Rachel Bloom Finds Her Voice, Then Uses It To Sing About Stealing Pets and Moving to West Covina, California

The Hilarious World of Depression

American Public Media

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Rachel Bloom has never moved across the country to chase a boy like Rebecca Bunch did. Rebecca is the character Rachel plays in "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend," the hit show she co-created and stars in on The CW Network. But Rachel does have a long history of messed up romantic relationships -- plus depression and intrusive looping thoughts. And her career really took off when she got inspired by another Rebecca: Rebecca Black. You, know. That 2011 song "Friday?" Yep.

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0:00.0	I'm Cameron Espazito and I have a lot of jobs. I'm an actor. You've seen me on ABC's and a million little things.
0:04.8	I'm a stand-up comic bestselling author, but I am no expert at survival.
0:08.5	On my new podcast Survivor Diet trying, we're going to learn together from shark attacks to
0:13.8	tsunamis and bad breakups. This is your one-stop shop to prepare for the absolute worst-case scenario.
0:20.0	Join me and some special guests on Survivor Diet trying a comedy podcast that prepares you for anything.
0:26.4	Listen and follow wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.0	Is depression funny?
0:32.1	Depression is funny once you're out of it or if you're observing someone in a particularly
0:41.7	open moment where they're just saying these fucked up specifics that you wouldn't otherwise get.
0:49.8	But when you're in it, it's not funny. You need to have some sort of perspective, I think.
1:19.8	It's the hilarious world of depression. I'm John Moe. We talk to people on this program who are
1:34.4	creative and funny and have dealt with depression. And on this episode, someone who is creative and
1:39.4	funny and depressed and who sings. Hi, this is Rachel Bloom and I'm in Los Angeles, California.
1:45.2	Rachel Bloom is the co-creator and star of the TV show Crazy X Girlfriend on the CW.
1:51.4	She won a Golden Globe for Best Actress playing Rebecca Bunch, a character inspired in part by Rachel's
1:57.4	own life and experiences. Rebecca is a successful but unhappy man-hattan lawyer who chucks it all to move
2:04.8	to West Covina, California, where Josh Chan, the boy she dated at a long ago summer camp, now lives.
2:11.7	Is he here? He's not here. To be clear, I didn't move here for Josh. I just needed a change because to move here for Josh,
2:17.6	now that would be strange. But don't get me wrong. If he asked for a date, I would totally be like,
2:22.7	that sounds great. Did it sound cool when I said that sounds great? Okay, how about now?
2:27.2	That sounds great. Yes, I heard of West Covina from Josh, but I didn't move here because of Josh.
2:32.5	Do you get those things different? I'm lovely English. At the end this gets some different taste.
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