Grace Kuhlenschmidt: The Daily Show, Cigarette Smuggling & Her Secret Husband

Summary

Podcast Summary: "Grace Kuhlenschmidt: The Daily Show, Cigarette Smuggling & Her Secret Husband" on Disgraceful with Grace O'Malley

Episode Overview

In this engaging episode of Disgraceful with Grace O'Malley, host Grace O’Malley is joined by fellow comedian and The Daily Show writer, Grace Kuhlenschmidt. Set against the vibrant backdrop of Los Angeles, the conversation delves into the intricacies of balancing a burgeoning career in comedy and writing with personal experiences and the challenges of navigating the entertainment industry.

Section 1: Grace O’Malley and Nora’s Personal Updates

Timestamp: [01:05] – [05:00]

Grace O’Malley kicks off the episode alongside her sister, Nora O’Malley, sharing personal anecdotes about their week. Grace humorously recounts her sunburn experience, highlighting her resilience despite appearing "obviously tan" now. Nora chimes in with lighthearted banter about their shared laughter and the natural flow of their conversations.

A notable moment occurs when Grace discusses her recent meeting with an acting coach:

Grace O’Malley [04:45]: "But, yeah, no, I did the acting coach, and that was... I was so embarrassed when I'm acting."

Nora provides supportive commentary, emphasizing the challenges Grace faces in mastering her craft:

Nora O’Malley [05:00]: "It's hard to act like you're not in a natural setting, especially with someone that, you know."

Section 2: Navigating Social Events and Personal Life

Timestamp: [05:00] – [16:00]

Grace shares her adventures in New York City and Tampa, detailing her efforts to balance social life with professional commitments. She describes attending magic shows, interacting with other podcasters, and dealing with unexpected social situations, such as accidentally showing up late to a crawfish boil:

Grace O’Malley [18:08]: "We went and saw a magic show... He pulled out a giant parrot out of the back of his leather jacket. It was crazy."

Nora provides humorous insights into these experiences, highlighting the unpredictability of their travels and social interactions. They discuss family dynamics, with Grace detailing how she and Nora manage responsibilities while Grace is away for her trip.

A heartfelt moment arises when Grace talks about her family, particularly her sister Molly's experiences in New York:

Grace Cullen Schmidt [15:53]: "She acted like she was at the Oscars. It was perfect."

Section 3: Interview with Grace Kuhlenschmidt

Timestamp: [27:29] – [90:00]

The core of the episode features an in-depth interview with Grace Kuhlenschmidt. The conversation explores Grace Kuhlenschmidt's journey in comedy, her role on The Daily Show, and her strategies for content creation and social media engagement.

Career and Comedy Background

Grace Kuhlenschmidt shares her path from performing in Chicago’s improv scene to writing for The Daily Show. She discusses the supportive nature of improv and how it has honed her comedic skills:

Grace Cullen Schmidt [36:46]: "Improv was completely non-competitive. It was just like, there's literally no shot, like that's."

Social Media and Content Creation

The discussion shifts to the impact of social media on her career. Grace explains how she leveraged platforms like Twitter and TikTok to grow her following, eventually securing representation and expanding her comedic reach:

Grace Cullen Schmidt [37:49]: "I started posting videos on Twitter and like, the first one I did got like 6000 likes."

She humorously critiques the pressures of maintaining an online presence while balancing live performances:

Grace Cullen Schmidt [54:58]: "It's exhausting. I feel like I have to be grateful for the Internet, but it's exhausting."

Personal Anecdotes and Experiences

Grace shares candid stories about her personal life, including experiences with homophobia and maintaining her identity as a queer woman in the entertainment industry:

Grace Cullen Schmidt [66:17]: "I feel privilege every second. I really am like, there. It almost catches me off guard when homophobia hits me."

The conversation delves into the nuances of representing lesbian identities in media, the challenges of typecasting, and the importance of authenticity in her work.

Humorous Segments and Game Play

The episode features lighthearted segments where Grace and Grace engage in comedic games, sharing exaggerated and fabricated stories about embarrassing moments. These segments highlight their chemistry and comedic timing, providing listeners with amusing and relatable content.

A standout moment occurs during the "never mind" charity event satire, where Grace humorously reflects on her charity performances:

Grace O’Malley [40:04]: "I did a LA fire. Yes. Charity event. And I... I wanted to try this new joke..."

Conclusion and Reflections

As the episode wraps up, both Graces reflect on the importance of maintaining personal connections and the impact of their professional endeavors. They emphasize the value of transparency with their audience and the continuous effort required to balance multiple aspects of their lives.

Grace O’Malley [86:37]: "We need to fake a death for you. We need you out of that contract. We need you out bad."

The episode concludes on a humorous note, with Grace O’Malley inviting Grace Kuhlenschmidt to audition as a co-host, showcasing the playful and supportive dynamic that defines the podcast.

Notable Quotes

1. Grace O’Malley on Acting Coaching:

   "I get so embarrassed when I'm acting." [04:45]

2. Grace Cullen Schmidt on Social Media Success:

   "I started posting videos on Twitter and like, the first one I did got like 6000 likes." [37:49]

3. Grace Cullen Schmidt on Homophobia:

   "I was like, oh my God, like people actually don't give a fuck about gay people in this world." [66:17]

4. Grace O’Malley on Content Creation Challenges:

   "I'm wearing a lot of hats." [55:32]

5. Humorous Reflection on Charity Events:

   "I did a LA fire. Yes. Charity event... that could go either way." [40:07]

Final Thoughts

This episode of Disgraceful with Grace O’Malley offers a rich blend of personal narratives, professional insights, and comedic flair. Listeners gain a deeper understanding of Grace O’Malley’s dynamic approach to hosting, as well as Grace Kuhlenschmidt’s journey in the comedy landscape. The episode adeptly balances humor with heartfelt moments, making it both entertaining and insightful for those unfamiliar with the podcast.

Transcript

[Grace O'Malley]

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[Grace O'Malley]

Hi, guys. Welcome back to Disgraceful. I'm your host, Grace O'Malley, here with my sister Nora O'Malley. Nora, how you doing?

[Nora O'Malley]

I'm doing great right now.

[Grace O'Malley]

We're time traveling. Oh, I'm good, thank you. This is so natural and flowing. We have the same laugh. I don't know if we've ever talked about that. Oh, I think we talk about it every week. So anyways, we're here in la, we're time traveling. So after we shoot the shit for a little bit, you're gonna see Grace Cullen Schmidt. Thank you. And in that episode, I have what appears to be third degree burns. It is probably the worst my sunburn was. And it's really funny. So I now I'm so obviously tan, you can't even tell that I was ever sunburned. But yeah, so if you stick around, you're gonna love that. Grace is so fucking funny. And after having other Grace, there's three Graces in New York City and that is a trio of Graces to watch. All right, the other two, not me so much. Yeah, we're doing the little personal. I don't know what to call this for right now. I guess personal, we called them solo episodes, but that's not very fair to.

[Nora O'Malley]

You this Sister time.

[Grace O'Malley]

Shoot the shit with the sisters.

[Nora O'Malley]

Good Sister Day.

[Grace O'Malley]

Good Sister Day. Welcome back to Good Sister Day segment of the podcast show. Whatever the hell we want to Call it this week. And yeah, we had a jam packed week. It was jam packed. We started the week off with my second cancellation of a guest. Which is unfortunate. But you know, it is what it is. It's, it's, it's the webs and the flows of how, how it goes.

[Nora O'Malley]

You know, you're still saying webs and flows.

[Grace O'Malley]

I will always say webs and flows. One thing about me, I say things wrong and I, I stand by my words though.

[Nora O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace O'Malley]

I never, I never switch up.

[Nora O'Malley]

Yeah. And that's just called loyalty.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah.

[Nora O'Malley]

Yeah, absolutely. You're so strong.

[Grace O'Malley]

100%. So yeah, we had a, we had a cancellation of a guest. But it's okay. We, we'll get him on the second half, I suppose. What else happened? Oh, I had my first meeting with an acting coach.

[Nora O'Malley]

Oh, how did that go? I never actually asked you.

[Grace O'Malley]

You didn't?

[Nora O'Malley]

I'm so sorry. Well, cause I came home and then we just immediately did the slate.

[Grace O'Malley]

You really want to touch the microphone, don't you?

[Nora O'Malley]

I wanna touch the microphone so bad. So I'm playing with my fingernails.

[Grace O'Malley]

She was advised not to touch the microphone anymore.

[Nora O'Malley]

I can't touch the microphone cause you can't hear me when I do it. So now I have to touch something else. Cause I'm a little anxious.

[Grace O'Malley]

Girl. At least you have your nails done. I didn't do such a thing.

[Nora O'Malley]

I did them before I came here and then I put my shoes on and now they're all mushy, gushy.

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh, well, I'll do my toes on.

[Nora O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

That's crazy.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Nora O'Malley]

After you get, you take your shoes off, you have to like rip them off your toenails.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah. One by one. That's crazy. The New Balance 1080 is the ultimate daily trainer, blending reliable comfort with their top tier performance. Whether you're logging serious miles. I don't know if you've been to JFK in a while, but it is a hike to get through there. And I need my 1080 new balances to help me out. Because they can seamlessly transition from coffee shop to a run to the gate. It's built for everything from every day to race day. And for me, race day is racing to the airport. With a cushioned midsole that keeps your foot supported and secure. It delivers the propulsive comfort athletes need for smooth and effortless runs. Shop the 1080@New Balance.com ever since switching.

[T Mobile Representative]

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[Event Staff]

Oh, right this way.

[T Mobile Representative]

Who, me? I can stream shows at 30,000ft. And I was able to buy reserve tickets for my favorite band.

[Event Staff]

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[Grace O'Malley]

But, yeah, no, I did the acting coach, and that was. That was interesting. I sat down with her and just immediately off the bat, I was like, I get so embarrassed when I'm acting. I don't know.

[Nora O'Malley]

I've never done it, so I don't know.

[Grace O'Malley]

Well, you helped me run the lines this week.

[Nora O'Malley]

Yeah, it is. It is hard to, like, act like you're not in a natural setting.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Nora O'Malley]

With someone that, you know.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah. Especially, like, my sister, I'm like, dude, come on, stop laughing.

[Nora O'Malley]

I feel like it's. I feel like it's easier to do it with a stranger, but when you're with your sister, you're like, dude, that's. You don't sound like you're talking to anyone.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah, she. Well, she was giving it to me, like, raw. She was like, dude, you're. I mean, this is ridiculous. You gotta do it again. And I. I was having some trouble getting those lines down.

[Nora O'Malley]

Oh, my God. I think we did it for, like, two hours.

[Grace O'Malley]

Two hours straight.

[Nora O'Malley]

Every time we do it, it's two hours.

[Grace O'Malley]

Well, that's. That's the thing, you know?

[Nora O'Malley]

Yeah, it is. Just, you were talking to Caroline once and you were saying, carolyn Bennett, shut up.

[Grace O'Malley]

Caroline Benowitz, shut up.

[Nora O'Malley]

And you were like, doing slates with someone is, like, the most tedious thing because they don't get anything out of it.

[Grace O'Malley]

They don't get anything out of it.

[Nora O'Malley]

You just take two hours of someone's time. Like, I'm not doing anything else. Like, obviously, I would help. Like, obviously. It sounds like I hate doing it.

[Grace O'Malley]

No, I know you do.

[Nora O'Malley]

I really don't. It's kind of fun. It's kind of. It's kind of fun to see how many times it takes you to get it. So it's kind of a game in my mind.

[Grace O'Malley]

That game is not my favorite game. I don't love that game at all. I'm always losing that game because I'll.

[Nora O'Malley]

Be like, I know my lines.

[Grace O'Malley]

Well, you're reading it. That's not very fair at a certain.

[Nora O'Malley]

Point of doing it. I know the lines, and I don't really look anymore, dude.

[Grace O'Malley]

All right, well, you be the actress then. What the hell?

[Nora O'Malley]

All right, I get your next sleep.

[Grace O'Malley]

Damn. So, yeah, I Did an acting coach. Clearly didn't work. But, you know, we're going to. We're trying. That's like a new avenue I'm trying to. I'm trying to work on. I mean, after seeing Jake, Shane and Hacks, I was like, this is the coolest thing I've ever seen in my life.

[Nora O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace O'Malley]

But, yeah, we're here in LA and we're getting all the. All the people that you wouldn't normally be able to get in New York. We're here. We just came from. Well, we're not going to get there yet. Well, okay, the week.

[Nora O'Malley]

The week we were in New York, what are we doing? Fun.

