[Music] welcome to ear biscuits I’m Linc and I’m Rhett is time for another conversation with an interesting person from the internet this week it’s mamrie Hart one part of what many fans are calling YouTube’s holy trinity which also includes grace Helbig and Hannah Hart previous guests on the show she’s got a popular weekly show you may know about it called you deserve a drink but she also just released a feature film camp Takota which she wrote and starred in alongside her youtube counterparts Grayson Hannah so we talked to memory about growing up with a television star as a father founding the topless Tuesday club in college and we traced the path from arriving in New York with only $400 to finding a career on YouTube and writing and starring in her own feature film and we talked about how her friendship with grace and Hannah might affect her future plans of course one other thing that came up in conversation a lot was um camp she we learned that she draws on her own experience as a camp counselor to write and form the story of camp Takota so it got us thinking about our camp experience right so I don’t know how old were we the time we went to camp together this is fourth grade fourth grade fourth grade and I just remember the concept of camp even before we went it was this thing that oh when you reach a certain age summer time you get to go away and I this is the kind of this is the kind of thing that I got to be honest with you I looked forward to with great anticipation I’m which is I tend to be tends to be what I do anyway I’ve kind of build things up and I get really excited about it but camp was this thing that in my mind it seemed like the ultimate experience because you get to go away for one whole week I mean no parents no parents you don’t know any of the other whatever you want to we were going as friends you know we knew you and you knew me and that was it everybody else was gonna be a new friend yeah my my mom took us drove us to Western North Carolina to camp Carraway now camp Carraway it that kind of sound Carraway’s it sounds more like a like a like a retreat place for adults almost like kids don’t have cares it’s or like a rest home or something but it but it actually was a camp I always thought it was like don’t get carried away it can’t carry away well that would be carry can’t carried away but you’re saying it was there’s no cares here you don’t you have no cares put your cares away like carefree camp camp carefree camp carefree that sounds like something for old folks camp care away sounds like yeah this might be for kids for children now the only reason I didn’t cry when my mom dropped us off is because you were there I was I just remember being so anxious a lot of my childhood is defined by anxiety I as I reflect on it now I did I just I didn’t put my finger on it at the time that I was an anxious child well and you oh so now you never told me because I had playing it cool I was nervous get out by the time of my life you know I mean now both neither of us took a dump the entire week I was go ahead and get that out there because there’s something about you just kind of pucker up a little bit when you go to a new environment but it wasn’t because I was anxious it was just because I was in camp mode well the facilities were I mean the actual toilets there was there wasn’t a lot of privacy there was no there was a stall but there was no door and I was like I’m waiting till I get back home right so other kids can walk I thought there was a door other kids could walk in front of it unless you were in the last stall and then if someone came to check to see if anybody was in there well they would see it yeah I was I was anxious about that personally and when you’re a kid somehow you can you can hold her for a week I don’t know how that works I remember thinking when Wednesday rolled around and nothing was nothing was rolling out I was like oh man I’m what’s gonna happen you’re gonna explode Thursday comes up I’m like man I didn’t mix thinking that my parents are picking you up and you’re like wait can we stop somewhere no idea I waited til I got all the way home but I I mean the things I remember about camp I don’t remember any of the other kids I don’t remember making any other friends but there were girls there it was a co-ed camp right no it was all it was only guys yes there’s only guys are you sure I’m percent sure maybe was a I guess that’s why I don’t remember any girl it was a royal ambassador camp it was an RA camp oh wait the GA camp was across the lake or something yeah I mean there there may have been a ga camp that was somehow what are the GA stand for girl ambassadors I don’t know I really don’t they but no no definitely no girls I remember a big swimming pool and I remember going to that swimming pool and not being happy about that because there was a bunch of kids and I felt like a lot of them were like dirty like these kids been running around in the woods and now they’re gonna jump in a pool with me why didn’t you just I mean I don’t feel good about that why didn’t you just you never told me any of this I found I find all this out when we become adults and plus I’m not buoyant I haven’t done a number two and it’s been five days so I’ll probably sink to the bottom no see yeah I mean like all there’s a lot ends announcer this thing but see the thing that says me here’s the thing that upsets me is that I had the time of my life and we never went back because you didn’t like it it’s like when we go to a restaurant this where this happens all the time now we go to a restaurant I’m like this restaurants good and then we get out you’re like yeah I don’t want to go there again and we never go back again it’s just camp Carraway all over again now I don’t remember ever telling you that I didn’t like it there was a reason why when we brought it up the next year it was just like I don’t think I’m gonna do that this year you never but you wouldn’t tell me why when I was afraid of the pool and you know everything really I didn’t know where the geas were and so I didn’t get to go I think of all the summers that I missed out on if my mom would have been a counselor I probably would have went back that’s the sad I remember our counselors name was Jeff Cole Cole he had a mustache and like really short military hair I was like 22 but he had to he had a mustache and so I thought he was 32 but now that I think about it I realized he was like right out of college and he was a weird dude I gotta admit he was a weird dude but you know I appreciated his leadership you didn’t you don’t even remember his name I just remember being anxious were you scared of his mustache I was afraid he was gonna leave us in there I don’t know I mean I’d never been away from home that long and held it that long if I said that already you know just I don’t know man I’m sorry I do remember that once your parents picked us up we went directly from there to the Asheboro Zoo and that’s where we bought those matching gorilla purple t-shirts yeah that is that is the picture that we posted online one of the first pictures of the two of us together that has like survived all of these years so in though in that picture science class pictures two young boys who have been holding holding it for all they were weak we had full large intestines that’s crazy I never thought about that when I see that picture we looked happy at that point I was just I just relieved to be with people I knew but not that relieves so I think if I were to write a screenplay about that it would you know I’m pretty boring be pretty be pretty sad at least yeah if you think what we just talked about was boring and yeah I think the screenplay would also be boring but I think camp Dakota they they feared they fared better than that it had some more interesting blood points okay mamrie hearts