WEBVTT - Christmas in July 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:05.359 Wine Down with Janne Kramer and I Heart Radio podcast. 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:11.040 Hey guys, what's up. Welcome to Wine Down. Um. So 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:15.920 I am in Connecticut right now filming a movie, and UM, 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:20.439 I know a lot of stuff has recently hit the press, 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:24.680 and I honestly, I just want to have a fun 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:29.840 show today and not talk about that. Um probably when 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:33.839 I get back or um, yeah, I mean definitely I 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:36.519 want to process that. But I'm I'm still kind of 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:41.120 I'm still processing it all, and right now I'm excited 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:44.640 to just have a nice little distraction and be here. 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:49.080 I'm I've got gg with me today. Hello, and oh 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:57.560 look who just walked in extra caffee. That voice is, 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:01.440 of course, um, Ryan McPartland. So I am super excited 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:02.640 to have them on the show. And we're also going 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:06.520 to have Maria um zoom in with us. But it's 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:11.240 been really fun because I have I have gotten so 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:14.800 many messages about the both of you, So I'm like 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:20.360 super excited to just like I'm super excited to just like, 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:23.840 oh wow, okay, we're gonna address and I have some 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:28.200 people to, um, you know, ask you guys some questions 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:31.160 because so many people are very intrigued by both of you, 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.400 and I think the first one is for gig because 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:35.920 people are like, is she or nanny? Is she your sister? 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:39.759 Is she? Like? Who is she? What are you? Who 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:41.840 are you? And what are you? You know, honestly, it 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:47.640 depends on who you ask. If you ask Joanna, I 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:52.400 don't know. We're just I know it's kind of mysterious too, 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:56.760 but um, I don't really consider it nanny. I kind 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:59.840 of just hang out with the kids while Janna is 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:02.480 a way, but then we literally go and meet up 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:04.960 with Joanna. Yeah, so we hang out. And I will 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.600 say this, like, I of all the movie sets that 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:09.520 I've done and had the kids on, this has been 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:12.640 the best experience because you're just like, I mean, you 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:14.320 hang out with me all day on set, and then 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:16.880 you know, you're so good with the kids, and it's 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:20.119 so it's just I see them more than I've ever 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:21.600 seen that I'm on a movie set. Because if you 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:24.200 actually enjoy coming to set, I think, yeah, I do. 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:27.600 It's really fun. It's interesting because I've never even what's 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:31.320 something that like you realize like, oh wow, this is 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:34.160 how it works. Something that hasn't haven't hasn't seen a 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:38.760 movie set before. Um, I didn't realize how many people 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.799 were behind the camera and how many cameras there are. 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:44.680 I know that sounds like so basic and simple, but 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:48.600 like there's a lot of moving parts. I still haven't 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:52.480 figured it out. I mean, like, and then like, why 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:55.400 are they here? Were filming that one scene and we 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:58.160 had fake snow and whatever, and so I'm sure y'all 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:00.680 saw it on Joanna's Instagram story. They had tacked me 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:06.080 with fake snowballs, and Jason decided that he was going 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:10.399 to throw a snowball on what he's he's a script supervisor. 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:14.359 He's a script supervisor, and he's you know, really it's Darren. 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:16.560 It's a very important job, it is. And he was 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:19.400 like really focused and concentrated and whatever. So basically what 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:21.400 he does is he makes sure that Ryan is saying 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:25.880 the right line. It's a very hard job. He's not 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:29.520 always on top of it, but he's like super focused, 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:34.079 super concentrated. And Jay swarms up and throws a snowball 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:37.920 on his laptop, and this man death stares me and 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:41.720 it's like he's just in shock, and I'm in shock too, 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:44.320 and I start laughing and dying laughing, and I just 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:46.920 couldn't control it, and then he's like mad that I'm laughing, 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:53.200 and I'm like, I'm so sorry, and and just so 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:54.680 you know, because a lot of people are asking too 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:56.840 in the comments, like how you meet g actually met her? 