Speaker 1: Welcome to Go Ask Alli, a production of Shonda Land
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Speaker 1: this out from part one of the Brooken Alley Crossover.
Speaker 1: I had a now what moment in my twenties when
Speaker 1: I I didn't get into a dance company. It was
Speaker 1: so embarrassing to me to be a famous person right
Speaker 1: and go out for this, really put myself out there
Speaker 1: and not be good enough. And that summer I took
Speaker 1: four and five dance classes a day and I got
Speaker 1: back in freshman week, I tried out for all of
Speaker 1: the different things again and I got into So. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you have like a real workhorse sensibility. Yeah, welcome to
Speaker 1: go ask Alli. I'm Alli Wentworth And today I'm doing
Speaker 1: something a little bit different. I have my bestie Brooke
Speaker 1: Shield here and on her podcast Now What, I got
Speaker 1: to ask her a bunch of questions, uh, and even
Speaker 1: play a little game called would you Ever? And now
Speaker 1: on my podcast, I'm going to play a game with
Speaker 1: her called Bad Choices. I don't know if you guys
Speaker 1: know this game, but Bad Choices is a hilarious way
Speaker 1: to get a group of people to really tell some
Speaker 1: funny stories about themselves. So uh. Disclaimer, I bought the box,
Speaker 1: a brand new box of bad choices. I just shuffled
Speaker 1: it and I split the shuffle. And Brooke has a
Speaker 1: bunch of questions and I have a bunch of questions,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna take turns picking a card. These are
Speaker 1: not pre positioned and asking each other questions which will
Speaker 1: prompt I think some very funny stories. Okay, So, brook Shields,
Speaker 1: do you want me to start? Okay, I'm gonna pick
Speaker 1: a card, and I'm going to ask you this question.
Speaker 1: Would you ever have sex in your life for three
Speaker 1: million dollars with a stranger? I think I probably would. Okay,
Speaker 1: you would probably? All right, Brookshields will have sex with
Speaker 1: a stranger for three million dollars. Okay, that was but
Speaker 1: she easier than I thought, asked me. Okay, here's a question.
Speaker 1: If you could, would you sleep your way to the
Speaker 1: top if I could? When I say, I would not,
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you why because I never made it
Speaker 1: to the top, and I just assume it's not so
Speaker 1: great up there. I'm also mediocre in bed, so I
Speaker 1: don't think even if I put my that's foot forward.
Speaker 1: First of all, I don't, but it goes whatever rifice
Speaker 1: that foot goes in. I don't think that I would. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't think I would make it to the top.
Speaker 1: Can we also ask each other the other questions? Would
Speaker 1: you sleep with someone for three million dollars? No, you
Speaker 1: would know. I'm picturing the person being like handsome though,
Speaker 1: like now that it's it's putin, um and I wouldn't
Speaker 1: sleep You said you would, all right, Well I would
Speaker 1: if they were cute. There's if you're sleeping with somebody
Speaker 1: for three million dollars, they're not going to be cute
Speaker 1: because they're having Robert Redford from the proposal. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: what I was thinking. By the way, I have been
Speaker 1: offered offered um, well, one was twelve camels and the
Speaker 1: other one was an undisclosed number. But it was definitely, um,
Speaker 1: a someone from the Middle East. But while you were
Speaker 1: a virgin, did they ask Yeah, yeah, so as virgin
Speaker 1: Brooke golf camels. But then also there was a number
Speaker 1: of values somewhere thrown away. But I didn't hear the
Speaker 1: number of value. My mom told me. And did you
Speaker 1: guys sit down with your accountant and crunch the numbers?
Speaker 1: Since the numbers, yes, did you know, wait a second.