fan base it continues to grow she’s got two YouTube channels you deserve a drink where she makes drinks for you but also has lots of fun and they’re like themed around a celebrity or an event or something like that and then she’s got mametown which is a more personal channel and both of those are really taken off continue to take off and she also I might add made it quite possibly the most hilarious cameo in an hour video Christmas face as the on screen makeup artiste and she’s making a cameo if you want to call it that on your biscuit so let’s get right to it our ear biscuit with mamrie Hart [Music] okay so last time we saw each other yes was that the Dakota premiere it was just like a preview yeah sneak preview an excuse to all have adult beverages outdoors party I think it’s what the official name and we had a ball we had our pictures taken thank you you guys were killing me you were taking all the pics wrapped up in a blanket just yeah well it camp theme we go with a theme you guys anything we go with a theme you guys want that green carpet but you congratulations but yeah on Camp Takota right yeah yeah it’s really exciting super exciting it’s like more exciting for me as a writer even than an actress okay be like oh it’s doing well but rhett told me that you told him a story that I didn’t get to hear about leaving Christmas fails so I wanted to hear that from you okay so when I left Christmas face and I was and full-on what would you call her she was a makeup artist by day a little trashy lady of the night by morning and so I had that crazy makeup done and then as soon as I left because I was running late I had to get on a phone call and I didn’t want to go into the parking garage and lose service in the elevator so I just walked around downtown for like 20 minutes and people and then I got in the car and like rear viewed and was like oh you still just have to shirt on too right I had like a cardigan on okay no but it was still a still a poison flesh and blood tour 1987 yeah halter-top haltered homemade halter top well it was it was perfect for what we needed I love dying it was perfect for downtown perfect for meeting the streets downtown yeah me too I’ve got some new clients it was great but no one no one approached you to tell you that uh no because I was on such a intense phone call like they thought I was breaking up with my pimp I can only imagine or setting up the next appointment exactly mm-hmm it was pretty awesome well and the video looked great oh yeah your your your appearance was amazing the comments were raving oh thank you contribution so we should we should do more of that type of stuff I’m into it more holy we gotta make up something else though yeah Christmas sweats Christmas face Christmas we don’t know I don’t want to start thinking about it is a bit early yeah way to the Weather Channel least till July guys come on yeah okay forget I brought it up now I’d love to get into your creative process right off the bat just you know in watching your videos I love the bloopers at the end and live for me that kind of I find myself trying to analyze your creative process and and find the clues of exactly how you do it in the bloopers like okay she looked down there as she finished this improv riff she might maybe she has written down some of her lines and then she’s just kind of riffing off of that obviously there’s stuff at the top of the head so that’s how I look at the bloopers and also they’re hilarious so I mean for clues I’m just fascinated with with with how it all comes together well there is pre written jokes there are pre written jokes essentially I think about some silly puns grace comes over we have a pregame cocktail we think of a few more and then we just we get up we intro make the whole drink and then it’s we bump in for a joke time so I have the preferred joke you know it I don’t like go back and forth it’s just like here’s how I make the drink and then it’s like all right now we’re just gonna shoot jokes for like the next 15 minutes or so okay so we have some prepared because some of them are you know pretty in depth but then it’s me just riffing and essentially trying to make grace Helbig laugh that’s the that’s the ultimate goal is to get her to break behind the camera has she been there for every episode every episode really every single episode grace and I know each other from New York and we were on our first sketch game sketch team together like six years ago or so and then we also lived in the same neighborhood in Brooklyn so we would spend many a day getting Bloody Mary’s at like 2:00 on a Monday and I wasn’t doing any Internet stuff yet but then I had the idea for why dad and we lived you know really close to each other so we just I’d walk up the long hill so you shoot these now unless this your your house your apartment my apartment yeah so she comes over she comes over yeah and it’s just like you only shoot one at a time I assume I mean not always because of schedules and whatnot you can kind of plan like if it’s a pop culture one obviously you’re gonna shoot at the week of but if I’m doing a pop culture one and the next weekend is st. Patrick’s Day then we can go ahead and do a st. Patrick’s Day one so you can kind of tell how many was shot in a day depending on my level of drunkenness cause if we’re doing like a three like a three-wide dad day oh yeah maybe number three is pretty loose yeah we might not even find the footage so you you know these drinks are I don’t know so little about mixed drinks are you men finding these I’m inventing the internet finding the right bar attended through college and I also bar tended for like seven years in New York City so I’m using my like base knowledge and then kind of jumping off you know traditional drink drinks are just making ones up and just you know seeing if they taste good cuz you have to have a bit of a palate for that for sure yeah with all different like infusions and so I mean how much of the how good of a drink this is going to be it goes into the process this is like I want you two guys who enjoy this 100% because hey I don’t want to drink something gross and also the that nothing makes me happier than when I see that people actually made the drinks at home which the drinks that tend to be made are like the most white-trash ones like I had one Amanda before amanda bynes that’s literally cup cake vodka champagne food coloring then it’s dipped in funfetti icing like that’s the drink and that’s the one that gets made the most that’s because everybody already has that stuff lately if I’m like we’re gonna do walnut look cooler with you know cardamom infused bourbon they’re like oh I’ve got funfetti in my pocket right now that’s what the kids are calling it yeah yeah I mean you’ll bring out these bottles of stuff that’s like whoa the budget for this thing just went through the room but it’s all tax-deductible right all tax-deductible I didn’t realize that the first year I did why dad and then the second year was like oh my gosh let me show this to the accountant I’m like I swear I swear my drinking is a write-off yes great but I do have a kind of ridiculous liquor cabinet it’s ridiculous I did well I just have so much crap I’m never gonna finish I did a drink a couple weeks ago that had Galliano in it do you know what that is no it’s like this crazy huge guys go with them though oh yeah it looked like that building in San Francisco yes but it does I don’t know the really skinny pyramid is that what you’re talking about earthquake building that is the right bottle mm-hmm and now I’m never gonna drink that but I just have it could you had to mix a little bit in hello Burnham so yeah it’s pretty impressive I mean you don’t like have parties where it’s like all right just have at it but you gotta buy a ticket or something I don’t have open houses with