Speaker 1: I'll seeks all that's okay, becaus no one here.
Speaker 2: It is hello, and welcome to another week of teen Beat.
Speaker 2: I'm Danielle Fischel, podcaster, TV director, celebrity ballroom dancer, mother
Speaker 2: of two, and one half of Coryantopanga dot Com, a
Speaker 2: website made by ABC when I was eighteen years old
Speaker 2: for viewers to RSVP to my fictional televised wedding, and,
Speaker 2: in addition to the website, my entire teenage existence from
Speaker 2: twelve to nineteen years old unfolded in front of a
Speaker 2: live studio audience and millions of viewers at home. Whether
Speaker 2: it was my first kiss or my first haircut, pop
Speaker 2: culture saw it all, So now thirty years later, it's
Speaker 2: time to turn the tables. My goal here on Teenbeat
Speaker 2: is to sit down with interesting people who have accomplished
Speaker 2: interesting things, in hopes that learning about their untelevised upbringings
Speaker 2: will help us understand who they've become. Since their journey
Speaker 2: through puberty wasn't detailed in issues of TV Guide, the
Speaker 2: least they can do is share it with me. Now
Speaker 2: I gave you my childhood, it's time we hear yours.
Speaker 2: And this week I think I've found the perfect guest,
Speaker 2: like those little gold necklaces that say your name incursive.
Speaker 2: She was first seen on Sex in the City, but
Speaker 2: since that debut, this youngest of five children has never
Speaker 2: stopped working. Whether it was a scene stealing turn in
Speaker 2: The Forty year Old Virgin or the charming rom com
Speaker 2: lead in Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist, she quickly became
Speaker 2: the actress everyone noticed, so Hollywood responded. She'd appear on
Speaker 2: TV sets for six seasons as Max Black on the
Speaker 2: hit CBS sitcom Two Broke Girls. Then, thanks to the
Speaker 2: Thor Movies and WandaVision, she became my favorite part of
Speaker 2: the Marvel universe, only behind Babygroot. Shouts to Babygroot, throw
Speaker 2: in the house, Bunny, Dollface, big Mouth, and her current
Speaker 2: gig starring alongside the grunting genius of Tim Allen on
Speaker 2: ABC's Shifting Gears, a show that just returned to its
Speaker 2: second season and features more cars than all of the
Speaker 2: Fast and Furious movies combined, And you've got a bona
Speaker 2: fide star. Sure, she is effortlessly cool and has the
Speaker 2: complexion of an eighteenth century portrait of a Nepo baby.
Speaker 2: But I have the feeling that deep down somewhere inside
Speaker 2: is a cringe friendly teenager ready to break out and reminisce.
Speaker 2: Please welcome to the podcast one of my absolute favorite
Speaker 2: human beings, because keep in mind, Babygroot is an alien tree.
Speaker 2: Cat Dennings.
Speaker 3: Wow, I when I die, will you please? You'll drive me?
Speaker 2: I will, I will, but I hope I die before you.
Speaker 3: No, I refuse. Wow. Thank you? Was that made me
Speaker 3: feel very accomplished.
Speaker 2: Well you are. You are spectacular. And when we first
Speaker 2: worked together, I had the honor of directing an episode
Speaker 2: of Shifting Gears during the first season and I literally
Speaker 2: came home to my husband and thought, it's going to
Speaker 2: be awkward to tell him that I have fallen in
Speaker 2: love with Cat Dennings. It's just it's going to be awkward.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to be And I felt so like scary.
Speaker 2: I was like, no, you don't understand. I want to
Speaker 2: be her friend for life, Like I just I want
Speaker 2: to spend all my time with her. And then at
Speaker 2: some point during the week, I just told you that
Speaker 2: story and you were like, I had the same conversation
Speaker 2: with my husband.
Speaker 3: I the love was instant. Look, there are multiple soulmates
Speaker 3: in this world.
Speaker 2: Uh huh, you are one of them.
Speaker 3: For me, Okay, like, yes, you're you for those listening
Speaker 3: and watching. You know, Danielle already. But the light and
Speaker 3: the beauty emanating from all when you stand in Forever,
Speaker 3: it is crazy. You're so I mean, you're more than
Speaker 3: just beautiful, but like the beauty is annoyingly intense. It's
Speaker 3: so unfair that.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, look who's talking. No, seriously, love.
Speaker 3: And may I say, what a director, what a director
Speaker 3: you are?
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: You obviously grew up doing multiicam, but not everyone absorbs yea,
Speaker 3: and not everybody can take like the best version of
Speaker 3: multiicam and execute it like that. You're just You're wonderful.
Speaker 3: You're wonderful, wonderful person, gorgeous.
Speaker 2: It's very unfair, very listen, I feel all those exact
Speaker 2: same ways about you, except you are also an incredibly
Speaker 2: talented actor, and I don't have that you. I mean,
Speaker 2: I watch you. No, I really don't you think. No,
Speaker 2: this isn't about me, but I know you are. Everyone.
Speaker 2: By the way, everyone coming into the show, coming into
Speaker 2: direct shifting gears, literally every person on set says, oh,
Speaker 2: just wait till you meet kat oh boy and just
Speaker 2: says everyone feels about you the way I feel about you.
Speaker 2: So it's not shocking that I feel this way about you.
Speaker 2: You're just You're a remarkable human being. And it's one
Speaker 2: of the main reasons why I wanted to sit down here,
Speaker 2: and one of the main reasons why I created this
Speaker 2: podcast so that we could hang out.
Speaker 3: Good. I'll create any podcasts you want to hang out
Speaker 3: with you. I mean, we need to just get lunch.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know that would be nice.
Speaker 3: We we This is how Hollywood is. You meet someone
Speaker 3: you really want to hang out and then life jobs
Speaker 3: this that, or in my case, you get the fluent
Speaker 3: Bronchite is fifty times exactly. Okay, But I'm going to
Speaker 3: be hanging out with you and get prepare yourself.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm prepared. We also we both love bread too,
Speaker 2: so we did talk about having a pajama bread cheese hangout.
Speaker 3: You know what, never gave me food poisoning bread.
Speaker 2: No, exactly, thank you, You're right. Let us Okay. I
Speaker 2: want to talk about the fact that you are the
Speaker 2: baby of five kids. This must come with its own
Speaker 2: set of creating personality traits and hang ups. What is
Speaker 2: the best thing, and what is the worst thing about
Speaker 2: being the youngest of five?
Speaker 3: Well, the interesting situation with my siblings is that both
Speaker 3: my parents were married before okay, they got together, so
Speaker 3: there's a big age gap between me and my siblings.
Speaker 3: And my dad was eighteen years older than my mom. Okay,
Speaker 3: so standal. So my oldest sister, Claudia is in her sixties.
Speaker 2: Oh okay.
Speaker 3: So so my older siblings are in their fifties and
Speaker 3: early sixties.
Speaker 2: So you're talking twenty to thirty plus year age difference.
Speaker 3: Yes, So I really grew up just me and my
Speaker 3: older brother Jeff, who's seven years older. We share the
Speaker 3: same two parents. It's confusing, But so my older siblings
Speaker 3: were more of like aunts and uncle vibes because they
Speaker 3: were so much older, and so I saw them a lot,
Speaker 3: but not like in growing up in the same house.
Speaker 3: So I really never felt like I was the youngest
Speaker 3: of five in the way that maybe someone would think
Speaker 3: in the same house as their siblings.
