WEBVTT - Ashlee Simpson Ross Meets World 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:22.639 We used to get this free Pinkberry from this guy 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:24.240 all the time, and Danielle and I were like, oh 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:25.840 my god, he's gonna get fired. And when I tell you, 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:28.160 he would give us free pingberry every single time, and we. 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:30.760 Went to pink You're the part you're skipping that's important 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:33.720 is we went to Pinkberry seven days a week, oh 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:37.440 my god, every single day, which was at some point 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:39.400 the one on Sunset when we used to live in 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:44.360 West Hollywood, Okay, And every single day we would go 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:47.600 in there at some point and get Pinkberry, and if 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:49.839 he was there, he would just give it to us 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:54.440 for free every single time everything. And I, as you know, 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:59.560 don't love free stuff because I feel obligated. And a 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:02.040 half the time I would only have twenties and I 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:03.960 would want and so then I would end up paying 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:05.160 twenty dollars in. 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:07.640 The tip jar for the poor. 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:12.280 Would I'd be like, could you please just charge me 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:17.319 for the pinkberry because I'm losing money on the tip 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:18.039 in the tip jar. 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:21.520 But yeah, and we'd say he's gonna get fired, and 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:23.479 we'd say he's probably just a huge boy meets world, 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:24.679 like this is insane. 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:26.959 It's so weird. Because he never said anything, never said 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:28.680 like I loved you on Boy Meets World. 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:29.080 Nothing. 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:32.520 And then after about six months of going. 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:34.560 There, I mean hundreds of dollars. 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:40.840 We get pinkberry and another person serves it to us 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:43.360 and says, no, I'm not. 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:44.200 Allowed to charge you. 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:45.520 Josh. 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:50.280 Josh would be mad if I charged you, and. 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:52.160 We were like, oh my god. Now he's involving other 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:53.160 people in his scheme. 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:55.480 This is so weird. 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:58.120 Then the next time we go, Josh is there and 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:01.760 he goes, oh, I heard you met my my coworker 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:03.320 last time, and I'm glad he didn't charge you. 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:05.200 He would have been in trouble. And we were like, 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:08.560 huh yeah, and he goes, uh. 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:10.520 This is embarrassing. But I have to ask, and I 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:13.880 go what. He goes, were you on a TV show? 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:17.480 And I said yeah, I was on Boy Me's World. 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:20.320 He goes, that's so funny. I I've never seen it, 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:22.760 but my coworker told me that that you were, so 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:23.560 I didn't know. 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:24.920 I didn't. I'm so sorry I didn't know. 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:27.760 He said, that's cool, that's that's cool. 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:29.000 Sorry to have a good day. 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:31.080 So why is he giving you free do you still 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:31.440 not know? 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.200 Is there no end to this story. I thought, O, 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:37.880 d oh, you're killing me. So you still don't know, 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:42.000 no idea. Hundreds of dollars, hundreds of dollars. 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:44.600 There and we don't get it. And I also got 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:47.040 Captain Crunch on it all the time, totally chewed up 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:47.760 the roof of my mouth. 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:51.400 Captain Crunch is amazing and the only reason I'm upset 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:53.679 with having left social media is one of my first 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:56.760 tweets was how has Captain Crunch never been promoted? 0:02:58.440 --> 0:02:59.560 Because come on, these. 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:03.480 Guys been a she's obviously doing something wrong. And Captain 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:08.040 Crunch himself from his verified account, I mean tweeted back 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:11.880 and said it because Admiral Crunch makes no sense. Oh so 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:14.680 I was like, okay, this is why people do social 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:16.639 media because Captain Crunch. 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:19.919 Himself absolutely the real Captain Crunch. 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:23.000 Yeah, the real I'm sorry, it's captain well it is, 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:24.280 but it's he's a captain. 