LAUREN LAPKUS Got Multiple Concussions

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But Evanston, Posse, we are about to spend some time with some gentlemen we all met in Evanston. Yeah. It's time once again for our annual fantasy football draft weekend, and we're talking right now. It's Tuesday, September 8th, and you're going to be there. Are you leaving tomorrow? I leave tomorrow. A lot of us were convening in Chicago's North Shore in Wilmette, where we've got two of our buddies who live. So we'll get in there as a wrinkle in the football season this year. There's going to be a game on tomorrow night, a rematch, Super Bowl rematch. And so I'm sure we'll be watching that. And then Thursday morning, we're going to be eight strong. We're going to drive to South Bend, Indiana, play a little golf. And then you float in there at some point, a couple of the other guys. Yeah, I'll be there Thursday afternoon. I'm going to bring the boys to their first day of school. Great. And then I'm going to rock and roll out to see you guys. Yeah. And then we're going to be Lake Life in Michigan, not one of the Great Lakes. You said it. You said it's one of the shitties. No, it's just one of the internals. It's great. We're very excited. I've not been to this house. Have you been to this house? I have, back in the day. Okay. Yeah, it's our friend, our other college friend, Claire's parents' lake house. Yeah. And so, yeah, we're going to be there. As with all things, I can, of course, I could right now look back on Wikipedia and figure out exactly. I was there because Rod Woodson injured his knee against the Detroit Lions, I think, first or second week of the season. So, I was watching that when everybody else was on the water and that put me in a bad mood. Yeah. That I have not recovered from. I'm still pretty angry. Yeah. So, football, everybody. Get involved. Football back. And I have not figured out how to be a good fan with it. We're in a three-strike pool. You opted out of it. Yeah. It was stressful. I didn't like it. Yeah, it was too stressful for you. And a three-strike pool, for those of you who don't know, you pick one game a week, one team. You can't pick that team again. Three strikes, you're out. And so, I kept your entry into this pool, though. Yeah. Mom and dad are in it. The boys now are both kind of curious enough. I think I might just give one of mine away, too. I might just be out. Yeah, sure. And let each boy have one. Yeah. The boys have inherited something. They have inherited something from their grandmother about their three-strike pool. Startle reflex? No. Okay, that's good. What they have inherited is they're already spending the money. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You can't lose. Yeah. The minute it starts, hurry is like. And then, I mean, imagine what you do with that money. I'm like, you've never come close. We've been doing this 25 years. You've never come close. And she's like, do you see how much it is this year? I'm like, it's immaterial. Yeah. Yeah. But she's got a system. Yeah. But it is. Hope springs eternal. It'll, yeah. That's what it does. Historically, hope springs eternal. It'll be interesting how much, how long we have our hope about our Steelers. Yeah. I got a quick sort of callback show rec. Oh, good. From a guest on the show. I started watching Tatiana Maslany's Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed on Apple. Oh, yeah. Which I really, like, we're really. Really enjoying. Great. And then there's a dude in it. And I was like, who's this? I'm like, dude, I know this guy. Like, I feel like he's like a buddy. And it's Charlie Hall. Oh. One of Julia Louis-Dreyfus' sons who also was on the show. And I was like, yeah, that's why I feel like I know him. Because he was on our pod. And he's great. He's so, he's so him. And, yeah, he was just sort of like his personality when he was on the pod. Is just lovely and infectious. And it's the same deal on the show. And so, if you're looking for something, I really give two thumbs up to Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed. I don't know how it's going to finish, but we're in the middle of it now. And, yeah, loving it. Good to hear. I, probably no surprise, based on everything you know about me, I'm enjoying Lanterns. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I've only watched the first three, but Green Lantern. I was a big Green Lantern guy. And I'm enjoying it. I just like that. I just like that, dude. Yep. So, those are just some wrecks, guys. Those are just some wrecks. All right, Poshy. Fly safe. I will see you in Indiana or Michigan. It might technically be Michigan. Yeah. Have a great golf game with the fellas. I love you. And do please enjoy Slurrin. Do please enjoy. Enjoy Lauren Lapkus. She is a delight. See you soon, Sufi. See you, Brian. Family trips with the Myers brothers. Here we go. Yes. So nice to talk to a veteran podcaster. You can just relax. Seth is all his at once. You've had a lot over your reign. That's true. Are they all concurrent? No, I'm down to one right now, and it's such a relief. I'm like, oh, my God. What was the most you did at one given time? I think I had like four at one time. And also, yours were some real, I mean, again, delightfully heavy premises. Yeah, yeah. Some of them required a lot of effort on my part. It wasn't just show up, put on the cans. No, no, but we did exist in a time where nobody could see us, and that was easier. Oh, you did have that going for you. You just don't have to brush your hair or anything. It's great. I mean, shout out. Was your first one 2014? Did I read that right? Yeah, I think that makes sense. Yeah. Amazing. Yeah. Seth doesn't always brush his hair, even despite. You don't have to. You know, women have a different standard that we have to live with. He has today. You can really see. You guys look great. I don't have any questions. I actually was feeling pretty good about it today, Posh. Are you going to move your record? No, you are. I said you were looking good today. Oh, good, good. Okay. Yeah. Today's not one of your off days. All right. Well, let me know in the future. You both have very nice hair. Or maybe I'll know by the absence of your praise that it's one of those days. Lauren, we have some things in common with you. I know. I know. All born in Evanston. Were you born in Evanston, Illinois? I was born in Chicago. Okay. We were born in Evanston, Evanston Hospital. I can't believe that. That's so crazy. Isn't that such a small world? It's such a small world. And then you were born in Chicago, but how quickly did your family. Locate to Evanston. Soon after I was born. I moved when they moved when I was one, and my brother was four. Gotcha. yeah do you love evanston i do do you love it i do too yeah we really do how long did you live there because did you guys move away or did you live there we lived in will met until i was about two and then we both went to northwestern so we both had four years did you want to go to northwestern because of evanston i mean our parents went there and so we were kind of following in footsteps uh yeah but they were not allowed footsteps our parents met there and never talked about it yeah but it was on our radar because they went there you were like that's like a college yeah yeah we knew it was a college but like nary a sweatshirt until we went there and then they became the most geared out parents in the world yeah but they never had a sweatshirt and i do also think there was because there were no sports of note back then it's changed a little bit but like they were never on television yeah it was never like oh mom and dad's alma mater like you want to watch college sports yeah yeah yeah yeah we never really watched college sports like growing up yeah but then also we never like we we had been to chicago i want to say to like just go to chicago but i don't recall ever going to the campus until i went to visit seth and when he was a student there yeah so yeah what's your age