1 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, you found me, Rosie O'Donnell right here onward 2 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 1: with me, Rosie O'Donnell. Thanks for tuning in everybody. I 3 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 1: know you've probably heard the news from my TikTok if 4 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:27,200 Speaker 1: you're a frequent listener. But Julie Andrews has returned. Yes, 5 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 1: I was gone, and then I went away for the 6 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:34,599 Speaker 1: weekend to oh Hi, and then I came home yesterday 7 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:37,040 Speaker 1: and I just sat out there for a couple of hours, 8 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:41,160 Speaker 1: and sure enough, a whole bunch of new squirrels are there. 9 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:43,839 Speaker 1: I mean, I don't even know where they came from, 10 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:47,880 Speaker 1: where they live, but two of them are very chestnut 11 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:51,479 Speaker 1: golden brown colored, a boy and a girl, and they 12 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:55,279 Speaker 1: each took a walnut from me from my hand on 13 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 1: day one. That was like such a victory. And then 14 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 1: Julie came down, which was just the most fantastic thing. 15 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 1: I don't even know how to explain it. I don't, 16 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 1: I really don't. But you know, I'm a little nervous 17 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 1: that the dog that we're getting, the Autism service dog, 18 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 1: will chase the squirrels. But apparently they don't chase squirrels, 19 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:21,559 Speaker 1: but their dogs, I think, aren't they going to chase squirrels. 20 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:24,959 Speaker 1: I don't know. But right now, while you're listening to this, 21 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 1: I am actually in the training for the dog that 22 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 1: we're getting. I have to go for ten days. Can 23 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:37,320 Speaker 1: you believe that to be trained to be the handler. 24 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:37,759 Speaker 2: Of the dog. 25 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:40,039 Speaker 1: It's probably going to be a lab. It could be 26 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 1: a lab doodle, or it could be a golden but 27 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:46,040 Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it's going to be a lab. And 28 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 1: you know, I told them we wanted a girl, and 29 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 1: that was our only request, was a girl, whatever one 30 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 1: they think would be good for our family and for 31 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 1: you know, my kiddo's needs. So many people. I know 32 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 1: it's with autism. And I've heard from a lot of 33 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:07,720 Speaker 1: moms who've already had the dog and for a couple 34 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 1: of years this their dog, and they tell me how 35 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 1: much it changed the life of their autistic child. And 36 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 1: you know, that's that's the big goal here, more participation 37 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:24,399 Speaker 1: in life and going out of the house and when 38 00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 1: panic or whatever comes, the dog can go cuddle. And 39 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 1: I'm ready to do it. I'm making a commitment. We'll 40 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:37,840 Speaker 1: see what happens. Good luck me, you know, ten days anywhere, 41 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 1: good luck me? You know, I don't know. I made 42 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:46,520 Speaker 1: a very kind of obnoxious comment. I said, excuse me, 43 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:48,400 Speaker 1: but what kind of sheets do you have? 44 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:52,239 Speaker 3: And the other people are like what, I'm like, no 45 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 3: in the bed there, because I have trouble sleeping. If 46 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,680 Speaker 3: I can I bring my own sheets? What size is 47 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:00,200 Speaker 3: the best? Like, I'm asking them all these questions. So 48 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 3: the people are like, I cannot believe that that's what 49 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 3: you're asking. 50 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:06,960 Speaker 1: I'm like, it's the thing. I'm most worried about. Sleeping 51 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:09,520 Speaker 1: in a strange place with the new dog for ten 52 00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:14,920 Speaker 1: days alone without my kiddo. That's gonna be tough. But onward, people, 53 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 1: what other choice do we have? On word? Okay, listen 54 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:25,920 Speaker 1: today's episode my good friend Jimmy Smagoula, star of Stage, 55 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:29,360 Speaker 1: screen and TV. I met Jimmy over twenty years ago 56 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 1: when he was picked to play a game on my 57 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 1: talk show and he stood up in the audience and 58 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 1: sang his way into my heart. And you know, sometimes 59 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 1: you just connect to people and like you know them 60 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:43,120 Speaker 1: your whole life. You know. I don't know how it happens, 61 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:45,840 Speaker 1: but sometimes it does. And that's what happened with me 62 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 1: and Jimmy Smagoula. And we've been really close friends ever 63 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 1: since and I love the guy and he is killing 64 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 1: it in Spam a Lot on Broadway. He's done so 65 00:03:55,560 --> 00:04:00,440 Speaker 1: many Broadway shows and he's a barrel of laughs. Here's 66 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:18,920 Speaker 1: me and Jimmy Smagoola, Happy New Year. Happy Jimmy Smagoula 67 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 1: starting We're started. I love just shut right in. 68 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 2: The Flintstones, my friend. Happy new Now you. 69 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 1: Now you star of spam a Lot getting specifically called 70 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:37,600 Speaker 1: out in the New York Times interview for a brilliant performance. 71 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:39,040 Speaker 2: That nice. Thank you? 72 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 1: How did you feel, Jim? I mean what, First of all, 73 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 1: what number show is this for you? 74 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:47,920 Speaker 4: This is my eighth Broadway show, which is a miracle. 75 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:51,520 Speaker 4: I am a kid from New Jersey who grew up 76 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:55,719 Speaker 4: much like you did, wanting to feel that waxy playbill 77 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:58,920 Speaker 4: in my hand every single night of my childhood and 78 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 4: my parents I I would sneak into the city on 79 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:05,400 Speaker 4: the Path train and just walk around the Broadway theater district. 80 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 2: I didn't have any money. 81 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:08,920 Speaker 4: I would just walk around and look at the theater 82 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 4: and if the show was going on on a Wednesday afternoon, 83 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 4: I would go into the box office just to listen 84 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 4: to the show through the doors. 85 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, I would. 86 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:21,280 Speaker 1: Get go the days those you're you're so young that 87 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:24,400 Speaker 1: you don't remember. I would get like stand by tickets 88 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:25,360 Speaker 1: for ten dollars. 89 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:26,440 Speaker 2: Yes, I would do. 90 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:28,919 Speaker 4: I'd do even better than that row when I was 91 00:05:28,960 --> 00:05:31,279 Speaker 4: at NYU, which I went on a scholarship because we 92 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:33,719 Speaker 4: had no money. But when I was at NYU, I 93 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 4: would stand in front of the theater a half hour 94 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 4: before the show, and when the people were going in, 95 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:40,520 Speaker 4: I'd say, anybody have an extra ticket for a drama student. 96 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 4: Anybody had, and I would always get an extra ticket. 97 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: Wow. 98 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,719 Speaker 4: The rich people would go, oh, my uncle's not coming, 99 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:48,479 Speaker 4: he sick. Here you go, kid, And I would sit. 100 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:52,039 Speaker 4: I mean, I just any whatever it took for me 101 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 4: to be able to sit in a Broadway theater. And 102 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:58,279 Speaker 4: you know, I remember I saw Phantom of the Opera 103 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:01,320 Speaker 4: when I was thirteen years old. My aunt Liz, God 104 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:03,600 Speaker 4: rest your soul, she died when she was ninety two. 105 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:05,919 Speaker 4: She took me because I grew up in New Jersey, 106 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:09,680 Speaker 4: and they had a city trip, a town trip on 107 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:12,839 Speaker 4: the school bus and we went and we sat in 108 00:06:12,839 --> 00:06:14,920 Speaker 4: the rear mezzanine and I sat all the way up 109 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:16,920 Speaker 4: against the right side of the theater, in the back 110 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:19,720 Speaker 4: of the theater and I watched Phantom of the Opera, 111 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 4: and then fourteen years later, I was in Phantom of 112 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:27,120 Speaker 4: the Opera at the same theater, and I would look 113 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:30,000 Speaker 4: up at the exact seat I sat in. 114 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 2: Yes, can you believe that? 115 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:36,680 Speaker 1: Can you imagine, Jimmy, if you or I were not 116 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,480 Speaker 1: born in the Tri State area, I knew what would 117 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 1: have happened. If we were born in Kansas. 