'Dirty Laundry's Lily Du and Grant O'Brien on the Dropout show's secrets

Really excited to have you guys here today

We love having Dropout people on. And like I, in preparation for this, for my job, got to just binge a bunch of dirty laundry

which is just so much fun. Excellent. I've done that for my job

Well, you binge. I do. I do. Sorry, I stopped listening after that

Well, so what I think is so fascinating about that show is it's something that I really like

about Dropout as a whole is that the comedy is coming from a place of like, I refuse to

be ashamed of the things that make me different from someone else totally yeah and so there's like

such a pride around like yeah this weird little secret and i'm curious for you guys like as the

show has gone on like how have you seen that grow how have you seen that develop with like

in how you approach it and how guests approach it i think when we started it was like oh what's

a juicy secret and i think we realized we got a lot of like shit my pants puke my guts out

Had sex someplace odd. Yeah. And we're like, those are universal. Actually, babe, we've all shatterpanned

Yeah. That's more of a fun fact than a story. Yeah. And it's really, we've realized over time, it's more of a storytelling show

What are the fun, surprising instances that have happened? And then we can make the copy of The Secret to be whatever

Yeah. That's also fun because you can tell when it's like the person who submitted the story doesn't

know how it was framed. Uh-huh. Yeah. I and usually our producer Paul does that I don't know the full story behind it I like to be

surprised but there was one I remember that was like who gave a surprise performance at the Austin

airport yes and Jacob Wysocki was like that's not how I would describe it but it was that his

bathroom stall had opened and everyone had like seen him take a shit or something yeah that's also

because I'm very familiar with that airport like where are you performing like I got like way too

in my head before like the facts came out and I was like okay about the salt lick barbecue

obviously that like local reference um I am curious because like you guys also tell secrets

on this show and I think the dropout seems like such a free space as someone who watches it that

it seems like you kind of it seems like a space safe space that you can kind of share parts of yourself that might feel like tender and so I'm curious for you like how do you make the decision

of like what's something you're going to share with the world and something that's just for you I'll share anything

It's not like my personal life that involves other people. Sure. Like my husband, my child, my parents

Actually, my parents. Yeah, those are my best stories. Yeah. Well, I think it's like Lily was saying

I'll share anything, just some of it's not a good story. Some of it just like well that just an embarrassing thing about me Right You did try to submit I peed myself at the Blue Man Group twice I tell it again right here Can you believe someone would pee themselves at the Blue Man Group

Crazy. Now that's crazy. Was that just, were you like just so excited or was there not a proper

Not having an intermission should be an illegal thing. It should be illegal to not have

The show was over. How long is it? 90 minutes. Okay. I was like three hour show

Not that long. Intermission. 90 minutes, you've got to breeze on through. You don't want to take away that momentum

I was in the aisle on my way up to the bathroom, and I just was too excited to make it

You know? And he was so excited to tell this story, he tried to submit it in season five after he told it on season four

And our producer was like, sorry, is this a joke? And I said, no, Graham was just so drunk he doesn't remember telling it

Which is why I get to be surprised by my own stories. What a pleasure

What a fun way to keep work fresh. You're telling me. Keep out how drunk. every day. Look, I learned about that in acting school

Where do you feel like that serious training comes into play in like being professionally

silly? First of all, even then I was being very silly. Yeah, I'm like acting school is so silly. It's really like you really have to pretend

you're not laying on the floor for $50,000 a year. Grant took an acting for soap opera class at NYU

I did. And you know what? They taught me how to stand

so I don't look too tall on camera. Just stand it with your legs wide

Oh. $50,000 a year. $50,000 a year. It's so, so. But at least I can be on all the soap operas

Now you're ready. All the soap operas that are still around. All the soap operas

You can do verticals. Yeah, right? Your lips to God's ears. Let's do it

I'm available. Well, it's at that point because you guys both have like, you know

like I remember they cut to like your FBI scene and things like, was there ever like a moment

whether it's as an actor or comedian, where you're like, wow, this is my job. Like for better or for worse

but just that kind of surreal moment where you're like, this is a real job I do. Oh, when we filmed Dirty Laundry for sure

I go, this is awesome. Even though we back shoot them over four days

and then it's like, I blink and it's over. So I'm like, I can't believe that was

That we get to do this. I mean, it is such an awesome, especially a show like this where we do both kind of watch the show as the show happens so we're

kind of just watching funny people be funny you know we do shoot it all in four days so it's we're

watching a lot of people be very funny um but it's an awesome gig it's so cool it's so fun and

also a lot of times like in other shows i like i a very small part in a much larger machine like game changer or like a TV show I just in and out This like I really setting the pace

