Speaker 1: From Hollywood. See you, thank you for listening to us.
Speaker 2: Ryan Air on Air with a Ryan Seacrest, Good.
Speaker 1: Morning, Ryan Seacrest. Here, Tanya Sisany the back room and Easton,
Speaker 1: our engineer, was really struggling. So I don't know if
Speaker 1: this show is being broadcast or not. Easton, did you
Speaker 1: hook up everything?
Speaker 3: All hooked up?
Speaker 1: We're good to go. I had a little concern because
Speaker 1: Easton was up on the table here and he was
Speaker 1: plugging in and unplugging different cables and chords and so
Speaker 1: in a in a rare moment of panic, I was
Speaker 1: just you know, verifying that we're this is happening.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: In Easton's defense, there was someone that came in here
Speaker 5: last night and moved a bunch of stuff around because
Speaker 5: like my bunch.
Speaker 2: Of was missing.
Speaker 1: Who was sleeping in our bed?
Speaker 2: H my trash can was moved?
Speaker 1: Someone was sleeping in our bedroom? Yeah, so who? Well,
Speaker 1: isn't it you that comes in with EJ that does
Speaker 1: the vibe.
Speaker 6: Use the studio?
Speaker 1: Oh we're not.
Speaker 6: No, I don't know the studio.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you couldn't that true? Mark, you produce something
Speaker 1: that's news to me for scrubbing? Is it for the vibe.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 1: He told you that.
Speaker 7: I don't know what you make a studio that I
Speaker 7: go to that.
Speaker 1: Totally last night moving things around.
Speaker 6: I was not around.
Speaker 1: So why why would you not be able to use that?
Speaker 2: You're not not allowed. You just don't use it.
Speaker 6: Well, why don't we so much nicer than the one
Speaker 6: we use for the vibe?
Speaker 1: But you use this for scrubbing in? Yes, well you
Speaker 1: should just recruit the vibe or bring them over. It
Speaker 1: will be thrilled. All right, Well, how is everybody sisiny?
Speaker 1: How is your evening?
Speaker 5: I am good, but you know, I went to bed
Speaker 5: a little earlier than my usual bedtime. Therefore I woke
Speaker 5: up earlier than my usual awake time. So this is
Speaker 5: the issue. I have to go to bed when I
Speaker 5: go to bed, which is usually like eleven eleven.
Speaker 1: When you go to that, or when you're hired, you
Speaker 1: mean you're forced to be eleven because you get everything
Speaker 1: done and then it's.
Speaker 5: Away kind of yes, exactly, And I'm usually tired ish
Speaker 5: around eleven, but I was more tired earlier last night,
Speaker 5: so I went to bed at ten and will crar
Speaker 5: me off.
Speaker 2: I will go bet like three.
Speaker 6: He's checking his sleep schedule.
Speaker 1: Well, if we're talking about sleep, I have the data
Speaker 1: mine I.
Speaker 2: Will sleep five hours a night, no matter what.
Speaker 5: It's like, it's so strange, it's like, no matter.
Speaker 1: What, how do you know it's five hours.
Speaker 2: Because it's always five hours. I've got to be a ten.
Speaker 2: I'll week up a three.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so here you are. Well, mine's gonna be bad news.
Speaker 1: I can tell you right now. So I have this
Speaker 1: thing around my finger ring that tells me the data
Speaker 1: of how I slept, hooked up to my phone via
Speaker 1: por ring. It's your ring, that's right, it's that thing,
Speaker 1: and it's downloading for a long time. So yeah, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be bad. I know it's gonna be bad news.
Speaker 5: But you know what else is good this week is
Speaker 5: that Maxim is the star student at school.
Speaker 1: What happened?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 2: That they like you rotate, They picked kids every week.
Speaker 5: As I got it back in February, so he has
Speaker 5: waited like months and months.
Speaker 1: Mom, why's she get it? Four? Like his behavior change
Speaker 1: when he's the star student.
Speaker 5: Well, he just gets you know, he gets to be
Speaker 5: so excited. He got to make a poster with all
Speaker 5: his pictures that gets displayed like on the wall. And
Speaker 5: he gets to show off his talents and bring like
Speaker 5: his favorite books to class.
Speaker 1: Such a good program, right, and you feel special that
Speaker 1: time whole week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you help out the teacher. You like the teacher's aid.
Speaker 2: It's really cool.
Speaker 1: I loved being the teacher's aide. I got to leave
Speaker 1: the classroom to pick up copies.
Speaker 2: Right right, little like barons around the schools.
Speaker 1: So cool to be out in the hallway when everyone's
Speaker 1: in class. Well, bad news for all you guys.
Speaker 6: Oh no, it didn't download.
Speaker 1: It did it did download? Okay, it's what it downloaded.
Speaker 1: It's a problem. I got what's going on? I got
Speaker 1: what's today? Well, here we go. I got a fifty
Speaker 1: percent score out of one hundred.
Speaker 2: Yes, I could tell you that I might as well
Speaker 2: slip the five hours of me.
Speaker 1: I just you sense that I didn't sleep well?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Really yeah? Why just vibes, stop plugging your show. I
Speaker 1: was in bed for it says, I was in bed
Speaker 1: for six hours and two minutes and I got four
Speaker 1: hours and twenty two minutes. I feel that, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: felt like in my forehead, behind my eyes, it says, beware,
Speaker 1: you didn't sleep. Beware, it won't be efficient blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: bad bad, bad, bad bad. The only thing you did
Speaker 1: was I was breathing. Well that's good dad. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: looking at good news that I was breathing all night.
Speaker 6: At least he's some great cute for you.
Speaker 1: I would love something cute.
Speaker 7: So remember back in January, we did like a horoscope
Speaker 7: that was the most like romantic day of the year
Speaker 7: for each zodiac sign. Yeah, Robbie wrote it down my
Speaker 7: most romantic day and it's today, and he like put
Speaker 7: it in his calendar.
Speaker 1: Best day of Tanya's year. Yeah, because you're a cancer.
Speaker 6: Because I have a cancer.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So he's planning at date night tonight.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that's so cute for you. That's good
Speaker 1: for you. For you, I was gonna be keep for us.
Speaker 2: I thought so too.
Speaker 6: What's cute for one is cute for all?
Speaker 1: Okay, what do you think you might do?
Speaker 6: I mean it's a school night, so probably dinner. But
Speaker 6: I thought I was sweet. He sent me a nice text.
Speaker 1: He's a good one. I like him. After seven o'clock,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna play our favorite game, the Match Game.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 1: For Disneyland tickets Mark Disneyland Resort tickets. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: So what's going on with your flowers being stolen?
Speaker 2: Well, there is and I mean I don't know her name.
Speaker 5: Even if I did, I don't think I would say it,
Speaker 5: But there is a woman in my neighborhood. She seems
Speaker 5: like a very nice woman, and I have seen her
Speaker 5: on a walk. I see her walks all the time.
Speaker 5: But you know, like with all the rain, we've gotten
Speaker 5: so many flowers, yes, yes, and they're blooming everywhere, and
Speaker 5: they look so beautiful, vibrant, vibrant. Everyone's lawns look so nice.