[Grace O'Malley]

Okay. So I did the acting coach and then I went on Nevermind. Pod.

[Nora O'Malley]

Oh, yes.

[Grace O'Malley]

And I got to meet Veronica and Kyle, and I've met them like, like a high and by one time at an event. But this was like, I call them a podcast in this world is just a mandatory hang. I've been. I've been saying that. And it was so awesome getting to know those guys. They fucking rock.

[Nora O'Malley]

They seem like they're the sweetest people ever.

[Grace O'Malley]

Dude, it was. And, like, we wouldn't hang out otherwise, like, without that. And then that, like, solidified. They're like, oh, my God, like, we're going to be pals.

[Nora O'Malley]

That's also like, a good way of initially meeting someone that you want to be friends with, or like, them inviting you to the POD and you being like, oh, my God, I want to be friends with you guys.

[Grace O'Malley]

Anyways, it's essentially a playdate.

[Nora O'Malley]

Or, like, you get to invite whoever you want to meet onto the podcast and if they are able to do it, you're like, oh, my God, I want just to hang out.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah, right?

[Nora O'Malley]

That is kind of odd.

[Grace O'Malley]

It's pretty snazzy.

[Nora O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace O'Malley]

So I hung out with them. That was awesome. And then we recorded a couple more episodes. I had Hannah on last week.

[Nora O'Malley]

She rocked.

[Grace O'Malley]

She rocks. That was like. That episode was like the first episode, if I'm being completely transparent, where I was like, oh, my God, okay, I'm getting it. I'm back on my shit.

[Nora O'Malley]

All right, Back up on my bullshit.

[Grace O'Malley]

Let me talk my shit again. But no, we had Hannah on. So that episode will be out next week right after that. It was a glorious day in New York City. It was the first Thursday that it was just so beautiful. And here's the thing. Everybody got out of work and everybody had the same idea. So me and my friend Nini, we were trying to find somewhere to go get A drink outside. Do you know what one place told us? They said come back at 9:00pm like that's not what. Clearly we're trying to have a drink outdoors like everybody else. We don't want to come back at 9:00 at night.

[Nora O'Malley]

That's wild.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah. So we popped around for a long time in the East Village and then we ended up finding a place and we were ripping. We went to Schmuck.

[Nora O'Malley]

Oh, you did?

[Grace O'Malley]

That place that we've been to. If you're, if you're in New York, that place is good.

[Nora O'Malley]

It's really cool. It has like really fun, cool drinks. They have a strawberry drink that is that you drink with a spoon.

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh yeah. It's like a. It's like a frozen daiquiri.

[Nora O'Malley]

It's a frozen margarita with like whipped cream on it, but you eat it with a spoon instead of drinking it.

[Grace O'Malley]

Here's the thing about New York and people talk about all the time, but the places in New York are named crazy things. And this one is spot on. This place is called Schmuck. Because the definition, definition of schmuck is like an idiot. And you're an idiot for buying these expensive drinks. But they are so damn good. Okay. And that might make me lose my plug to skip the line because that's what I've got going on right now. But this place is great. It's like, like a little snack that comes with your drink or the drink itself is a snack. And the vibe there is like you're hanging out at your buddy's house.

[Nora O'Malley]

Oh, it's also. No, it's so beautiful. It's really like. It's ideal living room furniture in there. It has very cool chairs. It's all 70s chairs, 70s vibe inside.

[Grace O'Malley]

Just like this place.

[Nora O'Malley]

It's my favorite, you know? Yeah.

[Grace O'Malley]

It's gorgeous.

[Nora O'Malley]

It's so gorgeous.

[Grace O'Malley]

And so we were. So I stayed out with my, my buddies till the break of dawn. In between I did a. I did a set and then I met back out with them and then we would drink until they'd break at dawn. And that's always just so happens to be the night that I'm supposed to go home and pack. So I came home at 3:40, packed for a month long trip, packed only dirty clothes because I knew the Airbnb had a washer and dryer. That's how I've been doing things. And. Yeah. And then I got two hours of sleep and we went to the airport and I was fucking delusional.

[Nora O'Malley]

You were being Nuts.

[Grace O'Malley]

I was out of control. I brought Nora into the. Into the fucking.

[Nora O'Malley]

She put me into the lounge. Just a little peasant girl who can't get into the lounge yet.

[Grace O'Malley]

Is that what I sound like? Yeah, okay. Peasant. I didn't. I didn't start going to the lounges till this year.

[Nora O'Malley]

I'm kidding.

[Grace O'Malley]

Jesus Christ.

[Nora O'Malley]

I'm kidding.

[Grace O'Malley]

You got to. You got to rack up the points. Speaking of which, Heather McMahon, she just got a million miles.

[Nora O'Malley]

That's awesome.

[Grace O'Malley]

For Delta. And they literally do it up like a big to do.

[Nora O'Malley]

It's the funniest thing I've ever seen.

[Grace O'Malley]

Also, we can. We gotta add those pictures because it's literally crazy. I can't even believe it. Having a million miles under your belt just means that you're incredibly successful anyways.

[Nora O'Malley]

Incredibly successful. That's also nuts. Also, did they get her a cake?

[Grace O'Malley]

I think they did.

[Nora O'Malley]

I feel like they got her a cake with, like, her name or her, like, Delta number on it.

[Grace O'Malley]

They did balloons and stuff. It's so crazy.

[Nora O'Malley]

It is really cool. I, like, how many years is a million miles? I can't even, like, put that into my brain.

[Grace O'Malley]

I don't even know what a mile.

[Nora O'Malley]

Is because I know I have 4,000 miles from school and being with you.

[Grace O'Malley]

Sick.

[Nora O'Malley]

That's it. No, that's, like, not a lot. That's, like, nothing.

[Grace O'Malley]

Well, you're wrecking. You know. You just signed up.

[Nora O'Malley]

Yeah, I'm just a baby.

[Grace O'Malley]

You're just a baby.

[Nora O'Malley]

I'm literally just a baby. I'm literally just a little girl.

[Grace O'Malley]

And then. Oh, before I went. I'm so sorry. I'm all over the place. But before I went out and got glorious drinks on that beautiful serendipitous day, we went and saw a magic show.

[Nora O'Malley]

Bippity boppity boo. Listen to this. We go with Liam. Shout out Liam. Shout out Aaron. Shout out Dina. We went and we went to shout out Liam's sister. Shut up. Shout out, Katie, you're my cousin. We went and we. Liam had to scope out a place to do a comedy show, so just so happens they were doing a magic show there as well. We got there and we weren't expecting what we saw. I was like, I want to get sewn in half magic style. Yeah. And as soon as he came out, he was coming out to, like, Drake music.

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh, yeah. The music was out of control.

[Nora O'Malley]

The music made no sense to what we were about to watch.

[Grace O'Malley]

Like, dramatic Hogwarts music remixed with Drizzy Drake. It was out of control.

[Nora O'Malley]

Crazy. So he Comes on stage. He's wearing a leather jacket. And in order to reveal the oversized Usher shirt that he was wearing, he had to get out 16 doves.

[Grace O'Malley]

16.

[Nora O'Malley]

It was two doves. Two doves. Dove, dove in the hand.

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh, and don't you dare forget about the parrot. He pulled out of his ass.

[Nora O'Malley]

He literally, as he was taking. I just got chills. He pulled out a giant ass parrot out of the back of his leather jacket. It was crazy.

[Grace O'Malley]

You can only imagine how electric there was jumping. There was running around jumping. It was fucking electric.

[Nora O'Malley]

It was. So at one point, he started to try to summon someone's dead grandparent.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah, I don't like that. I don't like when an illusionist can pick your brain and hit at a soft spot where they make you feel like you're talking to the other side. I don't like that. That's where I don't fuck with magic. Well, here's the thing. I didn't want to go to the show because I hate magic. I really do. I think that magicians, they rape you of your time. They. They do. They. They'll say, do you want to see a magic trick? And you're at a party and you're like, oh, no, thank you. And they'll do it anyways. Imagine saying no to magic. Yeah, I do. I don't want to see it. The card tricks, dude.

[Nora O'Malley]

It pisses me off because I know that there's a way to do it, and I'm trying to figure it out the entire time I'm watching it.

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh. So then we. We set sail to Tampa.

[Nora O'Malley]

Tampa.

[Grace O'Malley]

And I was on my delusional shit. Then I crashed, of course, on the airplane. But before we left, we dropped off keys for mom and our sister Molly, who's 11. They came and stayed in our place while we were gone, and they did it up.

[Nora O'Malley]

It's kind of funny. Sorry, Mom. I know you're watching. It's kind of funny. Every time mom goes to New York, she kind of does the same thing.

[Grace O'Malley]

No, she doesn't.

[Nora O'Malley]

She goes to.

[Grace O'Malley]

Why are you whispering? She can still hear you.

[Nora O'Malley]

She goes to St. Patrick's like, every time.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah, she wants to go see the beautiful cathedral.

[Nora O'Malley]

Whatever. I love you.

[Grace O'Malley]

What's your fucking problem?

[Nora O'Malley]

All right, cut that.

[Grace O'Malley]

You're not cutting that. You have to take that up with mom now. You're in trouble.

[Nora O'Malley]

Okay? Yeah, but they go to Times Square every time, too.

[Grace O'Malley]

Well, okay, so. But here's the thing. Last time Molly was in New York, I told her Times Square was Closed. So they had to go to Times Square. Yeah.

[Nora O'Malley]

That's so funny.

[Grace O'Malley]

Well, because I took her on this, like, grand old tour of the Empire State Building. I got us like a.

[Nora O'Malley]

Like a cool, like, private.

[Grace O'Malley]

Not to toot my own horn, but, like, they asked me if we want to come, and I was like, yeah, my little sister Molly would love that. And we were there and she was miserable. She wanted nothing to do with it. And she was like, where's Times Square from here? And I was like, oh, it's actually closed.

[Nora O'Malley]

So it's closed.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah. So just enjoy what you have here, please.

[Nora O'Malley]

What are those lights that were passing like?

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh, they just, like, ripped up all of the. I said, they're doing a lot of construction.

[Nora O'Malley]

It's all led under there.

[Grace O'Malley]

And so. Yeah, no, but they. They ripped it up. They kept giving us updates.

[Nora O'Malley]

Oh, yeah. Our baby sister used to be obsessed with Stranger Things, and Stranger Things has a play on Broadway. They saw that, and Molly acted like she was at the Oscars.

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh, my God. No, it was. It was perfect.

[Nora O'Malley]

She was at the Oscars.

[Grace O'Malley]

It was her first time at the theater. Oh, I forgot about that. Yes.

[Nora O'Malley]

Aw, baby.

[Grace O'Malley]

That was really sweet. And so we were getting those updates while we were in Tampa, because I was doing shows in Tampa and I had my sister Maggie. Maggie's just turned freshly 18, boys. All right. And she. So it was her birthday. So her birthday present was to come to Tampa with us. And I felt so bad because I thought we were getting there on Thursday and I thought it was Thursday to Monday. It ended up just being like she got there at 8 o'clock on Friday night, and, like, I was like, Saturday, Sunday. That was kind of the whole trip. But.

[Nora O'Malley]

But at least we left on Monday morning. So it was like she still got to do stuff on Sunday.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah, no, that's true.

[Nora O'Malley]

Like, we had a good weekend. We had a fun, fun weekend. Want to hear what we did?

[Grace O'Malley]

It was like a beautiful little bungalow with. With a pool over the bay. And it was. It was like this tiny little bungalow surrounded by these mega mansions.

[Nora O'Malley]

Yeah, but it was perfect. It was perfect, and it was actually huge inside. On the outside, it didn't look like it would be big, but it was actually huge. There was four bedrooms in a tiny little bungalow home. Yeah, but it was lovely.

[Grace O'Malley]

And we ripped it up. As soon as I got to the green room at the club in Tampa, there was a little present waiting for me, and it was Dunkin Donuts. They sent me the cute. The letter in itself brought me to Tears. I'm not gonna lie. It was like, we love that you still support us. Even though you've left where you come from, you still represent 100%. We see that. We hear you. I'm like, okay, put me in the Dunk Kings commercial with the boys, please. I need Ben. And they sent so much, like, cool swag and shit. And then they left donuts. And I don't know why. Dunkin Donuts headquarters, I know exactly where it is. It's in Milton, Massachusetts. Yeah, Canton, Massachusetts.

[Nora O'Malley]

It's right on the way to Gillette. Every time you go to a concert, you pass it.

[Grace O'Malley]

That's where I wanted to work, actually, when I got it. Yeah.

