
Actor, comedian and producer Wendi McLendon-Covey (St. Denis Medical, The Goldbergs) joins the show to discuss the psychics she visited and the healing it provided for her and her family. Plus, haunted New Orleans and a yearly astrology “weather report!”
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Wendy McLendon-Covey
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Rachel Dratch
Welcome to Woo Woo with Rachel Dratch, the podcast that explores the unexplained with humor and curiosity.
Irene Bremis
Hello and welcome to Woo Woo Woo with Rachel Dratch. Here as always, by my side with Irene Bremis. Hi, Irene.
Hello, sweetie.
Hello, Irene. Good to see you. And we're very excited because we have a comedy star here with us today. Yes, every so Often we land a star of comedy, stage and screen. Please welcome Wendy McClendon Covey to the show. Hi, Wendy.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Hi, baby.
Rachel Dratch
Hi, baby.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Hi, baby doll.
Irene Bremis
Wendy, you're a comedy star. We're here to proclaim it.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Oh, I'll. I'll take it.
Irene Bremis
You know Wendy from Bridesmaids. First of all, one of the top comedy movies of all time, as well as The Goldbergs and Reno 911 and so many more things. And currently St. Denis Medical on NBC and Peacock. Wendy, hi. Welcome to Woo Woo.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Thank you for having me.
Irene Bremis
Now, I understand you're a fan of Woo Woo, not of the podcast. I'm not trying to flatter. I know we have. We're still getting the word out. You're a fan of the concept of Woo Woo.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Oh, yes. I live my life by the woo.
Irene Bremis
Okay, good.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Definitely.
Irene Bremis
So usually, first of all, we kind of just chat about how you got your start in the whole comedy of it all. Because, you know, whatever. Whether there's a manifesting thing or whatever, just. I like to know how someone made it big in the comedy world. So tell us, like, were you a kid who is like, I want to be an actor in this voice. I want to be an actor.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Yes, just like that.
Irene Bremis
Or were you just the class clown? Like, how did you get into the whole comedy and actor scene?
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Well, I remember watching variety shows when I was a kid and feeling like, oh, my God, if I could ever do that, that would feel so powerful. That would be amazing. Like, I loved the glam of it all, but also being funny, like Cher. Cher and, you know, Mitzi Gaynor and Carol Burnett, of course, all those. All those ladies was like, this is. You could wear sequins and feathers and sequins still be really funny, you know? So that really, I. I thought was the greatest, most powerful thing a person could be. But then when it was time for me to get my life started, my parents were like, what? No, no, you're not doing that. Yeah, we do not support that. So it took me a while to get going, and when I finally got married and left the house because I was a nerd who lived at home until the day I got married at 26, my husband was like, well, I think you can do it. Why don't you just take classes at the ground length? So because of him and my best friend at the time that I was working with, we were working at this shitty hotel near Disneyland, and we were like, this cannot be our lives. So we signed up for the Groundlings. She signed me up and we started taking classes together. She stopped and I kept going, and I just never looked back. But I wish she would have stayed on it because she was amazing.
Irene Bremis
Did you. Were you doing school plays and stuff like that, or was it just like, you just knew you were funny kind of thing?
Wendy McLendon-Covey
I did school plays. I wrote my own sketches and made people watch them, you know?
Irene Bremis
Yeah.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
We had a stage in the backyard. The way our patio was built, we made it a stage and stuff, so, you know, all the elements were there. My parents didn't really realize what a monster they were creating. And two monsters, because my sister, who is a practicing therapist, also owns a comedy theater in Portland. So my parents are just like, what the hell happened?
Rachel Dratch
Wow.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
We didn't think this was going to be part of our lives and that our kids would be talking about us in a comedic way.
Irene Bremis
When you're at the Groundlings, do you kind of move up the ranks? I did the whole Second City thing, so I've just heard about Groundlings. But, like, once you're there, were you in the company there, too, or how does that work?
Wendy McLendon-Covey
I was. Yeah. I finally got into the Company, and I was there for seven years, but at that point, I was. I was working a lot, so I couldn't do as many shows as I wanted to do. But that's kind of the whole reason you would go through a program, like, so that was my priority. But, yeah, you. You rise through the ranks and you can be told at any time, yeah, this is not for you.
