WEBVTT - Ep. 7 Actress, Neuroscientist, Mom 0:00:01.960 --> 0:00:05.399 Wine Down with Janna Kramer and I heard radio podcast 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:09.680 It's time to wind down. Okay, So producer Jenna is 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:13.720 eating Kuffin's right now? What is there so good? And 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:16.560 this isn't This is not an ad, by the way, 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:18.959 but it's a hybrid of a chocolate chip cookie and 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:21.239 a muffin. Where do you get him at? I have 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:25.800 no idea. Amy, my friend Natalie, her kid Lane invented them. 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:27.920 Amy is in a studio with us today because she's 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:30.120 obsessed with our guests that we have on today. Um, 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:34.680 and I'm really obsessed to because Blossom Guys, Like I 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:38.960 grew up watching that show. And she's like, she's a neuroscientist, 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:42.120 she's an author, she's an actress, she's a mom, kick 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:48.320 ass mom. Yeah, she's like she's everything. And Amy is 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:53.000 obsessed with her. So that's why she's here. I'm totally 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:55.800 obsessed with her, her brain, for her brain. Yeah, it 0:00:56.000 --> 0:01:03.720 fascinates me. Girl crushed. What was she impeating? It's right. 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:06.160 I'll never forget when I watched Beaches and I was 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:08.320 in the back of my bus and I was I 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:10.360 can't remember which tour I was on, but one of 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:14.080 my band guys came back and he's like, are you okay? 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:19.920 And I was like it's a good cry, bawling like 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:23.040 and he was just like, okay, we gotta go on 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:25.560 in like five minutes. So, like my eyes are tearing 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:28.680 up just thinking about them. Yeah, I guess they had 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:30.800 a remake, but I couldn't watch it. I was like, no, nothing, 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:36.080 absolutely Beaches like number one, but I cannot. Oh my goodness, 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:39.039 I love that, like I love Beaches. I know it's 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:42.039 so good and good cry. I do too. I kind 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:44.360 of feel like a good cry. Yeah, why you I 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:48.840 don't you know? Just I don't know. Life, it's hard. 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:51.760 So it was just Father's Day. What did you? What 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:54.160 did you get my Father's Day? So he got a 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:57.559 new set of golf clubs and so he's like, babe, 0:01:57.600 --> 0:01:59.680 all I want to do is I just want He 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:02.800 wants to perfect his golf swing because his dream, like 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:05.800 he's his dream is for me to get on like 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:07.559 a hit show and then he can quit his job 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:10.800 and then he'll be a professional golfer. That's a great train. 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:14.040 I mean, if you like, I can't even hit the ball. 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:17.040 I've tried. He's like, no, that's not really. He loves 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:19.280 his job just in case any of his bosses are listening. 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:23.040 But no, Um, he loves his job. He's just obsessed 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:25.239 with golf and he just like his dream is to 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:28.200 be in the p g A. And I'm like, great, 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:30.600 I get more naptime because I just will asleep when 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:34.839 I watch golf. It's so slow. It's slow. Yes, it's 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:37.040 kind of boring, but as he loves it. That's his thing, 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:41.880 and I'm like, cool, babe, awesome, So golf lessons and um, yeah, 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:43.800 we just had a really nice relaxing day. He played 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:46.280 golf in the morning, so I didn't see him and 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:49.119 it was nice and relaxing morning. And then he came 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:51.640 back and we just hung out. He loves to cook, 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:55.440 so we had some steak. It was good. What it 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:59.280 was Rocco with daddy. Yes, so he was with his dad. 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:03.120 And that was one thing, you know, he didn't give me. 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:05.919 He didn't take Rocco to get me a Mother's Day gift. 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:11.359 So I know, although Rocco made me the most beautiful 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:14.800 card and a painting at school, which I thought was 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:19.600 even it was so special. Um, but I got him 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:23.799 something so that Rocco could give to him. Maybe that's 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:28.440 like a hey, hint for next year right now exactly exactly. 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:32.320 But also my birthday is this week? What when it's 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:37.680 one and I'm turning forty four, So I scheduled um 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:41.000 a LiPo suction appointment? What for my birthday? That's my 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:44.440 birthday gift to me. It's my divorce gift and birthday gifts. 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:47.160 Why are you getting LiPo because I think it's going 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:51.160 to be fantastic. No, I am. I'm going to debate 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:55.000 this with you because it's not about I mean, okay, 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:57.360 it's all about just good eating and working out. It's 0:03:57.360 --> 0:03:59.560 not just about working out, but it's about healthy diet. 