Speaker 2: That makes sense, So it's probably probably wasn't as easy
Speaker 2: to get away with things. I was imagining. I have
Speaker 2: children under one roof and you being the youngest, and
Speaker 2: by the time the parents get to you they're just exhausted.
Speaker 3: Oh well that was true. That was true. They okay,
Speaker 3: they once I came along. You know, my brother's seven
Speaker 3: years older than me, so he's seven and out comes
Speaker 3: this little girl who's a nightmare. I mean, like from
Speaker 3: what I have been told and what I remember, I
Speaker 3: was a real tough baby. Like really yeah, so you
Speaker 3: know you think, oh, we've done this a lot of
Speaker 3: times before. We've got a lot of kids in our life.
Speaker 3: I'm sure this one will be great. No. I mean
Speaker 3: I didn't sleep through the night till I was very old.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay.
Speaker 3: I couldn't eat solid food. My my soft head thing.
Speaker 3: What are the fontinell collapsed emergency? I got like the
Speaker 3: flu as an infant. My head collapsed inward and I
Speaker 3: almost died. My fine dies, I'm fine. So like there
Speaker 3: was a lot of like baby drama. Never slept, how
Speaker 3: did nurse all the time, couldn't eat food?
Speaker 2: Just nightmare person, Oh my goodness.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And my mom said she was nauseous and barfing
Speaker 3: every single day of her pregnancy and she could only
Speaker 3: eat vanilla Hogandaw's ice cream. Which the joke is that
Speaker 3: this is why I look like this.
Speaker 2: That's where you got that gorgeous porcelain skin. It's actually
Speaker 2: Hogandaw's ice cream.
Speaker 3: Because both my parents are very dark really and brown
Speaker 3: eyes like black hair, both of them very opposite. Like,
Speaker 3: I don't know, no one knows what happened, but it
Speaker 3: could be the ice cream.
Speaker 2: Could be the ice cream. My mom also ate a
Speaker 2: lot of ice cream when she was pregnant with me.
Speaker 2: She used to she would eat the only thing she
Speaker 2: could stomach was Hormel chili from the can and ice
Speaker 2: and ice cream, So she would eat like family size
Speaker 2: Hormel chilly and then two giant scoops of ice cream
Speaker 2: that she would walk to the pharmacy together.
Speaker 3: Well, all the protein is why her hair is so good.
Speaker 2: There you go, that's probably what it is. Probably Okay,
Speaker 2: what were you When did you kind of grow out?
Speaker 2: Would you say? When did you grow out of being
Speaker 2: maybe a troublesome baby?
Speaker 3: Oh? Maybe in my twenties? I yeah, I really like
Speaker 3: absorbed all of the attention and resources from my parents
Speaker 3: until I was in my twelve really till I moved out.
Speaker 3: I'm really serious. I was a mess. My brother then
Speaker 3: became like a super intellectual and went to like an
Speaker 3: Ivy League College, went to Brown University, and like a
Speaker 3: very smart person and I'm like the dumb one who
Speaker 3: like got all the attention.
Speaker 1: It's true.
Speaker 2: I mean just a fact, just staying now.
Speaker 3: For him also, but but yeah, I really like popped
Speaker 3: out knowing that I wanted to do whatever it was
Speaker 3: that like movies are, like, wanted to be in that.
Speaker 2: How did you know did you watch a lot of
Speaker 2: movies as a young kid.
Speaker 3: Well, the weird thing is I was not allowed to
Speaker 3: watch TV unless it was like PBS, unless it was
Speaker 3: like Sherry Lewis and Plant, Tessme Treet or whatever. But
Speaker 3: like and then we could rent movies from the library
Speaker 3: back then.
Speaker 2: Kids, let me tell you about a library.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you could rent films really weird, weird, old, strange
Speaker 3: films that I was like obsessed with these random things
Speaker 3: and whatever. It was like I've thought about this a
Speaker 3: lot because I've seen this with like my little nieces
Speaker 3: and nephews and stuff. It's like that natural thing for
Speaker 3: babies and children to want to imagine and yes, like
Speaker 3: make believe in dream and things like that. And I
Speaker 3: think I just wanted to I wanted to live in
Speaker 3: that because that was like and then a movie was
Speaker 3: like the ultimate make believe dreamy thing that I was like,
Speaker 3: I don't know what this is, but I gotta do it.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure why it happened so young, but I
Speaker 3: was like, this is it.
Speaker 2: You just knew you fell to calling.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, I want to get to the fact that you
Speaker 2: were somehow able to convince your family to move to Hollywood.
Speaker 2: I want to get to that and how that what
Speaker 2: magic you used in order to do that. But before
Speaker 2: we do, I want to talk about that you grew
Speaker 2: up like we all did, in a historically protected house
Speaker 2: constructed in sixteen ninety five rural Pennsylvania. Or if I
Speaker 2: had a penny for every time I've heard that, can
Speaker 2: you tell our listeners a little something about penn Cottage?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I would love to. First of all,
Speaker 3: it was haunted, as as is anything else in the
Speaker 3: way it was so haunted. It's it's a beautiful It
Speaker 3: still is there today because it's it's not legal to
Speaker 3: ever demolish it.
Speaker 2: A protected home. I love it the.
Speaker 3: Historical society because I remember that we moved in and
Speaker 3: it's just a very lovely old home. But in on
Speaker 3: the East Coast, it's not very it's not like a
Speaker 3: big deal to live in an old house. You don't really, right,
Speaker 3: But there is a stone carved thing that says like
Speaker 3: sixteen ninety five or ninety whatever insane here that could
Speaker 3: be on it. And every year the Historical Society would
Speaker 3: do a tour through the house. So but I we
Speaker 3: lived there. So I'd be like eating my like Barbera's
Speaker 3: flakes or whatever and reading Calvin and hobbson and would
Speaker 3: come like fifteen little old ladies like with pamphlets like
Speaker 3: what like looking at our house like as if it
Speaker 3: were like.
Speaker 2: Like look at this relic.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So they did that every year, and it was
Speaker 3: just hilarious.
Speaker 1: And you know it.
Speaker 3: The walls were like five feet thick, these stones, like
Speaker 3: they don't make them like that anymore. Nope. And it
Speaker 3: was it was haunted. It was haunted. There were the classics,
Speaker 3: like you know, lights turning on and off, doors opening
Speaker 3: and closing.
Speaker 2: Did you see the door opening closer? Just hear it?
Speaker 3: No, I saw that shit. There were like places on
Speaker 3: the stairs that were ice cold. There were I of
Speaker 3: course lived.
Speaker 2: In the attic.
Speaker 3: As if the Omen and all these movies. I mean,
Speaker 3: I don't know if there's an attic at the omen,
Speaker 3: but there's all these movies. There's an attic for a reason.
Speaker 3: Yea like heat the ghost rise to the top.
Speaker 2: Wait, you were like Lydia deep, Yes, like a real
Speaker 2: life Lydia dats Yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Well listen now, I did find a photo. You can
Speaker 3: tell me when the right time to show. This photo
Speaker 3: was photo that encapsulates my awkward teen Please let's see
Speaker 3: it now. I lived in the attic and it was
Speaker 3: very creepy.
Speaker 2: But speaking of teen beat, yeah.
Speaker 3: Every time i'd go to New York for an audition,
Speaker 3: I would go to the what's it called Hudson News.
