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Speaker 1: I Am all In.

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Speaker 2: As I Smell Pop Culture with Easton Allen and iHeart

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Speaker 2: Radio podcast.

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Speaker 1: Do you smell something I do? I Smell pop Culture? Hey, everybody,

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Speaker 1: this is Easton Allen. This is the I Am all

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Speaker 1: In Podcast one eleven productions. I Heart Radio, iHeart Media,

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Speaker 1: iHeart podcasts. We're doing I Smell pop Culture. I'm back again.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening. Thank you. I've gotten

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Speaker 1: all your letters, I've gotten all your fan mail. It's

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Speaker 1: just overwhelming the amount of positive reaction we've gotten from

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Speaker 1: this show. So thank you again. Before we get started

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Speaker 1: to hear on this next episode, I just want to

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Speaker 1: thank you so much from the bottom of my heart

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Speaker 1: for giving us a chance. You know, given me the

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Speaker 1: gift of your time. I listened to a lot of podcasts, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I listen to a lot of shows, and like every

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Speaker 1: now and again, a show you'd listen to, you'll get

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Speaker 1: like the sidekick or like the third guy on the

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Speaker 1: microphone will like have his own bit or his own

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Speaker 1: he'll host the show, like some as the producer that

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Speaker 1: you hear from from time to time, we'll like host

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Speaker 1: their own show. But never once have I listened to

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Speaker 1: a show and heard them say, Okay, we're gonna let

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Speaker 1: the sound guy host it. I've never heard that before,

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Speaker 1: so I don't want to use the term trailblazer or

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Speaker 1: pioneer lightly, but I do believe that we're covering new

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Speaker 1: ground here. We are going boldly into a place that

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Speaker 1: has never been to before in the world podcasting. And

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad, glad that you're coming along with us,

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Speaker 1: because you know, you download a podcast about your favorite show,

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Speaker 1: it's hosted by the guy that plays your favorite character,

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Speaker 1: and then you press play and you hear the sound

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Speaker 1: guy instead, and that's got to be a audio whiplash

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Speaker 1: on a scale hitherto undreamed of. So thank you for

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Speaker 1: coming along with us. We're we have a really exciting

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Speaker 1: show for you today. So here's what we're doing this week.

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Speaker 1: You know, Melissa McCarthy did not return as Suki for

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Speaker 1: the revival for the Year in the Life mini series,

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Speaker 1: and the fix there was to bring in a bunch

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Speaker 1: of like celebrity chefs that would fill her vacancy at

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Speaker 1: the Dragonfly in And we're going to talk to a

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Speaker 1: chef that was mentioned in A Year in the Life summer,

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Speaker 1: and I'm so excited to get into this, but first

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Speaker 1: I got to preheat the oven here, I got to

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Speaker 1: adjust my table scapes. But stick around and we'll be

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Speaker 1: right back after these words.

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Speaker 1: Hey, wow, those are some fantastic products, fantastic services. I

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Speaker 1: can't wait to spend all my money there and use

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Speaker 1: all those promo codes that we so graciously give you.

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Speaker 1: My name is Easton Allen. This is I smell pop

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Speaker 1: culture here on the IM all In podcast. So as

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Speaker 1: I was saying right before, right before we heard all

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Speaker 1: this wonderful commercials. In a Year in the Life, we

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Speaker 1: have a vacancy at the Dragonfly In. The chef position

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Speaker 1: is open, and they bring in celebrity chefs like Roy Troy,

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Speaker 1: Anthony Bourdain, Rachel Ray. They all come by to try

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Speaker 1: to get the job at the Dragonfly In. They're all

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Speaker 1: chefs vying for this prestigious role. And in summer, in

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Speaker 1: a Year in Life, summer, there's a scene where Luke

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Speaker 1: and Loralai are arguing in Luke's diner and Luke storms off,

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Speaker 1: but first he says, I've got muffins in the oven

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Speaker 1: at the end for breakfast tomorrow, because Sandra Lee called

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Speaker 1: don't go to the Dragonfly because it's awful. How was that? Scott?

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Speaker 1: Was that good? Could I be Luke in a in

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Speaker 1: a stage production? Maybe? But so Luke says that, And

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Speaker 1: we're going to talk to Sandra Lee. Yes, Sandra Lee

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Speaker 1: We're heading into the kitchen today. We're going to head

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Speaker 1: into the kitchen. We're going to talk to this legendary

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Speaker 1: chef and crafting icon, Sandelie. She is a pioneer herself,

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Speaker 1: talk about trailblazing like we're doing here on this podcast.

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Speaker 1: Sandralie is truly an innovator. She created the semi homemade

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Speaker 1: And I think that is just such a such an

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Speaker 1: a cool idea she got. She won an Emmy Award

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Speaker 1: for Semi homide Cooking with Sandralie. It ran for fifteen seasons.

