. Thank you. My worst audition, my most horrific, horrifying, embarrassing thing I've ever done since I've been in la. I've never talked about this. It was for a Levi's commercial and they needed parkour people. And I lied and said I could do parkour.

[Sydney Kane]

So good.

[Tom Schwartz]

So once I got in the room, I. I felt like Michael Scott. There was a little, like, blue parkour. Yeah, there was like a blue foam thing in the middle of the room. And like, okay, show us your stuff. And I just did, like, half cartwheels. I gave myself the ick. I did half.

[Sydney Kane]

Is there a video?

[Tom Schwartz]

No, Please, God, no. I did half cartwheels on this thing. And I, I, I've never felt such a deep sense of shame in my entire life. After I walked out of the room, I was like, I don't know if.

[Sydney Kane]

Parkour is the thing we need to be doing, you guys.

[Tom Schwartz]

Like, you know, I don't know if.

[Sydney Kane]

Men need to be doing that. Maybe women can do it. Not to be gender about it.

[Tom Schwartz]

No, no. Yeah, I like parkour. It's cool.

[Sydney Kane]

But, like, what is it? I don't know what it is.

[Tom Schwartz]

Was it liberating when you saw him doing that stuff? You're like, you know what? I feel better.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, anything he's done since I have now since, like, I don't know, gotten my life back together. Yeah, since he left, I literally am like, wait, what? I'm like, what the fuck?

[Tom Schwartz]

Sometimes it takes some time. It takes some time.

[Sydney Kane]

Period.

[Tom Schwartz]

Right?

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah.

[Tom Schwartz]

Time plot. What's. What's the old cliche? Time plus tragedy equals comedy?

[Sydney Kane]

Really?

[Tom Schwartz]

That's what. That's kind of cliche? Yeah.

[Sydney Kane]

I've never heard that before, but I love that.

[Tom Schwartz]

Time plus tragedy. Eventually you can laugh at almost everything.

[Sydney Kane]

I laugh at I laugh at. I laugh at everything. I laugh all the. I laugh too much, probably.

[Tom Schwartz]

I do it as a. I know. I do too.

[Sydney Kane]

I laugh all the time.

[Tom Schwartz]

Things I shouldn't laugh about and like.

[Sydney Kane]

But, but, but just like painful things.

[Tom Schwartz]

Like, things like. It just helps. It's healing. It's the best.

[Sydney Kane]

We have to laugh. I know we have to laugh. But sometimes you don't. But. And sometimes when you don't, I do.

[Tom Schwartz]

I like to live, laugh, love.

[Sydney Kane]

I like to live, laugh. And I keep laughing. You're like, well, I live, laugh. And I laugh that I'm laughing when I should probably be loving.

[Tom Schwartz]

Not so good at the love thing.

[Sydney Kane]

I. I'm just kidding. I need it to start though, because I'm starting to get really like, what's going on? Like, what am I not getting at?

[Tom Schwartz]

Do you have any advice for any hopelessly single people, Women. Women in particular right now?

[Alex Baskin]

No.

[Sydney Kane]

Do not listen to anything I have to say. I do not. I do not know what I'm doing. I. If I could have a. If there was a. Well, wait, why don't you take.

[Tom Schwartz]

How about take your pain and turn it into something beautiful like you did galvanize.

[Sydney Kane]

Don't process your breakups. Turn it into a musical comedy.

[Tom Schwartz]

That is the moral of this episode.

[Sydney Kane]

No, I think. Well, okay, one piece of advice I have to say is like, literally, like do not. You have journal, I think actually is my. Is my. Is my takeaway. You have. You have to know what you want.

[Tom Schwartz]

Write it down. Don't just have it your mind. Write that down.

[Sydney Kane]

Or actually, actually if you're like, oh, I can't tell my friends about this one thing, cuz then they're going to tell them about it. Cuz they're going to be like, if you're scared to tell your friends about something about someone that you're seeing, like, like the fact that like, you know, like, like, like for example, like my. This guy who hasn't like called me since he's been home, I talk to my friends about it. They're like, I mean, is it bad? Like, I don't know, like instead of like ruminating on it yourself, take. Talk about it if you'll.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah, yeah.