Speaker 2: Hudson News up a teen beat, tiger beat.
Speaker 3: Most of what you were in. I would tear out
Speaker 3: the Jonathan Taylor Thomases, and I would tear out the Hansens,
Speaker 3: and I would paper my room with these things and
Speaker 3: your attic. Yeah, this is my room and this is me.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. Perhaps you see the hands in standy
Speaker 2: do standy? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Somebody? Perhaps the children don't know what that is, but
Speaker 3: I know you do.
Speaker 2: Of course I do music, and I.
Speaker 3: Can send you a better res photo of this.
Speaker 2: Yes, so we will need to post that.
Speaker 3: And I went there and they had like CDs on
Speaker 3: that thing and I was like, hey, hey, listen, were
Speaker 3: you what happens to the standy when you're done? They
Speaker 3: were like, I don't know. I was like, I am
Speaker 3: gonna need it, and they were like all right, and I.
Speaker 2: Got did they just give it to you? Or did
Speaker 2: they charge you for it?
Speaker 3: Now? They gave it to me. I think they took
Speaker 3: pity on me or they were scared, which I wouldn't understand.
Speaker 2: You're like, I need to take this handsOn hand standing to.
Speaker 3: I don't know how I got to this but from
Speaker 3: the house. But yeah, so I made this terrifying haunted
Speaker 3: house my own. Let's just say that.
Speaker 2: How did you then end up in a Hansen music
Speaker 2: video later on? And what what must have that been
Speaker 2: like for your little brain in your heart?
Speaker 3: To this day? It is probably my best, my biggest
Speaker 3: accomplishment in my career.
Speaker 2: And I'm not joking, right, it's a that's a true
Speaker 2: statement for you.
Speaker 3: This is called manifestation folk.
Speaker 2: You're right, you were doing the secret before anyone had
Speaker 2: heard of the secret.
Speaker 3: Sincroting that shit since I was he old what is
Speaker 3: this eleven?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I don't know. Okay, I was Pinteresting before Pinterest. I
Speaker 3: was vision boarding my life, my ceiling. Isaac's on my ceiling.
Speaker 2: I love that, Okay, I love that.
Speaker 3: So look, I don't know how this happened, but once
Speaker 3: Twitter rip came along, you could follow these people that
Speaker 3: you never could have access to. I mean, this is
Speaker 3: good and bad, as we know, it's very bad, but
Speaker 3: you could suddenly you could have access to the thoughts
Speaker 3: of these people. So I followed Hanson, Zack and Isaac
Speaker 3: or whoever was on there. And I think I had
Speaker 3: been quite vocal ever since I was doing interviews about
Speaker 3: how much I loved Hansen.
Speaker 2: Okay, I still listen. They're great, Yes they are.
Speaker 3: Oh look, So I had been vocal about how much
Speaker 3: I loved them many times, and I think Two Very
Speaker 3: Girls was was was popular or something at that time.
Speaker 3: So they they they saw something about it, and I
Speaker 3: straight up gotta gott a d m yes, Taylor Hanson,
Speaker 3: and he was like, hey you ever. I was like, yeah, mhm,
Speaker 3: I'll do it for I will pay you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I will do anything you want. I will
Speaker 2: clear the calendar.
Speaker 3: I was whatever, Yes, So I got to be in
Speaker 3: a handsome music video with my friend Nikki Reid, and
Speaker 3: it was one of the best days of my life.
Speaker 3: It was so sal it was it was so surreal,
Speaker 3: and I know that you know this, but like when
Speaker 3: you're a teen, I'm just a say girl, because I
Speaker 3: don't know what it's like to not be that You're like,
Speaker 3: your obsessions are so important, Like my love for Hanson
Speaker 3: at that time was was so like important to me
Speaker 3: and they were a part of my daily existence in
Speaker 3: a really pure, precious, like sweet way. Where you know,
Speaker 3: so as an adult, you kind of like your brain
Speaker 3: finally like closes up or whatever and you like being
Speaker 3: insane or maybe not in my case, less a little
Speaker 3: less demented, not not completely, but like you know, I
Speaker 3: don't have obsessions and I don't feel the obsessions that
Speaker 3: I did as a young kid. But something like opened
Speaker 3: up in that day where I was fully able to
Speaker 3: like close the circle and like reck how like magical
Speaker 3: and and crazy. It was that like this person got
Speaker 3: to like be in a music video with them. That's
Speaker 3: just it's just nuts. And the fact that I'm sitting
Speaker 3: here talking to you is also crazy. Because I watched
Speaker 3: Boy mus World religiously. I mean it was. It's just
Speaker 3: so weird how these things happen. I mean, it's just
Speaker 3: it's it's weird.
Speaker 2: Do you think I thinking back to your The Haunted
Speaker 2: House and you talked about the fact that the ghosts
Speaker 2: were you saw, you saw doors opening and closing, and
Speaker 2: you were up in the attic and they rise. Do
Speaker 2: you think that Do you have like like a guardian
Speaker 2: angel ghost who helped you manifest all of your dreams?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's so interesting. I wonder. I mean
Speaker 3: I felt like specifically, and this is very wooloo everyone,
Speaker 3: but yeah, in that attic, I felt very much like
Speaker 3: there was a little boy living up there. And I
Speaker 3: know it sounds creepy, but it wasn't. It was like
Speaker 3: a sweet thing because I was a little kid and
Speaker 3: I felt like it was somebody my age up there
Speaker 3: because I had all my toys and stuff, and I
Speaker 3: would see, I don't lock me up, put me in
Speaker 3: the padded room. I would see like I had a dollhouse,
Speaker 3: and I would see like out of my peripheral, like
Speaker 3: somebody kneeling like looking into it, like playing with it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And it didn't feel creepy. It didn't feel like scared.
Speaker 2: You weren't scared. You were just like, oh, there's someone
Speaker 2: looking in the docks.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So I felt like the presence of this little
Speaker 3: boy up there at all times. I don't know what
Speaker 3: that means. But at a house that old, lots of
Speaker 3: people died, so it was just a sweet thing. And
Speaker 3: I always I think I named him. I don't remember
Speaker 3: what it was, but it was just like that was
Speaker 3: like a constant presence. Yeah, exactly. So I don't know
Speaker 3: that would be very that would be so what if
Speaker 3: it was like Ralph, my ghost Ralph?
Speaker 2: Like, well, that's what I'm saying, Like, have you ever
Speaker 2: now Here's sorry, this is this is a wo too
Speaker 2: woo woo for everyone. Then you can just go listen
Speaker 2: to another podcast. But I love this stuff. It was
Speaker 2: his name Ralph. No, okay, I thought, I'm going, okay,
Speaker 2: have you ever felt his presence ever again? Since after
Speaker 2: leaving the house, did you ever feel anything like his
Speaker 2: presence again?
Speaker 3: No? No, I stayed with that very much like the
Speaker 3: house was contained in itself when we left. I did. However,
Speaker 3: I did feel when we were moving out or when
Speaker 3: we were leave because my mom I would leave to
Speaker 3: go to La for my work. And come back. And
Speaker 3: one of the last times we left, I felt I
Speaker 3: felt aggression towards me or leaving. And maybe I'm reading
Speaker 3: into it, but like little kids are really tuned into
Speaker 3: young people are tuned into like the veil or whatever. Huh,
Speaker 3: And so I felt like there was anger at me
Speaker 3: for like leaving for long period, right, yeah, I don't. Unfortunately,
Speaker 3: like I missed that house, the wonderful house, and I've
Speaker 3: my brother and his now wife, my sister in law
Speaker 3: one who I love. They went to look at it
Speaker 3: and found out that it is now an airbnb really
Speaker 3: so you too can experience the hauntings. I don't know
Speaker 3: if it still is. I haven't looked it up, but
Speaker 3: they went and stayed in it, Danielle.