Speaker 5: And so I noticed the other day that she was
Speaker 5: on her walk and she had a bunch of like
Speaker 5: she was holding a bunch of flowers like in her hand,
Speaker 5: and I didn't think anything of it. Then the next day,
Speaker 5: or maybe it was a few days later, I saw
Speaker 5: her again on her walk and actually saw her clipping.
Speaker 2: Flowers with a clipper with a clip your scissors.
Speaker 1: She premeditated the clip, yes.
Speaker 5: And then I saw it again on my camera, like
Speaker 5: my ring camera. She actually clipped them from my She
Speaker 5: took some lavender from my front.
Speaker 1: Lawn is abundant and it's healing.
Speaker 2: You know, it's fine.
Speaker 1: It is it is what principle, So I mean, let's
Speaker 1: just talk principle here. She's taking your beauty, your your flowers,
Speaker 1: your guard your landscaping. Like what if it were your tomatoes,
Speaker 1: I'd beat like, whoa, I don't get so many tomatoes
Speaker 1: all the time, so it can't take my tomatoes. Lavender?
Speaker 5: Really no different, fine, I know, but I just think
Speaker 5: it's like it's essentially.
Speaker 2: It's yeah, trespassing and stealing.
Speaker 6: I just feel like I think she's.
Speaker 5: Doing what we all have thought of wanting to do.
Speaker 5: So I'm almost like, yo.
Speaker 1: Else's either not on their own.
Speaker 2: You all thought about it.
Speaker 1: No, I've thought about going into people's bathrooms and ping,
Speaker 1: but I don't.
Speaker 5: But I don't, but I know, I you know, I
Speaker 5: drive the same path to go pick up the kids
Speaker 5: from school every day, and I passed by it always
Speaker 5: step into their yard, but I passed by so many
Speaker 5: overflown bushes onto what is the street?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 5: Would they would they really miss all these hydranges. I'm like, no,
Speaker 5: I could go there and just clip a few, And
Speaker 5: I'm like, I'm kind of thinking this lady's got a good.
Speaker 1: But to this lady who seemingly nice all you had
Speaker 1: to do is knock on Systney's door, and she would
Speaker 1: more than likely give you a pair of clippers in
Speaker 1: a battle.
Speaker 6: Wants to be bothered.
Speaker 1: No one wants to knock for anything because you're a knock.
Speaker 1: You think somebody's wrong, Like, yeah, you're not hit the
Speaker 1: floor and hide. Yes, yes, I.
Speaker 5: I don't really care because like the lavender is like
Speaker 5: kind of like at the bottom, but like I have
Speaker 5: a rose bush that's kind of closer to my front doors.
Speaker 2: Like what's going to stop her from coming?
Speaker 1: Like, oh my, we should take a sign that says
Speaker 1: no trespassing and put it everywhere and she'll know who's
Speaker 1: she is no trespassing or clipping herbs.
Speaker 2: I just think it was kind of funny.
Speaker 1: I think it is trespassing. But now I know not
Speaker 1: to knock on your door for something. Anybody knock on
Speaker 1: your door recently? No nobody knocks on the door, knocks
Speaker 1: on the doors anymore?
Speaker 6: No? No?
Speaker 1: All right, well a woman listening if it is serendipitous,
Speaker 1: sistany's not home right now? So clip. These are the
Speaker 1: five drinks they say are associated with a long life.
Speaker 1: Are you ready? Green Tea? I love it? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I like green tea, black tea. I don't drink black tea.
Speaker 1: Black tea. Yeah, it's tiny drinks them all. What's what?
Speaker 1: How do you feel after black tea? Is it caffeinated? Yeah?
Speaker 4: You? Okay?
Speaker 1: Over there, I'm tired.
Speaker 7: Yes, black tea is good. It's actually good for fertility too.
Speaker 1: Okay. Black coffee yay.
Speaker 2: I like black coffee too. Water okay, am I big jug.
Speaker 1: And are you ready? Five drinks associated with long life?
Speaker 1: The winner?
Speaker 2: Please say?
Speaker 1: Tequila red wine not so bad. Tequila will not ply
Speaker 1: beyond there, but of the lesser evils of spirits, I
Speaker 1: would put tequila on the top.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 1: Today's quote Tanya Tisstaney, Yes, Mark Easton, while we're at it,
Speaker 1: you are not here to live. No, sorry misread that
Speaker 1: you are here to live, not turn, not distress, not
Speaker 1: to prove, not to even please just live. Why don't
Speaker 1: you that's good? FM headlines Well.
Speaker 5: The La City Council unanimously approved a two million dollars
Speaker 5: allocation for the construction of the sixth Street Park Arts
Speaker 5: and a river connectivity project. The construction schedule to begin
Speaker 5: in the summer, so the project will include a twelve
Speaker 5: acre park connecting the communities of Boyle Heights and the
Speaker 5: Arts District, which have historically lacked access to quality parks
Speaker 5: and open space. Knotsbury Farm will open into newly refurbished
Speaker 5: yes Thea Village area on May twenty six, just in
Speaker 5: time form a Moyal Day weekend. The new area will
Speaker 5: also include an updated version of the roller coaster Montezuma,
Speaker 5: the Fourbit and Fortress, new food locations, immersive entertainment and
Speaker 5: beautiful decor. The new restaurant Casa California and Baja Takio
Speaker 5: will also be opened in the newly designed area, and
Speaker 5: Imagine Dragons joined the picket line to perform a few
Speaker 5: songs for writers Striking.
Speaker 2: Outside of the Netflix building in Hollywood. How cool is that?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 5: The band took to the Netflix picket line yesterday to
Speaker 5: show its support for the writers striking in La Dan
Speaker 5: Reynolds and Electric guitarist Daniel Wayne A Sermon performed Radioactive
Speaker 5: and whatever it takes on air with Ryan.
Speaker 1: Get everybody organized for match game. However, we need to
Speaker 1: do that with the panel because we're gonna play, guys.
Speaker 1: This is the one game that we play. Let me
Speaker 1: play some of those, but not that regularly. This one
Speaker 1: I like, so I got a bonus four pack of
Speaker 1: Disneyland tickets. Here two contestants on the line. Let's meet
Speaker 1: contestant number one for match game. Ronald. How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm good? How are you super good? You're gonna play
Speaker 1: match game for Disneyland tickets. Tell us about yourself.
Speaker 9: I am a preschool director and preschool teacher, and I
Speaker 9: have one daughter that would love to go.
Speaker 1: To Disneylandy okay, Well you can bring some friends with
Speaker 1: your daughter too if you win. Hang on one second,
Speaker 1: Marisa and Paramount Marissa, you're contestant number two. Good morning,
Speaker 1: good morning, so good to have you on. Tell us
Speaker 1: about yourself, Marissa.
Speaker 4: I'm a teacher at Bellgardens Elementary and I'm very glad
Speaker 4: to be playing.
Speaker 1: We're excited too. Now it's very easy. I'll give you
Speaker 1: a phrase with a blank in it. Our panel of
Speaker 1: Sisney Tanya, Ruby and Eastern Or Tubs will write down
Speaker 1: what they think should go in the blank. Then we'll
Speaker 1: hear your answer and see who you match with. Okay,
Speaker 1: who ever get the most matches going to Disneyland? You ready?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: All right? First one, ronaland beach blank, don't say anything,
Speaker 1: think about it. Beach blank, beach blank panel, write down
Speaker 1: your answers. Ready, Okay, here we go. Beach blank Royland,
Speaker 1: would you say boys beach boys? All right, let's see
Speaker 1: if we get to match.
