1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:03,680 Speaker 1: You and Me Both is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:08,639 Speaker 1: I'm Hillary Clinton and this is You and Me Both. 3 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: On this week's episode, I get to do one of 4 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:16,919 Speaker 1: my favorite things, answering questions sent in by our listeners. 5 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:20,639 Speaker 1: We've heard from so many of you. From Anita down 6 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:25,320 Speaker 1: in Florida, Hello, I watched the whole podcast. I now 7 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 1: know what a podcast is. To Kyle out in California. Hey, Hilary, 8 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:34,200 Speaker 1: it's Kyle Bockfunk supporter. Maybe you'll run again one day, 9 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:36,160 Speaker 1: maybe not. Don't blame you if you want the rift. 10 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:41,240 Speaker 1: We got emails from people across the United States and beyond, 11 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:47,480 Speaker 1: from Australia to Germany Romania, with questions on everything from 12 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 1: my time in the Senate to my favorite desserts to 13 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:55,080 Speaker 1: the quality of the sheets and pillows in the White House. Now, 14 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:58,640 Speaker 1: as promised, I'm answering your questions with the help of 15 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:02,200 Speaker 1: a very special guest. It took some doing because we 16 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 1: both have really busy schedules, but I'm so excited today 17 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:11,760 Speaker 1: to have joining me Saturday Night Lives One and Only 18 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:19,320 Speaker 1: Kate McKinnon. Kate joined the SNL cast back in and 19 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:23,760 Speaker 1: since then she's become an Emmy award winning audience favorite 20 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 1: with all of her quirky characters and of course, her 21 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 1: incredible impersonations everybody from Ellen Degenerous to Jeff Sessions, from 22 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:40,440 Speaker 1: Lindsay Graham to Elizabeth Warren, Angela Merkle, Rudy Giuliani and 23 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 1: yes me and You've also seen Kate on the big screen, 24 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 1: including in the all women remake of Ghostbusters. She's currently 25 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 1: starring in Joe Versus Carol, a drama series from Peacock 26 00:01:56,240 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 1: based on the Netflix true crime commentary series Tiger King. I. 27 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:11,640 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Oh my goodness. I am thrilled to 28 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:15,040 Speaker 1: see you. I'm so happy you're doing this. I'm so happy. 29 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 1: I'm scared of podcasts, but I like yours and this 30 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 1: one it's nice. So we're just gonna be really easy. Okay, 31 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: before we start, where's your cat? Um there? Say hello 32 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 1: to the secretary Nini, Say hello, how old is that 33 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:36,800 Speaker 1: little creature? He is thirteen and a teenager? You know 34 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 1: he's getting tattoos and he's drinking. You gotta watch those 35 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:44,799 Speaker 1: teenagers all the time. Yeah, I mean, look at the 36 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 1: wonderful life you have. What is the what is wrong 37 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:52,640 Speaker 1: with you? Look at who your mother is. You should 38 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 1: be so proud. I'm so fun. You don't even know 39 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 1: how fun I am. It is so great to see 40 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 1: you again, and I just want to dive right in 41 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 1: to talk with truly one of my my favorite people. So, Kate, 42 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:10,360 Speaker 1: you and I have a lot in common. You've played me, 43 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:13,520 Speaker 1: so I know we do. But we also just got 44 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:18,520 Speaker 1: over COVID and you did. Yes, Oh gosh, you're dodging 45 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 1: it for you know, two years. Thankfully. I came down 46 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:24,080 Speaker 1: with a really mild case, but I was so tired. 47 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:26,679 Speaker 1: I was so tired. That was like the only thing 48 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:31,520 Speaker 1: that I experienced. Wow, yeah, that's good. Good for you, 49 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 1: But you're okay. I got a bad what felt like 50 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:39,320 Speaker 1: a flu, and now I feel like I am a 51 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 1: crumpled piece of paper drifting on the wind um. I 52 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 1: have no agency, I have no vitals. You know, I'm 53 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 1: you need a vacation, my friend. I don't well, I 54 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 1: don't know if that would do it. I feel, I feel, 55 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:59,840 Speaker 1: you know, I think it's more the crumbling of the 56 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 1: host World War two order that's making my brain feel 57 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 1: a little disorganized. But I think that's actually what happened 58 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:08,720 Speaker 1: to me. I think my immune system had been great 59 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 1: until Ukraine and then it just crumpled um And so 60 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 1: here we are. But we're fighting our way back and 61 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 1: that's to be I guess appreciated. And you have a 62 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:24,200 Speaker 1: new show out, Joe. First is Carol. Now, honestly, you 63 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:27,160 Speaker 1: played Carol Baskin and I know you love your cat. 64 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:30,440 Speaker 1: But how was it like loving those big cats? I mean, 65 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:33,120 Speaker 1: what was that like? Well, she had made a public 66 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:39,280 Speaker 1: request to not utilize big cats during the production, which um, 67 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:43,359 Speaker 1: I found very important because her whole thing is we 68 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:46,040 Speaker 1: should be interacting with these animals at all, they should 69 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 1: only be in the wild. So I was happy that 70 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 1: we were able to c g I all the cats. 71 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:53,360 Speaker 1: So when there was a cat on screen, it was 72 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 1: actually just a very emotive great Dane. Some of the 73 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:00,839 Speaker 1: best actors in the world I found are great Danes. 