118 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:42,600 Speaker 2: We would have made it. 119 00:06:42,839 --> 00:06:45,680 Speaker 4: No, we would have made it here because I performed 120 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 4: with guys all the time. You met that kid, Daniel 121 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:51,000 Speaker 4: Beeman who's in my show, who's thirty years old. He 122 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:52,920 Speaker 4: was in Funny Girl. Now he's in my show. He's 123 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:55,840 Speaker 4: in the ANSOMBI grow up in oh Maha, Nebraska. There's 124 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:59,400 Speaker 4: a kid from Missouri in my show. They come from 125 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 4: all over the world. I performed with kids from Australia 126 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:04,600 Speaker 4: when I was in Billy Elliott. 127 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 2: You find a way? 128 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know? You really do? You really do? And 129 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:13,040 Speaker 1: tell everyone? Tell well, we have a little audio clip 130 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 1: of when you and I met each other for the 131 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 1: very first time. 132 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:19,400 Speaker 4: And no one believes that it's for the first time, 133 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 4: but people, it was for the first time. 134 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 1: I was doing my show, and we have this guy, 135 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 1: Joey Kohla, who would get all the contestants I had 136 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 1: nothing to do with. Who was josen? And I went 137 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,320 Speaker 1: up and well, I don't even have to tell you. 138 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:34,120 Speaker 1: Let's take a list. 139 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:47,400 Speaker 5: Jimmy, what you're doing, Jimmy, I'm a struggling actor, No kidd, 140 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:48,560 Speaker 5: I'm an unemployed actor. 141 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:50,560 Speaker 1: Most actors are unemployed. 142 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 4: What have you done, jim I've done some fun stuff, Rosie, 143 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:55,880 Speaker 4: like what I was on the national tour of The 144 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 4: Phantom of the Opera at a little bit of a time. 145 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:02,120 Speaker 1: Excuse me, sing for me. Jimmy's being Spinola. What was 146 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:02,559 Speaker 1: I thinking? 147 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 2: You know, being alive? 148 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:10,200 Speaker 1: And he's prepared? Somebody hold me too close listening to you. 149 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:12,240 Speaker 2: Somebody heard me. 150 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:18,640 Speaker 6: Oh my god, somebody's sitting in my chair and ruined 151 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 6: my sleep and make me aware of being. 152 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 1: What a voice you have, sir. And now I'm hugging him. 153 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 1: Now I just go Can he live in my house 154 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:31,360 Speaker 1: and sing to me all the time? 155 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:33,680 Speaker 2: And my heart is funding so fast? 156 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:37,560 Speaker 1: Yeah? Now, that was the first time that that that 157 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:39,600 Speaker 1: first time, that was the first time that we met. 158 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:41,720 Speaker 2: That was the first time we ever met. And I 159 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:42,360 Speaker 2: told and I. 160 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:45,480 Speaker 1: Just felt I felt like I knew you for millions 161 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:46,080 Speaker 1: of years. 162 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 2: Well, I of course. 163 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:51,080 Speaker 4: I mean that's what makes you so as such an 164 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:53,600 Speaker 4: incredible human being is that we all feel like we've 165 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:57,360 Speaker 4: known you for millions of years. But I remember being 166 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:01,720 Speaker 4: a kid watching Star Search and saying to my father Daddy, 167 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 4: my favorites coming on today, Rosie O'Donnell, she's gonna win. 168 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:08,360 Speaker 2: I got a. I mean, how old could I have been? 169 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 1: It was eighty four. I was eighty four. 170 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 2: I was nine years old. 171 00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 1: You were nine years old. I was twenty two years old. 172 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:19,280 Speaker 1: And then I went out there. Yeah, and you know, 173 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:22,520 Speaker 1: it's so it's so funny. It's a New York thing. 174 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:25,599 Speaker 1: Maybe it's a past life thing. It's maybe it's a 175 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:27,800 Speaker 1: love of Broadway thing. 176 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Yes, I don't know. 177 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 4: But to be friends with you now, after dreaming about 178 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:36,720 Speaker 4: being friends with you for most of my life, is 179 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:41,000 Speaker 4: a very wonderful, odd, special experience. 180 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 1: But you know, it's interesting because I don't feel any 181 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:46,600 Speaker 1: of that coming from you in the best way. I'm 182 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 1: not complaining, believe me, I'm just saying, I just you're 183 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 1: just one of my friends. Like I'd never I don't 184 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 1: ever think could you know, Oh, oh, remember I met him, 185 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:58,160 Speaker 1: And I just think of this Jimmy, Jimmy and Richard. 186 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 4: Because I don't think of you as TV's Rosy O'Donnell. 187 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:04,040 Speaker 4: I think if it was my friend Roro, You're just 188 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:06,800 Speaker 4: my friend. And literally, if you said to me tomorrow 189 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:09,319 Speaker 4: I'm quitting show business, I'm gonna go work at the 190 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 4: grocery store, I would still be your friend. You're just 191 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 4: a wonderful person to have as a friend. You've been 192 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:18,440 Speaker 4: such a confidant for me. I've told you things I've 193 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:20,120 Speaker 4: never told anybody. 194 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 1: Else, and I'm going to tell the audience right now. 195 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:27,599 Speaker 1: Believe me, I'm not I've told you a couple of 196 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:32,880 Speaker 1: things myself. And there was that vacation we took to Florida, 197 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:36,000 Speaker 1: Oh that we all had to swear on a bunch 198 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:39,560 Speaker 1: of Pat Conroy novels that we would never tell what 199 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:40,559 Speaker 1: happened that week. 200 00:10:40,679 --> 00:10:43,120 Speaker 2: You know, I said to you once, why are you 201 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:43,760 Speaker 2: my friend? 202 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:48,000 Speaker 4: You are in your sixties, You've had this incredible, big life, 203 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 4: You have so many friends, and yet at your age 204 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:55,640 Speaker 4: and your experience in life, you still bring people in. 205 00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:59,240 Speaker 4: I mean, you've really brought me into your inner circle. 206 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:01,960 Speaker 4: It's not like you're peripheral friends. You are one of 207 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,079 Speaker 4: my dear friends now. 208 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:10,040 Speaker 1: And yes, and Jim, that's all that life is about 209 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:13,160 Speaker 1: is to other people in your world. It really is. 210 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:16,080 Speaker 1: And as I go through trying to figure out, you know, 211 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:18,920 Speaker 1: where's the right place for me and my kiddo. And 212 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 1: you know, my other children are still in the New York, 213 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:27,200 Speaker 1: New Jersey area, and I want them to know each other, 214 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:30,560 Speaker 1: the children, and to be even though there's a ten 215 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:36,200 Speaker 1: year age gap between Viv and Dakota slash Clay. I, yes, 216 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:40,680 Speaker 1: I know that it's hard to bridge that gap, but 217 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 1: I think it's so important, especially for a kid with 218 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:48,720 Speaker 1: special needs, you know, a kid with autism who doesn't 219 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:53,240 Speaker 1: always perceive the world in the way that you think 220 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 1: they are. You know, it's it's been very interesting, but 221 00:11:57,960 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 1: I think it's all about the people. You know. It's 222 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:02,560 Speaker 1: when you said if I worked in a grocery store, 223 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 1: you know, the place I love to go the most 224 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:08,480 Speaker 1: is the grocery store because you can make the cashiers laugh. 