Speaker 1: And that's what you really missed with Jenna and Kevin
Speaker 1: and I Heart Radio podcast Mary Snick Snicks. Everybody listen.
Speaker 1: I am so excited to be here once again celebrating
Speaker 1: Snick Smiths. Continuing on Ny Rivera's legacy of giving. Today
Speaker 1: we're raising money for the Alexandria House and I hope
Speaker 1: all of you guys have your hearts open and you're
Speaker 1: all it's open to it. But right now I'm here
Speaker 1: to sing a little song for you. Let me know
Speaker 1: if you guys recognize it. God a eschieve, Mary Gentleman,
Speaker 1: nothing you dismay. Remember Christ, our Savior was born on
Speaker 1: Christmas Day to save us all from Say that's power
Speaker 1: when we have gone astray. Old tidings of confort, joy,
Speaker 1: comfort and joy. Oh Tidy Angel, Conford Angel. Hello, Hello,
Speaker 1: Thanks John Lot got our friends. Hello. Welcome to you,
Speaker 1: and That's what you really missed the podcast The Nicks
Speaker 1: miss Special. Oh, it's so good to see you all
Speaker 1: in person. I am Jenna, I am Kevin, and we
Speaker 1: are coming to you live from the I Heart Theater
Speaker 1: in Bourbank, California. Oh. We are beyond excited to share
Speaker 1: some of our most favorite holiday traditions, in particular the
Speaker 1: Nick Smiths charity Drive benefiting Alexandria House of Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: All in the name of our dear friend Naira Vera.
Speaker 1: A special welcome to our listeners and welcome to everyone
Speaker 1: joining us at home on the live stream. Hello plus
Speaker 1: a big Giganta, Welcome to our first ever in person
Speaker 1: live audience for Snick Smiths. By buying a ticket tonight
Speaker 1: to join us here, you have contributed to an incredible cause.
Speaker 1: We have a great night in store. We have special guests,
Speaker 1: we have games, we have fireside chats and performances and more.
Speaker 1: But before we get going, we want to bring out
Speaker 1: our partner and Snicks Crime, who also works side by
Speaker 1: side with us on on the Glee set from the
Speaker 1: very beginning. Give it up for the cousman himself. Tell
Speaker 1: me who's This is our third Snicks miss together and
Speaker 1: you know, and I really loved the holidays and she
Speaker 1: was an extraordinary host, and you know, she had some
Speaker 1: of the best events ever and the crowning jewel of
Speaker 1: that was her Christmas Party, Snick sms uh and two
Speaker 1: years ago with niagone and the world shut down, we
Speaker 1: were in grief in so many ways, and we knew
Speaker 1: that giving back to an organization that i I had
Speaker 1: a personal connection with would help keep her spirit alive
Speaker 1: in a truly meaningful way. I'd like to take a
Speaker 1: moment to thank Nia's family for joining us here tonight.
Speaker 1: Thank you for coming. We're up here right, UM. We
Speaker 1: are so blessed to have you as part of our
Speaker 1: family and to share in the joy that she has
Speaker 1: brought to us all. Thank you. So. The charity that
Speaker 1: we are benefiting this evening is Alexandria House. It's a
Speaker 1: transitional woman's home for children, women and children here in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. UM. Alexandria House works tirelessly to provide housing
Speaker 1: for those in need, and we will be sharing more
Speaker 1: about the organization later in the show. But we are
Speaker 1: so proud to welcome some of the staff and the
Speaker 1: community members from Alexandria House tonight. So welcome everyone. Let's
Speaker 1: give everybody around on a plot. So happy to have
Speaker 1: you guys here. Now, let's remember we are here to
Speaker 1: raise some money for Alexandria House, and we have so
Speaker 1: many ways used to do it. And there are still
Speaker 1: time to enter the sweepstakes for a chance to win
Speaker 1: a zoom with some of the Glee cast an appearance
Speaker 1: on our podcast where you can ask us whatever you
Speaker 1: want and more. So, head over to fan dam dot
Speaker 1: com slash Headliners slash Glee to donate an enter to
Speaker 1: win one of those experiences. Additionally, you can also head
Speaker 1: directly to Alexandria House dot org slash donate to donate
Speaker 1: directly and be sure to you know, to tag a
Speaker 1: little snicks miswo and the donor designation section. Okay, so
Speaker 1: we got some exciting news before the show that if
Speaker 1: we raise five thousand dollars tonight, um, we have a
Speaker 1: donation that will be matched by an anonymous donor. We're
Speaker 1: so grateful. So that means if we raise five thousand dollars,
Speaker 1: we actually raise ten thous dollars, which is double good.
Speaker 1: Thank you all for Alexandria House. So if you are
Speaker 1: joining us, yay. So if you're joining us on the
Speaker 1: live stream and you have like a little bit more
Speaker 1: to give, head over to Alexandria House dot org slash
Speaker 1: donate or our friends in the audience here. No donation
Speaker 1: is too small. From what we've learned in past years,
Speaker 1: every little bit counts, all right, So let's get this
Speaker 1: show started. We have a couple of video greetings from
Speaker 1: some special friends. I will see you all later. Enjoy
Speaker 1: the show. Thanks who's here? Mary Snick Smith is Christian
Speaker 1: Channel with a k April Rhodes, the hot Mess. Not
Speaker 1: a lot to change except my face. I want to
Speaker 1: say happy Holidays to everybody, no matter what you celebrate,
Speaker 1: celebrate it with vigor. I want to wish all of
Speaker 1: my fellow Glee cast members. I know I was just
Speaker 1: a guest star, but I love y'all and I miss
Speaker 1: y'all um. And also I'm proud of you. I remember
Speaker 1: when we all first met and I chold you guys,
Speaker 1: don't change, and you didn't. I was so proud. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I'm sending love um in the air to Naya and
Speaker 1: to our Corey and to Mark and just you know,
Speaker 1: it's been it's been a long journey, but those of
Speaker 1: us are here. We we celebrate, We we send love
Speaker 1: to everybody. Um. Anyway, that's all I have to say.
Speaker 1: I won't be heading off to have any drinks, but um,
Speaker 1: I might be shopping, okay, I ho ho ho Mary
Speaker 1: Snicks miss everyone. Thank you so much for buying tickets,
Speaker 1: donating to Alexandria House. It meant so much to Naya.
Speaker 1: I wish I was there in person celebrating with all
Speaker 1: of you, but I know you're having a blast and
Speaker 1: enjoying the sweet serenades and dance moves of the most
Speaker 1: talented humans across the lands. I love you all so
Speaker 1: much and in the spirit of Maya, let's all have
Speaker 1: a good being time. Thank you, christ and jed With
Speaker 1: and Becca Tobn. You know, Kristen was our very first
Speaker 1: guest star on the show. Chris and I were very excited. Um,
Speaker 1: she remains a dear friend to all of us. We
Speaker 1: love you, Kristen and of course Becca, who we wish
Speaker 1: could be here. Um, but let's get to some people
Speaker 1: who are here. It's time for a fireside chat. Why
Speaker 1: do you say, Kevin? So I think you should bring
Speaker 1: some friends, Like, what do you guys say? All right,
Speaker 1: our first special guests have all formed wonderful relations relationships
Speaker 1: and friendships on an off screen and our dear friends
Speaker 1: to us. Let's bring out Chris Cole for Ashley Fank
Speaker 1: and romy rose Ma. That chair works for you, yep,
Speaker 1: I'm literally I want my own because they're sharing one chair. Okay,
Speaker 1: because I'm old, Romy so short. It's all m I though.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm sitting like this. That's very brave. We
Speaker 1: are very very thankful to have Chris, Ashley and Rome here.
Speaker 1: A thank you gus so much for being here. I
Speaker 1: mean so much to us. Thank you you guys, Thank
Speaker 1: you for being here. Sparkly you are Wow, I am sparkly.
