April 4, 2025

Kevin Bacon & Jennifer Nettles (The Bondsman); Comedy Icon Sandra Bernhard

Kevin Bacon & Jennifer Nettles (The Bondsman); Comedy Icon Sandra Bernhard

In this episode of Pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon it's a packed, all interview extravaganza as Kevin Bacon and Jennifer Nettles discuss their new Prime Video series The Bondsman and Comedy icon Sandra Bernhard joins to discuss her career, her...

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In this episode of Pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon it's a packed, all interview extravaganza as Kevin Bacon and Jennifer Nettles discuss their new Prime Video series The Bondsman and Comedy icon Sandra Bernhard joins to discuss her career, her time on Severence, and her 2025 stand up comedy tour.

Comedy legend Sandra Bernhard graces the mic with stories that span her transformative journey from Beverly Hills manicurist to stand-up powerhouse. Hear her recount the vibrant scene of open mic nights and takes us behind the scenes of her forthcoming Shapes and Forms 2025 comedy tour, promising an intriguing blend of humor and music that continues to captivate audiences. As she reflects on her career against the backdrop of the ever-evolving digital age, Sandra offers a rare glimpse into the resilience and creativity that cemented her status as an icon. Check out Sandra's website and follow her on Instagram.

Then, singer / songwriter / actor (and Grammy and Emmy winner) Jennifer Nettles stops by to discuss The Bondsman, working with Kevin Bacon and becoming a "Scream Queen".  Finally, the one and only Kevin Bacon joins to discuss The Bondsman, his love for horror and music and so much more.  He also discusses his joint EP with Jennifer Nettles, The Bondsman: Hell and Back. Their creative collaboration promises to deliver a genre-blending experience that fans won’t want to miss. Join us for a captivating episode filled with laughter, inspiration, and the magic of storytelling from some of the most innovative minds in entertainment.

Kyle McMahon's Death, Grief & Other Sh*t We Don't Discuss is now streaming: https://www.deathandgrief.show/Chapter-One-The-Diagnosis-AKA-WTF/

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In this episode of pop Culture Weekly, I talk with

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the one and only Kevin Bacon and the amazing Jennifer

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Nettles and the legendary comedian and Sandra Bernhard. Let's go.

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Welcome to pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon from My

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Heart Radio your pop culture news, views, reviews, and celebrity

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interviews on all the movies, TV, music and pop culture

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u CRABE Weekly. Here's Kyle McMahon.

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Nick No No no NT, Hello, and welcome to pop Culture

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Weekly with Kyle McMahon. I, of course am Kyle McMahon.

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I thank you as always for joining me once again

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for another episode of pop Culture Weekly. We've got such

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a great all interview episode, and I talk with the

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one and only Kevin Bacon and Jennifer Nettles, who I love.

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I love sugar Land, I love Jennifer Nettles, I love

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her voice, I love her acting. She's just an amazing person.

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And I'm talking to both of them about the brand

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new series The Bondsman on Amazon Prime Video. And I

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talk with Sandra Bernhardt. I love her so much. She's

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one of my favorite comedians and she has been, you know,

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just such at the forefront of so many things in

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comedy in her incredible career, so I'm really excited to

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talk to her too. Just an update on me, I

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went to the orthopedic doctor once again, and I have

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been downgraded from the full immobilizing brace that was going

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from like my thigh high thigh all the way down

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to my ankle, and now I'm in a compression sleeve.

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I'm still using crutches, and I'm gonna be able to

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test out driving soon. So it'll be almost two months

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since I've driven myself anywhere, which is crazy. But in

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any event, that's just a little update on me. So

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let's get right into it because we have a big

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show today that I'm really excited about. Today. We have

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the distinct honor of speaking with a true original. She

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is a comedic force who has never been afraid to

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speak her mind ever, and she's been making us laugh

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for decades with her sharp wit and her fearless observations

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and her marriage of comedy and music. She is a

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cultural icon. She is a trailblazer, and she is a

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living comedy legend. The incomparable Sandra Bernhardt is on today

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and I am so excited to talk to her. She

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is joining us to talk all about her brand new

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comedy tour, the Shapes and Forms twenty twenty five tour.

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So that's gonna be awesome. I can't wait to see it.

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And you can catch her live in cities across the country,

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so make sure to check Sandra Bernhard dot com for

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dates and tickets and all that stuff. So let's jump

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right into my interview with the one and only Sandra Bernhart. Well,

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first of all, thank you, the one and only Sandra

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Bernhard come to iHeartRadio as a pop culture weekly. I

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really appreciate it. You're an amazing talent. Thank you.

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Thank you appreciate it.

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Of course, So you you were going to talk about

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your your tour dates for this year and and certain

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show that you're currently on.

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What U But I would like to go back for

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a second. You started in stand up and you know

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you've come to do so many many things TV, books, music, movies.

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What what was it when you were first starting out

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that you sent out to do well?

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I mean back in the day when I started off,

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you could like just sort of come with a notion

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that you wanted to be a performer and entertainer, and

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then you kind of fell into it. I mean, I

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guess unless you went to college and maybe studied, you know, acting,

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But I didn't do it that way. I came to

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LA when I was nineteen, and I learned how to

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become a manicurist. So I had a day job and

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I was working in Beverly Hills and I just kind

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of like was hanging out at the Rocky Horror Show

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on sunset, the live show at the Roxy, and I

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just fell in with a bunch of kids who are

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from the San Gabriel Valley, and I just cracked them up,

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you know, and they thought, Oh my god, you're so funny.

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You're so funny. And then I met this woman who

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I was doing her nails and she was singing at

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this venue called the what was called the Beverly Hills.

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It'll come to me in a minute, and I'm gonna

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take you there. And they would open Mic Night and

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I'm gonna introduce you to Paul Mooney and he's gonna

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love you and think you're the coolest person in the world.