Speaker 2: And what did they think.
Speaker 3: Duh hated it.
Speaker 2: Left in the middle of the night, really.
Speaker 3: Left undercover of darkness. They were so and they were
Speaker 3: staying in the attic. This is so funny. They were
Speaker 3: staying in the attic. No ten o shade about the
Speaker 3: person who owns the house now, but like they were
Speaker 3: so creeped out and the feeling was so weird in
Speaker 3: there that they were like, you gotta leave, you gotta
Speaker 3: get out and they in the middle of the night.
Speaker 2: D So that house if it came on the market,
Speaker 2: would you buy it and go and think about living there?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I would feel very much like I could heal. I
Speaker 3: could heal.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's what I'm saying. I think. I think that
Speaker 2: aggression you felt that last one of the last times
Speaker 2: you left was probably what your brother and sister in
Speaker 2: law were feeling, which is like, not it's not you,
Speaker 2: it's not you. Where is she? Where is she? She
Speaker 2: was my friend?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean listen, I sound like an insane person,
Speaker 3: and I probably am. So it's fine. But anyone who's
Speaker 3: like I mean, I feel like a lot of people
Speaker 3: have felt a something weird in building. Yes, just that
Speaker 3: it's just that expanded you know, who knows totally.
Speaker 2: Were friends ever afraid to sleep over?
Speaker 3: No? I didn't tell them anything. I mean, well, you
Speaker 3: know all sleepovers where we didn't sleep at all. The
Speaker 3: lights were on, blazing, like yeah, playing died at like
Speaker 3: three in the morning.
Speaker 2: Of course, out to dido.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Yes, let's talk about little cat. Did you have any
Speaker 2: kid hobbies?
Speaker 3: Oh my god? Yes, Well did you ever read? I
Speaker 3: feel like we're very close in age and we're very similar.
Speaker 3: So did you ever read Harrie at the Spy?
Speaker 2: Yes, and all the Nancy Drew books, which is probably
Speaker 2: a little too old for you.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, because I inherited my sister's whole Nancy
Speaker 3: drews aunts. Yes, so absolutely so. When I read Harriet
Speaker 3: the Spy, I became obsessed with notebooks. Obsessed and now
Speaker 3: still am.
Speaker 2: This is my office, but it's beautiful.
Speaker 3: I don't have any work to do, but like I
Speaker 3: have like notebooks, and I still like every day I
Speaker 3: come in here and iatious book. That was a gift.
Speaker 3: I write in my little notebook and I hope no
Speaker 3: one ever sees them. They're pathetic. I'm like today, I
Speaker 3: don't know. Hey bye.
Speaker 2: But that's like my diary from being a kid. I
Speaker 2: for I first of all, felt like I had to
Speaker 2: everyone started with dear diary, like just the more you,
Speaker 2: how are you sorry? It's been so long since I've
Speaker 2: written who?
Speaker 3: Who?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 3: What is that you're anthropomorphizing? You're feeling guilt? It's yea,
Speaker 3: so it can go very it could go too far, yeah.
Speaker 2: And then it would just be like a real quick
Speaker 2: recap of like, oh I got.
Speaker 3: I know, well, welcome to welcome to adult life, kids.
Speaker 3: So I love to do that. I love to like
Speaker 3: you know. I mean, look, we grew up without the internet, yep,
Speaker 3: and it was a beautiful experience. I mean I was
Speaker 3: born with anxiety, so to me it was also like, well,
Speaker 3: how are my parents going to know where I How
Speaker 3: am I gonna know what? They're gonna pick me up? Like?
Speaker 3: I didn't like that. There was no like sys. So
Speaker 3: like when cell phones and deepers and whatever happened, I
Speaker 3: was happy about that. But without the Internet, I would,
Speaker 3: you know, go outside. Oh here's something I like to do.
Speaker 3: What a weird kid? You know how Cicadas?
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, where is this going?
Speaker 3: Well, cicadas shit their skins, uh huh.
Speaker 2: And they gave these translucentinch did you collect cicada skins?
Speaker 3: Well, one of my favorite things to do was to
Speaker 3: get the circada skins and attach them to my hair
Speaker 3: and body and scare my mom, Oh my god, that's hilarious.
Speaker 3: What's wrong with me?
Speaker 2: I don't know, but it's the black silence of the lambs,
Speaker 2: so it's just insane.
Speaker 3: I would do that. I would there was a platform
Speaker 3: next to the garage that I would do stand up
Speaker 3: for the ferns. I mean I would do like a
Speaker 3: tight ten, a.
Speaker 2: Tight ten for the ferns. Man, Do you have any
Speaker 2: of that on video? No course, videok. Video cameras back
Speaker 2: then are like this big yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I would hang out with the neighbor's cat all day.
Speaker 3: I was homeschool. I was you know, yeah, there's we
Speaker 3: could we could we could diagnose me easily from from
Speaker 3: this podcast. But you know I was I started acting.
Speaker 2: Young, yeah, and it was just my life.
Speaker 3: It was my life, and I was I was not cool.
Speaker 3: I was not pretty according to the industry I had.
Speaker 3: You know, I was an awkward kid who was very
Speaker 3: very confident. I love that, very absurdly confident in myself,
Speaker 3: and I think that is part of why things worked
Speaker 3: out in the way that they did. If someone was like,
Speaker 3: she's not pretty enough.
Speaker 2: It was like a year, yeah, you obviously don't have eyes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was like, what is it?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean, I boy, I love that. I think
Speaker 2: I think, uh, that is just generally the way every
Speaker 2: kid should be raised, and the feeling every kid should
Speaker 2: have is like, if you don't like something about me,
Speaker 2: that's a you problem, that's your fault. Has nothing to
Speaker 2: do with me and i'd so therefore don't need to
Speaker 2: know that opinion. Keep it to yourself, Thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Really, like my mom I mean and my dad, I mean,
Speaker 3: they thought I was great, and I know not that
Speaker 3: is not everybody's experience, and some people have a real
Speaker 3: tough parental situation and it will expect you for the
Speaker 3: rest of your life, which is what therapy and yours were. Yes,
Speaker 3: but my mom thought I was still does thought I
Speaker 3: was the best. Yeah, the most talented kid in the world,
Speaker 3: the cutest kid in the world. She told me. She
Speaker 3: was like, you're so beautiful, You're so special, you're so smart.
Speaker 3: They don't know what they're talking about. And I was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: and it really worked, but it works right, Like I
Speaker 3: really felt. I felt like I was awesome and they
Speaker 3: didn't know what they were talking about. And I think
Speaker 3: it's funny to think about like a tiny little girl
Speaker 3: with like enormous buff teeth and like huge frizzy hair
Speaker 3: like hermione, like real deal her mind.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my teeth were huge.
Speaker 3: Just the front, just the front ones, and my hair
Speaker 3: was huge, and I wore like my brother's clothes. We
Speaker 3: didn't have any money, so I wore like thrift store
Speaker 3: stuff and my brother's.
