Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to the podcast. Amen TJ. Here we
Speaker 1: are going to chance to interview each other. Robot sitting
Speaker 1: next to me now, and what I can't remember what
Speaker 1: your answer was when you interviewed me. Are you someone
Speaker 1: who prefers to ask the questions or do you like
Speaker 1: being interviewed?
Speaker 2: I always like asking the questions more than answering them.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, with that said, I'm about to ask you
Speaker 1: a series of questions and folks, just so you know,
Speaker 1: we have not so we didn't. She has no idea
Speaker 1: what I'm about to ask her, what direction any of
Speaker 1: this is going to go? And with that, here we go.
Speaker 1: Why haven't you done an interview before? Now, since all
Speaker 1: this went down, you haven't spoken? Haven't done an interview?
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 2: Because I know as a journalist, when you give your
Speaker 2: story to someone else, you then put your story in
Speaker 2: their hands. They can edit it, they can change meanings,
Speaker 2: they can change context. And after everything that I've experienced
Speaker 2: being on the other side of the headlines, instead of
Speaker 2: reporting them, I became them, I knew what can happen
Speaker 2: when you give your story or you give an interview
Speaker 2: to someone else. It can be misconstrued and I was
Speaker 2: not interested in doing that. I wanted to tell my
Speaker 2: own story.
Speaker 1: Was you do it live?
Speaker 2: Yes, I would have if I had been with someone
Speaker 2: who I trusted. The problem is, and I don't mind
Speaker 2: answering questions that I don't know ahead of time. Clearly
Speaker 2: here we are right now doing it. But I wanted
Speaker 2: it to be the right time, and it wasn't the
Speaker 2: right time yet. I wanted things to quiet down. I
Speaker 2: didn't want there to be all of the mayhem that
Speaker 2: was surrounding us be a part.
Speaker 1: Of the question do you think you're ready now?
Speaker 3: I think that I would be ready.
Speaker 2: I still believe that with everything that you and I
Speaker 2: want to say, it's better to have our own platform
Speaker 2: in our own home, because I do still feel a
Speaker 2: massive distrust for the industry that I once worked.
Speaker 1: You say everything you and you want to say it
Speaker 1: was is you want to say.
Speaker 2: I've been saying it. I just want to set the
Speaker 2: record straight. I think our narrative, I know, I don't think.
Speaker 2: I know that our narrative was stolen from us, and
Speaker 2: unfortunately many people still believe what they read. And so yes,
Speaker 2: I would still and I'm going to and we're going
Speaker 2: to still speak out and.
Speaker 3: Speak up about it, but I'd prefer to do it
Speaker 3: on this podcast.
Speaker 1: Do you have so you have at this point no
Speaker 1: plans were doing an interview.
Speaker 2: I don't have any plans right now, but I wouldn't.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't at this point. I wouldn't say no. If
Speaker 2: the right opportunity came up and the right person asked,
Speaker 2: I would likely say yes.
Speaker 1: Pick someone. Who would it be the one person to
Speaker 1: do one interview with you?
Speaker 3: Hoe to copy Savannah Go three.
Speaker 2: I've known them, I love them, I worked with them.
Speaker 2: I trust them probably more than any other two journalists
Speaker 2: because I know them.
Speaker 1: You might you're gonna do that on solo?
Speaker 2: Well, you were just asking who I would pick. We
Speaker 2: would obviously have to have a larger conversation about that.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm cool. I mean, Savannah's fine with that. Oda,
Speaker 1: that's sus I don't know. I'm kidding Oda. You know
Speaker 1: I love you. What do you think the general consensus is?
Speaker 1: What do you think people think of you?
Speaker 3: Wow? The people who know me, That's not what.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. The people who general in general, general
Speaker 1: consensus from the public. What do you think people think
Speaker 1: of you? Wow?
Speaker 2: I don't know the answer to that, I think that
Speaker 2: I mean, if they believe the tabloids, they think I'm
Speaker 2: a cheater and a home wrecker.
Speaker 3: And all these awful things.