Speaker 1: So I always hear about a lot of models, especially
Speaker 1: when they were younger, they got paid to just be
Speaker 1: on somebody's boat, Like you don't have to have sex
Speaker 1: with anybody you but they would pay you to be
Speaker 1: at a party or on someone's yacht. Did you ever
Speaker 1: get those asked? I didn't get paid to do that,
Speaker 1: but I have gone on people's yachts, like in the eighties,
Speaker 1: where I got gifts like jewelry and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: but I didn't have to do anything, and my mom
Speaker 1: was with us. But you got jewelry, but I got
Speaker 1: jewelry and and you know, taken shopping and so you
Speaker 1: were like the first influencer. Yeah, so all right, now
Speaker 1: it's my term. Has your friendliness ever been misinterpreted as flirting?
Speaker 1: I was always so naive that, yes, it has often
Speaker 1: been misinterpreted as flirting. And I'm putting myself in probably
Speaker 1: more dangerous situations because I've just been so trusting, you know,
Speaker 1: and I and and then just been shocked to find
Speaker 1: out that that was what I was putting off. So
Speaker 1: so man would say like, oh, I thought we had
Speaker 1: a thing because you were so friendly. Yeah, well I
Speaker 1: thought that that's what you meant. I was like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm just being a kind, fun, good person. But it
Speaker 1: was definitely they took it as a rejection. They also
Speaker 1: probably took your friendliness as wishful, thinking that it was
Speaker 1: flirting too. Probably all right, okay, Um, would you ever
Speaker 1: lie about a person to get them fired? No, I
Speaker 1: would never lie about a person to get them fired.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, unless maybe Michelle Fifer because she took your career,
Speaker 1: because she took my career. Um, no, I don't. I
Speaker 1: would never lie. I would never lie, but I would
Speaker 1: never not lie. If they did do something, I probably
Speaker 1: and I would do the same thing. Yeah. I would
Speaker 1: never lie to get a person fired just out of spite.
Speaker 1: Do you complain a lot about first world problems? Have
Speaker 1: you listened to her podcast? I am always saying good
Speaker 1: problems to have. I never complain about anything that is
Speaker 1: even seemingly just gross. I cringe when I sometimes even
Speaker 1: admit to how lucky I am. Yeah, you do complain
Speaker 1: a lot about your yacht size. Yeah, well that's different.
Speaker 1: And when you don't get to fly private and the
Speaker 1: number of crew, and the number of crew they call
Speaker 1: you relatable shields. Yeah, all right? Would you spend the
Speaker 1: night in a fuse? What would you spend the night
Speaker 1: in a full porta potty for ten dollars? Yes, full
Speaker 1: meaning it's full of poop. Probably well for twenty four
Speaker 1: hours a night a night, Yeah, for ten dollars. Yes,
Speaker 1: I would do that for ventilation. You would do it
Speaker 1: the same thing I would do it? Ten grand is
Speaker 1: ten grand? Have you ever made a New Year's resolution
Speaker 1: that lasted less than a week? Don't they all? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever made a New Year's resolution
Speaker 1: that lasted more than a week. Me neither. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: that's why I don't make them anymore. Yeah, same with me.
Speaker 1: I actually made a very distinct decision not to do it. No,
Speaker 1: you set yourself up for failure. I don't know how
Speaker 1: many times I've been like, I'm only a vegan from
Speaker 1: this point forth, and then I went to basketball, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to drink anymore alcohol. Yeah, that does not
Speaker 1: last in my life. Yeah, well there you go. So
Speaker 1: I just don't do it. No resolution resolutions and you
Speaker 1: can't fail. No, No, But I do look back at
Speaker 1: the things that I'm the happiest and of that year,
Speaker 1: and when I'm most proud of like I look back with, Oh,
Speaker 1: that's the positive way positive, rather than I'm going to
Speaker 1: deny myself this or from now on, I'm going to
Speaker 1: be this. I think that's good. I like I like
Speaker 1: a retrospective rather than a Okay, okay, would you be
Speaker 1: willing to look ten years older in order to retire
Speaker 1: ten years earlier? Never? Well, only because I've been SENTI
Speaker 1: retired my whole life. I'm never retiring by the way,
Speaker 1: I know, I'm never retiring either. But so that that
Speaker 1: doesn't work for me, Um, let me ask you a question. Okay,
Speaker 1: would you trade youthful? No, your feet, nobody will trade
Speaker 1: with you. Would you trade always looking youthful being heavy
Speaker 1: with being very very thin but aging? Mm hmm. That's
Speaker 1: a that is a very interesting question. Okay, so that
Speaker 1: the obviously real, honest answer is I think youthful and
Speaker 1: enjoying your life and gay gaining meaning eating what you want,
Speaker 1: enjoying your life, drinking, eating and you know, um, that
Speaker 1: signifies confidence and joy. But because I've always worried about
Speaker 1: my size, but because you're so tall, yeah, because I'm tall,
Speaker 1: and because I'm big, I'm bigger, like gaining weight is
Speaker 1: um it's stressful for me, and it really kind of
Speaker 1: it reeks a little havoc on my on my self, esteam,
Speaker 1: but I look younger, and I prefer to look more
Speaker 1: youthful and plumper. Now you look all all right? Who's
Speaker 1: turning it to ask me? I guess ask you? Okay?