Speaker 2: I'd be cool now, yeah, exactly, because yeah, thrift store
Speaker 2: stuff and upcycling and vintage is very cool. Were your
Speaker 2: parents good at juggling homeschooling? This is a true story.
Speaker 2: I can barely handle my first grader's homework. They're doing
Speaker 2: new math now, and there's things called like factor families,
Speaker 2: and I'm in awe of homeschool parents.
Speaker 3: No. No, my dad, well, my dad had a.
Speaker 2: Job, so he wasn't he wasn't involved.
Speaker 3: Okay, he was a scientist, so he had like curing
Speaker 3: cancer to worry about.
Speaker 2: My goodness, my mom tried.
Speaker 3: I mean, I went to a program like twice a
Speaker 3: week for homeschooled kids, which was actually fantastic. It still exists.
Speaker 3: It's called Open Connections.
Speaker 2: Are that now?
Speaker 3: It's called Cupola Academy and it's in Pennsylvania. It was wonderful.
Speaker 3: It was run by my parents' friends. It sounds it.
Speaker 2: Sounds a little culty, uh huh okay.
Speaker 3: But it was just it was like Montessori for homeschool kids.
Speaker 3: It was like on their beautiful property. They were like
Speaker 3: sort of like teachers there to supervise and it was
Speaker 3: just like open play and like it was great. It
Speaker 3: really was fantastic, and there was a wonderful dog there named.
Speaker 2: Biscuit, Ah Biscuit.
Speaker 3: It was just a nice environment and it was helpful
Speaker 3: for kids who like, didn't didn't like or could really function.
Speaker 3: Like I tried to go to school and I couldn't.
Speaker 3: I don't know what's wrong with me.
Speaker 2: When you tried to go to like a regular school,
Speaker 2: traditional school.
Speaker 3: I wanted to go to school in my like preteen time,
Speaker 3: like I wanted the school experience, and I struggle with
Speaker 3: the structure. I mean, surprise, I struggle with authority okay,
Speaker 3: authority problem okay, and it's haunted me my whole life.
Speaker 3: But but yeah, I mean I had a time where
Speaker 3: I wanted to do that. But the homeschooling thing was
Speaker 3: was great and the program was good. But when it
Speaker 3: came to like, okay, now you're gonna do math and
Speaker 3: English and history and this and that, my mom tried
Speaker 3: with me for a long time, and it just there
Speaker 3: was a point where I was like, listen, lady, get
Speaker 3: out of the room. I got the textbooks, I have
Speaker 3: the thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's say our relationship. Yeah, because you, I mean I'm.
Speaker 3: I'm thirty nine when my four year old five year
Speaker 3: old old, she's six year old niece is like, blah
Speaker 3: blah blah blah blah, this is what I'm learning at school.
Speaker 3: I was like, what, She's like, I have no idea,
Speaker 3: what's going on? I have Appa bearra. The other day
Speaker 3: she was like, it's Kapa bara Okay.
Speaker 2: I say, I have a six and a half year
Speaker 2: old and he comes home with his homework and I'm
Speaker 2: trying to help him with it, and I'm like I cannot.
Speaker 2: I thought I had many more years before I felt
Speaker 2: like the homework was a problem for me.
Speaker 3: I don't know how you do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the kids on.
Speaker 3: Well Little Barrett on Shifting Gears, who plays my daughter,
Speaker 3: who's not so anymore Barrett Margolaz is wonderful. She was
Speaker 3: telling me about what she was doing in school. She
Speaker 3: was like, I just feel like, I'm not going to
Speaker 3: use any of this. My girl, like, you're not. I'm
Speaker 3: you know, I mean you should pay attention because it's
Speaker 3: a word. But I was like, I don't know anything.
Speaker 2: No, And that's why the school you were talking about
Speaker 2: where it was like open play and even the idea
Speaker 2: that you had a problem with authority. Like, I love
Speaker 2: that your parents and basically raised you instead of being
Speaker 2: like this is how you raised children? Like children are
Speaker 2: they They have different ways of expressing, they have different
Speaker 2: ways of learning. And yeah, if you had spent years
Speaker 2: forcing yourself to every day go to traditional schooling following
Speaker 2: the same structure, there's not a soul who meets you
Speaker 2: and thinks what an uneducated lady you are?
Speaker 3: Like credit to my parents. They they worked with me. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and my mom was a stay at home mom, so
Speaker 3: it was like I think if they both worked, it
Speaker 3: wouldn't have been possible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you do so she could stay.
Speaker 3: Home with me and indulge my every whim or whatever.
Speaker 3: But like I learned then to love reading mm hmmm
Speaker 3: because I wasn't forced, yeah to read, And nothing against school.
Speaker 3: I really think like school is amazing for lots of
Speaker 3: like personalities. Really, and now as an adult, I liked
Speaker 3: structure a lot. When I was a kid, I was
Speaker 3: it was just not I couldn't learn that way. It
Speaker 3: was too hard for me. And I think my mom
Speaker 3: My mom was a speech therapist and worked with kids,
Speaker 3: and I think she also knew that I just wouldn't
Speaker 3: do well and I would suffer mentally. Yeah, he was
Speaker 3: absolutely right, So credit to her for that. But I
Speaker 3: did learn then to love I loved math. I felt
Speaker 3: like I was good at math. I loved math. I
Speaker 3: went past the graduate level in math before I like
Speaker 3: after I needed to. I just went past it. And
Speaker 3: I just loved reading. I loved Shakespeare, I loved under
Speaker 3: Alan Poe, and I could like pursue those interests, you know.
Speaker 3: So that was nice. So it did cultivate like a
Speaker 3: lot of passion for me.
Speaker 2: Even though you were homeschooled. Was there ever a time
Speaker 2: where you were boy crazy? Did you? Oh, other than
Speaker 2: the Hanson and Jonathan Taylor Thomas, I was.
Speaker 3: And by the way, readers, readers did official bed my
Speaker 3: dreams come true on the Shifting Gears set because Jonathanaylor
Speaker 3: Thomas came to visit you.
Speaker 2: He did well, Yeah, he came to visit me, and
Speaker 2: of course it helped that Tim was there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it was another like closed circle thing, which
Speaker 3: was so crazy. Yeah, So I was insane boy crazy,
Speaker 3: so just to the point where it was really embarrassing.
Speaker 3: Like I kept so many notebooks and I read them.
Speaker 3: I'm like good lord, what.
Speaker 2: Is wrong with you? Do all of them end with like, ps,
Speaker 2: I love whoever you loved at that time? That's how
Speaker 2: much is this?
Speaker 3: Miss? Is that? Yeah? So embarrassing? I mean I was
Speaker 3: like the kid who I waited in line at like
Speaker 3: Macy's for like three hours to do a meet and
Speaker 3: greet with one of the guys from Roswell.
Speaker 2: And he was lovely, good, good Brenden Fair.
Speaker 3: I don't know where he is now. I haven't checked in.
Speaker 3: I'm sure he's doing great. I don't know, but I
Speaker 3: waited in line at that store to meet him and
Speaker 3: I got a picture with him and I blew it up.
Speaker 3: Did you know that you can blow photos up to
Speaker 3: be like four by two feet?
Speaker 2: I did that.
Speaker 3: I found out and that's what I did, and I
Speaker 3: hung it in my room.
Speaker 2: Was it in the attic? Oh my gosh, Brendan.