225 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 1: And you know, it was funny. During the height of 226 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:14,880 Speaker 1: my fame, it wasn't as much fun to go out 227 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:18,200 Speaker 1: in public and make people laugh because they were expecting 228 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:21,040 Speaker 1: you to make them laugh, because you made them laugh 229 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:23,840 Speaker 1: every day on TV for an hour, and they have 230 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 1: assumed a familiarity. And yet that kept me separate from 231 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:30,440 Speaker 1: them and not able to be equal. But now that 232 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:33,720 Speaker 1: I have gray hair and I'm older and people don't 233 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:35,800 Speaker 1: know it's me. Sometimes if I don't talk, they don't 234 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:40,880 Speaker 1: know at all. And it's been beautiful for me to 235 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:45,000 Speaker 1: remember how wonderful it is to make an anonymous human 236 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:46,720 Speaker 1: connection with another person. 237 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:49,160 Speaker 4: That is so beautiful, And it must be nice for 238 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:53,840 Speaker 4: you to feel that it's an authentic connection. Well, I 239 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:56,600 Speaker 4: can tell you connection with the celebrity, it's just correction 240 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:57,360 Speaker 4: with a human. 241 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:01,240 Speaker 1: I can tell when people reckon, even if they don't 242 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 1: say it, I can't feel it. I can tell, right, 243 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,720 Speaker 1: But when people don't, I go in, you know, I 244 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:10,040 Speaker 1: go like, okay, let's do this human to human. 245 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 2: But you love people? 246 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:15,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, but I do love people. I do love people more. 247 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:17,040 Speaker 1: Coming up next, don't go anywhere. 248 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:39,240 Speaker 6: You know. 249 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 4: You came to Spam a lot, and it meant so 250 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:46,000 Speaker 4: much to so many of us, and the wardrobe people 251 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:48,600 Speaker 4: and the crew, and you stayed with us for forty 252 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:51,440 Speaker 4: five minutes and it made me so happy to see 253 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:54,679 Speaker 4: you so happy because people were so happy to see you, 254 00:13:54,760 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 4: and you should know you'll always have a place on Broadway. 255 00:13:59,520 --> 00:14:03,360 Speaker 4: No one will ever forget what you did for Broadway shows. 256 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:06,439 Speaker 4: You single handedly saved some of them during. 257 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:09,880 Speaker 1: Yes, but you know what, They've saved me more times 258 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:12,240 Speaker 1: than I can imagine. Every time in my life that 259 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 1: there's something really hard and really difficult emotionally to get through, 260 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:20,520 Speaker 1: it's always a musical that brings me back. 261 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:21,320 Speaker 2: It's increating. 262 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:24,920 Speaker 1: And I remember with stuff with Chelsea, you know, which 263 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 1: is a challenge still. Yes, that was when Hamilton came out, 264 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:34,720 Speaker 1: and when I was in therapy, the therapist kept saying, 265 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:37,320 Speaker 1: you know you never crying here? How come you never 266 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:39,920 Speaker 1: cry in here about this? You're so upset, I can tell, 267 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 1: but you hold it all back. I go come with 268 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:44,920 Speaker 1: me to see Hamilton, because I would go once a week. 269 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 1: That's how much I needed to go. I needed to 270 00:14:49,120 --> 00:14:53,440 Speaker 1: hear the song about forgiveness. I needed to hear the 271 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:57,240 Speaker 1: brilliance of that score and see the artistry on stage 272 00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:01,480 Speaker 1: and be taken out of myself, I know, and I 273 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:06,560 Speaker 1: sure was. And I've been grateful my whole life for 274 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:09,560 Speaker 1: Broadway because I don't know what I would have done. 275 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:12,360 Speaker 4: Not to play a therapist here, But it's probably a 276 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:15,240 Speaker 4: real connection to your own mother, because I know she's 277 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:17,680 Speaker 4: the one who introduced you to Barbara Streisan, and Barbara 278 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:20,480 Speaker 4: is a broad you know, the ultimate Broadway star. 279 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:21,360 Speaker 2: And I'm sure that you. 280 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:25,320 Speaker 4: Feel your mom's love and you feel all those feelings 281 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:27,320 Speaker 4: that you felt when you were a kid when you 282 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:28,520 Speaker 4: go to a Broadway show. 283 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:31,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, I definitely do. I remember her taking us to 284 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:34,880 Speaker 1: Radio City Musical and there was a story where she 285 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:38,400 Speaker 1: auditioned for the Rockets and she got in but her 286 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:40,760 Speaker 1: which is sort of strange because she was short from 287 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:43,680 Speaker 1: what I remember. But anyway, this is the family lore. 288 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:46,040 Speaker 1: And then when someone dies, you never know if it 289 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 1: was true or you. 290 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:48,280 Speaker 2: Know what I mean. 291 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:53,040 Speaker 1: Family, Yeah, nobody, nobody really knew. But she loved the 292 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:55,920 Speaker 1: Rockets and she loved going and taking us there and 293 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:58,960 Speaker 1: you're getting the lemon drops and having our hands covered 294 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:01,560 Speaker 1: with sugar, you know, the night. 295 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:04,720 Speaker 4: And I remember when you got your first Emmy award 296 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:06,840 Speaker 4: and you were crying and you said, I sat there 297 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:07,480 Speaker 4: with my mother. 298 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 2: Yes, it's so beautiful like. 299 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:13,240 Speaker 1: You in the top row, the third balcony in the back. 300 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:15,040 Speaker 2: I had no money. We sat in the back. 301 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:17,520 Speaker 4: I was so I felt so lucky to be sitting 302 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:20,400 Speaker 4: in the back. I felt lucky to be sitting anywhere, 303 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:22,560 Speaker 4: you know it was. I took my dad to his 304 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 4: first Broadway show when I was twelve, which was my 305 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:29,000 Speaker 4: show's Broadway show, Lame Is. I remember it was at 306 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:32,360 Speaker 4: the Broadway Theater and the whole side of the theater 307 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:34,560 Speaker 4: was painted as Young Cosette, the. 308 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:36,200 Speaker 2: Whole big side of the theater. 309 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:38,440 Speaker 4: And I knew a girl in it. I was in 310 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:40,800 Speaker 4: this little performing group called Pro Kids. I must have 311 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:43,920 Speaker 4: been eleven or twelve, and she was Young Cosette. Twice 312 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:46,760 Speaker 4: a week she sang Castle on a Cloud and she said, 313 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:48,680 Speaker 4: come before the show and I'll give you and your 314 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:51,600 Speaker 4: dad a tour backstage. And so we did, and I 315 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:54,040 Speaker 4: was an aw My dad bought me the little cassette 316 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:57,360 Speaker 4: and I listened to it every day, three times a 317 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:00,400 Speaker 4: day for two weeks before we went. And after the show, 318 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:02,720 Speaker 4: I just knew that's what I wanted to do. But 319 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:05,760 Speaker 4: my blue collar truck driver father, who never went to 320 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:08,840 Speaker 4: college and never went to a Broadway show and intermission 321 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:11,840 Speaker 4: stood up and said get your coat, and I said, Daddy, 322 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:16,160 Speaker 4: it's not over it's only intermission. It goes, oh, it's halftime. 