cake walks and come to my home carnival were raising money for me it’s my favorite cause I love those by the way when we were kids I want a fish you want a fish I didn’t want a cake a fish and that fish got a growth and died ooh Wow yeah like a cancer they didn’t very large cancer didn’t splurging for the good Goldie’s at your elemental I think was something in the water now you asked about our Fall Festival experience yes we come from the same place right yeah North Carolina represent raise up I should say oh right spin around your head like a helicopter yes yes I’m very tempted to do that at this moment but I’m not going to because well yeah it’s weird yeah exactly so anoint like born and raised in North Carolina I was actually born in New Jersey and moved to North Carolina when ios7 okay so you remember some of Jersey I remember like memories of Jersey yeah like what what are your um Jersey memories I’ve never been there you never been in New Jersey well I didn’t live in the part of Jersey where people think of I feel like people from the south when they think of New Jersey they think of like Hoboken or like just somewhere really dirty no Boca and listeners I lived in like super rural New Jersey and like had a meadow behind your house and you know old house small town it was like a little Township called Andover and the memories I have the most of Jersey is I lived in an area that had all these little independent theme parks have you ever been to one where it’s like oh this is a family-run little theme park I think you mean petting zoo right well yes there was a petting zoo with rides there was the land of make-believe there was a place called the gingerbread house that was like this big house that someone spent all this money no turning into yeah I feel like all those roadside weird things on attraction stuff where there was a lot of those where I lived in my first few years in New Jersey yeah okay so did that make you sad to leave I mean I’m Lee is there a gingerbread house where we’re going there’s barely a house where we went why did you why did you move what was that we moved because we had family in North Carolina and also at the time my dad Segway my dad was an actor and the show he worked on was in Georgia so we wanted to move to the south but not on it yes no because my parents already like separated so it was like let’s move closer so we’re a five hour drive but like let’s be near to do your cousin’s and stuff meaning you live with your mom not your dad but your mom moved you closer to your dad yeah okay yeah well that was that was big of her yeah I mean it wasn’t like a George or anything no yeah she was like I’ll go as far as North Carolina but you’re gonna have to move to where her sister lived and all our cousins were okay yeah okay so your dad was an actor yeah I did not know this yes in what at the time was he working on at the time he was on an 80s cop show called in the heat of the night with Carroll O’Connor yeah all in the family of course I was his follow-up to that my I have a special place in my heart for Carroll O’Connor because he reminded me of my grandfather Clyde who passed away I might get sad oh my god he had a chair he looked just like him look just like yeah and he had a head like the flat same haircut and he had a chair the Archie Bunker chair yeah his house no one else sits in it hey yeah no one else said and it was exactly like the show and he would sit down and watch it and then so like everybody my mom always loved the show and watch reruns because it was a connection with her dad and so now we have that connection also a major racist the fondest memory he even hated being white just because it was a rest his ideal was just to be a skeleton yeah right yeah moved in North Carolina and was this like culture shock I mean you had a meadow in your backyard in Jersey but what do you remember about the transition I remember hating that people called their mom’s mama oh you hated that I hate and now I do now it’s about mama but like at the time everyone sounded like so slow to me cuz I was you know I’d lived in New Jersey so I wanted slow not intellectually just you know I just was really not used to the I was I would get pissed off when people would say ain’t like I’d be like ain’t is not a word but I was like a little sass as a second grader third grader yeah mm-hmm and what part of North Carolina um my town was called Boonville and has one stoplight and it’s at like the base of the mountains okay yeah so between like Boone and winston-salem got it yeah rural one stoplight oh yeah once once the elevation really starts changing in North Carolina you know that’s when you really get into the good stuff the real good stuff so you were there with your mom and like her sisters were nearby see like a dance do you have siblings yeah I have an older brother and an older sister and they were with you guys there mm-hmm and you would hear about dad the famous was I was like oh I got a famous dad who’s down in Georgia like telling your school friends and stuff no I mean that was kind of just please from a town of like 1,100 people everyone knew it before we even got there yeah because I mean going back to that time right you know something you knew somebody that was involved in entertainment I mean that was very few and far between I mean we didn’t I didn’t know anybody that I had an interaction as everybody knew about like if you lived in the middle of nowhere and then like a guy from CSI was moving to your town right yeah which is a dream of mine exactly it was definitely like that it was he’d come up like every month but oh so your parents did live together they live together till I was like three when my dad got the show okay and then he moved and then we moved to North Carolina but he was still like come up okay all holidays we’d spend the summer with him so we’d spend the summer on the set of he the night and stuff so your parents were civil they weren’t together but they were friendly yeah there are a hundred percent yeah no just kind of like you know faded the marriage faded there wasn’t like I’ve never seen my parents fight or anything like that and what did your mom do my mom is a high school teacher still is still is high school English yeah she was evil well she has to commute there isn’t a high school in my town yeah she’s a high school English teacher in North Carolina hating every second our students know of Mamre in her channel that I don’t know because my mom remarried so we don’t have the same last name so I don’t know if my mom brings me up I doubt she kind of mentions me in class considering my subject matter right she does want to be like hey everyone go listen to my daughter say probably not ideal honey because my dad is a law professor okay oh wow and has been since we moved to North Carolina in 84 and he does talk to his law students about me because they somebody figured it out and it was like Dean McLaughlin is raised Rhett’s dad and then once they somebody found that out just rides that wave all the time oh yeah but also like let’s let’s get real our content is very different so what what’s your mom like and is it oh I’ve watched your video and but you know is this is there a dynamic they are with your mom’s like I can’t show this to my no my mom doesn’t really bring it up my mom’s just stoked that you know I’m being able to make a living being creative we don’t like you know go back and forth on my jokes does she have a similar sense of humor or no yeah you’re like a departure definite departure my parents are both super funny but they’re not like crass whatsoever so we don’t like go over the latest why dad but she’s super stoked about camp Takota that isn’t filthy yeah or even my second I start a second channel named town and it’s just like really goofy so she likes that two things she could