Speaker 3: Fair haunted the attic along with the actual ghosts. Poor guy.
Speaker 2: Do you remember who your first in real life crush was?
Speaker 3: I sure do? And you know what? We are friends
Speaker 3: on Instagram to the vie and I hope he's okay
Speaker 3: with me shouting him out. I'll he's he's listen. This
Speaker 3: is a childhood thing. I think that we were both
Speaker 3: like four. His name was Paul is he's a lie Paul,
Speaker 3: I won't say it's that's name for his bribes. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he works in fashion now he's married to a beautiful
Speaker 3: woman who's a lawyer, who's like very smart. And he
Speaker 3: turned out. I still have like a little jewelry box
Speaker 3: he gave me for my birthday. Our moms were friends.
Speaker 3: We took French class together and my mom told me
Speaker 3: later that Paul was a prince in Thailand.
Speaker 2: What so my.
Speaker 3: First love was a prince.
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 3: Because Paul's mom is from Thailand and apparently she's a princess.
Speaker 2: She's royalty there.
Speaker 3: So I had no idea. I mean, this kid was
Speaker 3: the He was so sweet and so cute, and we
Speaker 3: loved each other so much, and I had the biggest
Speaker 3: crush on him. And he grew up to be a
Speaker 3: very handsome man who works in fashion and he's lovely.
Speaker 2: I love that. I love that. My first crush and
Speaker 2: I are also friends on Instagram. And his name was Eric,
Speaker 2: and Eric was the cutest boy I had ever seen
Speaker 2: in my entire life. And he had he had kind
Speaker 2: of like Zach Morris hair, before there was ever before
Speaker 2: Zach Morris existed, but the blonde. He had blonde hair
Speaker 2: that was like in a wave in the front. It
Speaker 2: was very popular in nineteen eighty six, and oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: it was beautiful. And my mom came to school one
Speaker 2: day to help with like you know, it was around
Speaker 2: Valentine's Day and they were asking for parent volunteers to
Speaker 2: help pass out the Valentines. And so my mom knew
Speaker 2: that I had this crush on Eric, and one of
Speaker 2: her responsibilities in the classroom was to take photos, and
Speaker 2: so I told her before she came, I was like,
Speaker 2: just please get a picture of Eric alone, because I
Speaker 2: wanted to print it out and put it in a
Speaker 2: frame in my room. And then I remember my mom, like,
Speaker 2: I have very few memories of being this young, but
Speaker 2: the memory I have of watching her go to take
Speaker 2: the photo of him, and you know that feeling when
Speaker 2: you're like everyone knows it's too obvious. I like, may
Speaker 2: I caused a huge seat. I was like, mom, and
Speaker 2: she like turned and looked at me, like what And
Speaker 2: I was like, I mean you over here and she
Speaker 2: was like but I'm and I was like, no one
Speaker 2: was suspecting of anything. She was just walking around taking pictures.
Speaker 2: But I was so worried that he was gonna know
Speaker 2: that she was like my personal paparazzo that it panicked me.
Speaker 2: But she ended up getting one and when she printed
Speaker 2: the photo out, I used to walk home from school
Speaker 2: and she taped it to the door that led into
Speaker 2: the house, so that the minute I arrived at the door,
Speaker 2: his picture was on the door. And I had a
Speaker 2: white ceramic heart picture frame, and you did let his
Speaker 2: little face fit in.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: And years later, I mean, this is Jensen and I
Speaker 2: are married, and somehow it comes up like our first crushes,
Speaker 2: and I say, oh, mine was Eric, And I go,
Speaker 2: I wonder what he's up to now, and I find
Speaker 2: him on Instagram and he was in a speedo with
Speaker 2: his husband at at burning Man and I was like oh.
Speaker 2: And so then I reached out to my mom and
Speaker 2: I said, Mom, I found Eric on Instagram and he's
Speaker 2: married to a man. And my home said, of course
Speaker 2: he is. That was very obvious.
Speaker 3: Ah, yes, Eric.
Speaker 2: And then we went to go see Paw Patrol. Jensen
Speaker 2: and I with our kids, and Eric was the choreographer
Speaker 2: of Pop Patrol Live, and we ran into him with
Speaker 2: his husband, and we got to reunite and we followed
Speaker 2: each other and now we're friends again. That's insane, isn't
Speaker 2: that crazy?
Speaker 3: That is Wow? What a hero's journey.
Speaker 2: Yeah really, I've just the Paw Patrol line. Did all
Speaker 2: the choreography for Paw Patrol Life. What a success. I'm
Speaker 2: so proud of him. So yeah, so awesome.
Speaker 3: Both became like.
Speaker 2: I know, we had good taste, like you know, like
Speaker 2: that's yeah, I'm proud of us me too.
Speaker 3: God, how beautiful.
Speaker 2: So one of the things that when I saw you
Speaker 2: on the Shifting Gear set that we talked about was
Speaker 2: because one of the Shifting Gears writers, Miss Morgan Murphy,
Speaker 2: incredibly talented. She is completely obsessed with baseball cards, collects
Speaker 2: she looks through all of them. And Morgan has an
Speaker 2: Alan and Ginter Tops card. I have an Alan and
Speaker 2: Ginter Tops card, and Morgan and I decided we wanted
Speaker 2: to bring each other one and sign them for one another.
Speaker 2: And so you saw us doing this and you said,
Speaker 2: what what is this? Where? How did you get these cards?
Speaker 2: And I said, do you would you want one? Would
Speaker 2: you want to have a card made? And you said
Speaker 2: I sure would, And it ended up happening. You now
Speaker 2: have your very own Alan and Ginter Tops card.
Speaker 3: You are my manager because you made this happen because
Speaker 3: I didn't. I mean, it blew my mind. First of all,
Speaker 3: I don't know anything about like baseball cards and stuff.
Speaker 3: My brother's huge into that. When I saw that, I
Speaker 3: was like, wait, how is this possible?
Speaker 2: Huh?
Speaker 3: And then you made the magic happen because they got
Speaker 3: in touch with me and they were.
Speaker 2: I reached out to them. I was like, listen, I'm
Speaker 2: with Katkat needs a card.
Speaker 3: You're my rep. You should get fifteen percent, to be honest.
Speaker 3: Then they paid me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was because you signed him right.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I was like, you're gonna pay me for this, Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna argue. And I did it all like
Speaker 3: just I'm I wanted my brother to think I was cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah that and it worked, I think.
Speaker 3: A little bit. He thinks it's hilarious. It is the
Speaker 3: coolest thing maybe that I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty amazing. And it's gotten me into baseball
Speaker 2: cards and my sons are into baseball cards. We like
Speaker 2: to open packs together. It's been very fun. But I
Speaker 2: bring it up because I stumbled upon a guy on
Speaker 2: Instagram actually who opened a pack of cards live on
Speaker 2: Instagram and he had your one of one. So they're
Speaker 2: all they're all numbered, and this is one of one.
Speaker 2: There's only one of these and he got it and
Speaker 2: I reached out to him and I said, I need
Speaker 2: to buy that from you. So I bought your one
Speaker 2: of one. It's my gift to you. The next time
Speaker 2: I see you, I'm going to gift this to you.
Speaker 2: Money I did. I had you need to have your
Speaker 2: own one of one. Look how beautiful this card is.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: So shout out to Jason, who was so like the
Speaker 2: minute the minute. We reached out and said can we
Speaker 2: buy this? And he was like yeah, why but you
Speaker 2: know why what do you what do you want with it?