Speaker 2: And I think if they actually have followed my career
Speaker 2: and have followed me in whatever I've chosen to share
Speaker 2: on social media, I think that they get a fuller
Speaker 2: picture and they know that I love my daughters, I
Speaker 2: love running. I am a passionate person who lives life
Speaker 2: to the fullest and uses her time to pursue joy.
Speaker 1: Call comes from Disney today. They want you back in
Speaker 1: the same capacity that you were in previously. How long
Speaker 1: do you need to decide and call them back?
Speaker 2: The first person I would call would be you, and
Speaker 2: it would Matt. It would I would need to know
Speaker 2: what the job.
Speaker 1: Was, same same thing, coming back to the exact same role.
Speaker 2: But would you be there with me? No, then the
Speaker 2: answer would be no. That wouldn't take me long at all.
Speaker 1: I am with you. It's a different answer.
Speaker 2: I would need to discuss it with you, and I
Speaker 2: would need we would need at least twenty four hours
Speaker 2: to think about that.
Speaker 1: Would you have ever left that job?
Speaker 2: I would almost certainly have not chosen to leave the
Speaker 2: job that I had because it was a dream job.
Speaker 1: Did you ever, at any point your ABC career get
Speaker 1: close to leaving voluntarily?
Speaker 2: I considered it after the hot mic incident where I
Speaker 2: was talking about my frustrations about not getting to air
Speaker 2: a piece I had had and had worked on about
Speaker 2: Jeffrey Epstein, and when I was taken off the air
Speaker 2: for a bit or at least just not asked to
Speaker 2: be on the show for a month, I considered leaving.
Speaker 1: Yes, who is someone that stands out to you that
Speaker 1: you are actually shocked that you have not heard from
Speaker 1: still since all this happened.
Speaker 3: That's a tough one.
Speaker 2: Who have I not heard from since this all happened
Speaker 2: that I'm shocked by? I don't know if I want
Speaker 2: to say.
Speaker 1: But you do have something in mine? Yes, but you I.
Speaker 3: Don't want to call this person out.
Speaker 1: I give us Obviously you would be able to say
Speaker 1: it to me but in private. But is there nothing
Speaker 1: you can say about who this person was or where
Speaker 1: they were in your life without actually given giving away
Speaker 1: whould Actually I.
Speaker 2: Would just say there are people who I worked with
Speaker 2: every single day, who I thought I was close to,
Speaker 2: who then showed me who they really were When They
Speaker 2: didn't check in ever, not.
Speaker 1: Once outside of me. What relationship in your life is
Speaker 1: better after all this happened than it was before all
Speaker 1: this happened?
Speaker 3: My mom and dad?
Speaker 1: What relationship is worse after all this happened than it was?
Speaker 3: Two friendships?
Speaker 1: But those two friendships still exist?
Speaker 3: No, they're gone, so.
Speaker 1: That doesn't count.
Speaker 3: It was because of all of this.
Speaker 1: Okay, But that relationship is not worse, is non existent.
Speaker 1: So what relationship do you still have that still exists
Speaker 1: that is a struggle now versus what it was before?
Speaker 2: Right now, in this moment, a relationship that is worse
Speaker 2: because of all of this? I believe right now there
Speaker 2: were ones that took hits along the way, But right now,
Speaker 2: in this moment, there's no relationship that I currently have
Speaker 2: that is worse because of what happened. I think, well,
Speaker 2: I know all of them are now currently better than
Speaker 2: they were.
Speaker 1: You spoke a moment ago about what people think. How
Speaker 1: important is it to you what people think of you?
Speaker 1: Not privately but on a larger public way.
Speaker 3: It matters to me.
Speaker 2: I have always and I wish that it didn't, but
Speaker 2: it does. I have always wanted to.
Speaker 3: Be liked, to be respected, to be someone that someone
Speaker 3: looks up to. Yes, so it does.
Speaker 1: Matter a lot. That's in all of us. I guess
Speaker 1: you're not alone in that. I'm saying. Is there something
Speaker 1: you can think of that you should or could say?