74 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:08,839 Speaker 1: Oh my god, the pathos on those big great Dane faces. Yes, well, 75 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:13,200 Speaker 1: you know you have been really just such an incredible 76 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:18,599 Speaker 1: inspiration and I don't know, just a great spirit Kate 77 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:22,920 Speaker 1: and me, I don't know about that. Well, I mean 78 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:25,839 Speaker 1: just I'm just talking as a fan, so you know 79 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 1: you can dismiss it and discount it. But when did 80 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:34,680 Speaker 1: you first get interested in comedy and sketch comedy. Okay, So, 81 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:40,280 Speaker 1: as you may or cannot tell, I was an odd child, 82 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 1: very very deeply shy and quiet. I don't know if 83 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:50,279 Speaker 1: you can relate, maybe not, but I was extraordinarily quiet, 84 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 1: and people were always wondering what's in there? What is 85 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 1: she thinking? And I felt always just too scared to 86 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 1: speak in my own voice, and so I started to 87 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:07,240 Speaker 1: appropriate the voices of others and speak in British accents 88 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:11,360 Speaker 1: and speak as little weird characters and quote lines from 89 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:15,359 Speaker 1: movies and stuff. And I felt it so much easier 90 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:19,320 Speaker 1: to get any volume in my voice at all if 91 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:24,800 Speaker 1: I was doing a voice in quotes and that, you know, 92 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:27,800 Speaker 1: lad my kindergarten teacher to call my mother and then say, 93 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:33,279 Speaker 1: we don't know if she's understanding the difference between fiction 94 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:39,200 Speaker 1: and reality because I was so often speaking in film quotes. Anyway, 95 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:42,200 Speaker 1: you know, I'm saying too much here, But the point 96 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:46,000 Speaker 1: is it became a like, I mean, it's a coping 97 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 1: mechanism clearly for social anxiety. And then and then I 98 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 1: just like spun it into a career magically, so that's great. Yeah, 99 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:54,800 Speaker 1: I mean I really admire that. And I read that 100 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:58,039 Speaker 1: your father first introduced you to Saturday Night Live when 101 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:01,520 Speaker 1: you were what My mother and my father both were 102 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:05,279 Speaker 1: big SNL fans, and they would walk around the house 103 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:09,039 Speaker 1: quoting Mr Bill and tunes as the Driving Cat and 104 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 1: the land Shark, and I thought these were just American 105 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 1: idioms to go, Oh, no, you know all these quotes. 106 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 1: They were My parents both very, very funny, So it 107 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:24,680 Speaker 1: sort of was just like a household currency. Yeah, well, 108 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 1: your sister didn't, isn't your sister. My sister is a 109 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 1: comedian and we've done a bunch of projects together and 110 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:33,240 Speaker 1: that's just the greatest thing in the world because we 111 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:42,480 Speaker 1: still share a sense of humor and not everyone. But 112 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 1: but at what point did you think I could make 113 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 1: a living at this, I could be a professional actor comedian. 114 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:52,960 Speaker 1: Only after booking my first job. I had never considered 115 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 1: it as a way of life. I thought, I'm too 116 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:01,480 Speaker 1: much of a capricorn um. I don't that astrology is 117 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 1: real except that it's always correct and I so I'm very, 118 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:10,560 Speaker 1: very deeply practical. And so I booked my first job, 119 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:12,600 Speaker 1: which was on a show called The Big a Sketch Show, 120 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,880 Speaker 1: and then I thought, well, okay, I'll give it a 121 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 1: whirl because I've already booked this job, but it's not 122 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 1: going to work out. And then for a long time 123 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 1: it didn't. And then I thought, I'll go to farm 124 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:30,320 Speaker 1: school and I'll you know, that's fine, and then I 125 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:34,320 Speaker 1: was hired at Saturday Night Live and so I continued then, 126 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:37,920 Speaker 1: but it's always sort of touch and go. Yeah, and 127 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 1: did you try out for SNL? I mean I hear 128 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 1: about these really infamous tryouts that conducted sounds terrifying. It 129 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 1: is it's a tribunal um in the dark. Well, you 130 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 1: know you've testified it congressionally. Yeah, you're fine. I think 131 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:01,480 Speaker 1: you've passed some fine guys. But you got the gig. 132 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 1: I didn't, so you know, that's only a big difference, 133 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:10,120 Speaker 1: Thank Gossie. Yeah, I mean I watched the hearings I've 134 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:13,080 Speaker 1: watched you was that sort of like an SNL audition? 135 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:15,360 Speaker 1: Is that is? That was at the comparable experience? Now? 136 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:19,280 Speaker 1: Years seemed he seemed a hourse. So what what year 137 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:22,400 Speaker 1: was it that you started on SNL. It was two 138 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:26,720 Speaker 1: thousand eleven and I had moved to Los Angeles to 139 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 1: do a showcase and I thought, Okay, this is my 140 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:33,480 Speaker 1: last ditch effort as a comedian, I'll do this showcase 141 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:35,680 Speaker 1: and then I'll come home and I'll fake your something 142 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:39,200 Speaker 1: else out and I'll be fine. And but I always knew, 143 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:42,480 Speaker 1: you know, Saturday Night Live is is so important to 144 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:45,960 Speaker 1: me as a comedian because it's really the only place 145 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:48,840 Speaker 1: that people are doing character comedy, the kind of comedy 146 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:52,320 Speaker 1: I love. But also as an American, it's like it's 147 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:55,200 Speaker 1: like our collective way of processing so many things. And 148 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:58,200 Speaker 1: for so many years I got my news from Saturday 149 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:01,720 Speaker 1: Night Live, so it always meant everything to me. And 150 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:03,440 Speaker 1: in the back of my mind, I was like, well, 151 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:07,400 Speaker 1: I'll never get on the show, but I it is 152 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 1: my dream and I should at least try my darkness 153 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:15,720 Speaker 1: to at least audition. And then I got that chance 154 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:22,440 Speaker 1: after many years of doing comedy and a basement, And yeah, 155 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:26,000 Speaker 1: it was scary, but I I had prepared as much 156 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:29,840 Speaker 1: as I possibly could prepare for something I usually wing stuff. 