Speaker 2: And I said I would actually like to gift it
Speaker 2: to cat and he said it's all hers, it's so
Speaker 2: he he easily handed it over. Shout out, yeah, so
Speaker 2: I have this for you the next time I see you.
Speaker 3: Well stop, I can't mind blowing. Okay, Well what do
Speaker 3: I do with it? It's going it's going on at
Speaker 3: I'm going to wear it like on a little lanyard around.
Speaker 2: I recommend you get it graded. Get it p s
Speaker 2: A graded, so you send it off, we can actually
Speaker 2: bring it. I think it's down Orange County. Maybe I'll
Speaker 2: get graded for you. I right, I might do some
Speaker 2: more work, but I want to have it graded because
Speaker 2: you want to. You want it to be like a
Speaker 2: nine or a ten. You you got to get it graded.
Speaker 2: But it's a very cool thing for you to own
Speaker 2: forever and to have in your family. And yeah, it's
Speaker 2: it's very cool.
Speaker 3: God, thank you so much. Thank you to you and
Speaker 3: Jason go.
Speaker 2: You are welcome. Now on Shifting Gears, you are famously
Speaker 2: around some of the most gorgeous cars of all time.
Speaker 2: Has it made you want to buy a car from
Speaker 2: when you were a teenager? And if so, what do
Speaker 2: you think you'd get?
Speaker 3: It's like you're in my brain, it really is. Yeah.
Speaker 3: First of all, I've always liked vintage cars, like because
Speaker 3: they're beautiful. Every time I asked him Alan about a
Speaker 3: specific car, he's like a tone might He's like, they're
Speaker 3: so difficult. So you see, if you go on the
Speaker 3: set of Shifting Gears or I mean any day, there's
Speaker 3: like four immaculate, beautiful, like mint condition vintage cars that
Speaker 3: belong to smalon and if you ask about any of them,
Speaker 3: he just goesugh, because what you learned is they require
Speaker 3: he has a staff.
Speaker 2: Uh huh.
Speaker 3: Correct, he has a staff just for the cars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, because he has a lot.
Speaker 3: Of that, a lot of cars. They require a full
Speaker 3: time maintenance staff. So he has people who shammy the.
Speaker 2: Car, ye drive and start the engines, change the oil
Speaker 2: they die yep.
Speaker 3: Okay. So so he's got a full time nanny staff
Speaker 3: for these cars, and they seem to be a huge
Speaker 3: pain in the ass. However, the one I'll give to
Speaker 3: answers the one there that I was very struck actually
Speaker 3: too that I was very struck by of tims. One
Speaker 3: is the FOURD F one fifty from the from the fifties.
Speaker 3: It's like beautiful, like a cartoon of a car, like bubbly,
Speaker 3: like rounded, like a toy, like a toy come to life.
Speaker 3: Like every kid's dream is this car. So that one, yes,
Speaker 3: he said it's difficult to drive, yep. So a vintage
Speaker 3: Bronco that's the dream as.
Speaker 2: An adult too.
Speaker 3: It's sick.
Speaker 2: He's got the orange.
Speaker 3: He's got like a crazy one in there that sometimes
Speaker 3: in the set. But the vintage Bronco is my like dream,
Speaker 3: and I found this company who does like beautifully restore
Speaker 3: vintage Ronnie. Like, how much could they be that? Like
Speaker 3: two hundred thousand dollars?
Speaker 2: Huh? I think I know that place that you're talking
Speaker 2: about because I also have found that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then there's also a land Rover one because I
Speaker 3: also love a vintage land Rover. Those are hopefully two
Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars like squeeze me.
Speaker 2: I know, I know that's.
Speaker 3: Not happening, but I mean maybe what hey, listen, if
Speaker 3: we get ten seasons, maybe I'll.
Speaker 2: Buy, Yes, manifest that I will.
Speaker 3: But then the car from my childhood that my mom
Speaker 3: had that I've forever thought about was a Mitsubishi Montero.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 3: It was a black Mitsubishi Montero and it was boxy.
Speaker 3: It had no uh safety things at all, like no
Speaker 3: bags forget. It was just it looks Unfortunately the only
Speaker 3: thing that looks like it and is the g Wagon,
Speaker 3: which I don't have. I mean, I would like to
Speaker 3: get a g Wagon and take off the branding and
Speaker 3: like put a Mitsubishi thing on my dreams. I love
Speaker 3: like a boxy vehicle. So the Mitsubishi Montero. I don't
Speaker 3: think they're they don't exist anymore. But that was that
Speaker 3: was like my childhood car that I just loved. She
Speaker 3: also had a minivan with like the wood the wood
Speaker 3: siding on the front.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's great. A minivan with the woodside. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that that seems wonderful. How do you think Tim sources
Speaker 2: his cars? I bet if you told him you wanted
Speaker 2: a Mitsubishi Montero, one of those staff members might be
Speaker 2: able to find one for you.
Speaker 3: I think they can do anything. I mean, yeah, I
Speaker 3: wonder if it was it might have been after your episode.
Speaker 3: But there's a storyline where my son Carter played by
Speaker 3: Maxwell Simpkins once is going to fix up a car
Speaker 3: with Tim in the show, and they didn't have the
Speaker 3: specific car, so Tim got one. T Tim got it
Speaker 3: for the show. I'm sure it was right off, but
Speaker 3: he found and purchased this car for the show. I
Speaker 3: mean he's very like, he's very detail oriented. I think
Speaker 3: he can find anything. I don't know how these people
Speaker 3: do it.
Speaker 2: I don't either, I really don't, but I mean I
Speaker 2: guess when you are that experienced in that field and
Speaker 2: you know as many people as you do, because you know,
Speaker 2: over the years he's had to I mean he knows
Speaker 2: every This is not just like he has a purchasing problem.
Speaker 2: This man knows every single thing about cars.
Speaker 3: He's it is his passion.
Speaker 2: Yes, it really is.
Speaker 3: It's not a vanity thing. It's like a compulsion.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm. Yeah, he has to do it. He has
Speaker 2: to do it. And his daughter Katie is on set
Speaker 2: all the time. Also an absolute expert. She's so awesome
Speaker 2: and she loves her car. I don't know her exact title,
Speaker 2: but she's like the car handler supervisor, and she knows
Speaker 2: everything about cars, the engine, she knows, whatever the thing is.
Speaker 2: You can ask any questions she knows. The answer is.
Speaker 2: She's really unbelievable. Yeah she is. And she also dresses
Speaker 2: really cute and she gets she's like in cute high
Speaker 2: heel boots and jeans and it looks adorable. And then
Speaker 2: she gets down on the floor and is underneath working
Speaker 2: on car parts and working on a.
Speaker 3: Hood I don't know, on tinker. I mean, it's amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty. It's pretty incredible. If I were going
Speaker 2: to get a car, I'm torn because I also love
Speaker 2: a vintage Bronco is probably my number one, But for like,
Speaker 2: just because I love the way they look and I
Speaker 2: think they're so beautiful and they're so classic. But like
Speaker 2: nostalgia wise, for me, all I wanted the minute I
Speaker 2: turned sixteen in the car I really wanted to buy.
Speaker 2: I wanted a red Toyota celica convertible. What and my
Speaker 2: mom was like, absolutely not, absolutely not, You're not driving
Speaker 2: a convertible. I ended up getting a Toyota fore Runner
Speaker 2: because that's that she was more comfortable with me driving.
