WEBVTT - Angelique Cabral 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.400 It's surreal. But then you know what's so weird about that? 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:05.359 Ryan, It's like I had this moment, it's so incredible, 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:07.240 and then I had to go home and like Alden 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:16.680 was puking and like my dog shit in the living room. Hi, 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:21.200 my name is Angelie Cabral and I am fun and sparkly. 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:32.800 Hello to all of my esteemed listeners. Yes I'm speaking 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:38.360 to you. Welcome to another highly sophisticated episode of Off 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:44.280 the Beat. I am, as always, your devoted host, Brian Baumgartner. 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:47.440 Why am I in such a good mood today? Well, 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:50.120 it's the new year, so it's a new me. And 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:53.800 also because my guest today is a great personal friend 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:58.880 of mine and an absolute hero of my daughter's Angelique Cabral, 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:04.200 or as they know her, Queen Amaya from the smash 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:09.480 Disney hit movie Wish. Now, if you are over the 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:12.160 age of six, or if you are not a parent 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:14.759 who has demanded to play that soundtrack every single time 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:16.800 you get in the car, well she might be more 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:21.199 familiar to you as Jill from Enlisted, or Colleen from 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:24.720 Life in Pieces, Becca from Undone, or any of the 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:28.760 other great roles that she's had in her career which 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:32.800 goes all the way back to a United Airlines commercial 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:36.920 when she was just six years old. I wonder what 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:40.240 she made her parents play in the car on the 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:44.040 way to auditions. Well, we're going to find that out. 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:47.280 And lots more about growing up on the beautiful coast 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:52.000 of California, getting her start on soap operas, and eventually 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:56.320 fulfilling every little girl's dream of becoming not just a 0:01:56.440 --> 0:02:01.560 Disney princess, but a Disney queen. Here she is the 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:07.120 queen of my car Stereo Angelique Cabral. 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:15.639 Bubble and Squeak. I love it, Bubble and squeak. No 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:18.880 bubble and squeak. 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:41.800 I cook get every mot oh from the ninetyfo. 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:36.720 What's hello? 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:37.880 Hey? 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:39.280 Long time? 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:43.040 Happy New Year? You're still festive? 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:45.680 Look at you in a panic listen. 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:48.440 I wouldn't thank god you texted me this morning because 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:51.320 I was like, I'm in it with taking down Christmas. 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:53.600 I don't know if you've seen me on my Instagram 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:57.160 and whatever, but I'm obsessed with the holidays and from 0:02:57.200 --> 0:03:01.720 basically November twenty fifth, and my husband, in absolute moment 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:04.800 of despair yesterday was like it has to come down, 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:06.360 this is enough. 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:09.320 We're done. It's a fire hazard for sure. 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:13.200 Everything's brown and it's just and he's like, and he 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:16.560 has self proclaimed but also in real life reality he 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:21.120 has OCD okay of cleanliness and so which just gets 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:24.160 worse every year. And so he just was like, I 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:26.480 can't handle it anymore. I'm going back to work tomorrow. 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:28.560 This is it. So I woke up this morning. 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:30.840 I've just been in a frenzy like cleaning and so 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:34.200 this is my last hurrah. This is it, this is 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:37.320 this goes away after this conversation. I'm packing up all 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:40.040 of my Christmas stuff in my attic and that's it. 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:42.080 That's it until that's that's it till next year. 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:42.600 Yeah. 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:46.000 Yeah, Now do you recycle Christmas sweaters? 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:46.800 I do. 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:50.640 I have roughly, I think something like forty two. Stop it, 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:53.560 it's disgusting. No, it's not okay. And I do recycle 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:55.080 them and I keep them and I use them year 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:55.480 after year. 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:56.400 I have my favorites. 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:59.400 I have some kitchy ones, but I also have some 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:02.360 very beautiful ones. Like I have it's all over the map, 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:04.080 but I have so many sweaters. 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:07.800 Well, yeah, I do follow you on the Instagram. And 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:10.120 here's the thing that I know about you. Well, first off, 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:13.960 you're clearly a fantastic mom, and you like to celebrate 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:17.279 like holidays big and small. 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:21.480 Correct, right, all all sizes and shapes of holidays truly 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:24.440 like everything, I kind of it's kind of how I 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:28.120 go through my year, right, Like, okay, we've got coming 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.760 up now it's Valentine's so I'm already getting I'm gonna 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:33.919 get my valentine stuff out pretty pretty quick here, and 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.159 it's my birthday first and then Valentine's. 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:37.920 But basically I go through the year. 