Irene Bremis
That's what I've heard about it there. Yeah. And then who was there while you were there? Like, who are your contemporaries at the grandmother.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Let's see. Makayla Watkins, Jim Rash, Nat Faxon, Kristen Wiig.
Irene Bremis
All right, and so then how did you. Was the Goldberg, like, what was your first big break or whatever?
Wendy McLendon-Covey
So my first big break was Reno 91 1, and I was scouted when a casting assistant saw me as an understudy in a. In a play.
Irene Bremis
Ooh.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
And so I got that audition, and it was at a time when I thought, well, fuck this. I'm probably never going to make it. Like, I'm. I'm 32 years old, washed up. I don't have a real agent. I have a real flaky manager. Maybe this is just not going to happen for me. Maybe I should just be grateful that I got into the Groundlings and, you know, call it a day. So I took that energy into the audition room. My energy of, I don't give a what happens here. And it worked out.
Irene Bremis
Oh, good.
And so then I got on that
Wendy McLendon-Covey
little basic cable show that has never been off the air.
Irene Bremis
Yeah.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
In 25 years.
Irene Bremis
Right. Oh, my God. 25 years. And then. Then the Goldbergs. I'm sure there's other steps in between,
Rachel Dratch
but then you're the lead on the Goldbergs.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Yes.
Irene Bremis
For how many years was that?
Wendy McLendon-Covey
10 years.
Irene Bremis
Wow.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
10 years. And when I first got Reno, you know, it was a basic cable show, so it didn't pay hardly anything. So I kept my side job, like, the first. For the first 12 years of my career. So I would just.
Irene Bremis
Side job.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
I was editing a social work journal on the campus of Cal State Long beach, and nobody cared. Like, I had an office and everything, but I could do it from wherever I was. So I would be in dressing rooms on different sets, just editing my manuscripts or doing whatever. And, you know, it was part time. I could do it from wherever, so it totally worked. But by the time I got the Goldbergs, it was time to stop, because that.
Irene Bremis
Yeah.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
That show took every second of my time.
Irene Bremis
Wow.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Yeah.
Irene Bremis
And then, well, Bridesmaids. I don't know if you want to talk about Bridesmaids, but I bet everybody asks you this question about Desi. Did you know when you were filming it that it was going to be such a big. No, we didn't, but.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
No, we didn't.
Irene Bremis
Yeah.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
And I mean, I was in on the first table read of that movie, and that was 2007.
Irene Bremis
Huh.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
So then it got made in 2010.
Irene Bremis
Okay.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
And I just thought, well, this is fun. I sure like doing movies. I hope I get to do another one one day.
Irene Bremis
Wow.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
My. My shitty manager that I had at the time was like, I don't think you should do this. I don't find it funny. Read the script and was like, I don't think this is funny. I don't know why. Oh, anyone would be a part of this. And I said, well, you know, I think working is better than not working. And these are my friends, and I want to do it, so I'm gonna do it.
Irene Bremis
Oh, my gosh.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Like, just terrible, terrible advice.
Irene Bremis
Yeah, definitely. A shitty manager. Yes. Yeah. Yes.
Was it a guy? Just curious. It was okay. I was just wondering not to say all guys, but I was wondering, like, he didn't get the female comedy of the whole thing. Yeah, but obviously it's universal, so.
It is universal.
I mean, that's a lot of guys. Favorite movies, too.
Yeah, exactly.
I don't want to genderize anything here. That's even a word it is, sweetie.
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Irene Bremis
So was there any like manifesting moment of your career or to just pretty much go along? Like sometimes Rachel just hard work pays off or. I don't know.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
I used to have like a journal where I would, you know, it was like a journal slash vision board where I would put things down that I really wanted and. And I manifested a lot of things. But here's the problem with manifestation. It should always be this or something better because you don't know what's good for you.
Irene Bremis
It's a good point.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
You know, manifested a boat and the thing damn near Bankrupted us. So you know this or something better. That's what you always.
Irene Bremis
Yeah, that's good. I like something better.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Yeah.
