Giggling about bodyguards, breakdancing, and Italian bread

Giggly Squad

In this playful and candid episode of Giggly Squad, the hosts dive into their recent experiences at the Venice Film Festival, sharing humorous anecdotes about having a

Key takeaways

• Male allies like Kenan Thompson can have a powerful impact by publicly acknowledging women's work, shifting cultural perceptions.

Main topics

• Venice Film Festival experience
• Bodyguard anecdotes and romanticizing Italian men

Notable quotes

"I dream in Spanish and I sing in French."

"It's got to be the gluten. It really has to be."

Conclusion

The episode closes on a heartfelt note, celebrating unexpected affirma

Transcript preview

Speaker 1 (0:02) Sup, gigglers. Gary, fix the Wi-Fi. Manifest that shit. We can't be managed. I mean, the day just got away from me. Hello, my gaggle of gigglers. Paige is still in Italia. I literally just got home from the Venice Film Festival. Ciao, come se dice. I had a bodyguard tonight. You love having a bodyguard. Yeah, I loved it. You love having... I'm normally your bodyguard. I said Giorgio. Come on, we're walking. Well, Armani really had a bodyguard and then like... They just like sent him with me. But at one point he was like, sorry, like my English isn't that good. And I was like, it's actually so good. It's better than my Italian. And he was like, what other languages do you speak? I said, I don't know. I'm American. Europeans are so cool. I only speak English. They're like, I dream in Spanish and I sing in French. Was he hot? Here's the thing. Giorgio was a good looking man. Yes. Speaker 1 (1:06) But here's the thing about Italy. I just like it's actually infuriating, specifically Venice. All the men are so good looking. And I'm like. How did we have Rat Boy Summer? You know, like when there's these like like my favorite guy, my Michelle Marone. They all look like that. He's a dime a dozen here. Yeah. I'm a freaking dozen. OK. I'm like, what's where are all the hot people in America, specifically the men? I haven't seen a hot male actor other than like maybe the love story guy recently. There's something in the bread, maybe. Speaker 1 (1:47) It's got to be the gluten. It really has to be. People need gluten. It's actually infuriating. I looked at one guy. I was like, okay, so your job is to drive boats around? Like, no, come to America. You could be. You could drive every girl around. You could be anything. You could be anything you wanted. You love having a man just like paddle you around. That's where you should be. Well, you want to know what? Every time stairs were presented to me. Giorgio would put his arm out and I was like, yeah. Okay, Ariana Grande. This is what I need, Giorgio. Yeah, take my arm. He's holding you and you put your head back just like at the end of Romeo and Juliet. I was like, what if you carried me onto the boat? Speaker 1 (2:34) Hold me close. Whenever I have a bodyguard, which is very rare because I look like a bodyguard myself, we start chatting. Yeah. They don't need to be there. Like, I'm not. No, I was like, no one knows who I am in Italy. I was like, this is going to be the easiest job we've ever had, buddy. But also I'm like, look, the gigglers, chill as fuck. Look, sometimes they get drunk. They get a little loud. Yeah. I'm loud. We can handle that. I'm like, will they outsmart you? Yes. But that's funny for me to watch. Speaking of outsmarting, good segue. Watched the Love Island reunion. Well, I had it on in the background and I was on my phone. I'm not a scholar. My college is done. Someone disagree. My college, they said we're out. Okay. I hate to sound like a boomer, but Gen Z is really, they have to stop. They were on there talking and like. Speaker 1 (3:29) saying their points, but every saying, like common saying, they were getting wrong. Like one girl goes, okay, well, if the shoe was on the other hand. Obsessed, obsessed. See, that's the thing. My job in this podcast is to defend Gen Z and make their existence known because I love you all. And one thing about me, can't get a saying right for life. Another girl goes, and if you want to die on that bed, then that's your prerogative. I looked, I literally looked up from my phone. I go, even I didn't think of that one. That's a beautiful thing about language and Americans. Yeah, we can't speak other languages, but we also will make up our own. I was like, I couldn't do it. Honestly. Speaker 1 (4:17) I didn't really even finish it because the girls started to really fight with each other. And I was like, guys, all these men suck. I can't believe you guys are even fighting with each other. Every single one of your partners is a loser. I heard that one of the girls people liked in the first edit, but then the reunion happened and everyone was like, wait, we don't fuck with her, which is so unfortunate because you almost got away with it. And that's the game of reality TV, baby. Speaker 1 (4:47) Wait. Kenan Thompson? Wait. Kenan. Wait. Wait. You got. Wait. What's the show that he was on? It was all that. But like what's the show he had like with. Kenan. Kenan and Cal. Yeah. Like who's Kenan and who's Cal in this group? You're. I'm Kenan. Yeah. You're definitely Kenan. I'm definitely Cal. Because Cal was like sassier I feel like. Cal was an idiot. Speaker 1 (5:14) Wait, so tell them what happened. We like here on Amy Poehler's podcast, she asks Keenan, like, what is making you laugh right now? And he said he loves watching like his friends succeed and his friends work. And he thanked Amy Poehler for putting on Paige and Hannah. He said it's by name. He didn't say like Giggly Scott. He said Paige and Hannah. It was crazy. I didn't say Hannah and Paige. But yes, he said Paige and Hannah. And you know what's funny? He name dropped us. No, no. No, no. He said our name so casually, like as if he's like, you know, Paige and Hannah. Yeah, like I saw them last week. And the funny thing is that like we've never met him. I've never met him. But you want to know what? At Las Culturistas two years ago, he was sitting in the front row and I got up to win Cool Girl Award. And him and I locked eyes at one point. Speaker 1 (6:06) Oh, and I felt way back with Kenan. I said, I think Kenan and I just locked eyes. You're long lost friends with Kenan. Cause my thing is just speaking broadly to about the comedy community. It is still a boys club. No matter how successful you are as a woman, a bunch of boys will come