Speaker 1: Have you ever had more than eight shots in one night?
Speaker 1: Have I ever had more than eight shots of No?
Speaker 1: I'm not a drinker, as you know. And the last
Speaker 1: time I was actually drunk was when I went on
Speaker 1: a date with my now husband and I drank a
Speaker 1: gin and tonic and general mess you up. But one
Speaker 1: gen and tonic and I was, you know, pole dancing
Speaker 1: at a very respectable restaurant. So I there wasn't there
Speaker 1: wasn't a pole. So eight shots, um would put me
Speaker 1: in the emergency room. So no, I think eight shots
Speaker 1: would put me in the emergency room too. I don't
Speaker 1: think you've done eight shots? Eight really? I see you
Speaker 1: in Mongolia with a fur hat going and turning the
Speaker 1: cup over. No, no, no, do you think you would
Speaker 1: give the best lap dance in the room. You're gonna
Speaker 1: say yes, yes, because I worked really hard to be
Speaker 1: a good dancer. When I was at Princeton. No, I
Speaker 1: would be the most awkward lap dancer. Yeah, it would
Speaker 1: be so comical that would know. I would be a
Speaker 1: horrible lap dancer. Oh, you'd be pretty good, really, thank you.
Speaker 1: I think so you'd be the kind of person that
Speaker 1: would be like, oh, you don't have to give me
Speaker 1: a dollar, and you'd be making change instead of dancing.
Speaker 1: I'd pull the change out from somewhere chicking. Have you
Speaker 1: ever thrown a party for a pet. I have had popsicles,
Speaker 1: pup pup popsicle for Pepper on her birthday. That was
Speaker 1: the closest thing. And I never did it on my own,
Speaker 1: but my girls wanted to put a little hat on
Speaker 1: her and sure, not a full party. Well, I have
Speaker 1: to tell you, before I had kids, Um, I've always
Speaker 1: had dogs, you know, and I treat them like my children.
Speaker 1: I was living in l A. And I had a
Speaker 1: full birthday party for my dog Trout. I invited like
Speaker 1: fifteen people over, so I had human food and then
Speaker 1: I had a buffet of dog food, you know, like
Speaker 1: meatloaf and all kinds of stuff, and they brought their
Speaker 1: dogs and we had the dogs had to wear hats.
Speaker 1: And then I brought out a birthday cake they made
Speaker 1: out of alpo and biscuits and all kinds of stuff,
Speaker 1: And at the time it seemed like a really fun
Speaker 1: thing to do. But in retrospect it makes me sad
Speaker 1: for myself. I'm sad for you. Yeah, I'm a little
Speaker 1: sad for you. Yeah, well that's me. Have you ever
Speaker 1: looked through someone's wallet while they were out of the room. Um,
Speaker 1: not as an adult, but I did um pinch a
Speaker 1: few five verse when I was a kid, Like if
Speaker 1: my mom was upstairs, I would take money out of
Speaker 1: her wallet to go meet friends for candy or go
Speaker 1: to a movie. Um. I probably have taken money out
Speaker 1: of George's wallet, but not out of a friend or
Speaker 1: a stranger. I've taken some money out of Chris's, but
Speaker 1: I think he knows about it. It's not like I
Speaker 1: waited till you. That was for drugs. That was for drugs. Um.