Irene Bremis
Oh my.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
That's why I never get upset set if I don't book a certain job.
Irene Bremis
Yes.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
It's like great. If that was not for me, I don't want it.
Irene Bremis
So, Wendy, what have you experienced? Woo Woo tales such as ghost psychics. I don't know. What, what's your relationship with Woo Woo? I should ask?
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Well, you know, I, I have had experiences my whole life that I kind of talk myself out of thinking they were something. Because that's what we do.
Rachel Dratch
Yes, that's right.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Yeah. And I was raised in a very religious household, so to even think about those things is just. You're, you're one step away from demon possession.
Irene Bremis
That's right.
Ah, okay.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
But there are so many things have happened that are undeniable that you're like, I, I think I'm going to believe what's right in front of my face here.
Irene Bremis
I like.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
So, yeah, I've got a very close connection to the Woo. And we have a place in New Orleans, one of my favorite cities in
Irene Bremis
the world of New Orleans.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
And so haunted.
Irene Bremis
That's what I.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
You can't deny it. You cannot deny it. You can feel it. You can feel that electric spiritual energy just walking down the street.
Rachel Dratch
Yes.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
You know, too many things have happened there for it not to be full of spirit. And so we have this little place. Oh, should I tell this story? I don't know.
Irene Bremis
Yeah. Yes.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
So we have a place, a tiny place in the French Quarter that is a back house. And the back house, where back houses were traditionally for the servants. Right. And ours is on the lower level. There's a condo right above us, but that's where the servants would have been living and what our place would have been would have been the kitchen. So this happens every time we go there. Things crash around in the condo and we can't figure out what it is. And it wakes us up out of a dead sleep. Okay.
Irene Bremis
Yeah.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
But there's such a thing called energy imprints where just emotions or vibrations that were repeated constantly still show up over time. It's almost. God, how would I describe it? Like a wrinkle in time almost left behind.
Irene Bremis
Or in a cycle sort of.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Yeah, yeah. There's just an imprint on the area. So we hear footsteps all night long above us when there's nobody there because no one lives in that condo full time. And we always know when people are there. Footsteps constantly. Doors Slamming cupboards. Slamming. We wake up, there's no one. No one around, and we can't figure out what crashed. So we finally were like, okay, well, we're just gonna have to talk to this spirit. We cannot deny it. This is. I mean, to wake us out of a dead sleep. So we had a conversation, said, hey, we're not here that often. I know I sound like a mental
Irene Bremis
patient saying, no, this is the nature of this pod. We all sound right.
You're safe here, sweetie.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Thank you. Thank you. I feel very safe. We know you're. We're not here that often, and we're not telling you to leave. You're. You stay here. This is your home. But just when we're sleeping. Could you hold it down?
Irene Bremis
Just.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Just don't bang around when we're sleeping. And it stopped.
Irene Bremis
A reasonable ghost.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Yes.
Irene Bremis
That responds to reasonable requests. Wow.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Coincidence. Maybe. But that's what we did.
Irene Bremis
That's. I mean, I've heard that's what you're supposed to do, is like, yeah. Tell the ghost. Well, depending on if you. Depending on the amount of whatever havoc it's causing, some people say, please leave and go to wherever. And some people just say what you said, like, hey, we're cool. Just. Could you. Yeah.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Yeah. Because it's not scary. You don't feel scared when you go in there. It's just annoying.
Irene Bremis
Right.
Rachel Dratch
Right.
Irene Bremis
I have a question. Do you ever get to know the people that live in the apartment when they are. When they have. When it's occupied, and have they experienced anything with the ghost?
Wendy McLendon-Covey
We spoke to the guy that lived up there because that's who we bought our place from. And we said, so you know when you're. Because he's always. A lot of times he's out of town when we're there. So we said, is someone coming to check on your place for some reason at 1 in the morning or 2 in the morning when you're out on your cruises or whatever? No. Okay. Because we. We hear footsteps constantly. Someone walking back and forth in your place all night. He goes, I have never heard this before.