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:27.040 But still he's I want to know what's going you know, 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:30.560 he's got to have some some serious problems to not 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:31.919 be promoted, to ask. 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:34.000 I know, No, you're right, that's been a long time. 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:34.760 Yeah, he's been. 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:36.800 He's getting away free pink Bury to customer. 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:38.640 That could be it. It could be he could be 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:39.400 Josh's uncle. 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:41.600 I'm dying to know what Josh is thinking as he's 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:44.920 just giving away. And and because it's the it would 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:46.320 be one thing if it was like, okay, you know 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:49.760 I always get but to then bring in his coworker 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:52.760 to say, I'll be pissed if you charge these people. 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:56.400 Yeah. Also, the coworker definitely knew who she was, So 0:03:56.640 --> 0:04:00.000 how did you even not have that conversation with the coworker. 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:01.360 That's what doesn't make any sense. 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:03.000 With it. 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:03.320 You. 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:05.360 So it's not that he had a crush on you. 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:07.640 I mean it is, but Jensen's there, so it's not 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:08.640 like she's a pretty girl. 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:11.840 No, no, yeah, I don't know. It's a very it's 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:14.200 a mystery niversity genuine. 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:16.240 When he told us, it looked so real. 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:19.839 Oh my god, the history of the universe. I don't 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:20.520 have to say about it. 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.560 Amelia Earhart, Sean Benay, Josh. 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:26.000 Berry, Joshah, Pinkberry. Yeah, those are the things. 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:26.880 Yeah. 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.680 Yeah, is Pinkberry still a thing? 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:32.080 Yeah, there's one in North rich Okay, never had. 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:32.520 It in my life. 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:36.040 We took Adler to Pinkberry for his first ever frozen 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:40.200 yogurt and I'll never forget it because Adler had never 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:42.640 had it before. And so he takes a bite of it, 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:44.560 and he's like a little hesitant at first, and then 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:47.479 he's like, oh yeah, this is pretty good, and then 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:50.080 he takes another bite, and he takes another bite and 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:52.760 then all of a sudden, Jensen goes what's happening? And 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:54.640 I just look at Adler and Addler's like this. 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:58.679 His eyes are just bulging out. There's like his mouth 0:04:58.760 --> 0:04:59.560 is shivering. 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:03.279 He's like, and I go, oh god, oh wait, he 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:03.880 has a brain. 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:08.160 Freezing brain freeze, first ever brain freeze, first ever brain freeze. 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:10.560 And I just fully saw it. 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:16.920 He was like, and then when it stopped, he looked 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:18.400 at us like I was gonna. 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:21.440 Die so much better it. Yeah. 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:21.640 No. 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:24.320 The first time I ever learned that. The way my 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:27.679 brother and sister in law raised my nephews far different 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:31.200 than I was raised is we were in Amsterdam and 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:33.360 they were little, little kids, and we found one ice 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:35.880 cream shop all the way across the city still open, 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:37.400 and the adults wanted to go out do something. So 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:39.280 I said, you know what, I'll take the boys and 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:41.599 we'll go and we'll find ice cream, and we walked 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.039 through the streets of Amsterdam for like an hour to 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:46.720 get to this place. And we finally get there and 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:50.760 my nephew is probably seven at this time, and he 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:53.480 looks up and says, my brother and I will split 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:56.880 a small fat free chocolate. And I was like, who 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:59.640 the hell are these children and how do I get them. 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:00.279 Away from my brothers? 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:04.360 Immediately I'm like, we walked an hour for the two 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:07.920 of you to split a small fat free chocolate? 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:08.840 Are you kidding me? 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:14.120 I was so upset, couldn't go too little. 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:16.359 I was like, your uncle's here, what do you want this? 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:19.840 You don't even have to finish it. They split a 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:25.760 small cup, nothing on top, nothing of fat free frozen yogurt. 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:29.159 Rill needed to spend more time with those children. 