Speaker 1: I have looked in my kid's wallets when they haven't
Speaker 1: been because I wanted to see if they had fake
Speaker 1: ideas and if they had taken my money, which every
Speaker 1: time I go to my wallet, I know that there
Speaker 1: was money there and it's miraculously gone. They took it
Speaker 1: and it's time for a short break. Great, let's get
Speaker 1: back to it. This is a funny story. I found
Speaker 1: a small brick of fifty dollar bills hidden in my
Speaker 1: youngest daughter's room and I was freaked out and I
Speaker 1: called my husband and I said, oh my god, Harper's
Speaker 1: a prostitute. And he said, what are you talking about.
Speaker 1: I said, I found a brick of fifty dollar bills.
Speaker 1: He goes, well, what if she's not a prostitute. What
Speaker 1: if she's a drug dealer. And we got into a
Speaker 1: huge discussion about which was worse, like what should we do?
Speaker 1: Is she's a drug dealer, you know? Is she is
Speaker 1: she the kingpin? Like who works for her? If she's
Speaker 1: a prostitute, like she doing it out of the apartment.
Speaker 1: So finally she comes home from school and I have
Speaker 1: been sweating about it, and I said, honey, can you
Speaker 1: come sit down. Um, I found the money in your room.
Speaker 1: So which is it? Are you a sex worker or
Speaker 1: are you dealing drugs? And she goes, I was a
Speaker 1: counselor at camps all last summer and those were the
Speaker 1: tips from the parents that I went to the bank
Speaker 1: and I put them in fifties to put them in
Speaker 1: my savings account for books for college. And we were like, okay,
Speaker 1: good talk how bad we were? All right? Whose turn is?
Speaker 1: Yours are mine? Um? Um, oh, do you masturbate more
Speaker 1: than you have sex? O? U I'm so glad you've
Speaker 1: got that one. Um No, do you have sex more
Speaker 1: than look good for you? That's one to talk. Oh,
Speaker 1: if I have that kind of time, I'm going to
Speaker 1: do the laundry. I'm gonna do something else. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a yeah. Well so, I mean some women find it
Speaker 1: incredibly empowering and fantastic. I'm I think your producers would
Speaker 1: agree that they masturbate all the time and they get
Speaker 1: a lot out of right now, Yeah, okay, good. Have
Speaker 1: you ever secretly thought that you would make a really
Speaker 1: good gangster? Oh my god, I'd be the worst gangster.
Speaker 1: First of all, I would I dropped the gun. I
Speaker 1: don't know how to. I've never held a gun, so
Speaker 1: I would probably if I pulled out a weapon, it
Speaker 1: would be facing myself. Um. Second of all, I never
Speaker 1: want to hurt people's feelings, and I don't think you
Speaker 1: can be a gangster without hurting, you know, let alone
Speaker 1: killing them. But I mean, I think I would make
Speaker 1: a really good um like I wouldn't wouldn't be like
Speaker 1: the small guy that would do the killing, but I'd
Speaker 1: be a good godfather. No, I'd be like the cross
Speaker 1: eyed guy that has to go bury everybody in the
Speaker 1: field and New Jersey. Yeah, and I'd mess it up
Speaker 1: and I tracked, you know, my footprints all over the dirt.