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:02.480 I know I do have a healthy diet. Yes, yes, 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:05.560 then and I work out. I'm just old. You will 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:09.800 see when you end up getting in your forties. Is 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:13.240 it a tummy tuck? No? No, like you're actually going 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:15.840 to do sucking out like life bye bye. You know 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:18.560 what he said? He said, I can even if you want, 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:20.560 I can put it in your button. And I was like, no, 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:23.080 thank you, I'm asking you to take the fat out. 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.040 I don't want it back. I wonder if that's what 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:28.880 like that, like what amber Rose does and then those 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:32.320 they put the fat in there. He said, everyone's doing it. 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:34.520 I said, I don't care. I'm asking you to take 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:37.840 it out and get throw it out like some of 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:40.240 the things that could happen now Like no, no, it's 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:42.000 nothing you should do. And I think we should actually 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:46.000 all shame her. It's not. The whole show is to 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:48.840 not shame. Yeah, that is the whole point of the 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:51.240 show is do not shame. But I am just advising 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:56.120 you as your friend. I don't I think is if 0:04:56.160 --> 0:05:00.520 you just continue to maintain a healthy diet and some 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:03.800 exercise on top of But the diet is my trainer says, 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:07.360 you can work out every single day, but if you're 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:10.720 eating doesn't change you. Your body will not change. I 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.920 just you know what, I'm vegan, and I'm not a 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:18.560 crappy vegan. There's crappy vegans. I'm not that person. I 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:21.280 um is it just waits from over because I you 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:23.279 don't like I literally, I'm like, where are you going 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:25.120 to suck it out from its? We have a great 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:28.599 I'm just getting my torso sucked out just bye bye. 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:32.640 And it's from being older and I had a baby 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:36.719 later in life and I'm turning forty four and it's 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:39.640 my birthday gift to myself. I never brought my birthday 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:42.600 and it's smart it's smart light BO. So it's not 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:46.799 I'm not fully under it's smart light bo. Yeah, okay, 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:51.360 I'm getting a smart light. Those section well, I mean, 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:56.919 I will say this if it's going to it's an investment, 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:02.680 which means look, I'll say I'll say this if that 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:05.279 is going to make you feel better about yourself. I 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:06.920 don't think that's the way you should go. But if 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:08.840 it's going to make you feel better, then you need 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:10.520 to do what you want to do. Like my mom 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:11.960 always said, She's like, I want to tell me talk 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:14.000 and I'm like, Mom, put down the M and m's 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:17.719 and then you know, fine, But you know over time 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:20.720 again I don't. I don't when my metabolism it's I 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:23.800 can already tell it's changing, but it is harder for 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.440 me to lose weight when I want to. But again, 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:30.440 like if you start to eat crappy after your liposection, 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:32.599 I'm going to be mad at you and not I won't. 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:36.560 I promise we'll see Okay, No, I don't know, cramise, 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:38.280 I won't. We'll see No, no, no, I mean I 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:43.000 don't eat crappy. That's the thing. It's everything also, it's 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:45.840 like you know, it's the genes. Just I think everything 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:49.000 in moderation. Again, like for me, like I always said, 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:51.040 after I'm done with babies, like I want to get 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:52.960 a boob job, not because I want big boobs, but 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:55.720 because I just like I hate wearing bras and I 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:58.400 would love to just have like a full be and 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:01.320 just you know, that would be just be nice, a round, 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:03.400 full be. And you know everyone's like, no, you shouldn't, 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:05.200 you shouldn't do that, but again, it would make me happy, 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:08.039 So a kind of like make you happy. Well, you 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:12.560 can't change me if you're I'm telling you, but like no, again, 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:14.480 it's about like if that's what's going to make you 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:18.600 feel pretty, I'm not for it. But I think there's 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:22.600 other ways I've been doing the other ways. Let's just 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:25.360 what You're right, there's no other way to get me 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:29.120 a big be without you know, adding a little small something. 