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:02.840 She was care dot com. Oh they're not. She my 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:05.040 friend Pamela, who you guys have heard on the podcast before. 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:08.120 She um, she found gig And then I was like, 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:10.920 can I please take Gigi with me to film this 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:12.480 movie because I didn't know how long. Honestly, I was 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:14.440 going to have the kids up here. But it's just 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:17.320 going so well that Yeah, at first we were like, 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:19.760 we're not sure how long the Kauds they're gonna last, 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:23.480 but now they're they don't want to go. Um, Ryan, 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:27.760 So a lot of people are saying, um, is Ryan 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:29.760 your co star? Obviously, yes, Terro my co star. Is 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:32.280 he's single? Because well then they go on to say 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:34.960 this a few certain things, um, but a lot of 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:37.120 them said like they're just so happy that, like you know, 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:39.560 like you guys are so fun together and you laugh 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:41.280 and you have a good time. So let's just address 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:45.960 that you are very happily married. Go for it, married 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:57.479 going on nineteen years. I want to say, um, yeah, 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:02.200 but you're she is not my daughter, so uh yeah, 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:05.200 and no, I'm very glad that I could be here 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:08.480 during this time and you could have this experience, this 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:12.960 fun experience because we're laughing so much that, um, I 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:16.119 feel like there are no mistakes, right, So it's really 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:19.240 great that man, how how many months ago did we 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:22.480 start this process of putting it together? And yeah, it's 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:26.240 pretty cool. I mean, Ryan, Um, he's how long have 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:28.240 you had this idea for this movie? It's a couple 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:32.520 of years now. Jessica adding a writer, Jessica Cusaddding. She 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:34.680 and I just sat down in the room and said, hey, 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:37.520 we want to do get her writing a Christmas movie 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:41.120 because she's such a great writer. And um, we just 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:45.800 talked about the rom coms, the romances that we both 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:49.360 I'm kind of a sucker for her chick flicks, I've 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:52.120 gotta be honest. So we started talking about the Notebooks. 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:55.160 We don't know Alabama, I've read all of his books. 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:58.159 Nicholas Sparks. Yeah, did you feel like you're on the 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:00.719 Notebook set a little bit down by the lighthouse and 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:06.200 just gotten in a rowboat? It was crazy? Um, And 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:09.200 then so yeah, we started talking about those and then 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.120 what was the other one that I don't want to 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:12.640 give a story point away, so I'm not going to 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:15.440 mention this other movie. But there was a lot of 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:18.760 the a lot of things that we were talking about. Um, 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:21.040 we just started going what do we like about that? 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:24.839 We started pulling different um things and going, now, how 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:28.320 do we fit that into a Christmas movie? And then 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:32.280 it kind of organically took shape a treatment we pitched it, 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:36.800 and then um, when that treatment got into Jana's hands, 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:40.839 that's when the magic began. No, no, no, no, but no. 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:43.200 I mean I remember zooming with you know you and 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:46.880 Jess and the producers, and it's just and at the 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:50.359 time I was married, and um, we just you know, 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:53.320 we we started like this really awesome friendship and working friendship, 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:55.159 and yeah, it felt like we knew each other for 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:57.840 a long time. Just over our first zoom. It was like, yeah, 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:00.279 it was like an instant like kinship. Is that the Yeah, 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:03.360 just like just instant like you know, um friendship. And 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:07.040 it's just been so crazy because you've you've been on that. 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:09.680 There's so much that has happened since we started. And 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:12.880 that was like what six months ago, Yeah, probably less 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.840 than that because it was. It's been a journey, man, 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:19.080 It's been a real journey. Because I remember getting that 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:21.480 text from you saying that you were you're out of 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:23.640 commission for a little while for the notes calls and 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:26.160 stuff like that that we're talking about and why, and 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:30.440 I was like, man, you know, I just didn't even 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:32.160 know if this would go forward. I didn't know if 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:35.720 you'd have that the the bandwidth and being the headspace 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:38.680 to move forward with something, you know, a romance, a 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:42.920 Christmas romance with some comedic elements, and I thank god 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:45.600 you did because I feel like, you know, during this 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:50.480 time when everything came together, Um, you know, it's a 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.120 little bit I would like to call myself a blessing. 