together and still talk shit about your comedy. And then anything you post online. All the men who love good good are going to comment about how you suck and how all you do is talk about sex. And then when a guy posts a sex video, people are like, this was an incredible bit and I love how he thought about it. So for Kenan to be a male comic who's also on SNL, which is considered gold standard and pretty prestigious. Not to mention he's been on TV. For 300 years and he's only 28. Yeah, he's been on TV for like three decades. Speaker 1 (6:58) I don't think he even knows, and maybe he does, just like how beautiful that is for him to do for women in the arts and women in STEM. Because it takes one man to just say something nice about a woman, and it makes everything more beautiful. Well, because men are inherently followers, where women are leaders. No, seriously. Yeah. Men love taking orders from other men. Men love being on sports teams where they're listening to another man and then they hug other men like they love following. We like leading. So, yeah, it takes one man to be like, actually, I think those girls are OK. And then all of a sudden all the other men are like, oh, OK. And but one thing I wanted to say, though, is you don't like name dropping is such a thing, but you don't know when you're being name dropped. Speaker 1 (7:53) I feel it in my bones. You ever just have a twitch in the middle of the night? You're like, ah! Yeah, I actually know that there's some motherfuckers out there name-dropping me that would make me vomit. Did you ever see a photo of people hanging out on Instagram and you're like, I know they talked about me? Yes, every day of my life. You're like, I know that I took up at least 30 minutes of this hang. This hang was 30 minutes and the PowerPoint was me. Speaker 1 (8:17) That's when my ears rang. I go, what one of you fucking bitches? Why don't you text me? But you know what I would argue? And this Kenan thing made me realize that sometimes I'll get in my head because you think people hate you or they're talking bad about you. Like, you know, you wake up and you're like, is everyone mad at me? Yeah. What if you shifted that perspective, mental health moment of the week? And you said, what if there's people I don't even know who are talking good about me right now? That's nice. isn't that nice and keenan in that room he was and there was you guys we didn't bribe him we've literally like page made accidental eye contact yeah that's just i heard also like because i know people who know him that he is like the sweetest ever he seems it like a literal angel he really i loved all that when i was little but specifically his skits like i always Speaker 1 (9:13) was so excited for Pierre Escargot. Like, I always thought that was the funniest skit of the whole show. So shout out to Kenan. We love you so much. Yeah, that was really nice. Also adding one more thing about women because I don't feel like we talk about women at all on the pod. What do you mean? All we do is talk about women. I was being sarcastic. Gloria Steinem died. I was going to say Gloria Steinem has passed away. One of the most incredible feminists of our time. Yeah. And hopefully she's having a drink with Dolly. Right now. Sorry, my lips look so good right now. I'm literally talking about Speaker 1 (9:58) sorry caught a glimpse of my third wave feminism right now and they'd also agree that my lip liner is superb they also would agree you do look really fucking good um she had one quote that i thought was really interesting that i want to read to you right now sorry i feel like you're in a college professor course on zoom and you're like don't want to listen i'm about to go camera off for that's the energy that i'm giving you too i'm like i'm gonna need you to focus for the next 10 seconds okay it's Gloria Steinem said any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That is really true. I was just going to say it reminds me of... Speaker 1 (10:40) my firing which we we barely speak about every episode you're firing my firing and how i said i wanted to do something else and be something else and everyone really laughed at me i actually can't wait for the morgan stewart pod to come out because like i talked about you so much because like what else do i have going on other than you're my friend And she like didn't know that you got fired. And so like I told her. Oh no, did you have to explain it? She was like, so then did you leave after? And you're like, that's another thing. I go, I stayed for four more seasons. I had to get more revenge for my girl. I did it for my friend. And I had work to do. I saw a quote recently because this used to be my kryptonite when I was like in my teens and twenties. Speaker 1 (11:31) Like if I wanted to break up with a guy, I would be like, OK, but the next girl he dates, like he's going to treat her so much better. And my mom would get so mad at me because she'd be like, OK, that's like not a thing. Like, no, he's not. This guy's a loser. And so I keep seeing on TikTok people being like. So what if he treats the next girl well? What if your next guy buys you a yacht and names it after you? It's so true. Like you can't worry about like when you want to break up with someone, you have to remind yourself, you know them. You know who they are. And if you don't want to be with them, you have to go. That's why I hate having a dream about an ex. You've ever dreamed about an ex and it like puts them in such a good light. And then you wake up and you're like, no, I, I. Speaker 1 (12:20) I couldn't get food to go down when I was around him. I haven't dreamt about an ex in a really long time. Oh, another thing they kept doing on Love Island, instead of saying taken, they kept saying tooken, and that really pissed me off. Okay, that's where we're going to have to put the foot down. The literacy crisis is really, it's not good. Tooken, wait, I love how one person said it and everyone was like, oh, I love that word, I'm going to keep using it. No, I can't. I couldn't take it anymore. Did you notice you can rearrange your grid on Instagram? Speaker 1 (12:47) Yes, but that's way too much admin for me. Like, I don't want that many options. Are you really happy about it? Have you scheduled an organizing day? No, I haven't stopped. The minute I post something new and it has a new color and I go, well, what if we brought this picture up from the archives? It's actually taken over my