difference two two years two years yeah um two but yeah i was back in the in the end of last uh school year i was back in evanston and it's just great it's like beautiful oh my god yeah i know it's so pretty it's a great place to grow up yeah there's like an evanstonian walk of fame now have you have you heard i know my mom sent me a picture of it she was like get yourself on here she's like i don't think you're supposed to ask for a seth seth why do you bring this up seth i don't well now i feel bad i was kind of gonna i was hoping that lauren and i were gonna lord it over you josh but there's no fun in me being the one guy by the way it's a it's like where is yours i know there's stickers there's stickers stickers i still want one um where is yours i don't know i don't know a couple people have sent me photos of it yeah it's lovely yeah hopefully right in front of la peep but it is like a real like don't get too big for your britches when your walk of fame is a sticker no it can get peeled off at any second yeah also like there's some real weather up in evanston so it's not like time that's that walk of fame is gonna look a little different another thing we have um a a genealogical overlap as well josh and i also have lithuanian blood you do we do yeah this is a amazing it is amazing what's the lithuanian it's father's father's side wow that's awesome have you done that show where they go through they were like jewish lithuanians on the run from like cossacks i yeah i did oh my god was that amazing it was fine i it didn't uncover anything amazing yeah it was most and but the one thing that was like they did this diving because we always knew meyer was a first name that then on like coming through immigration got like flipped to a last name and so we kind of find it found out it was like trakianski is like the lithuanian last name that never was but then i got i will say you like watch finding your roots you get really excited um and then you like google the town you're from and it's like so gnarly looking or it's just not it's not like lithuanian it's not like vilnius and like beautiful castles and like gothic architecture it's like a zoo that has a dog seth also as a guest for that show doesn't have the demeanor i think that they would want because what you're just like okay well they were like we traced your mother's side back 400 years and seth was like well i knew we came from people yeah uh was his room by the way it's like that's like there was someone before the one you found fyi had to be 400 okay that's fine i guess yeah great no i think i'd be like weeping on that show i mean you'd be good they'd like you i also i just kind of had to say we have a we have a cousin who's always done a lot of like hey i just found a new document kind of sends it out to everybody and so i kind of knew the score oh with that said have you ever been to lithuania no and i really want to go there um but no my um my dad has been back a number of times but no i mean my dad speaks lithuanian and i always kind of wish i spoke lithuanian because it's so niche it's i mean also just to speak a different language would be amazing i feel like i'd probably be a smarter person but also like it'd be it's a very niche language um it's not on duolingo you can't you can't start to learn very easily right now yeah my dad but i brought up to my dad recently and he was like that's fine i was like okay yes i felt bad about that but i think we're good did he grow up there no he was born in germany actually and then moved to the south side of chicago when he was a baby he came over and did the whole deal yeah yeah that's fantastic very intense which i do i do think he has told me many interesting crazy harrowing stories from that period of time and i'm really bad at retaining information i'm like write it down like write down everything you just said because that's crazy it's like oh my god that's crazy not crazy enough to remember but i'm like i know my husband has a really good memory so i'm like if he was sitting there he'll tell me the whole thing again but it is by the way i'm i there's a high and lows of being married to somebody with an excellent memory because yeah i have the same thing i find it's very unfair during fights because i like in the back of my head i'm like you did 10 mean things this week but i can't remember any of them and they remember like word for word what i said like four months ago and i'm also like i didn't say that and he's like yes you did i'm like i also like the amount i want to be like don't make me keep a journal it's not good for our marriage if i have to start keeping a journal just because if i keep it you're gonna read it and then you're gonna find it and then you're gonna read it uh were you and your brother uh so how three years apart yeah yeah were you close yeah we always got along we i wouldn't i mean like we were we got along when we were kids and then of course there's that period of time where like he was with all his guy friends and i was always like trying to hang out and they were like get the fuck out of here yeah but but yeah we always got along really well and we're still close now which is i'm very grateful for him is he uh is he still in chicago yeah yeah and um that's i also am jealous of that because it just seems so great i just i'm like i don't know how to leave or do anything doesn't it seem hard where are you now i mean that's new york but i'm i'm los angeles and i yeah you're still yeah great yeah but we talk about you know i feel like my wife mckenzie talks about leaving more than i do but because i can't just i can't think of a place that i would want to be i love leaving los angeles and then i love coming back to it um yeah i know it is when you leave for a little bit you can appreciate it a little more but i feel like well also i mean it strikes me that you have uh built quite a stable of co-collaborators yeah yeah and that's the i mean community is the most i think important thing having all these funny people that i like and you so uh and we are gonna get to your family trips josh hates when i do stuff like this but you started doing you kind of knew you were in in high school you were taking classes yeah yeah i started yeah i started in prevalent when i was a senior in high school which was so i mean being from where we're from it was like so lucky to be so close to that um and i yeah my teacher at eths evanston township high school recommended that i do that and it was so like life-changing truly like i just like once i could because i was auditioning for all the plays and like putting all the pressure on it and then like i wouldn't get into the plays and whatever and then i i finally like found that i could just do my own thing and and with you know a bunch of 24 year old weird people yeah no be my best friends yeah but like it is that thing of you were getting real world reps while other people were like learning lines from arsenic and old lace and i genuinely think one is better than the other no yeah i mean i i was like jealous of them but then i was i was doing my own thing which also helped me a lot like socially i think because i think i was kind of like nervous especially like with that kind of situation like going to a class and meeting these people and having to put yourself out there and just pushing yourself through all that awkwardness is really good for you and were you taking uh were you taking the l out there how were you getting to your yeah okay yeah i would take the train which was very exciting and your parents were totally on board yeah they were excited for me and yeah it was great and then of course like all my classmates would go get beers after and i'd be like i can't get in like i have to go home the train i have to get home before the train stopped running yeah but it was so fun and i'm going to see shows they blew my mind and i'm sure you know all the people that were there i mean like i susan messing and ryan archibald and like i mean there's like a lot of boom