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:57.880 I mean like you you you, like you, M G 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:00.000 G both have been such a blessing on this too, 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:03.840 because again, like you've been like there through all of it, 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:05.640 and like I remember calling you and just like bawling, 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:07.920 and you were just like like you were so you 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:10.600 sent me you know, podcast listen to and you just 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:14.240 became like such a good friend. And I just to 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:16.600 be here and then feel supported and like you're always 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:18.480 trying to make me laugh. I mean it's just and 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:22.720 then G two, you're not trying to you naturally You're like, 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:26.280 I'm naturally funny. No, I'm not. I'm just talked too much. 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:30.160 You'll find some laughter in there somewhere. But it's just 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:33.599 it's it's been really nice and I just I love um. 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:37.120 But Janna, it's also really impressive that you're doing this 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:41.520 movie and you've I mean, you're so strong, it's very 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:44.760 it is amazing. Like I woke up today after we're 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.880 working until five am, and I was like, oh man, 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:51.120 you know, I've got maybe two things on my plate today. 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:54.439 Maybe one of them was trying to get a workout, 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:56.880 and that was getting to Starbucks and that was it. 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:59.520 So one check one and you're like, I've already been 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:01.760 up with kids. It's have you ready from my podcast? 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:04.240 You know, you just sign your papers the other day 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:07.000 to like, you know, seal the deal in your divorce. 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:09.640 I mean, all of this stuff that you deal with 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:13.560 is amazing and are very graceful. Yeah, that's what. Yeah, 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:15.520 I mean I had a little cry fast on set, 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:17.920 but you know, you guys were there to you have 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:20.600 to feel the feelings otherwise it just feels like a 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:23.839 normal day. That's true, but you have to go through 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:28.440 to be stronger on the other side, Could I just say, 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:31.319 though the podcast, Jamma is much nicer to me. What 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:34.959 are you talking about? People are gonna think I'm no 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:37.440 like you said on My Stories yesterday. There's a there's 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:39.880 a before Midnight Jannat and there's an after Midnightianna. And 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:43.400 they're two very different people, very different, but they're very 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:51.880 different because I've seen after Midnigiana like nooning. It's okay, 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:57.480 it's just hanger. There's a angry gry. But I will 0:09:57.480 --> 0:09:59.760 say this, but I will say this that all you 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:03.160 of to to do to accomplish what you accomplished in 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.559 a day, you know, at some point you got to 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:08.480 crack the whip a little bit. I mean, I think 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:10.800 it's one of those things where, yeah, because there's so 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:13.760 much like I am, like trying to do so many 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:15.360 different things, and yeah, when I don't have food in 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:19.280 my system, you might get a little That's okay, you 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:21.240 know what, I get the same one here to hand 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:24.720 me a banana. Um, but let's take a break and 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:42.320 then let's get Marian. Hey Maria, Hi, Hi honey, So 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:44.520 we missed you last night on the on the on 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:52.320 the night from my back. Okay, so let's just talk 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:55.360 about how you got on this film, because Ryan had 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:59.160 a really big part in. Um in basically begging you 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:02.240 to be a part of this, for it for well, 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:05.000 no for me. Maria and I have known each other 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:06.800 for a long time and we just keep pumping into 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:10.360 each other at events and parties and and um, I 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:12.640 just love seeing her. I threw a touchdown pass. I 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:14.319 want to say, you might have thrown me a two 