Speaker 1: I am sorry to your pan parents about for your
Speaker 1: behavior from birth through college graduation, so essentially when you
Speaker 1: were still under their care. There anything you would okay,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry or apologize to them for.
Speaker 3: Sure, Mom and dad.
Speaker 2: I am sorry for my selfish attitude as a teenager.
Speaker 2: I am sorry for sneaking out almost every weekend when
Speaker 2: you grounded me. I am sorry for not understanding how
Speaker 2: hard it is to be a parent and to not
Speaker 2: give them. I didn't give them the grace to just
Speaker 2: be humans. I wanted them to be perfect, and I
Speaker 2: was angry when they weren't. I am sorry for.
Speaker 3: This is up until college, you said, Oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I am sorry for all the back talking I did.
Speaker 2: I think that doesn't come as a surprise to you.
Speaker 2: And I'm sorry for all the doors I slammed. I
Speaker 2: think we're good.
Speaker 1: It was absolutely the most, the funniest and most tragic
Speaker 1: story I've heard from anyone's childhood is that your dad
Speaker 1: told me the story of it sounds crazy, all the
Speaker 1: doors I slammed, but her dad actually, to punish her,
Speaker 1: removed her door from the hinges and she did not
Speaker 1: have a door your entire senior year of high school?
Speaker 1: Do I have that story right?
Speaker 3: That is correct? And I will give you the lead
Speaker 3: up to that. So when I have a.
Speaker 2: Temper and when I get angry, I slammed doors when
Speaker 2: I was younger. I don't do that anymore, obviously, but
Speaker 2: when I was younger, it was my one thing I
Speaker 2: could do, and I would just get upstairs and slam
Speaker 2: my door. So my parents, as a punishment would make
Speaker 2: me open and close the door nicely, quietly, fifty times
Speaker 2: fifty This happened a couple of times, and on forty nine,
Speaker 2: when I got to fifty, on my fiftieth one, I
Speaker 2: would slam it. And so I did that, I believe twice.
Speaker 2: And that is it for my dad. He removed my door.
Speaker 2: True story, And my dad told you it so, oh
Speaker 2: yeah earlier.
Speaker 3: He's actually really proud of it.
Speaker 1: So many things start to make sense, don't they. Amn
Speaker 1: Are you were you nervous about the impression you were
Speaker 1: going to make on my parents?
Speaker 3: Oh? Absolutely, yes, I was nervous.
Speaker 2: I was very nervous about what they would think of me,
Speaker 2: And yeah, I definitely was.
Speaker 1: Did you prepare in some way for it?
Speaker 2: No, I just I just leaned into my like, I
Speaker 2: am who I am. I can't be anything other than
Speaker 2: who I am, and so I'm just gonna be me.
Speaker 1: You didn't ask for advice from anyone. You didn't read
Speaker 1: up on the civil rights movement or anything like that.
Speaker 2: Wait, you made fun of me. I was watching a
Speaker 2: movie on a plane. I was coming back from something
Speaker 2: right before I met them, this thing you made fun
Speaker 2: of me.
Speaker 1: Yet, Wait, it was something. It was a really black movie.
Speaker 3: You were with your parents already and I happened to watch.
Speaker 2: It was some black movie that I hadn't seen before,
Speaker 2: and I just saw it on the plane. It was
Speaker 2: not timed in any way to meeting your parents, and
Speaker 2: you called me out on it and were making fun
Speaker 2: of me, as if I was doing that to prepare
Speaker 2: to meet your parents.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 3: I wish I can remember which movie it was.
Speaker 1: And I'm joking. It wasn't as bad as soul playing, y'all.
Speaker 1: I'm kidding something it was.
Speaker 2: It wasn't Boomerang because I've already seen that, but it
Speaker 2: was something like that.
Speaker 4: It was like a heavy movie like it was. It
Speaker 4: was a Spike Lee movie. I knew I was going
Speaker 4: to come up with it. It was Do the Right Thing,
Speaker 4: you know what. I had never seen it, and I got.