Speaker 5: Sydney beach, I said, beach ball, Tanya, beach beach body, Ruby.
Speaker 1: Beach, I said, beach club Eastern beach ball. All right, well,
Speaker 1: no match, that was a good one. All right, stand
Speaker 1: by Royland. Marisa, it's up to you. Now here we go. Marissa,
Speaker 1: here's yours. Drive blank, think about it? Drive blank panel,
Speaker 1: right down your answers. Okay and usually Sistany's done by now,
Speaker 1: scratching her head. Ruby's done. Tanya's done. Sisney's not done.
Speaker 1: You're so confident. Wait, Marissa, drive what driveway? Driveway?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: Sisney drive drive through? I mean Tanya?
Speaker 6: Drive safe?
Speaker 1: Oh Ruby, what did you say? Drive fast? This game
Speaker 1: tells me so much about everybody every time. Congratulations, Marissa,
Speaker 1: you got a four pack to Disneyland, and Ronald you
Speaker 1: have a daughter that wants to go. Yes, I'll give
Speaker 1: you a four pack two. Congratulations.
Speaker 4: Oh, thank you so much.
Speaker 8: Just as good for a teachers appreciation.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes it is, Yes, it is We appreciate you
Speaker 1: enjoyed Disneyland. Thank you for playing the match game. That
Speaker 1: was fun. I've got some Jonahs Brothers tickets coming up
Speaker 1: in just a minute, but I want to shift gears
Speaker 1: and bring in Maria Manunas. Who's uh Maria? How long
Speaker 1: do you think We've known each other? Over twenty years?
Speaker 9: Right?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 9: For sure?
Speaker 4: How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm doing well? Thank you for asking and thank you
Speaker 1: for calling. We saw the just to sort of get
Speaker 1: into it. First, we saw the news that you shared
Speaker 1: with everybody just the other day that you were diagnosed
Speaker 1: with stage two pancreatic cancer in January. And I'm wondering
Speaker 1: when you were told that news, what was your reaction.
Speaker 4: Your first reaction, Yeah, well, it's a neuroendocrint humor that's
Speaker 4: on the pancreas. And when the doctor told me, I
Speaker 4: it was so crazy because there's so many steps before that.
Speaker 4: It's like, first it was a radiologist who found the mass,
Speaker 4: and of my first words to him was like, oh cool,
Speaker 4: so I'm a goner. And then I rushed off to UCLA.
Speaker 4: They confirmed the MRI, and then I had a biopsy
Speaker 4: and they came back and they're like, it's definitely something.
Speaker 4: And then when you know it's definitely something, and you
Speaker 4: know what you know, which is the limited stuff we
Speaker 4: know about pancreas cancer is that it comes with uh swift, swift, aggressiveness,
Speaker 4: and it's not usually a good result. It's it was terrifying.
Speaker 4: I was horrified. And I saw you just days later,
Speaker 4: by the way, because when I came to Live to
Speaker 4: announce the.
Speaker 1: Baby, gosh, you just found out and yes, and you
Speaker 1: were having I just found outsh my god.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And so I made a conscious decision to come
Speaker 4: because I turned around. So the story is I was
Speaker 4: going home to Connecticut earlier to be with my dad.
Speaker 4: I was so sad. I didn't want to tell him,
Speaker 4: but just wanted to be around him. And then we
Speaker 4: were going to drive into the city to see you
Speaker 4: guys and do the show. And as I was driving
Speaker 4: to the airport, I was having a lot of pain
Speaker 4: and I was like, oh, my gosh, I have to
Speaker 4: turn around. So they turned around. I didn't know if
Speaker 4: I was gonna end up doing the show. And then
Speaker 4: Sunday night, I started to feel a little better, and
Speaker 4: I said, Kevin, we need to shift this narrative and
Speaker 4: we need joy and we need love right now, and
Speaker 4: this baby deserves to have excitement around it and not sadness.
Speaker 4: And that's why we went well.
Speaker 1: And I mean, I remember, it's amazing you don't know
Speaker 1: what people are going through because I remember sitting next
Speaker 1: to you, Kevin, right there in the audience and you
Speaker 1: announced that you guys are having a baby together, baby girl,
Speaker 1: via surrogate, and we were so remember Kelly, I was
Speaker 1: so elated, like it was just there was so much
Speaker 1: excitement there. So Maria, what's happening now? Like where are
Speaker 1: you and what are they telling you? And what can
Speaker 1: we know?
Speaker 4: So now I am doing great, thank God, and we're
Speaker 4: covering from surgery. They got it all out. It was
Speaker 4: what they call well differentiated, so it was in one
Speaker 4: area they got clean margins. They tested everything. The pathology
Speaker 4: came back, all the lymph nodes, the spleen, the part
Speaker 4: of the pancreas they removed. Everything was negative. And so
Speaker 4: now they just have to do scans in six months
Speaker 4: to just make sure and then from there.
Speaker 9: It's every year.
Speaker 4: So it's just observing and making sure everything's fine.
Speaker 1: It's something that I'm just thinking about how you reacted
Speaker 1: to this and you kind of made a joke. I
Speaker 1: mean in that moment, right you said, oh I'm a goner. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I will. Yeah. For how we would process
Speaker 1: and handle this kind of news, I've had it happen
Speaker 1: with my family, and I've seen my family react to cancer,
Speaker 1: but you do wonder, like, how would you react? And
Speaker 1: I'm also thinking about the fact that you're gonna be
Speaker 1: joined by this baby in what weeks? Months?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, babies coming this summer.
Speaker 1: The greatest, the greatest, most right, joyful, amazing thing to
Speaker 1: happen to you and Kevin is coming, and this doesn't
Speaker 1: this doesn't shade that at all, right, it.
Speaker 4: Did, Oh my god, it did at the time. So
Speaker 4: at first I kind of cracked a joke, and then
Speaker 4: I had to calm the guy down and like and
Speaker 4: console him because he felt so bad giving me this news.
Speaker 4: And when we left and we got confirmation the next morning,
Speaker 4: I woke up and I was just kind of looking
Speaker 4: at my icons on my mantle where I pray, and
Speaker 4: I just started guttural crying because I was like, I
Speaker 4: can't believe you would finally bless me with a baby, God,
Speaker 4: and then you would take me before I get to
Speaker 4: meet her, and it was crushing. Oh my gosh. Of
Speaker 4: course I was terrified. But then at some point I
Speaker 4: realized I didn't know the end to the story, so
Speaker 4: I couldn't start projecting it, and I didn't want to
Speaker 4: prophesize and catastrophize, and so I shifted and said, like
Speaker 4: my favorite Christmas movie fan Clauses come into town. I'm
Speaker 4: just going to put one foot in front of the
Speaker 4: other and I'm going to literally just take it day
Speaker 4: by day, step by step. And the crazy thing is
Speaker 4: Riy Is my best friend called me. She texted me
Speaker 4: in January. She goes, I need to talk to you tonight.