possibly you know I have my nephew’s watch and she wouldn’t be terrified right so she but she gives you positive feedback she focuses on that yes exactly at this point oh she’s super stoked she loves it I mean my mom and dad met when they were in they were both in the theater department in college so my mom loves you know in a different world she would have been an actress and so yeah she could she couldn’t be prouder that I’m I’m doing it guys I’m yeah you’re so from a young age did you want to follow in and it sounds like both of their footsteps in terms of this kind of entertainer when I was back then I was begging for an agent really I was like please let me like there was a hot minute I was like let me go live with dad let me I like I need an agent I need to do this but you know I’m so glad that didn’t happen a because there’s nothing worse than seeing kids rejected in the entertainment industry or like crazy stage moms right but also because I really enjoyed the upbringing of living in the middle of nowhere so what were you doing there was evidence of this desire were you like performing on street corners oh yeah the one at the once I know I remember me and my friends I was like you guys let’s just cheer lead let’s just cheer lay it on the streets so I’d be like cheerleading I remember I was like I cheerleaded I mean what like traffic yeah Cheerilee in the traffic I remember someone pulled over once and was like what are you raising money for and I was like nothing I’m bored and then we remember any of the cheers for the traffic no I mean they were probably very probably just about me I’m not sure there’s one time we had like a piano and and I took violin for a few years when I was little and my mom came home and I had taught to my next-door neighbor how to play like two songs on the piano and then I was gonna accompany in it accompany it I can’t say that word with violin and she came in and my like three old lady neighbors were sitting in our living room as we played and I had charged them you had you had sold tickets I had charged it I’d think I charged a dollar Wow but probably my life is worth seeing it’s worth paying for right right but probably my favorite me performing money-making schemes that I ever did was my sister and I and another guy on in here the Knights daughter decided that summer while we were on set that we were going to make her on horror movie and so we made our own horror movie called night fright and I was a killer and they were two house sitters that I was you know trying to murder and the film uh I’ll call it a film was about 15 minutes long and during the in the in the hit the night wrap party we made programs like with our like actor BIOS we we had a separate room we it was at someone’s house so we like had a screening room in the living room and we charged people five dollars to come watch our movie and people you know they felt pressured to because they were at a party and we were kids in our queue and in the program it said all proceeds will go to dare drugs yeah we made a hundred bucks and we went to Six Flags I mean way or another you didn’t do drugs that day exactly what it takes for we just abused their money there to keep us three off for like a six hour period exactly to feel like we’re on kid drugs and Wow were there any like pangs of regret for that no it’s a pretty great story dippin dots have just come out so my ass was getting to six laughs yeah it was the ice cream of the future yeah right now it’s just above the present I guess a little bit of the past yeah I know okay so you would go to the to the set of in the heat of the night during the summer isn’t it yeah what is that like it was cool because while they were first of all craft services as we all know that’s the best I mean just a dream I would like go to the makeup trailer and like make them give me makeovers I mean in a very sweet way it wasn’t like a bratty kid like we’re all friends and then I’m a huge soundstage all these different sets so while they’re shooting in the police station me and my brother and sister are in the fake courthouse pretending to have a trial or in the fake diner pretending to be waitresses it was basically just your playground yeah running around the different sets did you ever weasel your way onto the show um no I actually did some background work which you know wouldn’t you do a background actor let’s say you make like 80 bucks for the day a hundred bucks for the day I was like I’m Logan like I couldn’t believe it but it was between me and another daughter on the show to get one line that was hey mister can we get our frisbee back and they gave it to her and I was she got like 500 bucks hey mister can we get our frisbee back did she also get the frisbee back yeah yeah it was part of the scratch not at all she got it all but you were at least standing next to me I was standing behind her with hair down to my butt parted in the middle huge glasses looking like Joan Baez an entire shirt like I’m getting a hundred today gonna cool hundo Wow yeah so what was it what was it like for you growing up besides the summer trips I played all the sports even though I was terrible at it like I still played every sport I remember going to like convincing my parents to send me to basketball camp at Georgia Tech once and it was like god bless them for not crushing my dreams because like why did I need to go to an expensive it wasn’t probably expensive but why did I need to go to a basketball camp when I like rode the bench I was so bad at sports but I played them all and then I also danced how’s the big what kind of dance ballet tap jazz yeah I danced growing up and then I am I taught in high school and uh and then when I did the summer camp thing you know camp Dakota’s based on I did a dance instruction there really so that was kind of close to your heart actually being a counselor or a teacher oh yeah for sure so what do you think it was that made you want to get involved in so many things because there was nothing I mean there was really nothing to do in our town you know it’s not like you could even walk somewhere and get a slice of pizza and play a video game like there really literally nothing to do so I feel like everyone was kind of always doing any extracurricular activity they could and was it kind of like oh I’m gonna get out of this town one day I’m gonna be yeah I didn’t wear that leather jacket and just just stared into the rock yeah I wanted to go to college yeah it was I I had a really great time I love that area but there’s a zero way I could live there so where did you end up so I went from there to UNC Chapel Hill ooh oh I know I know I was actually texting with DJ Flula before I got here and he was like are you watching the UNC Duke game and I was like no I’m gonna go record with rhett and Link he was like of course those NC State Wolfpack errs would make you record during is this something that you would apart from Flula influence would you definitely be watching it right now you know I’d probably be a toss-up okay yeah I wouldn’t like be at home watching it by myself because you know it wasn’t gonna be on Thursday until I got snowed out last week and then got snowed out soon no I wouldn’t intentionally cuz I would actually hate to a minute I do watch that game you yeah I know it’s even an is an NC State Fair you have to just as a North Carolinian but I will say I pull for Duke I’m sorry I just I don’t know what it is I just can’t like it I cannot like you and see it I like you it’s been fun and my wife went to UNC oh really so you know I I can overcome a lot okay yes a Rhett’s wife went to UNC and going to see state we had to we have to hate UNC forever why we can still watch your content okay as long as disassociate yeah we’re just gonna disassociate that I’m just going to pull out my metaphorical