[Nora O'Malley]

Every time I used to pass it, you were like, I want to work there.

[Grace O'Malley]

I wanted to work for Dunkin Donuts Corporate. That's the most Boston fucking Donuts corporate fucking said. I was like, yeah, dude, I think it'll be sick. I think I'll have a good marketing. I mean, I would have came up with dunkings for sure. Don't you, like, 100%.

[Nora O'Malley]

You came up with Dunk Queens absolute.

[Grace O'Malley]

I don't know why they found me in Tampa, but it was so amazing. And they left so much cool stuff. They gave me a shirt with my face on it. And. And. Oh, and they left donuts. And Nora's like, I wonder if they say your name. I'm like, nora. They've already given us so much. We go, we open them up. Look at this.

[Nora O'Malley]

Isn't that crazy?

[Grace O'Malley]

Can you believe?

[Nora O'Malley]

Can you believe?

[Grace O'Malley]

Can you believe? And so that was sick.

[Nora O'Malley]

That was really cool. And then you did your show.

[Grace O'Malley]

I did my show. And at the end of the night, I was slipped a note from the host from one of the girls that was at the show. And the note reads, do you want to go to a shitty crawfish boil tomorrow? Um, they also added, there's a keg. She added her phone number. And in parentheses, my friend Bethany is from Boston. And then another parentheses, we are, like, 25 to 27. And that's from my girl Kylie. And guess what? We went. We went to the crawfish boil. We did, but we waited too long. We were soaking it up in the sun.

[Nora O'Malley]

Yeah. And we had a nice little pool day.

[Grace O'Malley]

Clearly got a tan because I was wearing so much sunscreen. Thank you. I'll never get burnt again. But when we got to the crawfish boil, I brought them two 30 racks. And I walked in. I made Maggie go first because I knew it was going to be awkward.

[Nora O'Malley]

Maggie's our little sister.

[Grace O'Malley]

Maggie's our little sister. And Maggie went in there and everyone was like, who the hell is this? And I was like, hey, guys. And they were like, still. Like, who the hell is this? And I was like, oh, wow. Okay. So I got a napkin last night and it said to come to this crawfish boil. Are we at the right place?

[Nora O'Malley]

And then Kylie came up and she.

[Grace O'Malley]

Was like, we missed the crawfish.

[Nora O'Malley]

Which is so I. I was in contact with them all day. And I was like, yeah, we'll. We'll end up coming. They sent a picture. They had two inflatable blow up pools that when we got there, were fully deflated.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah, but the picture. That was the picture they sent. And we were like, oh, maybe we'll just wait a little longer.

[Nora O'Malley]

Yeah. So what we didn't realize was it was one of the guys 27th birthday, and it was just for the immediate friend group. They were just having a seafood boil for the immediate friend group. So there was about 8, 10, 10 tops. 10 tops people there. So imagine four girls that no one knows just pulling up to your guy friend's 27th crawfish boil keg party birthday extravaganza with two splish splashes that got heavily deflated.

[Grace O'Malley]

Well, so here's the thing. I named this tour down for anything tour, because that is exactly what I'm all about. I'm down for anything. So if someone invites me to a crawfish boil, I might be late, but I'm showing up.

[Nora O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace O'Malley]

And I showed the fuck up. We took a picture. Hilarious. My friend Steph, who was featuring for the weekend. We'll put the picture in here. She said, she goes, dude, look at me in that picture.

[Nora O'Malley]

It's so funny.

[Grace O'Malley]

Like, what's wrong?

[Nora O'Malley]

She goes, I look like the fudgeing adopted emo cousin.

[Grace O'Malley]

Adopted emo cousin from Slovakia. Yeah.

[Nora O'Malley]

That no one talks to at a family party. She just sits in the corner.

[Grace O'Malley]

She goes, I look like. I look like I'm one of their dad's hooker wives. Yeah.

[Nora O'Malley]

She goes, I literally look like I was photoshopped in that picture. And in the picture she literally does because she's wearing full black. Full black sunglasses and everyone else is wearing bathing suits or colorful outfits. And she's awesome.

[Grace O'Malley]

She's like, it looked like I was just walking around going, you girls have fun now. You're having fun here. Oh, wow, you're so beautiful. Yes. I'm here with Rebecca. She kind of bitch. But things are good. We're having fun. Bama. Go Bama Rush, y'all go Bama. So that was funny. A lot of. A lot of silly stuff happened at these shows this weekend. We got. The guy asked me what song I wanted to walk out to. Couldn't find my usual song. So I was like, I don't know. What's Nora's favorite song? Free Bird. So I said free Bird. Instead, they played Sweet Home Alabama. So that was just not entirely my vibe.

[Nora O'Malley]

I could see that you knew that it was not the song that you asked for, but you weren't saying anything. You were like, no. Yeah. Like, full. Full confidence. Went out to Sweet Home Alabama, a song that you actually hate.

[Grace O'Malley]

That's gotta be, like, the least me song there ever was.

[Nora O'Malley]

I mean, it is kind of your song. We are inbredded. Just like Alabama.

[Grace O'Malley]

The Irish. The Irish are inbreded people.

[Nora O'Malley]

Is not our immediate family, I promise.

[Grace O'Malley]

Well, you know, it's really too close for comfort. You know, you do it a big.

[Nora O'Malley]

Old wink at a double wink.

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh, another thing that happened while I was on stage was there was a cockroach.

[Nora O'Malley]

Oh, my God.

[Grace O'Malley]

On the stage. And I looked at it, and then I looked at it again, and I was like, no, no, no. It must. Someone's pulling a prank on me. And then I saw it move, and it was literally right as I got on stage. I'm, like, about to get into my bit, and I go, I am. I. So I didn't know how to get out of it because I didn't want to make it a problem for the club. Because I, like, felt bad. Because we both benefit from all of us being here this weekend. But at the same time, I'm deathly afraid of cockroaches. Cause I have my experience with them. When I lived with them for a fucking year in my fucking basement apartment. And I slept with the lights on for a year, and I never slept. And it was awful. And I just. I'm so. I'm so afraid of them. And so seeing that, I didn't know what to do. And so I was like. And then everyone's like, what. What is wrong with her? It was so crazy that it looked like it was a planned bit. And I said to, like, the closest guy near the stage, I go, there's a bug. Any chance you could help me out with this? And he. He just. Yeah, he just got up and squashed it.

[Nora O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace O'Malley]

And I go, that's Florida, man 101. He didn't give a shit.

[Nora O'Malley]

Right after the show, he was asking you if you wanted to do blue.

[Grace O'Malley]

And that's the. One of the waiters at the venue. He said, yeah, we were cleaning up from your shows last night and we found a bag of blow at one of the tables. I was like, yep, that's my girls. It's kind of how we do things around here. Down for anything. Including a man in the front row who fell asleep.

[Nora O'Malley]

Oh, my God, it was awesome.

[Grace O'Malley]

That's not great promo for my show.

[Nora O'Malley]

Really bad.

[Grace O'Malley]

It's really not. The vibe of my show is to fall asleep, but I have to tell you. Cause it was so insane.

[Nora O'Malley]

He was like, old enough to be narcoleptic, though.

[Grace O'Malley]

Ye.

[Nora O'Malley]

Actually, I think you can be narcoleptic any age. But he seemed like he was tired.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Nora O'Malley]

Of life.

[Grace O'Malley]

He was wearing a Stavros shirt. And I just said, oh, yeah, he's funny. I'm not. Right.

[Nora O'Malley]

And you kept offering to bloom. You go, you. You fall asleep again, I kiss you, wake you up.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah. I said, if you fall asleep again, I'm gonna be. I'm gonna kiss you. You're gonna be my. You're gonna be my Sleeping Beauty, and I'm gonna be your Prince Charming. And then I asked for consent, of course. I think that'll be the first clip I put out in a while.

[Nora O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace O'Malley]

Because I think it was. I think it was good enough. I'm trying to. I know people want to see these clips. I kind of like it. Because then you. You just get surprised when you get there. But you got to put clips out. And I think that'll be a good one for the first one if the venue will give it to me because I did scream roach at the show.

[Nora O'Malley]

I mean, if not. I have it.

[Grace O'Malley]

You have it.

[Nora O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace O'Malley]

Okay, perfect. And now we're in la. Okay. And we're. We're here, we're filming, we're friendly podcasts. I'm going on other people's podcasts. We're doing meetings. And here's the thing. We decided when we got here we were gonna, you know, just do a healthy lifestyle kind of thing. Because in LA it's a lot more doable. And as soon as we landed, we went and got all you can eat Korean barbecue. Aw. You ever put that two and two together?

[Nora O'Malley]

Yeah, we did.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah, we did.

[Grace O'Malley]

But today we start Keto.

[Nora O'Malley]

The fattiest meats you could ever have.

[Grace O'Malley]

So we're here in la and I'm trying not to drink. I'm trying not to drink while I'm gone for this, like, month long stint that we're doing. I think I can do it. But at the same time, I did just have a guest on here and we said we gotta hang out while I'm here. And the only thing you can really do with someone is drink.

[Nora O'Malley]

That's not true.

[Grace O'Malley]

What?

[Nora O'Malley]

You can just get dinner. You don't have to drink a dinner.

[Grace O'Malley]

Cause I was thinking about bowling.

[Nora O'Malley]

Fuck that. No, I'm not going bowling. Am I invited? I better be.

[Grace O'Malley]

Of course. What the hell? When do I ever not invite you?

[Nora O'Malley]

Yeah, I know.

[Grace O'Malley]

Even though I don't want to sometimes. Christ.

[Nora O'Malley]

Oh, my God.

[Grace O'Malley]

I'm just joking. Joking. Anything else you'd like to add?

[Nora O'Malley]

So, yeah, LA makes me more productive. I love la.

[Grace O'Malley]

And look at every time Nora comes to la, she's just glowing.

[Nora O'Malley]

I am going to move here.

[Grace O'Malley]

I think eventually you need to move here.

[Nora O'Malley]

I think I have to move here eventually. I really love it here also, you can drive here. And I miss driving so much. You can't drive in the city.

[Grace O'Malley]

Nora has to drive everywhere because I don't have my license.

[Nora O'Malley]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Grace O'Malley]

And she did hit a car.

[Nora O'Malley]

I didn't hit it.

[Grace O'Malley]

You backed into a car.

[Nora O'Malley]

I didn't back into the car. The other car was backing.

[Grace O'Malley]

Okay.

[Nora O'Malley]

No. Okay. First off, a truck was stopping to let me. It doesn't matter.

[Grace O'Malley]

It's honestly boring. I was gonna say that and I didn't want to be.

[Nora O'Malley]

I was backing out and someone else was backing out and we touched tips, so. You know what?

[Grace O'Malley]

It's nothing like crossing swords with cars. You know, we were sword fighting.

[Nora O'Malley]

It's just.

[Grace O'Malley]

It's just like hanging. Hanging out with your bros. But also, while we were in Tampa, not only did we get sword fighting with the bros, we also got pulled over.

[Nora O'Malley]

Oh, yeah, we got pulled over. We got pulled over and did a car crash. You're welcome.

[Grace O'Malley]

But unfortunately, Noor is the only one who could drive because I'm working on getting my license currently. I got my permit and I lost it. Yeah, you're screwed anyways, so this is your reminder. This week is time for you to get your real id. Don't forget, and don't fuck up the airport for everybody else, because it is going to be a fucking nightmare. So stay prepared. Or bring your passport. I only have a passport, so that is what I will do.

[Nora O'Malley]

I'm good.

[Grace O'Malley]

I got.

[Nora O'Malley]

I. I got my real idea when I got my license. So good luck, guys.

[Grace O'Malley]

What a fun additive. Let's get into the show, guys. All right. Enjoy.

[Event Staff]

Coming at you live from a shady Manhattan studio. It's disgraceful. Featuring your gracious ginger host.

[Grace O'Malley]

Hey, watch yourself. Only I can say that.

[Event Staff]

Okay, boss, whatever you say. You pay my bills. Give it up for Grace O'Mal.

[Grace O'Malley]

Hi, guys. Welcome back to another episode of Disgraceful the show. I'm here with comedian, content creator and also a writer for the Daily Show. It is Grace.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I'm so sorry, Kulinschmidt.

[Grace O'Malley]

I knew that. Thank you.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

And is it Omalay?

[Grace O'Malley]

Amelie.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Amelie.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah, I'm an Amelie. Welcome in. Thank you so much.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Thank you for having me.

[Grace O'Malley]

Sorry, I should have asked you beforehand how to say your last name.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

No, it's okay. Because even if like someone completely butchers it, like, why would I be offended? You shouldn't be.