Speaker 4: Some news I need to share. And I go, oh
Speaker 4: my gosh, so do I and I sat down and
Speaker 4: we talked and she goes, I have stage one breast
Speaker 4: cancer and I'm like what. And then when she was done,
Speaker 4: I was like, well, not to one of you, but
Speaker 4: this is what I'm dealing with. And so the two
Speaker 4: of us were going through it together and we had
Speaker 4: each other. So it was a wild time. But yeah,
Speaker 4: it definitely was tough. But then, like I said, we
Speaker 4: came to do live and you guys filled this with
Speaker 4: so much joy. Your audience filled this with so much joy,
Speaker 4: and from then on it was just about recovering from surgery,
Speaker 4: or getting through surgery, recovering. My dad was here with me.
Speaker 4: He took such good care of me, cooked for me,
Speaker 4: made me laugh. We played Uno every night.
Speaker 1: And you love Uo and Skippo the spinoff.
Speaker 4: Awesome too.
Speaker 1: But you know, I mean, I I do look at
Speaker 1: you like family and we've worked together. I'm in friends
Speaker 1: for so many years and I had no idea. That's
Speaker 1: the thing. You just got to realize that you just
Speaker 1: don't know what people are going through. And to hear
Speaker 1: that you've made it to the side of the surgery,
Speaker 1: you've recovered, and that baby's gonna be You're gonna have
Speaker 1: your family in just a couple of months. That's uh.
Speaker 1: That fills our hearts with joy and exciting. And I
Speaker 1: know you're doing a lot of great talking about this
Speaker 1: on your podcast Heel Squad. You can check that out
Speaker 1: with Maria and Nuns and stay close. We'll be in touch.
Speaker 1: And big hugs to Kevin too. Thank you for coming on, Maria, Thank.
Speaker 4: You, Thank you, guys. Love you really appreciate you. Thank you,
Speaker 4: Thank you, Talk soon.
Speaker 1: Bye, Maria. It's amazing to think that she had she
Speaker 1: knew she was diagnosed with stage two pink reddit cancer.
Speaker 1: A couple of days later, she's sitting next to me.
Speaker 2: We're doing that show.
Speaker 1: We're doing the show. She comes on to announce that
Speaker 1: she's having a baby. Va Suraga. I've never known, and
Speaker 1: yet you just never know, like you just don't know
Speaker 1: what's going on right with people. You got to give
Speaker 1: people the benefit of the doubt when something doesn't seem right.
Speaker 1: You know, we're so quick to judge.
Speaker 5: So great that she's sharing this story, the kids. It's
Speaker 5: helping so many people.
Speaker 1: And I have to tell you, I don't know how
Speaker 1: I react. Yeah, I mean I would, I would, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know. I don't know how. What's
Speaker 1: our strength?
Speaker 2: Strength is everyone's biggest fear is your health.
Speaker 1: That's a she said, a very aggressive cancer.
Speaker 2: Yeah on air with Ryan.
Speaker 1: So Jenna, thank you for calling. What we know is
Speaker 1: that you're going on a work conference and you have
Speaker 1: an issue. What's the issue.
Speaker 9: My issue is that I interviewed with a company that's
Speaker 9: going to be at the conference, and obviously, when you're interviewing,
Speaker 9: you don't tell your current boss or current company, and
Speaker 9: unbeknownst to me, the company I interviewed with asked for
Speaker 9: a meeting with my current boss that I have to attend.
Speaker 9: So I'm basically coming face to face with the person
Speaker 9: who interviewed me, and I'm not sure what to do.
Speaker 1: Can someone explained to me one more time the dynamic here?
Speaker 1: So you're interviewing with another company and you're going to
Speaker 1: be in a meeting with your boss and that yeah,
Speaker 1: and your interviewer, yes, why what's that meeting about?
Speaker 9: They're trying to sell us some kind of service And
Speaker 9: I didn't end up getting the job with the person
Speaker 9: I interviewed with, so it's going to be a very awkward.
Speaker 1: Dioge because that person's gonna say nice to see you again,
Speaker 1: sorry didn't get the job, and you were like.
Speaker 5: Well, maybe you can shoot them a quick email before
Speaker 5: the meeting to be like, hey, I would really appreciate
Speaker 5: if you just didn't mention that seems.
Speaker 6: But they're not going to mention it. They're not going
Speaker 6: to do.
Speaker 1: That to you when they say nice to see you again,
Speaker 1: sorry it didn't work out, And then you're going to
Speaker 1: be put in a bad position.
Speaker 2: Is that what you're thinking try to nip it in
Speaker 2: the bud before.
Speaker 1: Right or just becoming with your current boss, this boss. Yeah,
Speaker 1: imagine you can't say, look, I was looking out of
Speaker 1: their opportunities.
Speaker 2: I should have put her foot in the mouth if
Speaker 2: she doesn't have.
Speaker 1: To to get in front of it.
Speaker 7: How would you feel if one of us did that
Speaker 7: to you, then he would always hold that grudge forever.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you wouldn't like that.
Speaker 1: Try me.
Speaker 2: I don't want to try you.
Speaker 1: Uh oh, this makes my tummy go upside.
Speaker 2: Down, Jenna. I think you just shoot him a quick email.
Speaker 1: Before the meeting the other guy, the.
Speaker 5: Other guy, and you say like, hey, you know, in
Speaker 5: the off chance that that it gets brought up, just please.
Speaker 1: Really appreciate it if we just move on. Yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: the only way to handle it.
Speaker 7: I think they're going to I think you are making
Speaker 7: it up. You're preparing for the worst. But I don't
Speaker 7: think somebody that didn't give you a job is and
Speaker 7: I say, hey, sorry that didn't work out.
Speaker 5: No, I don't think they're gonna say them. But maybe
Speaker 5: it's just a quick like I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you think, Jenna?
Speaker 9: I think I'm going to send it email. That's a
Speaker 9: great plan and just say I'm looking forward to seeing
Speaker 9: you and then maybe see how they react from that. Yeah,
Speaker 9: because I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that that's I.
Speaker 5: Think you made that big of an impression where they
Speaker 5: actually are going to remember you.
Speaker 9: No offense, I no, no, no events taken. I do
Speaker 9: because I was in the final round of interviews, so
Speaker 9: it was between me and one other person, so they're
Speaker 9: definitely going to know me, and they know the company
Speaker 9: I work for, so I'm kind of surprised they asked
Speaker 9: for this meeting.
Speaker 1: But all right, well, good luck with this. It's a
Speaker 1: big decision. You'll make the right one. Take care. Uh,
Speaker 1: great advice, Ran, Well, I mean there's only two paths
Speaker 1: we can go in circles. Either she avoids it or
Speaker 1: she addressed it with the email.
Speaker 2: Are you yelling at me?
Speaker 1: You got to make a choice because you guys went
Speaker 1: by my back and applied for a job aparent I
Speaker 1: did not on air on air with Ryan Seacret. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: she's just arrived and she's coming in my mother. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she wanted to come in and see you guys in
Speaker 1: person in studio. I love that she's going to be
Speaker 1: joining to so we have a Connie Seacrest Mike setup Wice.