people a lot of crossover with that yes but um i i just what like i remember seeing ryan archibald do a scene where he was like holding a balloon you know in an improv scene where it's all not there and i was like whoa like i like did like object work was like blowing my mind i was like yeah it's like john lutz is a guy who i feel like every time i've seen him improvise he's made like a full omelet you know what i mean like just literally and you're like oh all the details i know i'm like walking through a table right pete gross said that my object work is i would reach for something and decide what it was on the way down he's like you like grab a cloud and then by the time it came down it was a trombone but that's definitely not one would you ever um go see a meow show did you even know about me out i did so they like came the titanic players i feel was a bigger thing because they came to our middle school and performed and i still remember pieces of that too um It was very cool to me. And, yeah, I was in Yamo in high school, which you guys had your, like, we were obviously, I think, that we were the offshoot of that. Yeah, yeah. The sketch show and everything. And that was, like, my passion. Gotcha, fantastic. Yeah, I know. I always kind of wish I tried to go to Northwestern, because I'm like, that would have been cool. But I really wanted to leave Evanston at that point. Yeah, I get it. Yeah, yeah. I get it. And you went to DePaul, right? Which is perfect. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it was great. It was just, honestly, to keep doing improv. Yeah. But it was, like, you went to the college closest to the improv scene. Yeah, exactly. I could ride my bike there. Physically closest. Yeah, uh-huh. That's unbelievable. Did you, so, and then what point did you go, did you stick around Chicago for a long time after college, or did you move out to L.A. No, I moved, I had a sketch partner that I performed with all the time, and we were going to move to L.A. And then kind of at the last minute, she was like, I want to move to New York, because my family's upstate New York. And I was like, okay, because, you know, at that point in your life, nothing matters. Yeah. Sure, I'll go over there now. And so we went there, and I kind of planned to stay for, like, a year. I stayed for a little over a year, and then moved to L.A. But it was great, because it was, like, that's the time of your life when, like, you just don't really, your needs are so just low. I didn't need anything. I ate trash all day long, and it was great. Best. Cheap trash. Yeah, that's the time. Keep what you got. Just garbage. I always felt like, I feel like if you're going to do time, do time, if you're going to spend time in New York, if you're going to live in New York, like, right out of school is the best time. Because you've been living in dorms or, like, not great apartments unless your parents are so wealthy that they've set you up in something. And then it's like, yeah, no, you can share a tiny little janky apartment in New York and be like, this is great. Yes. I lived in three apartments in 15 months, and they were all disgusting for different reasons. Yeah. And, yeah, it was great. It was a great time. And you probably, you love them all in their own way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I once heard Steve Martin say about Santa Fe, New Mexico, it's a great place. It's a great place to live if you're very rich or very poor. Yeah, that's literally New York. And I think that's a good way to say that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Totally. Because if you think you're doing all right, you look around and you're like, everybody else is doing so much better. Yeah, no, I, like, couldn't even look inside a restaurant when I lived there. Like, I wouldn't even dare to, like, wonder what they were eating. But it was great. Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. Support comes from Audible. Hey, Bajie. Hey, Sufi. How are you? I'm good. How are you? Good. I'm very excited. To share that we are collaborating with Audible, which is an app that I use a great deal. Yeah. It's an online store to get audio books. I just love it. I've been a member for so long. You know, I know we're a podcast, but sometimes it's nice to not just listen to podcast after podcast and listen to a book. I like to go back and forth. I like to read a book in bed at night. And then on my commute to work, I like to listen to that same book. I think some of the reading. Some of the narrating. What would you call it, Posh? What do you call it? Yeah, narrating. Yeah. Better than ever. I just listened to this great book, The Sun by Philip Meyer, which I highly recommend. And it was three different voice actors. I think maybe even four near the end. Will Patton, who's a great actor, who's done multiple books I've listened to over the years, just brings it to life in a way that I really love. 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And I've seen the pictures. It looks gorgeous, comfortable. The living room's got a nice wraparound couch. We've got some college football to watch on Saturday. So we're going to be able to cozy up in there and play games. And we're going to have our snacks and we're going to have our drinks and we're going to have all the things we want to have because we have a nice little kitchen. And I hope Mackenzie is ready to play dad's favorite game when he gets back to Pittsburgh, which is what did that bank used to be? It is such a great way to travel and it's such a great way to be with a group of friends. Or your family. I'm so excited for it. I would be less excited if we were not staying at a house that we booked through Airbnb. Support comes from Boar's Head. The holidays are here and they're about bringing people together. And one of my family's favorite things about hosting is having everyone gathered around the table. 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Like, we went to Disney World when I was five, and that was, like, a huge deal. My parents saved up, and, like, it was crazy. And I have a. I do have a story about that, because it was a memorable trip. Please. Well, yeah, but you can go through the whole thing. Not to. I mean, I can tell you, the whole. And then we also went to New York City when I was in fourth grade, which was also very exciting. And then more in high school, my dad was like, we only travel if we're going out of the country. So we did, like, a couple big trips to, like, other places. But he would never, like. He would never think it was worthwhile to, like, go to, like, Seattle and just see what it's all about or something. Gotcha. So we didn't do that. We didn't do that either. I would say. I would say, yeah. As I think about it, like, the places we would visit were cities where we had a family connection. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I guess it makes the most sense. Or, like, Disney World. But there was never, like, let's go to Seattle. Yeah. But, see, do you do that with your kids now? Like, go to a random place and check it out? Or not really? Not really. Yeah, we do. I feel like I enjoy that. Like, being, like, somewhere different and just. Like, we went to Portland last weekend. My kids had not been there before, and my husband had never been there. And it was like, we just were in Portland, you know? I'm very. - But your kids are young. I'm very impressed, right? - They are. they're five and two it's so it's intense to travel they say two's the age to go to Portland but just tapping out of yeah tapping out of just like being in your hometown for a weekend it's nice you can't do any of the things you would feel like oh I gotta do these things around the house and so you're just in Portland and it's like let's see what's to see it is relaxing yeah yeah yeah in that way but yeah is your am I right that your husband's also from Chicago he is he's from Beverly on the south side and he and my dad coincidentally went to the same high school I mean many years apart but just really weird bring it up in therapy that's for therapy same weird nuns yeah yeah yeah I know it is for therapy I know I didn't even know your dad tried so hard to get you on the north side and you're like I found someone what yeah do you guys because of that does that make it convenient to go back to Chicago or I mean for people who don't know the north side and south side of Chicago might as well be a hundred thousand miles away a million yes no it's no convenience to knocking out there's no convenience no we it is nice for like Christmas because we can see everyone at the same time we don't have to like switch off Christmases or something but yeah it's a solid over an hour drive so I mean it's kind of a a thing to go to each each side but but no it's nice it's nice and I like that we have that in common because we also were kind of like he's four years younger than me but we were kind of circling each other like throughout life like he would come into Evanston to do Piven theater stuff and I I never did Piven but I was like right there you know so it's just like weird to think of all the and he did IO and like all the ways that we were kind of like around each other but at that age four years is like disgusting if I looked at him so even though I will say Piven ages you up a couple years right like it does yeah yeah yeah an improv an improv boy is two years younger than his actual age a Piven boy is two years older that's such a specific joke that really I love it for the right kind of people yeah it's so true because it is the difference between theater I mean even in Northwestern right we had like we had real theater kids and we had improv kids yeah and it was even at that age like the theater kids were unironically pulling off scarves right just pulling it off well because they were doing the cherry orchard yeah so and you're doing zip zaps up and it's just like no it's true I know we're playing big booty you know I will say like if you were if you had a crush on a girl and you realized she was dating an actor you're like oh it's over I'm like a smurf compared to that guy he probably has real sheets or something yeah bed frame or not or not right or it's like worse it doesn't matter he sleeps on the floor yeah yeah no whatever they're just enamored with him so first off when you're doing these family trips South Carolina Indiana Texas Ohio any of those like any standout trips were those like things you look forward to or they felt obligatory they were really fun we would often I have memories of riding in the car with my grandpa driving and my grandma in the front seat and me my mom my brother in the back seat I don't know where my dad was I guess he like got out of some of these sometimes well played yeah and just driving through the different like just driving through different cities and getting little mementos at gas stations which like meant something to me you know I remember getting like going through Kentucky and getting like a Kentucky Derby pin and being like cool like just little things like that that when you're a little kid really stick with you but South Carolina was always the one that really was a great place to go I had older cousins who were really cool and they were in high school and like had a convertible and you know were like went to the beach with their friends and like it was very aspirational I never did anything like that but it was cool when I was little and like they made me a mixtape that like I you know still meet the songs still remind me of that time but I I the big memory from my my aunt's house is that I they had a pool and I still am not a good swimmer at all I'm gonna I'm planning to take swimming lessons actually this year with some friends this is like a goal that we have but I I was very anxious around the pool like swimming was always really crazy and that was a big deal to me my brother would always like pretend to be a shark and grab my legs on the stairs and I was like everything's the worst and I was running around the pool and slipped and fell on the concrete and had a concussion I was like I was throwing up I remember I remember throwing up in her house on the fancy rug like coming inside I remember the I can see it from my POV of like just like the vomit coming out but my positive memory is that I got TCBY after that ice cream so that was amazing yeah ultimately it is amazing I mean it's such a reminder and I'm incapable of doing it like no judgment which is like if a kid is about to throw up on a rug which is I've I have witnessed my own children do right yeah like and you I'm like don't not the rug and you just realize a kid puke a kid about to puke I mean they barely think about the rug oh my god no I've caught puke with my body to avoid having to wash the sheets like I'm like I don't want to have to take all the sheets off I'm like letting them throw up all over me yeah this body just goes in the shower yeah I'm fine it's done no disgusting I'm very happy by the way I'm glad go ahead sorry no no I want to say my Disney World story connects to this because we went to Disney World which was really really thrilling and we went with my grandma and my aunt and then my mom and my dad and my brother and me and one night my mom and my aunt and my grandma went out to have like a girls night and so my dad took me and my brother to see the Rodney Dangerfield movie Ladybugs if you remember that movie where there's a boy on the soccer team I don't remember if he plays on a girls soccer team or something like that he I believe he does yes yeah and I I went to the bathroom by myself and I fell somebody's falling you're tall you're tall i was five i was five yeah i fell on like a wet floor um and i woke up in bed next to my grandma who was snoring and i thought it was my brother and i was like hitting her telling her to shut up because i thought my brother snoring and that was my grandma um but then when i fell by the pool which was two maybe a year later they said i had another bruise on my brain and my mom didn't know what it was and i think i had a concussion then and nobody knew so i think i yeah and i've had you've had a lot of head injuries in my childhood that people were just letting go so you fell in a uh so you probably don't even know how ladybugs ends i never got to see it i never got to see don't bury the lead let me go to the bathroom by myself which i you know i'm very 90s situation to just send a little kid in the bathroom by themselves and then yeah i guess ended with someone screaming and coming to find him i don't know how that it's like we're it's weirdly worse that he didn't go with you because it was a movie that an adult shouldn't be enjoying like it's one thing if you brought you to see the usual suspects he's like if you he's like he's just like we both know we're gonna be lost all day yeah he loves rodney dangerfield i mean yeah but you were the you were the little one so your brother would have been fine in the theater uh but you fell so hard in the bathroom that you like woke up hours later woke up hours later and i don't think anyone took me to the doctor uh just as an aside i also hit my head on my radiator in my bedroom from jumping on the bed and i think my dad i work the story was like that he just kind of like put a towel on my head and then i went to sleep i was like that's if you google it that's not what it says to do we didn't have google you didn't have it and i'm fine by the way it was nice i mean having kids like i would love there not to be google because i the amount of times i'm like i'm pretty sure this is just towel and put him to bed are you right you know nobody lets you do that in the bathroom anymore without checking google our towel in bed a hundred percent now now they're like the amount of people that my mother-in-law is like ai says i'm like get that out of here i know i know i know it's a lot of stuff so you're um you were headbanging your way through your early years bonking to