[Sydney Kane]

Use your friends as a soundboard. Yes, talk, talk. Do not keep things to yourself if it's gonna like kill you.

[Tom Schwartz]

And sometimes it's just like I've learned. Katie taught me this. Just like sometimes people just want to vent. They don't want to hear like solutions or practical.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah, that too.

[Tom Schwartz]

That guys don't learn this till they're 40. But like you just, sometimes people just want to vent. They don't want to hear your solutions. And like. Yeah, I know this is the most obvious thing ever. It took me till 40 but.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, I don't. I think it's not that obvious. I think that people, I have a lot of friends like to offer up solutions. I used to be one of them.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah.

[Sydney Kane]

Now I've just really learned how to like not to be all wicked but like hold space. Just being like, no. Yeah. You can just be mad right now.

[Tom Schwartz]

Let that shit out.

[Sydney Kane]

I also just like stop finding solutions for people because that's a lot of effort. And like also there's nothing more exhausting than being like, you're not going to take this advice anyway, so why am I giving it to you?

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah. Or it's like relationship advice. It's very.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

It's dangerous.

[Tom Schwartz]

Terr.

[Sydney Kane]

My advice actually is like if you know the hot stove thing, I say get third degree burn. If you don't learn from like the first time you're going to burn your hand on that hot stove of that person you're not supposed to be seeing. Then there's definitely. You're not going to learn it the second time. You're probably not going to learn it the third time. You'll probably learn it the sixth time. But that's the only way you're going to learn not to do it again. So keep burning your hand until you absolutely like can't feel it.

[Tom Schwartz]

People. People will choose a familiar hell over an unfamiliar heaven. That's. That's the old. A new adage.

[Sydney Kane]

Yes.

[Tom Schwartz]

And it's. I get it kind of. Although I.

[Sydney Kane]

How do you. Can I ask you a question? Am I allowed to do that? How do you happen before.

[Tom Schwartz]

I'm scared.

[Sydney Kane]

Really? Really.

[Tom Schwartz]

I'm just kidding.

[Sydney Kane]

Okay. Yeah. You're like no one's ever asked me a question before. I. How did you know? How do you know if it's like it? Do you know what I mean?

[Tom Schwartz]

Thank you. Thank you so much. Well, it's not a cerebral thing. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. We got our right drinks now. Okay. It's just, it's. It's something that I don't like to try to articulate. Cuz it's such a beautiful thing. You just feel it in every cell. Like when you, when you meet someone and you love them, it's a beautiful thing. It's just effortless. But you have to put work into it for. To be sustainable long term. But I Love that feeling of just knowing you love some. I. I don't even want to try to describe it with words. It's beautiful. It feels so good.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

Butterflies, really?

[Sydney Kane]

Do you think that's what that is, Amy?

[Tom Schwartz]

I just. You know, it. It's just right when you, like.

[Sydney Kane]

I don't know. That's why I'm asking you.

[Tom Schwartz]

I thought you had fallen in love. Do you think I can't?

[Sydney Kane]

I. I don't. I feel like I know. Like, I don't know. I don't know if I've ever. Well, I think I like, love. I love so hard, but I love, like, things that aren't necessarily. I, like, know what love is, but I don't know if I've ever, like, fallen in love with, like, a partner.

[Tom Schwartz]

Have you ever fallen in love with pizza?

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah, this is good pizza.

[Tom Schwartz]

Sorry.

[Sydney Kane]

I fallen in love with that. Whatever that aioli is.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of aioli, but that's. Let me try it.

[Sydney Kane]

I think it's cilantro. And also, I could be wrong. I don't know how. What flavors are. Is that cilantro?

[Tom Schwartz]

I don't eat mayonnaise, but that's good.

[Sydney Kane]

That's cilantro.

[Tom Schwartz]

I think so.

[Sydney Kane]

Do you have that gene that is like, soap?

[Tom Schwartz]

No. I don't get. I love cilantro.

[Sydney Kane]

I like, like it, too. And people get. People are really mean to me about it.

[Tom Schwartz]

It's delicious. I thought you're gonna have more dating advice.

[Sydney Kane]

What do you mean?

[Tom Schwartz]

I'm just kidding.

[Sydney Kane]

No, no, no. But I. I mean, listen, for me, I just feel like I'm kind of like one of those people that's like, if it feels right, it's right.