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:31.120 How about you give me some of your fat? There 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:33.120 were good? Oh my god, I wonder if we can 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:41.120 get a deal three because too um all right, well sorry, Amy, 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:44.880 we're just gonna we're gonna table that is that what 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:47.560 you wanted to Was that your Yeah, you told me 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:49.520 that you had something you want to talk about? That 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:53.520 was it? Like? I mean, I seriously went through It 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:57.280 took me a week to make the decision. One week, well, 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:01.960 another week. It took like it took a while, it 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:04.200 really did. Is there anything else you want to do? 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:11.280 I don't think so. No, no, So I want to 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:13.320 talk to you guys about care Of. I have a 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:16.440 really difficult time picking out well. 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That's sorry, 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:17.760 Like I'm gonna say that you were old enough to 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:24.120 have known that girl. No, I'm almost thirty five. Wow. Yeah, Okay. 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:25.959 The joke is I slept in my makeup last night, 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:27.880 so like for the first time I have like somewhat 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.920 of a glimpse of makeup on. But I just twenty 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:35.880 years much the same age. It's good. But I'm just 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:39.200 so excited because you you have I mean, like you 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:44.960 have your name, and then it's like, neuroscientist, what you're 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:48.240 so smart? After well, I'm persistent. You know, having a 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:50.840 degree doesn't necessarily mean you're smart. It means you're persistent. 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:53.400 But you've got that degree, which means you're smart. After Blossom, 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:55.720 I was nineteen in Blossom ended, So I did Blossom 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:58.320 from fourteen to nineteen. I went to u c l A. 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:00.720 And I did my undergraduate degree in a science and 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:02.720 a minor in Hebrew and Jewish studies, which kept my 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:05.520 g p A up. And then I went directly into 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:08.880 a PhD program at U c l A, also in neuroscience. Incredible, 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:10.600 and you come out of that with two children in 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:13.000 a PhD. I mean, I was telling her, I was 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:14.760 like I feel stupid next to you because I still 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.080 count like I don't even know the Times table, and 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:19.000 you're smart enough to know that if your makeup looked 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.160 like that yesterday, your best sleeping it because it looks 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:27.360 good today. Things yesterday's eyeliner, today's smokey eye. Right, So 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:31.760 what they say, I'm street smart, I'm just not book smart. 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:33.880 But I mean, like, how like you were just like, 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:36.120 all right, I was just on the most famous TV show. 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:39.560 Now I want to be a neuroscientist. Well it wasn't 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:41.560 that famous, which is part of why it was seen 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:46.280 as yeah so Blossom. Yeah, you know. But when you 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:48.520 when you think about what TV was like then, which 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:50.880 you may not have thought about because you were younger 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:54.520 than I was, you know, um, the TV watching was 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:57.120 really really different, and our show was like sometimes in 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:59.960 the top twenty. But it was not like the love 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:03.199 full of success of never knowne that. We just we 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:05.800 never nominated for anything. We never got an Emmy, We 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:09.079 never got nominated even our writing or directing. So wedicated 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:13.120 those syndication So actually we were, we were we had 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:16.360 enough episodes for syndication. But you may notice that our 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:18.719 show is not syndicated. The way the other shows from 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:22.000 the nineties were. So you can now see it. I 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:24.400 think Hulu picked it up. You can now watch it. 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:27.160 But it never had the kind of run that these 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:29.920 other shows from the from the nineties had. Um. So 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:32.360 the fact is like it was seen, you know, as 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:34.840 different than like Punky Brewster, which was a kids show, 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:38.240 but it was but it was But Blossom was really 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:40.920 right at the time though, that was really seen as 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.120 like a like a family sitcom. It wasn't like you 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:47.080 were considered a serious actor back then. TV was considered 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:50.440 the lesser of the acting gigs to have, meaning, you know, 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:52.920 the way you have like movie stars doing guest spots 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.560 on TV shows now, that was not happening in the nineties. 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:57.240 So it was seen as a good thing to kind 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:59.920 of step away from the industry grow up a little bit. 