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So I went down and opened Mike Night. I put

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together five minutes of my material and I got up

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and I was kind of like a strangely kind of

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a hit, you know, without even trying. And then I

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met Paul Mooney and my friend Lotus Weinstock, and they

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were like my mentors and took me under their wing,

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and that's how it all started. It was like, I

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didn't know I wanted to be a singer. I wanted

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to be an actress. I knew I was funny, but

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I didn't think about stand up comedy per se. But

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it was kind of like it ended up being the

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perfect kind of way into everything because it was back

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in the seventies and not many women were doing what

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I was doing, which was sort of like free wheeling crazy,

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you know, comedy that wasn't like, you know, Philistiller or

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Joan Rivers, like self deprecating. It was like, hey, I'm cool,

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I'm postmodern, I'm post feminists, and you know, of course

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I'm cool. Of course I'm sexy. Of course you know

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of course I'm beautiful. So that was something that people

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hadn't done before. And then I started singing, and all

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of a sudden, it all kind of came together, and

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that's how I jumped in and how it started. But

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today it could happen because everybody would do it on

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TikTok or they would do it on Instagram, and there

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were you know, this was just like me with a

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crazy notion going to a club. The little Club was

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the name of the club by the way on Cannon Drive,

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and the magic just happened.

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I love that that got it did because we have gotten,

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you know, so much work from you and one of

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the and you can correct me if I'm wrong, but

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one of the things that I think stands out for

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me looking at your career, you were on David Letterman

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a lot, and that didn't seem to be a normal thing,

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especially for a woman comedian. Is that right?

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Yeah, well, there were a few of us that There

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was Terry Garr, there was me, a couple other on

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and that would go on, and just and other guys

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too that were his friends. But the really great thing

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about that was I mean, yes, I always had something

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to tie into it, promoting, but I didn't go on

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to promote. I just ended up going on to like

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it was almost like performance art. I'd go on with like,

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you know, my own idea, my own set, and then

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they'd be the pre interview and I'd tell them things

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I was going to do. But most of the time

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it didn't end up being that at all. I would

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just go off on these tangents, which you can see.

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I was on the show thirty times Wow. So I

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always tried to have like a theme to my my

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appearance and developed this funny, kind of flirtatious relationship with Dave,

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which I did have a crush on him, but that

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that was that was unrequited love. That nothing ever get that.

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And back then, you know, people you tune in if

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you miss David Letterman, you miss David Letterman. There wasn't

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no there was no Tomorrow, there was no YouTube. There

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wasn't like there were no clips. You saw either you

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watched it in real time or you never got to

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see it, un let's say, because they didn't repeat you know,

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talk shows. So you know, especially at college kids we

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get together, you know, and watched together. It was a

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whole thing. So I developed this great audience from those

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appearances and again just from being so in the moment

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and improvisational. It's just that kind of stuff can't happen anymore.

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Yeah, And it just so happened that on YouTube today

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a video of you came up in my recommendations. You

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and Madonna on Letterman was incredibly funny. Was that was

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any of that? I want to say exactly?

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that was planned was that I was going to bring

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her on the show because she'd never been on before,

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and we had been hanging out a lot, and we

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just de how we're going to address the thing, and

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and but what we kind of ended up doing. No,

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it was like there were little maybe there were moments

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of things we were going to talk about, but then

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it just like blew wide open. Of course, David was

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like out you know, outraged, and you know, this was insane,

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and these two crazy women and his whole thing with

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me dismissing me. It was just it all just happened again.

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They wouldn't let anything like that happen now.

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Yeah, And it was I mean I was laughing hysterically,

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and you said something about Sean Pain and then and

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then you made a comment to madonnaa you're you're even

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better or something.

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You know, it was like, you know, yeah, I stupt

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with with Sean, but you were even better. It was

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like again back then, you know, that was like nineteen

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eighty eight. That was like, oh my god, you know,

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I was like blew everything up because you know, the

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whole gay thing was like, you know, it still was

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a little bit like uncharted territory.

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Donna for that matter, have been at the forefront of

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you know, the lgbt QI plus community.

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You won't install me if you miss the letters.

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Thank you where you know, you've been at the forefront

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of this forever. And it's interesting because for me looking

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back at something a video like that from nineteen eighty

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eight and seeing just how shocked and you know, everybody was,

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and it's like, you know, not that something like that

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would happen out of high school today, but like it's

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it's so much more accepted today, where you and Madonna

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in that case, we're very much at the cutting edge

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of that sort of thing that brought acceptance, you know.

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Yeah, yeah, it's true. Well also it's like we're comfortable

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with who we are, so you know, for myself, I

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can always speak for myself. You know, sexuality and you know,

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love and relationships have always sort of you know, been

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very fluid, and you know I flowed in and out

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of them, so fluid and flowing anyway. So that wasn't

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like like a big deal for me. So when when

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everybody else seemed to respond a certain way, I was

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always like, I mean, really, I mean, thoughts having crossed

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your mind, Attractions, you know, you know, people aren't appealing.

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Everybody who's beautiful or sexy or interesting is appealing, right

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and subject for you know, a possible you know, relationship.

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So that was just sort of what I was presenting

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in a fun, you know, sort of from you know,

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uninhibited way.

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And so much of your career has not shied away

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from things like that. Was that intentional or is that

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just because it was so much a part of your

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world and your community that that's what reflected in your art.

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Well, I thought it's you know, it became something that

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was sort of a little bit of a fallback just

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because nobody else had really done it. And then I

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started getting sort of like comfortable and into because I

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saw the reactions I was getting from it. But also

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it's like it's like kind of like poking at culture,

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poking at society in a way that makes people kind

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of open up a little bit. And I've always done

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that in my work. I've always wanted people to like,

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you know, if you're sitting in a dark room and

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you've got the curtains down, you're kind of looking out.

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sun in and like look at what's happening out on

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more fun than being fearful of it. So I like

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to think I infuse my work with the idea of

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throwing the curtains open and revealing all the light.

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I'm thinking you did the same thing similarly similarly with Roseanne,

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you know, on the series. You know you've done that.

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So you've broken so many boundaries in your art that

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there's so much shock value in the world. But I

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looking at things. You know, it's easy just to be like,

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you know, loud or drunk or sexual or you know,

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you know, show your you know, your body in a

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way that's just sort of like for you know, attention

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but if you like cut through all of that and

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you get down to like the real like essence of

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who you are, that's what really pushes people's buttons and

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makes them either wake up or like become aware of

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how important being who you are is.