Speaker 1: It's the ed sheering mic, the only person to use
Speaker 1: that Mike since his ed cheering.
Speaker 2: He left his cup to By the way, it's still
Speaker 2: in the studio.
Speaker 1: That's weird. You have it.
Speaker 2: We don't want to throw it away.
Speaker 1: Why a cup? Throw it away?
Speaker 5: Please?
Speaker 1: Sharon's cup that he drank his freaks me out.
Speaker 2: I took a picture of it too, Okay.
Speaker 1: I hope he's not listening. He's supposed to help me
Speaker 1: on American Top forty and soon and I should sell
Speaker 1: it back round. Please come get that.
Speaker 2: Do you understand right? Mich probably wants this.
Speaker 6: I said no, that's okay, thank you.
Speaker 1: I was starting to worry about everybody. And Ryan, we're
Speaker 1: saving your kombucha too, yet so weird to very strange.
Speaker 2: I drank it.
Speaker 1: That is so gross. That cup is like crusty. What
Speaker 1: was in it?
Speaker 2: We think tea?
Speaker 1: You finished my k you started it.
Speaker 6: It was not open.
Speaker 1: I took a sip.
Speaker 2: Ew you drink his old k yesterday.
Speaker 1: It's supposed to be good for your gut.
Speaker 7: I drink it right, I drink it after it. Look
Speaker 7: it didn't looks a big healthy bottle.
Speaker 1: It's one of those big bottles.
Speaker 2: Those are supposed to be refrigerated too.
Speaker 1: Oh, Tanya, I'll bring a fresh one. I'll bring it
Speaker 1: fresh one. Anyway, Connie's coming up. Let's get to this
Speaker 1: training port. So you've confused me going into this. This
Speaker 1: is a story about Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck. But
Speaker 1: you said something about short guys, so I'm throwing off.
Speaker 7: Yes, so there are benefits to dating a short guy.
Speaker 7: And here is why there are so many paparazzi shots
Speaker 7: of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck. We've seen them all
Speaker 7: over and people are always commenting about the fact that
Speaker 7: Jennifer Lopez walks a step behind Ben, and the comment
Speaker 7: section is always flooded with that, like why do they
Speaker 7: do that? They're never walking side by side, and now
Speaker 7: we know why. So she said Ben is six three
Speaker 7: six four and I am. I'm like five six. He's
Speaker 7: taller and his arms are like longer, and so I
Speaker 7: walk like a step behind just to compensate, which I'm
Speaker 7: fine with. So basically he has an illusion his long
Speaker 7: limbs like long arms, so she.
Speaker 2: Has to walk.
Speaker 7: This is so much God, I actually giggled when I
Speaker 7: read this this was an actual story. She said this
Speaker 7: in an interview, and then I think it was just
Speaker 7: Jared pulled it.
Speaker 1: And do you think she was saying in jest, like
Speaker 1: was she just kidding about it? Or do you think
Speaker 1: she strategically does this?
Speaker 2: We have to ask her what.
Speaker 7: No, I don't think she I think that she just
Speaker 7: has to do it because of the length of his arms.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then it creates his visual yes.
Speaker 7: And I think, God, people in the comments, it's funny
Speaker 7: because I would read them, and people thought maybe because
Speaker 7: he's a gentleman, so like the woman.
Speaker 6: Should always he's leading the way.
Speaker 1: Keep her safe. Think my father for something. I can't
Speaker 1: let someone walk on the outside of the street, on
Speaker 1: the sidewalk, on the outside sidewalk, like I can't. Like
Speaker 1: I feel the same way as if this bar he's
Speaker 1: gonna block a vehicle if it comes over the sidewalk.
Speaker 1: I mean, but like in some in my head, I
Speaker 1: somehow think, yeah, I'm gonna be able to push that
Speaker 1: car off.
Speaker 2: Well, it's just chivalry.
Speaker 1: It'll soften the blow, It'll soften the Yeah, I'll be
Speaker 1: destroyed and just soften the punch. Well, yeah, I don't listen.
Speaker 1: I have to tell you. I know you asked just
Speaker 1: now in that train to report Ryan, do you think
Speaker 1: about this kind of stuff? I don't, And so when
Speaker 1: you ask him, just gonna answer you. I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't like Strategically, I would say that my significant
Speaker 1: other is well, is taller than me in heels, taller
Speaker 1: to me by a whole head. Would you say a
Speaker 1: whole walk side by side? Though we do walk side
Speaker 1: by side. I don't think about it. I don't know
Speaker 1: if she thinks about it.
Speaker 5: We're about the same difference in height too, Like Michael's
Speaker 5: a whole foot taller than me and I woke back.
Speaker 6: But does he have long limbs? It's his arms, I guess.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 6: Well, Jennifer is going to be on the show with
Speaker 6: us on Friday.
Speaker 1: Yay she is?
Speaker 6: Yeah, this show right here?
Speaker 1: I love that. I didn't know that. How do you
Speaker 1: know that?
Speaker 6: It's in your calendar?
Speaker 2: In our calendar?
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't read the calendar. I expect someone to
Speaker 1: tell me sooner. Tubbs just holding my mother's glasses as
Speaker 1: she gets in. You remember how this works. You can
Speaker 1: put your headphones on, oh boy, yeah, yeah, put them on.
Speaker 1: You can hear sistany An Tanya?
Speaker 2: Hello, Happy birthday, Thank you Happy.
Speaker 1: I just want you to understand something. Mother. The last
Speaker 1: person to use that microphone was Ed cheering in here.
Speaker 1: Oh no, yeah, do you like Ed?
Speaker 2: Isn't that great?
Speaker 3: He's so down to earth?
Speaker 1: Yeah, she watched the documentary. She was talking to me
Speaker 1: about it last night.
Speaker 3: Actually, I like guys like that.
Speaker 1: Oh is that the kind of guy you like?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: All right, well, mother, Connie Seacrest here, it's a birthday by.
Speaker 3: Day, Happy birthday, bday, Thank you guys. This is so special.
Speaker 1: So Sistney's twins just celebrated their birthday, and I thought
Speaker 1: that's a complicated thing to celebrate twins' birthdays as time
Speaker 1: goes by, because they're gonna want different things at some point.
Speaker 1: You you never had to deal with that.
Speaker 3: I just had to deal with Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1: Christmas right, So I was born on Christmas Eve? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Christmas so I ruined one of those.
Speaker 3: It's only one person.
Speaker 2: It's a different challenge.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, what are you looking forward to for your
Speaker 1: birthday tonight? What kind of what are you going to have?
Speaker 1: Do you know? We're going to take her to a
Speaker 1: little place that does something significant. What is it going
Speaker 1: to be?
Speaker 3: A table side caesar?
Speaker 1: A table side caesar?
Speaker 2: So, oh that's so cool.
Speaker 1: Tonight. I'm guessing I don't know what you're going to get,
Speaker 1: but then maybe we'll be a little cake to celebrate.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite kind of cake?
Speaker 3: Mom, I'm not a good cake person. That's why you
Speaker 3: always get the ice cream dessert birthday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she likes a frozen yogurt sex, a frozen yogurt cake.
Speaker 1: I like the ice cream cake. That well, she got
Speaker 1: me into that.