Speaker 1: I don't think I realized how sparkly this stress was.
Speaker 1: You know, you're going to be on a stage in
Speaker 1: front of lights. You knew exactly what you were doing.
Speaker 1: I like to sparkle from the inside out, Kevin, but
Speaker 1: now sparkling from the outside out. Okay, anyway, to our guests,
Speaker 1: you guys, thanks for being here. I literally realized that
Speaker 1: here here no closer to your mouth. Yeah, let's turn
Speaker 1: Romy's micaup. It's very low, it is, right. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: because they know they don't want to hear too much
Speaker 1: from I got um. So we're here celebrating snicks. Miss.
Speaker 1: We wanted to start with asking you guys because those
Speaker 1: sixest parties that I would throw very thin, we're incredible,
Speaker 1: you guys up top. You remember they were wild times
Speaker 1: where she would spend months planning. Um, probably too much money. Um.
Speaker 1: There was always a I was like, who, what contract
Speaker 1: did you negotiate? I thought we were making the same Um.
Speaker 1: I never thought that. But that's how much she cared
Speaker 1: about making sure we all had a great time, because
Speaker 1: she was like, this is she hadnt quate it anyway.
Speaker 1: I won't to say those details, but she wanted to
Speaker 1: make sure everyone in the cast and crew could come
Speaker 1: and make sure everyone, um had a great time. Do
Speaker 1: you guys have any fond memories, favorite memories that we
Speaker 1: can share, you know, in a way that I can't share.
Speaker 1: Spill it? Yeah, Chris definitely does. Oh my god, please UM. Okay,
Speaker 1: So my favorite six miss memory was um. Someone in
Speaker 1: the cast who shall remain nameless told me that it
Speaker 1: was a costume Christmas party, and I love a costume party.
Speaker 1: So I showed up to this party the first one
Speaker 1: as elf on a shelf. You sure did, and I
Speaker 1: looked adorable and everyone thought I worked there and I
Speaker 1: earned about forty bucks and tips that night. I tried
Speaker 1: to get a drink from you, Christian for a drink,
Speaker 1: I thought you were a Bart's under John. By the way,
Speaker 1: John Locke, who was our Glee band, drummer from the
Speaker 1: Pilot on also DJ all the Six Most Parties. Naya
Speaker 1: put me in a tree one time. I think I
Speaker 1: was suspended. You're in a treehouse above everyone in a
Speaker 1: tower right into Is that nice though? To look down
Speaker 1: on everyone? No comment? What was your favorite? My favorite?
Speaker 1: There's so many and I'm trying to think of one
Speaker 1: I could tell um. I do remember the uh the
Speaker 1: year that I I showed up by myself and everyone's like,
Speaker 1: where's Chris, where's Cole for what's going on? And I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, he's coming with somebody different and everyone
Speaker 1: was like, what's going on? And then he showed up
Speaker 1: with his um boyfriend Will and everyone was gag was
Speaker 1: coming with my parole office. Obviously everyone's gag gooped. And
Speaker 1: that was And now you've been together with ten years,
Speaker 1: so that was ten years ago. I'll never forget where
Speaker 1: where's the Landa? Where's you Orlanda? Did you land up there?
Speaker 1: I'll never forget when you Orlanda and Nini Leaks were
Speaker 1: on the dance floor Togain my dad, that was my
Speaker 1: god Neveret and they had she would always have that
Speaker 1: weird shot like the holiday cheer shot, which was like fine,
Speaker 1: no remember that, Yeah, but we were young. That was
Speaker 1: ten years ago. I mean fall with a little cinnamon.
Speaker 1: It was like fireball and peppers, like schnops and like
Speaker 1: a topper of egg nog. Like I over, don't drink, kids,
Speaker 1: don't do it. Drinking is terrible. You should never do it.
Speaker 1: And we never drank at a Snicks even once. But
Speaker 1: she is amazing, amazing, like Christmas chere cocktails and we
Speaker 1: would all were little shots and we'd all do shots
Speaker 1: and dance the night away and it was so special. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my favorite was the ice drink you just walked into.
Speaker 1: Literally she covered the pool over as a dance floor
Speaker 1: and made it an ice drink and it was just extravagant.
Speaker 1: I mean truly, there's how I clearly wish that I
Speaker 1: had gone. Yeah, you made a mistake. Everybody was always booked,
Speaker 1: busy and blessed. But I'm just saying these sounds amazing.
Speaker 1: They were. The problem was a maze always would have
Speaker 1: a Christmas party on the same night, and so I
Speaker 1: felt very story. I had to plan out my night
Speaker 1: to make sure I could do both. And the one
Speaker 1: where the ice drink happened people were texting me like
Speaker 1: where are you because I would do James and on
Speaker 1: the dance plot and I'm like, oh my god, there's
Speaker 1: an ice drink. And there I was playing trivia with
Speaker 1: Natasha Beddingfield, who I was obsessed with, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry you dropped it, Natasha, thank you. I don't
Speaker 1: want to just keep her on the floor like that.
Speaker 1: For my friends know how obsessed I was with her.
Speaker 1: And I looked at her and go, I have to go,
Speaker 1: and she's like, but our team's winning, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: but I have to go because you can't tempt me
Speaker 1: with a dance floor because the year prior, I ripped
Speaker 1: my pants on the dance floor and there are pictures
Speaker 1: online and I found it. I saw the picture yesterday
Speaker 1: where I'm on the floor like this, but I had
Speaker 1: my jacket from my suit tied around me because the
Speaker 1: entirety of the back of my pants well tied through
Speaker 1: and around. I needed. I needed full coverage. It was
Speaker 1: all of it, and everyone I just like Nick, not
Speaker 1: his sister, who was like, I don't know how old
Speaker 1: you were at the time, but she was back there
Speaker 1: just like embarrassed for me because I had no shame,
Speaker 1: and I should have You also had no underwear, right,
Speaker 1: don't talk about that, John. What if I didn't make
Speaker 1: it on the internet. That's for another hope. That was underwear.
Speaker 1: Jack came off of my back so fast and I
Speaker 1: wrapped it around dancing. He never nothing gonna show that night.
Speaker 1: I can't believe I missed that video. Rip your pants
Speaker 1: night later. Yeah, okay, it's not like Kevin's pants haven't
Speaker 1: split more than once on a dance floor. We can
Speaker 1: make it happen again. I h Kevin. We went to
Speaker 1: a wedding, one of our member's wedding wedding, and we
Speaker 1: were all staying in the same hotel as the actual wedding.
Speaker 1: So Kevin's dancing. Then all of a sudden he disappears,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, where the after Kevin go? And he
Speaker 1: comes back in stretchy pants. I'm not kidding. We are maturing,
Speaker 1: we are growing, we are learning. We've learned, we have learned.
Speaker 1: I'm ready to get down and buggy. Um, I have
Speaker 1: so I have. It's the holidays. Do you guys have
Speaker 1: favorite holiday traditions? Things that you do, things that you
Speaker 1: love to do, are looking forward to doing, or eat
Speaker 1: bourbon bourbon. No that what's what's my note? I'm so
Speaker 1: thankful for Amazon Prime, um shop small obviously. Uh oops,
Speaker 1: um no, uh go I bake, I mean I bakes
Speaker 1: delicious and delicious delicious. I would bring it when I worked,
Speaker 1: when I wasn't locked in the basement. Uglee. Um and
Speaker 1: uh but you and I were down there to change
Speaker 1: a lot. I think bert just was like a marriage
Speaker 1: it now get in the basement. Um and so you
Speaker 1: don't need to be you don't need to know. Um so.