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:17.280 point conversion or the other way around at a at 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:21.160 a football event. And um, we bumped into each other 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:24.120 at a Christmas party two years ago and we just 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:27.760 started talking about her and Kevin's love for Christmas movies 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:30.120 and I said, you'd be perfect in one. I like, 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:32.760 why are you not starring in a Christmas movie? And 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:36.560 She's like, well, I just again another overachiever. Maria always 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:38.720 has so much on her plate. She's like, I haven't 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:41.719 really gotten into that yet. And I always kept on 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.280 in the back of my head. And then, um, after 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:48.000 Maria's mom passed and I actually had some time to, um, 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:50.600 sit down and write an email to her and just 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:54.840 share with her my my sympathies. Um, she just said, hey, 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:57.920 you know now that things are slowing down a little bit, 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:01.600 I might be interested in Reva sitting that conversation and 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:05.319 let me know if you and Jenna have any roles available. 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:06.640 And I said, well, I know you're not going to 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:09.960 take this role because you know, I thought that in 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:11.959 my mind Maria was going to be the star of 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:15.000 one of these movies out of the Gates. And she said, 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:17.200 I'd be happy to do one of the you know, 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:20.560 play your sister. And it is a it's a really 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:23.880 great role, it's big. But we just didn't, you know, know, 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:26.880 if you'd want to play my sister. And she said yes, 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:30.319 and then we're off and running. And do I miss anything? Really? 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:32.680 I'm sure I missed a ton of little important beat 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:35.840 your better storyteller than I am. No, you got it. 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:38.960 I mean it was funny because things, you know, always 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:43.040 line up for a reason, I think, And so um 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:45.960 when Ryan sent me this beautiful letter, I made a 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:49.880 little documentary about my parents journey through COVID. Both of 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:53.240 them got COVID at Thanksgiving time and both were in 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:56.800 separate hospitals. It was a brutal experience. I documented the 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:58.520 whole process and then I realized I have all this 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:02.280 footage because I talked, meant everything, Um, let me put 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:05.400 it together. So I put it together. It's called Mom Dad, 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:08.120 COVID and me. It's on YouTube right now. And Ryan 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:12.040 had seen it and send of this beautiful letter, very thoughtful, 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:16.360 long letter about his feelings about it, and I said, wow. 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:18.120 I actually had to read it a couple of times 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.360 before I could respond because it was so kind and 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:24.560 so thoughtful. Um. And we're going back and forth East time. 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:28.079 He's doing this Christmas movie and boom, all of a sudden, 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:33.920 I am now your best friend. Janna and Ryan's sister, 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:38.280 and were grateful because I have wanted to get into 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:41.120 this space. I love Christmas. We watch these movies Kevin 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:44.160 and I every year. We have so much fun. You know, 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:48.280 regardless of whatever is going on around us, we still 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.600 try to capture that spirit and these movies really help 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:54.400 with that. So we had been talking about this for 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:57.120 years to you know, get together and I don't know, 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:01.240 write something or do something. And um, it's getting very 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:05.160 hot by the way, bring just your bathing suits, um. 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:10.240 And and so yeah, it was just like a perfect opportunity. 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:14.000 And what was great was I needed to be back 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:16.640 here with my dad. My mom just passed a little 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:19.600 over two months ago now, and it was a great 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:22.320 way to be back here with him, getting to stay 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:24.680 here while I'm working with you guys. And I don't 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:26.840 even think it's work. It's literally just fun. I show 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:28.920 up for a few hours and play with you guys, 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:32.560 and and uh and that's that. So thank you guys 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:36.160 for having me, because um, it was it was all 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:38.800 meant to be. Well, Maria. I mean, you have like 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:43.880 your energy and you're just like overall just like when 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:45.920 you walk into a room, like you just you light 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:48.840 up and you're just and you know, you just said 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:52.040 that your mom. You know, we obviously know the story, 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:56.560 but she just passed and you still walk with such 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:00.480 like I'm just curious, like how how do you still 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:05.240 bring that infectious energy and that happiness and like how 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:08.640 you got there? Because it it's beautiful to see, but 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:13.480 it's like, man, it's like I don't I I just um, 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:15.200 I really look up to a lot of how you 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:18.720 carry yourself. Thank you, well, now you've got me crying. 