Rachel Sennott isn't afraid of flopping. Amy hangs with the creator and star of 'I Love LA' and talks about being a car insurance nepo baby, her first open mic experience, and being in a social chapter. Host: Amy PoehlerGuests: Molly Gordon and Rachel SennottExecutive producers: Bill Simmons, Amy Poehler, and Jenna Weiss-BermanFor Paper Kite Productions: Executive producer Jenna Weiss-Berman, coordinator Sam Green, and supervising producer Joel LovellFor The Ringer: Supervising producers Juliet Litman, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin; video producers Jack Wilson and Aleya Zenieris; audio producer Kaya McMullen; video editor Drew van Steenbergen; and booker Kat SpillaneOriginal Music: Amy Miles Gifts in as fast as 1 hour. Order thru 5pm on 12/24. Visible. Live in the know. https://www.visible.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hello, everyone. Welcome to another episode of Good Hang. Very excited about our guest today. It is the great Rachel Sennett, a super interesting, funny, charismatic actress, producer, writer. You know her from the film Shiva Baby, from Bodies, Bodies, Bodies, from Bottoms. She has a new show that's out right now on HBO called I Love LA. We're going to talk about that.
We're going to talk about so many things. Open mic nights.
Chapter 2: Who is Rachel Sennott and what is her background?
We're going to talk about TikTok and how to use it and work it and what we love about it. She's going to give me fashion advice and she's going to give me reasons to love LA, which is what her show is all about. So very great conversation. But before we get started, we always talk to someone who knows our guest, who can tell me something about our guest and give me a question and
to ask our guest. And we have another supremely talented, delightful young woman joining us today, Molly Gordon. Molly Gordon is an actor. You may know her from the hit show, The Bear, where she plays Claire. She is Claire on The Bear. And she's in films such as Theater Camp and Oh Hi. She's super talented. And Molly is going to join us and give us some info about her buddy, Rachel. Hi, Molly.
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Chapter 3: What insights does Rachel share about her first open mic experience?
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Yeah, I've always seen you from afar, and I'm trying to send you very intense love, and I don't know if I've fully found my way over.
Chapter 4: How does Rachel view her relationship with social media, especially TikTok?
But yeah, but honestly, I've been listening to your podcast before I go to sleep, so you've been spending a lot of intimate time with me.
Oh, yay. That makes me feel happy. I'm thrilled you wanted to talk today. I'm so excited to talk about my wife. She really is your wife.
Chapter 5: What does Rachel say about her fashion advice and love for LA?
I was looking at the stuff that you and Rachel have done together and how long you've known each other, and you really are married, legally married.
We're legally married. Yeah, she's my wife. We talk every single day. Wow. If one of us doesn't respond, we'll just keep calling. And it's hard to know when it's like an emergency or not, I would say, with her. But yeah, she's an incredible human being. And you guys together is going to be magic.
Well, I'm thrilled to talk about her today with you. But before I do, let's not forget about Molly. What's Molly up to today?
I'm prepping a movie that I'm going to direct. Fantastic. That I'm actually going to send you, Amy, at some point so we can.
Yeah.
And you have to tell me live on the podcast if you want to be a part of it or not. But I'm good. I just, I made hot tea and then I burned, I like burned my whole mouth and then spit it out all over the computer. And that's kind of where I'm at right now.
Let's talk about tea for a second because I'm a tea girl more than a coffee girl. Are you two?
I like tea – I violently wake up and I want like seven coffees of matcha. Then I have a tea around three.
Okay. And what kind of tea do you like to drink?
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Chapter 6: How does Rachel describe her transition into a more confident performer?
Like you said, you have to kind of compete in a healthy way. Yes. Or not healthy. Or not healthy. One of the things that I love about you, not knowing you, we're meeting for the first time, is that there's something about the way that you are in your own experience, like your own body that's very grounded and very self-assured. And it's kind of like you have it or you don't.
It's like this ineffable thing where you just, you make us lean into you, Rachel. Like you're kind of yourself in real time and we all become very interested and curious about it. Like there's not a grasping energy from you. You're kind of doing your thing and people are like invited to come along.
And that's really nice of you to say. And that means a lot coming from you because you have,
Chapter 7: How did Rachel and Molly Gordon meet and what is their connection?
I feel like it's, like, in comedy and, like, I read your book, I read Tina's book when I was, like, in college and starting stand-up. And, like, I feel like, especially when I think to, like, the beginning when you're, like, the first... not the first women in comedy, but like you're forming a group.
Like I feel like my friend group took so much inspiration from you guys of being like, I've got my girls.
You know what I mean?
And being like, I'll go to the weird open mic with you and the whatever. But like carving out that space for yourself and being like, you come to us as opposed to like trying to be a part of the other thing that you're like not necessarily invited to.
Yeah. So let's get into, okay, we talked about your parents. You're in Connecticut. You grow up in Connecticut. And again, you seem like a Manhattan kid. Congrats. Thank you. Connecticut is a strange state because it's like, where is it? Who is it that's happening? Right, like Red Sox, Yankees, like what do you want?
Okay, and thank you for asking that, Red Sox.
Red Sox.
I got actually like absolutely, my dad reamed my ass because I put on my boyfriend's Yankees cap. I just thought it would be a little flirty. And I picked up a FaceTime from my dad and he was like, take that off right now.
Yeah. Take that off right now. That's not okay. You can't do it. No, that's not okay. So you're more on the Boston side. Yes. But you grow up there and you get to NYU. Yes. Where is that jump from you like at the dinner table being funny with your family and deciding I want to get to NYU and like be a performer? How does that happen?
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Chapter 8: What advice does Rachel offer about embracing vulnerability in creativity?
Why were they, like, seeing some… Like, were you… Did you have, like, a maturity at that age? Or were you just, like, self-assured on stage? Do you know what I mean? Like, not nervous?
I think it was, like, I was not vocally talented. And loud. And I think… Loud. And I think, like… I don't know. I look, I'm like, it was always like, and you're the little, the ratty little whatever. And I'm like, okay. I really, because at that time, I was like, obviously I want to be Cosette. I want to be Eponine. I want to be like singing the Pretty Little Voice.
They heard me sing three bars.
They said, you're going to speak the whole song. And they're usually the most boring of the songs. They are. Even though Eponine has some great songs. Cosette has some great songs. Yes. Les Mis is incredible.
They're bangers. And by the way, the girl who played Eponine in my high school like went on to play Eponine on Broadway. And I was like, you know, Emily Bautista, I got to hand it to you. You were meant for the part. Voice of an angel. Incredible. Incredible. So I was like, I'm not taking it personally.
Can we talk for a second about Loud. Loud. Because I'm relating. Like, I was a loud kid. Yeah. And there's something, like, underneath being, like, a loud young kid that kind of can be very exciting, especially if you're, like, a young woman. Not always. Sometimes people don't like it. They make you feel bad about it. Yeah. But it is like, it's like carving out space, like taking up space. Yes.
Somehow. And people saw that in you.
Yeah. And they were like, she's not afraid to, I guess that, or they were just literally like, we can't get her to shut up. Like just give her this part and maybe she'll lose her voice yelling on stage. And then she won't be like annoying at home. But I do think you're right. It's like, you have to sort of like be loud first and then figure out how to make it like
entertaining as you go but I think once you like break that I also like I feel like I've always had like a loud laugh which like I've read about like your laugh at the table reads at SNL and whatever and it's like I think like not being afraid to like bring joy into the space or be like I don't know once you start shouting you're like I'm not gonna talk quiet like it's just you break into that space and then you can
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