Speaker 1: But what was weird was so many people were like,
Speaker 1: are those regular brownies? I'm like, are you kidding? Yes,
Speaker 1: they're regular brownies. Ask you that. I would ask me
Speaker 1: why I'm the mom. Why would anyone ask why if
Speaker 1: they were regular brownies? That's wild? That is crazy. That
Speaker 1: is crazy crazy nowhere when it's supposed to gluten free
Speaker 1: right exactly Realmy No, Romie really does make wonderful pastries.
Speaker 1: And she would always bring them to the makeup trailer
Speaker 1: and we'd always sigh because we'd all be like, I
Speaker 1: was gonna eat good today. Here we are. It was
Speaker 1: I mean, I have to say it was a little
Speaker 1: bit sabotaging. I mean, they're just they're so young and beautiful.
Speaker 1: Did you ever ever young and beautiful? Grandma romy walked
Speaker 1: out here like she was lady and Titanic like any
Speaker 1: day now, I'm gonna go any day. What's what's your
Speaker 1: Christmas traditions? Y'all? Um? I stole my boyfriend's sour cream
Speaker 1: coffeecake recipe and it's very good. And I can't you
Speaker 1: know me, I can't cook or baked to save my life. No,
Speaker 1: I gave him. I've also given him food poisoning and
Speaker 1: from undercooking pre cooked sausages. How is that even possible? Anyway?
Speaker 1: Why were you doing that in the first place? I
Speaker 1: thought they were pretty cook and I tricked my family
Speaker 1: and I made it, and now they think I'm a
Speaker 1: baker and they asked me for it every Christmas, and
Speaker 1: I obviously I'm not. So I thank you, Austin for that.
Speaker 1: Thank you until they watch this, Austin, you're finally getting
Speaker 1: your credit. Finally I lied. It's like I made this
Speaker 1: up myself. You're getting better. You're you bake and you
Speaker 1: do Christmas? You did that like Brazilian chocolate thing? Yes,
Speaker 1: well it's in a blender. It's a blender cake. You
Speaker 1: know that resilient. We've gotten far off the point now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it just it just looked gorgeous. There was like melted
Speaker 1: chocolate just coming. It was. Yeah, it was a sexy cake.
Speaker 1: This a sexy cake. It was a sexy cake. And
Speaker 1: you had a great the website you were doing during
Speaker 1: the pandemic, and it was during the pandemic. It was wonderful. Yeah,
Speaker 1: to raise money. Yeah, we got people to um, we
Speaker 1: got fancy people to uh to donate um recipes and
Speaker 1: so when with that, we we shared the money with
Speaker 1: them various charities, which was really nice and it gave
Speaker 1: us something to do because you're a good person. I
Speaker 1: like to watch Um, can we say Christmas movies on
Speaker 1: this Yeah, we can do whatever we want to. Okay, great,
Speaker 1: Um National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation And I like to watch
Speaker 1: a Christmas Story. I'm very excited for the Christmas Story
Speaker 1: Reunion Revival movie. UM. And I eat a lot of
Speaker 1: chicken parm my Christmas. During the pandemic. We got to
Speaker 1: spend Christmas together actually and was great. Austin and I
Speaker 1: made a beautiful charcouterie board. They talked about board at
Speaker 1: least David didn't even look at They just ate it.
Speaker 1: And I was like, look at this beautiful board. I'm like,
Speaker 1: what lactose intolerance? Whatever we did, we watched a terrible
Speaker 1: movie and yeah, that was That was our Christmas together.
Speaker 1: It was exactly what's you don't want to say? I
Speaker 1: mean it was a superhero movie came out on Christmas?
Speaker 1: On Christmas? Any friends, No, who do you think we are?
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, that's that's that's the same girl. We
Speaker 1: don't think I'm just picturing and Avengers rated X. I
Speaker 1: mean say iron Man. Iron Man just has a whole
Speaker 1: different meanings. This is why we can never get together
Speaker 1: in public. You guys, too many secrets to bear the
Speaker 1: risk we run. We also have to like faction off
Speaker 1: into smaller groups because you get all of us together,
Speaker 1: it spirals out very quickly. Too many secrets, too much teeth.
Speaker 1: Hince why we collectively, If we get together, we can
Speaker 1: piece together. Maybe fifty of the Snakes was party because
Speaker 1: everyone only remembers fragments because it was so much fun.
Speaker 1: There was one year that we were dancing and I
Speaker 1: was dancing against a hot tub and the hot tubs
Speaker 1: spilled over onto my dress. And then I found myself
Speaker 1: upstairs and I his bathroom blow drying my dress. I
Speaker 1: was like, how did I get here? And how did
Speaker 1: you get here? I was like, I don't know. Seven
Speaker 1: in the morning, just in your your bathroom. I was
Speaker 1: just gonna brush my teeth, and here's Jenna blow drying
Speaker 1: her dress. You get too, little boy? Hiro gets nothing?
Speaker 1: You everyone any look like Michael Hitchcock. Oh I brought
Speaker 1: something for everyone everyone. Yes, only some of the audience
Speaker 1: got candy canes, but you all get something real. Go
Speaker 1: inside and just pick something. Do I hate this? G No, No,
Speaker 1: you just pick it. Don't look pick pick, pick there
Speaker 1: you go. Oh, you've got some Niagara spray starch. Every
Speaker 1: actor needs that. How about you, Jenna? What do you get?
Speaker 1: What you get? A sun? Do you need it because
Speaker 1: of freckles? Whatever you want? There's there's all sorts of things.
Speaker 1: Oh you get a slow cooker cookbook. Actors, they're busy.
Speaker 1: You've just said it and forget it. What did you get?
Speaker 1: I'm a little afraid. Oh this is really fun. Now
Speaker 1: watch this? What is it? Well? You pull on it
Speaker 1: and it's a fan with the American flat Because Christmas
Speaker 1: is absolutely the most patriotic of all the holiday. Does
Speaker 1: anybody want to trade? Oh, I've got some Star Henderson's
Speaker 1: creamy soups flippy with bacon. Well, I know how much
Speaker 1: you like The Exorcist. Christmas whenever you want. Now, I'm
Speaker 1: here not so much to hand out gifts, since I'm
Speaker 1: here to ask you, what is your Christmas guilty pleasure?
Speaker 1: So Niagara spray start plus um, this is empty? What
Speaker 1: where's the rest? I used it? Getting? This was just
Speaker 1: curious mind? Probably I listened to the Glee Christmas albums.
Speaker 1: That's that's that's real. You would think if you listen
Speaker 1: to the album, you'd be better at that game. You're
Speaker 1: just I wasn't playing. I was host because that was
Speaker 1: the first album I ever sang on to that, the
Speaker 1: Glee Christmas album. And I don't know anything. As we
Speaker 1: all saw alight, it was more than seventy four years ago.
Speaker 1: Who else has got a guilty pleasure? Whiskey? Why do
Speaker 1: you to be guilty about that? Get back? I gotta
Speaker 1: say I kind of hate Christmas because I'm powowing it
Speaker 1: all the way. But I love snick Smiths, That's true.
Speaker 1: I like to get a little tipsy and like, um,
Speaker 1: go look at Christmas lights, not drive. Don't worry. UM,
Speaker 1: I have someone drive. I have a driver. It's called
Speaker 1: my mom. She's great. UM. I have like yeah, I
Speaker 1: have some cocktails and we drive around like you know
Speaker 1: when like the Christmas lights are a little blurry and
Speaker 1: it's a little sad. I love it. And we're going
Speaker 1: to alert the Burbank police. And I remember like when
Speaker 1: I was loved and stuff like that. At Candy Kay
Speaker 1: Lane in Wood the Hills is incredible. And if you're
Speaker 1: a little tipsy walking around, it's it's even just kiss
Speaker 1: it's even better your guilty fresh I think, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's really it's um, it's it's really. I love to
Speaker 1: as a Jewish person. It's a Jewish person I love.