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I love that. And uh, you know another thing that

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I've loved about your career and love about your career

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is your marriage of different forms of art. So I'll

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give you an example. When I was a kid in

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the nineties, there was a video store right up the

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street for me that had DVDs and such, and I

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was there every day getting a new movie, and you know,

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it's my thing. And here I am on a pop

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culture show. But one of the DVDs that I eventually

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got was your stand up and it was very much

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a marriage of music and comedy and art. Is that

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you know? Can you speak to that a little bit?

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You did a whole thing with Stevie mix Songbird with

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Christy McVie and and had this whole thing about Stevie

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and this, you know, that whole thing. I mean, it's

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just me as a child, you know, as a kid

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watching this, I'm just like, this is so cool because

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this isn't the other stand up DVDs that I've watched.

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You know this like marries all kinds of things.

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I take songs that have a lot of impact and

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you know, sense memory, and I write monologues that are

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not about the song, but about something that sort of

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runs maybe parallel or maybe it's something that's completely out

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of a left field, but you know not unlike when

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you're driving or walking down the street and you're listening

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to a song, you might encounter something and in the

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future you'll think of that song in conjunction with that experience.

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So I do a lot of that of you know,

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synthesizing songs and feelings and memories and creating like either

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you know, kind of comedic dramatic pieces that have you know,

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have impact and you're like, oh wow, it's like, you know,

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it's like when you watch a movie and they use

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certain music, it's like it's evocative. And that's what I

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like my work to be. That's that's the one overwriting

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word is evocative.

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like I said, you know, I was going through that

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whole store, every DVD in that store, and so I

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had seen, you know, whatever order it was in, I guess,

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alphabetical in the stand up comedy section. None of the

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other ones that I had seen were like that at all.

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it's uncategoriable, so you kind of like have to put

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it where people would just assume it would be. Yeah,

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thank you, that's a high compliment. I appreciate that.

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Oh, thank you. So today, you know, you're still touring,

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you have new tour dates that are coming that are

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you know, throughout twenty twenty five on the Shapes and

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Forms tour. You are in a very big hot show

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right now. What is life like for for Sandra Bernhard today?

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Well, same as it always is. You know, it's like

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it's like it's day to day. You know, it's like

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you get up and you have your life. I have

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my dog, I have my girlfriend and my daughter. I

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mean she's out on her own. But you know, well

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it's it's it's you know, I do what I do.

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I go to the gym, I go shopping, I cook,

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I watch you know, women's college basketball. I'm in the

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middle of March madness, you know, and simultaneously, you know,

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you sort of soak in the whole idea that you know,

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you're you continue to be a part of, you know,

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important work, and people respect you so they want you

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to be in there in their work. Like Ben Stiller

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asked me to do Severance, and you know, I've been

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sitting on that for a year now because we shot

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it last year and I was like, you know, you know,

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you work, you shoot something and then you sort of

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put it in your back pocket and you don't think

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much about it, and then it comes out and you're like, wow.

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You know, it's like, you know, you just never know

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what's going to really have that sort of you know impact.

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And it's really nice at this point in my career,

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in my life that I still you know, make a

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difference in you know, a scene or a show. It's

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you know, it's it means a lot to me. It's

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not you know, I don't take it for granted.

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Did you you know, were you aware of the impact

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of I'm a huge Apple TV Plus fan and and

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I've worked with them a lot on their various series.

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You know, in regards to to my show and Severance,

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especially I loved the first season, but it seems like

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season two just blew up even further. Did you So

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you weren't expecting this kind of zeitgeist explosion.

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No, I don't. There's no way of knowing it. First

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of all, when when you shoot your scenes, you really

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don't know any idea what else is happening in the

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other scenes. You don't get a script, you only get

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your scenes. They keep it very compartmentalized and you know, separate,

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which I think is smart. You can only focus in

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on what you're doing and.

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And I think that I think that the you know,

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the election made a big difference. I think that people

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are feeling you know, sort of uncertain, unmoored, and I

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think touchdowns like great shows like like severanths kind of

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like mean more in these times than they write in

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other times. It also took a long time to do it.

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A lot of it had to be put on hold.

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It takes a long time to shoot the show, and

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people were desperate for the second season, and you know,

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I think and because of it, it just had a

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bigger and much bigger impact than anybody could have imagined.

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you in it. Of course. Tell me about touring. I

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mean you've been doing this, you know, for a while,

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and here you are still today doing it. Is that

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like your home creatively for you?

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a part of a show where you get to like, well,

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I'm not walking on the set. That's not mine in

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telling people what I'm going to say. So you know,

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I have such a strong point of view. And when

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you can write your own work and continue to have

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that thread throughout your career and people come to expect it,

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it's something you just never want to stop doing.

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And is it that is part of it? That live

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you know, that instant reaction. It's obviously different when you're

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doing a film or a series that you know a

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year later you're getting you know, feedback on stage, it's

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like instant.

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Right exactly exactly, and you know you're making the physical

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effort to like go to places and you know, I

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have my band and my people I work with and

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it's our little insular world and it's fun and you

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know it's just it's you know, I've always been so

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attracted to rock and roll, into to music and getting

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to you know, have a lot of friends who are

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singers and performers, and so it's my little microcosm of

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that world and getting to reenact as much of it

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as I get to as I can and do. And

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I just love it. I love being on the road.

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I mean, we don't go endlessly. We just do a

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few dates and I come home. You know, I don't

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think I'd be the kind of person to go out

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on a three month tour unless I had a hit

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song and you know it was being supported in a

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way that you know made sense. But for what at

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the level I do it, I really just enjoy it.

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It's fun and you get to go back to cities

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you haven't been to in a long time. You see

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people and fans that have been coming for years, and

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it's just, you know, it's you can't you can't replicate it.

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It's not like anything else, like you said, it's just

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it's a one of a kind experience.

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I love that and for for you, you know what's

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next for you? Like I said at the top, you

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know you've books, you know, stage, screen, every kind of

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medium you can think of, what's what's next that you

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know you're looking forward to.

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Well, you know, like like everything else, I kind of said,

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I mean, besides my own work, I don't ever really

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know what's coming down the pike in terms of my acting.