Speaker 1: You know, I'd be a horrible gangster. Have you ever
Speaker 1: thrown up in a taxi or an uber? I have
Speaker 1: never thrown up in a taxi or an uber. I
Speaker 1: Have you have? Yeah? I once got an inner ear
Speaker 1: infection and George and I were watching the jutt Apatow
Speaker 1: movie This Is Forty and I got really dizzy. I
Speaker 1: started throwing up, and we got into a taxi and
Speaker 1: I couldn't help. But you know, when you have like vertigo,
Speaker 1: you throw up. And I started throwing up, and the
Speaker 1: guy kicked us out on the street because he thought
Speaker 1: I was drunk. And so now we're in Times Square
Speaker 1: in New York and I'm continually throwing up, and then
Speaker 1: I start hearing um, oh my god, she's wasted and
Speaker 1: all this kind of stuff, and I was like, no,
Speaker 1: it's very to go. He kept trying to defend myself,
Speaker 1: but it was horrible and I felt really bad for
Speaker 1: the taxi driver. And my husband was like, you know,
Speaker 1: we'll pay for the dry cleaning, and I'm like, the
Speaker 1: dry cleaning of the car, um. But it must be
Speaker 1: a nightmare for anybody who works in public transportation when
Speaker 1: somebody gets set and you know what happens all the time,
Speaker 1: all the time. I mean, I've never done it, but
Speaker 1: I have shot in my pants in a car. You've
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, you've you've shipped your pants in a car. Well.
Speaker 1: I managed to sort of raised myself up off the seat,
Speaker 1: but I had that noro virus. Oh my god. And
Speaker 1: as we were arriving at the Heathrow Airport to fly
Speaker 1: to Ireland, and I was like, oh oh no, and
Speaker 1: they the guy behind the desk said, oh she she
Speaker 1: nervous flyer. Then they give her a room and they
Speaker 1: put me in a breastfeeding room, giving me privacy. I
Speaker 1: just wanted the bathroom give me. And there was no sink,
Speaker 1: no waste paper basket, no nothing. There was a chair
Speaker 1: to breastfeed a baby, and I like coughed and everything everywhere.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just just what did you do? You
Speaker 1: didn't get on the planet? All right? God help the
Speaker 1: person that sat next to you. And I know, I
Speaker 1: went out to my husband and I was like, I
Speaker 1: just boomed my pet. There's nothing hotter than that, I know.
Speaker 1: And and Rowan had a pair of um growing your
Speaker 1: daughter my daughter rowing out a pair of jeans in
Speaker 1: her backpack. Finally found the bathroom and did a whole.
Speaker 1: It didn't happen again. Not the poop didn't happen again.
Speaker 1: But I threw up every ten minutes. Oh God, the
Speaker 1: neurovirus brutal? Um. Have you ever apologized after sex? That's
Speaker 1: all I do is apologize after sex. I'm I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I'll be better next time. Have you ever gone skinny dipping?
Speaker 1: I'm sure yes I have gone skinny, But I mean
Speaker 1: the question is, have you ever won a bathing suit?
Speaker 1: Brook Shield? Um? Have you ever tried to hack into
Speaker 1: someone's social media account? Hack into it? No, not even
Speaker 1: your daughters. I don't have to hack into it. Why
Speaker 1: is that? Because? Um, we've always had a babysitter who
Speaker 1: had access to it. If you, if you could, would
Speaker 1: you hack into somebody's UM? If I found like it
Speaker 1: was for my my safety, my kid's safety. All right,
Speaker 1: let me ask you this, what if you had two hours,
Speaker 1: and I want the listeners to think about these questions
Speaker 1: as we asked them as well. If you had two
Speaker 1: hours where you could hack into anybody's email in the
Speaker 1: world without any repercussions, A would you and who's computer
Speaker 1: would you hack into? You've got two hours? I mean
Speaker 1: I don't feel I would not feel right like hacking
Speaker 1: into it unless it was some something like the president
Speaker 1: or like, hey, this is a game. Okay, well, I
Speaker 1: mean I would so do it, you know, but I
Speaker 1: would know who to do. I mean it would have
Speaker 1: to be something in like the deep secret in the
Speaker 1: government or something I would love to really I would.
Speaker 1: I think I would. I'd hack Trump's computer. I would
Speaker 1: hack all the Kardashian's computers. Um, I think i'd hack
Speaker 1: Johnny Depps just for ships and giggles. Clarence Thomas, I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean there's no repercussion. I mean I would want
Speaker 1: to know truths, the truth of that or just like
Speaker 1: how how do they correspond? You know, what are their apps?
Speaker 1: I think it would be fun. Yeah, I would be interested.