Rachel Dratch
Oh.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
I said, yeah, just. Just something you might want to know about, like. And he didn't seem phased by it. He's. He's grown up in New Orleans. So I think it's just like, oh, yeah, probably.
Irene Bremis
I'm like, diagnosis ghost case. Case closed.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Case closed. That's right.
Rachel Dratch
Case closed is right.
Irene Bremis
I had my only ghostly experience, which I've talked about on here, because now I'm that person. But no, I had ghosts in a hotel that I was staying at in la. And I eventually told them because I had these really early calls. I was doing a movie and I asked them just like you did, feeling insane. And I was like, guys, I have a really early call tomorrow, could you please not show up tonight? And it did work, but there I am talking to the air out loud by myself. So I don't know, I think it might. I think there's something to it though. Anyway, that's my sidebar of my ghost story.
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Irene Bremis
I've heard New Orleans is very haunted. Irene and I have to do a field trip there someday.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Yeah.
Irene Bremis
When this. This house, I take it as very old. Like, I take it, when we're saying servants, do we mean slaves, or is that.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Yeah, I. I hate saying that, but.
Rachel Dratch
Yes, I know.
Irene Bremis
I just, like. Okay, I was just wondering. Okay. And I've taken it down. Okay, but. Okay, so you had your ghost encounter, and have you had other New Orleans things, or do you ever go to, like, a practitioner of woo woo? Like, have you ever gone to. Well, I don't want to guide your woo woo. But what else would you say was your woo woo situations?
Wendy McLendon-Covey
So I've seen a couple of psychics for television. I saw the Long Island Medium, and I saw Tyler. Tyler Henry.
Irene Bremis
Oh, so you were on their shows?
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Yeah.
Irene Bremis
Okay.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
I was a total skeptic.
Irene Bremis
Okay.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
I was like, okay, I'm gonna go to the Long Island Medium. She's not gonna get any kind of read on me, and I'm gonna leave. So I scheduled another appointment for, like, an hour after I was supposed to be there, because I figured she would just be like, yeah, this person is closed. I'm not gonna get anything on her.
Irene Bremis
Okay.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
But they. They brought me in, like, way earlier than necessary and sat me in a room with my manager, and I was like, let's not talk, because they're probably listening, and I don't want them. So she comes in finally, and I start crying. I just get this overwhelming urge to start crying.
Irene Bremis
Okay.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
I. I just felt weird. I. I don't know what to say.
Rachel Dratch
Huh?
Wendy McLendon-Covey
And she started saying, yeah, there's this person. There's this person. There's this person. They're all right. They're standing behind you. And I'm seeing someone who. Who's going like this. And I said, I have no idea what that is. I have no idea what that is. As we keep going, she keeps saying, all right, now there's someone coming forward, and he's not letting anybody else talk. And he's saying he died and was found in a forest. And he's saying, do you think I'm someone who goes to the forest? And I'm like, I don't know what this is. My manager comes in, tears streaming down her face. She goes, that's for me. That's for me. My. My brother was murdered, and he was found in a forest. Now, she didn't allow that to be shown, which is too bad. She should have. And, you know, the message is always like, look, I'm at peace. I'm fine. Just wanted to say hi. Whatever. But that was pretty wild to see. So then, you know, back to this
Irene Bremis
thing, and Wendy's holding her hands up
Wendy McLendon-Covey
to her neck like someone was strangled.
Irene Bremis
Okay.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
So then Thanksgiving comes and I'm going through my. A photo album at my parents house, and I'm seeing an autopsy report of my uncle that committed suicide when I was 2 years old. And I'm looking at this autopsy report. Died of strangulation.
Irene Bremis
Oh, my gosh.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
And I'm like, well, this is okay. Okay, now this can of worms is open. Wait a minute. I don't ever remember anyone in my family telling me that Kenny had a girlfriend. I wonder if Kenny didn't have girlfriends. I don't know. But I started kind of going on this odyssey of I got to find out more about this because it happened when I was so young and it was so painful that people just didn't talk about it that much. So I get the opportunity to go to Tyler Henry. And prior to that, I'm meditating with this rose quartz in my hand and just concentrating on my uncle, concentrating on him. So I hand the thing to Tyler. He's feeling it, you know, he. He draws, but he's not.