[Tom Schwartz]

I think you said it perfectly. It's like, if you do go through a breakup, don't just wallow in your musical comedy. Do something with it.

[Sydney Kane]

I also think, like, people don't. Do not settle. As someone who has settled, like, I have settled so many times also. You do know. You do know. You do know. You're like, I don't like this. You know, I feel like. I feel like that's my advice, you know, even.

[Tom Schwartz]

It's like. Like, sometimes people look so good on paper, and you're like. Like, this person has everything, but you just don't feel it.

[Sydney Kane]

Paper is not an emotion. It's. That's a material.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Sydney Kane]

Like, it's not. I don't know. I. And not follow. I mean, like, I think. Find the balance between your head and your heart and use both don't just follow your heart, cuz that can get kind of messy.

[Tom Schwartz]

But.

[Sydney Kane]

But don't follow your head cuz that can be limiting.

[Tom Schwartz]

So what you're saying is even though you're doing a show about it, you're not wife material?

[Sydney Kane]

Wife material doesn't exist.

[Tom Schwartz]

I'm just kidding. Yeah, I'm kidding. No, I'm kidding.

[Sydney Kane]

No, it's okay.

[Tom Schwartz]

I have no doubt in my mind. Just talking to you for an hour and 12 minutes, which is crazy.

[Sydney Kane]

Whoa.

[Tom Schwartz]

I never go this long. You are going to find love. I have no doubt about it.

[Sydney Kane]

And do you think you're psychic at all?

[Tom Schwartz]

No.

[Sydney Kane]

Not even a little.

[Tom Schwartz]

I mean, I'm an empath. I love people. I love.

[Sydney Kane]

I love.

[Tom Schwartz]

I have so much compassion.

[Sydney Kane]

Are you an intuitive?

[Tom Schwartz]

I don't know. Okay, I'm stupid. Maybe I'm a stupid idiot.

[Sydney Kane]

I'm an idiot.

[Tom Schwartz]

But wait. Oh my God. Wait, if you really?

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

When?

[Tom Schwartz]

Not if, but when you do find love, is that gonna ruin your show?

[Sydney Kane]

No, I'm an actor.

[Tom Schwartz]

Oh yeah? Yeah.

[Sydney Kane]

And let's be honest. Like, if I find love now, will that be love? And I'm kidding.

[Tom Schwartz]

No, I get it, I get it. But maybe we should. This has been so fun. I could talk to you for hours. Thank you, Sydney.

[Sydney Kane]

No, I'm honored. Thanks for having me.

[Tom Schwartz]

I'm gonna high five you and then we're gonna finish our drink. Where can we find you?

[Sydney Kane]

Oh my gosh.

[Tom Schwartz]

Social media. Tick tock.

[Sydney Kane]

Oh yeah, you can find me at Sydney Morgan Kane on all social media, Instagram. Tick tock. I don't have link LinkedIn and also I don't think people use it. Why? Is it LinkedIn?

[Tom Schwartz]

No, creatives don't use LinkedIn.

[Sydney Kane]

Right?

[Tom Schwartz]

Or do they?

[Sydney Kane]

I don't know. I definitely don't. Anyway, I use true social. I'm kidding. Don't. I actually deleted it.

[Tom Schwartz]

Oh God.

[Sydney Kane]

Threads, I guess is what is like.

[Tom Schwartz]

The thing blowing up right now.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah, I made a hilarious. What is it called? Thread about something I said. Like what is retweet on here? Reweave. And it got no love. Love. I was like, that's funny. Comments like that's funny.

[Tom Schwartz]

You guys better laugh.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah, you guys go. Go through my threads.

[Tom Schwartz]

Go through your threads. Cindy Kane.

[Sydney Kane]

Trifle through. Trifle through my threads. Find my com. Anyway, okay, you can find me there. And then shows and then my phone number. Oh, and then the show is on February 16, 7pm at the Hudson Theater. It runs about 60, I think at max. 67 minutes. Max. So you're in and out. I get you in and out. I know people don't have attention spans because I sure as don't. And I respect people's time.

[Tom Schwartz]

I do, too. And thank you for your time. And I'm so hyped to be coming to your show. I'm not gonna bring any tomatoes because this would be awesome.

