Speaker 1: This is Later with Lee Matthews, The Lee Matthews Podcast
Speaker 1: more what you hear weekday afternoons on the Drive.
Speaker 2: You know Lauren Lipcus from Orange is the New Black.
Speaker 2: You've also seen her on the Wrong Missy with David Spade.
Speaker 2: I will always remember her as Stuart's girl Denise in
Speaker 2: The Big Bang Theory. She is now in a new
Speaker 2: scripted podcast and it is out wherever you see podcasts
Speaker 2: to hear podcasts, including the iHeartRadio app. And it is
Speaker 2: called Haunting. This is a different kind of paranormal podcast, isn't.
Speaker 3: It it is? I mean, well, for one thing, it
Speaker 3: mixes comedy and horror together. I play a dead influencer
Speaker 3: named Terreza, who is like weaving you into these stories
Speaker 3: and giving you a little backstory about me and what's
Speaker 3: going on with me. But then we get to hear
Speaker 3: really really scary stories from real people.
Speaker 2: What was being a part of such an iconic TV
Speaker 2: show like Big Bang Theory inspirational for you? And do
Speaker 2: you draw on that experience in this podcast?
Speaker 3: Oh? I loved being on that show. It was so fun.
Speaker 3: I mean it was amazing because I got to come
Speaker 3: into that show when it was in season eleven, and
Speaker 3: so you know, it obviously had a rabid fan base
Speaker 3: at that point. So it was so much fun to
Speaker 3: go do the tapings where audiences were live in person,
Speaker 3: so excited to be there. The energy was really amazing,
Speaker 3: and I loved being a part of that. And I,
Speaker 3: you know, I think, do I take that into this
Speaker 3: horror podcast. I don't know if I take that into
Speaker 3: the horror podcast, but I think the feeling of loving
Speaker 3: to perform for people is always there.
Speaker 2: How'd you like that hook? I was just trying to
Speaker 2: kind of weave it all together.
Speaker 3: I loved that.
Speaker 2: Laura Lovekis is with us. Her new podcast is Haunting.
Speaker 2: What's funny about death?
Speaker 3: God, you know, not much. I mean, I think when
Speaker 3: we're talking about ghosts, it feels so removed from the
Speaker 3: actual experience of death that we can separate those things
Speaker 3: a bit, or we do in our minds. This character
Speaker 3: that I play, this influencer, she dies in a very
Speaker 3: you know, embarrassing way that I'll let be revealed on
Speaker 3: the podcast. But you know, all the stories that we're
Speaker 3: hearing are real. So it's I guess you automatically think
Speaker 3: of death, But when I think of ghots, I just
Speaker 3: think more being scared. I don't think about the actual
Speaker 3: person who was alive, who is now a ghost, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, as many funerals as I've been to
Speaker 2: and as many times as I've been a pall bearer,
Speaker 2: I'm the one that is usually at the funeral thinking
Speaker 2: of wow, that's kind of funny. I'll give you well, yeah, please,
Speaker 2: I'll give you an example. My grandfather's funeral, he used
Speaker 2: to call my aunt, who was a bit of a snob,
Speaker 2: he used to call her house the Sanctum sanctorum. Well,
Speaker 2: in the midst of the funeral, he was a Freemason,
Speaker 2: and in the Freemason service, they kept bringing up the
Speaker 2: Sanctum sanctorum and I looked over my mom, and my
Speaker 2: mom looked at me, and we had to stifle the
Speaker 2: giggles that we at this funeral because it was supposed
Speaker 2: to be so Yeah, that's an example too. I mean
Speaker 2: I read about a woman who buried her husband on
Speaker 2: her own property and it took so long to get
Speaker 2: the headstone she lost track of exactly where it was,
Speaker 2: so in the end she lost her husband twice.
Speaker 3: You know, Oh my god, you know I've had that
Speaker 3: where I can't stop laughing at a funeral. So I
Speaker 3: totally relate that. I mean, I honestly kind of love
Speaker 3: those moments in life where you can't stop laughing and
Speaker 3: you're really not supposed to. I had it at a
Speaker 3: wedding recently, which seems like it wouldn't be bad to laugh,
Speaker 3: but this guy was introduced. It was really sweet. It
Speaker 3: was I mean, I'm a comedian and a bunch of
Speaker 3: comedians were at this wedding, so we're naturally, you know,
Speaker 3: going to laugh at things that other people are not
Speaker 3: laughing at. But the officient was like making jokes about
Speaker 3: the weather and they just weren't landing, and it was
Speaker 3: so funny. And then there's that feeling of like I
Speaker 3: don't want to laugh because I don't want to ruin
Speaker 3: this like beautiful moment. But then we all start laughing
Speaker 3: and could not stop. And it's one of my favorite memories.
Speaker 3: I just I love that feeling of like trying to
Speaker 3: hold back laughter.
Speaker 2: Laura Locus she doesn't do that. She lets you laugh
Speaker 2: as much as you want in her podcast Haunting, which
Speaker 2: is out. Now, what are some of the what are
Speaker 2: some of the plot twists we're going to hear about
Speaker 2: and this is this is a scripted thing. This isn't
Speaker 2: you add living.
Speaker 3: The parts where I'm thereza are scripted. And then the stories,
Speaker 3: the ghost stories are all real, so it's not scripted.