men and black thing and just pretend I didn’t know that I’ll see because you have trouble liking us now – no we’re good okay good good you probably actually at UNC it’d probably like a year crossover with my wife yeah not that you know that’s what Mayor was thinking about so what did you what did you go to UNC for what was what was the mindset at that point with that it was just I knew I had to go and state and so that was the school I wanted to go when I went to college I really didn’t know what I wanted to study okay like it always been in my head that I was gonna be a performer of some kind but I definitely did the whole like oh you you don’t have to have a major you don’t you’re not gonna know what you want to do until your sophomore year so I ended up doing drama and communications but you had to be I mean obviously you were involved in a lot of different sports and stuff but you obviously had to be a good student to get into UNC yeah so you were an overachiever um or just an achiever I think I was an achiever like I I had good grades and stuff but yeah I wasn’t like studying all night or anything I don’t know what what was your high school I’m flipping the tables know if need to be like I just got good grades I didn’t like yeah I don’t know you’re just smart some people are smart no I’ve lost it all in college by the way oh really all of it I the war student in college the fact that I graduated on time is shocking what contributed to that I never went to class ever I went five weeks without going to a class one okay hold on how does that happen because I got one I took classes that didn’t have a tendency Allah sees and then like it’s bad I don’t don’t do that kids I still have I still have recurring nightmares that I’m I realize that I have to take a final for a class I haven’t gone to a semester and then it’s like like besides a bad grade it’s more like I can’t believe I have to walk into this classroom and people are gonna be like who are you and it’s because of that but well it’s a common anxiety dream I have it all the time I need to take the final exam and I haven’t gone to class but but I actually did go to class you’re just having a flashback dream you’re not having an anxiety dream that that’s just mine um so what are you doing for the for these five weeks are you like a hard partyer like yeah I I had I lived in a house with my really good friends are really good guy friends live beside us we shared a yard I mean it was how crazy did it get mamrie give us give us a point a point of point of reference here okay I mean case in point is what I’m actually trying to it was just really it was silly collegiate we had like we had three beer pong tables in the back I threw a party once with six kegs we like it was I had a club called topless Tuesday I mean like it was just about that it was women getting together and learning a new skill or craft or whatnot on tuesdays as they smoked cigars drank bourbon and did it all topless okay no this sounds like a fabulous idea yeah it’s great because you know what I saw so many girls become comfortable with their bodies when they join that club okay topless Tuesday don’t let’s do a baby what was your this is your ID under your range child yes me and my friend Melissa what was your um what what made you think of this idea weight tells your motive just the two of us one day just had a great day just topless doing something and we were like we should invite other girls along you were just like just hanging out topless joking we may really listen to this biscuit they’ll drink at that point I think we were just crafting or something I don’t know you know college coach College was weird you were you would you were crafting topless yeah with your friend yeah okay sexual at all but you weren’t thinking hey I will invite a lot of women and they can grow comfortable with their bodies that was a sight if the next day it was like that was so fun like getting drunk and smoking cigars and and crafting and we were topless and it was Tuesday that’s got a ring to it we invited a few girls to join and then and then like people had heard about it they’re like oh yeah no you guys have that Club I want to come to it so then the next year I like the next semester me and my friend Melissa who founded it we invited people to be in the club like they got formal almost like you would in a sort like a sorority bid we like bid we brought you like an invitation and a glass of champagne and we’re like everybody gets in well I mean it wasn’t like a it’s not like people applied and didn’t get into topless Tuesday we were just like hey you know me exactly it was really it was one of the highlights of my college career I want to hear okay so you were UNC you were majoring in drama drama and communications and media production and so what point were you like okay I kind of think I need to go to class and figure out what I’m gonna do my senior year I finally actually auditioned and and did a play which is actually rocker Rocky Horror Picture Show which was awesome so my senior year that’s kind of when they lay the things out that you have to go to you know there was a class where you have to work in the wardrobe department for six weeks on a production and you’re just gonna live there so once I had to be there I really enjoyed it and and that’s that’s when it solidified that oh I’m moving to New York from here mm-hm but up until that point it was like um who’s going to get the beer it just wasn’t thinking about my future at all so New York was that for theater or just acting in general acting in general but I figured you just had to start with theater and so what was your approach did you hitting the ground in Big Apple Big Apple I moved there very very poor I moved to New York with 400 bucks uh did you know anybody yeah I knew I moved up I moved in with a girl that I had actually been a camp counselor with and and another friend of hers but everything was just I didn’t understand what safety deposits were or like what is it the person who rents it out like the fee for the like the person who shows you the apartment I’m really bad with words right now I don’t like an 8 they have like different work there’s a different name for it in New York I can’t think of it anyway so after all that was said and done I moved up there with like four hundred bucks and an air mattress so hitting the ground running was hitting the ground trying to find a job mm-hmm so I found a job my friend still a very good friend to this day runs a like a post facility recording studio and so I was front desk so it was cool because I got to see actors coming in to do voiceovers and bands coming in and I think it but then meanwhile I was just surviving off whatever bagels they put out that morning right and then and then once I got kind of my feet wet about nine months there I started just trying to find auditions for myself yeah and that was tear and they were terrible they were it was a terrible experience do you have an agent at the time no what made him terrible it was just you know when you don’t have when you don’t have an agent or a resume and you’re just applying to everything you know forget even being paid for it like totally free work but just the actual work they were putting up I always compare it to it’s my go to comparison of do you watch the the little show friends I don’t see no you’re with have you seen it I have so Joey Tribbiani would also always be in these productions where it would be like Freud in space like that I felt like those were the auditions I was going on and they were just so embarrassing that I wouldn’t even want my friends to come that I decided alright I’m gonna have to be able to create my own work and that’s when I signed up for my first comedy writing class and from that class is when I got put on the team with grace Helbig