[Grace O'Malley]

It's your God given name.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah, but I'm kind of like, do I really care? It's German. I don't know. I don't identify as German, you know.

[Grace O'Malley]

You don't?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Not really.

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh, well, they have such a good history.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I know.

[Grace O'Malley]

I.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Look, I. When I studied their history as a kid, I was like, there's so much that they've done so incredibly intensely. But yeah, I don't. You know, my. My family was in Germany so long ago.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I'm specifically trying to take myself out of the Holocaust right now. I'm like, they were. No one was there at all.

[Grace O'Malley]

You were actually on. On a show and you were. Oh, an immigrant of such. And your. Your people had immigrated far, far, long ago, but you were still claiming the immigration Z way show. Oh, fuck. That was really good.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

That was my first ever tv. It was like full Covid. So we were like wearing masks.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

On set. And. Oh my God, it was like one day, I think I was. I think I was like sitting from like, you know, action to cut. I think it was like maybe 40 minutes.

[Grace O'Malley]

No shit.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

And I left there and I was like, I'm a fudgeing movie star. I mean, well, it's only up from here for me.

[Grace O'Malley]

Well, you're just so damn good that you only need 40 minutes. She's one.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

A lot of people took a few months to do that scene, but for me it was just 40 minutes.

[Grace O'Malley]

That's an absolute. Well, we're here with a star.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Thank you for studying my filmography so well.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yes, of course. I have a follow up question that is gonna really probably hopefully crack you up or offend you. I do wanna address. I am sunburnt. And I figured I had to get sunburnt to tell the difference between the.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Two Graces, of course, would have been. It was honestly hard for me, you know, looking at you, I kind of was like, is this a mirror? How fucking high am I right now?

[Grace O'Malley]

I know, dude. And those unwells, they've got like 30, maybe 40 grams in, so you might be high as hell.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

100. You know, I'm on my 16th UNMO right now.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah, baby. We just keep getting shotgunning them.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

So.

[Grace O'Malley]

So frat, so lovely.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

No, but I will say my introduction to you was because someone thought I was you.

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh, no.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

This girl came up to me one time at a restaurant and she was like, are you friends with Brianna? This is like three years ago. And I was like, I might be. Who the hell is that? And she looked at me like I was so crazy. And I was like, I'm sure if I am sorry. She was like, what the. And then I was with my ex at the time, who was like, oh, I know who she's talking about. And then like a few weeks later, you and I ran into each other on the street.

[Grace O'Malley]

Might I say you're like one of the only people I've ever gone, oh, my God, oh my God, oh my God. And I ran across the street. I was crazy.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

You did. I heard my name and then I saw someone just going.

[Grace O'Malley]

I was like a full blown sprinting. I was like, I gotta say hi. And then my friends, when I went back, they were like, we thought you were hallucinating. Cause you were yelling your own name and you're running towards someone that looked like you.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

And we so fucking broke.

[Grace O'Malley]

You lost your mind.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

That is so good. But yet you were like, oh, my God, I'm a big fan of yours. And I was like, dude, someone just thought I was you.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah, that's right. I forgot about that.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

So then we kind of. I mean, at that point we kind of morphed into one.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah, that's another thing we call here in New York City a serendipitous moment.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Completely.

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh, my God.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

It happens all the time in the city of dreams.

[Grace O'Malley]

This city is made for us. Okay, so back on your filmography, I did see that you were a furry of sorts.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

So did you method act that role or Search Party? Yeah, so that role was really fun because I would have never thought I would get to play like kind of an anime girl.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yes.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

But the thing is that only really lasted for the first two episodes that I was on. And then I guess, I mean, this season came out like three years ago, so I'm like, I fully can give spoilers, but I do end up basically becoming a zombie in that Show. So at the end of the day, the method acting kind of stopped there.

[Grace O'Malley]

But was it always your dream to play a furry?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah, of course. You know, I actually dream so hard of the day I play a normal girl.

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh, my God. They just don't see you for what it is.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

No, I'm really playing the craziest fucking things ever. Always freaking.

[Grace O'Malley]

But, you know, as a little girl, I'm sure you had a diary. Like, one day I will play an anime furry wonderful woman that turns into a lovely.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah, I've played an alien in a movie. Like, I really am. Like, when is someone just gonna cast me as the straight girl?

[Grace O'Malley]

The straight woman you are.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Seriously?

[Grace O'Malley]

What.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

How many dicks do I have to suck to just method act my way into that?

[Grace O'Malley]

I mean, how many Gluck Glucks do you have to do for real?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

So we'll see. One day. I'm. I'm positive.

[Grace O'Malley]

I watched the first episode of Search Party, season one, episode one. And then I skipped over to what you. What you were on.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Incredible.

[Grace O'Malley]

I'm not going to lie to anybody here. I was. L. Oh, absolutely. I had lost the plot, and I think the show might have lost the plot as well.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

It could have. It could have. Definitely.

[Grace O'Malley]

I was trying to see if there was any underlining meanings to everything, but I just had felt like I had smoked weed again for the first time as a child.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I think that to be fair, there are four seasons in between the first and the one I was on 100%.

[Grace O'Malley]

There is so much to be fucking fair, guys. I couldn't play catch up. But like a smarty pants that I thought I was. I thought I was gonna be able to find the bits included blues. I was confused.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

[Grace O'Malley]

I'm gonna go back.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

You. You should watch it because I do think it's, like, one of the best TV comedies ever.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

And I'm actually, like, not even counting my season, like, before. That was my, like, top show. So when I got that job, that really was. I was like, oh, my God.

[Grace O'Malley]

That's really.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Because I was then, like, working with, like, you know, some of my favorite actors.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah, 100.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

But I don't. You know, I will say actually, I'm watching Severance right now. Are you watching it?

[Grace O'Malley]

Yes.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Did you finish it?

[Grace O'Malley]

I didn't finish it.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Okay, no problem. Because I'm not gonna do spoilers.

[Grace O'Malley]

Thank you so much.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

But I will say that I.

[Grace O'Malley]

You can spoil it because everyone. Everyone's talking about it and they'll enjoy your Take.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I actually don't even need to spoil it. I don't even need to. I'll let people have their peace. But for now, I started episode. Episode one, season one.

[Grace O'Malley]

Okay.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Right. And then I kind of took a break and I was like, I know I need to watch the rest of this. And my girlfriend was like, I really want to watch season two together when it comes out in like a month, so you better finish the fucking.

[Grace O'Malley]

Do your fucking homework, girlfriend.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yes, seriously. And then I just didn't. And then season two came out and she was like, I have to be honest with you. I need to watch it tonight.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

So I was like, no problem. I'm Gonna go on YouTube and watch a 15 minute summary of season one of Severance and shout out to the.

[Grace O'Malley]

People making summaries because I adore you and I need you in my life because for whatever reason, I can't sit down. And when there is, there's homework to be had, I'm gonna fail the test.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah.

[Grace O'Malley]

And so thank you for the cheat sheet.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

It also worked so well for my brain because it really was like he was going. So he was like Helyard Marquez, like, so fast. And I'll be honest, I'm pretty caught up.

[Grace O'Malley]

Okay, word.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I started season two with, I would say, a pretty high iq.

[Grace O'Malley]

A clear mind, clear vision.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yes, definitely. And I only had to ask a few questions. And now that I finished season two, I feel smarter than most people in the world.

[Grace O'Malley]

I would say that's the life hack. You get your all your time back, you know, and you're still up with the times. Yeah, I think that's what I'll have to do for season two.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

See, you can do that. You know, it makes me feel dumb because I do almost exclusively watch reality tv. And then the one, like, good show that I watch that, like, has accolades, I was like, I'm just going to watch a 15 minute summary. So I'm like, what does this say about me? Something bad for sure.

[Grace O'Malley]

No, I think it's. I think it's just you're saving your mind for your craft.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

That's what it is, right? That's what it is.

[Grace O'Malley]

Okay, so I've got to ask, what came first, the chicken or the egg? Was it. Was it acting first or was the. The ticky talkie tik Tok first?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I was living in Chicago.

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh, Chicago.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Doing comedy there.

[Grace O'Malley]

Chicago rocks. Chicago is so fun as a scene. That was. That was my plan. I was going to. I was going to finish college. I was going to go to Chicago. And then I was going to move to New York.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

And you know what? You said you went to UMass. Yeah, a ton of my best friends went to UMass and we're doing comedy there and then moved to Chicago.

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh, no. Okay. So were they doing, like, improv?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah, we were doing improv like six nights a week.

[Grace O'Malley]

Hell yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

For audiences of 12. And 11 of those people were also doing improv that night.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah. So it's the thing about improv I found is. Is very supportive.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah.

[Grace O'Malley]

Because you have to be. Because those are the people in the seats.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah. And it was cool because it was like, completely non competitive.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Like, there was no part of me that was like, oh, if I fucking kill this show, like, you know, my stardom could start tomorrow.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

It was just like, there's literally no shot, like, that's. I don't think I ever met an agent or a manager during my three years there.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

So anyways, was doing that pandemic hit. I had, like, maybe had 2,000 followers on Twitter, which felt like a million. Yeah.

[Grace O'Malley]

I mean, back then, 2000 is a lot.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Oh, yeah, for sure.

[Grace O'Malley]

And you fire tweets.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah, yeah, they are fucking. And then like, thank you. And then Covid hit and my friend was like, you should just start posting videos online.

[Grace O'Malley]

So your friend now gets 10%.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, it's Caleb Heron, so he's.

[Grace O'Malley]

He's all right. He's gonna be fine.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

And he was like, just post videos. So I started posting videos on Twitter and like, the first one I did got like 6000 likes.

[Grace O'Malley]

So remember the. The idea of it?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

The first one, it was like some tick tock parody. My name, my.

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh, yes.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Then my favorite color.

[Grace O'Malley]

100.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yes. Do you have a lover? Yes, yes.

[Grace O'Malley]

But it's just brain rot time. I do remember yours specifically, actually.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Thank you. It was so. I think that was my first one that did like. Okay. And then just kept going. I feel like I got like maybe 10,000 followers on Twitter and then had an agent reach out. Oh, from.

[Grace O'Malley]

From the Twitter.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yes.

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh, wow.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

And then she was like, you need to start posting on TikTok. And I was like, the dirty dog of it all. Thank you. Like, that's not for me. I'm actually an adult.

[Grace O'Malley]

I actually prefer not to dance. It shall not be done.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I'd be powerful. And then, of course I did. And it was like the best decision I ever made.

[Grace O'Malley]

Well, because nobody knew at the time that you didn't have to dance. That was the thing.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I had no fucking clue I thought.

[Grace O'Malley]

You couldn't even speak words.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Exactly.

[Grace O'Malley]

And that was. That was the confusing part, right? Exactly.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

So, yeah. I mean, it really just kind of came off from there and then really, Like, I feel like things in the pandemic, like, I was so happy during the pandemic, to be totally honest.

[Grace O'Malley]

Wow.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Like, I was not working at my shitty restaurant job. I was getting unemployment, which was more money than I would have been getting from my restaurant.

[Grace O'Malley]

The word is dope.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yes.

[Grace O'Malley]

You were getting dope money.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I really was like, I was like, get. Like, let's go. All I do is, like, sit in my apartment in Chicago. My apartment was so cheap in Chicago too. Like, I was like.

[Grace O'Malley]

So you never went home?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

No.

[Grace O'Malley]

Okay.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I never went home.

[Grace O'Malley]

Gotcha.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

And then I moved straight from Chicago in July of 2020 to New York, New York.

[Grace O'Malley]

Okay.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I moved it. I had friends with an open room and my lease was up in Chicago, so I just kind of moved and was like, fingers crossed this worked out.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

And now I'm literally on Disgraceful. So things are. They took a really nasty turn for me.

[Grace O'Malley]

That felt like such like a. An American dream come up story. Until now.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So I'm hoping that, I don't know, something will go well for me tomorrow. Grace.

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[Grace O'Malley]

I want to go back to the improv if that's cool.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Please.

[Grace O'Malley]

Okay, so I don't know much about improv. Do you have to audition or do you just, like, gather up your friends? Like, we should do this.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I mean, like, you go through, like, pretty serious audition.

[Grace O'Malley]

Really?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Okay, so that is the part that maybe feels the most competitive.

[Grace O'Malley]

Did you do the classes?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yes.

[Grace O'Malley]

Because you have to do a class.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah.

[Grace O'Malley]

Okay.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Caleb and I were in, like, improv 102 together.