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:32.440 Oh my god, just try walking the streets of Amsterdam 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:34.160 by the way with two little kids, like, no, don't 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:36.000 look over there, don't look over there, don't look over there. 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:38.839 What's that smell? Nothing? Nothing, don't look over there. Oh. 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:41.640 It was amazing because you'll walk by like a coca 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:43.920 cola add it'll just be a naked woman like by coke, 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:45.719 and it's like, wait a minute, Okay, this is what 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:51.960 whoa whoa Yeah it's uh but yeah fat free yogurt split. 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:53.720 I was so Depresedub'll share one. 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:55.120 I was like, oh my god, who are what did 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:55.839 you get? 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:58.520 The double triple Sunday fudge? Whatever the hell it was 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:00.719 where it was like, I'm eating this and winning a shirt. 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:03.080 So sit there and watch me. 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:06.920 Welcome to Pod Meets World. 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:09.760 I'm Danielle Fischel, I'm Rider Strong and I'm wilfred Ell. 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:12.480 Both I'm both today. 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:16.360 Oh, Rider Strong is not with us because he has 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:17.680 finicky internet. 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:20.040 No internet today, no internet. 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:22.600 He tried, he was on for a few minutes. 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:26.360 Things were looking good, and then he disappeared and he 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:27.240 was the first froze. 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:28.720 The freeze was great because we were like, it was 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:30.600 right when he's going to say Rider Strong, and he froze, 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:31.240 and we were like, is he. 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:32.320 Contemplating his name? 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:34.960 Is he thinks he's forgotten? Yeah? That is what it 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:35.320 looked like. 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:52.120 Well, Las Vegas Week continues, and today we have a 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:56.120 banger as we prep for season seven. It marks Boy 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:59.640 Meets World's entry into the year two thousand and As 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.720 pre we figured, it gets no more y two K 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:04.800 than a two thousand and two to two thousand and 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:08.520 three season of Say What Karaoke filmed at the MTV 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:12.400 Summerhouse in the Hamptons, hosted by Danielle Fischer and a 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:16.200 guy named Stephen from the Real World, and judged by 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:20.080 this week's very special guest. It was when I first 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:22.640 got to know her, spending one of the best summers 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:26.880 of my life with an effortlessly cool pop star, driving around, 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:31.080 sharing secrets and laughing NonStop, all with the backdrop of 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:33.920 a pre paparazzi trl society. 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:35.120 Ah. 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:37.360 The good old day, good old times. 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:41.320 She was just about to release Autobiography, her debut album 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:43.320 that would hit number one and go on to sell 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:47.400 five million copies worldwide. And yet there she was, down 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:51.240 to earth, funny, beautiful, and for some reason posing for 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:52.960 pictures pretending she had. 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:58.559 Pickles for eyebrows. I have that photo. What I have 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:02.080 A great picture with her holding two pickles. 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:04.960 Above her eyebrows, right, cute. Listen, we had fun. Don't 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:05.640 ask what we did. 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:07.200 Ah. 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:10.439 Her and her sister Jessica dominated pop culture at an 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:14.640 almost once in a generation level. It's experiencing the highs 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.360 and lows that came with celebrity at the time. Something 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:20.679 I think should be examined then condemned in modern day 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:25.120 criticism with words like misogyny and bullying. You see, kids, 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:28.880 the two thousands got very weird, especially for famous women. 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:31.960 We were talking to her just weeks before I Am 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.800 Me a group of seven shows in Las Vegas at 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:38.160 the Venetians Voltaire Theater. It's a return to music for 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:41.559 the dedicated mom of three, a celebration for her fans, 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:44.120 those of us who consider songs like Pieces of Me, 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:48.840 La La Boyfriend and the entire Bittersweet World album to 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:54.920 be wildly underappreciated jams. Oh don't believe me. Ask Rolling 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:58.719 Stone in the New York Times, both outlets who've recently admitted. 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:00.520 That we fumbled what we had with her. 