different things and those are my best memories still uh clumsy into adulthood yes oh my god actually i wasn't even thinking about this but i hit my head really hard like a few weeks ago and it was bad i was like seeing stars but it was like i i had this like actually you can see it behind me i had this little door going into a little storage crawl space and i was coming out of it and just bonked just fully stood up before i came out i don't know what happened yeah but it was terrible and then i'm i was googling for weeks like how long how do you know if you have a bad i didn't do anything i just was like bad brain injury how do you know head bleeding inside really i don't you know i'm just like trying to get answers and they were like you're typing like a caveman like your your words just sometimes i just type whatever and see if they can figure it out i'll just let all the typos go in and i'm like you got it it's you know what i'm saying supposed to be smarter than us they're like this doesn't seem like a first time have you banged your head 35 times before it's hard to do this with one yeah no i that was that's the most i'm i don't know that i'm so clumsy i kind of like not super clumsy but i'll walk into things which might also be an add thing and that i'm undiagnosed for but like i'll kind of like not know my width and like just kind of hit the doorframe with my shoulder and keep going it's just i will say our oldest is so clumsy and it's one of the things that makes my wife and i laugh the most because we'll like hear him walk into our room and you'll just hear like and then we like shit how old are your kids 10 8 and 5 about to be oh my god i love it yeah what do you have boys girls what do you got two girls yeah congrats josh you have kids no kids no kids - Yeah. - Living the life. Oh my God. So you just fucking do whatever you want all the time. It's so, it's good, it's good. I don't know, it doesn't feel like that. He's giving me a hard time, but sometimes Seth doesn't comb his hair. Oh, I would. If you had the time, if you had the time. Also, we got to comb, it's full of fucking lice. Oh my God, my worst fear. I mean. The types of bugs that can just show up on them. That fear has been a real, I shouldn't say. My mom was a preschool teacher, so I recall boiling all our hairbrushes like all the time. What is your, so what was the, wait, was that with Ladybugs, Disney? It was at Disney World, yeah. Gotcha, so at Disney World you went to see a movie, which is probably, it seems like not, not wrapping your arms around the wonder of. No, we loved Disney World. That was a very, that was an amazing trip. I hope that my head injury happened on like the last night because it was so fun. My aunt had a video camera, which we didn't have. So every time, all our home videos were from when we were with my aunt. And like, so the, I got in, I was walking my invisible dog at Disney World, which was like a magic trick of like a hard leash with like, you know, and that was, I walked that all over the place. Most of the videos are just me walking that around and thinking I'm amazing. Do you feel like, I feel like invisible dog is one of those things where you buy it and you just are already picturing how celebrated you're gonna be back at school. And it's, you're really inflating how true that's gonna be. But in your mind, it's like, they're just like clearing a path for you at the school to watch you walk your invisible dog. I don't, yeah, I don't know that I ever had the confidence to bring it to school. It's possible they didn't even bring it home with us. It was like too annoying to pack. I don't remember ever playing with it again. Yeah, or you put it in a suitcase and then it got folded in a way that's like, well now it never, it's never gonna have the same effect. No one's gonna believe that's a dog in there. Yeah, yeah. What else, you went to New York City? We went to New York City and that was very exciting. We stood outside of The Late Show and took a picture. Great. It was all things where we like stood outside of things. Like I got like a cat's, I got a cat's t-shirt. We didn't see cats, but I had that. I don't know what we did. One thing we did that really stuck in my mind, we went to Twins, a restaurant called Twins, which was the most '90s thing ever where all the waiters were twins with each other. So you had to work a shift with your twin. I kind of couldn't believe it was gonna be that. Yeah. I'm really shocked. Yeah, that was really cool to me. Yeah. And I looked it up more like a few years ago. It really was a thing. Like I, in my mind, it was like, that can't have been real. That was so, that's so specifically stupid, but it feels, I mean, that's great. It's a great use of everyone's time. I wonder how many people leave because it's like one of the twins is like, like, "Hey, Gary, I can't do this anymore." And it's like, "Come on, Larry." And it's like, "No, I can't." I want more for us. Yeah. Do you think there's ever, do you think there were ever triplets where they, two of the triplets on the side, were like, "We just gotta take the job." I feel like triplets would be great 'cause you don't both have to, you don't all have to go. You could just have two of you work at night. Yeah, you shouldn't. The biggest mistake would be to cut somebody out. You should bring them in. Yeah. Yeah. I do recall we also went to the Statue of Liberty and we went to Ellis Island and found our family names. Oh, wow. Oh, that's fun. Like when you put a, what do you, what is that called? Where you like- Like you put paper on them, right? Yeah. Yeah. A rubbing. I don't know. Oh, rubbing. We did a rubbing. You don't tell people that. I believe pencil rubbing. We did a rubbing on this island. Yeah. They now, there's a lot of signs saying no rubbing. Did you, so you did not see a single Broadway show when you were there? I don't think so. It doesn't, it didn't stick with me. And then my big memory too is that we got stranded at the airport because there was a crazy storm. We had a crazy turbulence and I remember holding my Beanie Babies that I bought in New York. And then, we landed in Pennsylvania for a layover and stayed overnight on the floor. And that was also, that was more memorable than the entire trip, I think. Just that I, yeah, stopped at an airport. Did you guys have, like would your parents have packed games and things? Like if you're on the floor of an airport for a night, what was, was there an activity? Our biggest game in our family was Would You Rather, which is a game my mom believes she invented, but of course is a thing anyone can say. But, yeah, so there was eventually there was a board game called Would You Rather and I was like I missed my chance. But no, we would play that all the time. And that was like kind of our huge like time passer. Like play Would You Rather and just come up with different scenarios. And now my mom recently stayed with my kids and taught my daughter Would You Rather and she wants to play it all the time. And it's kind of sweet. Yeah. At bedtime, she's like wants to play. Did you, were your parents like when something went wrong, like a canceled flight, landing in Pennsylvania, sleeping on the floor, were your parents like, hey, let's make the most of it? Or were they like losing their minds? My mom, looking back, I'm like, she probably internally was so stressed out, but she was really good at being like, let's, let's pretend and have fun. Like she was really good at that, especially being a preschool teacher, like with little kids, like she could make it kind of fun. 