Speaker 1: Worried, well, because you hadn't seen Do the Right Thing.
Speaker 2: And I've interviewed Spike before, and I was so nervous,
Speaker 2: and I remember being mad at myself that I hadn't
Speaker 2: watched it beforehand. I wasn't talking to him about that movie,
Speaker 2: but I thought, my god, how can I interview Spike
Speaker 2: Lee and not have seen that. So it was always
Speaker 2: in the back of my mind. And when I was
Speaker 2: on a plane, I saw it was not timing it
Speaker 2: out with meeting her parents, and I happened to watch
Speaker 2: it and I loved it.
Speaker 1: I'm okay, I'm going off my list here a little bit.
Speaker 1: Have you seen Roots?
Speaker 3: No, I was young when it came out. What year
Speaker 3: did that come out?
Speaker 1: I was a young girl?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we know, we know.
Speaker 1: Okay, on my list, you know, I'm I'm gonna stop there,
Speaker 1: but up next we are going to get a little
Speaker 1: more personal, including about our relationship and the questioning is
Speaker 1: going to start with a spelling bee. Stay here. Great,
Speaker 1: all right, we are back here with the Q and
Speaker 1: a TJ interviewing Roebock. Right now, we left off talking
Speaker 1: about roots, soul plaining, do the right thing, and some
Speaker 1: watching we need to do over the weekend. Yes, but
Speaker 1: I'll continue with the line of questioning here. Next question
Speaker 1: is can you spell lutilius?
Speaker 2: I'm going to write it out as I say it.
Speaker 2: L o U t E l I o U s
Speaker 2: what you had to spell it out?
Speaker 1: I mean you had to write it.
Speaker 3: That made me feel more comfortable.
Speaker 1: Okay, I do that with Roebock as well.
Speaker 3: I'm a visual person.
Speaker 1: When was the first time you looked at me in
Speaker 1: a non friend zone way?
Speaker 3: I believe that we were walking back.
Speaker 2: From have dinner with friends, and on the walk back
Speaker 2: you walk me back. I felt something different in the
Speaker 2: way we were looking at each other.
Speaker 1: I know that exact time you're talking about. I know
Speaker 1: exactly what you're talking about.
Speaker 2: We didn't say anything. I didn't say anything, you didn't
Speaker 2: say anything, but I felt something.
Speaker 1: We had That was a fun night. That was I
Speaker 1: remember that. Okay, we made a stop. Yes, given your experience,
Speaker 1: your life experience, your love experience. What advice would you
Speaker 1: give to someone regarding the reasons to get married again.
Speaker 1: I don't want you to say, hey, don't get not
Speaker 1: reasons not to reasons to get married.
Speaker 2: The reasons to get married when someone enhances your life,
Speaker 2: you come to the union as a full, fully formed person.
Speaker 2: I don't think people can plead each other. I think
Speaker 2: they enhance each other. And so if you can find
Speaker 2: that person. If you're looking for someone to complete you,
Speaker 2: I think it's the expectations end up killing so much
Speaker 2: so if you can actually find someone who enhances who
Speaker 2: you are, who brings out the best in you, and
Speaker 2: who makes you want to be a better person, those
Speaker 2: are all really good reasons to get married. And then
Speaker 2: finding that person, of course, it's not going to be perfect.
Speaker 2: You have to be willing to recognize that you're not
Speaker 2: always going to get along and not always you can't
Speaker 2: have this rom com version of what you think a
Speaker 2: marriage should look like. You have to go in with
Speaker 2: real expectations. But once you realize that you want to
Speaker 2: be with that person through the good times and through
Speaker 2: the really tough times, is that the person you want
Speaker 2: in the foxhole with you, is that the person you
Speaker 2: can lean on when things aren't going well. And I
Speaker 2: think when you can find a partnership like that, I
Speaker 2: want a partner in life. I have always wanted that.
Speaker 2: I think that's why I've kept trying. And I do
Speaker 2: believe there is something so beautiful about coming together with
Speaker 2: someone and choosing to be with someone and loving someone.