Speaker 1: I think that we should have one day a year
Speaker 1: where you get an hour where you get to hack anybody.
Speaker 1: It would be like the purt I was going to say,
Speaker 1: it's like the part um. Have you ever gone out
Speaker 1: with the intention of having a one night stand? Never?
Speaker 1: Do you know, I've never had a one night stand.
Speaker 1: I've never had a one night stand. Yeah, yeah, there's
Speaker 1: still time. I It never appealed to me. I've always
Speaker 1: been somebody I have to be attracted and I also
Speaker 1: have to think that there's potential, there's going to be
Speaker 1: a relationship. So the idea of hooking up with somebody
Speaker 1: that I did think i'd be I could fall in
Speaker 1: love with, was never appealing to me. I did try
Speaker 1: to quote unquote so my oats what one time when
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, I'm not married and I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna revisit all my old like flames with just the
Speaker 1: intention of that, And I got not one taker. You
Speaker 1: didn't get a taker, really, I'm sure my brother would have.
Speaker 1: I could have gotten somebody. We'll be right back and
Speaker 1: we're back. Could you have a long term relationship with
Speaker 1: someone who is completely different political views than you? Oh?
Speaker 1: Long term? Yeah? Could you be married basically to somebody
Speaker 1: that had opposing plitical views. I really do not think
Speaker 1: I could. I don't think. I don't think I could.
Speaker 1: I'm okay to disagree, but I can't fundamentally and who
Speaker 1: your character, particularly in the past six years. I think
Speaker 1: in the past, for me, I would have been more tolerant.
Speaker 1: We're so stream now we're so polarized. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: having a hard time with a with friendship because it's
Speaker 1: so I mean, I've I go out of my way
Speaker 1: to absolutely not discuss anything because I don't want it's
Speaker 1: too painful for me. How opposite it's it's like tribal warfare. Now.
Speaker 1: In fact, when George and I first got married, James
Speaker 1: Carvil and Mary Matlin who were famously Republican and a Democrat,
Speaker 1: and they've been married forever. But you know, back then,
Speaker 1: you Democrats, Republicans, you know you could be married and
Speaker 1: sort of have off an ideas about tax breaks. But
Speaker 1: now it's I think it's literally impossible. God, So would
Speaker 1: you pose as a nude model for an art class? Yes,
Speaker 1: I would post for as have you post as a
Speaker 1: nude model for an art Not for an art class,
Speaker 1: but for an artist. Isn't fully nude it was just topless.
Speaker 1: For Robert Graham, who is it? An famous sculpture, incredible sculptor. Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I'm too. I can't even look at myself
Speaker 1: naked in the mirror, so I can't imagine posing for
Speaker 1: and I listen. I'm always in awe of people that
Speaker 1: do that, that post nude for art classes. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: I did. Um, I'm on the board of the New
Speaker 1: York Academy of Art, and I was. I did the
Speaker 1: drawing party for Take Home a Nude And but I
Speaker 1: didn't have to be fully. I just had like a
Speaker 1: little teeny slip on. They didn't needn't asked me to
Speaker 1: be totally nude. But with for Robert Graham and for
Speaker 1: Frederick Hart, who was also a sculptor who sculpted the
Speaker 1: National Cathedral for him, good for you. No one's asked me,
Speaker 1: not even my husband, to post Do you have a
Speaker 1: hidden body piercing or tattoos? I have no tattoos. I
Speaker 1: have no piercings. Do you you have one tattoo? I
Speaker 1: have three tattoos. You have the Last Supper on your back? Um?
Speaker 1: I have um angel wings on my back. Um, I
Speaker 1: have four tattoos, What are they and why? First one
Speaker 1: was a lily of the valley on my ankle from
Speaker 1: my mom. She always wanted did you get a tattoo
Speaker 1: when you watched her virginity or it's did yeah? I
Speaker 1: checked the bot. It was a little box and a
Speaker 1: chat check um. That was sort of in honor of
Speaker 1: my mom, but also because she always wanted one, she
Speaker 1: never got one. And then Chris and I got matching tattoos.