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But the hardest thing right now with the ages they are is that my kids prefer that I do everything. So it's like even if he's willing to do everything, they're just like, no! And like they want me to do it. So like on the plane, like I'm sitting with them and he's across the aisle and like that's, you know, he can have his own experience. He's like, yesterday we flew. He's like, that was great. And I was like, I think you had a better time because he was like playing chess on the screen with his guy sitting next to him. You know? And then they're like chatting. And I was like, they were a little annoying to me. But I think, yeah, it felt a lot longer. Right. But if he would have taken one of them, they would have not been having it. No, it would have been terrible. It would have been terrible. Or if you were like, hey, switch with me for the flight. No, no, they would just been screaming and grabbing at me. So it's like, I know what has to be done, but it's, yeah, sometimes it's hard. Yeah. We do have to do the theater of me offering to put our daughter in bed, even though she's gonna, I mean, so I, we all know how, it's gonna end, but I do. I'm like, should I, Addie, can I take you to bed? They're like, no, you stink. I mean, it's good to hear that. Cause I think, I've heard it from many other dads that it's a common thing, but I think he can feel bad sometimes, but it's like. Yeah. I mean, I, again, we're all working off such small sample sizes, but for me, it was way more our daughter. So the fact that we have two daughters, I think. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then the little one just copies whatever the older one does. And she's like. Yeah, of course. Yeah, bad habits, bad habits, baby. So when you, you mentioned that your dad wanted to travel abroad, did you guys go abroad? Were those trips you took? Yes, we did. And those were really special trips. We went to, we went to Italy and went to a number of cities. We went to like, we went to Florence, Vienna, and, or Venice, not Vienna. Went to Florence, Venice, Florence, Venice, and Siena, that's why I just said that. And Siena was really cool because we were, we went there because my dad, like knew somebody who was teaching a cooking class there with like students that would come. And so we went and stayed at this, like it was all like rural and we were, we stayed in like a cool like farm area and like made spaghetti. And I had, I, I ate my first cherry from a cherry tree. I was like very picky growing up. So my first cherry was like picked off of a tree. And I like, you're like, I only, how picky is she? She'll only eat tree cherries. And I was like, oh, this is good. Yeah, if she doesn't pick it, she won't eat it. Yeah, exactly. But my dad was a bit frugal with these trips. So my brother and I shared a bed and we were in high school and we were like, this sucks. I mean, like, obviously that's like the worst. And so we were like, I remember we were like shoving pillows between us and like, just like never touch me, you know, just like this is that period of time when you're like going through everything terrible. And we slept with the windows open and there were no screens. And my brother got covered in mosquito. Like they ate him a lot, but he had welts. And I don't recall having anything, and so that was also very annoying. You know, like, I'm fine. And he was like suffering. Some people just have bug blood and it's a whole different thing. Yes. But that was kind of harrowing. And the trips were really fun. They were like, you know, a lot of the pictures from those times were not smiling. Like we're just angsty teens just being like, I'm pissed and I'm in the most like beautiful place ever. So I'm sure I wasn't like always fun myself, but I remember them really positively. I guess that's the thing you have to learn as a parent as well is to just have confidence. They'll remember them positively. Yeah, yeah. We went to England and France as well, which was also really cool. And again, stayed at one of the worst hotels in Paris that I think exists. It was disgusting. But like that, I also am thinking back. I'm like, how did they book a trip? Who was booking? Who was helping you? Like, I don't think we had a travel agent. Like that sounds easy. Our mom did it all the time. And it's like looking back, like when we, before we took trips, she would just like the amount of like paper that would just be like spread out with like phone numbers, you know, country codes. Where are they getting the information? I don't mean to sound totally stupid, but like, I actually don't know. She was like, she would like take books out from the library that would have hotels in them. Like, you know what I mean? It would be like the big book of hotels. And then she'd like circle numbers. Or they would be like newspaper things, like almost like classifieds. And there would be like house for rent. And like Northern Michigan. And we'd go there. She would save, if there was an interesting like newspaper article about a place, she would save it for, you know, however many years it would take her to go to that place. That's so nice. It's like, I save like everything on Instagram that I want to do and then never look at it again. I feel like I've had like papers. I would be like, this is meaningful to me and I will do this one day. But she had, I mean, again, her recipe books growing up were just like all cut out from newspapers and then like paste it into, I love that. It was great. And then, although at the same time, I remember she made maybe three different things the entirety of the time. Well, yeah, same. No, she had, she had probably a 12. What were your themes? What were your, what were the mains? Chicken Kiev. Chicken Kiev. That was the big one. Yeah. Yeah, Kiev. Now it's called Chicken Kiev, but never mind. Chicken Kiev. Yeah. You're right. It was Kiev. It was flank steak and baked potatoes. Yeah. Well, that's pretty good. Yeah. There was, she makes a really good macaroni and cheese that has bacon in it. Yeah. Yum. That's a big help. And then her chicken and rice. That's a really, you know. Yeah. She would do. You were never gonna be short of starch with our mom, which was really good. Yeah. Yeah. Did you get to eat like all kinds of snacks when you were growing up or was she like? No, we would, our sort of, our famous call out was we want all the meats and all the cheeses and a platter. That's when you would yell to her? Yeah. Well, it was like. This was before we knew charcuterie. So we would just be. We wouldn't yell, it was sort of a celebration. That's a nice kind of snack. That's like, that's a nice fancy snack. It was great. Like crackers, she'd cut up a pickle. It was really good. She made these things called hanky pankies that were very good. Yeah. What's that? It's like a, those little rye toasts or like those small toasts with like an aloe wet or like some kind of a cheese on it and then baked. Wow. But then she would remember there was some sausage in there as well. Yeah. That's real. Yeah. And then she would do like chicken wings was a big dinner where she would just put like frozen chicken wings on a pan and just like cook it until they were like basically charred. We ate a lot of like Brown's chicken. Did you ever go to Brown's chicken? No. It was like KFC, but not. I don't know why. I don't know how popular, if it was just Midwest or what, but. Right, yeah. Loved Brown's chicken. That's our version of that. I don't think anyone was actually making chicken in the oven. And my mom, if she heard this would be like, I did that all the time, you know. Of course. But I don't remember. Yeah. No, I'm certain that we're coming in under. We're hitting the under for what my mom thought she did. She would do, we'd do like those filets and wild rice. Are you right? I mean, by the way, I had no complaints. Pork and spaghetti was a classic. Yeah. Yeah. And now I've gone vegan much, I can't have any of these things. Does your family understand that? 