Irene Bremis
Okay.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Yeah, have you seen that yet? He just sort of scribbles and it helps him concentrate. And he goes, okay, so I'm seeing someone who took their life. He didn't feel like he was like the family accepted him, blah, blah, blah. I said, I'm looking for one word. Tyler. And yeah, he was gay. Okay. And that's part of the reason why he killed himself. And then he went on to say, like, wait, I'm seeing someone, like, standing on a roof for some reason. I don't know what that means, blah, blah, blah. But after. After that session where he came up with so many things, he was with me for like two hours or something like that. We couldn't possibly put it all in an episode, but I felt like I had traveled through space and time. I was so exhausted that I don't know how I got to the car. My best friend loaded me in, and we got home somehow. But that part I don't really remember. But I came home and I told my mom, I said, hey, I just saw a psychic knowing she does not like that shit. And for some reason she just said, oh, did Kenny come through? And I said, well, yeah, he did, actually.
Irene Bremis
Wow.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
And it seems like he might have been gay, you know? Oh, well, that makes sense. You know, I Remember one of our cousins, he used to jump on the roof and, like, do weird things. And this, like, she. She verified everything that Tyler said. So when I hear people say, like, oh, he's a fraud. She's a fraud, I think. Look, I think once you start doing stuff for television and you have to come up with something, right, Lines get crossed. Because I don't believe everybody can be red, right? But if you're spending time on it, you gotta get an episode out of it. You put money into it. Like, if someone told me that she wears an earwig or something, I would believe that with that weird little hair. All I'm saying is that she. She was accurate, and so was he. So.
Irene Bremis
Yeah.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Yeah. So now I feel like I have a relationship with my uncle that I have not seen since I was a toddler. Because I'll. There are times when I'm like. I just feel him near me, and I say, wait, Kenny, are you trying to get in touch with me? I go to my closet, I open a box, and the first picture there is him.
Irene Bremis
No.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
It's like, okay, I'm here. I'm here for all of it.
Irene Bremis
Yeah.
Oh, wow. That's beautiful. So it sounds like you're also open.
Yeah.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
What's that?
Irene Bremis
It sounds like you're very open. You know, I'm open. So it's like, how? Well, somehow you might have some sort of a connection. You know, like you said, they can't always connect to every single person. That's a very good point.
But it also sounds like sort of
Rachel Dratch
a redemption story for Kenny.
Irene Bremis
Like, in. Even though he's not here physically, he was sort of recognized and seen and, like, I don't know, he got to.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
That's extraordinary. So it's. That one was kind of trippy.
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Irene Bremis
Is there other woo, Wendy, that you have in your bag of woo woo?
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Oh, God, yes.
Rachel Dratch
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Irene Bremis
Yes.
Rachel Dratch
Ooh.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
So big cat lovers over here. Yes, A lot of kitties.
Irene Bremis
Wendy told me she has eight cats.
Oh, not. Not that many. But I love cats.
Rachel Dratch
Yes.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
But anyway, I had a soul kitty. Like an absolute soul kitty, and we had to put him down, but we did it in the backyard. We had someone come and administer the shots. And yeah, so we have like crystals out there where. Where we did it and blah, blah, blah. But do you know that I started seeing flashes of him? He was orange flashes of him in the house, like just turning a corner or hiding under something. And I'm like, okay, well, I'm in psychosis. I'm in full on psychosis now. And I told my husband about it. He goes, I've been seeing him too.
Irene Bremis
So
Wendy McLendon-Covey
we kind of still see my sweet soul kitty.
Irene Bremis
Like, corroborating.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
And I have to believe that's what it is. Like, if it's psychosis, fine, but it Gives me comfort to think that he's still around us.
Irene Bremis
And we always love. We always. We have a few stories on here where, like, it gets corroborated by another person, and then you're like, okay, it's on.
You know, it's undeniable.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Yeah. It's wild.
Irene Bremis
Oh, we love that.
Rachel Dratch
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Irene Bremis
That is.
I believe. No, I mean, I believe. What was Kitty's name?
Wendy McLendon-Covey
His name was Crash.