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Speaker 1: We're going to talk about it all, and I promise

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Speaker 1: you we're going to find out what would have happened

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Speaker 1: if she hadn't bailed on the Dragonfly and if she

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Speaker 1: Looks like it's ready. Sandra Lee. She's here. Let's bring

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Speaker 1: her in. Sandra Lee is here with us. Thank you

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Speaker 1: You're such a legend. There's so much to get into,

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Speaker 1: want to start at the start. That's a great place

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Speaker 1: to start. How did you first fall in love with

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Speaker 1: When did you discover you had a passion for that?

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Speaker 3: Because my grandma makeed all the cakes for the church.

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Speaker 3: Her decoration and her presentation. So my birthday cake, my

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Speaker 3: It would decorate it with all the icing and all

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Speaker 3: And I still do that, like I have friends. I'm

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Speaker 1: I knew I was gonna love talking to you that

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Speaker 1: I did this exact same thing. There's nothing matter in

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Speaker 3: and they're like, do you want to put cakes in

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Speaker 3: how are you going to slice and serve it? I go,

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Speaker 3: Why not?

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Speaker 1: Oh my god? I love it. And speaking of QVC,

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Speaker 1: It's something I was really impressed by that I didn't

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Speaker 3: Well? I needed to decorate on a budget. And I

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Speaker 3: So I showed it to my aunt, who was a

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Speaker 3: But my uncle said, you have a gift in this

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Speaker 3: how to show. And so I really started in product

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Speaker 3: design and manufacturing and creating packaging and ways for people

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Speaker 3: to do things that were beautiful like you saw in

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Speaker 3: my grandmother would say, Honey, don't send me flowers. They

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Speaker 3: just die. And I'm like, she's right, they just what

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Speaker 3: I watch this. So I was like bringing my paper

431
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Speaker 3: from Japan. I was printing it in China because I

432
00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:36,959
Speaker 3: was manufacturing anyway. Then I wrote the cookbooks and they

433
00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:39,160
Speaker 3: weren't perfect, but they were me and they were I

434
00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:40,080
Speaker 3: was happy.

435
00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:47,800
Speaker 4: And so I I told them that I would do

436
00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:51,600
Speaker 4: it with a couple conditions, because I really want an

437
00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:52,879
Speaker 4: HGTV show.

438
00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:57,480
Speaker 3: They said, redecorate your kitchen. And I said, every single show.

439
00:22:57,480 --> 00:23:02,000
Speaker 3: And they're like, yeah, did which the outfits came from,

440
00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:04,240
Speaker 3: the hair came from, and the window treatments came from

441
00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:06,639
Speaker 3: and all that had come from that, the florals and

442
00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:09,119
Speaker 3: all the color palettes, like you know, now you know

443
00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:11,280
Speaker 3: my background, so you understand how they came to life.

444
00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:15,440
Speaker 3: And I said, the job of this show, the job

445
00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:19,400
Speaker 3: of Semi Homemade, is to give you quick tips and

446
00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:22,439
Speaker 3: tricks and thoughtful ways to use what you have in

447
00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:25,080
Speaker 3: your pantry, not just to save you money, but to

448
00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:27,840
Speaker 3: bring your family around the table. Right, your job is

449
00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:30,119
Speaker 3: to bring your family around the table and create a

450
00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:34,359
Speaker 3: community with your own family and or friends. So I

451
00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:36,240
Speaker 3: want to do. I want to do the place settings.

452
00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:37,840
Speaker 3: I want to teach people how to do the tables

453
00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:40,240
Speaker 3: and make it beautiful. And they're like, oh, that's a

454
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:42,359
Speaker 3: great way to end the show. So that will be yours.

455
00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:43,680
Speaker 3: So you're going to have to figure out what you

456
00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:45,000
Speaker 3: want to call that, and I said, well, it's a

457
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:51,080
Speaker 3: table escape. It's escape, right, and they said great. So

458
00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:54,040
Speaker 3: every single show I end the show, that's an amazing show.

459
00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:57,840
Speaker 3: That show. I think I did four recipes, a cocktail,

460
00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:01,679
Speaker 3: two wardrobe changes, and a table escape. I mean, I

461
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,399
Speaker 3: couldn't have been happier. And we shot almost three hundred

462
00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:07,720
Speaker 3: of those shows. It was on for fifteen years. Yeah,

463
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:12,160
Speaker 3: it was on for fifteen years and two Emmys later.

464
00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:14,119
Speaker 3: I mean, I have an Emmy for makeup because I

465
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:15,359
Speaker 3: don't look like this in the morning.

466
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:22,000
Speaker 1: Like seriously, oh my god, it's incredible. Can you think

467
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:24,480
Speaker 1: of the most like I don't want to say or

468
00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:28,320
Speaker 1: no ambitious tablescape that you that you pulled off? Like,

469
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Speaker 1: what was like the most complex that you can think of?