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:22.240 Um My mom was always like that. My mom smiled 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:25.480 through getting diagnosed, my mom smiled through surgery, my mom 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:29.320 smiled through everything. So I feel like in this journey, 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:33.480 watching all the different stages of life with her, I 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:39.880 realized how so much about myself through her. And towards 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:41.960 the end, I was like she told me, she like, 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.080 if something happens to me, I want you to always 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:47.840 keep smiling. And so I just try. It's it's natural. 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:51.120 It's not like I'm trying. But you know, I just 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:52.920 know we have to put one ft in front of 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:54.720 the other and you just got to keep on going 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:59.880 and you have to trust that everything is happening or 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:02.840 owned you for your highest good, And this movie was 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:04.520 from my highest good. I got to be with great 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:07.760 people at a really difficult time, and you guys help 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:10.880 because you guys have great spirit and great energy. You're 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:14.800 going through so much and you're making me so impressed 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.440 with how you're handling it with kids and everything, and 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:22.320 so we all just do our best. Um. But you 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:26.680 know you can't wallow in it. You know, that's the thing, 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:29.600 is like life is going to happen to all of us, 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:32.600 so you always have to keep it in perspective. There 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:36.680 are so many people who have it worse. Um, And 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:41.240 without negating your own feelings, because that's a problem that 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:42.760 I think a lot of us, you know, a trap 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:44.800 we can all fall into as well, someone else has 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:46.640 it worse. So I don't deserve my feelings. No, we 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:49.640 deserve our feelings. Um, But it helps to have a 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.560 little perspective. Like I had my mom for sixty she 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:56.640 was sixty six, Yes she was young, but I had 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:58.920 her for forty three years. Some kids don't have their 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:03.800 mom passed, you know, a young age. So we just 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:05.960 do what we gotta do. But thank you, that's very kind. 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:09.199 I was gonna I was gonna say that, you know, 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:14.359 I didn't fully appreciate doing these movies until you hear 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:18.760 stories about Um. You know, people put them on at 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:21.800 Christmas time because Christmas can be a really Holidays can 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:24.040 be very hard for people, and they want to turn 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:26.840 to something with hope and you know, a little bit 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:31.360 of laughter and lightness. And the more we do them, 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:34.720 the more, you know, I appreciate it. But then to 0:17:34.760 --> 0:17:39.240 actually film one with both of you when you've just 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:43.359 been through your own life challenges and are still going 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:47.000 through them, I feel like it's even hits home more 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:52.840 than ever about how important you know this type of experiences. Yeah, 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:55.199 I mean I know this Christmas we have something to 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:58.439 look forward to, and I definitely have thought about it. 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:00.800 I'm like, oh gosh, this, Chris. This might be tough 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:03.920 because it'll be our first without her, But we have 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:05.680 this and this will be fun and we'll laugh and 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:07.960 we'll have a screening party and I'll make cupcakes and 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:11.639 cocktails and make it a whole thing. So yeah, entertainment 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:14.800 is what makes the world go around. And I remember 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:19.000 when my mom was having surgery, brain surgery. I remember 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:22.600 how much we needed uplifting content at that time and 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:26.320 how much we relied on it in the hospital. And 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:28.360 you know all the work I've done at the children's 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:32.399 hospitals and the termin awards, you know that their life 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:34.800 is in that room, and they're lucky if they have 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:37.560 a view of a window to see the outside world. 