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:01.920 I fell in love with science when I was on 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:03.839 the set of Blossom, and I really wanted to be 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:05.760 appreciated for what was in my head and not what 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.200 I could offer people, you know, in terms of entertainment 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:11.280 and money. Um, my parents were both teachers, my grandparents 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:13.920 were immigrants, so I was raised that you go to college. 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:16.480 So it really felt like a natural thing for me 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:19.120 to do, and I wanted to have more of a 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:21.560 normal life and whatever normal is, Like, I don't think 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:24.360 anyone's normal, but I certainly was not. Well. I think 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:25.880 it was cool about that though, was that you were 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:27.600 able because a lot of people like, you know, you're 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:29.800 to me. You were on a hit show, and then 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:32.360 you went away to college, you became a neuroscientist, and 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:34.480 then you were able to go back into acting, which 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:36.720 I think is fantastic because a lot of people kind 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:38.920 of were like, no, you were typecasted as one thing 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:41.680 like hard. But I mean now you're on another very 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:43.840 successful show. I mean that was really it's I mean, 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:46.280 it's a blessed accident to have been cast in the 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:48.960 Big Bang theory. But um, the true story is, you know, 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:51.200 after I got my degree, Um I did. I had 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:53.760 a toddler. I was pregnant with my second son when 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:55.920 I took my doctorate. When I took my whole I 0:14:56.000 --> 0:15:00.120 was that lady in a doctoralhood like super pregnant. Um so, 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:03.680 so you were finishing your dissertation while pregnant. Well, I 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:07.320 actually wrote my dissertation and edited it while nursing my 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:11.040 first son, and then by the time I submitted my dissertation, 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:15.360 I was pregnant. I defended my dissertation. Um, I defended 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:17.400 my dissertation before I got pregnant. But then by the 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:20.520 time you take your hood, I was Greggor's again. I mean, 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:27.040 was it like baby like, Yeah, I guess I'm just 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:29.800 kind of like most pregnant women just layer out. I mean, 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:32.680 I remember I was pregnant with my my daughter, Jolia. 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:34.920 I was just like, I was just like, I can't 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:37.400 do anything. I'm just there and you're like getting your 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:45.400 neural science forgetting degree nursing. Well, I'm very, very human. 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:49.920 I'm not superhuman. Um. But no, but I think it's 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:52.720 it's a it's a really important point to like to 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:55.600 realize that women, you know, we can all do it differently, 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:58.080 you know. And like I loved being home with my 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:00.200 kids after I got my degree, Like I was home 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:01.920 with my kids. I was able to be home with 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:03.560 them because that's what I wanted to do and I 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:05.480 felt like that's the way I wanted to raise my children, 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:08.400 was to be with them in those years. But that's decision. 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:10.280 I don't want to be an actress. No, I didn't 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:12.680 even want to be a research professor. I stayed home 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:16.200 with my kids. I taught, I tutored piano, I tutored Hebrew, 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:19.240 I taught second. Didn't want to do anything with it. 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:22.000 You know what, Sometimes you want to get it great 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:24.640 for the the experience and the potential. And the fact 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:26.760 is I didn't know what kind of mom I'd want 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:29.480 to be. But when that child came out of my body, 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:33.000 I realized I want to be with him rather than 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:36.320 with someone else's children all day while paying for childcare. 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:38.680 And some women decide that, and there are women in 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:40.960 my department who did that. I don't judge, went like, 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:44.120 I don't begrudge on that decision. But I didn't realize 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:47.080 how much I was going to love being a parent. 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:50.240 And sure there were times when I was bored, and 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:52.360 there were times when I was frustrated, when I was like, 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:54.360 why is my purpose in life to be a milk 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:57.880 factory for this human that doesn't even seem to appreciate it? 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:00.640 And he's always pooping on me, Like how your nipple 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:04.080 is raw right now? Like I'm in pain. I don't sleep. 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:06.680 I never got training for this job, and no one 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:10.400 pays me. And in addition, you don't get health insurance 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:12.760 from being a mom. So that's actually what I started 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:15.400 auditioning again, is we were running out of health insurance 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:17.879 my my now ex hus when we were married at 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:20.880 the time. Um, we were both in school and get 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:23.240 to later. Um No, we were both in grad school 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:27.760 and my insurance lapsed. He was finishing his master's thesis. 