323 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:19,640 Speaker 4: It's nine forty five. He said, how is this thing, 324 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:22,000 Speaker 4: because you know, le miss is over three hours long. Yes, 325 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:26,000 Speaker 4: then you know those memories there. I just saw Here 326 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:28,560 Speaker 4: Lies Love at the same theater, the Broadway Theater, and 327 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:30,560 Speaker 4: I walked in there and I thought, my god, I 328 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:33,160 Speaker 4: I walked in here with my dad thirty something years ago, 329 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:34,320 Speaker 4: thirty five years ago. 330 00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:37,800 Speaker 1: Wild. Isn't it wild? When you go into a Broadway theater, 331 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:40,080 Speaker 1: you sit down, you're watching the show, and you realize, 332 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:43,320 Speaker 1: I performed in this theater. Yeah, I did Susical here 333 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:46,240 Speaker 1: like I sometimes I'm like, that was my entrance through 334 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:47,600 Speaker 1: that stage door right there. 335 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:50,560 Speaker 4: You know, road Didn't you do Susical and the Rosie 336 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:52,200 Speaker 4: O'donnald Show at the same time? 337 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:53,160 Speaker 2: Or is that crazy? 338 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:56,760 Speaker 1: And I had two foster kids and three kids. 339 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:00,040 Speaker 2: It was I mean, I'm sure, Yanity, but how much. 340 00:17:59,880 --> 00:18:02,480 Speaker 1: I had helped? Of course I had helped, But you 341 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:05,440 Speaker 1: know what, it was like a mania. It was like 342 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:09,919 Speaker 1: a hyper like you know, I mean, I don't know 343 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:13,119 Speaker 1: when I really when I look back and I think 344 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:16,200 Speaker 1: of the amount of stuff that happened in my life 345 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 1: from the time I was thirty to the time I 346 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:22,240 Speaker 1: was forty. Oh, it's unbelievable. You did it all that 347 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:24,800 Speaker 1: in that decade. I did it all. Then I said, 348 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:26,200 Speaker 1: check please, because you. 349 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:29,000 Speaker 4: Get nervous when you were like hosting the I watched, 350 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:31,400 Speaker 4: you know, I watched the old Tony Awards. I watch 351 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:33,400 Speaker 4: you host them. I think I feel like you never 352 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:35,640 Speaker 4: you told me once you never get nervous. 353 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:39,760 Speaker 1: I don't really, you know. You know what's interesting, Jim. 354 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:43,320 Speaker 1: Just recently I did a short film for Carol Leafer 355 00:18:43,359 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 1: with Kevin Pollack. Yes and again, a lot of Chelsea 356 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:50,560 Speaker 1: stuff going down, and yes, I could not sleep, I 357 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:55,040 Speaker 1: couldn't eat, I couldn't remember my lines. And I got 358 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:57,639 Speaker 1: there and I I said to her, I'm really sorry everyone. 359 00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:01,919 Speaker 1: This is going on in my family and I haven't 360 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:04,000 Speaker 1: been able to you know. And at the end of 361 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:06,359 Speaker 1: we did all their coverage first, and then at the 362 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 1: end they almost did me line by line, you know, 363 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:13,760 Speaker 1: and I just went, Wow, it's not the same as 364 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:18,800 Speaker 1: it was. I don't have the ability to leave everything 365 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:20,240 Speaker 1: else at the door anymore. 366 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:21,280 Speaker 4: You know. 367 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:24,560 Speaker 1: It goes with me and I find it. As you're 368 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 1: older and in the days you have left are shorter. 369 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:32,439 Speaker 1: You try to mend and fix all of the things 370 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:35,320 Speaker 1: like in real time, like it used to be, like, no, 371 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:37,480 Speaker 1: I'm working, I have a show, as if the most 372 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:40,160 Speaker 1: important thing in life is a show, right, you know. 373 00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:43,560 Speaker 4: Well, at thirty five or thirty two it was it. Sure, 374 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:46,240 Speaker 4: maybe it may have been for you, but that's not 375 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:46,639 Speaker 4: how it is. 376 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:46,879 Speaker 5: You know. 377 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:49,720 Speaker 4: I keep saying backstage, no one over thirty five years 378 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:51,639 Speaker 4: old should do a Broadway show. They should take your 379 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 4: equity card away when you turn thirty five because it's 380 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:55,560 Speaker 4: too much, it's too exhausting. 381 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:59,520 Speaker 1: Well, you know who just at Emma Stone did Cabaret, right, 382 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:03,439 Speaker 1: and she said at the Golden Globes, I don't know 383 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:05,879 Speaker 1: that I could do another one. I thought, oh, it'll 384 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:08,320 Speaker 1: only be three hours a day. She's like, it killed me. 385 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:12,760 Speaker 1: It is so exhausting. And you have to have so 386 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:16,320 Speaker 1: much discipline to take care of yourself and your throat, 387 00:20:16,359 --> 00:20:19,840 Speaker 1: and you're always surrounded in close contact with many other people, 388 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 1: and everyone's getting sick and you're trying not to miss 389 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:26,359 Speaker 1: a show. It's really like Olympic athlete type stuff. 390 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:29,119 Speaker 4: Yes, and I've been sick for three weeks, and you know, 391 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:32,560 Speaker 4: it's just and we're all sick, and there's COVID happening again, 392 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:34,960 Speaker 4: and COVID is surging in New York, and I'm wearing 393 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:38,800 Speaker 4: a mask again on the subway, and it's and mentally too. 394 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:42,960 Speaker 4: It's just difficult, you know, Thank God, every single person 395 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:45,560 Speaker 4: I'm not just saying this. Every person in that theater 396 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:48,560 Speaker 4: is incredible. Where I work, it's incredible. 397 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:51,359 Speaker 1: Yes, And if you're saying Jimmy, honestly, let me just 398 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 1: talk a little bit about Spamalot. I thought it was 399 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:58,600 Speaker 1: so freaking funny and the cast was so good. There 400 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:03,280 Speaker 1: wasn't any moment where the quality dropped for a second. 401 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:06,679 Speaker 1: Everyone hit it out of the park and it was 402 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:09,639 Speaker 1: a joy to watch and a beautiful night of theater, 403 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:11,040 Speaker 1: it really was. 404 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:14,160 Speaker 2: We were all so excited that you were there. 405 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:18,200 Speaker 4: And you know, anytime you go to see any Broadway show, 406 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:21,120 Speaker 4: I think everybody's just so happy to see you and 407 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:24,760 Speaker 4: you're welcome with open arms anytime you always have a 408 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:27,760 Speaker 4: community experience. I just love you and lift you up 409 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:28,800 Speaker 4: on Broadway forever. 410 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:32,200 Speaker 1: Yes, And I you know, I love that community. It 411 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:36,080 Speaker 1: is to me where showbiz is most like what I 412 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:39,160 Speaker 1: dreamed it would be. Oh wow, I don't find that, 413 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:41,880 Speaker 1: you know, movie making Hollywood. You're always in a car. 414 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:44,320 Speaker 1: You have to drive fifty minutes to get to anyone. 415 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:49,680 Speaker 1: There's no real community, but there it's like fifteen blocks. Yeah, 416 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:53,400 Speaker 1: and everybody is in that is little area and they're 417 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:55,560 Speaker 1: running to the theater and they're going to get it 418 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:58,119 Speaker 1: bite after at the same places that are open, and 419 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:02,159 Speaker 1: you really come to be a part of something so 420 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:03,520 Speaker 1: much bigger than you. 421 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:05,240 Speaker 2: You know. It was it was. 422 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:07,240 Speaker 1: Jony Sorry then I'll shut up. It was Joni Mitchell 423 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:12,080 Speaker 1: that said about Hollywood, this illusionary place, this scared, hard 424 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:15,640 Speaker 1: edged rat race or liberty is laced with borderlines. 425 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:18,240 Speaker 2: Oh you know, God, And where are we trying to 426 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:19,480 Speaker 2: get to? You know? 427 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 4: I hate that phrase. I want to make it. I 428 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:25,440 Speaker 4: just want to make it. Where do you live? Where 429 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:26,080 Speaker 4: are you going? 