157 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 1: But I was like, if I don't, I need to 158 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:36,680 Speaker 1: do everything I possibly can or I won't be able 159 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:40,679 Speaker 1: to live with myself afterwards. Did you do impersonations when 160 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:43,720 Speaker 1: you tried out or did the impersonating? You know, everybody 161 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:47,240 Speaker 1: literally from Justin Bieber to jet sessions to me, which 162 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:49,560 Speaker 1: we'll get to in a minute. Um, did you do 163 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 1: impersonations before SNL or was that something that happened while 164 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:56,800 Speaker 1: you were there? I did, Um, I learned a lot 165 00:10:56,960 --> 00:11:01,160 Speaker 1: more about what goes into an impression inside of the 166 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 1: pressure cooker of SNL. But I had always been doing impressions. 167 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:09,959 Speaker 1: I just think that a person's voice is, for me 168 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:14,360 Speaker 1: somehow the key to their inner struggles. UM. I feel 169 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:18,240 Speaker 1: that like I can listen to someone's voice and understand 170 00:11:19,559 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 1: what they want and what's getting in the way, which is, 171 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:25,439 Speaker 1: to me, the foundational blocks of any character, even a 172 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:31,640 Speaker 1: sketch character. Um. And other people understand it through physicality 173 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:36,200 Speaker 1: or through what they say or their hair or whatever. 174 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 1: For me, it's just my way in is always someone's voice. 175 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:45,160 Speaker 1: And so I've always loved impressions because you can just 176 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:48,160 Speaker 1: listen to someone and I feel like I understand them, 177 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:50,480 Speaker 1: or I have a theory about them. And what is 178 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:54,600 Speaker 1: a character really but a theory about how best to live, 179 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:58,000 Speaker 1: or a theory about what happens if you live a 180 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,960 Speaker 1: certain way. No, I like that. I mean it is 181 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:05,840 Speaker 1: interesting how you get into a different character, or how 182 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:08,480 Speaker 1: you even try to understand somebody if you're not an 183 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:12,440 Speaker 1: actor like you are, and when you start thinking about 184 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:15,840 Speaker 1: how you're going to try to portray somebody, do you 185 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:17,800 Speaker 1: listen to their voice? Is that how you try to 186 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:21,160 Speaker 1: capture it? Yes? I listened to hours and hours of 187 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:23,840 Speaker 1: YouTube footage. I don't know how anyone produced a sketch 188 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:26,640 Speaker 1: show before YouTube. I mean I think they were in 189 00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:30,840 Speaker 1: there with VCRs copying news reports. That must have been impossible, 190 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:36,280 Speaker 1: But I yes, I listened to hours and I try 191 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:40,680 Speaker 1: to come up with again just what what they want 192 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:44,800 Speaker 1: and what's blocking them, which are usually two disparate elements 193 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:49,040 Speaker 1: of their persona. That tension and that juxtaposition is what 194 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:53,360 Speaker 1: makes a character. For instance, I've played Angela Merkel and 195 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:55,400 Speaker 1: I thought, well, how am I gonna what am I 196 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:57,680 Speaker 1: going to latch onto about this? I don't speak German, 197 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:02,720 Speaker 1: I wish I did. Um what a gorgeous language with 198 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:06,600 Speaker 1: its many many noun cases, but I wanted to capture 199 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:10,920 Speaker 1: something about her, and to me, what was the juxtaposition 200 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:13,680 Speaker 1: there that was interesting was that she's this like staunch 201 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:18,280 Speaker 1: German politician and yet there's almost a I saw a 202 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:23,800 Speaker 1: glimmer of like a girlish longing and insecurity and sweetness 203 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:27,920 Speaker 1: underneath that, and that tension is what I just sort 204 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:31,040 Speaker 1: of like me and the writer who wrote it just 205 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:34,160 Speaker 1: sort of like spun up into a sketch. That's so 206 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:37,000 Speaker 1: interesting because I know her and you did. That's a 207 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:41,800 Speaker 1: very good capture. Oh yeah, and because when I have 208 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:46,800 Speaker 1: spent personal time, private time with her, she's funny, she's unguarded, 209 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:53,000 Speaker 1: she is a good storyteller, she is very effusive, and 210 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:56,000 Speaker 1: then you know she does have to put on the 211 00:13:56,679 --> 00:13:59,960 Speaker 1: I'm the leader of my country, uh look and go forward. 212 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:03,200 Speaker 1: But yeah, you really captured that. That's great. But you 213 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:06,760 Speaker 1: have to be almost an acute psychologist to do what 214 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:09,400 Speaker 1: you do, because you've got to find something to hold 215 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:11,440 Speaker 1: on too. I mean you do somebody like Jeff Sessions. 216 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:13,840 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I mean what do you hang on too? 217 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:15,800 Speaker 1: I mean, what is there that you're going to be 218 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:20,200 Speaker 1: able to find relatable, let alone you know, humorous. It 219 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:24,800 Speaker 1: really requires some some in depth thinking, right for I mean, 220 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:28,840 Speaker 1: for that one, I just I disagreed so vehemently with 221 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:34,040 Speaker 1: everything that he was doing and and thought. But to me, 222 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:40,720 Speaker 1: he seemed like a perfectly jovial person, like a filled 223 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:47,200 Speaker 1: with effervescent um puckish joy, and I thought, well, that's 224 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 1: an interesting tension. I hate what this guy's doing, and 225 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:55,040 Speaker 1: yet I think I would like him if if I 226 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 1: didn't know his politics. He's a sort of there's something 227 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:03,280 Speaker 1: impat and boy like about him that I that I 228 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:06,120 Speaker 1: responded to, and that to me was an interesting tension. 