'Cause I feel like Midwestern people struggle. They understand it to a degree, but I'll like, offer to like make my own stuff when I'm home. Like there's always something that my mom's gonna make and she's figured out how to do it vegan, so. Wow. Because it's Josh, they celebrate it. Like as, because he is the golden child. Like it is like, ah, yes, veganism. We must. Even if you did it. We must go find the soups. Off to the store to get the soups. Poshy's coming to the soups. I pick up my own stuff. I try to make it as easy for them as possible. When I go home. But she always will make some effort. I feel like it's vegetarianism, veganism. That's been hard for my family and my husband's family to wrap their head around what that is. My husband's a vegetarian, but like, so can you have pizza? It's like, well, does the pizza have meat? You know, like, it's just like this, this questions are just like, yeah. Vegetarianism is a certainly level one compared to veganism's like level five. As far as understanding, you should be able to lock it down pretty easy. Yeah. Vegetarianism has like, I mean, we don't have to get all into this, but vegetarianism has like, there are exceptions to the rule of no animal products, which- Yeah, and I have a friend who's vegan who will eat eggs every once in a while. Yeah, well, that person's not vegan. Anyhow, Josh, I was wondering how hard Josh was gonna throw a snob on that. And he did give you his accurate, you saw the real him, Lauren. Yeah, that person's a vegetarian. And he showed you his true face. I'm happy I got to see that. When you were in Italy as teenagers, were you allowed to like have a glass of wine at dinner? You know what, I think my brother did. I feel like I held back from even doing something like that. I don't know why. Do you think you, back at home with your friends, were like having the odd beer, glass of wine? Yeah, yeah, we smoked more than we drank. And going to like parties where the kids were drinking, I was always like, what's going on here? You know, it was a different vibe. But I do remember that when we were in Italy, my brother's ex-girlfriend was, was also there i don't know if she was studying abroad or what she was doing but she was there and um she invited us all me and my brother to go out that night and i was so shy in my i don't know or like something i just didn't go and i look back i remember laying in the room being like i wonder what they're doing like they were like in italy at night having fun and i was 16 and i was like so i don't know okay yeah it is i mean it's crazy because it's not a thing you don't want to be the one to tell your kids that right you don't want to be like look when you're 16 go to the italian club but you kind of hope they are that kind of kid go go i know i mean it didn't take me long to start doing whatever else you know but it's for some reason that was like i was like oh i don't think so yeah it is that's all you know if you know you made the wrong choice if you're lying in bed being like i wonder what they're doing now i know i know if you're ever missing uh your um teenage brother you're sharing a bed with you know you made the wrong call wish he was home we uh i was in uh salt lake city we had a bunch of friends who were there because our northwestern had made the ncaa basketball tournament so some of us went and uh we just got like a hotel room with two queen beds and that was four guys and like one guy insisted on doing pillow stacking in the middle of his bed it's like we're already like adult men so two on a queen bed that's a lot of space and then when you add a row of pillows and it's also like do we need these pillows like no no it's gonna happen no but i will say i did you know in improv you travel a lot with your friends and share hotels and stuff and i did end up cuddling my friend one time in bed when i woke up and i was like i don't know you know yeah i was sleeping and i was in the mood for cuddling i guess yeah yeah um this is not uh uh obviously a family travel thing but it is a childhood uh story about you can you explain do you still have an active soap collection or is it an old so yeah it's um it's inactive now i think i threw it out a few years ago okay i had saved it for 30 plus years yeah it was a really it was a special thing um a soap yeah it was a great soap collection it was just unique shapes of soap got it i like to collect all kinds of things as a kid and i took great care of my collections and my toys everything was put back where it was supposed to go i was very you know were these purchased soaps were these freebie soaps these were mostly purchased some hotel soaps but mostly were um like a purchased shape you know oh i don't have a fish i need to get that you know i had a mickey mouse soap that was really big and then when i opened my box it had shrunk down to like half the size and i was like oh they shrink what was the uh what was the at its peak how many how many uh bars of soap were you talking uh i think it was i think i had like a solid 25 bars of soap it didn't get too out of control it was contained in a beautiful box yeah that's not crazy yeah yeah yeah um each wrapped in its own kleenex and and what made you uh decide it was time to say goodbye i don't know you know sometimes i i regret when i threw i i've always saved everything and i i so when i throw things out now i feel kind of like wow i'm like really throwing this thing out even though it's like obviously trash but like i've saved like all kinds of papers from my childhood every journal i've ever had i have all my beanie babies i have all my playmobil sets i have every american girl doll and every single thing that came with it was like i just don't get rid of anything and i don't even want my kids to play with it it's like too good but i'm i think with the soaps when they all shrunk i realized it was time like they started to get like cracks and i was like they're not even good anymore you know are you research says you had a collection of pristinely preserved soaps i don't know if that's your language it does seem like your words it does seem like you maybe jumped on wikipedia but they were not uh i couldn't do there's only so much i could do you know what i mean like they the time came for them and it was they they died yeah yeah um have you i mean i know you just said you you sort of don't want to give these old things to your daughters but have you given them anything and have you been disappointed with how they've treated them yeah i mean i so just recently um i've talked about my beanie baby collection on my podcast in the past and i had i also met princess diana which i have talked about but i'm you know i met her so that i so i've talked about people know this story but i'm happy to tell you very briefly that she came to evanston to have yeah i was in school then oh my god okay oh oh wow crazy so did you see her i did not i was in a wheelchair at the time because i had broken my leg so badly and they had like roped off parts of campus for her to like move around and stuff like that and i was like oh my god i'm so sorry motorcade in and like i was inconvenienced by it and i was like angrily like feeling myself like god damn it i love that i remember you were famously at the time you're like you know she puts all this time and effort into clearing landmines meanwhile kid in a wheelchair can't get near her yeah um so yeah i did not see her but obviously a lot of we had heard where she was gonna be she came to like shake hands with people she literally just got out of the car like at a street and we were all there and i shook her hand and then rode my bike around going like so i talked about that so recently at a live show that i did someone brought me a princess diana beanie baby which as you know are worth millions of dollars right and so i never went down in price they were the one the one fad that never went down in price yeah i was really excited to receive this and it even had a um plastic cover on the tag so it was really it was in great shape and i accidentally let it just left it on a table and my daughter was like what is that i need that and i was like no you can't have that that's not for you and she would then she wanted it even more and i was like no no no no like this is a you can't you can't because she loves to take tags off of everything which is fine but i'm like you can't take the