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:42.680 I have a bin for each holiday, and I have Yeah, 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:45.680 I have table decor, only one though I don't go 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:48.520 too too crazy, and I do really just the kids' 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:50.880 rooms and our main like living area, but I have 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:55.800 table decor. I love the Dollar Store for like you know, 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:58.400 plates and napkins and anything. I love to like serve 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:00.960 breakfast with a theme, so I love to do that, 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:04.520 or I'll do like a green pancake like for you know, 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:07.400 Saint Patrick's Day. Like I go pretty hard for every holiday, 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:10.440 and then when it gets when we are close to October, 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:14.680 when we get into the fall, it's just no holds barred. 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:18.520 It's just I'm all in from basically October first until 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:20.720 January third, Like, that's it. 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:22.440 But your husband is the one with OCD. 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:27.000 Yeah, not me, Obviously, it's over for. 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:33.600 Every holiday solves just just a little, just a little 0:05:34.560 --> 0:05:37.279 yeah OCD. But no, that's hey. 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:39.719 Well, and they're big bins. They are these huge ones. 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:41.800 I can't even show you how big from home Depot 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:44.600 and my husband to his you know, to give him 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:46.960 some credit, he he did go to home Depot and 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:50.800 buy me matching ones and then I label them so 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:53.520 that they at least look the same to him, right, 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:55.960 and he doesn't have to deal with like what's inside. 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:58.680 But you know, it's a real journey for us over 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:01.239 these past several years. And the bigger my house gets, 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:03.640 the more shit I buy, right in my French, but 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:06.760 I just I would go so much harder, but he's 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:09.360 limited basically to one bin per holiday. 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:10.920 That's where we're that's where we're landing. 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:14.360 All right, Well, all right, call new Year. I mean 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:18.520 we're here where we're entering the new the new year. 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:23.279 We can restart, the bins can be recycled, and we're 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:27.520 we're good. So you were born in Hawaii. 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:30.839 I was born in Hawaii. Was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:34.839 Yeah, and why was this? Was this? Was this a 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:37.080 work thing? Was this? Or is this is where your 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:37.840 parents were from? 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:42.760 No, so my it's a very romantic story actually, Brian. 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:47.240 But my uh my dad ran away from home basically 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:52.279 when he was seventeen through the islands. He is a carpenter, okay, 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:54.120 and he went to Hawaii to just kind of like 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:58.719 live his life. But he was a shipbuilder in Hawaii, okay, 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:01.680 and he built boats like from scratch, like with his 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:05.920 bare hands. And my mother had gone separately with her 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:11.480 fiance at the time, okay, and was attending University of Hawaii. 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:16.520 And then she like also on her like has her 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:19.640 part time job was a preschool teacher. My father had 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:25.840 a daughter in her class, Okay. So my dad's first daughter, Nicole, 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:30.560 was my mother's student, and so she would meet my 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:33.960 dad and he's very still as handsome and quite the 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:35.880 leathario and kind of wooed her. 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.280 But nine, you she was engaged. 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:40.320 To the southern man, right, who I've never met, and 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:43.160 so you know, this is just all like lore that 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:44.960 I've heard over the years from my parents. 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:47.960 But basically they fell in love. She broke up with 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:48.600 her fiance. 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:51.520 They got married and lived on a boat that he 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:55.240 had built, and they were together about eleven years before 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:56.600 I came along. 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:58.720 Okay, and they were very. 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:00.520 In love and they lived in Hawaii, be they just 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:02.560 both loved it, to be honest with you, and I 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:05.160 still love it. And as a young child, my parents 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:08.720 got divorced. It doesn't end well with that story. 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:12.200 Yeah, my father has. 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:16.640 Sometimes the relationships over Plato doesn't fully stand the test 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:17.040 of time. 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:18.280 But yeah, truly didn't. 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:20.840 But it was a very sweet It seems like eleven 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:22.240 or twelve years then I was born. 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:25.600 They immediately got divorced. My father took said boat. 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:27.640 I'm going to write a movie about this someday or 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:30.280 a show, but like basically took the boat that they 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:32.040 lived on with all of my baby things and all 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:36.040 of our things with his mistress to Tahiti and it 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:39.440 got shipwrecked and he never like the ship was bye bye. 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:41.760 We never saw that ship again. And I say ship, 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:43.360 it's a boat. It's like a sailboat. It's like a 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:45.160 forty two foot sailboat. It's not a ship. 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:48.360 I should use the right. A ship feels like an 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:49.040 ocean lighter. 