229 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 1: Are there people on your list that you want to 230 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:12,680 Speaker 1: impersonate at any time in the future somebody that pops 231 00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:17,200 Speaker 1: into mind. Politicians are definitely my favorite, because there's always 232 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:21,080 Speaker 1: and maybe you can attest to this, there's always layers 233 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:26,600 Speaker 1: built in because someone's the persona that any politician presents. 234 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:32,160 Speaker 1: I'm guessing, you know, correct, is not what is underneath. 235 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:37,280 Speaker 1: Um is something that's constructed, and there's always comedic tension 236 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 1: to be mined there between someone's persona and their private life. Well, 237 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:44,880 Speaker 1: obviously I saw that when you portrayed me Um, you know, 238 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:47,160 Speaker 1: I thought it was pretty brilliant, and I loved doing 239 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:50,720 Speaker 1: that scene with you where I was val the bartender. 240 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:52,880 Speaker 1: That was the best known of my life. I had 241 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:57,160 Speaker 1: so much fun. I was just so taken by the 242 00:15:57,200 --> 00:16:00,720 Speaker 1: whole experience because even though I on on s and 243 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:03,920 Speaker 1: now I think once before, but it was some years 244 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 1: prior being there that time, and having you know, a 245 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:10,880 Speaker 1: whole scene where you and I were doing it together, 246 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:14,280 Speaker 1: and then going up to Lauren's office while you talked 247 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:17,200 Speaker 1: about how it was going and what the you know, 248 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:20,840 Speaker 1: changes were needed. I found that fascinating. I loved that 249 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:23,840 Speaker 1: so much because we had talked about you know, I 250 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:28,120 Speaker 1: remember watching with absolute joy when you came on with 251 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:31,760 Speaker 1: Amy Poehler, and we talked about doing something like that, 252 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:35,040 Speaker 1: and then our writers Chris Kelly and Sara Schneider, who 253 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:39,240 Speaker 1: are brilliant, We're like, no, it should be a more conversational, 254 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:42,200 Speaker 1: less presentational thing. What if you guys did a scene 255 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 1: together And I thought, yeah, great, And then you were 256 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:52,440 Speaker 1: so funny and you so embodying the character of Val 257 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 1: the Bartender. Yeah, you know, I mean, yeah, have me back. 258 00:16:57,800 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, the Bartender has lots to talk 259 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:02,480 Speaker 1: about right now. I mean, there's so much going on. 260 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:08,280 Speaker 1: He man, you know, let's discuss the world. I have 261 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:12,280 Speaker 1: to say. I also, along with you know, millions of 262 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:17,560 Speaker 1: other people, was just really knocked out by your singing 263 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:22,359 Speaker 1: Hallelujah that first episode after the election, and you know, 264 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:24,840 Speaker 1: I didn't know whether I'd ever get a chance to 265 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:27,520 Speaker 1: thank you or to certainly do it in a you know, 266 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:33,040 Speaker 1: public way. But that was an incredible performance and it 267 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:36,159 Speaker 1: was so meaningful to me. How did that even come together? 268 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:40,080 Speaker 1: How how did you all decide to do that? Well? 269 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:42,720 Speaker 1: Thank you first of all? That means a lot. And 270 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:46,880 Speaker 1: we were we had bandied a few things about. We 271 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 1: were all so broken. I know, for me, that was 272 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:52,800 Speaker 1: the biggest heartbreak of my life. I've than my father 273 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:57,280 Speaker 1: dying when I was a teenager. I was so you know, 274 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:03,720 Speaker 1: and Leonard Cohen had passed that week, and my uh 275 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:06,560 Speaker 1: same the same writer friends, Chris Kelly and Sara Schneider 276 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:10,040 Speaker 1: had sent along this verse of Hallelujah that I had 277 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:13,840 Speaker 1: never heard of, about even when things go wrong, standing 278 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:16,240 Speaker 1: before the Lord of Song with nothing on your tongue 279 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:21,879 Speaker 1: but Hallelujah. And I thought, oh, that's what this moment 280 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:27,439 Speaker 1: calls for, if we can muster it, and I wanted to. 281 00:18:29,119 --> 00:18:31,719 Speaker 1: It just came from a very personal place of wanting 282 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:37,680 Speaker 1: to commiserate and provide some shred of something to people 283 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:40,679 Speaker 1: who were devastated, and I knew it was going to 284 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:43,840 Speaker 1: not sit well with people who weren't and I just 285 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:47,520 Speaker 1: had to, you know, I just I had to share 286 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:51,359 Speaker 1: how I felt. It was like a very primitive just 287 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:57,119 Speaker 1: wanting to connect with my countrymen in that moment, and 288 00:18:57,119 --> 00:18:59,240 Speaker 1: and also on some level with you. I mean, I 289 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:03,960 Speaker 1: didn't figure you'd be watching, but I wanted to say 290 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:08,800 Speaker 1: something that I thought you might say, and I thought 291 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:16,160 Speaker 1: maybe you, in your infinite strength, might offer some ray 292 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:23,960 Speaker 1: of hope. At that moment, I wanted to just give 293 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:27,520 Speaker 1: people a hug. Basically, Yeah, yeah, it was. It felt 294 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:30,240 Speaker 1: like a big hug. And you know, people still come 295 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:33,680 Speaker 1: up and cry with me or around me, and so 296 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:38,280 Speaker 1: it just had such a huge impact on so many people. 