Speaker 1: But I was a terrible jew. We didn't let we
Speaker 1: we opened things on Christmas Eve so that we were
Speaker 1: cheating and it really didn't make any sense. But the
Speaker 1: the actual Um, I love giving gifts. I love shopping
Speaker 1: for him, and I love getting them on sale. See
Speaker 1: how I blended. I blended the two to go, but
Speaker 1: I'll see you. I'm sure to get out. Good Bye
Speaker 1: John Lock and give it up one my time for
Speaker 1: Chris Ashley and Robin. Merry Christmas. Yes, God, Merry Christmas
Speaker 1: any day now. I'll see horrible. Thanks Chris. We may
Speaker 1: see Chris later, we may ask he'll be back, nor Kevin,
Speaker 1: someone else wants to say a lot. I have no idea.
Speaker 1: Let's see who Bye, it's me and fill me a
Speaker 1: Christmas movie. So I can't be there. I wish I
Speaker 1: could be there celebrating Snake Smith with everyone. Um. And
Speaker 1: I'm just over here celebrating all the money we're going
Speaker 1: to raise for Alexandria House. I'm so okay. Bye, hey everyone.
Speaker 1: Oh God, that's that's a mirror of me. I'm so sorry. UM,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for everyone who has joined the
Speaker 1: live stream. I'm so sorry cannot be there. I filmed
Speaker 1: this yesterday, which is today for for y'all, because I
Speaker 1: won't be able to make it. As you can see,
Speaker 1: I am shooting today. Um and uh. I just want
Speaker 1: to say thank you to all the people that have
Speaker 1: donated to have joined the live stream UM, and to
Speaker 1: Jenna and Kevin and the rest of the cast and
Speaker 1: friends that have um ate this such a beautiful, wonderful
Speaker 1: night to celebrate our girl Nia. She threw the most
Speaker 1: epic snakes Miss parties as you've heard or seen videos of. Um,
Speaker 1: and it's going to a wonderful cause, Alexandria House. So
Speaker 1: thank you so much for for donating. And I just
Speaker 1: wanted to pop in and say hi and wishing everyone
Speaker 1: happy holidays in a happy happy y years. Who that
Speaker 1: was so nice. Thank you Vanessa and Harry for popping
Speaker 1: in to stay hello. And if you're just joining us,
Speaker 1: we are here with me. And that's what you really
Speaker 1: miss podcast for a very special Snakes Miss special, very
Speaker 1: snacks special. Okay, never mind, I take it back. Um,
Speaker 1: it's benefiting the amazing Alexandria House to remember the brilliant
Speaker 1: right Nia Era And while everyone is still donating and
Speaker 1: entering the steep stakes, right, that's what we're doing. It's
Speaker 1: important to us that you know exactly where your donations
Speaker 1: are going. Alexandra House has helped hundreds of women and
Speaker 1: children reach safe in supportive housing, and every dollar that
Speaker 1: is donated goes directly to help fund programs like housing, food, childcare, counseling,
Speaker 1: financial literacy, job readiness, and other activities to help families
Speaker 1: transition from homelessness to permanent housing. So go enter the
Speaker 1: and went away. So go enter the sweep stakes. Your
Speaker 1: donations will go directly to Alexandria House. I think we
Speaker 1: covered that beautifully. Professionals get together. That was really funny. Okay.
Speaker 1: We have a wonderful group representing Alexandria House here as
Speaker 1: we know this evening, and we are so grateful for
Speaker 1: them coming tonight. And you may recognize Alexandria House in
Speaker 1: a music video by an artist that we have no
Speaker 1: idea who is just kidding, Justin Bieber. Justin films his
Speaker 1: single Intentions at Alexandria House, so make sure you go
Speaker 1: check it out after the show. Um, you can see
Speaker 1: some of the amazing facilities and services that Alexandria House provides.
Speaker 1: And we wanted to learn a little bit more about
Speaker 1: Alexandria House from someone who has actually benefited from their
Speaker 1: giving services and support. So tonight we are joined by
Speaker 1: Marissa Espinosa, executive director of Alexandria How and Ashley Nwfio massoul,
Speaker 1: a former resident at Alexandria House who has come to
Speaker 1: share their experience with us tonight, and we couldn't be
Speaker 1: more appreciative that they are here to speak with all
Speaker 1: of us. So let's bring out Marissa and Assay today
Speaker 1: the season Zoo, Ben, Rissa, Ashley, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for being here, really so for having us here to
Speaker 1: it looks so festive and beautiful. We tried to accord
Speaker 1: it a little more than we did. We called each
Speaker 1: other okay, So UM, thank you for being here. Please.
Speaker 1: Versus is going to interview Ashley and just kind of
Speaker 1: talk about UM Alexander House and the amazing things that
Speaker 1: they do. So take it away. Well, if I could
Speaker 1: first start off just thanking you all. Thank you, Jenna,
Speaker 1: thank you Kevin. I don't tell at least in the
Speaker 1: back somewhere. Thank you Tanya Rivera's family who's here today,
Speaker 1: for just hosting this event and for supporting our organization.
Speaker 1: Alexander House has been around for twenty six years and
Speaker 1: we have been as transitional healthing program as you all said,
Speaker 1: UM house of hospitality and a neighborhood center, and we
Speaker 1: provided narrative services for folks, for women and women with
Speaker 1: children UM to find their way, to find their stability,
Speaker 1: to find their independence. And so Ashley here UM lived
Speaker 1: with us UM. She arrived at Alexander House when she
Speaker 1: was twenty one years old um in UM. I'm very
Speaker 1: excited to say Ashley graduated her program and she has
Speaker 1: been stably housed in Torrents with her three children UM Elias,
Speaker 1: Remedy and Delilah and so UM she is also participating
Speaker 1: in one of our programs, which is our Startup Sisterhood
Speaker 1: Program l A And what that is is an enterprise
Speaker 1: Entrepreneurship program UM where the women really during the pandemic
Speaker 1: came to us and asked us UM to help them
Speaker 1: start their own businesses as a means of being able
Speaker 1: to provide for their children when many of them lost
Speaker 1: their jobs as a result of the pandemic. And so
Speaker 1: Ashley and her sister Zoe UM are working on their
Speaker 1: own juicing line UM that we hope will soon beyond
Speaker 1: shelves everywhere. So yes, so Ashley, maybe you could share
Speaker 1: with everyone here what brought to to Alexandria House. Oh,
Speaker 1: long story. So I was actually homeless for six years
Speaker 1: and UM I was in a really dark place. Uh yeah, definitely, sorry,
Speaker 1: I was in a really dark place. I found myself
Speaker 1: living with my kids UM at a house that had
Speaker 1: no gas and no electricity. Who I was running UM
Speaker 1: from a lady who I didn't know, was bringing in
Speaker 1: and out like drugs, meth, crack, and it was just
Speaker 1: a very dark place and it was the only place
Speaker 1: that I had at the moment, and I stayed there
Speaker 1: for three months and trying to dig myself out of
Speaker 1: this hole. I was searching online and I ran through
Speaker 1: YouTube and finally came up with the idea like maybe
Speaker 1: it is time to go into a shelter. But like
Speaker 1: everyone thinks of a shelter, they think of something that's unsafe.
Speaker 1: You don't really want to bring your kids to live
Speaker 1: with strangers and in an environment you don't know, you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of just a lot of things that
Speaker 1: can happen. And so I found the Alexandria House and
Speaker 1: I was familiar with the street name, and I called
Speaker 1: them for a year until I got in. And when
Speaker 1: I got in, it really changed my life. I was,
Speaker 1: you know, I would never imagine myself being here today,
Speaker 1: dressed this way, this confident, this lively. I it was
Speaker 1: six years was very hard, and I was on my
Speaker 1: own and I was just not the person I am today.