Irene Bremis
Crash.
Oh, that's such a cute name.
Crash.
Crash is still crashing at your pad.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
He's still crashing around. And I love it.
Irene Bremis
Crashing around.
Oh, nice. Oh, do you want to guess Wendy's sign, or are you gonna be able to do that?
Yes, I am going to take a step.
Wait, so, Wendy, are you into astrology?
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Yes.
Rachel Dratch
At all.
Irene Bremis
Okay, Now, Irene likes to guess people's signs.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Okay. And we don't know.
Irene Bremis
Yes.
We don't know. She's not always right, but we like to have her guess. Do you have a vibe, Irene?
I have a vibe, yeah. And I'm gonna go with my first choice on this. Might be Gemini.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
No.
Irene Bremis
Okay, good.
Okay, good.
Okay, good. Okay, good.
I wasn't gonna say.
Narrows it down.
Wait, now that I'm thinking of it when I just looked you up, I think I know when your birthday is, so. I think I know it. I know the answer, Irene.
You do? Okay, I got two more stabs at this, and I would go with either I'm gonna Virgo.
No.
Or Taurus.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Libra.
Irene Bremis
Really? I'm not getting Libra vibes.
What are Libras known for? I always hear balance and fairness and.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Yes, that's what they enjoy.
Irene Bremis
My experience with them would tell me otherwise.
Yes, exactly.
I have a Libra.
That's right.
Yeah. Okay. No, tell me. Tell me what libras are. What are they known for?
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Libras need everything to be fair, which is very tough because life just isn't like that. But that's where they thrive. They need everything to be fair. They like to be surrounded with beauty.
Irene Bremis
That's right.
Okay.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
I would add that they are very persnickety.
Irene Bremis
Oh, okay.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
I don't know that that's a real trait, but that's what I am.
Irene Bremis
Are you September or what? What libra Are you?
Wendy McLendon-Covey
October 10th.
Irene Bremis
Okay, yeah, that makes sense.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Do you guys have astrologers that are like, trusted astrologers that you go to?
Irene Bremis
Oh, trusted.
No.
I mean, no. No, I don't. I don. Consult one. We've had a few on the show that explain. And they're. They're really good, but I identify very strongly with my sign. But I really don't know much about it.
But I have to say, Wendy, you are charismatic. And, and so that is a Libra trait and you're a great storyteller. So all those things are Libra traits. So that's my bad, as they say, for not picking up on that. You know, we got to pull out the chart to see, like, the broader view because persnickety is also a very Virgo trait. Oh, yeah, it could be very Virgo.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Well, my dad's a Virgo and he is persnickety.
Irene Bremis
Have you, have you had your chart done? Like, if you've gone to the psychics, have you ever gone to astrologer person or.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Yeah, I have an astrologer that I see once a year.
Irene Bremis
Oh.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
And she walks me through the next year and gives me the weather report. Because that's the thing with astrology. It can give you the weather report, but we have free will. So it just tells you, like, oh, the conditions are right for this, this, and this. And damn if she isn't always completely accurate.
Irene Bremis
Really?
Rachel Dratch
Yeah.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
I read my things later and I'm like, yeah, that that happened, or this could have happened, but I fumbled it and then free readings. Astrology Zone.
Irene Bremis
Oh, right. Miller.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Yeah.
Irene Bremis
Susan Miller. Yes. Yeah.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
She's late. She's late every.
Irene Bremis
She's always late. And I get, I swear, Wendy, you're hilarious. I get so infuriated, I'm like, that's it, Susan. I'm done with you.
Wait, tell me what you mean. Like, what is this? I don't know what this is.
She's an astrologer and she has like this website called Astrology Zone and she's pretty spot on accurate. And she gives you, she doesn't just give you the truncated version of your astrology, she gives you the very fleshed out, like, every detail about the cosmos. Astrology, like you said, the whole entire roadmap or weather map of the month. Right.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
That's what I find with her exact dates for you.
Irene Bremis
That's right.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
And, and when she does that, she says, you know, like three to four days on either side of the state. But she's right. So that's why, that's why, like, even though she's routinely a week late, always with her postings and, and takes so much time to write her excuse emails about it. But, but she's always right. She's not kidding. And when you, when you go back and you read things later, you're like, Damn it. Yeah, this is absolutely correct.