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So you know, when they people come around, you know,

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like I'm gonna I'm in an episode of that show

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Percy Jackson coming up. I'm they just released those second

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season of Survival of the Thickest, my friend Michelle Buteau's

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show on Netflix. I'm in an episode of that. I

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shot a small scene in Marty Supreme, which is Timothy

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shallow May's film that's coming up at the end of

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the year that Josh Softy directed. So things just come

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to me, but I don't. I can't really just call

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it the shots. And that's okay except for my own work.

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And so I just sit and wait for my manager

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to call me and say, yeah, they want you for this,

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they want you for that. There might be periods where

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things are quiet, but it'll all, you know, it always

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sort of picks up again.

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I love that. I love you. I love your outlook

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on everything and your work. Please say thank you. Everybody

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can go and see you on tour. The dates are on.

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Your website Burnhard dot com and we'll have that on Instagram.

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Yes, everywhere. We'll have all the links so people can

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get you every where you are. And please come on

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back on the show whenever you want. Thank you, of course,

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thank you so much. Of course, Sandra Bernhard love her

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And it is like like I said, from when I

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was checking when I was a kid checking out you know,

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every DVD. Literally my goal was to watch every movie

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in top ten music and video in Ellesmere, Delaware when

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I was a kid. I picked that one up and

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I just loved it so much. It was just unlike

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anything else I had seen. All the other comedy specials

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i'd boughted were just the comedians just standing and talking,

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which you know, obviously some amazing stuff, but hers was

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just different. It just blended music and comedy and theater

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and it was just so cool and it remains cool,

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and she remains cool. So it was a huge thing

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for me to be able to interview her, and I

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welcome Sandra, you know, back to the show whenever she wants.

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We can talk whatever she wants, whenever she wants. And

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I know you guys feel the same all right, So

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we're gonna take a quick break to pay the bills,

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and when we come back, we are talking with Kevin

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Bacon and Jennifer Nettles. See you in sixty all right, beautiful,

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Thank you for supporting our sponsors and helping us pay

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the bills. Our sponsors allow you know, me to do

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this for you, and so thank you and thank them.

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Thanks to them, is what I'm trying to say. All right.

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So The Bondsman is this brand new show on Amazon

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Prime Video out right now, and I am in love

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with it. It is you know, I would say comedy

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action horror series. I guess you could say. It stars

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Kevin Bacon and Jennifer Nettles and Beth Grant, Joline Purdy

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and Kevin is hub hallerin who is this murdered bounty

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hunter and he comes back from the dead after being

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resurrected by the Devil. But there's a catch. He is

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resurrected by the Devil to trap and send demons that

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have escaped from the prisons of hell by chasing them

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down kind of like cal you know he did as

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a bounty hunter and kind of learn how his own

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sins got his soul Condemned to Hell. So it's an

455
00:26:38.839 --> 00:26:42.599
awesome show. I highly recommend you watch it on Amazon

456
00:26:42.680 --> 00:26:47.799
Prime Video. Horror fans, comedy fans, you know, action fans.

457
00:26:47.480 --> 00:26:51.839
It's got all of the things. So let's start our

458
00:26:51.880 --> 00:26:56.759
interviews for The Bondsman. I am so hyped to be

459
00:26:56.880 --> 00:27:01.440
joined by a multi talented artist who has conquered the

460
00:27:01.599 --> 00:27:07.200
music charts and she's won Grammys, an Emmy, and now she,

461
00:27:07.799 --> 00:27:10.599
you know, has been bringing her presence to the screen.

462
00:27:11.279 --> 00:27:14.519
She's in The Exorcist, Believer last year. She's been in

463
00:27:14.599 --> 00:27:17.039
some great stuff and I love her. She's got a

464
00:27:17.119 --> 00:27:21.519
voice that can soar in a stage presence that commands attention.

465
00:27:22.079 --> 00:27:25.160
She is a true force in the entertainment world. And

466
00:27:25.240 --> 00:27:29.400
now she's taking on this thrilling new role in The Bondsman,

467
00:27:29.519 --> 00:27:32.000
and everybody's going to be talking about this. I'm telling you,

468
00:27:32.519 --> 00:27:38.039
she is here to discuss The Bondsman, and she co

469
00:27:38.160 --> 00:27:41.160
stars in it with Kevin Bacon and she plays his

470
00:27:41.200 --> 00:27:44.920
ex wife, so you know, funny and interesting dynamics. So

471
00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:47.799
let's just jump right into it. My interview with the

472
00:27:47.839 --> 00:27:54.440
one and only Jennifer Nettles. Thank you so much for

473
00:27:54.480 --> 00:27:56.599
speaking with me. Jennifer I really appreciate it.

474
00:27:56.920 --> 00:27:57.759
Thank you, Kyle.

475
00:27:57.839 --> 00:27:58.359
How are you.

476
00:27:58.759 --> 00:28:02.640
I'm doing well, thank you. Congrats on the series. The

477
00:28:02.680 --> 00:28:05.640
Bondsman is so great. I'm a huge horror fan and

478
00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:09.480
I absolutely love it. And it's much funnier than I

479
00:28:09.480 --> 00:28:10.200
thought too.

480
00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:13.039
Right, it has a lot of comedy. It has a

481
00:28:13.039 --> 00:28:15.480
lot of heart. Like it's not just the horror and

482
00:28:15.519 --> 00:28:18.000
the gore. It's got the comedy. It's even got some

483
00:28:18.079 --> 00:28:20.680
camp in there too, you know, like it has a

484
00:28:20.680 --> 00:28:23.200
lot of levity. It's like highs and lows, dark and light.

485
00:28:23.960 --> 00:28:27.079
What drew you to play marhand?

486
00:28:29.079 --> 00:28:31.400
First of all, the script and the idea for the

487
00:28:31.480 --> 00:28:36.640
story and the world. I loved that it was. You know,

488
00:28:36.720 --> 00:28:41.680
I definitely love supernatural otherworldly. I'm not necessarily a horror

489
00:28:41.720 --> 00:28:44.240
fan per se, or at least in terms of like

490
00:28:44.359 --> 00:28:47.720
old school slashers, you know, whenever I was growing up,

491
00:28:47.720 --> 00:28:50.519
I was always like totally freaked out by those. But

492
00:28:50.880 --> 00:28:54.240
when we get into the supernatural, the otherworldly, the.