Speaker 1: And I'm so grateful for the alexander Your House and
Speaker 1: all that they've done for me. And my family. And
Speaker 1: when you reflect back on your time at a house
Speaker 1: as we call it, ya, what was the most helpful
Speaker 1: thing about it for you and the kids. I think
Speaker 1: there's a lot to be grateful for when coming to
Speaker 1: the Alexander House. I can talk all day, but I
Speaker 1: think the most important part was the sense of community. Um.
Speaker 1: When I was homeless, I really didn't know anything. I
Speaker 1: was homeless fifteen and sixteen years old till one, and
Speaker 1: I saw a lot of things that I didn't know
Speaker 1: was real in the world. I saw a lot of
Speaker 1: you know, people that were completely lost, you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of theft, a lot of abuse, and when I
Speaker 1: had lost the light in life, I had lost, you know,
Speaker 1: hope in anything that was better. But when I went
Speaker 1: to the Alexandria House, it's a whole sense of community.
Speaker 1: It's a very big community that feels like a family
Speaker 1: that I didn't have at the moment. And I think
Speaker 1: that my kids benefit that and so much because they've
Speaker 1: grown up with some of the kids that lived there
Speaker 1: and still come back to visit. We see each other
Speaker 1: for the holidays. They've grown bonds with these kids and
Speaker 1: these adults around them that show them, you know, a
Speaker 1: respectful person, somebody who wants to change other people's life.
Speaker 1: The light at the end of the tunnel, and it's
Speaker 1: just on giving. They don't stop giving. I appreciate it
Speaker 1: so much and my kids do too. She's got beautiful children. Um,
Speaker 1: you're part of our current cohort of startup sisterhood l A.
Speaker 1: Can we share with the team with our audience today? UM,
Speaker 1: why you joined in, how it's been helpful to you.
Speaker 1: I joined because I wanted some to learn something. I
Speaker 1: love learning things, especially at the lex Indrea House they
Speaker 1: have a lot of life skill lessons. Um. But I
Speaker 1: had sat on this idea of making a juice, creating
Speaker 1: a juice blend of vegetables and fruits, and I have
Speaker 1: sat on the idea for almost five years and I
Speaker 1: never really went forward with it. When they said that
Speaker 1: they were doing an entrepreneurship class, I said, hey, you
Speaker 1: know what, what do I got then to try to
Speaker 1: learn something new and put my best foot forward in
Speaker 1: something that I have no business diving into because I
Speaker 1: have no experience in owning my own business or having
Speaker 1: the confidence and you know the information that you need
Speaker 1: the details. You know. They helped me build a business plan. Um,
Speaker 1: so I just hope great things to comfort me and
Speaker 1: my sister who are joining the class to do our juice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: can you share with our audience today, um, to affirm
Speaker 1: with them why they should support Alexandria House. Why not?
Speaker 1: It is amazing the things that they do. They're like
Speaker 1: I said, I would have never imagined that there was
Speaker 1: a community out there in the world, especially being in
Speaker 1: such a dark place. You kind of just see the ugly,
Speaker 1: You forget about what's outside and you hide yourself. Um.
Speaker 1: I think it's just really really great if you guys
Speaker 1: would support us, because they do change lives and they
Speaker 1: don't stop there. You don't just graduate the program and
Speaker 1: they leave you like there. It's just there's numerous of
Speaker 1: life stale classes that I've gone through, parenting classes, money
Speaker 1: saving classes, I've gone through college, through scholarship for Business
Speaker 1: Office Association, which I graduated, and they it's just it's
Speaker 1: the place that keeps giving and it doesn't stop there.
Speaker 1: It's it's safety, it's everything. I encourage you guys to
Speaker 1: donate today because it does change lives, and it changed
Speaker 1: my lives and my kids lives forever, and it will
Speaker 1: continue to change and I'll support you guys forever. Do
Speaker 1: you see Ashley here today with us, and you see
Speaker 1: what's possible when when women have the support they need
Speaker 1: to be able to do the things they want for them.
Speaker 1: And there's children m for Ashley story, there's three d
Speaker 1: other stories of women that have gone through our program
Speaker 1: and find the same support and the resources and more importantly,
Speaker 1: the relationships that help them find their light again. Ashley
Speaker 1: said she lost her light and regain hope that they
Speaker 1: have the tools, they have the power, they know that
Speaker 1: they know what they need for themselves and their children.
Speaker 1: It's just someone to believe in them, um and support
Speaker 1: them and getting back on their feet. So thank you
Speaker 1: all for being here today and for supporting our organization.
Speaker 1: Thank you so cool. Thank you actually, thank you Marissa,
Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much for being here. It is
Speaker 1: truly an honor to be in your guys' presence and
Speaker 1: the hope that you bring to these women's lives like Ashley.
Speaker 1: This is what we do this for. This is what
Speaker 1: it's all about, and this is what Naya you know,
Speaker 1: saw in you guys, So thank you so much, give
Speaker 1: thank you so much. All right, you guys saw it
Speaker 1: for yourself that I mean some so amazing. It is
Speaker 1: really the reason that we are here tonight. There is
Speaker 1: everything else kind of goes away right that's you know,
Speaker 1: it's just for me. It's so powerful. Put things in perspective,
Speaker 1: so you can actually see where the money is going.
Speaker 1: And we got to tour Alexandria House um A couple
Speaker 1: weeks ago with Nya's mom and sister. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much to the team for showing us around. It's absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1: And they showed us the new apartment building they have
Speaker 1: actually behind the Alexandria House, the two houses that they
Speaker 1: have re done. It's unbelievable the work they have done
Speaker 1: and the people that are going to be able to
Speaker 1: help through that. So that that's thanks to all of
Speaker 1: you who have donated previously and thanks to spreading awareness
Speaker 1: about Alexandria House. So thank you again for all the
Speaker 1: work that you do and thank you for showing us
Speaker 1: in person. And remember that if you can donate, no
Speaker 1: dollar amount is too small, as we've seen for past years,
Speaker 1: So ahead to fandi him site now to donate and
Speaker 1: win a chance for some great prizes. And just a reminder,
Speaker 1: if we are able to raise five thousand tonight, five
Speaker 1: dollars to night. It will be match for a total
Speaker 1: donation of Ready for the Math. So please, if you
Speaker 1: are able, head over to Alexandria House dot org slash
Speaker 1: donate to donate now, and please tab me and Kevin
Speaker 1: so we can see that you guys have donated. We
Speaker 1: will repost, we will thank you over and over again,
Speaker 1: and also tag and that's what you really miss pot
Speaker 1: on Instagram. So, Kevin, my voices so dry now from
Speaker 1: all the talking. Well, do you want to sing a song? Whiskey? Jenna?
Speaker 1: Do you need whiskey? Is that for your throat? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I need some whiskey. Oh. I don't know why I
Speaker 1: want to sing a song, but I guess we will.
Speaker 1: And um, I encourage all of you to sing along
Speaker 1: with us in the holiday spirit. Please sing along if
Speaker 1: you will, right, yeah? Can we bring a zack out?
Speaker 1: Come on, give it up for zack? Everyone? Sit down?
Speaker 1: Do you want to sit down? Yeah, let's sit down.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be relaxed. Sing loudly, cover our voices. I'll
Speaker 1: sit here. This feels good, all right, Sure, let's see
Speaker 1: what happens. Oh no, are the lyrics on here? Sorry?
Speaker 1: I just need some lyrics. Oh they're not. Oh no,
Speaker 1: all right right and if we go quiet, somebody help us. Okay,
Speaker 1: we got it. You're ready? Sure? Yeah? Do you think
Speaker 1: we know lyrics at this point? M you ready? Dashing
Speaker 1: through the snow? Write song right on one horse, open
Speaker 1: slay or the fierce We go laughing all the way,
Speaker 1: bells tells, read, make spirits bright, got it? What fun
Speaker 1: it is to ride and sings so great? Oh jingle
Speaker 1: jingle sing gingle all the way. Yes, oh fun it
Speaker 1: is too right into one horso ba say gingle be
Speaker 1: gen gingle. Oh fine, it is to ride one horse stag.