470
00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:32,960
Speaker 3: It was a Thanksgiving tablescape?

471
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Speaker 4: It was.

472
00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:38,640
Speaker 3: It was. I did it up in Albany at the

473
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:44,159
Speaker 3: Mansion and I ordered these huge chocolate turkeys, which you

474
00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:48,639
Speaker 3: can get online. They're a fortune. And I ordered flowers

475
00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:51,720
Speaker 3: and I just it was a table. I think that

476
00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:57,800
Speaker 3: was set for. I mean, I want to say thirty people,

477
00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:02,239
Speaker 3: big table. So the tablescape had to run down the

478
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:05,239
Speaker 3: entire line. And then we had a dessert table and

479
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:09,000
Speaker 3: two buffet tables. So there was a kid's table, and

480
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,840
Speaker 3: then there was that and I and in addition to

481
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:13,359
Speaker 3: that was so I had the flowers, I had the

482
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:16,639
Speaker 3: edible turkeys, I had all of it. The room smelt amazing.

483
00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:20,120
Speaker 3: The other one, I would say was probably my wedding,

484
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:24,080
Speaker 3: and I think that was back in two thousand and one. Obviously,

485
00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:27,280
Speaker 3: you know that my marriage at the time only lasted

486
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:33,520
Speaker 3: my relationship only lasted seven years. So but the wedding

487
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,720
Speaker 3: tables were really important to me and how I did them.

488
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,080
Speaker 3: And then we had it done at a private home.

489
00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:41,439
Speaker 3: We did it at a private home, Green Acres in

490
00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:44,320
Speaker 3: Beverly Hills, which was so fun at the time because

491
00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:46,400
Speaker 3: remember from where I come from, like a small town

492
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:49,159
Speaker 3: in Washington State, welfare and food stamps and you know,

493
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,159
Speaker 3: parents that were not participating in our lives. That was

494
00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:54,399
Speaker 3: to goat so to be able to do like my

495
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:58,520
Speaker 3: magic at this amazing home and being getting married at

496
00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 3: thirty two and having built company, I wanted to be

497
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:05,240
Speaker 3: over the top, of course I did. But my nieces

498
00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:08,280
Speaker 3: and nephew's table was the most important table to me.

499
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:16,119
Speaker 3: So I did the centerpieces. But in the centerpiece I

500
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 3: put these huge vases, and the vases were full of

501
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:23,280
Speaker 3: water and they were full of goldfish.

502
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:23,919
Speaker 1: Wow.

503
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:27,040
Speaker 3: And it was a Midsummer's night dream table. And then

504
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:29,840
Speaker 3: at each place setting for the child that was there,

505
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:32,439
Speaker 3: my niece or nephew that was there, they got a

506
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 3: beta fish to take home, so all the color was

507
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 3: all the way around, and beta fish have to be

508
00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:39,879
Speaker 3: kept separately, right because they're fighting fish. And then they

509
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:43,159
Speaker 3: had plume flowers, so it was flowers and it was fish,

510
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,720
Speaker 3: and it was just this fantasy. So that tablescape was

511
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:47,480
Speaker 3: super important to me too. So those are the one

512
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,040
Speaker 3: those are the two I remember the most, but they

513
00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:53,280
Speaker 3: were for my personal me. It wasn't I couldn't do

514
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:56,600
Speaker 3: that well. I did recreate for Alexander Stanton, which I

515
00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:59,760
Speaker 3: brought up earlier. My best friend for her wedding, I

516
00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 3: did all individual cakes and individual sugar eggs, so I

517
00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:10,199
Speaker 3: wanted her a wedding reception to reflect Faberge eggs. So

518
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:14,760
Speaker 3: I worked with Sylvia weinstock makes You Rest in Peace,

519
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:19,359
Speaker 3: and we did all these edible fab Faberge eggs for

520
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,160
Speaker 3: individual wedding cakes on the table, and then we did

521
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:25,399
Speaker 3: big huge sugar eggs that reflected those. So it was

522
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 3: an inredibly jeweled tone bowls. We did everything, so hers

523
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 3: was probably like definitely the top three.

524
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:38,439
Speaker 1: So in the time you've done that, you did semi homemade. Uh,

525
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:41,440
Speaker 1: there's there's a lot of things that stuck in people's minds.

526
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,160
Speaker 1: Like me and my sister watched the show a lot

527
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:45,560
Speaker 1: and I told her that you were coming on, and

528
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 1: she was just like beyond excited.

529
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:50,080
Speaker 3: Why isn't she on with us? She's on with us.

530
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 3: I always hear that, and they never invite like their

531
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 3: mom or their sister or their aunt, Like just it's

532
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:58,240
Speaker 3: a party, it's us, let's just do it.