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:05.640 Young Alanis lyrics at first, then later throwback synthpop, all 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:09.280 born too early for its proper credit. But today we 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:12.680 will give credit where credit is due. Please welcome to 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:16.120 pod meets World. The loveliest spirit and a true survivor. 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:18.840 It's Ashley Simpson Ross. 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:22.680 Hash I doing this right. 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:27.720 It was not your fault. We were running like two minutes. Wait, guys, 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:28.160 it's me. 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:30.480 Also with technology, I'm so bad at it. 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:32.040 I mean this is too terrible. 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:34.520 It's nice having like a sixteen year old son because 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:36.320 I'm like, he's not here right now, He's in Japan. 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:37.640 I'm like, what do I do? 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:41.920 What is Bronx doing in Japan? 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:46.640 He's out there with his dad right now, like just Pat, 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.360 he's been out there for just living life. Summer trip. 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.640 Oh that's awesome, beautiful face too. I'm jealous. 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:54.800 I mean, I need him right now. I'm doing technology. 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:58.000 I know, hello, FaceTime him? I need you. What time 0:10:58.040 --> 0:10:58.680 is it in Japan? 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.400 Oh my, I'm like, am I doing this Instagram right? 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:04.959 Like, yeah, She's going to need his help to FaceTime him. Though, 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:06.400 that's the problem I know exactly. 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:09.320 I don't know, but like that's the nice thing about 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:12.760 having a team. Now, Like we just saw you at 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:14.600 the mall. I had the shirt on I'm we wearing. 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:18.920 I was literally planning when we started our interview to 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:20.800 talk about how lovely it is to see you for 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:24.200 the first time. And then we ran into each other 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:25.800 at the Topanga mall. 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:29.760 Mall my mall too, guys. 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:32.080 Are we neighbors? Are we all neighbors? That's a. 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:37.600 Flying place for the hoo. And you know what is 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:42.440 so funny here's about like how funny life is with Jagger. 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:44.840 Didn't realize who you were. And then I told her 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:51.720 after and she was like, oh my god, Mom, she's. 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:54.400 Yeah, girl meets world. Of course that's like in her 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:55.480 in her ballpark. 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:57.640 Oh my god. I was dying. She was like, oh 0:11:57.679 --> 0:11:59.760 my god, can we like go back and color like Jagger? 0:11:59.880 --> 0:12:03.600 You can see if any time, we'll. 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:06.120 Do lots of get togethers, we'll do lots of hay we're. 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:06.880 At that to pay them all. 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:11.280 Do your kids like the mall the same way we 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:13.319 all liked the mall when we were teens. 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:16.760 It's so funny because I feel like even with my husband, 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:19.520 he's like, I've never known somebody who likes the mall, 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:21.240 Like why do you like to go to the mall? 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:24.200 Like thank you, Hey, you're going to the mall? Like 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:25.960 that's where you're taking the kids to the mall. 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:30.280 Yes, that's what we grew up doing, the mall. Yeah, 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:31.319 so do mine. 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:34.679 So my son started his first day of first grade yesterday. 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:37.200 And on the little form thing you fill out, you 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:38.960 know what his name is, what school he goes to, 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:41.560 what his what are some things he loves? I said, 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:43.760 what do you love and he said, my mom, my, dad, 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:46.880 the mall, and everyone in my family. 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:50.920 It's like, there's so many opportunities. Go to movies, you 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:51.439 can go to the. 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:54.640 Arcade, some food. If you're not really that hungry, you 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:56.160 can stop the food, get a snack. 0:12:57.480 --> 0:12:59.640 That the mall was higher on the list than his brother. 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:05.480 Yeah, brother fell into everyone in my family. Yeah he 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:06.120 didn't get. 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:09.360 I like him all. 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:13.600 My happy place mine too, absolutely, and Ashley, I have 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:15.880 been so excited to get you on the podcast, not 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:18.319 just so we could catch up, but because you are 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:21.640 essentially doing the music equivalent. 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:23.320 Of our podcast in Vegas. 