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:52.000 It's just a sailboat and it didn't end well and 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:53.959 there was a big storm in Tahiti. So my dad 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:56.640 kind of came back to California. My mom and I 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.720 moved to Carmel to be with her family when I 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.440 was to like basically I was raised with my grandparents 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:02.920 in Carmel. 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.439 So Carmel like Monterey Monterey. 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:08.080 Yeah, yeah, so that's what I consider home. 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:10.880 Hawaii is like where I was born, and my mom 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:13.360 and dad have a lot of friends there and like 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:15.760 their roots, I would say, like their youth. But I 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:17.920 didn't grow up in Hawaii. I was just born there 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:20.600 and then I loved to vacation there. I took my 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:24.360 family there for my fortieth birthday. It was wonderful and 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:26.920 like you know, I have fond memories of Hawaii with 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:29.200 my mom because she would take me back every year 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:31.680 for like a spring break or any kind of vacation, 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:33.599 like whenever she could afford it, she would take me 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:36.440 back to Hawaii. It's her happy place and hence my 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:39.000 happy place. My dad had never been back until I 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:42.600 took him for my fortieth. I made my whole family. 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:42.680 Go with me. 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:45.880 It was very fun, like he was. He's more emotional 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:46.199 about it. 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:49.480 I think it brings up some rather dark memories of 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:53.160 things for him, because that's when like the marriage ended 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:56.400 and he took off to Tahiti on the boat and. 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:57.000 Never came back. 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:00.640 So I think, yeah, yeah, But so I would say 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:02.959 I'm bored in Hawaii but raised in Carmel, and then 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:04.160 now I'm here. 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:09.160 Now Hawaii is beautiful. To me, there is I don't 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:11.079 know if I could do it only because of the weather. 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:14.240 To me, there is almost no more beautiful place on 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:17.120 the planet than Carmel. Carmel. 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:18.280 I agree. I agree with you. 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:19.080 It's stunning. 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:19.720 It's stunning. 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:21.840 Well, and I'm you know, Carmel is so close to 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:24.280 not only want to ray a big sur Yes, it's 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:26.520 just the entire coastline in the US. 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:28.840 The coastline is just so beautiful. The one oh one 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:30.280 I or the Highway one. 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:34.040 I should say I loved living there, but I thought 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:36.400 it was very boring and I couldn't wait to leave. 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:38.280 It's not ironic. Now I just hope to make enough 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:40.959 money to retire, but to go back. Every day, I'm 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:42.800 like looking at my bank account. Can I go home yet? 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:46.800 Like what's happening? It's so beautiful but very quiet. And 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:49.800 you know, I grew up like rock climbing and big 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:51.120 sur like how boring is that? 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:51.400 Right? 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:53.400 And I couldn't wait to just get out of there, 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:54.920 so I went as far as I could and I 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:57.400 went to Indiana University for college. 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:02.480 Now you started doing some work. I understand your first 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:04.280 job was when you. 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:07.880 Were six, I believe so that sounds right? 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:14.160 Uh a United Airlines commercial. Were you like actively pursuing work? 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:16.400 I mean it sounds weird because you're six, I know. 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:18.320 Was it something you wanted to do? 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:21.800 I think no, I think that what it was is 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:26.120 back then, my mom kind of grew up dabbling in 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:30.080 the business. My grandmother was also like a dancer and 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:32.800 a professional dancer and kind of a round. They lived 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.880 for a while in my mom's youth in Hollywood, and 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:39.280 I think it was around and I was very outgoing. 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:43.400 I didn't really love acting or want to do it 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.640 until third grade, which I think is what nine or ten? 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.920 Yeah, and I remember then, but still pretty young. 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:55.640 But I remember there was this a substitute teacher at 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:57.800 my school who I was like a music teacher, and 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.200 she was amazing and we learned all these songs and 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:03.439 then she said, I'm having auditions for Oliver at the 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:06.080 local college, Hartnell College, if anyone wants to audition, and 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:08.720 I asked my mom if I could, and I got in. 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:12.240 And I loved the rehearsals. I loved the community of theater. 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:14.040 And I really grew up in the theater as a 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:17.960 child in my youth in Carmel and Monterey, and I 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:20.440 did all of the productions outside of school and in 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:23.680 school from third grade until high school. And I was 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:26.000 like Anne Frank in the Diary of Anne Frank, and 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:29.319 I was Miranda in The Tempest. I had like very 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:32.320 big roles throughout my youth and that's when I loved it. 