533
00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:00,199
Speaker 1: You know it's a party. Well, let's let's say had

534
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,560
Speaker 1: to my sister Kimberly. You know she's she's sitting at

535
00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:03,119
Speaker 1: home listening.

536
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:06,160
Speaker 3: That's her name, Kimberly. M name, Kimberly.

537
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,199
Speaker 1: Isn't that a great sister name. It's a great I

538
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:09,600
Speaker 1: call her.

539
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:11,119
Speaker 3: What do you call your sister?

540
00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:12,920
Speaker 1: I call her Kimberly, I do the full thing.

541
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, well I'll call her Kimmy. Hi, Kimmy Aunt. Sandy

542
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:16,880
Speaker 3: loves you.

543
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 1: Oh my god, she's gonna she's gonna die. Thank you.

544
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, so we were talking about like

545
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 1: our favorite things that you did on the show, and

546
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:27,840
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that people talk about online still,

547
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:29,920
Speaker 1: like the glassware Christmas Tree.

548
00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:33,480
Speaker 3: The cocktail Christmas Tree. So that's where cocktail glasses and

549
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:35,240
Speaker 3: turn them all upside down and hung them in the

550
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 3: tree and wired it in. It was cocktail Time tree

551
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 3: because everybody loves cocktail. Yes, cocktail time was mine too.

552
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 3: I that was my whole thing. I was the first

553
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:46,960
Speaker 3: person to bring cocktails onto the show. They didn't want

554
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 3: me to do drinks. I'm like, okay, I don't really

555
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 3: want to do the show anyway. They're like, I go,

556
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:53,160
Speaker 3: I really don't want. I don't care. It took nine

557
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 3: months to do the show, to do the contract for

558
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 3: the show. I'm like, I don't really care. And they're like,

559
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:00,480
Speaker 3: who says that everybody wants to be on TV? I'm like, yeah,

560
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:01,280
Speaker 3: but that's not what I want.

561
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:01,560
Speaker 2: To do.

562
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 3: I want to do a daytime show. I wanted to

563
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 3: do a Monday through Friday, like thirty minute or one

564
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:13,719
Speaker 3: hour show and like semi homemade four point oh. So

565
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:17,600
Speaker 3: they told me, okay, fine, but just so you know,

566
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 3: nobody wants to do cocktails. And I said, my best

567
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:25,479
Speaker 3: friend Colleen Schmidt and for Donia Wisconsin, who I went

568
00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 3: to college with, who I'm still dear, dear friends with.

569
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 3: She is having a bloody mary when she's watching the

570
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:34,680
Speaker 3: Packers every Sunday at noon. I'm telling you right now.

571
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 3: And they're like, hm, maybe she's right. So they said, fine,

572
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 3: we'll let you do cocktails, but you have to be

573
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:46,240
Speaker 3: really responsible with what you did, and I said, sure,

574
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:48,479
Speaker 3: two shots of vodka.

575
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 1: Yes.

576
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,640
Speaker 3: It just is kind of like it is. It is

577
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 3: like when semi home aid, Like, you can't do semi homemaid.

578
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 3: Why cause you can't tell people what to use. I'm like,

579
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 3: I'm doing that. You can't do cocktail time. You can't

580
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:02,600
Speaker 3: do more than like one shot per drink. I'm like, oh, yeah, okay,

581
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:04,960
Speaker 3: no problem.

582
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 1: There's no rules in the world of Angele.

583
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:09,240
Speaker 3: And then it was like the biggest meme in the world,

584
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 3: Like my nieces. They're traveling in like Europe, and people

585
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:14,840
Speaker 3: are like, wait, Sandra Lee like two shots of vodka?

586
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 3: Time is your aunt? Yes, she's actually my aunt. I

587
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:23,240
Speaker 3: know she's called Aunt Sandy, but she's actually my aunt.

588
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 1: That's I'm so jealous of your nieces. I'm sorry, Like

589
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 1: that would be so cool to have you as an aunt.

590
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 3: I should like Aunt Sandy. I'm not putting it to

591
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:34,200
Speaker 3: your on my head. I'm like, there's only you have

592
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 3: one job. I'll do everything else. I just wanted to

593
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 3: hear on your head. Danielle, She's like.

594
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:41,960
Speaker 1: Ye, do what Aunt Sandy says.

595
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 3: She's she's definitely my niece doing that.

596
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 1: So you're you're super close with your nieces. Do you

597
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 1: see them often?

598
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:55,880
Speaker 3: My niece, Danielle. I was just with her in Arizona.

599
00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 3: The love one of the loves of my life. I

600
00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 3: love that child And now I know how my grandma

601
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:05,360
Speaker 3: feels when I don't call her. Oh yeah, he I

602
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:09,200
Speaker 3: never guilt trip my niece and nephews. But my niece

603
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 3: and called me for two weeks. That is like, that's

604
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 3: like taking this pencil and sticking in my heart and

605
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 3: I'm like, Dan, I finally sent her a guilt trip,

606
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 3: which I never do. I literally never guilt trip her.