Speaker 3: It's people calling in and leaving audio messages telling their story.
Speaker 3: So you get a little bit of both. But yeah,
Speaker 3: so from my part, you know, it's really it's it's
Speaker 3: fun and light and this influencer as a very superficial
Speaker 3: person who has all the wrong priorities as far as
Speaker 3: I'm concerned, and you get to just hear a little
Speaker 3: behind the scenes of her recording the podcast and what's
Speaker 3: going on in her after life as she's hoping to
Speaker 3: land in heaven ideally. And then we cut to these
Speaker 3: stories where we hear people share terrifying things that have
Speaker 3: happened to them. There's a story about a school trip
Speaker 3: where kids go to a haunted house and obviously something
Speaker 3: supernatural happens. There's one that's really really scary where women
Speaker 3: are on a care free trip together, just having a
Speaker 3: vacation and then this scary figure appears at the foot
Speaker 3: of their bed and they have to deal with that.
Speaker 3: These there are all things that really happen to people,
Speaker 3: and that's what makes it so fun because you get
Speaker 3: to hear you know, these are I love a true story.
Speaker 3: I love a true ghost story.
Speaker 2: Lauren Lopcis is with us. Okay, I don't know that
Speaker 2: I've had any ghost stories. I've had things happen to
Speaker 2: me that I attribute to being a ghost. One example,
Speaker 2: I was staying at my grandmother's house, who had passed
Speaker 2: away a good ten years previous to that. She was
Speaker 2: always obsessing about light. She was worried if you had
Speaker 2: a subdued light, you were hurting your eyes, so she
Speaker 2: was always turning lights on. I'm walking into the bedroom
Speaker 2: where I'm staying, which is in her house, and it's
Speaker 2: in her bedroom, and right as I walk in, the
Speaker 2: lamp by the bedside comes on. And my first reaction was, well,
Speaker 2: as a matter of fact, Grandma, I did need a
Speaker 2: light on.
Speaker 3: I mean, I believe that was her. That sounds like
Speaker 3: so perfect.
Speaker 2: I've told that story so many times. I'm sure the
Speaker 2: producers are rolling their eyes. Oh, here we go again.
Speaker 3: But that's the perfect context to share it right now.
Speaker 3: I mean, we've definitely my family has had moments like
Speaker 3: that where you're talking about someone in a light slickers
Speaker 3: like things like that that you just can't attribute to anything,
Speaker 3: and it just feels like it has to be that person.
Speaker 3: And even if there are definitely skeptics out there, people
Speaker 3: aren't going to say that's not real. But if it
Speaker 3: gives you some comfort in those moments, I think that's
Speaker 3: totally great. I mean, I'd rather take the moments where
Speaker 3: it's somebody that I love sending me a message than
Speaker 3: a terrifying ghost that I have no connection to who's
Speaker 3: trying to scare me. That's that's not my favorite.
Speaker 2: You know her from Orange is the New Black. You've
Speaker 2: also seen her in the Wrong Missy with David Spade.
Speaker 2: I remember her Stuart's Girl and the Big Bang Theory
Speaker 2: Lauren Lipkus and her podcast Hunting with Lauren Lipkis. That
Speaker 2: was my question, Have you had a scary paranormal experience?
Speaker 3: I did have one when I was a kid that
Speaker 3: my family can we cannot explain, and it's really crazy.
Speaker 3: We were at home and there was a voicemail or
Speaker 3: you know, an answering machine had a message on it. It
Speaker 3: was the nineties, so it was a long time and
Speaker 3: we played the message and it said you have a
Speaker 3: Collect call. It was like, if you remember Collect calls,
Speaker 3: I'm actually just making it telling the oldest story in
Speaker 3: the world, but okay, it was. And it said you
Speaker 3: have a Collect call from and then you hear some
Speaker 3: like clinking of glasses, and then you hear a voice
Speaker 3: say Grandpa Joe, which was my great grandpa who had
Speaker 3: a bar. And we heard that clear as day. And
Speaker 3: I remember my whole family screaming and freaking out and
Speaker 3: playing the message over and over again. And I can't
Speaker 3: explain it, and I think it was real, and I
Speaker 3: choose to believe it was real because it's way more
Speaker 3: exciting than somebody prank calling us.
Speaker 2: Imagine if you had been home when the call came
Speaker 2: through and you that would have been better answered the phone.
Speaker 2: What would have happened to them?
Speaker 3: I don't know. What did you want to say? Why
Speaker 3: was he calling? He was calling Collect? I mean he
Speaker 3: didn't have a coin, so it makes sense.
Speaker 2: Scary. Do you do you do a lot of production
Speaker 2: elements in the podcast in The Haunting with Lauren Lipkuz.
Speaker 3: I don't. We have an amazing team. It's all done
Speaker 3: by this company, Glass Podcast, and they are so amazing
Speaker 3: compiling the stories and you know, putting it together with
Speaker 3: amazing sound effects and giving it a really nice feel.
Speaker 3: So thankfully I don't have to do that part because
Speaker 3: that's not my expertise.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, we will be listening to Haunting with Lauren Loppez,
Speaker 2: the podcast available on the iHeartRadio app and everywhere you
Speaker 2: get podcasts. Thank you for so much great comedy, Lauren,
Speaker 2: and for joining us today.
Speaker 3: Thank you, thanks for having me.
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