[Grace O'Malley]

Okay, gotcha.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Like, we really were, like, basically following the same track. It definitely got, like. It got a little competitive because I had, like, close friends who didn't get on an improv group.

[Grace O'Malley]

Okay.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

And to be honest, like, that did feel like the worst moment of their entire life at the time.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah. I mean, it's. It just seems like so. Because you work so hard and then it's like, well, what the hell? My friends get to go play.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I didn't experience any, any rejection during my time there, so I can't speak to that.

[Grace O'Malley]

Nothing but wins. Grace is one thing about grace. They're gonna win.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I really was like, yeah, I kind of did. Like, I had a pretty fun time there.

[Grace O'Malley]

Hell yeah. Okay.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

But you know, at one point, like, they do SNL auditions there too, but I never even did those there, so.

[Grace O'Malley]

But you did do an SNL audition here in New York, and did you do character?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I did characters. Yeah.

[Grace O'Malley]

Did you get it?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

So, yeah, they're still deciding. They said give them 10 years. They want to see me mature a little bit, which I think is really awesome.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah, I think by the fifth one, you'll totally get it.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah, definitely. They want me to, like, be a mom and stuff first. They want me to live a full life.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Is what they told me.

[Grace O'Malley]

That's what Lauren's so good about that because he just really wants to see you, you know, like, succeed, like, personally.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Exactly.

[Grace O'Malley]

Before you succeed in your career.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Grace O'Malley]

100. And succeeding means having a child. Of course. Y.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

It. Oh, it does.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Oh, it depends where you're from.

[Grace O'Malley]

I mean, you're from the Palisades.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yes.

[Grace O'Malley]

And I'm sorry for your loss. Thank you so much. There's no nice. I mean, I'm. I seem so disingenuous, but I really.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Mean, no, it is like, so goofy telling people, like, you know, just in meetings, like someone being like, oh, where are you from? I'm like, l. A. They're like, oh, my God, where in L. A? I'm like, the Palisades in my parents house burned down. But it's totally fine.

[Grace O'Malley]

For the.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

The point of this meeting. It's fine.

[Grace O'Malley]

No, no, for the point of that meeting. That's where you really use it to your advantage. Like, and then I. I will work for House.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah. And then they're like, we really got to give her this job.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah. Use it as a. You know, I should do.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I should start crying.

[Grace O'Malley]

I mean, to lose it all, you have to get a win from it.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

You got it.

[Grace O'Malley]

You know, I think.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I think it's coming for me for sure.

[Grace O'Malley]

I'm so sorry. Are your parents all right?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

They're doing okay.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

It's the crazy.

[Grace O'Malley]

For sure.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

The craziest thing that has ever happened.

[Grace O'Malley]

I mean, that's insane. Yeah. Do you want to talk about that, or should we just move right along?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Want to talk about it?

[Grace O'Malley]

I don't think there's a world where I can talk about that and even seem genuine, even though I am.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Let's move on.

[Grace O'Malley]

Let's move right the fuck along. You're, like, moving right along.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Do you have, like, a Patreon or something? Because I can just do a solo episode in the Disgraceful where I just go. So it was on. It was January when my parents house burned down. And the fires. The flames were huge. I was in New York, though.

[Grace O'Malley]

I think we found your new character for I'm sorry. Okay. I am gonna move on because I am looking for a new co host. Okay.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Fabulous.

[Grace O'Malley]

I know you do a lot of auditions all the time, but if you care to audition, I'm gonna ask you a series of questions and see if.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

You'D be a good fit. Do you think that I would have to change my name?

[Grace O'Malley]

I think as long as I stay sunburnt, we'll be all right, I think.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Okay, awesome.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

And I'm willing to shave my head. I'm willing to lose or gain weight as well.

[Grace O'Malley]

Okay.

[Nora O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

So just whatever you would want me to do for the role, I'm happy.

[Grace O'Malley]

As a Hollywood producer, I prefer that you just be yourself. I'm the nuanced kind.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Oh, my God.

[Grace O'Malley]

I've never heard that before. You majored in psychology in college. Okay. What is the psychology behind a talk show and a dynamic of both redheads, both named Grace?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

The psychology there is really just. It's anthropology also. It's a little bit sociology.

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh, for real?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

And. And yeah, anatomy, too.

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh, yes.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

It's definitely going to come down to. You know, when I was thinking about getting my doctorate, I. This was something that I was really, really focusing on. How the can two girls be named Grace and have red hair? And everyone was focused on that too. Trump was talking about it. Biden was talking about it. Yeah. So I mean, at this day and age, and we don't want to get political, so, you know, I can't say too much, but it's definitely up and weird.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yes. 100.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

It makes us both freaks.

[Grace O'Malley]

I think there needs to be like some very, like, stern differentiations.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Definitely.

[Grace O'Malley]

That's hard to say for me.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Jesus. That we have different last names.

[Grace O'Malley]

I think the God above. And for which I don't know when.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

We were born and the nurses were like, we gotta name these two. We gotta at least give them separate last names.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Thank God those names. Nurses and storks. And that nurse was a man, actually, but thank God he made that decision.

[Grace O'Malley]

And I just think, you know, you being gay, I mean, straight would be great. And then me being confused would be really good for this. Cause, you know, we have to have two polar takes. And you'll take Trump every time, of course. Oh, duh. I'm a Kamala head. Oh, cool. Yes.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Women rock. By the way.

[Grace O'Malley]

Am I not good at improv? I'm learning.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

No, I think you're doing an excellent job.

[Grace O'Malley]

That's a good question. Grace, do you think improv has helped you in your career?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I do think so, yeah. Yeah. I don't. I can't really say why I was so.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yes. And of you, but yes.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

And Grace, I think so because in terms of just like content creation, like, you know, sometimes I get like, oh, fudge. I kind of wish I did more like standard content creation. Yeah, like that sense, like you could do a vlog. Yeah, right. I feel like I could do that. It would be a little bit off brand for me.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

But, you know, sometimes I feel like I have to just think of new ideas, new ideas, new ideas. And I feel like improv helps with that.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah, no, that is true.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Sometimes it's not often, but there are some videos where I am just like, I have to record something and I just start recording and words come out.

[Grace O'Malley]

Do you do like the whole. Because I've heard some people, like, they have like a plan and they like, plan when they're going to post. Do you do that?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I try to post Tuesdays and Thursdays at noon.

[Grace O'Malley]

No shit. Okay. Because that's when I've been waiting. Waiting for the drop. Yeah, yeah. Every Tuesday we have it on the calendar at home. Tuesday, Thursday, we got a Grace K coming through. Post on Wednesday.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Grace, wake up. Grace. Grace. Here's some vodka. Come on, get the up.

[Grace O'Malley]

And. And then I. I guzzle, guzzle, guzzle. I get dummy drunk and I left my ass Off. It's just kind of how it goes.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

You're like, that 45 second video was incredible.

[Grace O'Malley]

Well, some people, you know, some people jack off to get off. I. I watch your videos to get off.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you so much.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yes, of course. Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Oh, that's the sweetest thing someone could say if they don't jack off at my videos.

[Grace O'Malley]

Well, you know, as a confused young lady, it's like looking at a mirror. I'm confused.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I shouldn't be too hard on you.

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh, my favorite one of your videos as of recent is your. You did an ad. And I've never seen an ad like that before.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Oh my gosh.

[Grace O'Malley]

The face washing ad. That was incredible.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Innisfree.

[Grace O'Malley]

And it was.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

That's what the brand is called, Innisfree.

[Grace O'Malley]

Okay, because I thought you said Innisfree, like I did it for free.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

No, no, I did not. Innisfree, a Korean skincare brand. That's incredible. Look at my face.

[Grace O'Malley]

I mean, I could use some in this frick.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

That was a really fun ad and I just like.

[Grace O'Malley]

So I will try to do something like that as an ad and they'll say no. Shot in hell.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Totally.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

So you know it.

[Grace O'Malley]

Really? Do you mind if we put it in? Oh, sure.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

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[Grace O'Malley]

Yes, of course.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

And I sent them this video and I said, by the way, if they aren't happy with the grape cigarillo thing, I totally understand.

[Grace O'Malley]

I get it.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

But I think it's really funny. And then the next email was like, hey, Grace, your ads approved. And I was like, yeah, I really was like kind of shocked, but I was thrilled because to me, that is kind of what made the video was that I was like doing a skincare ad while smoking.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yes.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I just thought that like really blended together beautifully.

[Grace O'Malley]

It's a nuanced vibe that none of these clean girly pops could ever understand.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Exactly.

[Grace O'Malley]

And wake up 6am, go to Pilates. You'd never smoke a cigarello in your.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Day, in your life. I mean seriously. Try it girls. Try it, try it.

[Grace O'Malley]

Look. Look how happy she is.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I know. I'm three pounds, I'm seven foot four and I'm glowing. I'm glowing.

[Grace O'Malley]

I wasn't sure like if I was going to be able to even find you to hug you when you first came in.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I know because like as you broke, you actually broke a few ribs.

[Grace O'Malley]

I figured cuz you're Peanut, you're just. Yeah, you're Mister. You're Mr. Peanut. Moving right along. If I gave you the floor to do an open monologue about anything thing you have, you have random knowledge on but no real world value, what would the topic be?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

That everything is unhealthy.

[Grace O'Malley]

But there, there's no background on that.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

No. To me, like, it's kind of like for what reason is a three musketeers bad for me?

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

You know what I mean? To me it's kind of like I actually don't give a about the discourse between Diet Coke or regular Coke. Like to me I'm like, those are both good for me.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Those are both helpful and healthy and they make me stronger.

[Grace O'Malley]

100%. I mean, they make me stronger. I need spinach. You need Coke.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yes.

[Grace O'Malley]

And I need different kind of coke. Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

And I just think, I don't. I hate health discourse. I hate what should you eat in a day to be healthier. I don't give a fudge. I'm actually happy as a clam. My diet consists of milk, whey, clams, unwell. I have 48 a day and watching TikTok all day long.

[Grace O'Malley]

I mean, mean, I mean, I will.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Say the one good thing about not posting. I feel like you might agree with this. The, the one good thing about not having a serious Persona is that it's very hard to interpret hate the same way. So like if I get hate comments on something, I'm kind of like, well, you actually don't understand the video.

[Grace O'Malley]

You're clearly not getting it. Like actually you can move on.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Right?

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I literally get. There was a video I posted I think like four years ago now where I talk about how people with tattoos are drug addicts, addicts and murderers. And I'm.

[Grace O'Malley]

Which Is accurate.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Which is accurate. Honestly, Grace, if I pulled up my TikTok right now, someone would comment, oh, and hope you're having fun without tattoos. I'm like, what the fuck are you talking about?

[Grace O'Malley]

The opposite side of that is that there really is people saying that verbatim.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I know.

[Grace O'Malley]

And people can't get it. They get so twisted in what's a satire and what's real. And that's unfortunate.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

But, you know, it's like, I could. People actually are mean. Like, people. I have gotten, like, pretty rude. Rude messages of like, go kill yourself. I love my tattoos. And I'm like, sir, I'm not. I'm not the one you need to be mad at. Like, I promise you, that video was so dumb.

[Grace O'Malley]

See, I think. I think it would be funny to lean into that and just send him a tattoo removal place. Yeah. Go yourself. Oh, that's what I should do instead. I block.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

That's so funny.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Damn. I'm gonna use that. That's good as fuck.

[Grace O'Malley]

Play into it. You know, just. You gotta become the character.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Exactly.

[Grace O'Malley]

All right, Moving right along. You look really good at tweeting.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Thank you.

[Grace O'Malley]

You're also fantastic at making those clever videos. And so, as a co host, would you be also open to putting in a few hours running our social media account?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

No, I wouldn't be willing to.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah. And I'm glad you said that, because you know what? That would be a waste of your time.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

It is so hard for me to. I actually do love the Internet. I know a lot of content creators who are like, no. Like, it actually is my least favorite thing. I like it. I have a lot of fun on there.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

It's fun having fans. Like, someone could say that is, like, narcissistic. I think it's cool. I think I'm funny. I love that other people think I'm funny.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah. I mean, it's a great outlet to, like, get immediate.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah. And also, like, satisfaction. The Internet kind of gave me every single dollar I have.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Like, in whether it's, like, actually did or gave me some other route to make money. But, like, I feel like I have to be grateful for the Internet, but it's exhausting.

[Grace O'Malley]

It is.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

You post a lot. You post like you're on it.

[Grace O'Malley]

I go in and out.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah.

[Grace O'Malley]

Because as I've started to do stand up, I, Like, I've lost the. Not the will, but, like, the. The. My creativity has gone towards stand up.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah.