297 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:53,000 Speaker 1: We're taking a quick break, stay with us. You know, 298 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:56,240 Speaker 1: you've said, and I've heard you and other interviews and 299 00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:58,680 Speaker 1: read that you have a lot of eclectic interest, which 300 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:02,159 Speaker 1: I relate to. I mean, you do everything from I 301 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:05,120 Speaker 1: do because I'm so I'm interested in so many odds 302 00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:10,520 Speaker 1: and ends, and you're interested in astrophysics, music theory, the 303 00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:13,080 Speaker 1: history of the Silk Road, which I really relate to. 304 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:15,359 Speaker 1: So what are you interested in these days? What what 305 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:19,400 Speaker 1: you know? What's catching your attention? Well, other things that 306 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 1: are in my fancy right now mostly have to do 307 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:25,119 Speaker 1: with survival, and I think you can understand why I've 308 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:31,880 Speaker 1: become very interested suddenly in plant science, farming, growing food, plumbing, 309 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:37,719 Speaker 1: heating and cooling systems, um, construction, things like that. Um, 310 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm a prepper. Now I'm will be going 311 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:45,080 Speaker 1: to my bunker. And I got your barker picked out. 312 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:47,359 Speaker 1: I made you know where it is. I drive every 313 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:50,320 Speaker 1: weekend to look for it. Yeah. Yeah, don't worry, don't 314 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:52,479 Speaker 1: worry about Just let me know in case I need 315 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:55,320 Speaker 1: a bunker. You know, you always need a spare bunker. 316 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:57,960 Speaker 1: You never know what's going to happen. Well, as you know, 317 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:01,520 Speaker 1: we set aside some time in the last episode of 318 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:05,960 Speaker 1: the season to answer some listener questions, and you've graciously 319 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:10,119 Speaker 1: agreed to come along for the ride on this, and 320 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:13,840 Speaker 1: so let's get started. See what people have on their minds. Kate, 321 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:17,960 Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. Okay, So I have these printed out 322 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:21,560 Speaker 1: and I will read them to you and you would 323 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:26,359 Speaker 1: answer them as yourself. Okay, not not as Val the bartender, 324 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:30,439 Speaker 1: but as Or or take on your alter ego. But 325 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:33,600 Speaker 1: get the shirt please and the name to otherwise we 326 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:37,080 Speaker 1: won't understand what's going on. Okay, this is from Melinda. 327 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:40,119 Speaker 1: Dear Madam, Secretary or as you are now in my 328 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:44,600 Speaker 1: head Hilly Billy, which I think it's so great. I 329 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:47,439 Speaker 1: am a voracious reader, as I know you are. I 330 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:49,879 Speaker 1: have you to thank for introducing me to Louise Penny, 331 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:53,400 Speaker 1: who's entire of I've now devoured, including State of Terror, 332 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:56,480 Speaker 1: which was excellent. My question to you is this, what 333 00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:59,160 Speaker 1: have you been reading lately and what would you recommend? 334 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:03,080 Speaker 1: Great question. Well, because I did have COVID and was 335 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:06,639 Speaker 1: down for a week, I caught up on some of 336 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:11,760 Speaker 1: my favorite historic fiction kind of series. So I read 337 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:16,000 Speaker 1: the latest Donna Leone Great Mysteries set in Venice if 338 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:20,160 Speaker 1: you have not discovered those. I read the latest Charles Todd, 339 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:26,240 Speaker 1: set in nineteen twenties after World War One England, very good. 340 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:34,800 Speaker 1: And then I've recently discovered the historical novels by Sharon K. Penman. 341 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:41,040 Speaker 1: I'm reading her series about King Henry and Eleanor of Aquitaine. 342 00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:47,040 Speaker 1: Very interesting, not only well done, but really engrossing. So 343 00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:49,840 Speaker 1: those are some of the things I'm reading. What happens 344 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:55,000 Speaker 1: don't tell me? Okay, here we have a question from 345 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:58,320 Speaker 1: Craig flicking Er. What are your thoughts on the State 346 00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:00,639 Speaker 1: of Attack. We find on the lg ME too plus 347 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:05,119 Speaker 1: community with Florida's Don't Say Gay bill passing seventeen in 348 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:08,679 Speaker 1: Texas with its anti transagenda, I can't help but wonder 349 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:12,639 Speaker 1: how this plays into the midterm elections. Oh my gosh it. 350 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:20,240 Speaker 1: First of all, it's profoundly outraging and deeply sad that 351 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:24,840 Speaker 1: you have people in positions of power in our country 352 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:32,040 Speaker 1: who are more interested in undermining and opposing the rights 353 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:35,679 Speaker 1: of individuals than they are in bringing people together. And 354 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:38,440 Speaker 1: I think people have to stand up to it. And 355 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:41,280 Speaker 1: the idea don't say gay. I mean I think people 356 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:44,040 Speaker 1: should go around, you know, saying gay all the time. 357 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:49,760 Speaker 1: Anything we can do to puncture the hypocrisy and the 358 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:54,600 Speaker 1: cruelty that lies behind this, we need to be doing. Uh. 359 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:57,520 Speaker 1: So that's um, you know, my hope. And and do 360 00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:01,080 Speaker 1: it with comedy, do it with political action. And you 361 00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:03,760 Speaker 1: mentioned the mid terms, and let me just say, please 362 00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:09,159 Speaker 1: please turn out and vote. You know, the hypocrites and 363 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:13,960 Speaker 1: the hate mongers win when people don't vote. So that 364 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:17,240 Speaker 1: would be my plea as we move forward in this year, 365 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:21,320 Speaker 1: let's say it now together on three one to three 366 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:28,399 Speaker 1: gay gay gay gay. Okay. This is from Pie or 367 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:32,800 Speaker 1: her email handle is a griffin door equestrian girl. That's 368 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:38,800 Speaker 1: a good one. Hello, Hillary and Mry guest. It's me Hello. 