493
00:28:57.319 --> 00:28:58.759
Even you know, I could even.

494
00:28:58.599 --> 00:29:02.200
Go into sci fi sometimes, like depending so I can,

495
00:29:02.279 --> 00:29:06.680
I can I enjoy different genre, right, But the script

496
00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:09.839
for this itself really popped for me. And when I

497
00:29:09.920 --> 00:29:12.759
read when I read something I always say, like, as

498
00:29:12.759 --> 00:29:16.480
a musician, first I read with my ears, not my eyes.

499
00:29:17.240 --> 00:29:20.319
So how does this sound? Does it sound authentic?

500
00:29:20.440 --> 00:29:20.640
Is it?

501
00:29:20.720 --> 00:29:20.920
You know?

502
00:29:20.960 --> 00:29:23.920
How does it sound? Can I hear someone saying this?

503
00:29:24.039 --> 00:29:26.720
And it was so real and so authentic to me

504
00:29:26.799 --> 00:29:30.160
when I read it, even though the subject matter is

505
00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:35.039
absolutely out there right, but the characters felt so real.

506
00:29:35.200 --> 00:29:38.400
The characters felt so real to me that I was like, Okay,

507
00:29:38.440 --> 00:29:42.400
And then and first and foremost Kevin Bacon, of course,

508
00:29:42.759 --> 00:29:46.240
you know, I mean like to be able to star

509
00:29:46.400 --> 00:29:49.640
opposite him, to be able to work with him, having

510
00:29:49.680 --> 00:29:51.559
been a fan and grown up a fan. You know,

511
00:29:51.640 --> 00:29:55.119
he's an icon in Hollywood. So to me, it's I

512
00:29:55.200 --> 00:29:57.839
joke and say, like the stuff of the show is

513
00:29:58.079 --> 00:30:01.319
of nightmares, but working with Kevin Bacon is the stuff

514
00:30:01.319 --> 00:30:01.839
of dreams.

515
00:30:02.039 --> 00:30:05.559
I love that I was talking to him and we were,

516
00:30:05.599 --> 00:30:11.640
you know, discussing how musical the the series is, and

517
00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:14.640
he was saying early on that there was talk about

518
00:30:15.920 --> 00:30:21.480
you know, the act, the characters, you know, being more

519
00:30:21.519 --> 00:30:26.079
even more musically oriented than than what ended up being.

520
00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:28.240
But the two of you ended up you know, I

521
00:30:28.240 --> 00:30:30.119
think it's so awesome that the two of you ended

522
00:30:30.200 --> 00:30:36.000
up kind of infusing your own artistry as as musical

523
00:30:36.079 --> 00:30:40.599
artists as well into the series. How was that for you?

524
00:30:41.519 --> 00:30:44.279
That was amazing And to me that was definitely also

525
00:30:44.519 --> 00:30:48.960
a big draw to the project because you know, to

526
00:30:49.039 --> 00:30:53.079
be able to write for a show as the character

527
00:30:53.359 --> 00:30:56.160
in character, that's such a you. I don't really know

528
00:30:56.240 --> 00:30:59.240
any show out there right now that is doing this

529
00:30:59.400 --> 00:31:01.119
in the way that doing it, so I think it

530
00:31:01.160 --> 00:31:03.559
makes it really unique. But for me, as an artist,

531
00:31:03.599 --> 00:31:06.000
you know, and loving music and coming to things many

532
00:31:06.039 --> 00:31:09.839
times through music first, to be able to write for

533
00:31:09.960 --> 00:31:12.519
Mary Anne as Mary Anne and be a part of

534
00:31:12.519 --> 00:31:15.599
this world and the show really can get you that

535
00:31:15.759 --> 00:31:20.319
much more deep into the character and into the world

536
00:31:20.359 --> 00:31:22.559
and into the story. You know, to do that through

537
00:31:22.559 --> 00:31:25.960
the music, and then even you know, getting to collaborate

538
00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:30.519
with Kevin on a musical level as well was exciting

539
00:31:30.599 --> 00:31:33.119
because of course we all know him as a Hollywood icon,

540
00:31:33.160 --> 00:31:35.000
but we also know that he's had a band for

541
00:31:35.079 --> 00:31:37.920
many many years and he tours and they record, you know,

542
00:31:38.000 --> 00:31:42.079
he and his brothers. So I was familiar enough with that,

543
00:31:42.200 --> 00:31:45.279
but you never know until you get in a room

544
00:31:45.319 --> 00:31:47.799
with someone to collaborate how that's going to be. And

545
00:31:47.880 --> 00:31:51.880
I was thrilled, you know, to find out that we

546
00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:56.799
had a really natural ease in our collaboration. And he's

547
00:31:56.839 --> 00:32:02.920
such a fantastic writer and amazing lyricist and a wonderful

548
00:32:03.079 --> 00:32:06.559
musician you know, across the board. So we had a

549
00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:08.279
lot of fun on this project.

550
00:32:08.920 --> 00:32:11.200
And it comes comes through as a viewer, you know.

551
00:32:11.319 --> 00:32:14.480
And and uh, when I as I was reading the

552
00:32:14.480 --> 00:32:17.319
production notes before I started the series and I heard

553
00:32:17.319 --> 00:32:19.079
this the first thing. First of all, I thought it

554
00:32:19.160 --> 00:32:21.480
was is behaving.

555
00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:25.680
I know, listen, dude, like, do you know I have

556
00:32:25.880 --> 00:32:28.839
laughed so much because obviously the fourth season of Gymstones

557
00:32:28.920 --> 00:32:32.160
is out now, you know, and Amy Lee going from

558
00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:37.720
like televangelist to demon hunter, right and all of it,

559
00:32:37.799 --> 00:32:41.119
you know, with music involved. I just I feel like, yeah,

560
00:32:41.200 --> 00:32:44.200
total total, a wide wide range.

561
00:32:44.200 --> 00:32:45.000
I got range.

562
00:32:45.559 --> 00:32:46.680
I got range.