Speaker 1: Have one right of here on my bikini line, and
Speaker 1: that's the same one he has his arm. She's pointing
Speaker 1: to her private and then h Rowan and I got
Speaker 1: a a ladybook, a lady book on your wrist. Three
Speaker 1: and the fourth one is a proise a prayer that
Speaker 1: I got in Thailand, but it bled, so I'm getting
Speaker 1: it removed. Tell me about tattoos, because I I've I've
Speaker 1: never gotten a tattoo. I don't understand tattoos. I won't
Speaker 1: let my kids get tattoos. I just feel like, if
Speaker 1: you make a mistake, you can't It's it's a lot too,
Speaker 1: it's a lot to undo it. I mean that they're
Speaker 1: in places that sort of are covered, so they don't
Speaker 1: I don't like big big ones. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: you can. I don't know. It's just it's like I
Speaker 1: have multiple piercings to you know what I mean. Like
Speaker 1: that's my idea of being rebellious. I find that so
Speaker 1: fascinating because you were such a famously natural beauty that
Speaker 1: I think I would never I would never touch it.
Speaker 1: I think it felt edgy for me when I when
Speaker 1: I wanted to do it, and it feels badass for
Speaker 1: some stupid reason. I don't. I don't regret them. The
Speaker 1: only one I regret as the prayer. What's the what's
Speaker 1: your favorite part of your body? Um? If you had
Speaker 1: to donate something about your physicality of science, what would
Speaker 1: it be? I mean my legs. I like my legs.
Speaker 1: That's your favorite part over your eyebrows and my eyebrows
Speaker 1: are are my eyebrows. But I've always been like a
Speaker 1: leg person. M So I like, I just I love
Speaker 1: the strength of my legs. I love that they dance that,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? That they just have a purpose.
Speaker 1: All right, So I'm gonna end our go ask Gali.
Speaker 1: Fun Bad Choices podcast with each of us gets to
Speaker 1: make up a question so you can ask me anything,
Speaker 1: and then I'm going to ask you anything. Okay, Um,
Speaker 1: if you could have a dream job, what would the
Speaker 1: perfect job environment be? Uh, it's something that I've done before.
Speaker 1: But I would like to write, create, act in a
Speaker 1: piece of film or television. I like having full creative
Speaker 1: control over something. Um. I'm not going to say I'd
Speaker 1: like to be President United States and put everybody back
Speaker 1: on track because I wouldn't know what the hell I
Speaker 1: was doing. But I mean the White House would be
Speaker 1: pretty because I would completely change the fabric and the
Speaker 1: gardens and the carpeting. But I do love you know,
Speaker 1: I'm a creative person and I love to do all
Speaker 1: aspects of it. I love that. That is my a.
Speaker 1: You can't know it's my dream. Can't show my dream
Speaker 1: all right? What is written on Brookshields tombstone? Mine is
Speaker 1: I tried my best? Um, I loved deeply. I loved deeply.
Speaker 1: That's nice. That would be It would be great. Um. Okay,
Speaker 1: Now to book and our two podcasts. Your podcast is
Speaker 1: called now What So have you had any now What's
Speaker 1: in your fifties? I have had many, now What's in
Speaker 1: my fifties? But um, the two primary ones were realizing
Speaker 1: that I wanted to start my own company, and really
Speaker 1: sort of walking on the beach one day saying, I
Speaker 1: don't understand why when a woman is over forty, she
Speaker 1: is no longer marketed to in in the world. You're
Speaker 1: either in your twenties or your independs. And I just thought,
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm embodying my own self. I feel stronger,
Speaker 1: I feel ready to begin, and I'm I'm counted out.
Speaker 1: I'm put out to pasture and my now what moment
Speaker 1: is one of the back nine of my life. And
Speaker 1: I wanted to start a company because I wanted to
Speaker 1: build a beauty brand that produced products for women over
Speaker 1: forty that and resources foremen over forty who want to
Speaker 1: start new ventures and new chapters. Listen, we're living so
Speaker 1: much longer now that like we're not even middle aged yet.