tag off like and i also i know it's worthless like i i do understand that but i'm like but i have it now and i want it to have the tag on it like and she's like crying it was getting to be out of control so i was like i have a box of things like i have a beanie baby box and i'm gonna let you have it and but it's it's i'm not gonna get it tonight i'll get it out of the basement and we'll pull it out well whatever she was like crying and i'm like okay but i had i was wrestling the diana being baby out of her hands it was very pathetic and then i pulled out the beanie baby so she was at school and i opened it up i was like i can't let her touch they were so good like the tags like they were beautiful they were they were perfect there's not a stain they're just lovely and i so i dug through and i found a few that had no tags and that i'd play with played with a lot as a kid and out and gave them to her and she was satisfied and then then totally stopped caring about that. I mean, of course. I mean, I feel like you should have just gone straight to eBay and been like, you know, a lot of filthy Beanie Baby. Or even some other kind of toy. And you're like, I don't know, these are smushies and I'm going to tell her these are Beanie Babies. I like that you both know it's worthless, but also that if she takes the tag off, it's worth half as much as worthless. It's completely trash at that point. Because online, you know, people list them for like $65,000. Like literally they're listed for so much on eBay, but I think they've sold, you have to look at the sold price and the price they sell for is like $6. They're not worth anything. But it's the sentiment and the fact that, you know, it connects to a story in my life and so now I feel like it really matters. Of course. Yeah. Totally. It's so lovely talking to you, Lauren. You too. This is so nice. Is it true that you and Ben are doing more earliest show? Yes. We just shot this summer. I'm so excited. We did a six episode. season. It is something the algorithm is always, it must be the algorithm that's like, no, I'm a talk show host and we'll just like delight in it. You like this. But I find it endlessly tickling to my Oh, thank you. We had so much fun making that originally. It was like 10 years ago and it was a Funny or Die branded web series for Cap and Crunch randomly. Now we're making it a real show. So it really was so fun. We had the best time. And congrats on Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, which is another one, not 10 years ago, but right that part you first played that part almost, right? That's true. Oh my God. This year, I just was doing things I did a long time ago again. I think that's good though. I think that speaks to the quality of it. 10 years like some sort of horoscope thing. I yeah, I was on Big Bang Theory for like eight episodes as Denise Stewart's girlfriend. And now we get we have our own show. It's crazy. It's so crazy. It's on HBO Max and it's like it's a single cam. It's totally different from Big Bang in the style. It's like a sci-fi comedy. It's kind of dark. It's definitely very weird. And and we got picked up. So I'm excited. It's going going well. Congratulations. Congrats. That's awesome. Before we let you go, Josh is going to hit you with our speed round questions. Okay. Okay. Here you go. You can only pick one of these. Is your ideal vacation relaxing, adventurous or educational? Oh, oh, I guess educational. Oh, fuck. I suck. That's okay. That's great. But I like to go around cities and see things. You know, I'm I'm supposed to stop talking. Okay, go ahead. No, that's great. What is your favorite means of transportation? Um, uh, car. That sucks too. Yeah, no, please. People said car. You're not alone in this. You're not alone in educational either. Motorcycle. Uh, if you could take a vacation with any family alive or dead, real or fictional other than your own family, what family would you like to take a vacation with? My besties, the Smith sisters, um, they host a serious sex show, so people might know who they are, but they uh, they're the best and we're very close and I, I'm planning to take a family trip with them. I think that'd be very fun. Oh, great. Um, if you had to be stranded. landed on a desert island with one member of your family who would it be oh oh that's a great question um it has to be not my husband it could be your husband i would pick him because that's he's very he feels like he would figure shit out yeah on the island and make it something better that matters that's important yeah yeah yeah um what is your dream destination for a family vacation i really want to go to lithuania and greece which are the two places my parents you know heritage so i'm like i want to go there but that feels hard uh yeah with my little kids yeah that's why it's a dream um um you are from evanston illinois famously uh if you had to get more families to come visit evanston what would you tell them about that town you know it's uh it's a very it's a very family-friendly town it's it's very easy to go to the beach yeah it couldn't be easier you have the easiest beach day ahead of you and then you can also be in the city and go to chicago and have see some sights but uh that's one thing i love about it because living in la i never go to the beach because it's so annoying and i grew up across you know just lake michigan right there you just walk over the beach and relax we were just talking about east coast beaches um and how they're so much easier than the west coast beaches that we all like grew up thinking were the nice ones because of pop culture yes i know all the tv shows were like yeah surfing in california or whatever yeah no but it's just like the east coast that's where we just like with little parking lots everything's ready to go i know i love that yeah um and then seth has our final questions lauren have you been to the great canyon no do you want to go no i could no yeah that's it we're gonna stick with no we're gonna accept the right answer thank you lauren for your honesty a lot of people especially i think during the 250th anniversary of this country feel like they have to be paid to go to the great canyon yeah i mean i don't know i don't know i don't know i'm patriotic talking about this hole that americans had nothing to do with um so we do thank you for embracing the truth i'm good and uh yeah it was great talking to you congrats on everything too thank you so much yeah hopefully we'll see you in person soon i know i hope so all right bye have a great day family trips with my brothers family trips my let's go let's go remember strips with grandparents wherever they would go lauren went to gas stations collecting mementos at her aunt's house there was a pool her bro was being a dick grabbed her ankle wasn't cool she ran and then she slipped oh no lauren had been concussed lapgus was concussed right off her feet on the concrete and lauren had been concussed she thought she thought he was a shark and lapgus got concussed girls night down at disney world lauren was with the dudes went to go see ladybugs went to the went to go see ladybugs went to the bathroom there was water water on the floor she slipped and hit ♪ Woke up hours later slapping her grandmother in bed ♪ ♪ Oh, Lauren had been concussed ♪ ♪ Lapkus was concussed ♪ ♪ The floor was wet, she hit the deck ♪ ♪ And Lauren got concussed ♪ ♪ Does it know how Ladybug's ends? ♪ ♪ 'Cause Lapkus got concussed ♪ ♪ It's not like everything was bad ♪ ♪ She went to Italy ♪ ♪ Florence, Venice, Siena ♪ ♪ Ate a cherry off a tree ♪ ♪ But wait, there was that time ♪ ♪ The radiator met her head ♪ ♪ Dad wrapped her head with a towel ♪ ♪ Sent her off to bed, oh no ♪ ♪ Lauren had been concussed ♪ ♪ Lapkus was concussed ♪ ♪ Oh, guys, it's fine, does it all the time ♪ ♪ Lauren gets concussed ♪ ♪ Thinks she has an invisible dog ♪ ♪ 'Cause she has been concussed ♪ ♪ Ooh, look out ♪ ♪ Fall down ♪ ♪ Again? ♪ Now at McDonald's. 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