Speaker 3: Actually, yeah, I mean if if I don't like cake,
Speaker 3: then he doesn't get cake.
Speaker 1: That's right. Yes, whatever you say, Mom, do you feel deprived? No,
Speaker 1: not at all, do.
Speaker 3: You No, I'm fine.
Speaker 1: So I guess Tanya has a zodiac profile for you
Speaker 1: on your birthday today. What if zodiac profile mean? Just
Speaker 1: explain that to her.
Speaker 7: So because her birthdays May tenth, this is just kind
Speaker 7: of like the zodiac projecting of who Connie is. Oh,
Speaker 7: that's dangerous, No, that's actually you have a great one
Speaker 7: and it's actually very much who you are. So if
Speaker 7: you were born on May tenth, you are calm, down
Speaker 7: in the down to earth individual who believes in making
Speaker 7: an impact on the world.
Speaker 2: Checks out.
Speaker 7: You have a loving, kind and trustworthy personality that draws
Speaker 7: people in. You are also charismatic and cool and always
Speaker 7: know the right thing to say or do.
Speaker 3: I'm loving.
Speaker 6: You do not handle change?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 2: Oh is that true? Let's dig deeper into that, and
Speaker 2: it might.
Speaker 7: Take you a while to settle down, but once you do,
Speaker 7: you are committed to someone for life.
Speaker 3: Oh you got fifty three years my.
Speaker 7: Father, and then your lucky numbers are two and six
Speaker 7: and your most impatible with Taurus Virgo and capricorns.
Speaker 3: What's dad leo?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 1: How much?
Speaker 2: But Ryan's a capricorn?
Speaker 1: Right? Yeah, well that's right. Yeah, how many? Easy to
Speaker 1: deal with capricorn? When you say.
Speaker 3: Mom, can I say it on the air? Yeah? Easy
Speaker 3: to deal with.
Speaker 2: That, says get patient?
Speaker 1: Would you say patient?
Speaker 3: You forgot your patient's pants?
Speaker 1: Very familiar with that part of me.
Speaker 3: I know that.
Speaker 2: I just laugh at him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the best thing.
Speaker 2: Don't take him serious, exactly, patient, I'm just laugh at him.
Speaker 6: It's so stressful sometimes.
Speaker 7: Really, yes, Because I wanted to take you to work
Speaker 7: the other day and you were like, I'm glad I
Speaker 7: didn't get a ride.
Speaker 6: With you because you were late.
Speaker 1: Well, she didn't take me to work because she was
Speaker 1: so late. I got in an hour before and I
Speaker 1: was waiting for her looking for her.
Speaker 3: You girls do a good job of putting up with him.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 7: Oh.
Speaker 1: Mark is laughing too, because he's one of the first.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the crew.
Speaker 1: I just want to congratulate my mother, you know, she
Speaker 1: and my father, my sister and a team of people
Speaker 1: have run the Ryan Secret Foundation for so many years.
Speaker 1: We've got that media center at Children's Hospital Orange County,
Speaker 1: and coming up in just a few days, we're going
Speaker 1: to open up another one in Memphis, Tennessee.
Speaker 2: That is incredible. I love that you guys have just
Speaker 2: been an excellent job with that.
Speaker 3: It is just the most rewarding thing that we could
Speaker 3: do at this point.
Speaker 1: And it's really it's a Kiss FM studio with cameras
Speaker 1: inside children's hospitals in the lobby. So we're gonna open Memphis,
Speaker 1: then we're gonna open one in New York in September,
Speaker 1: and then Salt Lake City. Correct, So we'll have fourteen wow,
Speaker 1: well fourteen around the country. I know.
Speaker 3: I used to call him my grandchildren before I had Flora.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so now I.
Speaker 3: Have another name for the fourteen What are they? I
Speaker 3: don't know yet. Let's think of one.
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll do a contest. You can go to Ryan
Speaker 1: Secrets Foundation dot org though, if you want to see
Speaker 1: what's happening studios. Okay, name the studios there? All right,
Speaker 1: my love you, Happy birthday? Will see what are you
Speaker 1: wearing tonight?
Speaker 3: Oh well, I do have a I have a special dress.
Speaker 3: You haven't seen it?
Speaker 1: Oh great, okay, we'll take this surprise. It's like going
Speaker 1: to the I Ready music vessel with YouTube exactly. All right,
Speaker 1: all right, taculated love you guys. Love you must be
Speaker 1: your dress you didn't get to wear to the met gala.
Speaker 1: You didn't go to that, right, she.
Speaker 2: Was gonna wear the same one as Doja Cat.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 1: I want to get into this. Everyone is talking about
Speaker 1: this sober dating craze. This is the gen Zeer's latest
Speaker 1: way of dating.
Speaker 5: Let's just say you're not going to want to reach
Speaker 5: for the cocktail menu on your next first date.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's what it's funny. I kind of
Speaker 1: think the way you say it doesn't sound like such
Speaker 1: a bad idea, because you could be fully on your
Speaker 1: game and you can obviously remember everything and you can
Speaker 1: be your best you like you can be quick? Are
Speaker 1: you quicker Sisney after a cocktail or not? Maybe you are?
Speaker 5: I'm looser, right, definitely. I feel like sometimes I can
Speaker 5: be a little bit more quiet.
Speaker 1: Yeah if i'm.
Speaker 5: If I don't have a drink in me, yeah, So
Speaker 5: if I have a drink in me, I get a
Speaker 5: little bit more loose, a little bit more talkative, and
Speaker 5: that might help.
Speaker 1: Well, tiny, I a question for you, then, do you
Speaker 1: think I'm a better date after my coffee or after
Speaker 1: my cocktail?
Speaker 6: Coffee?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 6: Because you're cranky without it?
Speaker 2: No, I say cocktail.
Speaker 1: Huh. I'm gonna ask somebody.
Speaker 2: I like you a little buzzed.
Speaker 7: I don't think I've ever gone on a date sober?
Speaker 7: What sorry, first date? I don't think I've ever gone
Speaker 7: on a first date sober.
Speaker 1: When she arrives on every date after a six pack.
Speaker 5: And this is the difference, the difference of the two
Speaker 5: generations of like Millennials versus gen Zers, because they're saying
Speaker 5: that the new dating trend is not drinking on the
Speaker 5: first date, and gen Zers are the pioneers of this revolution.
Speaker 5: I guess you can say it's called sober dating. And
Speaker 5: it's not just the first date. It's literally a full
Speaker 5: blown movement. And we were talking about this. Do you
Speaker 5: remember a few months ago when I was saying that
Speaker 5: after dry January it was kind of continuing, and we
Speaker 5: were starting to see non alcoholic bars popping up in
Speaker 5: Orange County in LA and people just kind of wanted
Speaker 5: to continue Dry January and just stop drinking altogether and
Speaker 5: things like that. Apparently sixty percent of people have reduced
Speaker 5: their alcohol intake to improve well being and things like that.
Speaker 5: And now when it comes to dating, it makes sense
Speaker 5: to find a partner that wants to continue that trend
Speaker 5: with you. So gen Zers, when they go on these
Speaker 5: first dates, if they sit down and that person wants
Speaker 5: to drink, then they get the ick and they're like
Speaker 5: no thanks, or they're upfront about it from the very beginning,
Speaker 5: they say, I'm sober, I don't want to drink, and
Speaker 5: if that person does not cool with it, then that
Speaker 5: is a deal breaker.