Irene Bremis
And what's the kind of example of, for your yearly weather report? What's the kind of example of something she said? Like, is it like a success in July or like, like that kind of thing?
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Or like kind of. Or like this July, the planets are aligned for this to happen, like for you to give a big presentation or for you to be doing something. Maybe you have a message that's very public facing. Okay. And you're thinking, well, I don't know what the hell that could be. But you don't know. Life is like that. Things pop up at the last minute. Or look, this August, you're going to be seeing themes that you dealt with in 2013 around this time. And it's always accurate. So it's, it's. But again, we have free will. And yes, you, yeah, you don't know how life is going to unfurl for you because everybody does what they want to, but these are the conditions that are present. So you might want to use this to your advantage.
Irene Bremis
Right, exactly. And, and, and there's like things in there with Susan Miller. She also will say, like on this day and that day, you shouldn't get any plastic surgery or sign a contract. Or like, you know, when Venus is here, your surgery could go bad. If you're planning a trip, Mercury is retrograde or, you know, Saturn, Neptune, whatever, like your house and flooding. And don't make big purchases.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
I always listen to that.
Irene Bremis
Me too.
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Irene Bremis
Do you travel a lot? Have you been to like, like any places where you've had a woo woo experience?
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Let's see.
Irene Bremis
I'm trying to think of how I would answer that because I like to travel, but I, I don't think I've had a woo woo particularly thing. I just thought I'd toss that out there. But no pressure to have said,
Wendy McLendon-Covey
let's see. I had a. A very weird experience in Winnipeg shooting a movie, and we ended up in an old asylum.
Irene Bremis
Oh.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
And you know, places like that. And you probably felt this more when you're filming because certain locations just carry those things, like this sanitarium or whatever it was, had a very sketchy vibe where I did feel unsafe just walking around.
Irene Bremis
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
We filmed on the Queen mary. We filmed Reno 91 1, the hunt for QAnon during the pandemic on the Queen Mary, which is notoriously haunted. Yeah. And I was like, well, I'm going to go find me a ghost. So I'm walking through. And by the way, I live in Long Beach. The Queen Mary's down the street. I used to go on field trips there as a kid not knowing any of this shit. But now that I'm older, I'm like, oh, I got to find. I'm here. Ghosts come and get me.
Irene Bremis
Yeah.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
I walked through that whole ship, and the only place where I felt my hair stand on end was the engine room.
Rachel Dratch
Oh, yeah.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Like, I felt someone is standing right behind me. I just really got the heebie jeebies there.
Irene Bremis
I. I always feel that when you said the engine room, I. Being in a room like that, I have a very old fear factor of being in a room with, like, a lot of really loud motors. I don't know what that is, but I also have that from way back when. Anyway, this is like a therapy session for me. I'm like. Let me tell you, all my phobias.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Yeah. They come from somewhere.
Irene Bremis
They do.
They do. You're right.
All right, should we do the Pengie?
Irene, I'm ready.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
I love that.
Irene Bremis
Okay. My Penge's part's unknown. Irene, you could be the primary Penge reader. I'll be the side Pengie.
Okay. Ready?
Okay. Have you thought of your question, Wendy?
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Yes.
Irene Bremis
And don't say it out loud. Okay, so you. Okay.
Okay. So you're thinking it. Okay.
Oh, it went right away.
Okay. Whenever you say right away, I know that means you got a yes. I read yes.
What'd you get?
But I got. I got a no. But I'm not.
What?
I know sometimes. Look, this isn't an exact science.
Well, it is if we know the question. I'm always going to support Penji. You know that. Sometimes it's a very ambiguous question.
What was your question, Wendy?
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Did my grandpa love me when he died?
Irene Bremis
Oh, shit. Well, clearly I'm wrong. I mean, yes. I mean, I don't need a pendulum to tell you that I should lose my pendulum license.
No.
And I'm telling you, no, Wendy. No, he did not. And let me tell you something, Wendy.