430 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:29,639 Speaker 1: You know, Jim. The saddest thing that I ever saw 431 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:34,560 Speaker 1: about show business was Joan River's last documentary, Oh where 432 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:37,920 Speaker 1: she was a grandmother in the back of the car 433 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:41,960 Speaker 1: with her hands on her mint coat and her Bentley 434 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:45,439 Speaker 1: and she's calling her agent and she's still trying to 435 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:49,639 Speaker 1: make it somewhere or whatever whatever it was. She was 436 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:53,000 Speaker 1: eighty years old. I know, and I thought, oh my god, 437 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:55,119 Speaker 1: if that happens to me, somebody take me out to 438 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:58,439 Speaker 1: a field somewhere there was no you know, and it 439 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:00,919 Speaker 1: just made it broke my heart. It broke my heart. 440 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:03,280 Speaker 2: It is heartbreaking. And you know what's interesting. 441 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:06,240 Speaker 4: I have gotten to work with a lot of celebrities, 442 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 4: a lot of people who have quote unquote made it right, 443 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:13,760 Speaker 4: big stars, Emmy Award winners, and I worked with one person. 444 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:15,479 Speaker 4: I won't say who it is, but I worked with 445 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:19,760 Speaker 4: one person in a show, big star, multiple Emmy Awards, 446 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:24,439 Speaker 4: and he said to me once, I'll never carry a movie. 447 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:27,359 Speaker 4: I'll never be Will Ferrell or Jack Black. No one 448 00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:30,320 Speaker 4: will ever ever trust me to carry a comedic movie ever. 449 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:33,480 Speaker 4: It's so disappointing to me. It's so depressing to me. 450 00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:36,600 Speaker 4: And I thought to myself, this. 451 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:42,040 Speaker 7: Guy who, from my perception, has it all, a big 452 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:47,679 Speaker 7: house in LA and so much money, successful, multiple awards 453 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:49,160 Speaker 7: for everything, and. 454 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:53,400 Speaker 2: He's depressed about his career. He's said he's frustrated. 455 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:56,480 Speaker 4: So when you start to learn that as an actor 456 00:23:56,840 --> 00:24:00,879 Speaker 4: who's trying to get somewhere, I stopped trying to get anywhere. 457 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:03,320 Speaker 4: I just want to work. I just love working. I 458 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:06,800 Speaker 4: love acting I love working. I don't care about getting anywhere. 459 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:10,879 Speaker 1: But when you realize that there's nowhere get, there's nowhere 460 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:13,480 Speaker 1: to get, there's no where to get, And that's in life. 461 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:18,600 Speaker 4: It's all about the journey. There's no destination for anybody, anybody, 462 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:21,000 Speaker 4: no matter what. And if you can make a couple 463 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:24,080 Speaker 4: of your dreams come true, that's it, you know. And 464 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 4: have a beautiful family and beautiful friends and laugh. I mean, 465 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:30,320 Speaker 4: Norman Lee just died at one hundred and one years old. 466 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:33,320 Speaker 4: All he did was laugh. I was so lucky to 467 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:35,520 Speaker 4: know him a little bit. And I know you did too. 468 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:38,320 Speaker 4: And he loved to laugh, and he loved people, and 469 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:41,560 Speaker 4: he loved to talk and get together and that's it. 470 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:42,800 Speaker 8: Yeah. 471 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:45,159 Speaker 1: I think that's it too. I think that's why he 472 00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:48,320 Speaker 1: lived so long too. Yes, you know he was constantly 473 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:49,520 Speaker 1: all of. 474 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:52,480 Speaker 2: These guys who were just all day, you know. 475 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:55,159 Speaker 1: Right, and and they kind of knew a little something 476 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:58,880 Speaker 1: about love, you know, Yes, they really, they really did. 477 00:24:59,200 --> 00:24:59,640 Speaker 2: They did. 478 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:03,480 Speaker 1: Do you like doing tell everybody about your own podcast? 479 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:04,680 Speaker 1: Do you have your own pipe? 480 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:07,000 Speaker 4: I do, and I'll tell you I haven't done you well. 481 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:09,679 Speaker 4: First of all, you were the first guests. Yes, I 482 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:12,800 Speaker 4: was thank you very much. It's called baby mouth and 483 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:16,280 Speaker 4: every episode. So I grew up in New Jersey and 484 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:19,560 Speaker 4: my mother literally fed me the same ten foods from 485 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:23,400 Speaker 4: my entire childhood up until I was eighteen the day, 486 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:29,200 Speaker 4: meat loaf, chicken, chicken fingers, pizza every Friday, because Jesus 487 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:31,160 Speaker 4: didn't want us to eat meat on Fridays for some 488 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:34,560 Speaker 4: reason which I still didn't understand. I think the Pope 489 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,320 Speaker 4: in like nineteen seventy two said you can eat meat again, 490 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:39,960 Speaker 4: and my father said, not, my Pope, And we still 491 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:41,240 Speaker 4: don't have meat on Sunday. 492 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:43,040 Speaker 1: We didn't either. We did pizza on Fridays. 493 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:45,719 Speaker 4: Every friend we'd have grilled cheese for lunch and pizza 494 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:49,359 Speaker 4: for dinner. It was never meat. Sundays, we'd have a 495 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:53,600 Speaker 4: big Italian pasta and sausage and garlic bread. But I 496 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:56,679 Speaker 4: never had sushi. I never had tuna fish, which is 497 00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,480 Speaker 4: what you and I did. I never had a caesar salad. 498 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:03,240 Speaker 4: Thought pad tie was a soup. I didn't know that 499 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:08,240 Speaker 4: was noodles. That's still delicious, noodle delicious, yeah, good tie. 500 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:09,920 Speaker 1: Now, Badi and. 501 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:10,920 Speaker 2: I love sushi. 502 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:14,200 Speaker 4: I go to sugarfish and no bou when my fancy 503 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:15,440 Speaker 4: friends take me to Nobu. 504 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:18,680 Speaker 2: I can go Rosie, but it's delicious. 505 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:21,280 Speaker 4: So I said to myself, I'm going to start this 506 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:23,960 Speaker 4: podcast where every week a friend of mine will come 507 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,639 Speaker 4: on and I'll do a favorite food of theirs, and 508 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:28,119 Speaker 4: I'll try it for the first time. 509 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:31,080 Speaker 2: Now it's not always successful. Tuna fish, I didn't enjoy. 510 00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:33,359 Speaker 1: You did not like it. And I was hoping for 511 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:35,840 Speaker 1: the first one that you would have been like yes, 512 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:36,680 Speaker 1: but no, I. 513 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:38,760 Speaker 2: Didn't choose too much fish and I don't. 514 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:42,960 Speaker 1: And the mayonnaise for the way you're prepared wasn't good 515 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:45,919 Speaker 1: for me. The capers you didn't like, the cap't. 516 00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:48,000 Speaker 2: Like any of that now on a driss gape. Not good. 517 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:50,960 Speaker 4: And my mother said I could have eaten that whole thing. 518 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:53,320 Speaker 4: My mother's name Tuna fish. 519 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:55,080 Speaker 1: I love it too. Why didn't you make it for 520 00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:55,720 Speaker 1: you as a kid. 521 00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:56,520 Speaker 2: I don't know. 522 00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:58,480 Speaker 4: She never did, and she would say to me, I 523 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:02,160 Speaker 4: would always you know, she's our my podcast. Every episode 524 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:03,760 Speaker 4: she's at the end and I say to her, why 525 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,719 Speaker 4: didn't you feed me this? And we tell stories and 526 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,760 Speaker 4: she tells me stories of her childhood. And but I 527 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:13,840 Speaker 4: haven't recorded a new episode because I've been so busy 528 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,639 Speaker 4: you know, I've produced it and I have to edit it, 529 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:18,080 Speaker 4: and I have to get the guest in the food 530 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:19,919 Speaker 4: and my mother on Zoom, which is its. 531 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:23,080 Speaker 2: Own show, My challenge as challenge. 