[Grace O'Malley]

And away from videos. And I'll just. Like, sometimes I'll just manically. Post six and, and go off for like a week.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

When you're doing social media media live shows like podcasts, like, those things do really start to add up.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

And sometimes it is less like the actual hours in a week and more just like, I'm wearing a lot of hats.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yes. Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

And it's very hard to concentrate on all three, which makes it feel impossible to concentrate on one at a time because then I'm worried about the other two.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah, that's the other thing. It's like you wanna. You want to help.

[Nora O'Malley]

You're.

[Grace O'Malley]

You don't want to help, but you want to entertain all audiences all at the same time. And it's just, it's a little tricky.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

When I'm performing the most, I'm posting the least on social media. When I'm performing when I'm on social media the most, I'm not doing shows.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yes. Yeah. And where are you at with shows right now? Are you. Are you.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Currently, I'm chilling right now. I've got. I'm doing London in a couple weeks. London for.

[Grace O'Malley]

Are you. I'm me.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Oh, yeah. I feel mind.

[Grace O'Malley]

Wow.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah, I'm doing. So we're London in Soho Theater.

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh, it sounds fancier.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Oh, I'm pretty hyped.

[Grace O'Malley]

That's exciting. It's funny.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I'm like, okay, you know when you check Instagram analytics and it says where your followers are from, it says, London is my fifth top city.

[Grace O'Malley]

Wow.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I know. I was kind of like, that's crazy. And then I posted these shows and they sold out really quick and I was like, I guess I. I just was like, didn't think I had fans in London in because I couldn't hear their accent through dm.

[Grace O'Malley]

You know what I mean? Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I really was like, yeah. How would I have known? They're not typing in a different language.

[Grace O'Malley]

They're not writing color. Yeah, you're right. Like, if they were to say color, like, oh, yeah, you're British.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

The only way I would have known is type how you spell color. Yeah, that's the only way I would have known.

[Grace O'Malley]

Reply to every fan. So how would you say color?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Exactly.

[Grace O'Malley]

That is really sick. Okay, so there are your top five. Five?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah. London is my. My number five city.

[Grace O'Malley]

They're really dry. I've heard, like when, like they're. They're stand up over there.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

It's pretty dry for sure.

[Grace O'Malley]

How would you categorize your stand up? Like storytelling or.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah, but they're all lies. Like, okay. There's very little of my standup that is true.

[Nora O'Malley]

Okay.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah. So we're lying. Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I'm pretty much fully on stage and I'm never trying to. To fool anyone into thinking it's true. I'm hoping the audience is smart enough to know it's fake.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

But I will say I did do one show in Manhattan where I was telling a story that to me is so, you know from the beginning it's a lie. Because my first sentence is, I've been with my husband for 35 years.

[Grace O'Malley]

So what you need to know as a viewer at home is as someone from Brooklyn coming to Manhattan to do. To do comedy is. Is exactly the same as someone from Manhattan coming to Brooklyn. Just don't see eye to eye.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

No, like, it really is different audiences. It's very bizarre.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah, that is funny. And it's not like talked about really, of how, how different it is. Like it's talked amongst other comedians.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah. I actually was thinking this the other day. I know like four people who live in Manhattan. You now are one of them. I literally don't know people who live in Manhattan.

[Grace O'Malley]

Okay. See, I live. I. I know a lot of people that live in Brooklyn.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Right.

[Grace O'Malley]

So maybe I'm just a better person and maybe I have more range for friendships and love.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Suddenly really uncomfortable and kind of feel like ending this podcast.

[Grace O'Malley]

Okay, so go.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Okay. But I'm taking the unwell with me and these fucking matches.

[Grace O'Malley]

You know what? Why don't you just light yourself on fire?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I like this shit. Fuck this place.

[Grace O'Malley]

That would be the perfect end out.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

It would be.

[Grace O'Malley]

It would. We could do that.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

It'd be sad for your crew.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah, I know.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Bye.

[Grace O'Malley]

Kind of like. Never mind.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I knew exactly where you were going. I knew exactly where you were going. And I dare, I dare you to say it, but I know you won't.

[Grace O'Malley]

So I did a LA fire. Yes. Charity event. And I. I wanted to try this new joke and I, I was like, this could go either way. I could lose it all or just like they have. Or I could just try it out. And what I did was I went up there and I said, yeah, I was planning a trip to LA during the times of the fires. And I told my friends I couldn't come anymore, of course. But then I was reading all the other texts I had sent them, and the texts, they did not age well because I was saying things like this trip about to be lit. This trip. I cannot wait to burn it up on the dance floor. Like, it was like all these things and it got like a really. It was like somewhere in between. Kind of a laugh.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Interesting.

[Grace O'Malley]

It was funny. I think I have a clip I can put in. Damn.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

You know what? There were a ton of LA Wildfire Relief charity shows I got asked to do zero.

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh, well that's actually screwed up in Fox.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Isn't that actually kind of weird?

[Grace O'Malley]

Well, maybe because they think you're hurting.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I guess so. But it wouldn't hurt to offer.

[Grace O'Malley]

I know, why don't you just ask?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

It's a little bizarre, right?

[Grace O'Malley]

That is crazy.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah. I've been taking notes on who's been who was having those shows and I thought it was intrusion. Interesting.

[Grace O'Malley]

Do you ever spend time in la?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah, but I'll be totally honest, like I have a very. I hate la.

[Grace O'Malley]

Okay. So I love people who don't were.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Super interesting to me because I kind of was like my hometown, the pal States is stupid.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah. Like you were out there with the other fire starters, right?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I definitely, I definitely had a part in it.

[Grace O'Malley]

She had an oil tank, everything. I saw her, I saw these pictures.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I really was like, would you pay.

[Grace O'Malley]

Off to get those pictures offline?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I mean a lot of money. Grace. I figured she's ubering here, but I'm doing just fine. Yeah, I don't know, I don't with la. I think New York, I know it sounds. I think New York is a perfect place. I'm obsessed with everything here and LA has like some pockets that I love. My brother lives in east la.

[Grace O'Malley]

Okay.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I love it over there. But you know, like I, I really am. I go to la. Let's say I'm doing two podcasts and one meeting in a day. I am seriously driving around town from 9am to 9pm I mean I know it's like over, over said, but I can't do it.

[Grace O'Malley]

They need to do. They need to do something.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

They need to.

[Grace O'Malley]

They need to do something. Because you shouldn't have to be driving all the time. Because a young actress like herself driving all the time.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I have a black car, let's be honest.

[Grace O'Malley]

And honey, I don't have my license.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Wait, do you really not?

[Grace O'Malley]

I used to do. Yes, Well, I just got my permit.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Congratulations.

[Grace O'Malley]

Thank you so much. Do you know how humbling it is to go to the DMV at a.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

26 year age and say one permit please, only imagine.

[Grace O'Malley]

And they say take the test. And I said, oh well I didn't study. And they said we'll try your best.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Okay, but you did it.

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh, I passed blind college cuz I'm a Genius.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Dude. What kind of questions were on there?

[Grace O'Malley]

What is this sign?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Stop sign.

[Grace O'Malley]

I felt like I was doing like little blocks again. Make a little push in.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Oh, my God.

[Grace O'Malley]

I felt like Little Einstein. You ever watch that?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Little Einstein.

[Grace O'Malley]

Is that the song or what was it called? The Einsteins. And. Well, it was just. Actually, it's a great thing to watch, I think, if you're on shrooms. Now that I think about it, I love shrooms. My mom used to put it on so I. So I would get all like, like shut up. My age. Bluey, I guess. And we were talking about Bluey before this. Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

It's just an amazing show. Grace and I are both auditioning right now for.

[Grace O'Malley]

I think I have. Oh, I tried to do a cartoon tune voice recently. We do like voiceover acting.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Grace O'Malley]

Have you ever nailed one?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I did one movie that I play an animated character and no shit is so good. It's so. There's a lot of cool people in it, like Cola Scola, Sarah Squirrel.

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh, no shit.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah, it's fun as fuck. And it was a one day gig. Like maybe it was. I was in the booth for two days. It might have been like the most creatively fulfilling job I've ever had.

[Grace O'Malley]

No shit.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

It was so fun.

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh, that's awesome. Would you do more?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Oh, my God, yeah. Yeah, in a heartbeat. I feel like that would be a pretty ideal for me.

[Grace O'Malley]

It really, I mean, because it is. It's like you get to be creative, you get to be heard.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Y.

[Grace O'Malley]

But it's in and it's out.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Also, like, one of my favorite things about acting is getting to try things like, like do the same scene but like, try it differently. Like just kind of expanding and when you're doing voiceover so you don't have to worry about like the camera setups or anything like that. That like you could do one line 10 times if you wanted.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

And that is like so fun. I feel like you get. You learn things about yourself when you're doing it. Yeah, I loved.

[Grace O'Malley]

I just. I just did like a voiceover audition and I was like, I want to run that back a different time, a different way. I think that'd be fun.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Voiceover auditions are hard because you can go so many different ways.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

That it's almost like, is this right.

[Grace O'Malley]

By like the end of it, I was like, that's doing way too much. Bring it back to one.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yep. Yep.

[Grace O'Malley]

It is funny, all this. I'm learning about Hollywood and it's very, very fun.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I mean, it's A crazy place, dude.

[Grace O'Malley]

I mean, I really only have the show to network, so if you have any like pilots or anything.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Absolutely.

[Grace O'Malley]

You're working on, I would love to jump right in. Do you like to write though?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah, I do.

[Grace O'Malley]

You do?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I wrote like a pilot, pitched it, didn't get bought anywhere. Wrote another pilot, pitched it, didn't get bought.

[Grace O'Malley]

Okay.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

And so now I'm working on a movie. We'll see what happens there.

[Grace O'Malley]

Rock on. And you keep that to yourself until it's time to pick pitch. Yes. Okay. Got.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I have a writing partner that I work pretty close with.

[Grace O'Malley]

Okay, cool. Yeah. Hell yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

And she's cool as. She's actually like a writer. Writer.

[Grace O'Malley]

You.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

She would rather like jump in front of a truck than be on camera.

[Grace O'Malley]

Gotcha.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Okay, so we have. Her name is Jess D. She's like a truly amazing writer. She. We have a very cool relationship. Cuz I think we are statistically polar opposite people.

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh, that's good.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

And it is like a very fun relationship. I love that.

[Grace O'Malley]

That's good stuff. Shout out Jess.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Shout out Jess.

[Grace O'Malley]

Couldn't do it without you, girl. You got any more shout outs you would like to give out?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Mom, dad, my agents and managers.

[Grace O'Malley]

Your brother.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah, you, Jack.

[Grace O'Malley]

Your girlfriend. Yeah, my girlfriend.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

What the ever. I'm in love with you. Get the hell out of here.

[Grace O'Malley]

This segment is called in the Green room. This is where people are going to get to know you a little bit better.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

All right.

[Grace O'Malley]

This is like, it's like intimate. It's like chatting, shooting the shit. Amy Poehler has a great new show called Good hang. Wish I thought of that.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

So funny.

[Grace O'Malley]

So here we go. You said you love being gay and think it's hilarious. What's the funniest thing about being gay?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Where the hell did I say that?

[Grace O'Malley]

You said it.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Okay, what's the question? Was my favorite thing about being gay?

[Grace O'Malley]

No. No. What's the funniest thing about being gay?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Oh, I think the funniest thing about being gay for me as like a white CIS lesbian is that like, in theory, I'm a minority. I so infrequently feel that way.

[Grace O'Malley]

Way one more time into the camera, people are going to love that.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I. I don't feel like a minority at all. I feel privilege every second. I really am like, there. It almost. It catches me off guard when homophobia hits me.

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh yeah? Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Like, I really like. I. You know, a few years ago I was like walking down the street holding hands with my ex and like some dude made a really weird comment And I remember being like, what? And then like holding her hand and being like, oh, we were being gay, you know, like this. Oh, well, quit. Don't worry. I was so confused and like, oh my God. I really forgot this is a bad thing to people.

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh, that is wild. Like, to get hit with like a random homophobic. Yes, that's.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

And it really just reminded me like, oh my God. Like I actually can't, you know, I know it's obvious, like, literally, like with the election it became so transparent too of like, oh my God, like people actually don't give a fuck about gay people in this world as well as many things. But I really was like, oh my God. I actually can't believe people are so dumb.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah, it's so. You're fucking stupid.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

So unbelievably unharmful for me and my girlfriend to just like, exist.