and so that was UCB that was the people’s Improv Theater so I was on a house team there and I did a two-person show there and then I moved to UCB and did you see B for four years so UCB is I mean that that was the like the step up you just couldn’t step into UCB and say hey I want to be here no audition wow it actually works so we were at the people’s Improv Theater first and I took a couple writing classes there but mainly I just started doing shows and so I cultivated this two-person show called both best of friends with my friend Steve and we were like you know what let’s submit a script to UCB and see if they’ll give us an audition show even though neither of us had taken classes there which is like kind of kind of not common to do a show there unless you’ve been through the ranks okay and we got in and we did a run and from there I did several shows and and then I hosted my own show for like three years and I really just snuck in through the back door I never took a class that used to me sorry really yeah so at UCB that they have classes where they teach you improv yeah but then you can just be on one of the teams we audition it’s like crazy they audition like I don’t know the real numbers but let’s say they have let’s say there’s 80 people on their improv teams they probably have like 900 people audition like it’s crazy so you made that team we’re on a certain night I was on a sketch team yeah I was an actress on a sketch team okay yeah and so you learned the ways of improv not by a class but by actually doing in front of people yeah well improv isn’t super my jam I’m really into sketch I’m really into written comedy okay I love improvising onstage like with friends and as a host but I don’t do traditional I don’t do improv team it’s like I’m not gonna I would be terrible if I had to just walk on stage and be like hey you’re 30 minutes late Joe we gotta get to the theater that was pretty great well I was 1802 prob yes so sketch comedy has always been my love I love the writing process I guess that’s the thing about improv where did you discover that eating where did you discover that the writing was something you’re interested in I think it was on that first team on that very first sketch team when you when you it was the first time you really like write something and then hear people laugh who don’t know you that was the first time I was like oh I want to do this all the time yeah and how did you I mean did you know from the beginning that okay comedy goes without saying her no when I moved to New York it was to be a serious actress really yeah and then when I had the I had the emotional breakdown and you know my friends and such were just like why don’t you what do you do it like your faith you have a Lucille Ball face like no offense you can probably act very well but like your face isn’t made for drama it was like you’re right I should give it a shot because I’ve always been like the goofy ridiculous person but I really enjoy dramatic acting so I was kind of you know suppressing the comedy side and then I was like let’s give it a shot and it felt right so do you feel like you know now that the your comedy thing is is really starting to take off you can you see down the road there’s an O and then what I’m gonna surprise them with that dramatic performance and lers so yeah lots of people do Robin Williams write those well actually I cry in camp Takota how well I know I was gonna bring that up first of all great performance thank you at every turn thank you but then there’s that moment towards the end well that’s you know we don’t want to spoil it listen it was very compelling I think and I I was like we we didn’t stop just just talk about it at the time but I was like she’s doing that thing where she’s actually making herself cry that’s that’s for real this is not I’m not acting thing where she’s actually crying no this I’m just gonna I’m making the assumption that you didn’t do the whole bring in the onions you know because it definitely didn’t seem like that it seemed for reals yeah we shot that scene we shot that scene three times yeah Wow medium and close yeah so okay well what is your thing what did you do do you think about a sad thing yeah that’s kind of you know you learn all the different methods and you know when you’re in acting school or college for acting and that’s my go-to is just to think of something just really really really sad in your own life well can you can you tell us what you were thinking well I’ll tell you I also get teary during a no spoilers but a fight with Grace and Hannah and that one and so we had to like get to that level and so then I just don’t I said I just thought about if you guys came up to me tomorrow and we’re like we’ve decided we don’t want to be friends with you anymore and I was just like and I would just be crushed so in that scene against them you were actually feeling with the rejection of yeah okay well I’m kind of being rejected it’s really tough to talk about a movie without saying what happened in the movie yeah yeah it’s difficult but it’s intriguing you got to start figuring that out so we’re like we’re like baiting you and then also with the with the crying scene at the end it was towards the end of filming an actual movie we had like two days left I was just really sad about like leaving the crew whatnot it really did feel like camp when we were shooting the movie so that was really just like I this has been so great I don’t want it to end yeah I don’t know like dig super deep and be like this is about my uncle in nineteen no I do want I mean you’ve helped me discover all I got to do is think about Carroll O’Connor yeah and I start tearing up about my granddad there we go yeah you find your triggers and the Heat are eautiful I can’t tell you how many times that’s been sung to me it’s pretty good friend to probably friends five years now and every time he emails me he attaches the YouTube video of those it’s unforgettable yeah okay so you began to get some traction with comedy writing and the sketch thing mm-hmm and where was where was that headed would you know pre-youtube you’re right were you thinking all right you know I’m gonna break into a sitcom or you know what go are there people around you who were or are kind of oh that person is on the sitcom an hour that’s kind of the path with UCB right that’s totally the path and um well it’s where you see where there are other people that you were thinking about what they did it so can i well they did it so could i well like when when we were at the people’s Improv Theater Ellie Kemper from the office and whatnot like she got it from people’s Improv Theater and Kristen Schaal was there and there were people who are starting to make that leap and then at UCB it was you know once once a year two people go to SNL and and I had peers who were getting you know late-night writing jobs and things like that and I just yeah I’m very I’m very driven by like peer success not in a jealousy way but just like yeah that looks that’s so awesome that you get to do that I want to do that too let’s all rise up together and and there’s also just the migration of New York to LA and you start to see people do that and when they’re in LA things start really going for them okay so I knew that that was gonna have to happen so I’m curious how there was kind of this there was a maybe a fork in the road for you that has now led to the YouTube traction whereas with other people it’s the writing gig on television or the sitcom starring rural type of a situation I thought the fork in the road for me or what I thought was going to be the fork is that I thought I was gonna have to choose writing or performing okay so I would bounce back and forth of you know oh I just I really want to perform I need to do more that too man I really enjoy the writing process