Speaker 3: I think, I think I've heard this.
Speaker 2: If you like someone, it's because if you love someone,
Speaker 2: it's in spite of But that idea of loving someone
Speaker 2: as much as you love yourself, perhaps even greater than
Speaker 2: you love yourself. That idea of sacrifice, that idea of
Speaker 2: giving instead of getting, I love that, and it enhances
Speaker 2: your life to have a partner. I mean, there's nothing
Speaker 2: I want more, I think than that. I want that
Speaker 2: for my children. I want that for my daughters.
Speaker 1: All right, So, again, giving your experience, what advice would
Speaker 1: you now give to someone regarding reasons to stay or
Speaker 1: not stay in a relationship.
Speaker 2: Who you stay in a relationship, it's worth fighting for
Speaker 2: if you have mutual respect for each other. I do
Speaker 2: believe that love becomes a choice. It's not always just
Speaker 2: this feeling where you're like, oh my god, I'm so
Speaker 2: in love with him. And it's that that comes and goes,
Speaker 2: that that's cyclical. It's when you find someone who you
Speaker 2: can respect and like and are friends with. If you
Speaker 2: can go through life laughing with someone, friends with someone,
Speaker 2: even if you're angry at them and you're mad at them,
Speaker 2: and things may go and events may happen, and they
Speaker 2: may do things that really upset you and anger you.
Speaker 2: But I think if you have that mutual respect, you
Speaker 2: stay and you go if I think it's a really tough, tough,
Speaker 2: tough call to make, But when there are more I
Speaker 2: really think it comes down to when you lose respect
Speaker 2: for someone, I don't know that you can get it back.
Speaker 2: And if you don't like doing basic things with him,
Speaker 2: I think those are big red flags. But respect would
Speaker 2: be the number one thing. When you lose respect for someone,
Speaker 2: I think it's really hard to stay in a marriage.
Speaker 1: Can you tell me a bad health habit that you
Speaker 1: have right now that you'd like to break.
Speaker 2: Bad health habit that I would like to break. I'm
Speaker 2: working on it. French fries. I love French fries and
Speaker 2: eating French fries and fried food, fried food.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go the whole thing.
Speaker 2: That is one of my biggest health habits that I
Speaker 2: am working on getting rid of. There's nothing good that
Speaker 2: comes from eating fried food.
Speaker 1: Is there a bad health habit that I have that
Speaker 1: you would like for me to break?
Speaker 3: M well, sleeping, lack thereof acting.
Speaker 2: I think you recognized it now, and you've come a
Speaker 2: long way from when I first we're friends with you.
Speaker 2: I think you I don't know. I feel like you
Speaker 2: did not prioritize sleep, and so the more sleep you get,
Speaker 2: the healthier you are. I want you to live as
Speaker 2: long as possible, and so I would like you to
Speaker 2: sleep even more than you do.
Speaker 1: When do you think race has shown up in our relationship?
Speaker 2: It doesn't show up that often, but I'm trying to
Speaker 2: think when it has. It In a recent fight, it has,
Speaker 2: and we're still working through that.
Speaker 3: We've talked about how.
Speaker 2: I react, how you react differently to things and people
Speaker 2: based on experiences, and I think I have learned even
Speaker 2: more than I ever could have seeing the world through
Speaker 2: as much as you can show me.
Speaker 3: You can't.
Speaker 2: Obviously, I can't walk into your body and know what
Speaker 2: it's like. But I have seen seen things and heard
Speaker 2: things differently because you've experienced them, and I'm standing by
Speaker 2: your side. So in a week we've had these conversations
Speaker 2: and it's been incredibly I opening to me in a
Speaker 2: lot of ways. So it's been a part of our relationship.
Speaker 2: It doesn't take center stage, but it's something I think
Speaker 2: we mostly I don't think we want to laugh at it,
Speaker 2: but we keep it lighter. But there have been heavy moments.