Speaker 1: It's great, right, I mean, here's here's a chance for
Speaker 1: you have your kumbucha right here on a sober date, right,
Speaker 1: break it down.
Speaker 5: And it's not necessarily that they are an alcoholic or
Speaker 5: it's alcoholism related.
Speaker 2: It's more of just anhealthy lifestyle change.
Speaker 1: Well, cutting back, reaching for more balance, realizing you don't
Speaker 1: need it. Yes, it's great.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 1: The question is would we do it? I think I
Speaker 1: think I would.
Speaker 2: I mean I did it when I was pregnant.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, so you know you can do it.
Speaker 2: I know I can.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Johnny, you now know you can do it because
Speaker 1: you're with someone.
Speaker 7: Well, yeah, no, And we've cut back our alcohol intake,
Speaker 7: like we've been mindful about it the last few months,
Speaker 7: and we really don't drink that much at all anymore.
Speaker 1: But if you do, what do you have? Wine or
Speaker 1: a spirit?
Speaker 7: Probably wine? But on a first date. I don't think
Speaker 7: I could go to a first date. It's like not
Speaker 7: a drink. I know.
Speaker 6: I really don't know.
Speaker 1: I know, especially with this in encouraging sort of trend here,
Speaker 1: you could all right, black pink, Well, let's have some coffee,
Speaker 1: not you you have some mushroom tea before your date.
Speaker 1: Dina Manzell joining us in the studio. You know, it's
Speaker 1: just on that microphone a Dina who at cheerin. This
Speaker 1: is the last person to used that microphone. Have you
Speaker 1: guys met.
Speaker 10: You didn't clean it though, did you?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: No, we do have his coffee cup that they kept apparently, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we'll keep yours too. Is that we never met?
Speaker 10: I don't think I've ever No, I'm never personally madam.
Speaker 8: No.
Speaker 11: No, amazing, super.
Speaker 1: Super good guys, so so much to cover with you.
Speaker 1: We have new music that we're gonna debut here in
Speaker 1: just a second. I'm just curious. When people see you
Speaker 1: in the wild, we say, like out and about do
Speaker 1: they just walk up and sing to you?
Speaker 4: Do you?
Speaker 1: What do they? What's the what's the first most common
Speaker 1: reaction to you in the wild?
Speaker 8: Uh? Okay, it depends on the age of the person.
Speaker 11: Sometimes it's a the with.
Speaker 8: A toddler who knows nothing about the fact that an
Speaker 8: animated character is actually a human voice. And then the
Speaker 8: mother sticks the kid in front of me and says,
Speaker 8: this is Elsa.
Speaker 10: And then a kid like.
Speaker 8: Cries because like that fifty year old woman with brown
Speaker 8: hair is not.
Speaker 2: Traumatizing starring kids.
Speaker 8: Yes, but if it's some if it's like performers or
Speaker 8: someone from the queer community or any anybody actually, that
Speaker 8: they always say really wonderful things about how they feel
Speaker 8: empowered by me and my songs and really beautiful stuff
Speaker 8: like that.
Speaker 1: So well, you know your background's remarkable, right, So there's
Speaker 1: more than just the voice of an animated franchise.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 1: I am more.
Speaker 2: I am.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of Broadways sitting in this studio right now.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of Broadways, Sydney.
Speaker 1: Are you a little Broadway? I feel like you're a
Speaker 1: little Broadway.
Speaker 2: I do enjoy going to Broadway. I don't know.
Speaker 1: A lot of think you present a little Broadway.
Speaker 6: What does that mean?
Speaker 2: I don't know what that means.
Speaker 5: Actually, Like just like my theatrical when I want to
Speaker 5: dancing with the stars, I have that component for sure.
Speaker 11: The last Broadway show that you saw.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I know you're putting me on the spot.
Speaker 2: The Lion King. Oh really, yes, it still holds up.
Speaker 2: It's so beautiful.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I saw Hugh Jackman the last ones I saw Hugh Jackman.
Speaker 11: You did the Broadway and Music Man. Yeah, incredible, Oh
Speaker 11: my god, that was incredible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, did you see?
Speaker 11: I did not.
Speaker 8: But what I was going to say was what was
Speaker 8: incredible about it to me was that he and Satin
Speaker 8: got COVID when it first kind of came back and
Speaker 8: like they got COVID and then they came back and
Speaker 8: they were fine.
Speaker 11: I got COVID. I couldn't sing for like six months.
Speaker 11: I sounded.
Speaker 8: I sounded like Mickey mak something happened to my you
Speaker 8: know how the smell and the yeah yea yeah, am
Speaker 8: I bringing everyone down?
Speaker 2: No, but that must have been so it's perfect, but
Speaker 2: like being a singer that must have been terrified.
Speaker 11: Sounded like making down.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it was like this weird thing that where it paralyzed.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 8: It must have to do with the sense of smell,
Speaker 8: right and everything. Anyway, let's be more.
Speaker 1: But by the way, so Sutton Foster is it came
Speaker 1: back and wow? So good?
Speaker 11: Isn't that friend of mine so talented?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Will you tell her that we I didn't see her
Speaker 1: then because we were in the audience, but we tell
Speaker 1: that we loved seeing it. I was fanning out a
Speaker 1: little bit, so I was also looking at this. This
Speaker 1: is uh you were the first Tony Award winning actor
Speaker 1: to earn a top ten song on the chart. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is a very Is there a plaque for that?
Speaker 8: I write it down all the time just to remember it. No,
Speaker 8: I it is pretty significant for me because so often.
Speaker 8: When when I got my first break in Rent in
Speaker 8: ninety six, and it was obviously a rock musical, but
Speaker 8: at the time I wanted to be sort of like
Speaker 8: Alanis Morse.
Speaker 11: I was writing all my own music.
Speaker 8: I was in rock bands and and so then I.
Speaker 11: Got Rent, which is this rock musical.
Speaker 8: But then when I got a record deal and I
Speaker 8: tried to work with all these songwriters and producers, it
Speaker 8: was really hard for them to They just assumed I
Speaker 8: was going to be like Broadway, and so it was
Speaker 8: always hard to cross over. So the fact that I
Speaker 8: have that in my resume that I have, but then
Speaker 8: if you think about it, the song is let It Go,
Speaker 8: which is extremely theatrical, and so it's like you never
Speaker 8: the rules, you can never pay attention to that. You
Speaker 8: just got to keep moving ahead. And yeah, it sort
Speaker 8: of change. And you know, if I would have listened
Speaker 8: to everybody that said, you know, you're too theater and
Speaker 8: you can't do a pop song, then yeah, never would
Speaker 8: have done it.
Speaker 1: And do you find that the rejection helps, Yes?
Speaker 11: I do, Yes, of course it does.
Speaker 1: I hate it, but I find it helps.
Speaker 8: No, I mean I yeah, I got dropped from that
Speaker 8: record deal, and then I didn't work for all those
Speaker 8: years before Wicked. There was like six seven years before
Speaker 8: I got Wicked. People don't realize that.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 11: Yeah, so.