563
00:32:46.599 --> 00:32:49.200
From from heaven to hell and back again.

564
00:32:49.920 --> 00:32:50.440
That's right.

565
00:32:51.200 --> 00:32:54.880
You brought up a really interesting point that it is

566
00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:58.279
super interesting to me, and I'm sure for you as

567
00:32:58.279 --> 00:33:01.720
an artist that this is an opportunity that you know,

568
00:33:01.799 --> 00:33:05.559
most artists, actors when they're coming into a script don't

569
00:33:05.599 --> 00:33:09.400
get to be you know, obviously, you many actors, you know,

570
00:33:09.559 --> 00:33:12.519
kind of dive into the personality of their role and all.

571
00:33:12.559 --> 00:33:18.759
But you are literally writing, you know, from this character

572
00:33:19.000 --> 00:33:24.279
and and her and their experiences. And that's that's a

573
00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:28.279
really cool angle that you know has got to be rare.

574
00:33:28.359 --> 00:33:30.680
I would assume absolutely rare.

575
00:33:30.759 --> 00:33:32.279
It is absolutely rare. I mean, like I said, I

576
00:33:32.319 --> 00:33:34.640
don't know any other show that's doing it. And and

577
00:33:34.720 --> 00:33:40.000
for me, you know, obviously as a writer and a musician,

578
00:33:40.119 --> 00:33:44.319
even in my own original work, you know, all of

579
00:33:44.359 --> 00:33:49.039
that is storytelling. Not all of that is autobiographical confessional, right,

580
00:33:49.160 --> 00:33:52.480
I mean sure, everyone, every artist puts his or her

581
00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:55.960
emotional landscape into every song that he or she writes,

582
00:33:56.119 --> 00:33:58.440
and yet not all of it is a confessional.

583
00:33:58.480 --> 00:33:58.640
You know.

584
00:33:58.720 --> 00:34:00.960
Some of us do more that that than others. But

585
00:34:01.039 --> 00:34:04.440
some of the songs are absolutely there for the story

586
00:34:04.480 --> 00:34:09.320
of it, you know. So that wasn't anything new luckily

587
00:34:09.559 --> 00:34:12.000
for me, you know, creating a character or creating a

588
00:34:12.039 --> 00:34:14.800
story in that way, what was new. It's almost like

589
00:34:14.840 --> 00:34:17.519
I came at it from the flip side. Then with

590
00:34:17.719 --> 00:34:21.760
this with this project, because I got to obviously read

591
00:34:21.760 --> 00:34:24.719
the script, understand the characters have all of this story

592
00:34:24.760 --> 00:34:27.840
already there, and then go even deeper with the music

593
00:34:27.880 --> 00:34:30.119
and I do think it makes it super unique. I

594
00:34:30.119 --> 00:34:33.079
think it adds to the world right that we've created.

595
00:34:33.400 --> 00:34:37.079
It adds to the show because you get a whole

596
00:34:37.119 --> 00:34:40.639
other level right of these people and of what they're

597
00:34:40.679 --> 00:34:43.760
going through, and of their relationship and of their backstory.

598
00:34:43.800 --> 00:34:45.440
All of that is in the music.

599
00:34:45.800 --> 00:34:47.679
And we're going to be able to get it in

600
00:34:47.719 --> 00:34:49.599
an EP. The bondsman helm.

601
00:34:49.360 --> 00:34:52.159
Bet are you there at iHeartRadio? Are going to be

602
00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:54.800
able to play it right there in the EP that's

603
00:34:54.880 --> 00:34:57.119
coming out the day after. I don't know when this

604
00:34:57.159 --> 00:34:58.599
is when we're going to be doing this here that

605
00:34:58.639 --> 00:35:01.679
you know we're actually right now, but it's going to

606
00:35:01.719 --> 00:35:03.960
be coming out the day after the show comes out.

607
00:35:04.320 --> 00:35:06.559
I can't wait for that, are we can? We hope

608
00:35:06.599 --> 00:35:09.679
for any you know, maybe live appearances in the future

609
00:35:09.719 --> 00:35:12.039
where you're both doing somehow. I would love that, you know.

610
00:35:12.119 --> 00:35:15.119
We did actually when sugar Land was out on tour

611
00:35:16.440 --> 00:35:20.760
just before the holidays, we had Kevin come out and

612
00:35:20.800 --> 00:35:23.480
we performed one of the songs that's on the EP,

613
00:35:23.920 --> 00:35:25.960
So you'll be able to see some snippets of that

614
00:35:26.119 --> 00:35:28.880
video that we captured when we were in Austin. He

615
00:35:28.960 --> 00:35:30.760
came out and joined us on the road, and of

616
00:35:30.760 --> 00:35:34.280
course the crowd went bananas, you know, because I set

617
00:35:34.320 --> 00:35:36.039
it up. It's like I've been working on this project

618
00:35:36.079 --> 00:35:38.039
and now you're going to get to say your one

619
00:35:38.079 --> 00:35:40.519
degree away from Kevin Bacon, you know.

620
00:35:40.760 --> 00:35:42.320
So of course everybody loved that.

621
00:35:42.480 --> 00:35:44.960
But yeah, it was it was a super fun performance.

622
00:35:45.519 --> 00:35:47.840
I can't wait for everybody to see this. I got

623
00:35:47.880 --> 00:35:50.239
to ask you finally, are you are you, I mean

624
00:35:50.840 --> 00:35:54.360
the Exorcist Believer now the Bondsman. Are you a scream queen?

625
00:35:55.280 --> 00:35:55.480
Ah?

626
00:35:55.719 --> 00:36:01.159
I I guess I I think you are. Oh my god,

627
00:36:01.239 --> 00:36:03.039
we just established it right here.

628
00:36:03.360 --> 00:36:04.400
Yeah, I think I am.

629
00:36:04.559 --> 00:36:05.480
I'm a screampoint.

630
00:36:05.840 --> 00:36:07.599
I love it. I am, I love it.

631
00:36:08.079 --> 00:36:08.400
I am.

632
00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:09.320
I am claiming that.