607
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 3: I'm like, you're perfect, You're fabulous, You're this, You're not

608
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 3: like I love you so much. You're like fabulous and

609
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 3: smart and all the things that that, and she's like yeah, yeah, yeah,

610
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:31,960
Speaker 3: Like it's some days I wish my aunt was here

611
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 3: saying that to me, but not today. So I said Danielle,

612
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:39,200
Speaker 3: I was so dramatic. I'm like, really hurts my feelings

613
00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 3: when you don't call me poor child, But yeah, she's perfect.

614
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 3: My niece Katie is in medical school. Wows going to

615
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:51,320
Speaker 3: be a doctor. My niece Stephanie is a teacher, and

616
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 3: she teaches children that cannot communicate with their parents because

617
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 3: they're deaf. She teaches them sign language and their parents

618
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 3: sign language. She's like amazing and smart. So I have

619
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 3: three nieces, Danielle, Katie, and Stephanie, and I never feel

620
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 3: like I'm close enough to any of them. But then

621
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 3: they're like, Aunt, Sandy, you can be sitting on top

622
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 3: of me kissing my face and you wouldn't feel close enough.

623
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:20,240
Speaker 1: So true, if they're throwing like a party or having

624
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:22,600
Speaker 1: an event, do they call you and ask for ideas

625
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:25,080
Speaker 1: or anything do they do they know this valuable resource,

626
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 1: they have their fingertips.

627
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, Bryce, Bryce might, but when Bryce

628
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 3: and I do it, my nephew Bryce, who grew up

629
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 3: on my show. Bryce's with me a lot, so Bryce

630
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 3: might do it, but the other one's not so much.

631
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 3: I think they're just used to me kind of saying, oh,

632
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:48,560
Speaker 3: I think you should be this for Halloween, or I

633
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 3: think you should do that, or you know, I'm you

634
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 3: know how kids.

635
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 1: Are, Yeah, you know, Yeah, I get it, I get it.

636
00:32:58,280 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 3: You just got to tell them that you love them

637
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 3: and wait for them to call Danielle.

638
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, daniel if you're listening, calling it Sandy right now.

639
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 3: Right now and right wrong, right now?

640
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:10,880
Speaker 1: Maybe we're waitnutes yet.

641
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 3: She And then of course the other day when she

642
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,560
Speaker 3: finally did call, I was on the other phone doing

643
00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 3: something I couldn't put down, of course, Like all I

644
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:24,480
Speaker 3: wanted to do was take her call. I'm like, oh, yeah,

645
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 3: every parent goes through this when their kids turn thirty two.

646
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 3: And when she told like, I keep forgetting she's thirty

647
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 3: two because to me, she's five. The other day when

648
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 3: I was with her, She's like, yeah, I'm thirty two.

649
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 3: I go, you're thirty two. She's like, Aunt, Sandy, and

650
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 3: I just started crying. I'm like, you're two. She's like,

651
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 3: are you crying? You know we lost I go, yeah,

652
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 3: but gosh, gosh, you're thirty two. And then it occurred

653
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 3: to me how old I am? And then we cry

654
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 3: hard or not really, I'm happy.

655
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 1: To be Sandelie is with us. It's I smell pop

656
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 1: culture here on the I Am On podcast. We have

657
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 1: so much more to get into. You know, we gotta

658
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 1: talk about Gilmore Girls. We have to talk about Gilmore Girls.

659
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:08,280
Speaker 1: Stick around with us. We'll be right back after these words.

660
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:21,040
Speaker 1: We're back with sandel Lee. So it's in the Netflix

661
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:25,799
Speaker 1: revival they mentioned you, and I wanted to know if anyone, Yeah,

662
00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 1: did any did anyone call?

663
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 3: Everybody sent it to me? Yeah, everybody sent it to me.

664
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:33,560
Speaker 3: How I found out, I was like, Wow, good for them,

665
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:34,759
Speaker 3: good for me. This is auce.

666
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 1: So the context of the mention is they're they're bringing

667
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 1: in all these like celebrity chefs to work at the

668
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 1: at the Dragonfly in and and you canceled because you

669
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 1: heard it was bad. That's the that's the reference. It

670
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 1: was a bad gig. Would you have actually wanted to

671
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:54,439
Speaker 1: work at the Dragonfly in Stars Hollow? Is that something

672
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:54,880
Speaker 1: you would have won?

673
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,840
Speaker 3: You know what's interesting is my personality, My real personality

674
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,799
Speaker 3: would have never canceled because I would have been like, Okay,

675
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 3: I can fix this.

676
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:07,120
Speaker 1: Yes, that's what I thought. I was like, that doesn't

677
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: sound like xchange.