Speaker 1: Can you tell one You've said things you've learned, but
Speaker 1: can you think of something you have learned regarding black
Speaker 1: folks black experience dating a black man that you did
Speaker 1: not know until you got into this with me.
Speaker 2: I hear things that friends or family might say that
Speaker 2: before I was dating you, I wouldn't have considered offensive
Speaker 2: that Now I see r when people are trying to
Speaker 2: when white people and I know who they are, and
Speaker 2: I know they're not bad people, but are kind of
Speaker 2: desperate to connect make bad choices in making everything that
Speaker 2: they say to you about black things, and it's embarrassing
Speaker 2: now to hear it. I think you know most of
Speaker 2: the time it comes from a good place, but it's
Speaker 2: still so hard to listen to now that I know
Speaker 2: how you experience that where you're singled out and you're
Speaker 2: treated differently.
Speaker 1: Do you think it matters to your family whether or
Speaker 1: not we get married.
Speaker 2: I think they would like us to get married. That's
Speaker 2: they are religious people. They are Catholic. And here's the thing.
Speaker 2: My parents have an amazing marriage fifty five no, sorry,
Speaker 2: fifty years, whoops, fifty years and because they have seen
Speaker 2: all the good that comes out of that type of
Speaker 2: commitment and weathering storms, they want that from me.
Speaker 3: So, yes, they do want us to get married.
Speaker 1: But you said you think so, but they've stated so,
Speaker 1: and not just a matter.
Speaker 2: Of when I have said, this is the person I
Speaker 2: want to spend the rest of my life with. I
Speaker 2: don't know for sure if that means us legally getting married,
Speaker 2: but it's on the table. My parents had a very
Speaker 2: positive response, right, well, that's so good to hear they
Speaker 2: want that for me and you and us.
Speaker 1: Do you think about us missing out on having kids?
Speaker 3: Absolutely?
Speaker 1: Yes, And what do you think.
Speaker 2: I see your parenting style and it's very similar to mine,
Speaker 2: And that is a gift if any of you all
Speaker 2: out there, any of you out there, have a shared
Speaker 2: parenting style with your partner that makes life h so
Speaker 2: much easier or at least a little bit easier, and
Speaker 2: it feels good to have a similar mode of operation
Speaker 2: when it comes to what we want for our kids,
Speaker 2: what we want to teach them. And what I love
Speaker 2: about you is that you're willing to let your child
Speaker 2: not like you in the moment to teach them a
Speaker 2: lesson to do the right thing.
Speaker 3: And I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: So yes, I have multiple times been a little sad
Speaker 2: that we did not come together at a time where
Speaker 2: we could have had that option.
Speaker 1: I asked you, do you think it matters to your
Speaker 1: family if we get married? Do you think it matters
Speaker 1: in any aspect publicly whether or not we get married.
Speaker 2: I think people are always rooting for love, and in
Speaker 2: this culture, in this society, that usually ends with a wedding.
Speaker 2: So I do think that people who are rooting for
Speaker 2: us are rooting for marriage. Yes, I do.
Speaker 3: I think that.
Speaker 1: All right, up next, folks, chapstick, tattoos, necklaces, cooking. When
Speaker 1: we come back, I're back with the final installment here,
Speaker 1: Q and A with robes and TJ. I will pick
Speaker 1: right up with these will be on just a variety
Speaker 1: of things, and most of it lighter, fair, but thank god,
Speaker 1: how long Have you had this chapstick addiction for.
Speaker 2: As long as I can remember, as long as I think?
Speaker 2: It started for me when I was seven or eight
Speaker 2: and for Christmas, Santa Claus brought me.
Speaker 3: Do you all remember?
Speaker 2: It came in a candy cane, clear candy cane case,
Speaker 2: and there were soda chapsticks, so doctor pepper, Coca Cola
Speaker 2: A and w root beer. Doctor pepper was my absolute favorite.
Speaker 2: And I think that was the moment, probably at eight,
Speaker 2: where I became addicted to chapstick.
Speaker 1: Do you have any intention of getting any more tattoos?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: What are you getting?