Speaker 1: I want to add a media component to it. I
Speaker 1: want to talk about, you know, acting. My favorite thing
Speaker 1: in the world is to do comedy, and I feel
Speaker 1: I'm atrophying without it. And so part of this this
Speaker 1: sort of new version of me, I'm realizing that I
Speaker 1: want to develop and I want to I want to
Speaker 1: be on TV again and doing what I love to do.
Speaker 1: So my now what was? Um, It's it's two things.
Speaker 1: One is, I'm almost an empty nester. I have one
Speaker 1: more at home and I've been thinking about empty nesting.
Speaker 1: And I for my now what, I decided with my husband, George,
Speaker 1: to start a production company because we're both storytellers, and
Speaker 1: we both decided that when our youngest is gone and
Speaker 1: it's just the two of us, what can we do
Speaker 1: together that's creative. Um, he plays chess in golf. I'm
Speaker 1: not interested in either, and nor does he want to
Speaker 1: pick out textiles for pillows. So we started this production
Speaker 1: company and it has been fantastic because we are working
Speaker 1: together in a way that I mean, we've never worked
Speaker 1: together and we're very different. But the idea of storytelling
Speaker 1: has been exciting for both of us. So we He's
Speaker 1: a voracious reader, so we read a lot of books
Speaker 1: and think about, wow, would this be an interesting story
Speaker 1: to tell? So that's my uh fifties now what. And
Speaker 1: I think the other one was I just had my
Speaker 1: mother visit me, and my mother's eighty seven years old,
Speaker 1: and we had this great moment where we were sitting
Speaker 1: and talking and I said, what advice can you give me?
Speaker 1: You know, I'm I'm looking at you and you're this
Speaker 1: still very vibrant eighty seven year old woman. What advice
Speaker 1: can give me? And she said, exercise, exercise, exercise, keep
Speaker 1: your body strong, because when you get to be my
Speaker 1: age and you haven't done that, you know, your body
Speaker 1: starts to break down. You you lose muscle. And so
Speaker 1: that was like a real aha moment to me, like, yes,
Speaker 1: I gotta keep my body strong for balance, for everything.
Speaker 1: And the other thing was, um, she said, keep your
Speaker 1: mind strong. Read a lot, think about a lot. You know,
Speaker 1: they're they're a positive attitude is also really helpful. And
Speaker 1: even though these things sound like such cliche things, when
Speaker 1: you get older, they really make an impact. And so
Speaker 1: my what now is I gotta keep my body strong
Speaker 1: and I gotta keep being curious. Yeah, and that's I mean,
Speaker 1: I when I mother, Now what moments when I broke
Speaker 1: my femur and I had to learn how to walk again,
Speaker 1: And there's my body really showed up for me because
Speaker 1: I work out a lot and have worked out a
Speaker 1: lot and really have you know, and I have very
Speaker 1: strong bone density and everything, and but it just reaffirmed
Speaker 1: I was like, wow, do I just give it all
Speaker 1: up or do I? Now? What what do I do?
Speaker 1: And I just I was avaricious in my rehab and
Speaker 1: I'm you know, I don't have all my mobility yet,
Speaker 1: but you have to make a decision to keep your
Speaker 1: body and your mind. She's right, which I think is
Speaker 1: a big conversation that we need to have at our age,
Speaker 1: which is like, yeah, this is what we need to do.
Speaker 1: No one talks about. It's so secretive, but like, yeah,
Speaker 1: be strong, swim lelaps, go for walks, you know, read,
Speaker 1: stay vibrant and laugh. To me is the greatest medicine
Speaker 1: of all. So and if you listen to this podcast
Speaker 1: and you laughed, well you're welcome. We just we just
Speaker 1: added six months to your life because they added to
Speaker 1: your life. Thank you for listening to Go ask Ali.
Speaker 1: Remember that clip but at the beginning, that was from
Speaker 1: our part one episode, which you can find in the
Speaker 1: show links. A new episode of Now What with Brookshields
Speaker 1: drops every Tuesday, and you can find for many times
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