Speaker 1: The good news is we just do that first over again,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Kevin. It's like my math, but we can
Speaker 1: make it more exciting and like do it key change,
Speaker 1: wait when we're gonna do it there? But okay, let's
Speaker 1: try it. Dashing through the snow. We got it on
Speaker 1: a one horse coping slay all the piece you go
Speaker 1: left in all the way there we go, make spirits brown, spirits,
Speaker 1: friend too gay jingle bells gingle change again, Yes, oh
Speaker 1: fun it is to ride it stay jingle bells jingle
Speaker 1: bath jingle all the way. Oh what funnest. All right,
Speaker 1: so I got thrown scared. Goodness says, no one came
Speaker 1: here to see us thing, But we did it, and
Speaker 1: are we going to get through this next time? We're not.
Speaker 1: We can't do it. We're going to try it, but
Speaker 1: we don't know the words. Give it up for Zach. Everyone, Yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you Zach. Thanks for putting up with us. You're
Speaker 1: a sweet man, You're talented. Thank you. Well. I heard
Speaker 1: Austin laughing in the back because I went down. I
Speaker 1: chose to option down and instead of the option up
Speaker 1: as one you know what, I spared you all? Okay,
Speaker 1: let me just say that. All right, let's keep this moving.
Speaker 1: Let's go. Who do we have surprising us next? I
Speaker 1: don't know, Kevin? Is it? You know it's not? Is
Speaker 1: this thing on? Hello? Hello? Hello? How everyone? Matthew Morrison here.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to wish you all beautiful, happy, healthy
Speaker 1: holiday season. Can we just talk about real fast that
Speaker 1: Jenna Ushkowitz and Darren Chris, our parents. Wow. Um. I
Speaker 1: wish them all the best. I wish you all the best,
Speaker 1: and thank you for your donations and for contributing to
Speaker 1: this beautiful night to celebrate Alexandria House and our beloved
Speaker 1: Ny Rivera. Oh thank you, Matt, so great to see you.
Speaker 1: Wish you could be here with us, but he's moved
Speaker 1: off to some place prettier and it's probably smart. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Okay, let's get to our next fireside panel.
Speaker 1: We have some people you might want to see. We'll
Speaker 1: bring back Chris Cole for Yeah, let's bring Heather Morris. Hello, everybody,
Speaker 1: thank you for being here. Heather. Hi, Hi, Michael, Hi,
Speaker 1: Chris Cock. I'm glad you could be out here and stay.
Speaker 1: Now now that you're in a chair, you're allowed to
Speaker 1: stay and look at the end of the people up here.
Speaker 1: It's like Queen Elizabeth that she rest in peace. I'm sorry, Chris,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. We know how much you love the Queen.
Speaker 1: I think I got more texts when Queen Elizabeth died
Speaker 1: than Prince Charles did. I almost texted you. I almost
Speaker 1: texted you, and I was going to tell you, ask
Speaker 1: you if you were okay. I'm surprising. Well, yeah, I
Speaker 1: did think of you. I don't think I texted you,
Speaker 1: but I thought of you. Thank you. How are you guys?
Speaker 1: Hi good? We're so happy to be here. We're I
Speaker 1: was just thinking, like, wow, we really botched that song,
Speaker 1: but they know what to expect from us, Heather, we
Speaker 1: you guys today. Earlier, we got to meet some fans
Speaker 1: virtually on the meet and greet, and we were just
Speaker 1: so moved by the people and how much they loved
Speaker 1: the show, obviously, and especially how much they loved Santana
Speaker 1: and Brittany. There is a lot a lot um. I
Speaker 1: was wondering if you had a favorite heye, like Santana
Speaker 1: Brittany story or some of your like your favorite memory
Speaker 1: of the two of you working together, some of my
Speaker 1: favorite memories. I mean I don't have like a specific moment,
Speaker 1: but I did really enjoy the scenes where it was
Speaker 1: just Santana and I because I mean we all knew
Speaker 1: as actors, like being on on camera with Nia was
Speaker 1: just a gift that kept on giving, Like she was
Speaker 1: always there and always in the moment, and I just
Speaker 1: felt so blessed that I got to act next to her,
Speaker 1: and she was always my biggest champion to like in
Speaker 1: a scene, she would give me anything I needed. Um.
Speaker 1: I think Landslide was very very special and it always
Speaker 1: will be. It just was such an iconic moment a
Speaker 1: beautiful song. Um. It was one of the first moments
Speaker 1: that we had on the show. Yeah, that's a really
Speaker 1: good one. Um. I also fun fact about now I
Speaker 1: could show up and be like, what scene are we
Speaker 1: doing today? And she would have one of those crazy
Speaker 1: page long monologues, you know, Jen and I would be
Speaker 1: going over our two lines we had in the episode
Speaker 1: and sweating, sweating over the I have the two seconds
Speaker 1: to get the line out, and then I would be
Speaker 1: like going to the hair and makeup tailers, like Okay,
Speaker 1: let me look at this, and then she wouldn't miss
Speaker 1: a word, spit. It wouldn't miss a single word. It
Speaker 1: was the wildest thing to actually witness. She would never
Speaker 1: jumble her words, she had never It was just it
Speaker 1: was really like infuriating and also incredible to watch because
Speaker 1: it wasn't like, oh I can just memorize it and
Speaker 1: then I'm just reading it out. She was so good,
Speaker 1: like just so so good. And I think I only
Speaker 1: got to be in one scene with her by myself
Speaker 1: because we couldn't just not laugh the entire time and
Speaker 1: we had to actually like shoot it where we had
Speaker 1: to not look at each other. And luckily she was
Speaker 1: standing and I was sitting And when I watched it,
Speaker 1: she's like looking over my head because even the thought
Speaker 1: of like yeah, I was like I can't we did.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a funny scene, but it was just I'm like,
Speaker 1: I can't look at her face and she can't look
Speaker 1: at my face because we're going to lose it. Because
Speaker 1: it's one of those things where you're so in awe
Speaker 1: like watching her and also like how are you doing this?
Speaker 1: Like you're crazy? Like what it was a gift that
Speaker 1: we got to be around every single day. Hitchcock, What
Speaker 1: was it like in the writer's room writing for characters
Speaker 1: like Naya Santana like that you knew would just like
Speaker 1: if we're keeping on on her. She's one of those
Speaker 1: people that could do comedy obviously, but then can switch
Speaker 1: to rama at the drop of a hat. And if
Speaker 1: you watch any scene she was in, there's always something
Speaker 1: behind behind, There's there's something in the heart. She had,
Speaker 1: like just all this pathos behind almost everything she said
Speaker 1: and in the best way possible, um amazing scenes to watch.
Speaker 1: I remember I was on the writers most of the
Speaker 1: time we were writing. We didn't get to go to
Speaker 1: set that much. But when we did go. It was
Speaker 1: always such a treat and a lot of times we
Speaker 1: got to go when you did your musical numbers and
Speaker 1: the one when they were doing um, her big thing
Speaker 1: where she was dancing and it was I think it
Speaker 1: was a rumor has it and and then she had
Speaker 1: to go. She had to go hit Corey, she had
Speaker 1: to slap him, and she went from doing that entire
Speaker 1: dance and they didn't want to take for many of them,
Speaker 1: and then she just went out there and boom and
Speaker 1: it was just whoa. And they had to do it
Speaker 1: several times and always in character and had to go
Speaker 1: from that performance and then into that and it was
Speaker 1: fascinating to watch and devast eating at the same time,
Speaker 1: always so good. It also helped like that you knew
Speaker 1: whatever she got was going to be like lifted and
Speaker 1: made even better. Yeah, off the page, absolutely, Um, Hitgecock.