633
00:36:09.440 --> 00:36:11.159
You know what, I'm using this for the rest of

634
00:36:11.239 --> 00:36:11.519
the day.

635
00:36:11.559 --> 00:36:13.159
I'm using it. I'm a scream point.

636
00:36:13.280 --> 00:36:16.000
I am right here.

637
00:36:16.119 --> 00:36:17.880
You coined it right here.

638
00:36:20.079 --> 00:36:22.400
I love it. Thank you Jennifer so much. I can't

639
00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:25.679
wait for everybody to see The Bondsman and check out

640
00:36:25.679 --> 00:36:29.360
the ep The Bondsman Helen back and uh and we'll

641
00:36:29.400 --> 00:36:31.239
be seeing you again. Thank you. You're a joy to

642
00:36:31.280 --> 00:36:31.880
talk to and.

643
00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:34.559
I likewise, yes, yes, thank you, thank you so much.

644
00:36:34.559 --> 00:36:35.239
I have a great day.

645
00:36:35.400 --> 00:36:37.280
Thank you you too, Thank you Bye bye.

646
00:36:37.719 --> 00:36:48.519
Soun Jennifer Nettle Love Love Love Scream Queen Jennifer Nettles.

647
00:36:48.559 --> 00:36:51.880
She is so awesome, such a great person. And her voice,

648
00:36:52.280 --> 00:36:57.320
oh my goodness, gracious, if you haven't for some reason

649
00:36:58.239 --> 00:37:00.280
listen to sugar Land and you've lived on nder a

650
00:37:00.360 --> 00:37:04.320
rock for the last fifteen years. She her voice is

651
00:37:04.639 --> 00:37:09.119
just oh so powerful. Yeah. She you know, she's also

652
00:37:10.039 --> 00:37:12.800
featured in The Righteous Gemstones, which I absolutely love that

653
00:37:12.880 --> 00:37:15.840
movie or that series as well, and she is hysterical

654
00:37:15.880 --> 00:37:18.760
in that. She's just so great and I hope that

655
00:37:18.800 --> 00:37:21.639
she comes back on the show for her next project

656
00:37:21.719 --> 00:37:26.360
because she's just awesome. All right. Next up, we have

657
00:37:27.239 --> 00:37:31.400
the one and only Kevin Bacon. He is a cinematic

658
00:37:31.639 --> 00:37:36.960
icon and his career spans decades of unforgettable performances, from

659
00:37:36.960 --> 00:37:40.320
like his early breakout roles to becoming a household name.

660
00:37:40.679 --> 00:37:45.440
He has consistently captivated audiences with his versatility and that

661
00:37:45.800 --> 00:37:49.400
Kevin Bacon charisma. And now he's diving back into the

662
00:37:49.440 --> 00:37:53.920
supernatural with the Bondsman. So, as I mentioned, you know

663
00:37:54.000 --> 00:37:57.599
earlier in the segment, Kevin plays Hupala and it is

664
00:37:57.639 --> 00:38:00.239
this kind of backwoods bounty hunter who gets it's a

665
00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:03.039
second chance at life and I'll say life in quotes

666
00:38:03.480 --> 00:38:08.079
with a demonic twist. So let's jump right into my

667
00:38:08.239 --> 00:38:16.199
interview with you want to only Kevin Bacon. So, first

668
00:38:16.239 --> 00:38:19.360
of all, congratulations on the series. I love it. I'm

669
00:38:19.400 --> 00:38:22.119
a huge horror fan, and I love how it kind

670
00:38:22.159 --> 00:38:25.920
of toes the line through multiple genres. Is that something

671
00:38:25.960 --> 00:38:28.239
that I mean, You're Kevin Bacon, you can do any

672
00:38:28.239 --> 00:38:31.360
project you want. Is that something that drew you to

673
00:38:31.519 --> 00:38:32.119
the project?

674
00:38:33.079 --> 00:38:35.880
Well, I mean, as you know, I've always loved horror.

675
00:38:35.920 --> 00:38:39.239
I've circled back to it from Friday Thirteenth to Tremors

676
00:38:39.320 --> 00:38:41.599
to Stir of Echo the Holiday.

677
00:38:41.679 --> 00:38:42.119
I mean, I.

678
00:38:44.320 --> 00:38:47.280
It's something that I'd like working in because I like

679
00:38:47.599 --> 00:38:49.800
how high the stakes are. You know, it's always a

680
00:38:49.840 --> 00:38:53.360
life or death situation. It's also just a genre that

681
00:38:54.039 --> 00:38:58.280
I've just enjoyed as a as a consumer. I mean,

682
00:38:58.519 --> 00:39:02.159
I I remember one of the first movies I saw

683
00:39:02.360 --> 00:39:06.119
was Vincent Price's House of Wax in three D. It

684
00:39:06.199 --> 00:39:09.559
was like a movie that I don't remember being a

685
00:39:09.559 --> 00:39:11.519
great movie, but it was, but it was a lot

686
00:39:11.519 --> 00:39:14.679
of fun. You put the stupid goggles on and smoke

687
00:39:14.719 --> 00:39:16.920
comes in the room and you and the and the

688
00:39:17.000 --> 00:39:20.599
girl that you're you know, sitting next to try to

689
00:39:20.599 --> 00:39:24.199
pretend the smoke's there. And then I, you know, I

690
00:39:24.320 --> 00:39:26.280
went on and you know, fell in love with like

691
00:39:26.559 --> 00:39:28.760
Rosemary's Baby and Don't Look.

692
00:39:28.679 --> 00:39:29.199
Now, and.

693
00:39:31.599 --> 00:39:35.840
You know the Shining and the Exorcist. You know, all

694
00:39:35.880 --> 00:39:41.719
those were all like beautiful, crazy, psychological, scary films that

695
00:39:41.800 --> 00:39:47.000
were made by auteur filmmakers. So yeah, I'm drawn to it.

696
00:39:47.119 --> 00:39:48.639
The thing about the Bondsman.

697
00:39:48.320 --> 00:39:49.519
Is is it it.

698
00:39:51.119 --> 00:39:53.920
Is threads a needle and I think a really cool

699
00:39:54.000 --> 00:39:57.199
way between horror and comedy, which are not I don't

700
00:39:57.239 --> 00:39:58.079
always work.