I think I might be better at that and what I think YouTube did was be able to kind of converge those two wait you can do both so how did that happen how did the YouTube thing start becoming a factor for you it started becoming a factor we started doing your deserve a drink and I was still doing a lot of stuff at UCB but it’s really great at UCB to know graceless people’s Improv Theater still she did she does traditional improv as well so she was on like a Friday night team and would do that and I was all in at UCB but I guess when it really became a factor is just the numbers king of this sounds probably really a traditional comedy but it’s like I can beg and promote and grind to get 80 people to this show next week or I can put up a video and and this is like you know early days where it’s just like or I can put up a video in like 5000 people saw it like that’s right five times my town I grew up in and so I started to kind of put more focus on it than I had before so what was the genesis of the first YouTube video because right off the bat you had you had the show right uh-huh so how did that work was it the the writer mindset bring him together the bartender thing cuz were you bartending – yeah you said you don’t you didn’t feel like five years bar attended until two years ago okay so you’re like I’m putting these two things together and I’m exactly exactly grace was doing Daily Grace and she was she was killing it you know she was a few years in I think it was just when she started to really like have people like show up at her her theater that were fans things like that like she really started to be like oh this is a thing this is a thing outside of our little life in New York City people know who you are and like I said we were hanging out during the day all the time I was like you know I have an idea for a silly video you deserve a drink where I can actually teach you how to make drinks but with really bad jokes and the first one is for Charlie Sheen like during his meltdown right tiger blood gimlet and my rationale was always because I know how cruel people can be on YouTube was well even if people think I’m an idiot and hate my jokes they’re still learning how to make a drink that was my crutch of like and I still to this day get comments that are like god I hate your face but hey that mojito looks delicious at this point do you I mean do you start to think I’m going to not do the drink part and I’m just gonna do me I mean you have the second channel that’s just that’s I guess that’s what that is yeah but but it’s more of just kind of a side project kind of a thing in terms of YouTube how do you see that I’d love I really really have fun doing mametown and I feel like all the other things I’m working on or like trying to develop or more in that sense of just of just me I guess and just doing weird stuff I always want to keep doing the drinking thing I can see I mean there’s definitely certain limits it limits things it’s it limits age you know it limits some people just don’t drink but I love it and I’ve been loved drinking so I always want there to be an element of that in my work really I’m writing a book and and there’s going to be recipes throughout it and yeah it’s what I really enjoy what’s the book gonna be called dad I don’t know I mean I’m hoping it could be you deserve a drink but I dunno chose Tuesday wow there is a chapter on topless Tuesday yeah okay he’ll buy wet all your listeners whistles which sounded gross in that context so with with the success of what you’re having on YouTube and then you know with being able to write hacked in a feature film awesome has the focus changed you know because I think that still a lot of people who have the talent that you have that you could easily see you getting snatched up into a sitcom or something like that right is that so like oh yeah that would still be really awesome or is it like you know this internet thing is sort of become a thing and I you know we can do these independent projects like camp Takota like house change I still totally want to do television and film the thing is is the I always want to continue doing the YouTube thing 100% that’s like my main might that is my main focus but figuring out like everyone is trying to do how you can find that happy medium because like you know old habits die hard if I’m eight years old wanting to get an agent to be on TV yeah I still want it I still want to be on TV it’s just you know you have to check that off but um I don’t think it’s a lot of people like oh well you know the internet are you using it as like a stepping tool and it’s like no it’s one of the blocks I want to have to build whatever my life is going to be I always want it to be there you know how has the Uni talked about how the fans kind of recognize that okay you had to form this friendship mm-hmm with Grayson Hannah and then you guys were making videos because you’re friends and you all do the same thing yeah once as people kind of start recognizing that this is a thing yeah was camp Takota a reaction to that or was that was it a plan all along interesting we met Michael Goldfine who’s the producer of the movie he actually met Hannah and Grace and they were like he wanted to create a project didn’t know what it was but wanted to create a project with youtubers and they were like you should meet our friend mamrie and you know at that point it wasn’t like because she’s on our level you know they’re they have much bigger audiences with me but I loved the writing aspect of it so we got together and met and I actually I had 20 pages of camp written in its first form and I was like I have this idea for this movie a woman blah blah blah life falls apart and Michael who was a camper through and through growing up was like I love it I’ve always wanted to make a camp movie yes let’s like make this movie so that was already a thing in my head but it wasn’t a thing starring three people in my head so it was it was breaking it out to where it could be this like this story about these three girls friendship but still the whole the whole way she gets there and whatnot was was the same right so it was it was it was your friendship with them that kind of led to your involvement in the project but it was your idea that ended up changing making the project yeah yeah because of the friendship yeah so I mean how is that do you guys now you know it’s because with the two of us obviously we’ve been best for instance we were six years old it’s just it’s a given that any entertainment project that we’re gonna work on we’re gonna work on it together yeah of course now that you guys have this you know relationship and you’re working together is it like you know what we should you get together and you talk about what should we do next as as the trio the trio I mean we’re definitely working on some things and we had the thing is is that making the movie was just so much fun and like like my goal is just to continue to find ways to get paid to goof off with my friends on a set essentially and so we definitely want to do things together but you know they’re busy girls too we all have our own things going on so I’m trying to think of someone else and like who always ends up doing movies together or let’s say like you know like the three amigos like Steven Martin had other films and things you know what I mean yeah but then they went but then when they come together it’s really fun that’s what I would love to do with Grayson Hannah is be able to do our own things come together have a blast you know and just just interweave through each other’s careers I think would be fantastic but it is funny now that people are aware I’ll see things on tumblr that’s just like I think Grace and mamrie are pushing Hannah out since the film and I’m like it’s been four days and also like we got lunch yesterday