Speaker 1: Did you come to Snextest parties? What did you come
Speaker 1: to any Snextest parties? You don't remember, I don't, we
Speaker 1: don't remember anything from that two of them. The thing
Speaker 1: and I know we've talked about this in your podcast before,
Speaker 1: but like picture a home in Los Angeles with real
Speaker 1: snow in the front yard she brought in it does
Speaker 1: not snow here, and then a disco floor that looked
Speaker 1: like an ice skating rink in the backyard. Every type
Speaker 1: of food you could think of, elves that she hired. Um,
Speaker 1: she didn't hire, right, that's right, Um. And you have
Speaker 1: to remember this isn't just it wasn't just for the crew,
Speaker 1: I mean for the cast. All the crew got to
Speaker 1: go to they were all invited, and there was one crew. Remember.
Speaker 1: I remember in particular she got quite tip. See she
Speaker 1: had the strangest Christmas hat on. I mean it looked
Speaker 1: like a Christmas tree, and then she lost her Christmas
Speaker 1: tree and then she found it later. It's a fascinating
Speaker 1: story and I'm glad I spent the time that story
Speaker 1: very deeply. But she was very happy the whole time.
Speaker 1: Whether she lost her she didn't. Yes. I will say
Speaker 1: we have a special guest in the audience. We talked
Speaker 1: about a lot we will have on the podcast at
Speaker 1: some point if he'll come on. But m Andrew Mitchell
Speaker 1: is here. And Andrew Mitchell is by far the best
Speaker 1: steady cam operator in America for sure, maybe the world.
Speaker 1: So every ever, all those sweeping shots you see, he
Speaker 1: did it. He danced at this. So basically what we
Speaker 1: would do is we would rehearse the number and Zach
Speaker 1: would record it or Andrew would record it on his iPad.
Speaker 1: And then when we got on the stage and we
Speaker 1: were doing the number, the steadicam became another like blee
Speaker 1: member and they were dancing with us. And for those
Speaker 1: of you who don't know a city cam, how how
Speaker 1: how much is the way that he's wearing on himself
Speaker 1: and dancing around us like this in and out of
Speaker 1: all of us, and graceful like he walking like that
Speaker 1: you skateboard? Is that what you do is like a
Speaker 1: Greek god? Like his calves are incredible. Yeah, it's just phenomenal.
Speaker 1: And he just you know, he's a big part of
Speaker 1: the glee. Those sweeping shots of the hands going up
Speaker 1: in the camera going off with that everyone's basically and
Speaker 1: you've ruined it for the rest of us anytime we
Speaker 1: do anything else. Every time I see somebody who was
Speaker 1: sitting him like, there's like a sweat and a panic.
Speaker 1: And Andrew's was a cucumber. Should I tell the story
Speaker 1: about the lady with the Christmas hat again? You should?
Speaker 1: Maybe later we'll bring you back out later. It's so fun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I bet it is. Anyway, I did find so. I
Speaker 1: we were trying to find some pictures of snake smiths.
Speaker 1: Luckily there's not many that exist. Um, but I did
Speaker 1: find it. I'm not going to post it because I
Speaker 1: didn't ask permission, but I found a picture of I
Speaker 1: think it was Diana. Remember there's like some old like
Speaker 1: me folder, like Apple folder from a decade ago, and
Speaker 1: it's like Diana and two other people I hardly recognized,
Speaker 1: but they were also in full costume. The same person
Speaker 1: told her it was a costome Christmas party too. I
Speaker 1: need to know who this week. Tell you later if
Speaker 1: it wasn't me, right, it wasn't you. Honestly, don't really remember.
Speaker 1: I think I just wanted to dress up. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: that's how hard everybody went. Like Dana coordinated with two
Speaker 1: other people and they came as He's like snowflake, snow queen.
Speaker 1: It was things. What do you guys do? It's really
Speaker 1: none of your business. Okay, he's right, he has a point,
Speaker 1: turning our Christmas tree hats. I'll just leave. It's fine.
Speaker 1: What are you guys doing for the holidays? Early? What
Speaker 1: am I doing? Not getting sick. I hope, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: lucky for all of our health and our good things
Speaker 1: that are happening right now. Yeah. No, I'm going to
Speaker 1: Arizona as well, Arizona for Christmas. Nic excited. My kids
Speaker 1: are in the audience, My husband, my wonderful husband, cutest kids,
Speaker 1: and the biz. Um. Well, should we another game? We
Speaker 1: love games? We love games, he says, should we? Um?
Speaker 1: Did we bring out some other friends? Okay, yeah, let's
Speaker 1: bring out some more friends. If you're back there, Let's
Speaker 1: have everybody come out for this one, because this is
Speaker 1: going to be messy. Come on out, everybody that's This
Speaker 1: game is one that we would always play on Nice's
Speaker 1: birthday trips. Um. Yolanda might remember this one because we
Speaker 1: taught her how to play. Um. This is never have
Speaker 1: I ever Holiday edition? Yeah, alright, do they know our
Speaker 1: new guests? By the way, what do they know our
Speaker 1: new guests? Well, yes, we'll do it again. Matt Howson
Speaker 1: over here was a writer on legs. She was are
Speaker 1: literally our babysitter's secret daughter everything, and now she's a powerhouse.
Speaker 1: She's a hot shot working for Brad Fault, Chuck and
Speaker 1: six Planner. Um. Okay, thanks guys for being here. Um, Kelly,
Speaker 1: are you gonna take this one away and do this?
Speaker 1: I'm going to moderate this. Okay, thank you, guys. Have
Speaker 1: a seat. Okay, all right, well, okay, so we don't
Speaker 1: have drinks, so everyone's gonna put up five fingers, and
Speaker 1: if you've done the thing that I've said, you're gonna
Speaker 1: put down a finger. Last finger standing wins. We're not
Speaker 1: going to judge. So you win a little if you
Speaker 1: have done less things, fewer things, if you were the same,
Speaker 1: they're synonyms. No, that's a little. You have not done it.
Speaker 1: You put your finger down. If you've done it, and
Speaker 1: get rid of it. Okay, you've done it. You put
Speaker 1: a finger down, and whoever has a finger left, right,
Speaker 1: we got we gotta go ahead, go ahead, ones, Okay, So,
Speaker 1: never have I ever drank too much eggnog and passed
Speaker 1: out on the couch a little early specifically egg no, yeah,
Speaker 1: like you know, just had a little to much to drink,
Speaker 1: fell asleep a little early on. So never have we
Speaker 1: ever drank too much that we fell asleep too early
Speaker 1: on Christmas, on Christmas holiday or your favorite holiday. So
Speaker 1: if we put on the figure, if we have done that, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm just a ride around stupid. I guess I lied
Speaker 1: when I said we always played they always play it.
Speaker 1: We're and we're always play it. Okay. Never have I
Speaker 1: ever shared a kiss under the kiss under the mistletoe?
Speaker 1: Have you done it? I've never gotten black out on Christmas.
Speaker 1: I've never done that. Okay, we're past that one. Okay.
Speaker 1: Never have I ever set a Christmas tree on fire?
Speaker 1: You and the audience can also play. You can put
Speaker 1: your hands up because I want to see what we're working.
Speaker 1: Put the finger out, Matt, put a figured out. We
Speaker 1: got two figures now that Mike to Matt, what's what's what?
Speaker 1: You burn down? Babe? Just a close call. You know
Speaker 1: the candles are dangerous. I would department. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: it was a lesson learned. Alright, This one a little
Speaker 1: like a Christmas story theme. Never I've ever got my
Speaker 1: tongue stuck to a frozen metal pole? What about what?