701
00:39:58.119 --> 00:39:59.039
It does work.

702
00:39:58.880 --> 00:40:03.960
Sometimes, you know. You can see examples of that sometimes

703
00:40:04.000 --> 00:40:07.960
in you know, things like whatever Sean of the Dead,

704
00:40:08.039 --> 00:40:12.800
and you know, you know some there's some there's some

705
00:40:12.920 --> 00:40:16.119
humor and barbarians and you know, and certainly and get Out.

706
00:40:16.159 --> 00:40:17.840
You know, there are some funny moments and get Out.

707
00:40:17.840 --> 00:40:20.679
But it's it sometimes doesn't doesn't work at all. So

708
00:40:20.719 --> 00:40:23.440
that that was really the That was the fine line

709
00:40:23.440 --> 00:40:26.320
that I think we had to walk with this show.

710
00:40:26.599 --> 00:40:29.679
And you did it beautifully. I also have to ask

711
00:40:29.719 --> 00:40:33.360
you you have an EP coming out supporting the film

712
00:40:33.400 --> 00:40:36.960
with Jennifer Nettles, which is set like another outlet for you,

713
00:40:36.960 --> 00:40:41.360
you know, as a creative where you can kind of yeah,

714
00:40:41.400 --> 00:40:42.239
you know, I mean, I'm I'm.

715
00:40:42.400 --> 00:40:44.119
I've been a musician for a really long time in

716
00:40:44.199 --> 00:40:46.800
writing songs from I started writing songs before I even

717
00:40:46.800 --> 00:40:50.760
started acting, so I've always kind of kept them separately.

718
00:40:50.840 --> 00:40:54.079
But for this character was already a songwriter. He was

719
00:40:54.079 --> 00:40:57.199
supposed to be a musician who had had a band

720
00:40:57.239 --> 00:40:59.719
with his wife that didn't break up. The band broke

721
00:40:59.800 --> 00:41:02.800
up and him and his wife broke up, and she's

722
00:41:02.800 --> 00:41:07.320
still singing, and so someone suggested that, you know, maybe

723
00:41:07.320 --> 00:41:10.000
I could write some songs for the show. And when

724
00:41:10.239 --> 00:41:14.199
Jennifer got cast, because she was the best actress, it

725
00:41:14.280 --> 00:41:16.880
also happened to be that she's also a great singer

726
00:41:16.960 --> 00:41:20.239
and a great songwriter. So the first thing, before we

727
00:41:20.280 --> 00:41:23.280
even started shooting, we got together and just started writing

728
00:41:23.320 --> 00:41:26.679
some tunes. And some of them made him in the show,

729
00:41:27.079 --> 00:41:29.000
and some of them didn't make it in the show,

730
00:41:29.760 --> 00:41:33.280
but we liked the songs and decided to just record

731
00:41:33.320 --> 00:41:35.000
them all and put them out.

732
00:41:35.880 --> 00:41:37.440
I can't wait for that, and I can't wait for

733
00:41:37.480 --> 00:41:40.000
everybody to see The Bondsman. It's such as a horror fan,

734
00:41:40.239 --> 00:41:43.880
it's such a great series. Thank you, mister Kevin Bacon.

735
00:41:43.920 --> 00:41:52.360
You're amazing as always appreciate you, Kevin freaking Bacon. I

736
00:41:52.440 --> 00:41:55.599
just interviewed Kevin Bacon, and I just interviewed Jennifer Nettles,

737
00:41:55.599 --> 00:41:59.639
and I just interviewed Sandra Bernhardt. What a freaking show.

738
00:42:00.400 --> 00:42:02.559
What an episode of pop Culture Weekly. I am like

739
00:42:03.039 --> 00:42:07.880
hi right now, not literally, I mean, you know, but

740
00:42:08.480 --> 00:42:10.559
I'm just high on. I get to do what I

741
00:42:10.599 --> 00:42:13.519
love to do. I get to, you know, interact with

742
00:42:13.639 --> 00:42:16.639
you and you hit me up on socials and we

743
00:42:16.760 --> 00:42:19.639
discuss movies and pop culture and TV and music and

744
00:42:19.679 --> 00:42:22.000
all of the things. And I love what I do.

745
00:42:22.079 --> 00:42:25.360
I genuinely, absolutely love it, and I thank you for

746
00:42:25.480 --> 00:42:29.280
allowing me to do this because you listening, you sharing

747
00:42:29.760 --> 00:42:32.280
the show, you know, on social media with your friends

748
00:42:32.360 --> 00:42:35.920
or whatever, you talking about it, you're reviewing it. It

749
00:42:36.079 --> 00:42:38.119
all helps me to continue to do it. And I

750
00:42:38.159 --> 00:42:42.760
can't thank you enough for that, seriously. So that's this

751
00:42:42.920 --> 00:42:47.079
episode of pop Culture Weekly, and I can't wait to

752
00:42:47.119 --> 00:42:49.280
see on the next one with all kinds of great stuff,

753
00:42:49.280 --> 00:42:51.440
and I can't wait to hear what you think about

754
00:42:51.480 --> 00:42:54.320
the Bondsman and let me know, and let me know

755
00:42:54.360 --> 00:42:56.760
if you're going to see Sandra, if you've already seen her.

756
00:42:57.159 --> 00:42:58.960
I want to talk about that too with you, So

757
00:42:59.039 --> 00:43:02.559
hit me up and let's discuss pop culture. All right,

758
00:43:02.679 --> 00:43:05.880
I'll see you next week. I love you. Yeah. Thank

759
00:43:05.920 --> 00:43:07.800
you for listening to pop Culture Weekly.

760
00:43:08.320 --> 00:43:15.000
You're all the latest at pop cultureweekly dot com.

761
00:43:17.559 --> 00:43:22.880
I am zero degrees from Kevin Bacon. I am zero

762
00:43:23.159 --> 00:43:30.960
degrees from Zanna Fonetoz. I'm zero degrees from Sandra Bernhard.

763
00:43:31.119 --> 00:43:35.360
I am zero degrees from Kevin Bacon.

764
00:43:37.559 --> 00:43:49.320
Oh