369 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:41,960 Speaker 1: I have two questions. I hope that's okay. One, what 370 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:46,040 Speaker 1: are some of your favorite songs and artists? My favorites 371 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:50,000 Speaker 1: are Joanne and Born to Die, Lady Gaga, Lana del Ray, 372 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:53,280 Speaker 1: Taylor Swift, and Nate Lewis. And do you have any 373 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:57,439 Speaker 1: pets and how are they doing? Well? Let's start with 374 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:02,240 Speaker 1: the easy question on pets. Yes, we have dogs. We 375 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:05,680 Speaker 1: have a labradoodle named Mazie and we have a toy 376 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:11,639 Speaker 1: poodle named Tally short for Tallula. Uh. They're both getting 377 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:15,920 Speaker 1: up in years, but they still are full of personality 378 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:20,639 Speaker 1: and incredibly fun to be around. Now asked to songs. 379 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:23,520 Speaker 1: I like your question, and I like what you said 380 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:26,440 Speaker 1: about some of your favorites. So here's what I'm currently doing. 381 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:30,080 Speaker 1: You know, I've always loved from the time I was, 382 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:34,280 Speaker 1: you know, literally a teenager up until now, I've always 383 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:39,840 Speaker 1: loved listening to women's voices, you know, women like Carol 384 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:43,359 Speaker 1: King and Judy Collins and Joan Bayaz and Joni Mitchell. 385 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:47,720 Speaker 1: I mean, they were really formative. So now fast forward, 386 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:52,080 Speaker 1: a very long time. I am listening to a lot 387 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:56,919 Speaker 1: of the really famous young women. So I love I 388 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,960 Speaker 1: love Lady Gaga. I love her both as a performed 389 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,640 Speaker 1: her and a singer. I just really also like her sensibility. 390 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:07,120 Speaker 1: I mean, just in the last week, the way that 391 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:11,960 Speaker 1: she was with Liliza Manelli at the ill fated infamous Oscars, 392 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,720 Speaker 1: she ended that with such a note of grace, which 393 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:18,560 Speaker 1: was well needed. Um at the Grammys, which I was watching, 394 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:22,480 Speaker 1: you know, she came and carried the train of a 395 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:25,520 Speaker 1: skirt for someone who was having trouble because of crutches. 396 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 1: So I like Lady Gaga. I really like Adele. I 397 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:34,119 Speaker 1: listened to everything Adele does. Um, I'm listening to a 398 00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:36,960 Speaker 1: lot of Taylor Swift, and I really like Taylor Swift. 399 00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:41,000 Speaker 1: I like her storytelling. I'm getting really into Taylor Swift. 400 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:45,000 Speaker 1: I'm starting to listen to Billie Eilish. I think her 401 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:49,080 Speaker 1: talent is so multifaceted, everything from you know, James Bond 402 00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:52,560 Speaker 1: to ballads and all in between. So I'm just I'm 403 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:56,040 Speaker 1: I'm kind of educating myself, if that makes sense to you, 404 00:26:56,200 --> 00:27:00,760 Speaker 1: trying to hear and listen and learn about this new 405 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:06,159 Speaker 1: wonderful generation of wonderful women singers. Wow, bless you. How 406 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:08,200 Speaker 1: about you, Kate? Who do you listen to these days? 407 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,280 Speaker 1: I stick? I just I stick with songs that I 408 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:14,560 Speaker 1: learned in college. And that's it. Either that I don't 409 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:18,560 Speaker 1: like to try new foods. Okay, that's not true. I 410 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:21,200 Speaker 1: do like to try new foods, which leads us into 411 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:25,920 Speaker 1: our next question from Kathy Lee. I think you've said 412 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,360 Speaker 1: that your favorite job was being the U S Senator 413 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:31,920 Speaker 1: from New York for eight years. Can you talk about 414 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:35,520 Speaker 1: a couple of issues? Okay, so the food part comes later. 415 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:37,240 Speaker 1: Can you talk about a couple of issues that you 416 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:40,199 Speaker 1: worked on that we're most meaningful to you or events 417 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:43,400 Speaker 1: they're most memorable that are not related to the nine 418 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:49,320 Speaker 1: eleven tragedy. Yeah. Well, obviously not eleven was the overwhelming experience, 419 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,960 Speaker 1: but then the after effects of N eleven, trying to 420 00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:57,880 Speaker 1: get healthcare for the first responders and the emergency workers 421 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:02,880 Speaker 1: and fighting that battle for years, um, trying to make 422 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:07,200 Speaker 1: sure that you know, victims and their families got compensation 423 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:13,960 Speaker 1: because of the horrific losses that they experienced, and then rebuilding, rebuilding, 424 00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:16,639 Speaker 1: you know, Lower Manhattan. I spent a lot of time 425 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:21,880 Speaker 1: putting together legislation and deals to help get that started. 426 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:24,919 Speaker 1: I also spent a lot of time on healthcare, as 427 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:28,720 Speaker 1: you might guess, because worked really hard and been part 428 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:30,840 Speaker 1: of getting health care for kids. But then there were 429 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:35,719 Speaker 1: so many other issues, and one that I worked a 430 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:38,720 Speaker 1: lot on was trying to make sure that drug companies 431 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:43,720 Speaker 1: didn't just treat children like small adults when they came 432 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:47,640 Speaker 1: to doing drug trials, because they're not small adults and 433 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,560 Speaker 1: they need, you know, really special attention. As we're seeing 434 00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:53,640 Speaker 1: now with the COVID vaccines, which have been literally miraculous 435 00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:57,560 Speaker 1: for children under five, they're not quite getting it right. 436 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,560 Speaker 1: It seems to be safe, but not that effect. And 437 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,400 Speaker 1: so frankly, the work that I did back when I 438 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:06,880 Speaker 1: was a senator is absolutely instrumental and how they're trying 439 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:09,600 Speaker 1: to figure out, you know, what are the right doses 440 00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,600 Speaker 1: and what's safe and what works for kids with vaccines. 