678
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:09,840
Speaker 3: Really give me twenty four hours. I'm telling you, I

679
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:11,759
Speaker 3: am at Sandy Claus for a reason. It's just like

680
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:15,840
Speaker 3: a whirling dervish. When has happened? Does everybody go away?

681
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 3: And I'm like Courtney Cox her character and friends. Yes,

682
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:24,759
Speaker 3: and it's true, like I'll do everything for everybody and

683
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 3: I'll make it perfect. And then I literally halfway in

684
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 3: the party, I'll like crawl and go to bed. My sister,

685
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:36,960
Speaker 3: Kimmy kimber Lee will come in the room and she's like, Sandy,

686
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 3: you always do this. You have a party, and then

687
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 3: you miss all the fun and all the kids are

688
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:43,440
Speaker 3: out there having a great time and they're dancing and

689
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:46,439
Speaker 3: you're not seeing it. She's like here and she'll shove

690
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:48,480
Speaker 3: coffee in my face. It's like, drink this coffee, get

691
00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:51,359
Speaker 3: your ass out of bed, work, go into party. And

692
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 3: so I'll just put on sweats and I'll like go

693
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:58,440
Speaker 3: hang out. But it's a thing like I would have

694
00:35:58,480 --> 00:35:58,880
Speaker 3: fixed that.

695
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean that that was something else I

696
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 1: was going to ask, is what what would you have

697
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,880
Speaker 1: done to make this small town like bed and breakfast

698
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:12,959
Speaker 1: something grand that would bring in people from all over?

699
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 1: What's something you would have suggested for them?

700
00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:18,320
Speaker 3: Well, I'm saving that from my own show, of course,

701
00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:19,279
Speaker 3: I can't tell you.

702
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: Sorry, It's okay. I had to ask. I still have

703
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 1: to ask. And how does it? I know you do,

704
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:33,040
Speaker 1: and we'll we'll get to see it at some point, right.

705
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 3: I hope. So, yeah, did you just knock on wood?

706
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 2: Yes?

707
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 1: I did. I Oh, my Angelie, look at us. How

708
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:45,880
Speaker 1: does it when you heard from all your friends, everyone

709
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 1: that sent you the the reference, They're like, oh, they

710
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 1: talked about you and gil mor girls. How does that feel?

711
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:51,920
Speaker 1: I mean, that's not the first time, obviously, that you've

712
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 1: been mentioned in something. I mean, everybody talks about you

713
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:56,440
Speaker 1: all the time. How does that feel to be like

714
00:36:56,960 --> 00:37:01,240
Speaker 1: I am part of popular culture to the point where

715
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:04,279
Speaker 1: these TV shows are talking about me saying my name.

716
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 1: How does that feel?

717
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 3: Obviously, my career is a big part of my life

718
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:12,319
Speaker 3: and building my career was a big part of my life,

719
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 3: and I did it for a reason, probably a lot

720
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,239
Speaker 3: because of where I came from and how I was

721
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:19,319
Speaker 3: raised and what we had or didn't have, and what

722
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:23,399
Speaker 3: I want for my family and the experiences that are

723
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:27,279
Speaker 3: really important for us to get to have. So it

724
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:34,440
Speaker 3: came from that place. But there is definitely I mean,

725
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:37,799
Speaker 3: there's the professional Sandra Lee, and then there's you know,

726
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:42,359
Speaker 3: Sandy who I am, and there's Aunt Sandy Claus. Like,

727
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:47,240
Speaker 3: you know, there's days where I don't feel like my peppy, wonderful,

728
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 3: little cheer lady self, and sometimes those days are triggered

729
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 3: by people just being mean. You know, there's a lot

730
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 3: of that I'll never forget. When The New York Times

731
00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 3: came out with that scathing review of Semi Homemade when

732
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:06,239
Speaker 3: it first hit the air, that really hurt my feelings.

733
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 3: But the network called immediately and said, whenever we see

734
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 3: something this big, that means it's going to be really huge,

735
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 3: and it was. Semi Homemade was I think the top

736
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:22,000
Speaker 3: show for almost three years and in the top ten

737
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 3: for the next ten. Semi Homemade was just like this

738
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:34,239
Speaker 3: crazy zeitgeisty thing that helped so many people and I

739
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:36,400
Speaker 3: was happy to do it and proud to do it.

740
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:38,400
Speaker 3: And it requires being the face of it. I mean

741
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:44,520
Speaker 3: I was trained. I was I was educated. I had

742
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:46,160
Speaker 3: fantastic mentors.

743
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 4: You know.

744
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:50,800
Speaker 3: Florence Henderson really taught me how to be a good talent.

745
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:54,319
Speaker 3: Florence Henderson did not require makeup and hair. We went

746
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:56,840
Speaker 3: to Chicago to launch curtain Craft. She was a spokesperson

747
00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 3: for that. She's like, I'll do my own hair and

748
00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:01,919
Speaker 3: hair and makeup. I only had a small amount of money.