Mine started going right away. Right away. As I said, practically.
Oh, my God. I can't. Okay. That's kind of hilarious, though.
Helicoptering to the right.
That I would get a no is there. Now, I assume that you had a good relationship, or was it a relationship?
Wendy McLendon-Covey
And then. And then he kind of got mad at me for something or was disappointed in me for a project that I took on as an actor. And he was not thrilled. So after that, like, things kind of cooled. And when he passed, it was like, wait, are we good?
Irene Bremis
See? So, Rachel, of course your grandfather loves you, but Panji can't go into the details of the story. So you're picking up maybe on that. On that issue right there. So you're not. You.
Oh, my.
Just had your Penche license.
A real Penji. Because that was just a necklace. But I don't know. I don't know exactly where I thought.
Come on.
I'm a disorganized, unorganized Pisces.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Oh, my God.
Irene Bremis
Pisces.
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What if I get a no again, though? Let me see.
Okay.
Did Wendy's grandfather love her? Okay, see, now I'm getting a yes with real penji. I am getting yes.
Yes. Using a necklace. Wendy, a necklace does not count.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
She's using a gotta get a real penji. Let's be scientific about this.
Irene Bremis
I'm getting a no. I'm getting yeah, we have to be scientific. Well, Wendy, okay, so I follow you on Instagram, but Wendy, where can people find you these days?
Wendy McLendon-Covey
You can find me on Instagram and Instagram only at Wendy. W E n d I McLendon m c l e n d o n co CEO Wendy McClendon Co. Love it.
Irene Bremis
There you go.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
See all my animal content?
Irene Bremis
And when does your show. When is the new season available?
Wendy McLendon-Covey
The new season comes out on November 2nd.
Irene Bremis
Okay.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
And that will be season three. Right now, season seasons one and two are both on Peacock. Season one is on Netflix and season two drops this month, I believe on Netflix.
Irene Bremis
Oh, okay. Okay, Great. All right. Awesome. Wendy, thank you so much for joining us. I really appreciate you taking the time.
Wendy McLendon-Covey
Thanks for having me. And it was so good to see you again and so nice to meet you, Irene.
Irene Bremis
So great. Wendy, thank you so much.
You always see you on our next comedy project together that we're manifesting. We're manifesting it, right?
Rachel Dratch
And you can find me on Instagram at.
Irene Bremis
At Ray Dratch.
Rachel Dratch
That's R a e Dratch. And you can find Irene at Irenebremis. That's B R E M I S Bremis.
Irene Bremis
And thanks for listening.
Rachel Dratch
Thanks for joining me on this journey into the world of Woo woo. Don't forget to rate, review and subscribe
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Episode: Wendi McLendon-Covey: I Visited A Psychic (Or Two!)
Host: Rachel Dratch
Co-host: Irene Bremis
Guest: Wendi McLendon-Covey
Release Date: August 12, 2026
In this lively episode of "Woo Woo with Rachel Dratch," comedian and actor Wendi McLendon-Covey joins Rachel and Irene to discuss her hilarious and heartfelt journey through the world of the unexplained. From haunted houses and communicating with ghosts to transformative encounters with psychics and astrologers, Wendi blends comedy with compelling tales of things that go beyond the rational. With warmth and humor, the episode explores whether there really might be something to all this “woo woo”—and how it connects to life, loss, family, and comfort.
Early Aspirations
Her Start with The Groundlings
Persistence and Side Gigs
Her Haunted New Orleans Apartment
Ghost Communication Tips
Long Island Medium Experience
Tyler Henry (Hollywood Medium)
Skepticism vs. Real Experience
Astrological Identity
Favorite Astrologers
Warm, self-deprecating, and witty. Wendi matches Rachel and Irene’s blend of open-minded skepticism, hearty laughter, and genuine curiosity. There’s a spirit of comfort in sharing “only with a trusted pal” and a sense of camaraderie among women who have seen a lot in both showbiz and the supernatural.
For those curious about psychic phenomena, haunted houses, manifesting dreams, talking to spirits (human or feline), or unraveling family mysteries, this episode is a delightful, credulous, and comic window into the world of the “woo woo.”