532 00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:25,760 Speaker 4: You know, she's seventy seven and it's hard to get 533 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:29,159 Speaker 4: her on Zoom. But I love I love doing that podcast. 534 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:32,439 Speaker 1: What is the food that you are most surprised that 535 00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:32,960 Speaker 1: you love? 536 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:34,760 Speaker 2: Sushi? Absolutely? 537 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:39,000 Speaker 4: She she like a tuna shashimi, just raw red and 538 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:41,080 Speaker 4: it tastes like a hamburger. 539 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,880 Speaker 2: To me, it tasted deliverous. But I couldn't believe how 540 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:46,639 Speaker 2: good that was the sushi. 541 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:51,480 Speaker 1: I love sushi. There's something amazing about really good food. 542 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:53,760 Speaker 4: And it took me a healthy are for me. I 543 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:56,200 Speaker 4: had Free with you the first time in Miami. 544 00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:58,240 Speaker 1: Yes, didn't you love it? 545 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:02,200 Speaker 2: It was good? I'd like that. Yeah, surprising, right, Yeah, 546 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,560 Speaker 2: it was surprising. I don't know. It's good to try 547 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:05,000 Speaker 2: new things. 548 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,439 Speaker 4: And now I can really go to any restaurant and 549 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:10,240 Speaker 4: try because you know, I couldn't go any place I 550 00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:13,399 Speaker 4: was too afraid. Fear is not a good thing to 551 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:16,920 Speaker 4: have in life at all at all. I even tell 552 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:19,880 Speaker 4: like if I work with young actors like you got 553 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,080 Speaker 4: to work on the thing that scares you the most 554 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,439 Speaker 4: and the thing you're worst at. You know, that's you 555 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:27,800 Speaker 4: as an actor. When people see you in dramatic roles, 556 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:30,639 Speaker 4: they go crazy because you didn't do them for so long. 557 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:33,439 Speaker 4: But you see, I know this much is true, and 558 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 4: these incredible roles, and you bring so much to these 559 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,640 Speaker 4: dramatic roles and that's well, thank you. An incredible thing. 560 00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:42,560 Speaker 4: But you said no to the fear of doing that. 561 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:43,960 Speaker 4: I'm sure you must. 562 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:45,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, learned. 563 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, I was a little concerned, but I also knew, 564 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,040 Speaker 1: you know, I knew that I could do it. I 565 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:53,160 Speaker 1: knew that I had it in me in not an 566 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:56,080 Speaker 1: arrogant way. Just I read the script and you know, 567 00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,400 Speaker 1: especially with I know this much is true. When I 568 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:03,239 Speaker 1: met Derek the director in Front, and he said, do 569 00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:06,040 Speaker 1: you know this character, I said, oh, yes, because the 570 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,800 Speaker 1: woman who raised me was a social worker after my 571 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:12,920 Speaker 1: mom died, and I know exactly this person. And he's 572 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:14,760 Speaker 1: the one who said will you cut your hair, shave 573 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:18,120 Speaker 1: the sides and leave it front? And I was like sure, So, 574 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,960 Speaker 1: you know, well I like it. You know, a lot 575 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,040 Speaker 1: of people, when they're mad, mostly about my Trump comments, 576 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,840 Speaker 1: come on and leave mean messages on my TikTok, and 577 00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:32,240 Speaker 1: they'll all say things like, oh yeah, hey dude, nice hair, butchy, 578 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,120 Speaker 1: as if I didn't cut it this way myself, as 579 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:37,040 Speaker 1: if I was like in a gang and they were 580 00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:37,880 Speaker 1: forcing me to. 581 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:41,760 Speaker 4: Cut my lesbian dyky lesbian gang. That's good, yeah, right, 582 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,640 Speaker 4: excuse you to cut your hair. No, it looks incredible. 583 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,640 Speaker 1: No, I like it because number one, it's so easy, 584 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,560 Speaker 1: and number two, I was never one of the girls 585 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:52,840 Speaker 1: who knew how to like take my long hair and 586 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:55,320 Speaker 1: throw it in a messy bun, right right right. I 587 00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:57,480 Speaker 1: always look like the kid who didn't have a mother, 588 00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:00,959 Speaker 1: who didn't get her hair brushed, you know, like yeah, yeah, 589 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:03,960 Speaker 1: it's so deep really in a lot of ways, you know. 590 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:08,680 Speaker 1: And recently Dakota did it. Dakota told me h Clay 591 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:13,120 Speaker 1: a few months ago. She said, Mommy, my hair no 592 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:14,400 Speaker 1: longer fits my head. 593 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:15,360 Speaker 2: Wow. 594 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,840 Speaker 1: And I said, that's fascinating. What do you think we 595 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:22,680 Speaker 1: should do about that? And they said, I think I 596 00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:25,720 Speaker 1: need to get it cut. So we went through all 597 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:28,200 Speaker 1: the pictures that I had of them at different ages 598 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:31,280 Speaker 1: and said, if now you had at this length, at 599 00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:33,600 Speaker 1: one point, you had at this So she chose sort 600 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:35,920 Speaker 1: of where it is like at her at her collar 601 00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:39,960 Speaker 1: or her shoulders, and she's so they are so much 602 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:43,200 Speaker 1: happier with it that way, and. 603 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:49,080 Speaker 4: It's amazing the the. 604 00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:49,040 Speaker 2: There's such a wise little kid. 605 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,080 Speaker 4: I mean, they're just a little kids, and yet they 606 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:55,800 Speaker 4: so much about themselves. That's what I'm always fascinated by, Clay. 607 00:30:56,720 --> 00:31:00,239 Speaker 4: Whenever I'm with them, whenever they're in the room, well, 608 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,440 Speaker 4: whenever I hear them say anything or you tell me 609 00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:04,840 Speaker 4: something that they say, I go like, oh my god, 610 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:06,520 Speaker 4: they're only eleven years old. 611 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:10,600 Speaker 1: I'm constantly amazed by what they come up with and 612 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:13,600 Speaker 1: the perspective with which they see the world. 613 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:16,120 Speaker 2: It's beautiful. It's really beautiful. 614 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:19,240 Speaker 1: Autism is a different operating system, and I don't know 615 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:23,000 Speaker 1: if you've ever tried to go from Microsoft Word to Apple. 616 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,800 Speaker 1: You know, very few people are fluent in both, you know, 617 00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:28,280 Speaker 1: and I feel like I. 618 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:29,960 Speaker 2: Get that as a mother and as a para. 619 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:33,920 Speaker 1: Well that's that's the question. Stay tuned for more with 620 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:35,400 Speaker 1: me and Jimmy Smagola. 621 00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,920 Speaker 4: We don't know anything. You just don't know, and that's 622 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,880 Speaker 4: the fun of life. And I imagine that's the joy 623 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:06,320 Speaker 4: and surprise of parenting. You know, I never had any 624 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:10,240 Speaker 4: desire to be a parent. I love kids, I love babies. 625 00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:13,360 Speaker 4: I love I have a niece and a nephew who 626 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:16,200 Speaker 4: are the cutest things in the world. And they saw 627 00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:18,720 Speaker 4: me on the Thanksgiving Day parade with spam a lot, 628 00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:20,920 Speaker 4: and my brother sent me a video of them going, 629 00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,520 Speaker 4: there's Uncle Jimmy, there's Uncle jim They're clapping. 630 00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:26,800 Speaker 2: It's adorable, it's wonderful. I never want my own kids. 631 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:28,040 Speaker 2: I love kids. 632 00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:32,239 Speaker 1: Never, but not like there wasn't a time in your 633 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:33,920 Speaker 1: life and you're twenty for thirty. 634 00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:34,920 Speaker 2: No. Never. 635 00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:38,280 Speaker 4: And I know women who were single women who got 636 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:41,440 Speaker 4: to forty and said, I'm going to become pregnant. 637 00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:43,600 Speaker 2: I need to have a child. It is a real 638 00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:44,880 Speaker 2: need for people. 