[Grace O'Malley]

I'm sorry. I'm pal.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I really am. Like, I don't know who is not harming me.

[Grace O'Malley]

That's crazy. I'm sorry for your troubles.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Oh, thank you so much, Grace.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

You've said some pretty ugly slurs to me when I walked in. Yeah, F. Yeah, you said the F word. You come and die.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yes. And I'll say it again. Okay, let's move on. Sure. We. We've talked about your dream. Oh, sorry. You've talked about your dream being a writer and an actor, especially for queer media roles. Who is your favorite straight person that has been cast in a gay role?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

That is actually an amazing question where I have to think about. About it. Oh, so easy to me actually. I'm gonna get hate for this. I've gotten hate for this in the past when I brought this movie up on a different podcast. Blue is the Warmest Color is a lesbian movie. Have you seen it?

[Grace O'Malley]

No, I haven't.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

It's so crazy sexy. Okay, E, I. What I just said, it's so crazy sexy for real. It's directed by a man. And there is like, you know, a lot of conflict about that movie and the way it was directed and whatever. I'm not talking about that. The lead actress in it, actually both of them are so crazy hot. I'm hating everything I'm saying right now.

[Grace O'Malley]

Okay. And we can. We can just.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

By the way, I'm like, this girl is so hot. You guys got to look at her face.

[Grace O'Malley]

So we got a dope a. A a weirdo director. We got like two dope that sounding.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Fully just like anti feminist.

[Grace O'Malley]

But I watch it's me. People think I'm not a feminist. Well, that's.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

You're having me on.

[Grace O'Malley]

Crazy.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Here's the thing is, like, there are a lot of movies that I watched, like, right when I came out where I would watch it and be like, oh, my God, this actress is amazing playing this lesbian. And then I look her up and she has a boyfriend. And it really would, like, bum me out. I be like, ah, I just watched a. Like, I don't know what that means.

[Grace O'Malley]

Now you know what you did? You fooled me.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

You fooled me.

[Grace O'Malley]

And I'm not me twice.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I don't know how I feel about, like, you know, oh, straight actors shouldn't play gay. I don't really know how I feel. The one thing I will say is that that girl, specifically in the blues, warmest color, she did make me gayer in a way that was helpful for me.

[Grace O'Malley]

So now you only target straight women. Is that what. Is that what that was?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

No, it's not. I've never dated a straight girl.

[Grace O'Malley]

Moving right along. So you came up in Chicago's comedy scene.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah.

[Grace O'Malley]

Performing on the side while you do your day job. Now you're on the Daily Show. How long did it take before you looked around and thought, oh, shit, I did something?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I'll be honest. Like, I think before I even made any money doing comedy, I kind of was like, I made it.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Like, I had so much fun just getting likes online that what felt like, really rewarding to me. Like, getting nice comments is really cool. That'll never go. I think. I hope that I never get to a point where that doesn't still make me happy.

[Grace O'Malley]

Of course.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Where people are, God, this is so funny. Or so creative. I'm like, that is so cool.

[Grace O'Malley]

Thank you so much.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

That's what I was hoping for.

[Grace O'Malley]

It's like a fucking gold sticker on your paper.

[Nora O'Malley]

Totally.

[Grace O'Malley]

So it feels so good lately. But do the bad ones hone in a little bit more for you at all? You seem like you have a good head on your shoulders about it.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah, I mean, like I was saying to you earlier, like, I really do think that, like, my hate comments are pretty stupid most of the time. Like, I. I think they don't understand.

[Grace O'Malley]

They're, like, actually stupid people.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah, I do think they are stupid people. Truly.

[Grace O'Malley]

That's fine.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

So, you know, until someone I respect were to, like, make fun of me or something, I'm kind of chilling.

[Grace O'Malley]

And that hasn't happened.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Not to my face.

[Grace O'Malley]

Okay.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

You never know what's happening behind the scenes.

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh, my God. Behind your back. That's why your ears ring. Someone's talking about you. That's what I've heard. It's constant when you kind of.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

That's so raven. Yeah, that's what that is.

[Grace O'Malley]

Okay. Don't moving about long. Yeah, yeah. Okay. In this late night game show. All right, we're going to play a game show. We pull from the fishbowl of cards and it's going to prompt a story. And the twist is you can tell a true story, a slightly fabricated story, or just a completely made up story.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Oh, I love it.

[Grace O'Malley]

All right. And this is the improv of it all.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Great. Dumbest thing. I spent a ridiculous amount of money on horseback riding lessons.

[Grace O'Malley]

Okay.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I took them for, like, like the last year. I've been taking them in Manhattan, and it is unbelievably expensive.

[Grace O'Malley]

So I'm gonna go with slightly fabricated.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Okay.

[Grace O'Malley]

I think you have been taking horseback riding lessons for whatever reason, but it was definitely not in Manhattan because you would never come. Come over here.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Damn it. That was my giveaway. I've never been on a horse.

[Grace O'Malley]

Okay. So it's all fake. Okay. I love that. That was really good.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Well, I'm glad I fooled you a little bit.

[Grace O'Malley]

You fooled me like, a tiny bit. I don't know if you got like, one of them, like, Brokeback Mountain rolls or something.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Oh, my God, I wish.

[Grace O'Malley]

Worst thing I've ever done in someone else's house. I was at a house party. The owner of the house was such a clown asshole guy. And so I upper deckered his toilet.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

That means you poop in the back part. I think it's fully true.

[Grace O'Malley]

And that's what I give off because it's fake. You're like, I give the vibe that I would totally.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

What does that say about me? It sounds almost difficult.

[Grace O'Malley]

It almost sounds.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Oh, to be completely transparent. Like, I really need to sit. I need to be comfy on a toilet. To poop.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah. But the way you're describing it, I kind of feel like that would feel nice if. If, like, all the stuff wasn't it in there. I feel like it would be, like, nice to have my feet somewhere.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I mean, sure. Yeah. To kind of poop like this.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah, it's like, that'd be kind of nice.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Do I pick another or do we do just one? How many rounds?

[Grace O'Malley]

We're gonna go two rounds.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Have you ever lied to get into a club or bar? What was the lie? I mean, haven't we all? I mean, what do you think I was doing at 7 years old? I mean, come On I was saying I was 27. 7. I mean, yeah, I lied about my age always.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah, I mean, duh, that was a silly one. Go for another one.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Oh, okay. Tell a story about a time where you committed to a lie you couldn't get out of. I have a, a scar on this finger right here. And when I was a kid, I, I, it's very faint scar. It's very faint, but it's there, it's there. If you look at it too hard, it hurts.

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh, the drama.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

When I was a kid, I told people that I think I was born with this scar. I have no memory of something happening. I told when I was a kid, like for years I was telling people my brother gave me this scar. He scratched me with an action figure. And I was telling this lie, like so often that it almost became real to me. But then of course, I stopped lying because I wasn't like a kid anymore. And then one time in high school, like a friend was like, oh, didn't you get that scar from your brother scratching with an action figure? And I was like, who the told you that? And I was like, well, lie will always.

[Grace O'Malley]

So wait, that's true.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah, it's really funny.

[Grace O'Malley]

For sure.

[Nora O'Malley]

True.

[Grace O'Malley]

And then for that to come back because a lie will always bite you in the ass. I know. And like, hey, like, you're probably surrounded by a bunch of people like, yeah, yeah.

[Nora O'Malley]

So I'm a big fat liar.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Grace O'Malley]

I, I, I can't come out of this.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah. Or just flip it on them your fault for fucking believing me.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

You're so very obviously a lie.

[Grace O'Malley]

Like, what are you, an idiot? What are were children? You're so dumb. Oh, that's good. That is really good. Worst way I've reacted to bad news. It's hard to think because, you know, I never like to think in a negative way.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I have felt really inspired by your.

[Grace O'Malley]

Positivity on thank you so much. I radiate heat and good vibes. The, the clips from the show are going to be like, why the is she burned? Like, is everything okay? So I take this with a grain of salt because I was a kid. The ice cream truck guy, he said he was out of those little push puppy ones. And so I tried to take a rock and I tried to flatten his tires so he couldn't go about his day.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Oh my God. I wanna say that's a lie.

[Grace O'Malley]

And it is. Yes.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I was gonna be like, unfortunately, you were a psychopath when you were a kid. Do you murder bigger Animals. Now that's dark. That would.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah, that would be kind of crazy.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

End of the day, I knew that was lie because there is no one kids respect more than the ice cream truck man.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

No, truly, even God is below the ice cream truck man.

[Grace O'Malley]

And everybody knows in terms of divinity and. And what does God even have a. A fun little jingle?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Hell no.

[Grace O'Malley]

They can hear from a distance only the child can hear. It's like the bells in Polar Express. Only the child could here. Oh, I love the ice cream man. Unless he's doing bad stuff.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I used to sprint.

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh, that's the only time I ran. Same like literally. I'd be like, ma.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

My dad put his wallet in the same spot every day as a kid. I didn't get his. I was. This is mine. Let's go.

[Grace O'Malley]

You know what's crazy is my parents would actually never really. It was like very rare for us to be able to do ice cream truck. But what I would do is I'd like. Like I hear the faint sound. That means we have three minutes, 20 seconds. I can gather up enough change. Nora, check onto the couch. Yeah, it like turned into like an operation and we. We'd probably end up sharing and I was like a little. So I probably got the whole thing. My apologies, nor. But. Yeah, we would gather. We would gather change. Yeah, yeah. But Jehovah Witness comes to the door, we're smiling in the face.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah, they're done for.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah. I mean, come on now. You got. You. You're going to try to convert me. The only thing I'm converting to. I'm looking for ice cream is an ice cream sandwich. Well, thank you so much for playing.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Thank you.

[Grace O'Malley]

Now, I have a question for you that I've been dying to know myself and I think many listeners have as well.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Jesus Christ. What is it?

[Grace O'Malley]

In your videos you constantly refer to your boyfriend of many years. What's his name? And do you want the listeners to know what he looks like or is it up to our imagination?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

That's a fun question. I love, like, I wonder if people think like he's a. Actually a recurring character. To me it's a new boyfriend every time.

[Grace O'Malley]

That's how I saw it as well.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Appreciate that.

[Grace O'Malley]

Because this character, she's a Y. She is in a positive way, it might be.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Cannot keep a man.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah. That's the thing. It might be that. And she's out of this world. She's out of this world.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

And I'm living like such completely different lives. In a lot of these videos. I'm like, there's is no, I'm not the same person. You know what I mean? But, you know, I don't know. He's smoking hot. That's what I'll tell you.

[Grace O'Malley]

That's all you need to know. And keep that to your imagination. We have another segment, if you. If you will.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I would love to.

[Grace O'Malley]

For this segment, we. We asked the live studio audience. Yes, listeners at home.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Is this a thousand people in here?

[Grace O'Malley]

Dude, 30, maybe 40,000 people. This is an arena. An arena. We wanted them to submit their disgraceful moments and see how you react. See if it's disgraceful or not.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Oh, my God, I love it.

[Grace O'Malley]

All right, so this one is my ex, jerked off to me, spilling my feelings to him in a car. And finished on my arm. I'm teetering.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I'm so fearful.

[Nora O'Malley]

That is straight love.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

So wait, say the last sentence. Sentence.

[Grace O'Malley]

And finished on my arm.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Huh. So she's like.

[Grace O'Malley]

She's telling her feelings, spilling them in a car.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

At what point did he say or did he say, can I start jacking off? I mean, that's incredible.

[Grace O'Malley]

Truly, like, if anything that's intimate.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

That is so up.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah. Wow.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Honestly. And this says my ex, right?

[Grace O'Malley]

My ex.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah.

[Grace O'Malley]

Ph, yeah. Well, good riddance, jerk off. I just. I don't know if that's like, kink shaming or.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

For sure.

[Grace O'Malley]

I mean, you know what?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Like, maybe there's something. You know what? I'm going to put the power back in her arms, though.

[Grace O'Malley]

Well, she already has a lot on her arms.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yes. Besides the calm on her arms. I'm going to put the power there as well.

[Grace O'Malley]

Because that's so good.

[Nora O'Malley]

Because.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Because how, like, embarrassing for him that, like, that's getting him off.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Like, to me, I'm kind of like, yeah, girl, you fucking have him wrapped around your finger.

[Grace O'Malley]

He just loves nagging.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I mean, Jesus.

[Grace O'Malley]

All right, moving on. This one has dislocated my knee at sorority form, Mom. That's what you got it.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I mean, to me, I don't know. Were you in frat life?

[Grace O'Malley]

Okay, that was rude.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

No, I asked that earnestly because I think it could be cool.