Speaker 2: I don't know yet, but I would only get a
Speaker 2: tattoo at this point probably.
Speaker 3: I mean, I never want to say never, but my thinking.
Speaker 2: Is that I would get another tattoo with you, and
Speaker 2: we have an idea and we're considering it, and I'm
Speaker 2: considering it all right.
Speaker 1: Do you ever want to publicly reveal the significance of
Speaker 1: that chain and pendent around you neck?
Speaker 3: I'm not hiding it and I have no problem revealing it.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, so hold on to that one at some point.
Speaker 1: Does it are you comfortable? Does it make you uneasy?
Speaker 1: I know you like the food, but is there any
Speaker 1: issue with me doing all the cooking?
Speaker 3: I love when you cook.
Speaker 2: It's a strange thing for me because I spent the
Speaker 2: first I don't know up until last year doing all
Speaker 2: the cooking. So I'm actually relieved and happy that you
Speaker 2: love to cook. Cooking was always obligatory for me, and
Speaker 2: I did it because I had to, and it was
Speaker 2: more of a chore than something that I love to do.
Speaker 2: And I see the love you have for it, so
Speaker 2: I'm more than happy to abdicate. But I do feel
Speaker 2: a little guilty about it because I'm used to doing it,
Speaker 2: So there's like a guilty part of me that feels
Speaker 2: like he shouldn't be doing it all.
Speaker 3: I should be I should be stepping up.
Speaker 1: Do you fear that breast cancer or something related to
Speaker 1: it will be the thing that gets you in the end.
Speaker 3: Yes, I do. I fear that I'm not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I hate to admit this, but I don't think
Speaker 2: a day goes by or I don't think about that.
Speaker 1: What was the funniest or most absurd thing you read
Speaker 1: about yourself the past year?
Speaker 3: Oh? Wow, where do I begin?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, this is hard because I'm trying to
Speaker 2: think about all the barbs that were thrown my way.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was funny or absurd.
Speaker 2: That I basically had like an open bar in my
Speaker 2: dressing room. That was absurd and completely not true. That
Speaker 2: made me I did actually laugh at that, because I
Speaker 2: had a couple bottles of wine in my refrigerator that
Speaker 2: were given to me by my bosses, So that actually
Speaker 2: made me laugh. I just thought that was hilarious. And gosh,
Speaker 2: there have been so many. I'd have to think about
Speaker 2: what some of the silly things were. Can you remember
Speaker 2: any See you look at me trying to interview you.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, if something else comes to my mind,
Speaker 2: I'll bring it up. But that one stands out.
Speaker 1: How many sets about air pods have you lost?
Speaker 3: Okay? So it doesn't lie.
Speaker 2: When I look at my Bluetooth and it says my
Speaker 2: current AirPods, it says Amy AirPod six.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: Okay. Why does your brother keep getting goats?
Speaker 2: He is really enjoying farm life in Athens, Georgia. He
Speaker 2: is a doctor, and I think it's just such a
Speaker 2: high stress job. Coming back home and being a gentleman
Speaker 2: farmer of sorts gives him just the peace of being
Speaker 2: one with the land, and he really likes goats. He
Speaker 2: keeps getting more and then they keep having babies.
Speaker 1: They're really cute, as cute as a goat can be.
Speaker 1: What is the thing I do that annoys you most.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's easy. You pop your right elbow.
Speaker 1: That's it a lot? Oh my god, I'm doing any great.
Speaker 2: It's multiple times a day, three tops. Okay, fine, it's
Speaker 2: three times a day.
Speaker 1: That annoys you most well.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's on the silly side, on the deeper side,
Speaker 2: on the deeper side.
Speaker 3: And you already know this. I think you already know
Speaker 3: the answer. When you.
Speaker 2: Don't talk to me when you're quiet, I like to talk,
Speaker 2: but maybe I should like to listen more, and then
Speaker 2: you'd talk more. Why are you doing that not talking thing?
Speaker 1: Waiting for you to fill the void?