Grant is making the drink. Like it really feels like our show

Yeah. And that's. I didn't realize how many episodes a day you shoot until you did your like day in the life

Oh, yeah. That was wild. I didn't realize though it's like four days. After that, for both of you, are you just like no one talked to me for 48 hours

you know i'm doing okay right afterwards it's like the next way well day of two usually both

of us end up sitting on the couch just huh i guess i have to stand up to go home all right

no i have an incredible social battery i'm like it's lunch let's chat grant i cannot find him he's

hiding he's in the back he's laying down i'm not hiding i'm preparing the next drink i am lying

down sometimes sometimes i'm like i am sometimes i like drinking significantly more than me

again can you believe it's my job well i mean for people who because i do love that you guys

actually show how to i got very into cocktail making uh during covid because i think it

it was like my way of being like i'm choosing to stay in you know what i mean my pitch for it is

it's all the fun of cooking but it's over in 30 seconds it's you're making something yeah oh you're

doing a recipe and also you're getting right to having it wait i'm sorry this is a question

for you and maybe you if you know cocktails as well i was watching some music right before this

and a guy came to the bar and i feel like he was quite bossy about the drink he ordered like he

was like less ice and then she poured out some ice and then he was like it's a sauce and he's

like that's enough and he kept going like like when to stop and the drink was tequila a splash

of pineapple juice and seltzer? What is that? What is that? That's gross

That's a man who doesn't like the taste of tequila but can't bring himself to order a margarita

Ew. You're so right. And to be specific about that, like that's... Stop

That's crazy. We're in a dive bar. Those three ingredients will taste good

in any combination. Yeah. Just let them cook. Let them go. I am married to a straight man

and one thing I definitely get really... I know. He's pretty good, actually

Like, as far as straight men go, and we've said this, he's pretty good for that, but I will say this

He is a straight man who is not afraid to order the floofy cocktail. Yeah

And it's like, I forget how lucky I am in that, because if you go

out with a couple who gets like that, and the guy's like, I'll just buy this beer. And then he's, like

staring at the drinks. I'm like, yeah, these drinks are fun and delicious. And you could have had them

Now what your cocktail What do you like to order I very sickle and here the thing If you give me a cocktail description that I can in my head figure out I want Great What an attitude Oh God Curiosity

Right? There's a place near me that they have this weird cocktail that has a mushroom liqueur in it, which sounds honestly gross

But I love it. It's sweet and savory and bizarre. And I don't know. It's called the Jungle Bird or something

Not enough savory cocktails. I love savory cocktails. This is what I'm saying. It's so good

You have the smoked tomato at Vandel. Yes. I was like, isn't it great

There's a bar in LA that opened near me and they smoke tomatoes daily and they infuse

it in their drink. I love some cocktails. And it tastes like a... I think tomato cocktails are going to be the next big trend

I think that's the mix. It's so refreshing. Because I was just like, you know, you do the smashes

You just mash a berry, mash an herb, throw things in. It's really simple. And to the point where I was making it for my nieces is mocktails, which they got very

snooty about. It got to the point where they... Less ice? You don't even know

You don't know. They're 8 and 11. And they came to visit me in New York last year

And I said, where do you want to go for dinner? And the 8-year-old goes, I don't care as long as there's mocktails

That's crazy. I don't think mocktails should be the same price as a cocktail

This is Science Week. How dare you? How absolutely dare you charge me $17

dollars in LA I we had a thing where we had Elvira coming in and she had a cookbook out and so I

wanted to prepare something from the cookbook for her there and I decided to go with a cocktail

because I thought it would look great on camera but I used a non-alcoholic gin because that way

if she like she wouldn't screw either of us up whatever it's the day it's the daytime right

but like that gin was the most expensive gin I've ever bought it was like 45 dollars like great it's

very good it's delicious but and i said to the guy at the which this can't be right you might know

this i said to the guy at the alcohol store that's what they call it they said to the man um why is

this so expensive because i was just flabbergasted he goes well they have to make the gin and then

make it unalcohol they take out the alcohol it's like that's not what that can't be what happens

well it is but you have to steep those in alcohol to get to strip the flavor and then just and then

reduce that basically down. Okay. But I don't think a mocktail needs gin flavored non-alcoholic

I will say, a non-alcoholic gin is actually delicious. Oh, gin is already so close

to being, like there's so much going on without alcohol. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's

that's, they haven't cracked non-alcoholic whiskey yet. And I don't know that they can

I think that might be, science, I dare you. I dare you