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:30.240 And I figured, if I can just like act literally 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:32.639 this is a true story enough to just get basic 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:35.840 health insurance for my family, I could still keep teaching. 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:37.760 I was supposed to be the at home mom, so 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:40.600 I started auditioning for things. All the casting directors were 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:43.919 too young to even remember Blossom, and I was considered like, oh, 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:46.760 this child actor, like thanks jacket act. So I just 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:49.199 started auditioning for characters that had no names. It was 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:55.800 just like girl one, like you know, chubby girl too. Um. 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:58.320 So I have a manager. Her name is Tiffany Kuzon. 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:01.879 We were actually friends in high school before I was 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:05.040 even like thinking of becoming an actress again. Later in life, 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:07.200 we lost touch because in the days before cell phones 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:10.800 and Facebook, you know, I finished Blossom. She went to 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:13.000 work at U t A and then she actually took 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:14.879 me on when I was eight months pregnant with my 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:18.880 second son. I had a literary project at the management 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:21.159 firm she was at, and I got to get this message, 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:22.679 Tiffany wants to speak to you, and I was like, 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:25.919 wait a second. We were friends, and she took me 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:27.639 on and I was like, if this lady believes in 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:29.639 me eight months pregnant looking like this with no like 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:33.040 ankle bones showing because I'm so swollen and puffy, she 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:35.280 must really believe in me. And that's who has kind 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:37.400 of built my career. Back up your ride or Die. 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:41.360 That's right, She's Ride or Die. So how many years 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:44.040 was it before you got them Big Bang? Um? Let's see, 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:46.680 it was probably about um. I mean it was maybe 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:48.639 a year of just like auditioning for stuff. I did 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:50.959 an episode of Bones, I did an episode of like 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:53.840 Saving Grace, like just like you know, some random small things. 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:56.400 That's huge. That well, I had never seen the Big 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:58.520 Bang theory. I thought it was a talk show or 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:01.239 like a game show, because someone told me that they 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:03.359 had mentioned me first season, so I figured it was 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:06.480 like a quiz show. I had no idea, and Tiffany 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:08.720 was like, why do I represent someone who doesn't even 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:11.680 know like the most popular show on television. I didn't 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:13.600 watch television. That's how I get so many things done, 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:17.119 is I don't watch television watching the Kardashians like I 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:19.600 am no. But you know that has its value as well, 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:22.719 but it's just not my thing. So um, I googled 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:25.680 Jim Parsons because the audition said we want a female 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:27.640 version of Sheldon Cooper and I was like, who's that? 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:30.320 Google it and I was like, oh, I know people 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:35.040 like this. I'm like this, so this is And I 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:37.159 was brought on for one episode the season finale of 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:40.480 season three and brought back as a regular. Melissa Rause, 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:42.639 who plays Bernadett, she had a similar thing. She was 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:44.800 brought on in season three, and we were both made 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:48.760 regulars in season four and then we just finished eleven. Wow. 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:53.960 I was a pumping working mom. I was still pumping 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:57.159 um every break for like the first year I was 0:19:57.200 --> 0:19:59.600 on Big Bang Theory. So I would hang my little 0:19:59.640 --> 0:20:01.720 sign on door, you know, woman at work? Can you 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:05.840 hear exactly? You would hear the cow the cow factory. 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:08.560 That's really like, that's such a great story because it 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:10.719 feels like it'd be so hard again because you were 0:20:10.760 --> 0:20:14.040 a child actor and now again like, you've you've done 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:16.639 everything you've wanted to do, So what's a lot of 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:18.359 things I want to do? I'm like, what's what is 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:20.399 that done? Um? Well, I mean there's a lot of 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:21.800 things I want to do. You know. I have a 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:24.720 website called grack Nation, which we've kind of expanded out 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:27.480 to sort of be the miryambiolic version of Goop as 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:31.040 it were, meaning, um, you know, what if you focused 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:36.359 on sustainable design choices and sustainable thinking and sustainable living. Um, 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:38.760