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:34.960 But my mom always said, if you love it and 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.120 you want to do these outside productions, you have to 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:40.640 keep straight a's. So I was a nerd and I 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:43.400 really like got straight a's. And when I say straight a's, 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.760 I got a full scholarship to college, a full academic scholarship. 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:49.640 I was a well scholar at Indiana University and we 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:51.880 didn't have any money, so I knew that I had 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:55.200 to kind of do it my way, and I got 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:58.640 a full scholarship to college. But like, I always loved it, 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:02.360 and it never felt like work, like I loved singing, acting, 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:05.200 dancing from the get when I was six. I don't 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:07.720 remember the United commercial at all, but my mom did 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.000 say I had fun and like she was around in 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:13.160 casting and she did some casting in Monterey, So I 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:15.520 think she just had like ends with casting people. 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:17.720 And I know that she dabbled in casting in Hawaii too. 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:22.560 Right, you didn't bring this up because I have always 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:26.760 loved her. My research says you have a cousin that's 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:30.160 Adie mcclerk. Is that? I mean? 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:32.640 I believe this, that's cool? 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:36.520 Like, I know, was she around? Did you talk to 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:40.160 her very much? Okay, very much like mc edie? 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:42.680 Who for those of you who are listening, you'll, I 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:46.600 would think most most recognized her from Paris Bueller's Day Off. 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:49.160 Oh he's a righteous dude with the red curly hair 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:51.800 and comedian I grew up knowing. 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:54.040 I called her Aunt Edie. She's not my aunt, she's 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:54.439 my cousin. 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:57.480 Okay, she's my mom's cousin, so I believe that makes 0:13:57.520 --> 0:13:58.720 her my first cousin. 0:13:58.640 --> 0:13:59.600 Or is my second cousin? 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.680 Yeah, but anyway, I called her Aunt Edie. She and 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:05.520 my mom are like sisters. Okay, she has no family, 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:11.400 she never married, no kids. So every Christmas, Thanksgiving, my Birthday, everything, 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:14.640 she came to Carmel. She drove this I'll never forget 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:18.640 this Toyota mini van from LA. She would always drive, 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:22.720 so she would come all the time to Carmel. She 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:26.760 came to my graduations. She came to London. When I 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:29.400 studied in London, she always saw my place. She was 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:32.200 actually a very very big supporter of my career. If 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:34.280 you would call up, she always said, go to college. 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:36.640 She went to college and grad school. She said, do 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.560 not graduate from high school and go to LA. Try 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:41.600 to be a star. It's going to take work. She's 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:43.800 very realistic. She's like, it's going to take work. It's 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:46.560 going to be hard. Get your education so you can 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:48.960 always do something else. So I double majored. I did 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:52.080 exactly what she said. But she was very very much 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:54.520 a part of my life. And even when I moved 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:57.440 here in La. She brought me my first help me 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:01.360 get my first car. She gave me her old Futon 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:03.880 for my first apartment. She never really gave me money. 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:06.320 She never really like hooked me up with like any 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:08.400 of her contacts. Like she's not like getting me an 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:10.480 agent or like getting me a job. But she sure 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:12.400 did give me a used futon, you know what I mean. 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:15.160 And eighty God bless her. Has had a very long, 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:19.160 very wonderful career. Has some money, like she's very frugal. 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:21.600 She doesn't spend it on anything like she notoriously shops 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:24.400 at the dollar store, as do I now right and 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:25.640 costco right. 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:26.560 So she just. 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:29.160 Would reuse things and give me all of her old things, 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:32.080 and I loved it. And then as I you know, 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:33.720 she's been a big part of my life around here, 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:36.200 and she got sick a couple of years ago. She 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:40.520 has Alzheimer's and it took a turn in like twenty sixteen, 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:43.640 and she really got taken advantage of by two different 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:47.720 men who came into her house and basically demoed it 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:48.440 and said they. 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:49.880 Were contractors and were not. 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:53.880 And she met these guys on Facebook, and so we 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:55.520 kind of deactivated that and I had to go to 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:58.480 court to be her conservator. So now I'm a conservator 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:03.160 of her estate and person and it's a full time job. 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:05.320 I'm not going to lie to you. It's not fun. 