749
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 3: I did an infomercial and I had a small amount

750
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:07,239
Speaker 3: of money left, and I needed a talent to do

751
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:12,279
Speaker 3: the infomercial. And she said no to me every which way,

752
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 3: and I finally said to her agent. I co called

753
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 3: the agent and I was I don't know what I

754
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 3: was thinking. I was like twenty seven, twenty six wow,

755
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:23,120
Speaker 3: And I said, I want to meet with her. I

756
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:24,719
Speaker 3: know she lives in Marine del Ray. I live in

757
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 3: Marine del Ray. I want to meet with her. So

758
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 3: she sat down with me and I explained her my

759
00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:31,960
Speaker 3: story and I told her what I wanted to do

760
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:34,759
Speaker 3: and why it had to be her because when I

761
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 3: watched Brady Bunch, she was literally my mom. I didn't

762
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:38,879
Speaker 3: have one. So the Brady Bunch mom was my mom,

763
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 3: and it had to be Florence, and that's who it was.

764
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:43,719
Speaker 3: They wanted it to be this mom from this mom

765
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:46,799
Speaker 3: and that mom and this other mom, and I said, no,

766
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:50,200
Speaker 3: it's Florence Henderson. It has to be Florence. And so

767
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 3: she finally said yes. She accepted my money. She took

768
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:54,399
Speaker 3: all of it. I'm happy to give it to her.

769
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:57,880
Speaker 3: But she would show up and she would post for

770
00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 3: photos a certain way, and she would stand there certain way,

771
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 3: and she would go to trade shows a certain way

772
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:05,600
Speaker 3: which was different than my way. And she taught me

773
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:07,920
Speaker 3: how to be good talent. Good talent doesn't sit in

774
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:10,160
Speaker 3: a green room with her feet up. Good talent is like,

775
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:12,680
Speaker 3: how can I help you make this better? How can

776
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 3: I work a little bit harder? What will make your

777
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:17,880
Speaker 3: life easier? That is how she rolled. Gary Collins was

778
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:20,160
Speaker 3: the same way Gary Collins taught me about lighting, because

779
00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:23,040
Speaker 3: he would walk around going where's my pill? Where's my pill?

780
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 3: And I thought Phil was his assistant. Is like light,

781
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:29,439
Speaker 3: it comes up so you don't look, you know you're

782
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:32,480
Speaker 3: a and it like fills you. Right, there's a reason

783
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:34,520
Speaker 3: why Jennifer Aniston always looks the way she looks on

784
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:37,239
Speaker 3: the set right in Reese Witherspoon, they have a light

785
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 3: like light, light light, and I like God's light. But

786
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:44,480
Speaker 3: God's light can be a little harsh, yeah, compared to

787
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:51,239
Speaker 3: studio lighting. But yeah, being a talent is a And

788
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 3: then I saw a really famous person at Gladstone's here

789
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:57,799
Speaker 3: and I sat there and I watched him. And this

790
00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:00,440
Speaker 3: is when I was a waitress and some one came

791
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:03,800
Speaker 3: up to him and he turned around and handed them there.

792
00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:07,360
Speaker 3: But were approaching him while he was in a conversation

793
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:11,560
Speaker 3: out in public, And in my mind I thought, I

794
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 3: didn't say anything because I wasn't that bold yet. I

795
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 3: would probably say something now, But I thought, your talent,

796
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 3: your job is to be available. You wanted to be famous,

797
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:27,480
Speaker 3: you are famous. You wanted to be an actor. You're

798
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 3: on the biggest show in the whole wide world. And

799
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:32,160
Speaker 3: someone wants to talk to you and say hello, and

800
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:36,040
Speaker 3: that made their life a little bit better and you

801
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 3: just handed them there. But not cool. Yeah, being a

802
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:44,120
Speaker 3: talent and being famous comes with a lot of responsibility,

803
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 3: and it also comes with you have to eat it sometimes,

804
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:50,600
Speaker 3: meaning you have to suck it up. You have to

805
00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:52,319
Speaker 3: eat the bad reviews with the good reviews. I mean,

806
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:55,839
Speaker 3: people always say to me, your facelift is terrible. I'm like, oh, well,

807
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 3: I didn't get one. I gained thirty pounds thanks, I

808
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:04,479
Speaker 3: aged thirty two anymore. And they say like the meanest things.

809
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 3: I'm like, delete delete, delete, Get off my Facebook, get

810
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:10,239
Speaker 3: off my Instagram. You're not nice. Don't be mean to me.

811
00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:11,239
Speaker 3: Why would you be mean to me.

812
00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:16,839
Speaker 1: That's something I'll never understand, Like where that that just

813
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 1: breeds more negativity in your life and it poisons you.

814
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:21,320
Speaker 1: I don't know why people do that. It's insane.