[Sydney Kane]

Wait, I really wish you would, though.

[Tom Schwartz]

I'll bring you a tomato as a gift. Yeah, cool. You guys, if you. I'll be there too, if you want to come hang out. And I will. If you remember, if you say I listen to this episode, I will buy you a drink. I hope. I hope a ton of people don't.

[Sydney Kane]

At the Belmont.

[Tom Schwartz]

What if, like. What if, like a hundred people come and watch?

[Sydney Kane]

They're like, it's a Monday night.

[Tom Schwartz]

It's a wr.

[Sydney Kane]

It's literally in a week.

[Tom Schwartz]

It's a write off it.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah, you're doing charity work.

[Tom Schwartz]

Wait, what's the name of the theater again?

[Sydney Kane]

Oh, the Hudson Theater.

[Tom Schwartz]

Hudson Theater. So go online. What should we. How do we get tickets?

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah, you can find it through my Instagram bio or it's on onstage411.com I believe is what the. The. The thing is. But maybe you'll link it in. The is what people say.

[Tom Schwartz]

Yeah, I'll tag you and I'll put your thingy.

[Sydney Kane]

You're going to do that?

[Tom Schwartz]

Your thingy, Ma Bobber.

[Sydney Kane]

Yeah. And then also come to. Where are we right now?

[Tom Schwartz]

We are at Bottega, but we're. I'm going to go to the. No, this episode is about you, but it's also about the Belmont. Go to the Belmont. Support it.

[Sydney Kane]

They can get this pizza.

[Tom Schwartz]

Oh, Bottega. Louie too. Our neighbor. Our neighbor to the west. And West Hollywood. Go to the Belmont. One of my favorite bars in la. It's iconic. All of your best vanderpump memories are in there, I'm telling you. Everyone, every single one of them, a lot of them. More than I could ever tell on this show or any show. But anyways, thank you, Sydney.

[Sydney Kane]

My mouth's full. Sorry. Thank you so much. This piece is really good.

[Tom Schwartz]

You want to give a shout out to anybody else?

[Sydney Kane]

Shout out to my ex.

[Tom Schwartz]

Shout out to your exes for. For fueling the fire, period.

[Sydney Kane]

No, no. I love all of you. Thanks so much for listening.

[Tom Schwartz]

Love you guys. Thank you, Sydney.

[Sydney Kane]

Thank you.

[Tom Schwartz]

Bye Bye, gang.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

What did you think? Shout out to Sydney Kane doing the damn thing. Shout out to the Belmont. The Belly. Meet me at the Belmont. Shout out to Dylan the owner. Shout out to Greg, the OG who opened it. Love that spot. If those walls could talk, they'd say some pretty fucked up things. I think I've had some of the best times of my life in LA at the Belmont, believe it or not. But yeah, Sydney, we see you. We see you turning dreams into reality, beginning with audacity is a very great part of the art of painting or any art. That's a Winston Churchill quote. But yeah, audacity, you gotta have audacity. You gotta be bold. She's living out her dreams and I had so much fun chilling with her, having a few cocktails. February 16th, the Hudson Theater, West Hollywood. Yes. Maybe TomTom afterwards, just talking about the Belmont, hearing her passion for performing. It had me in my feelings, man. Reminiscing about the early mactor days made me miss high school theater. Although I sucked at it, I still liked performing. You know, not to romanticize the early LA days because they were brutal. Just barely getting by, grinding it out, but they were electric. Like not knowing where your next paycheck's coming. Gig work, gig economy. There were months we all just barely got by the skin of our teeth. Months were, you know, use a little help, a little float from a service like rnpl. Rent now, pay later. You guys check them out if you need a few months float or like, you know, mitigate offset the burden of first and last month's rent. Rnplcredit.com rent smart, stress less. Also, they have a cool new program. I don't want to get too technical here, but it can potentially create a path for first time home ownership. Yeah, let's just say your rent's like two grand a month.

[Tom Schwartz]

Okay.

[Podcast Host/Interviewer]

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[Tom Schwartz]

Bye.

[Sydney Kane]

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[Sydney Kane]

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[Tom Schwartz]

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[Sydney Kane]

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[Alex Baskin]

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[Sydney Kane]

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[Tom Schwartz]

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