Speaker 1: Was it red?
Speaker 2: It was not? It was black?
Speaker 3: Okay, very cool?
Speaker 2: Very cool? Oh, very cool. And I loved that car.
Speaker 2: I totaled it immediately, but very very cool. So I
Speaker 2: think I think I might have to like fulfill because,
Speaker 2: like you said, the vintage Broncos we want, we cannot
Speaker 2: afford currently. Oh could you? Yeah, could you just have
Speaker 2: to choose? Exactly?
Speaker 3: Were you really to give up?
Speaker 2: I did ask him about a vintage Bronco and he
Speaker 2: did exactly what you said.
Speaker 3: He was like, he was like, don't do it. You
Speaker 3: have seven of them?
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly. He's like, yeah, I know, but that's me.
Speaker 3: If you really imagine you in a in a in
Speaker 3: a car with the thing down with the hair blowing.
Speaker 3: You've got to live that truth.
Speaker 2: I do. I have to have I really do have to.
Speaker 2: I don't know that I would need to buy it.
Speaker 2: Maybe I could find one one is there like a
Speaker 2: luxury like not that that's a luxury car, but like
Speaker 2: is there like it's very maybe a vintage car. Rental
Speaker 2: that's what That's what somebody should make, is a rental
Speaker 2: car company just for cool older cars. And then this might.
Speaker 3: Because well maybe like one of our outings together can
Speaker 3: be a convertible like ride along.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't that be fun? I would I would love that.
Speaker 3: I also would love that.
Speaker 2: Okay, looking back, if you could go back in time
Speaker 2: and tell young Kat anything, what would you tell her?
Speaker 3: Start zoleof sooner?
Speaker 2: Oh listen, I could laugh, But I also know how
Speaker 2: true that feeling is. My husband is medicated for OCD
Speaker 2: and was in and out of therapy for his life
Speaker 2: for a very long time, and nothing was working, and
Speaker 2: he just thought he was going to be in shambles
Speaker 2: for the rest of his life until he found the
Speaker 2: right medication. And had he not been on fluvoxamen, which
Speaker 2: is the medication that works for him, if he did
Speaker 2: not have fluvoxamene. We would not be able to be married,
Speaker 2: he would not be able to have children. His entire
Speaker 2: life would was and would be different until he found
Speaker 2: the right medication. So as much as I'm with you, baby, yeah.
Speaker 3: It's and I'm not I'm not joking. I know. As
Speaker 3: I said earlier, I've like I have had anxiety my
Speaker 3: whole life. Yeah, And I was listening to the Boy
Speaker 3: Meets World podcast Pod meets World shout Out, thank you,
Speaker 3: So I wanted to start from the beginning because there's
Speaker 3: so hundreds of episodes and I know I was listening
Speaker 3: to uh Will talking about his struggles and stuff, and
Speaker 3: I really identify with that, and I've it it. I
Speaker 3: thought I'd grow out of it. Yeah, and I did not,
Speaker 3: And it only like intensified and changed shape as I
Speaker 3: grew up. And I decided to, like, you know what,
Speaker 3: why not? And it is great?
Speaker 2: Yeah, life changing changing.
Speaker 3: I tried. I tried changing diet. I tried a lot
Speaker 3: of actually exercise, like strenuous regular exercise helped a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but who has the time exactly. I know for Jensen,
Speaker 2: it was running like he would have to aggressively run
Speaker 2: like fast, long runs, helped when before he had medications
Speaker 2: to children.
Speaker 3: He has a wife, he has, I presume other.
Speaker 2: Things, multiple jobs.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I mean in order to exercise for your
Speaker 3: mental health that much you got it's your whole day.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And some people can do Kim Kardashian can do it.
Speaker 3: I can't.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's my answer. It's it's not a depressing thing.
Speaker 3: It's like a great it's a great thing that these
Speaker 3: things yes available to help. So yeah, that's my answer.
Speaker 3: Start sooner and keep being the confident little weirdo that
Speaker 3: you are.
Speaker 2: Because it's going to definitely pay off. You have such
Speaker 2: a beautiful life that you have manifested for yourself, and
Speaker 2: you work with such wonderful people who speak so highly
Speaker 2: of you, And no matter what job you go to,
Speaker 2: you leave that job and people go, when can I
Speaker 2: work with her again? Like this? There are people, me included,
Speaker 2: who would jump into a project without knowing a single
Speaker 2: other thing about it other than just knowing you were involved.
Speaker 2: I don't. I would just be like, yes, I'm there, dang, hey,
Speaker 2: you and me.
Speaker 1: I watched that.
Speaker 3: Hey, honestly about dancing, I can't dance, don't.
Speaker 2: Okay, we won't do a show together about dancing. But
Speaker 2: I would chop off an arm to act alongside you
Speaker 2: in something I would. I don't know that that would
Speaker 2: be good for the career.
Speaker 3: Don't do that.
Speaker 2: Listen.
Speaker 3: If I couldn't make this happen, Yeah, we can make
Speaker 3: that happen. I think it'd be pretty easy.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, ten years of shifting gears. Then then you
Speaker 2: buy your vintage Bronco. Maybe you buy me one two.
Speaker 2: You know, we'll buy us matching vintage Broncos when you
Speaker 2: get ten years of shifting gears, and then we'll go
Speaker 2: into you know, our sitcom together where we're living together.
Speaker 2: We're basically the Golden Girls.
Speaker 3: It's basically two road girls.
Speaker 2: Except also except not broke. I'm it, okay, I love it.
Speaker 2: There may be a better pitch, and we have some time.
Speaker 2: We have some time to come up with it.
Speaker 3: We have some time to figure it out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe we're just two old girls.
Speaker 3: Yes, no, listen, if if you haven't aged eight.
Speaker 2: Day, no no, no, no, tell that to my grace.
Speaker 3: Don't. Oh yeah, well you know what. You don't even
Speaker 3: want to don't even get into it with the Grays.
Speaker 2: I mean I can't. I literally just didn't. I washed
Speaker 2: my hair and as I was blow during it, I'm like, I,
Speaker 2: I mean, look at this hand. Those are all gray. Nope,
Speaker 2: those are all gray.
Speaker 3: You can't see. If you're a dark blonde, you're good.
Speaker 3: This is you can't see because we're on the zoom.
Speaker 3: But there's they've decided to be right in the front
Speaker 3: and then under here. Yep. I would like to like,
Speaker 3: if I went all gray, I'd go with the That'd
Speaker 3: be sick.
Speaker 2: That's how I feel.
Speaker 3: It's not a little bit is just what it just
Speaker 3: looks like I'm balding.
Speaker 2: Yep. That's exactly how exactly how I feel. But I
Speaker 2: have when when's the time when do we go all gray?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure when that is only have sprinklings, But
Speaker 3: when it happens, I'm.
Speaker 2: Gonna embrace it. Yeah, guys, Kat Dennings is just the best. Right.
Speaker 2: You can catch her on Shifting Gears on ABC Wednesday
Speaker 2: nights at eight seven Central and streaming on Hulu the
Speaker 2: next day. And this Friday, we have a bonus episode
Speaker 2: with Kat. We'll listen to one of our listener's personal
Speaker 2: stories of childhood embarrassment and learn a bit more about
Speaker 2: one of my favorite people around. So make sure to
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