639 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:47,600 Speaker 1: Yes, it's interesting I needed a child. I didn't need 640 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:49,560 Speaker 1: to get pregnant, but I definitely knew I needed a 641 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:52,160 Speaker 1: child when I hit thirty and I felt like I 642 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:55,640 Speaker 1: had achieved so much in movies, and I did all 643 00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:58,440 Speaker 1: these amazing movies in a row. Yes you did, and 644 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:00,640 Speaker 1: you know, then I went and did Yeah, and then 645 00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:03,280 Speaker 1: I did Broadway and then I'm like, Okay, now it's 646 00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:04,400 Speaker 1: time to have a kid. 647 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:07,960 Speaker 2: And have Parker. Was it during Greece or during the show. 648 00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:11,400 Speaker 1: Right after Greece, before the show started, so he was 649 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:13,920 Speaker 1: a few months old. He was like nine months old 650 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:17,600 Speaker 1: or a year old when I started in uh ninety six, 651 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:20,240 Speaker 1: because he was born in ninety five and he took 652 00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:23,440 Speaker 1: his first steps at thirty Rock in my dressing room. 653 00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:29,200 Speaker 1: Oh and yeah, it was wild. And I always think. 654 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:30,840 Speaker 4: I wonder if you and I would be friends if 655 00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,640 Speaker 4: I knew you back then, you know what. 656 00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:35,760 Speaker 2: I mean, Like I, well, I tell you they know 657 00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:36,440 Speaker 2: each other. 658 00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:39,880 Speaker 1: You know, Yeah, I didn't have enough time then, yeah, 659 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:43,520 Speaker 1: because I was busy. You know, the show is hard 660 00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:46,479 Speaker 1: to do. When you look at like Kelly Clarkson or 661 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,800 Speaker 1: you know, Stephen Colbert or Jimmy Fall, you have to 662 00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:52,080 Speaker 1: think this is a hard gig, and they've been doing 663 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:53,680 Speaker 1: it for years and years. 664 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:55,680 Speaker 4: And years how hard it is. They think you show 665 00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:57,600 Speaker 4: up and it's fun and it's a great time. I mean, 666 00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:00,200 Speaker 4: I always think, you know, Broadway is a grind, but 667 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:04,720 Speaker 4: doing a daytime television show is a grind. Sometimes you 668 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:06,520 Speaker 4: don't want to be happy and have to talk to 669 00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,000 Speaker 4: some idiot who has a movie coming out. Sometimes you 670 00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:11,640 Speaker 4: probably just want to be angry all day or sad 671 00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:12,120 Speaker 4: all day. 672 00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:15,840 Speaker 1: Well, you know, so something happens in the world, Columbine happened. 673 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,120 Speaker 1: I couldn't stop crying. I could hardly do a show. 674 00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:20,560 Speaker 1: I could hardly talk and get I thought, how am 675 00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:23,640 Speaker 1: I going to do this? And luckily for me, I 676 00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:27,560 Speaker 1: had already decided that I was going to leave my 677 00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:30,560 Speaker 1: show and not resign the contract. And then nine to 678 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:34,160 Speaker 1: eleven happened, and it really cemented that idea for me. 679 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:39,920 Speaker 1: So I only had from September eleventh until June to 680 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:40,760 Speaker 1: get through. 681 00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:42,560 Speaker 2: And then I was done. 682 00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:47,319 Speaker 1: And when world, you know, catastrophes happen, I don't do well. 683 00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:51,200 Speaker 1: And when I have a daily deliverable that could be 684 00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:51,840 Speaker 1: a problem. 685 00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:55,640 Speaker 2: Yes, a daily deliverable, that's a great way to Yes. 686 00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:58,080 Speaker 4: I mean even you know, I just had to go 687 00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:01,759 Speaker 4: through the death of my dog two weeks ago, and 688 00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:04,919 Speaker 4: it feels silly in a way because it's like, well, 689 00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,799 Speaker 4: it's a dog, but that dog was our child, that 690 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:11,520 Speaker 4: was our fur covered child, and so you know, but 691 00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:14,239 Speaker 4: I but for me it was different because I knew 692 00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:16,520 Speaker 4: if I could get back to the show to spam 693 00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:19,480 Speaker 4: a lot, that it would make me happy, right, and 694 00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:22,040 Speaker 4: it did. I buried my dog, not buried, but we 695 00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:24,759 Speaker 4: said goodbye on Christmas Day, which was a Monday, and 696 00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:26,520 Speaker 4: I flew back the next day and I did the 697 00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:29,719 Speaker 4: show Tuesday night because I knew if I could get 698 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:33,640 Speaker 4: back to that Broadway theater, yeah, I will be joyful. 699 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:35,480 Speaker 4: And so someone well, and there's. 700 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:39,799 Speaker 1: Something I agree. There's something about doing a daily deliverable 701 00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:42,920 Speaker 1: like a Broadway show, where you are in an ensemble 702 00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:47,319 Speaker 1: and everyone is counting on you to be there for 703 00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:50,400 Speaker 1: yourself and for them, help them if they have a 704 00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:54,920 Speaker 1: problem or you know, so it almost lifts your spirits 705 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:58,360 Speaker 1: and carries you through like the undertow, like it moves you, 706 00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:01,000 Speaker 1: you know, when it's all on you and it's the 707 00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:04,160 Speaker 1: Kelly Clarkson Show or the Rose o'donald, Yes, then it's 708 00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:08,279 Speaker 1: on you and you have to really deliver, you know, 709 00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:13,719 Speaker 1: every day without written lines, without pre written lines, just 710 00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:17,839 Speaker 1: an hour live every day and today with all of 711 00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:21,719 Speaker 1: the you know, cancelations and and you can't say this, 712 00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:24,640 Speaker 1: you can't say that, you know, I wonder how how 713 00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:26,880 Speaker 1: it would be to do the show live today. Not 714 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:28,800 Speaker 1: a lot of the shows that you see on TV 715 00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:33,840 Speaker 1: or live anymore. That's Kelly, which is fun, Regis and Kelly, 716 00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:37,720 Speaker 1: and that's how old I am years ago, Kelly and Mark, 717 00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:39,160 Speaker 1: that's every day. 718 00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:42,800 Speaker 7: Yeah, but that show was that it was an event. 719 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:43,480 Speaker 2: Every day. 720 00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:46,120 Speaker 4: It was a live event, and I remember setting my 721 00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,760 Speaker 4: alarm so that I could tune in live to watch 722 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,880 Speaker 4: it even before it was in the audience, right, you know, 723 00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:53,799 Speaker 4: it was the event. And you never knew She's going 724 00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:56,319 Speaker 4: to get in a food fight with Marjorie today? What 725 00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:59,040 Speaker 4: is she going to do to like, what's going to 726 00:36:59,120 --> 00:36:59,880 Speaker 4: happen today? 727 00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:00,279 Speaker 8: An? 728 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:03,799 Speaker 1: Yeah, that we had a great point. We had the 729 00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:08,280 Speaker 1: greatest staff, we had the greatest environment. Everybody was happy 730 00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:12,040 Speaker 1: working there. Everybody felt appreciated. I think we got them 731 00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:14,799 Speaker 1: off on the summers. We had a nursery that they 732 00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:17,719 Speaker 1: could bring their kids to. I don't know. We tried 733 00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:20,040 Speaker 1: to make it good and I'm glad it came through. 734 00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:22,359 Speaker 1: But it was a joy to do and and those 735 00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,480 Speaker 1: six years were really, really wonderful. But I knew I 736 00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:28,359 Speaker 1: couldn't live at that altitude of fame. It was very, 737 00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:29,280 Speaker 1: very difficult. 738 00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:29,600 Speaker 4: I need. 739 00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:31,799 Speaker 1: It took a long time to get back down to earth, 740 00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:32,239 Speaker 1: you know. 741 00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:36,520 Speaker 2: And read your I read your book, yeah, Celebrity Details, 742 00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:37,480 Speaker 2: Celebrity Detox. 