Speaker 2: Because you know I will, yes, because silence makes me uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: Is do you find that in order to live out
Speaker 1: your life with someone, it's necessary for those two people
Speaker 1: to live together.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's necessary, but I would prefer it.
Speaker 2: But I've seen plenty of people who love having a
Speaker 2: partner and having their own apartment and it works for them.
Speaker 2: I crave connection. I don't need a lot of alone time,
Speaker 2: but I respect someone who does. And I do think
Speaker 2: it's possible to have a life partner who you don't
Speaker 2: live with, but I wouldn't prefer it.
Speaker 1: What are you concerned after this Q and A that
Speaker 1: is going to be manipulated for a negative headline to
Speaker 1: attack you or me?
Speaker 3: Uh? I don't know.
Speaker 2: I actually try not to overthink about what I mean.
Speaker 2: I know it's there and it's in the back of
Speaker 2: my mind, and it makes me nervous generally that anything
Speaker 2: I say kenan will be used against me in a twisted,
Speaker 2: out of context way, because it's happened time and time again,
Speaker 2: and I found it to be kind of fascinating that
Speaker 2: I won't even know the things that.
Speaker 3: They'll pull out. Like I do look at the headlines.
Speaker 2: I don't necessarily read the body, but sometimes it's a
Speaker 2: head scratcher, like that's.
Speaker 3: What they jumped on, that's what they said. So I
Speaker 3: honestly don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm kind of surprised every time I do see headlines
Speaker 2: and see how they twist them, and so I kind
Speaker 2: of don't want to think about it too much because
Speaker 2: I don't want to edit who I am or me
Speaker 2: being honest and open.
Speaker 1: Last two things here. One, what do you want for
Speaker 1: your birthday?
Speaker 3: I want?
Speaker 2: I want my friends around me. I want there to
Speaker 2: be a celebration of life. I have always been a
Speaker 2: big believer that birthdays are important, and I love when
Speaker 2: people are loud and proud about how old they are,
Speaker 2: because that is something to be grateful for. Every single
Speaker 2: year you get is a gift. So I really do
Speaker 2: think it's nice to be able to take a day
Speaker 2: and celebrate, not necessarily yourself, but just that you get
Speaker 2: to be here, and you get to live another life,
Speaker 2: and you get another year, hopefully on this planet. So
Speaker 2: I just I like to mark time like that. So
Speaker 2: what I want for my birthday is joy. I want celebration,
Speaker 2: I want friends, and oh my gosh, I'll be able
Speaker 2: to have a glass of champagne.
Speaker 1: I meant. More so, like, what do I need to
Speaker 1: go buy?
Speaker 2: You know that you don't want me to tell you
Speaker 2: what to get me. You know what, You're a really
Speaker 2: good gift giver if even if.
Speaker 1: You told me, I wouldn't go get it. Actually, that's right.
Speaker 1: And last question, where do you want your third wedding
Speaker 1: to be?
Speaker 3: Justice of the piece Vegas.
Speaker 1: Wait, which one?
Speaker 3: Either one? Maybe super.
Speaker 1: That's where you want to have it?
Speaker 3: I'm joking.
Speaker 2: Mmm, my third wedding, I really would want it to
Speaker 2: be a very intimate gathering, and I would absolutely run
Speaker 2: off an envelope somewhere. I think that's probably if I
Speaker 2: had to pick, I'd pick eloping and going to Fiji
Speaker 2: or somewhere really nice and far away.
Speaker 1: Right, you really want to get away?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: And ma'm is there anything we didn't talk about that
Speaker 1: you wish you had gotten an opportunity to say?
Speaker 3: I think you covered everything well.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your time, ma'am, and good
Speaker 1: luck for you down the road. We wish you well.
Speaker 1: Bye bye now, folks, Oh that wasn't too bad for you?
Speaker 1: What threw you?
Speaker 3: It was good? Yeah, that's the first time you've ever
Speaker 3: interviewed me.
Speaker 1: Won't be the last. Folks. You can find us, we've said.
Speaker 1: We are now officially on TikTok. The show is. You
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