[Nora O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Some of my best friends.

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh, the. Read that. Live in Manhattan.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

We're Tri Deltas at University of Michigan. Okay, Go, Belle. You know what that is, is, like, that's disgraceful for a sorority.

[Grace O'Malley]

Like, oh, that's. Oh, that's like, mind blowing for them.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

That's like, oh, no. Like, I've embarrassed myself. If your sorority thinks down on you for injuring yourself, that sorority.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah. I'm gonna go with. Everybody in a sorority doesn't want to break a bone because how they'll get kicked out completely. Yeah. Sticks and stones.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Uhhuh.

[Grace O'Malley]

But those bones, you can't break them.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Hell no.

[Grace O'Malley]

Cannot break them. No. Throwing up in my purse at a work event.

[Nora O'Malley]

That's.

[Grace O'Malley]

Sounds polite.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

That I love.

[Grace O'Malley]

I love that a lot.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I love that one.

[Grace O'Malley]

Like. Oh, just one second.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

That is so good.

[Grace O'Malley]

That is really good.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I one time threw up at the gate of the airport of the plane. I was getting on, like, genuinely in front of every single person on the plane.

[Grace O'Malley]

Okay. Anyone you work with, though?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

No, no, no, no, no. This was many years ago, but I just, like. I threw up. Every single person looking at me. Looking. Look up. See all of them. One person said, are you okay? Oh, I was still really drunk.

[Grace O'Malley]

Okay. Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

So I was like, I can't wait.

[Grace O'Malley]

To fly this plane. Am I right?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

But to me, you know, when you're up, I don't. I'm assuming this person is up and not just sick.

[Grace O'Malley]

If they are sick, they're working her like a dog.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah. That's up. Go home. But you know what I mean, when you're up, sometimes throwing up is the best thing you could ever do for yourself.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah, totally.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah.

[Grace O'Malley]

You know, I've also had the whole plane throwing up in front of everybody about to get onto the plane as well. Yeah. And I was worried because it was during COVID times.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Oh.

[Grace O'Malley]

And I was worried they weren't gonna let me on, but I was like, I'm just. I was just hungover. Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

You're like, it's not a symptom of flu.

[Grace O'Malley]

I'm like, oh, we gotta fly, because I'm not flu. No worries.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

You're like, I can still taste. I just had McDonald's.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah. So good. This one. K. Holed at a rave while dancing, fell on the floor and got a black eye.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Well, that's what happens when you do.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

In Brooklyn. I mean, that's simply. That feels so incredibly normal to me.

[Grace O'Malley]

I mean, a lot of these are just a Tuesday for me personally. Totally. But yeah, no, it's fine. Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I say, you know, you got what you asked for there.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah. You knew that was coming. You go in a K hole tranquilizer.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah.

[Grace O'Malley]

And a black eye. Caught hooking up with a security guard from work at Christmas party by my boss in the wine cellar. Very, very descriptive except spelled Christmas Xmas.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Uhhuh.

[Nora O'Malley]

Yes.

[Grace O'Malley]

And my mother would say, keep the Christ in Christmas. Oh, I see.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I see. I See, I'll start doing that this year.

[Grace O'Malley]

Don't worry.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Let your mom know.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah, she, she will be very pumped. Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

To me, I mean, completely epic until the boss comes in.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah. So.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

But can your boss get mad at that?

[Grace O'Malley]

I think the best play you could do if a boss comes in while you're making out with another coworker is just wink. You just wink at the boss, insinuating you are next. And that's what I would do if I had confidence or ever. Got it.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah.

[Grace O'Malley]

You just look at your boss.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I have time in five minutes. Incredible.

[Grace O'Malley]

Okay. And this last one, farting in my silent 6th grade math class while myself got up to get fart food.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

You know what? Everybody farts.

[Grace O'Malley]

Everybody farts. And Dochi actually just said that I, I fart. I fart. And I'm going to fart because I'm a grown woman and I'm going to fart and yes, I'm going to fart.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

That's like actually the most powerful thing that someone like doi could say.

[Nora O'Malley]

Literally.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

That's unbelievable.

[Grace O'Malley]

You've taken the world by the balls.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Here's the thing is like, yeah, that class is going to remember. I still remember when Jeremiah peed his pants on the rug in second grade grade. But do I think any less of him? Absolutely not.

[Grace O'Malley]

Absolutely not.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

No. I think that our class was a prison.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah. Why couldn't he get up? Why couldn't he get up?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Something was holding him back there. Yeah, farting sucks, you know, dude, but you know, I farted in a personal trainer's face. Oh, so that'll do. I mean, I would have rather farted in front of my fifth grade class than that.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah, I think because that's more intimate. Intimate, huh. And I, but the, the personal trainers of it all. I think he probably said, oh, it happens all the time.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

He did say that. He did say that. It didn't really change much for, for me. I was doing sit ups and he was holding my feet down. Oh, he's right. At a continuingly, he was like maybe 18 inches from my butthole.

[Grace O'Malley]

And that's where you get a good old sniff in.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Totally.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah. I mean, I mean, I try to do the whole personal trainer thing. I, I, I ghosted him after 11 sitting.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Very easy.

[Grace O'Malley]

I did a pre workout. Like a, like a frat boy.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yep.

[Grace O'Malley]

I also took an Adderall and I was about to pass out by doing the football.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Why'd you do Adderall?

[Grace O'Malley]

Because I do, I just.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Do you take out?

[Grace O'Malley]

I just take out.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Okay.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Okay.

[Grace O'Malley]

But I think I upped my dosage because I didn't feel like going to the gym.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah.

[Grace O'Malley]

I go, excuse me, I'm going to faint. And I, I left. I just left. I never came back.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah. I mean, the thing with pre workout is like, like I feel the same way about Celsius kind of. Too, too is like the caffeine level is so high that it's almost a good thing to take before going to the gym because it makes you go. Because there have been times I've taken a pre workout or had a Celsius when I'm not planning on going to the gym and I end up, my brain turns so dark because it's hyperventilating that I'm like, I would actually almost rather be on the elliptical than laying in my bed paralyzed, shaking.

[Grace O'Malley]

I, I, and I get that. I understand that tenfold, actually, you know.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Personal trainers are the easiest person in the world's ghost. No shame.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah, no shame. No, I'm just. You won't be in me, pal.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah, yeah.

[Grace O'Malley]

I'm all done. Crunch Fitness. Yeah. Still paying for it, of course. This was three years. Of course.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I like, can't show face.

[Grace O'Malley]

I can't get myself to go back in there.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

You need to call and just say you moved.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah, they still won't do that. What? The, the gyms. The gyms are a little crazy like that though.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

They are pretty crazy like that. Yeah.

[Grace O'Malley]

And I, at the time I thought I had it and I just, well.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

You know, what's the monthly, like?

[Grace O'Malley]

110. Yeah. I just can't get myself to show face there again.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Great.

[Nora O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace O'Malley]

So I just, I'm like, oh, that's my electric bill additive.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yeah.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah. Just, I just think of it like that.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

We need to fake a death for you. We need you out of that contract. We need you out bad.

[Grace O'Malley]

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[Grace O'Malley]

We are going to end on this bad boy. All right, so I'm going to have you read your own tweets.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Okay.

[Grace O'Malley]

And explain yourself. Okay, so here we go. We'll start at the bottom right there. Okay.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Imagine if lesbians fanned over male pop stars the way gay men fan over female pop stars. Like if my dream was for Shawn Mendes and Adam Levine to make a song together. It's a really good point there.

[Grace O'Malley]

That's a good point.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

It's a really good point. Now here's what I'll say. Say is if today in 2025, world's so dark that if Shawn Mendes and Adam Levine came out with a song together, I actually might be excited right now. That's where the world's gone. That is where the world has gone.

[Grace O'Malley]

Bleak.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yep. Bleak is the word. Yep. But it is interesting. I'm always thinking of so such interesting things.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah. I mean, that brain is a playground.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

It doesn't stop.

[Grace O'Malley]

It doesn't stop.

[Nora O'Malley]

Do.

[Grace O'Malley]

I'm moving right away. Long.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Okay.

[Grace O'Malley]

All right.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Proud to be Olivia Rodrigo's fan. Only fan who has done hard drugs.

[Grace O'Malley]

Hey, that makes two.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I think she appreciates us. I think she does. And someone had to do it.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah. I mean, as. As the elder of the group.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yep.

[Grace O'Malley]

I do believe that we should start mosh pitting also at the concerts. Cuz one thing. Oh, Ms. Olivia is missing is o mosh pit. A big zero in the middle where everyone's going ape.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Have you seen her live?

[Grace O'Malley]

No, I can't say I have.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I saw her in Boston.

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh, wow.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Unbelievable.

[Grace O'Malley]

Unbelievable. You wouldn't.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

You guys don't know, like driver's license live.

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh, wow.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Just the piano at the beginning. Oh, my God.

[Grace O'Malley]

I mean, that song is going to make you feel like the homecoming princess.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Absolutely. Absolutely. In that moment, by the way, like, I wasn't the oldest person in the room. Sure, on paper I was.

[Grace O'Malley]

Okay. Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

But when that song played, I thought, we're all 12.

[Grace O'Malley]

I mean, we're all girls. I know. We're all going through AP test in the morning. We're gonna be getting through this.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I'm looking around. We're all in the closet struggling. Right, girls? Teaching my grandpa how to fuck again. Is something I'll never forget.

[Grace O'Malley]

But he will.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Here's the thing is when you don't have grandparents, parents. I don't. The world of grandparent jokes is endless.

[Grace O'Malley]

That is good.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I make a lot of grandparent jokes because I don't have any, so.

[Grace O'Malley]

You ever once had any?

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I had one grandma growing up.

[Grace O'Malley]

Okay.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

She was mean. Oh, she was a little bit. She had a hard life. You know, she was like a grocery store clerk and she was just like, I think didn't give a single. And I still love her.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

But she, you know, actually some of the best times in my life. Eating frozen and then heated up, obviously mini corn dogs. Oh, and watching.

[Grace O'Malley]

She got discounted.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Yes.

[Grace O'Malley]

For sure. Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

And watching Extreme go over Home Edition.

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh, she wanted move.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

I mean that was just some of the best times of my life. But yeah, she died when I was still also really young.

[Grace O'Malley]

Okay.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

So it's just kind of fair game for me.

[Grace O'Malley]

You always, it's always a great excuse because you don't feel bad.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

And I don't feel bad either because a lot of. Lot of people get money from their grandparents.

[Grace O'Malley]

Yeah.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

And a lot of people have cool ass grandparents. I don't have any of that. So if I. I get to make jokes about my grandparents anytime I want.

[Grace O'Malley]

And straight up, that's what I get. That's respect.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

That's what I get.

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh my God. You know what? You know what it is? Take a look around in Hollywood. How many people still got their grandparents kicking? Not many.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Right.

[Grace O'Malley]

I think it's the key to success. You have to kill off your camp. You have to kill off your grandparents. Exactly.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

You can only have two generations here.

[Grace O'Malley]

I mean, Showtime and H. HBO couldn't have done that with four grandparents.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

No way. Nuh.

[Grace O'Malley]

No. Shot in hell, baby.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Thank you, dude. Thank you.

[Grace O'Malley]

I get you. I get it. Listen, I had. I had. I had one great grandmother. She was the greatest. Not the great grandmother, but she was the greatest. I'm not gonna lie. She passed away and my career took off. I'm not gonna lie. Not gonna lie.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

The lie is in the pudding.

[Grace O'Malley]

Not gonna lie.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

That's how it goes.

[Grace O'Malley]

And so I don't believe in God anymore. I believe in my grandma. See, and I've been saying that.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Y. Y. Yep. That's genius.

[Grace O'Malley]

I think this is a beautiful way to end Grace.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Thanks for having me.

[Grace O'Malley]

Oh, thank you so much for coming on. I'm sorry it was so weird.

[Nora O'Malley]

God, yeah.

[Grace O'Malley]

All right. That's.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Glad we did that. This was fun. I think you're so funny.

[Grace O'Malley]

I think you're hilarious. And as I told you beforehand, me and my sister wait every time we got to drop new video.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Love you Nora.

[Grace O'Malley]

So tell them when they drop my.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Video is Tuesdays, Thursdays, sometimes times.

[Grace O'Malley]

Anything you want you would like to.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Promote, follow me at G. Cool instrument. That's it.

[Grace O'Malley]

All right. It dude.

[Grace Cullen Schmidt]

Thank you.

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[Grace O'Malley]

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[Grace O'Malley]

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