815
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:23,400
Speaker 3: Why would you want me to have to go have

816
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 3: two shots of vodka because you're mean not nice? So yeah,

817
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:31,800
Speaker 3: so there's good and bad with being famous.

818
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:32,520
Speaker 1: Yeah.

819
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 3: And by the way, you don't always get the reservation

820
00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 3: even when you're a foodie.

821
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 1: Sandeleie is here. Your new show is called Sandra Lee.

822
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 1: Now it's on KVC. I know that's so exciting.

823
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:53,240
Speaker 3: Home Decorp Trimetry Linen's Gifting. So the first show starts

824
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 3: November tenth. Is that four pm Eastern Standard Time, which

825
00:42:56,040 --> 00:43:00,360
Speaker 3: is one pm Pacific. We all know that. And the

826
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:04,760
Speaker 3: first show I'm just picking out all my favorites for holiday.

827
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:07,520
Speaker 3: The second show, which is on the seventeenth of November,

828
00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:10,839
Speaker 3: is all my termitory stuff, and that'll probably be the

829
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:13,080
Speaker 3: only show that there is. And I did something very

830
00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 3: specific this year. I did a lot of gingerbread and

831
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:19,320
Speaker 3: very kind of pale blonde colors so that you could

832
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 3: take it from Thanksgiving all the way to Holiday. So

833
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:23,799
Speaker 3: the things you're going to see in my show on

834
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:26,520
Speaker 3: the seventeenth you can use on your Thanksgiving tablescape and

835
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:29,000
Speaker 3: you can decorate the tree with it. I decorate in advance.

836
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:32,240
Speaker 3: I used to decorate the Friday after Thanksgiving, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

837
00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:38,600
Speaker 3: I don't do that anymore. I am it's time on

838
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 3: November first, so I put it all up and I

839
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:43,920
Speaker 3: do copper. My sister Kimber does a lot of copper,

840
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 3: and I collect cookie getters, so I do a lot

841
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:48,279
Speaker 3: of copper. I do a lot of gingerbread. Now gingerbread

842
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:50,080
Speaker 3: is like the big deal of this Christmas is like

843
00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:50,760
Speaker 3: the trend.

844
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:51,680
Speaker 1: Wow.

845
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:55,040
Speaker 3: So a lot of gingerbread, and I'll carry it right

846
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 3: through the holidays. I might put some red bows on,

847
00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:00,040
Speaker 3: but I leave that off until right after Thanksgiving, and

848
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 3: then it only takes me like an hour. And I

849
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:05,000
Speaker 3: used to do seven trees and themed every single room,

850
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:07,200
Speaker 3: but now I only do two trees.

851
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:11,280
Speaker 1: A modest two trees I do a moda is too huge.

852
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:13,839
Speaker 3: And I just love Christmas. I have a storage unit

853
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:16,799
Speaker 3: full of Christmas decor and I love creating crafts at

854
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:19,799
Speaker 3: Christmas time. Love it. And you'll see a lot of

855
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:23,240
Speaker 3: those beautiful, easy things that you can use in the kitchen.

856
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:27,840
Speaker 3: There's like this gorgeous rolling pin that I designed based

857
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 3: off the European Christmas markets which I've gone to for

858
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Speaker 3: the last couple of years, and of course I went

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Speaker 3: to when I was super young. And there's these charming

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Speaker 3: cookie cutters, Christmas trees, gingerbread Christmas trees, stockings, I love stockings,

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Speaker 3: these tree lights like Charles Dickens tree lights that are candle,

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Speaker 3: And then the last show is on the twenty third,

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Speaker 3: right before right before Thanksgiving, and that will be giftables

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Speaker 3: and food and just yeah, yeah, if you like Semio

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Speaker 3: made and you like what I did, You're gonna love

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Speaker 3: these shows, So tune into QBC. This is my thirtieth anniversary.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a big deal coming out with Dan

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Speaker 1: Sandy Claus on QVC. It's sanje Lee now. And then

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Speaker 1: you can also watch the fantastic and incredible Sandelie on

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Speaker 1: The Blue Ribbon Baking Championship which is on Netflix, and

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Speaker 1: that is incredible too. I have seen that show. It's

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Speaker 1: so much fun and brings the joy and the love

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Speaker 1: of our state fairs and the thrill of getting a

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Speaker 1: Blue ribbon right to your screens. You got to check

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Speaker 1: that out too. Thank you so much for doing this, Sanjelie.

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Speaker 1: You're just the absolute best. I'm such a big fan.

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Speaker 1: Thanks and this was a dream come true.

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Speaker 3: You're in great host. It's fun.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, thank you. I'm blushing. Hey everybody, and

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Speaker 1: don't forget follow us on Instagram at I Am All

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Speaker 1: In podcast and email us at Gilmore at iHeartRadio dot com.