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:41.600 That is their world is just how do we survive today? 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:44.680 And the way they survived today is by watching something 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:47.680 like this that's gonna make them smile and forget what's 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:51.919 going on just for that two hour period. Its beautiful. Man. 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:56.600 It's like we're all just we all have our you know, 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:59.159 we're all broken, we all have our struggles, we all 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:02.600 have our are things that were you know, working on 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:06.119 and I just I love how Maria, especially in this season, 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:08.159 that we're both in that we're able to you know, 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:11.800 have something like this to uplift us and to be 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:14.560 like wow, like you know this is this is good, 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:16.720 you know, like there's there's goodness in in some of 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:19.720 the broken, you know, and we got to lift each other. 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:21.879 And can I just go back real quick too that 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:27.679 I just love that Kevin watches your husband Kevin because 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:31.159 he's such a guy's guy. You know, he's such a dude, 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:34.160 and I love that he's into it and I love 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:36.239 his part. I'm not going to spoil it here, but 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:38.840 I love his part so much in this movie and 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:42.600 how it's evolved to what it is. Oh yeah, he's 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:46.960 so funny. Everyone has that to look forward when like, yeah, 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:50.479 roll Kevin's in the car, You're like, no, no, just 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:52.680 just the one line. I'm already having a heart attack. 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:58.000 The one line. It's like, I'm not like you. I 0:19:58.040 --> 0:19:59.760 think it's I think it's this is all just a 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:01.560 to full and it's like again kind of to the 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:03.280 point where I was saying, it's like, you know, when 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:05.800 you walk into your room, you were just so happy, 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:09.040 and it's it's like everything that you've been through and 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:11.719 you know currently what I'm dealing with. I'm like, wow, 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:15.919 like you make me want to be like happier and 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:17.919 and to just be like okay, like it's all going 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:20.320 to be okay. And it's like and you look at 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:22.560 and you don't know what people's inner struggles are. It's 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:24.399 like and I don't you know, I just asked if 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:25.639 it was okay for me to bring this up. But 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:28.120 it's like, you know, Gigi is so funny on stories 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:30.280 and she's hilarious, and it's like no one would know that, 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:35.440 Like her inner story is like her dad has Alzheimer's Alzheimer's. Yeah, 0:20:35.520 --> 0:20:39.000 it's actually frontal temporal dementia, but Alzheimer's is like the 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:42.040 umbrella term. So it's like, you know she's dealing with that. 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:43.920 It's like you just never know like what people are, 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:45.960 like are you dealing with? So it's always just like 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:48.200 lead with love, lead with kindness, and and all it 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:51.080 is our hard Last year was the first Christmas without 0:20:51.160 --> 0:20:54.040 dad home and being in the nursing home. We had 0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:57.800 to move them into assisted living unfortunately, but actually fortunately 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:01.399 that we got to do that before COVID because taking 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:05.560 care of your parents at nineteen years old, and my 0:21:05.800 --> 0:21:10.920 younger sister's um who are eighteen and fifteen, that that 0:21:11.040 --> 0:21:13.800 really really changes your perspective on a lot of things. 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:18.399 And I actually to add some humor, unfortunately into this, 0:21:18.720 --> 0:21:29.840 I broke into the nursing home last Christmas. So so 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:33.199 I was like, you know what, Um, I have to 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:36.240 see my dad. It's Christmas and we had been at home, 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:40.400 and you know, my mom, bless our heart, was trying 0:21:40.400 --> 0:21:42.800 to make it like a good Christmas for all of 0:21:42.920 --> 0:21:46.879 us whatever. But also, assisted living is really really expensive, 0:21:46.920 --> 0:21:51.840 so our financial situation was not It just wasn't good. 0:21:51.880 --> 0:21:54.040 But it was a great Christmas because of how happy 0:21:54.119 --> 0:21:56.280 my mom was trying to make it and seeing her 0:21:56.359 --> 0:22:01.119 hold herself together so well and just be just embodied 0:22:01.200 --> 0:22:05.280 something so strong and beautiful was really inspiring. Um, inspiring 0:22:05.359 --> 0:22:10.520 enough to go break into my dad's nursing So I um, 0:22:10.560 --> 0:22:18.160 it was like nice, Donna, Donna, that's all. I mean. 0:22:18.160 --> 0:22:20.280 He's broken into this place a few times because we 0:22:20.359 --> 0:22:22.760 keep forgetting our key. It's so funny. I crawled around 0:22:22.760 --> 0:22:24.639