how did you get on uh how did you get to be the co-host of the chip chipperson podcast how did he
find you oh i found him norton of so i was a fan of chip since i s since he started the podcast
podcast excuse me we can't [ __ ] that up i was a fan since he started the podcast i [ __ ] love
chip it's so stupid it makes me laugh so hard um it does yeah yes it's ridiculous i love it and i
love jim i've always been my dad was a big comedy guy so i grew up knowing like who jim norton was
and a lot of those wow okay but i wasn't aware of him yeah as a fan but i wasn't aware of chip
until i met um my husband nick because he was the producer for ron and fez who i adore is like a
genuinely nice guy like he is so sweet so many girls that i have on the show like they bring
on their husbands or their boyfriends and then they're like one is trashier than the next i'm
not gonna miss names but i'm just like oh god it's like a lot of them are just hangers on
like especially because a lot of them are like porn girls and adult film stars and i'm like
ugh like you are just clinging to youth you know what i mean like affliction shirts
no jetties i am judgey i'm judging as soon as you
said affliction shirts i was like oh i know those guys tap out shirts
just like you are with her because it like she validates your your virality or whatever
vitality i don't know man stuff i guess either or same yeah i know what you're saying everyone
wants to be with a hot girl i get it but i'm just like oh there's just it's like a stereotype almost
but anyway nick is uh a delight like just a a joyful good soul he is he's he's a sweet
boy he's a good egg and he's super supportive and awesome which is great like he's like the biggest
supporter of everything that i do which is awesome because if you are not with someone who's like
that it's gonna make the relationship difficult and it's gonna make what you're doing difficult
um but yeah i uh i was a fan and uh oh yeah so nick introduced me to chip because he was a big o
a guy and and he was uh the uh producer for ron and fez and so he started he was like oh yeah
this is this character that jim does and i started watching it and my sense of humor is ridiculous
so i immediately was like this is amazing so we were watching all of them and they were out
jim and sam were out in la when i was living there to i think for like a week and they were recording
and they were recording it after buzz where i was hosting at the time so i was doing like various
after shows uh marvel movie news marvel news daily i did a lot of marvel stuff i love marvel
oh yeah i should i should try to get you on friday night tights they would love you
that'd be awesome did they talk nerd stuff i feel like yes before it's almost all nerd stuff yeah
nerd stuff pop culture stuff like yeah how how how that awoke is sort of killing our
our nostalgia and our oh yeah yeah yeah i don't like to go on those ramps but yeah
but uh so anyway they were out there and they were recording and i had just gotten done with
the show at afterbuzz and phil was like oh you're a big fan of chip aren't you they're recording
here in 20 minutes do you want to be on and i was like yes i [ __ ] absolutely want to be on
and uh and so they put me on i wasn't even supposed to be on the show and i was in
the other one of the other what year was this this was i think 20
17 2018 something like that i can't remember exactly it was a few years ago and i was in
the the room with the other girls that before we went in and the other girls were like oh wait you
know what this is like what is this because they didn't know what it was and i wouldn't tell them
they were really unhappy with me i was like you'll see it's gonna be really fun they [ __ ] hated me
for it oh no so it's not much to figure out you're just like it's obviously a character
show like anyone that goes on and is confused i'm like you're so [ __ ] stupid like it's obviously
a character it might be weird but you're still dumb for not realizing that it's like okay and you
don't know who jim norton is it's still a funny character it's just goofy yeah just like all right
just yes and it you know exactly which i feel like is not too hard so they basically were like you
have to act like you don't know who he is because that's the bit and i was like sure i can do that
no problem uh so i went on and then chip was gone for a little bit and then in the pandemic he
brought it back because there was he couldn't do stand up anymore they were he was at gas digital
he would record like above the comedy cellar yeah not gas right podcast right cassiopeia broadcast
which was above the sabbath they would record there and then and then i think he was going
to stop doing the show all together like he had hung it up yep he uh he retired chip chipperson
and then he brought it back in the pandemic and so i reached out i emailed him and was like hey
i don't know if you remember me i was on once i would really love it if i could uh if you'd have
me back on and he was like email back was like yes of course like i would love to have you on
and i emailed him a couple more times after that to like kind of nudge him because sometimes you
know and i was just like yeah he gets very busy and like yeah he's got a lot going on and i was
like what have i got to lose [ __ ] it who cares so i just yeah i reached out and then started
coming on more and more and it's been [ __ ] awesome i have so much fun on chip i love it
and how did you get to be kind of a co-host just from being on it so often yeah i'm gonna take
the lead i'm gonna like organize this well it was one of those things where i was on
so much and i feel like i kind of took over the role of like christina and lauren who i
thought both of them were when lauren left tripp i remember being like why would she leave she's
perfect she's a blonde no she was a brunette she was the first co or not co-host it was producer
she was like the first producer for chip okay because i know christina she was so sweet she
had like a very long commute back and forth from like i think pennsylvania yeah and like
she would tell me about it i'd be like how are you doing this commute it was like something like
four or five hours a day like back and forth like something unreal like once you get into like over