Speaker 1: Matt Hodgson Negan, No, he didn't do Megan, she grew
Speaker 1: up in west She's from Chicago, Wisconsin. Yeah, okay, we're
Speaker 1: not here, we're not touching, we're notching. Never have I
Speaker 1: ever been home on Christmas break and hooked up with
Speaker 1: someone from high school. Never have I ever been home
Speaker 1: on Christmas break and hooked up from someone from high school? Again,
Speaker 1: she from Chicago. If you put her on count, were
Speaker 1: going to be her time? Have I accounts? Sorry, been
Speaker 1: snowed in in a blizzard. We were snowed in at
Speaker 1: Becca's wedding. That's right. We woke up after morning after
Speaker 1: the wedding. We're like, oh, I guess we have to stay.
Speaker 1: Some people did, oh, some people did. Okay, this is
Speaker 1: a fun one. It's not that was not that um okay,
Speaker 1: this is a two parter. Never have ever dumped someone
Speaker 1: right before the holidays so that I didn't have to
Speaker 1: give them a gift? She started. It's an evil laugh.
Speaker 1: I wish the audience was playing one. We're down to
Speaker 1: two over here, Oh yeah, alright, alright, and here at
Speaker 1: part two. Never ever stayed with someone until the holidays
Speaker 1: were over, just so that could have a date. She
Speaker 1: did it. Some laughter. We're gonna start fights tonight. Okay,
Speaker 1: down to the Okay, here's one that ended up on
Speaker 1: the list. I don't know how I never I've ever
Speaker 1: hit a deer with my car again, that's it. I
Speaker 1: think I've hit two deer. Or like everyone, Megan Doyle
Speaker 1: called Peter, she's a murderer. Hide the reindeer back here
Speaker 1: there anything you want to set protect a deer on stage?
Speaker 1: Would you like to make amends here tonight? There's plenty
Speaker 1: of deer you're on stage, Megan, I would like to eat.
Speaker 1: These are actually the deer from both accidents. Uh, these
Speaker 1: are replica. Okay, Okay, we're down to our last few.
Speaker 1: Never have I ever returned a gift and not told
Speaker 1: the gift giver about it? Obviously? Um okay. Never have
Speaker 1: ever made up an excuse to not go home for
Speaker 1: the holidays, made up an excuse We're all suckers, story family, Okay,
Speaker 1: and who's the last last question? Fingers? Never have I
Speaker 1: ever fallen asleep before midnight on New Year's Eve? That
Speaker 1: was a real Oh yeah, we got some chews over
Speaker 1: yere r. We like to see people still in the game.
Speaker 1: Chris Cole for Ashley, Think you too? Ashley? Hi? What No,
Speaker 1: I've never fallen asleep before midnight on New Year's Eve.
Speaker 1: I would be wonderful. At least you're better people than
Speaker 1: we are. Um, well, we did it. That's never have
Speaker 1: I ever what we got? Alright, everybody, everybody here. I
Speaker 1: think there's somebody. Somebody came to visit more video. We
Speaker 1: have another little I think, Hi, everybody, it's Javier Bays.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry that I could be there today. I
Speaker 1: really wanted to be there. But as you could probably tell,
Speaker 1: I've a little bit sick. It's dock COVID, but it's
Speaker 1: something pretty bad. So I've quarantined myself and I've sealed
Speaker 1: off the house so nobody is getting in her out
Speaker 1: of here. Oh my god, oh god, Hi, how did
Speaker 1: you get in here? I have a key, You're a key.
Speaker 1: I've a had keith. I'm here all the time. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna like it. Thank thank you. You've done a great
Speaker 1: job with the place. How do you were a little
Speaker 1: bit thick? I am a little bit sick, a little
Speaker 1: bit thicky. Actually, you do what I'm I'm feeling so
Speaker 1: much better. I feel so good now. I know you
Speaker 1: feel warm. I have a solution, which is a little
Speaker 1: mental rub to take a shut. I'll take my shirt off.
Speaker 1: Took half the holidays. Holidays. It's hard to tell if
Speaker 1: their inner out of character. It's a real special dynamic. Yes, well,
Speaker 1: We hope Jama feels better soon. But thank you Jama
Speaker 1: and Justlyn for the hilarious video. UM. So thank you
Speaker 1: everyone out there for being with us tonight. And don't forget.
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Speaker 1: to select a Nick Smith twenty two for the donor designation.
Speaker 1: We have some very special people that would we would
Speaker 1: like to invite on stage now to share some thanks
Speaker 1: with all of you. Uh, let's please give a warm
Speaker 1: round of applause for Nya's mother and sister, Yolanda and Nikaela.
Speaker 1: Hi everyone this year, you guys, this is awesome just
Speaker 1: to be here and here all the stories and my
Speaker 1: baby's work ethic. Hear her her singing. UM, It's it's
Speaker 1: a little bit overwhelming, but it's love. It's love that
Speaker 1: we all have for the Glee family and for Nia.
Speaker 1: And right now, I'm happy, I feel good. I do
Speaker 1: UM because this is what Naya lived for when she
Speaker 1: was on this earth with us. UM. She enjoyed family, friends,
Speaker 1: she enjoyed food, drank, she enjoyed just the company of people.
Speaker 1: And I look around and UM, and that's what we're doing.
Speaker 1: This is what I see, you know, this is this
Speaker 1: is what she lived for. And I just want to
Speaker 1: thank you for your contributions to Alexandria House. UH, because
Speaker 1: this was one of her last calls to us all.
Speaker 1: She she put it on the Instagram and came out
Speaker 1: of nowhere. UM. And that call was to give, to
Speaker 1: give to others, to lift each other up in a
Speaker 1: positive way, and to give to um make make people's
Speaker 1: lives better. And she found that in Alexandria House. And
Speaker 1: that's part of her legacy. That is part of her legacy.
Speaker 1: And here we are, we're living what she desired. So UM,
Speaker 1: thank you to the Glee family for your unwavering support.
Speaker 1: You guys are forever in our hearts. Forever forever in
Speaker 1: our hearts. Thank you to Alexandria House for all the
Speaker 1: work that you do. And thank you, thank you, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. God bless
Speaker 1: you all. I would just like to express, um, not
Speaker 1: only mine, but my mom and my dad and my
Speaker 1: brother and my nephews, our sincere deepest, deepest gratitude to
Speaker 1: you all for sitting here. I would like to express
Speaker 1: my gratitude to everyone a part of the Glee family.
Speaker 1: Everyone a part of my sister's family, her friends, her colleagues,
Speaker 1: the people that she supported, and I think that it's
Speaker 1: absolutely beautiful to see her legacy to this day, that
Speaker 1: she has brought us all together for a reason and
Speaker 1: that purpose is still continuing. So thank you so so much,
Speaker 1: Thank you both so much, Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: coming out here and speaking. Yes, thank you, give another
Speaker 1: warm out than thank you, guys, thank you, thank you. Uh.
Speaker 1: We couldn't be more grateful that um, you guys have
Speaker 1: all joined us for the third annu All Snake Smith event. Obviously,
Speaker 1: thank you too, Nya's family, Yolanda, Nikola um and even
Speaker 1: more that you guys have all contributed to a cause
Speaker 1: that was so important to Naya um and now it
Speaker 1: is important to us as well. So before we go,
Speaker 1: we just want to remind you that we have a
Speaker 1: goal to raise tonight for five thousand dollars that if
Speaker 1: we raise it this evening, it will be matched by
Speaker 1: a generous donor giving us a total of ten dollars
Speaker 1: for Alexander House, so please consider donating if you can,
Speaker 1: um if you've donated in previous years, we thank you
Speaker 1: for continued support. And if this is your first year
Speaker 1: celebrating snakes with with us, we welcome you with open
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