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:10.680 It's very difficult. She's unrecognizable, really can't have a conversation 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:13.200 or get through a day. We have full time care 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:15.400 for her, twenty four hours at her same house. I'm 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:18.280 keeping her in her house because she has the means, 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:22.280 and it keeps her happy, to be honest, and it 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:25.680 keeps her feeling I think a sense even though she 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:28.400 doesn't have her memory is gone, but it keeps her stable. 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:31.080 And I've heard that if you remove people at her 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:35.840 kind of escalated stage of her illness that it can 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:38.440 she can deteriorate, like very rapidly. So I'd rather keep 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:40.880 her and her health is. She's as strong as a horse, 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:43.680 she's so healthy, she's doing great, but she just has 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:46.960 no memory and can't really operate well. 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:49.640 I'm sorry to hear that it sounds like you are well, 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:50.920 you're doing right by. 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:53.440 Her, and that I'm doing my best for sure, and 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:56.160 there's really no one. There's no one else to really 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:59.040 care for her. We have some cousins in Seattle, but 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:02.880 they aren't here or close enough to you know, see 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:05.280 her regularly. So I took it upon myself because I 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:07.840 was like, I'm not going to let some random State 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:10.160 of California conservator take over her state. 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:12.840 That makes no sense. So I'm happy to do it. 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:15.960 But she's my cousin. That's so weird. That's so weird. 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:19.120 I know, well, but Brian, I grew up watching her. 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:21.320 I would come to LA and watch her on like 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:24.760 Small Wonder of course, And yeah, I went to live 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:28.960 tapings of like what was it Hogan's Family Get It 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:30.639 was so fun and so I kind of I guess 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:33.000 in a way, comedy has been around me my whole life, 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:35.800 like and so multi caam single kam. 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:37.920 Comedy is like where I'm my happy place. 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:40.360 Yeah, so I was going to ask you about that. 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:43.880 You went, you followed her advice. I'm going to get 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:46.440 back around to that. But you went to Indiana University 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:51.200 for their musical theater program. Yes, did you see yourself? 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:55.040 You know Edie was talking to you about not going 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:58.320 to LA and being a star. Where where was your brain? Like, 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:01.080 was your brain in the theater? Were you going to 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:02.880 be a theater actor? Or oh? 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:06.119 Yeah, my brain was I'm a Broadway star, right, My 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:09.720 brain was I'm leaving California. 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:10.800 To go to Indiana School of Music. 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:12.960 They had it at that point, it was called the 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:15.679 IMP It's an individualized major for musical theater. Because I 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:18.280 wasn't a music major. I was a musical theater major, 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:22.800 and I got incredible training. I felt super confident and amazing, 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:26.080 and I got leads in all the shows, and I 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:27.879 was like Broadway. 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:28.480 Here I come. 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:33.280 I was like, I'm ready, Like this was my dream, 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:35.960 my passion. It's all I did my entire life. It's 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:39.040 still my dream and passion. Like I love live theater 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:44.600 so much. But what happened was I graduated from Indiana 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:47.640 with this dream and a bunch of art. My fellow 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:50.760 IU w Hoosiers. We all moved there, and then nine 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:53.880 to eleven happened. Literally within days of me moving there 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:57.520 and the theater everything shut down. I had a day 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:00.760 job as a as a preschool teacher in the morning 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:03.760 so that I could audition, similar to my mom, but 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:06.399 I had I got this job at this Montassori preschool. 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:08.960 I knew the owner and she gave I had to 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:11.359 take all these courses so that I could teach. It 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:13.240 was on the Upper East Side and it was for 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:15.840 very wealthy families in New York, and I ended up 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:20.080 kind of pivoting because of nine to eleven and everything 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:23.640 kind of shut down for like six months, and then 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:26.000 it turned into like a year everything was fucked up 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:27.679 and wild, and I didn't know what was going on. 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:31.680 And I started nannying for a lot of these families 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:34.240 like to make ends meet, and she was like a 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:38.000 side hustle, continuing to audition for Broadway. But I'm going 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:41.160 to tell you something that I realized very quickly. There's 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:43.520 a lot of competition in New York. And I am 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:47.439 a strong mover, but I'm certainly not a dancer. And 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:50.480 I have a great voice. But at that time, I 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:52.600 don't think I could compete on the level that I 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:56.240 needed to. And I did some. I did some regional things, 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:59.600 and I did some like workshops they call them play 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:02.880