743 00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:39,600 Speaker 4: Yes, right, well you said I didn't even know how 744 00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:41,640 Speaker 4: to get home to my own house. 745 00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:45,040 Speaker 1: Right because I've been driven, so you don't even know 746 00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:48,120 Speaker 1: that every day for six years, I didn't drive for 747 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:48,719 Speaker 1: six years. 748 00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:51,960 Speaker 2: Pretty. That's deep, that's deep, that's really deep. 749 00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:56,799 Speaker 1: Life is good now, exactly. I'm enjoying my life as 750 00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,200 Speaker 1: it is. And listen, Jimmy, I enjoy you so much. 751 00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:02,280 Speaker 1: I'm so happy for all your success. I'm so happy 752 00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:04,720 Speaker 1: that we're friends. And I love you very much. 753 00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:05,680 Speaker 2: I love you too. 754 00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:09,319 Speaker 4: You're a wonderful You're a wonderful person. And you know, 755 00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:12,719 Speaker 4: it's funny when, like I said earlier, when you love 756 00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:15,560 Speaker 4: somebody through the TV and you don't really know them, 757 00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:17,280 Speaker 4: then you get to know them and they're even better. 758 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,440 Speaker 1: Oh that's the sweetest. 759 00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:23,920 Speaker 2: You're even better. You're even better not through the TV. 760 00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:26,799 Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much. I will be not through 761 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:29,759 Speaker 1: the TV, I think, from now on. But that's okay. 762 00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,160 Speaker 1: I had some good times on that TV. 763 00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:33,640 Speaker 2: You'll be back. You'll be back. 764 00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:36,880 Speaker 1: You never know. People want, But I love you, and 765 00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:40,400 Speaker 1: we're gonna go when we're gonna, you know, answer some questions. 766 00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:42,359 Speaker 2: And right, that sounds good, all. 767 00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:45,640 Speaker 1: Right, Jimmy Spagoula starring right now in spam a lot 768 00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:49,080 Speaker 1: on Broadway. Also baby mouth this podcast, I did not 769 00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:51,200 Speaker 1: give it a listen. It's give it a listen. It's 770 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,440 Speaker 1: on there all right, sweet, thank you so much. 771 00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:53,960 Speaker 2: I love you. 772 00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,160 Speaker 1: We'll be right back with a couple of questions from you, 773 00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:13,320 Speaker 1: our lovely listeners. That's my buddy, Jimmy Smagoola And we're 774 00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:17,160 Speaker 1: back and we now have some questions from you. 775 00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:21,200 Speaker 2: Here we go, Hi, Rosie. 776 00:39:21,680 --> 00:39:27,080 Speaker 8: My name is Alessandri. I would like to know, if possible, 777 00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:32,319 Speaker 8: what are the three movies that you most like, the 778 00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:35,400 Speaker 8: ones that you go when you need to forget everything 779 00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:41,439 Speaker 8: and just watch a move and relax. Mine are Out 780 00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:48,600 Speaker 8: of Africa, The Way We Wore and The House of Spirits. 781 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:53,400 Speaker 8: Those are the movies that I watch when I need 782 00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:58,200 Speaker 8: to forget about everything else. Thank you for everything, and 783 00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:01,279 Speaker 8: thank you for your podcast. I'm a big fan. And 784 00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:04,960 Speaker 8: take care, bye bye. 785 00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:09,960 Speaker 1: Thank you. Alas Chandri. That's a beautiful name, and that's 786 00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:13,760 Speaker 1: a wonderful question. You know, it's funny. The first movie 787 00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:15,760 Speaker 1: that came to my mind, of course, is the Sound 788 00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:19,920 Speaker 1: of Music, because there, you know, we fight against Nazis. 789 00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:22,760 Speaker 1: We sing in harmony and we climb over the Mountains 790 00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:26,000 Speaker 1: to Freedom. It seems to me the perfect film, and 791 00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:31,200 Speaker 1: it is by far my favorite one. And it's funny 792 00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:35,360 Speaker 1: that you said out of Africa because I had just 793 00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:41,600 Speaker 1: started college. Could it have been or I was just 794 00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:44,279 Speaker 1: out of college. I don't remember. But the movie came 795 00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:46,080 Speaker 1: out and I had been at a party all night 796 00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:48,560 Speaker 1: long at college and I went in the morning to 797 00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:51,279 Speaker 1: go see it. And this is how much I saw, 798 00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:54,840 Speaker 1: I Once Set to Farm in Africa. I fell asleep. 799 00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:57,960 Speaker 3: When I woke up, I heard I Once Set a 800 00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:00,440 Speaker 3: Farm in Africa. 801 00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:03,320 Speaker 1: I was like, well, that was a lot of money 802 00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:07,040 Speaker 1: for a nap. So that's so funny. But it is 803 00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:10,239 Speaker 1: a beautiful film. I have seen it since, but try 804 00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:13,040 Speaker 1: not to fall asleep after the first line. The other 805 00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:15,839 Speaker 1: movies the way we were, I agree, that gives me 806 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:20,600 Speaker 1: thrills and chills. And I love the movie Mulin Rouge. 807 00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:25,680 Speaker 1: Yes you can, can Can. There's so many movies for me. 808 00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:28,160 Speaker 1: But you know what really lifts my soul and my 809 00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:31,239 Speaker 1: spirit when I want to really just get away and 810 00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:35,440 Speaker 1: be in my own space with my own brain. Broadway musicals. 811 00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:37,360 Speaker 1: You know, I go to see or I put on 812 00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:42,560 Speaker 1: a musical, or I just Broadway musicals lift me. They've 813 00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:45,000 Speaker 1: been the life raft so many times in the middle 814 00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:48,040 Speaker 1: of my stormy life, and I've gotten to the shore 815 00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:51,520 Speaker 1: safely thanks to Broadway musicals. So that's what I would say. 816 00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:54,040 Speaker 1: But thank you for the question, honey, and thank you 817 00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:57,880 Speaker 1: for calling. And I hope that I hope you're good. Okay, 818 00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:01,680 Speaker 1: we got one more, Britney, Britney speeze. 819 00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:06,319 Speaker 9: Hi, Rosie. My name is Brittany. I am calling you 820 00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:10,279 Speaker 9: from outside of Palm Springs, California. I do have a 821 00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:14,160 Speaker 9: question for you. What is the one question you always 822 00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:18,320 Speaker 9: wished that someone would ask you? And what's your answer 823 00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:22,200 Speaker 9: to that question? Thank you, love you hmm. 824 00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:30,080 Speaker 1: Brittany. Hi, Brittany, you know what, I can't even think 825 00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:34,400 Speaker 1: of one because I've been asked pretty much everything. 826 00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:34,759 Speaker 4: You know. 827 00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:39,280 Speaker 1: I've been at this business for over thirty years and 828 00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:43,560 Speaker 1: I've been asked many, many, many things in different interviews. 829 00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:46,839 Speaker 1: So I would have to think about that. Brittany. Can 830 00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:49,200 Speaker 1: I think about that and get back to you because 831 00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:52,879 Speaker 1: or go on my TikTok. When I finally figure it out, 832 00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:56,520 Speaker 1: I'll say, hey, Brittany from the podcast, this one's for you, 833 00:42:57,080 --> 00:42:59,560 Speaker 1: and I will figure out what that question could be. 834 00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:01,959 Speaker 1: I've really got to spend some time thinking of that one, 835 00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:06,680 Speaker 1: because off the top of my head, I can't think 836 00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:11,759 Speaker 1: of one. You know, I'm sorry. I feel like I've 837 00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:17,239 Speaker 1: failed the listeners. Thank you. All right, everyone, that's all 838 00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:19,840 Speaker 1: we got. On next week's show, we will listen to 839 00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:23,239 Speaker 1: and talk about the messages you left after listening to 840 00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:26,759 Speaker 1: the Lyle Menendez episode. So if you like, listen to 841 00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:32,200 Speaker 1: that episode again. So that's next week's show, and hey, everyone, 842 00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:43,239 Speaker 1: no choice onward. See you next week.