441 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:17,240 Speaker 1: I spent you know, a lot of time on environmental issues, uh, 442 00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:20,360 Speaker 1: something I care deeply about and I just don't want 443 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:26,000 Speaker 1: to see our rules and regulations turned back. We fought 444 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:29,160 Speaker 1: hard to get clean water and clean air, and by God, 445 00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:32,560 Speaker 1: those should be everybody's birthright. Well, bless you for that 446 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:35,040 Speaker 1: because I drank a gallon of New York City tap 447 00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:38,440 Speaker 1: water a day and it's good. It's the best water 448 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:40,520 Speaker 1: in the world. It's such good water. And you know, 449 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,920 Speaker 1: I just would add, Kate, because you've raised one of 450 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:47,160 Speaker 1: my favorite issues in New York City's tap water. Look 451 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:50,400 Speaker 1: at why it's so good in part because a hundred 452 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:54,640 Speaker 1: and fifty years ago or so, people who ran New 453 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:58,000 Speaker 1: York City and New York State made the decision to 454 00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:02,840 Speaker 1: buy up land upstay eat which had waterways, and to 455 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:06,040 Speaker 1: create a reservoir system and then to protect it all 456 00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:10,280 Speaker 1: these years, and it's been one of the most important 457 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:13,720 Speaker 1: piece of legislation I think passed in certainly New York 458 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:16,520 Speaker 1: and maybe even the country because New York City water 459 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:19,600 Speaker 1: is still very lightly, if at all, filtered, because it 460 00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:23,080 Speaker 1: has been kept so pure from the sources. So if 461 00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:25,040 Speaker 1: you plan ahead and you do the right things, it 462 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:29,800 Speaker 1: has a long term you know, positive effects. Amen and 463 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:33,040 Speaker 1: kathe Lee also asks and this I want to know, 464 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,640 Speaker 1: can you share a favorite dish or dessert from five 465 00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:40,760 Speaker 1: different places that you've traveled, because you've traveled every part 466 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:43,120 Speaker 1: of this world. Oh my god, you know they have 467 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:48,240 Speaker 1: to do five, But you know, I'm curious. Yeah, I mean, okay, look, 468 00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:53,200 Speaker 1: I I adore dessert. Let's start there, Okay, I mean, 469 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:56,840 Speaker 1: let's not be let's let's not pretend like I don't 470 00:30:56,920 --> 00:31:00,719 Speaker 1: adore dessert, because I do. And I would have to say, 471 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:05,120 Speaker 1: anywhere you go in Italy, whether it is gelato of 472 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:12,160 Speaker 1: every flavor, or Tierra Masou or any other incredible Italian dessert, 473 00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:17,720 Speaker 1: c'm in right. If you go to France, anything chocolate, 474 00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:20,320 Speaker 1: I don't know why it is what my go to is. 475 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:28,360 Speaker 1: If you go to I will say Armenia, where I 476 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:32,920 Speaker 1: have been twice, I had the best fruit for dessert 477 00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:38,200 Speaker 1: I think I've ever had in my life. Apricots, peaches, cherries. 478 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:40,520 Speaker 1: I don't know why. I don't know why they were 479 00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:45,280 Speaker 1: so delicious, but I just absolutely adored them. So those 480 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:48,400 Speaker 1: are just some of my favorites from my travels. You 481 00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:51,760 Speaker 1: heard it here first, folks, Stone fruits from the caucusus 482 00:31:52,480 --> 00:32:07,760 Speaker 1: the best We'll be right back, all right. And from 483 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:11,920 Speaker 1: leslie E in Oregon. Pretty much everyone I know wrote 484 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:16,840 Speaker 1: to you after you quote unquote lost in It was 485 00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:20,080 Speaker 1: somehow comforting for us, and we hoped in some small 486 00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:22,360 Speaker 1: way to lift you up and also to thank you 487 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:25,160 Speaker 1: for your courage and leadership. But how did it feel? 488 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:27,920 Speaker 1: Could you bear to read any of that mail? And 489 00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:32,800 Speaker 1: did it help? Well? Yes, it helped a lot. And 490 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,880 Speaker 1: I tried to answer every one of them, and I 491 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,320 Speaker 1: don't know, I hope I answered yours and your friends 492 00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:41,120 Speaker 1: because it meant the world to me. You know. I 493 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:46,320 Speaker 1: got such heartfelt letters, and they came from people of 494 00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:51,200 Speaker 1: all ages, all kinds of formats, some you know, pictures 495 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:56,920 Speaker 1: that little kids did for me, some heartrending long handwritten letters, 496 00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:03,680 Speaker 1: some very smart, typed formal letters but with a impact 497 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:07,400 Speaker 1: to them. I got thousands and thousands and they will 498 00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:10,320 Speaker 1: all end up in the library somewhere at some point. 499 00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:14,120 Speaker 1: What was so moving to me were that the people 500 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:17,640 Speaker 1: who were writing me after that election were people who 501 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:21,640 Speaker 1: really paid attention. They didn't just dip in and out 502 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,800 Speaker 1: of the campaign. They paid attention to what the candidates 503 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:27,080 Speaker 1: were saying, and they paid attention to what I was saying, 504 00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:32,760 Speaker 1: and so their feelings were really rooted in an understanding 505 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:35,040 Speaker 1: of what I was not only saying, but what I 506 00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:38,360 Speaker 1: intended to try to do. And that was particularly meaningful 507 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:42,800 Speaker 1: to me. Okay, unless, but not least, we have two 508 00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:46,920 Speaker 1: voicemails here's one of them. Hi, Hillary, my name is Leah. 509 00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:50,720 Speaker 1: I'm from Brooklyn. My question for you is were the 510 00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:57,080 Speaker 1: beds in the White House comfortable? Thanks? Leah. They were 511 00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:02,040 Speaker 1: very comfortable. And I have to tell you that the 512 00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:05,760 Speaker 1: mattress in the White House was so comfortable that, you know, 513 00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:08,880 Speaker 1: when we moved, since the White House would provide a 514 00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:12,000 Speaker 1: new mattress for our successor, we said can we take 515 00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:13,840 Speaker 1: the mattress with us? And they said sure, we're just 516 00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:17,400 Speaker 1: going to throw it away otherwise. So literally we had 517 00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:20,520 Speaker 1: that mattress for twenty years. In fact, Leah, we have 518 00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:23,600 Speaker 1: just bought a new mattress. It was that comfortable for 519 00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:29,880 Speaker 1: that long. Okay, great, and here's one more. Hi, Secretary Clinton. 