like a three or more hour commute that's like whoa you gotta really love what you do yeah no it's
and i think that's why she stopped doing it i think because the commute got really bad because
she was in she moved to pennsylvania and jim said the same thing he's like i'd love to have her on
moore but she's in pennsylvania like she's never in the city so yeah so uh lauren was on and then
i guess i sort of just started filling that role a little bit and jim started asking me for help with
things and so i started bringing him prep i'll help him book um the show so i just basically kind
of started doing more and more of those things which has been awesome because it gives me more
experience i guess in the in the world of all this kind of stuff which is nice yeah
you're great jim is awesome you're great with the chip character like you you can't it's like it's
it takes us for anyone who's watched the show it really takes a certain kind of guest to be
good on that show it's like just because you're a good comic doesn't necessarily mean that you're
gonna be good on the show it's like you you it's an old improv principle of like truly like yes
ending and you and your you in particular are very good at taking like everything he says
and kind of like giving it more meaning and that is how the show is is funny like you have to
acknowledge even if he says the smallest thing and you question him about it like oh your dog
died when you were little like how did that happen and then that becomes a story or if it's already
an established story he gets to like bring it up again and uh it's fun to watch people kind of like
poke holes in what he says or like and he loves puns like which i is one of my
strengths like you know anytime i can think of a pun quickly and get it out always good
he'll do the like do you know what you just said and he'll rewind it and then you gotta like say
it again which and it's never as good the second time than when you said it in the moment and it's
just so fun and goofy and uh i don't know not that it's not it's not a smart character it's just like
i think and maybe it reminds you of uh it's like it's like the inner child is very much alive
i think yeah people like i think so too and i think that that's the whole point behind the
chip chippers and character is that he's meant to be so ridiculous and so bad and so completely
not self-aware of it and that's sort of the whole thing and it just becomes really fun
yeah part of it like how he is with like the ladies
he has this bad like i don't know how it's gotten oh i guess over time he's like not brushing the
wig but like the wig is like twisted and weird and like you're clearly not like i own several wigs so
i'm like getting to know about wig care it's like you gotta brush them through sometimes you gotta
wash them sometimes you gotta hang it up and it's like i think he probably just throws it into a bag
and he takes it out oh yeah and it's like just crunched it used to be like this
flowing thing and now it's just like looks like a like half a dreadlock and uh it's so funny though
it's like part of the charm and then the face that he has to hold like for an hour plus two hours
it's like the most impressive part to me is the face that he holds i don't know how he does that
like i've tried i don't even i i've tried before because people are like do chip
like and i can't i can't do it i don't know how he does it it's amazing same thing when he does
doug which is his newest character that jim loves doug bell doug bell was on this podcast
and people were like i gave no context at all i just was like i brought him on like
a regular guess i'm like oh doug bell and like all these stories about like back in the day and
a lot of the viewers were very confused and like probably unsubscribed but you know it was worth it
because it was a terrible character i love it it's so bad it's amazing and he's
that's also based on someone who's like overly medicated has the like little white
uh always has something yeah oh so terrible people think that the doug bell character
is based off of opie from opie and anthony jim has said it's not but i don't know like he has
he's publicly said it's not based on it uh it could be a compilation of like every guy that's
kind of like that like oh back in the day like so for those of you who've been living under a rock
i've never seen chip chippers and he's like a sampling is the intro this is the
this was this one people hated so much because this girl didn't know what chip was
she i mean that does sum it up in one word
yeah hold on fix your hand daddy he does this about elaine he's your publicist yes
and he's one of them right she just knows he's there in the studio yeah oh you haven't done to it
yeah so we couldn't find anyone so he i guess he talked to laney who manages a lot of those the
porn girls who do porn and things like that yes money somehow no yeah lainey's great she's hooked
me up with like a lot of oh yeah yeah she's really good but anyway she got her on and jim asked her
like hey does she know who chip is and she's like yeah she loves chips she clearly did not
she looks perplexed um but yeah what's great about chip is like he wear he has so much
merch he wears his own shirts which is like you know that roll like you're not supposed
to wear the shirt to the concert but he shows up wearing his own shirts all the time but it's great
it's like it's this character it's so good and he thinks he like looks so good he thinks he's
so stylish and then like you're you just like yes and i'm like oh you look great chip or like
that's my face almost like you're his mother or like he's your [ __ ] brother
that's my favorite thing my dad got to meet not chip but uh jim i was trying to get my dad he must
have been was he like starstruck he was definitely like oh wow this is really cool because he loves
he loves jim's comedy my little brother loves jim's comedy he was listening to jim when he was
like 12 and 13 and my dad was like this probably isn't appropriate but oh well yeah that's how
you know somebody is like a real comedy fan if they are fans of jim or like rich boss or like
open anthony and like all those guys kind of hung together and kind of came up together so oh wow