we just didn’t Instagram but yeah like they just think they need like their dose to make sure that we’re still friends and it’s like guys we’re still really good friends yeah we we just don’t always record it it’s okay I think it’s you know we experienced that in doing good mythical morning every day that we get comments I think that I think I sense tension yeah why not there okay yeah we get the it’s very frustrating for us but I guess in the end it’s very it’s a very good sign that someone cares so much that like their their connection to us hinges on our friendship with each other right that they care so much about it but it’s also nice too because especially the the age a lot of the age that people are watching it is it is kind of when you’re still figuring out how to be friends you know you have that time where like you know what it’s like to be eight and ride bikes but like when you’re really figuring out how to be friends as like a teenager you have like good friendship models to kind of look up to and and you know try to emulate and so if there’s tension like all is lost right exactly yeah how am I supposed to you know but we’re all fine guys there’s a fanfiction that when guys would do the nofilter to her you guys would act out fanfic the the extremely suitable for work fanfiction because there is otherwise oh yeah you didn’t act out any other all-ages show okay so we’ll save that for our Amsterdam leg of our tour yeah there’s some there’s some stuff there’s some yeah hey you know what I say it keeps kids right and I’m on board it’s so creative and a lot of it is really well written so well I enjoy writing I mean I oh yeah I saw your one the other day reading my work three hearts beat as one [Laughter] yeah we get a little bit of that but yeah I’ve heard about it but I haven’t read any of yeah exactly I can’t bring myself to it’s so funny I love it and then people all the different ships that people do they get really intense about it like to a kind of ridiculous degree I mean do you know about all this like shipping Moors yeah and like people get pissed off when other people ship and at the end of the day it’s like hey guys none of us each other spoiler alert we’re all friends so slow your roll so so now what I mean there’s yours still kind of on the the crest of this initial wave of camp Takota oh I haven’t been sober in a month pretty exciting xa yeah but you said that you’re there’s other things in the works there’s other things in the works right now right now I’m doing the whole going on auditions and writing the book but then I’m definitely you know hit the ground running to get another as we know movies take a long time to make so I want to start making one ASAP and I just want to like ride the coattails of Camp Takota to try to get people to you know believe in another project and and that’s I’m just want to use it as leverage to be like people will come people will watch it if we build it so yeah I don’t make more movies I want to want to develop more things with my own voice well we’re excited to hear the voice and see the see the eyes it’s gonna get weird I can’t wait yeah well thanks for making an air biscuit with us thanks for having me this biscuit was delicious it was no Bojangles but it was good we should get some that shipped here yeah definitely [Music] okay there you have it our ear biscuit with the one and only mamrie Hart I think it’s cool and you know getting to know her better and kind of hearing her story just the fact that from a young age she knew that she wanted to be an entertainer she was inspired by her parents by being on the set with her dad and then you know she steps out with only four hundred dollars goes to New York to pursue her dream scene one path but then Minh a lot of ways I guess due to her friendship with grace and the traction that grace was getting on YouTube she kind of switched tracks and now finds herself being able to make her own right and star in her own movie I mean that’s that’s where we are in in the industry and it’s just cool that someone who was felt like they were made to do this is able to do it has unprecedented opportunity and she did it without the help of her father too you know I don’t know what his status in the world of entertainment is now but I you know when she said I went to New York just like anybody else no one would that had a dad that was on a TV show just went to New York with $400 and kind of made it happen and you know she’s a truly talented individual and just very funny great actress you know I was really impressed with camp Takota and I get you know I’m excited for her that she’s able to do this and she’s got this big push and then can think about writing a book and all this stuff on top of it and and now we’ve talked to all three of them though you know this that’s the thing that I thought about we talked to grace we talked to him and we talked to mamrie we got to find another group of three amigos yeah as she called it we got to find another trio do you know where to start no we could add somebody to us and we would be one I guess maybe maybe that’s what we actually should be thinking not who should we talk to but do we need to that’s not a bad idea and then how would we go about taking applications for the night maybe just a pet maybe we start small like if if we got like an Internet pet you know how people get pet even married has a dog I got it how about like a monkey oh gosh because I in a lot of these it’s not even a pet that’s like an actor a lot of these you two monkeys are smart a lot of youtubers are doing things right I’m gonna get this cat or I’m gonna get this dog and put them in my Instagram and everything’s gonna be great I don’t want to I don’t want that kind of pet you’re talking chimpanzee or my pansy is a primate I don’t want to know the difference Queen a monkey in a primate but I think you’ve got to start with a monkey okay you don’t want I mean chimpanzee pansy is like 99% the DNA matches us that would be like this heaven like a third person around well that’s what I’m kidding I know but I think that’s too much to take on at all at once I think you turn on you yo yeah and they’ll rip your face off unless they’re young a monkey will throw his feces on you I definitely heard about how they’ll do that but that could be entertaining there could be a whole channel of him doing that I mean you you don’t even know how many times I’ve come close to doing that to you you’re not as far as things that cross your mind yeah it’s just I don’t have any on hand alright so alright anybody is a monkey out there that listens to your biscuits if you’re you know if you’re thinking about potentially getting on YouTube or having a career in entertainment we’ll dress you up in anything you want you can play an instrument that’s even better we’ve reached a new low not only are we thinking about having a monkey as part of our comedic duo but we’re also addressing them as if they listen this is sad they’re hey listen I there is a less than 1% chance out there I mean that there’s a monkey out there listening to us right now really he’s probably not in control of the audio but he’s somebody’s pet monkey right now they’re listening and he started looking at them right now things like they’re talking about me George I said George because I was thinking about a monkey right here is George the man in the yellow hat is listening to this ear biscuit and George is looking at him okay I’m shaking my head right now and discuss an apology this goes out to all of you non monkeys out there thank you for listening thank you for leaving a review on iTunes it makes a difference and tweet it mamrie her twitter handle is main town in Miami town and let her know what you thought also tweeted us give us the feedback we do 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