520 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,560 Speaker 1: My name is Sophie and I am in Virginia, and 521 00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:38,560 Speaker 1: my question is more about your personal daily routines. I 522 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:41,840 Speaker 1: think for many of us, and certainly you, the past 523 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:45,880 Speaker 1: six years have felt like one trauma after another, and 524 00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:48,960 Speaker 1: I think many of us are grappling with how we 525 00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:53,799 Speaker 1: spend our time day to day in order to keep 526 00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:57,960 Speaker 1: hope and to keep optimism going well for ourselves but 527 00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:01,600 Speaker 1: also the people who are around us. I love to 528 00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:04,720 Speaker 1: walk a lot, I love to read but I'm wondering 529 00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:08,440 Speaker 1: if there are other things that you personally do and 530 00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:16,440 Speaker 1: that you're committed to to keep yourself feeling hopeful. Thank you, Oh, Sophie. Yeah, 531 00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:19,680 Speaker 1: I know that that's a really common feeling and I 532 00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:22,640 Speaker 1: feel it myself, so I really relate to your question. 533 00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:26,960 Speaker 1: Here's what I have done and it really helps me 534 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,719 Speaker 1: a lot. One is spend a lot of time outdoors. 535 00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:32,719 Speaker 1: I try to go for a walk, and I try 536 00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:37,719 Speaker 1: to go to a place like a park, um preserve 537 00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:41,760 Speaker 1: some woods, just anything to kind of break my routine 538 00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:44,799 Speaker 1: and try to walk for an hour. I highly recommend it. 539 00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:48,840 Speaker 1: You know, there's a concept in Japanese called forest bathing, 540 00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:53,160 Speaker 1: which I love the concept of where you are just 541 00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:58,719 Speaker 1: immersed in nature. So hiking, walking, biking, anything that gets 542 00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:03,120 Speaker 1: you outdoors. I'm a huge supporter of that. Secondly, I 543 00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:06,839 Speaker 1: like to spend time with, you know, people that are 544 00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:11,920 Speaker 1: positive and have positive energy, because there's so much that 545 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:16,080 Speaker 1: drags you down these days. So spending time with people 546 00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:19,800 Speaker 1: that I like and admire, people who are old friends 547 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:24,520 Speaker 1: and new friends. I'm very grateful for that. As a grandmother, 548 00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:26,520 Speaker 1: I've spent a lot of time with my grandchildren. I 549 00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:29,520 Speaker 1: have a seven year old granddaughter and a five and 550 00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:32,120 Speaker 1: two and a half year old grandson to three all 551 00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:36,440 Speaker 1: together and they are constantly, you know, just little engines 552 00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:41,480 Speaker 1: of positivity. I also try to read and watch things 553 00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:44,720 Speaker 1: that make me laugh, make me smile, make me think, 554 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:48,640 Speaker 1: but don't depress me, because you know, I'm not tuning 555 00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:53,920 Speaker 1: into all of the meanness and the anger. Um. I 556 00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:56,640 Speaker 1: read about it, which I can handle better than watching it, 557 00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,759 Speaker 1: and then I use my social media to speak out 558 00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:04,360 Speaker 1: again instant. I'm angry beyond words about Ukraine and what 559 00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:07,440 Speaker 1: Russia and Putin are doing, and so I'm trying to 560 00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:09,839 Speaker 1: be helpful there, but I'm trying not to let it 561 00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:13,719 Speaker 1: totally consume me. So I don't know if that's helpful, Sophie, 562 00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:15,879 Speaker 1: but that's how I try to deal with a lot 563 00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:23,520 Speaker 1: of the stuff that we're all living with. Gosh, you know, 564 00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:29,640 Speaker 1: I love you. I'll say it, you know, as a 565 00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:32,360 Speaker 1: public figure and as a person. You know, you watch 566 00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:35,760 Speaker 1: that many hours of footage of someone and you feel 567 00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,759 Speaker 1: like you. I feel like you're my best friend. I 568 00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:42,080 Speaker 1: know that you don't feel me necessarily, but I you know, 569 00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:46,640 Speaker 1: I feel like I really got to understand and adore 570 00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:50,880 Speaker 1: you on a very personal level, and it has just 571 00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:55,720 Speaker 1: been the absolute honor of my life to have any 572 00:37:56,080 --> 00:38:00,440 Speaker 1: proximity to you at all, And so thank you for 573 00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:05,279 Speaker 1: having me on this podcast and for being my vell. 574 00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:08,560 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for doing this Kate, and right 575 00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:10,560 Speaker 1: back at you, and let's go out and have some 576 00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:20,080 Speaker 1: dessert sometime. Okay, great. You won't find Kate on social media, 577 00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:23,120 Speaker 1: but you can find her on this season of Saturday 578 00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:26,759 Speaker 1: Night Live, which wraps up later this month, and on 579 00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:31,200 Speaker 1: the Peacock drama series Joe Versus Carol and I want 580 00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:33,759 Speaker 1: to give a big thank you to all of you 581 00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:37,520 Speaker 1: who called or wrote in with your questions for this episode. 582 00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:41,120 Speaker 1: I so appreciate hearing from each and every one of you. 583 00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:43,480 Speaker 1: I wish we had the time to answer all of 584 00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:48,279 Speaker 1: your questions. And that, my friends, is it for this 585 00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:51,360 Speaker 1: season of You and Me Both. 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