Speaker 8: Rejection, I think really helps keep you present and grateful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. So all right, we're talking about this
Speaker 1: is Denamon's out with this. Now we're talking about music.
Speaker 1: This new song. I'm going to play a debut Clipper
Speaker 1: this year in the second This is called Move. It's
Speaker 1: out this Friday's.
Speaker 10: Can I just tell you something about it?
Speaker 1: I want to hear.
Speaker 8: I was in London promoting Frozen two actually, and I
Speaker 8: like to go when I'm in London and surprise the guys,
Speaker 8: well guys, girls, everybody in between at Heaven. It's a
Speaker 8: gay thing. And so I go at one in the
Speaker 8: morning and I show up and I bring some tracks.
Speaker 8: I sing a little defined gravity and let it go,
Speaker 8: but I also sing some of my own music.
Speaker 11: And it's the greatest gig.
Speaker 8: There's like three thousand shirtless people, really sweaty, crying up
Speaker 8: against the stage.
Speaker 2: You know, I never had people.
Speaker 8: Up against the stage. I always very behaved because there
Speaker 8: is the theater audience. Yeah, so it.
Speaker 11: Was like I could have sky dived, which sky dived?
Speaker 2: Sky dove?
Speaker 8: I never know, I mean stage and it's not skydiving,
Speaker 8: it's stage diving. I got that wrong, but yeah, it's
Speaker 8: just and we had the best time. And so I
Speaker 8: just want to make music that I know I could
Speaker 8: show up and do that. And if I never go
Speaker 8: on a big tour and I'm never more successful in this,
Speaker 8: I could go to these clubs and have the time
Speaker 8: of year.
Speaker 1: So that's a question. Did you sort of in a
Speaker 1: way test this music in that environment and when you
Speaker 1: get that feedback, you feel like, Okay, this is going
Speaker 1: in the right direction.
Speaker 8: Yes, And so I just started wanting to write this
Speaker 8: music and I didn't want to overthink it.
Speaker 11: Everybody's you know, in the record business.
Speaker 8: Says you should do this big ballad, you got to
Speaker 8: have this song, and I was like, screw that. I
Speaker 8: just want to do music the grooves. But I want
Speaker 8: music that I can have big melodies and still be
Speaker 8: a big singer, because a lot of people now have
Speaker 8: these like these cool vibey voices, and that's that's great.
Speaker 11: But it's not me.
Speaker 8: I'm loud, I'm big, and so I wanted music and
Speaker 8: I feel like the disco of seventies early eighties dance music.
Speaker 8: It was down a summers even Barbar Streisan. I mean,
Speaker 8: you could put a big voice on top of these
Speaker 8: grooves and it was great. So Cher had her big
Speaker 8: dance song. So that was sort of my my permission.
Speaker 1: I gave myself, well, we're going to keep our shirts on,
Speaker 1: but we are going to pu that song right now
Speaker 1: from a Dina Monzel. I see the background, the background moving,
Speaker 1: that's a Dina Menzell move. Wait, you know what's great
Speaker 1: hearing that, hearing you talk about it, and then this
Speaker 1: is I mean, this is the greatest comment. People need
Speaker 1: to know how fun you are.
Speaker 11: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Don't you think?
Speaker 10: Yes, fun you're find sometimes I.
Speaker 1: Know you're very funny. Just all of your answers, your
Speaker 1: comments about the guys, you're like everything there is all
Speaker 1: fun like this and that song, that music is fun. Yes,
Speaker 1: thank you, that's good energy.
Speaker 8: I know I've played some serious roles, but lately I've
Speaker 8: been in some Sandler movies and that's been a little
Speaker 8: bit more fun.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 10: No, the uncut Gems was not funny actually.
Speaker 1: But it was great. I watched it with my parents,
Speaker 1: which was kind of a mistake. Some of the text messaging. Well, no,
Speaker 1: the text messaging. Oh it was like a provocative.
Speaker 11: Yes, that's right.
Speaker 8: That I well, that's why I'm calling a drama queen,
Speaker 8: because the whole album, because it's like embracing every side
Speaker 8: of yourself, you know, and yeah, I have I'm sometimes
Speaker 8: larger than life, sometimes a mess sometimes big emotions, passions, shy, fears, angry.
Speaker 11: All of that stuff.
Speaker 8: And I just want people to feel like they can
Speaker 8: be their authentic cells, whether it's in their lives, their music,
Speaker 8: their art, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: So Move is out Friday, and then I've got a
Speaker 1: taste of this. You two other tracks? Is this in
Speaker 1: building an album? Is that what's coming?
Speaker 11: No, it's coming. Yeah, it's all okay, it's finished.
Speaker 10: Yeah, what are you playing next?
Speaker 1: I have the traumatic Yeah that's dramatic. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is like I need to go out later than I
Speaker 1: normally stay out.
Speaker 10: Yes, there's Jake Shear some scissors.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, agen me.
Speaker 10: I know.
Speaker 5: Now, well, Disney, let you incorporate some of his music
Speaker 5: and Frozen three.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let.
Speaker 8: I you know, I navigate that a lot actually in
Speaker 8: my concerts because it's you know, like I was saying, yeah,
Speaker 8: I have all these sides to myself, and I don't
Speaker 8: want to censor all the time just because and hey,
Speaker 8: I love the little twelve year old girls in blue dresses.
Speaker 11: But I'm like a woman who's you know, has some life.
Speaker 1: People need to see.
Speaker 8: We're just husband and I you know, I have a
Speaker 8: truck driver's mouth. I'm from Long Island, East Coast, and
Speaker 8: sometimes it just comes out podcast.
Speaker 1: I do not need a podcast. Podcast, I'm being seriously,
Speaker 1: could be really provocative, and.
Speaker 11: That's want frozen three in the pocket.
Speaker 8: Still, I got to, you know, pay for school and
Speaker 8: then and then and then I just offend everybody and
Speaker 8: all right.
Speaker 1: Well, when you're ready, you call us do that for you,
Speaker 1: because I think it would be I already know it's
Speaker 1: going to be good. But based on this conversation today,
Speaker 1: and we have to be very very broadcasting.
Speaker 11: Yes, that's right.
Speaker 1: Well, it's so great to see you. I'm very happy
Speaker 1: to hear all of this and know the many sides
Speaker 1: continue to grow and evolve, and the new song moves
Speaker 1: out Fridday, Dina Manzel, I'm telling you you're gonna leave
Speaker 1: and we're gonna like you more already, like this is
Speaker 1: we already likes you, but we like you more.
Speaker 8: Can I just say that I'm really excited that the
Speaker 8: timing is coming out for Pride, and I just really
Speaker 8: feel I mean, this isn't hopefully empowering album for everyone,
Speaker 8: anyone that doesn't feel like, you know, they're scene or whatever,
Speaker 8: but but especially for all of my friends. I have
Speaker 8: so many friends in that community, and I've learned so
Speaker 8: much from them about really just how how brave they
Speaker 8: are about, you know, being their authentic selves. And so
Speaker 8: I'm excited that it's coming out at the same time
Speaker 8: and I can party with them. I'm gonna be a
Speaker 8: Pride in a bunch of different cities and it's going
Speaker 8: to be a blast.
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