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:26.960 You're at the Venetian revisiting your music career, but instead 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:29.720 of a podcast, you're doing it with a whole string 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:32.320 of shows, and we are talking to you just a 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:34.320 few weeks before your first show. 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:36.199 How are you feeling about it all. 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:40.600 I'm feeling so good. I'm really excited about the show. 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:43.599 I mean, honestly, just being in that room. And I 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:46.520 have so many like female players now too, which is 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:50.800 so hot, and new players revisit that music and for 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.680 me to revisit and revisit the things like I wrote 0:13:54.000 --> 0:14:01.000 when I was eighteen, revisiting that has been so much 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:03.720 fun for me and just like bringing it to twenty 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:08.600 five right now, I'm so excited, honest. And another thing 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:11.200 like that really like drove me to it was my daughter, 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:13.200 like all of a sudden, like her and her friends 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:16.880 were like hello, Hello, like v and like I was like, 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:22.000 how is this like happening? I'm like Pat Benatar to you? 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:23.280 You know what I mean, Like there was like a 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:25.200 letter for me and all that, and then there was 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:30.480 like Pat and like yeah, yes, I love what I understand. 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:34.000 And you know, I'm like the older tear. 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:38.960 How did it come together? Who approached you? Did you 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:41.680 have to be convinced? Was it your brainchild? How did 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:42.680 it come about? 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:45.480 My husband and I were like, oh God, Like you know, 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:48.280 I've been wanting to play again and I've been wanting 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:51.640 to music out. And I did a twenty year anniversary 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:54.880 of my first album last year and I did like 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.080 I just played three songs, and when the three songs 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:57.880 were over, I was like. 0:14:58.440 --> 0:14:59.920 Got that too, It's not enough. 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:03.600 I wanted to keep going. So this just felt like 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:08.240 organic and fun. Vegas is like so sexy and close 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:11.440 and it just like gives you that vibe where you 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:15.040 can be nostalgic. I've seen his mother, Diana Ross play there. 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:17.800 She's amazing, and like, it's just a place where I 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:22.360 think Vegas is like open to so many fun things. 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:25.040 So for me, it was just like the right opportunity. 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:28.080 And for me, I'm like a person who like waits 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.720 for that door. I'm like, Okay, here's an open door, 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:33.640 and this is the moment I'm going to see what 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:34.720 this brings. 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:37.680 Yeah, it's interesting because when we started this podcast we 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:39.720 didn't know what was going to happen either. There's just 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:41.640 kind of okay, we're going to talk about what it 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:43.320 was like we were a certain age and we've got 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:45.040 you know this, seven years of our life has been 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:47.160 captured and we can But then it brought up a 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:50.120 whole lot of stuff we didn't expect to be churned up. 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:52.320 And you're kind of reliving certain things, not all of 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:54.520 it great. Have you noticed that you're kind of going 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:56.360 through some of the same emotions as you're going back 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:57.080 through your catalog? 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:00.480 Oh my god, Yeah, and every you I get to 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:07.000 relive everything. But yes, and and also like a lot 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:11.240 of like great Like actually I met Danielle we were 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:17.040 working what was it MTV in the Hampton's Springburger, Summer 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:18.600 Beach it was Summer Beach House. 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:22.600 Yes, when the year they brought back Say What Karaoke, 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:24.520 Oh My God, which I. 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:27.080 Think was like two thousand and two, two thousand. 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:29.320 And three, it was yeah, because I didn't come out 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:32.360 with my music. I was writing music, but I didn't. Ah. Yeah, 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:33.560 I was on seventh time in. 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:34.800 Yeah and we. 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:39.960 Honestly, it's one of my most favorite memories of my 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:42.960 entire life is the time Ashley and I got to 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:44.640 spend together that summer. 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:49.720 We just don't anyone else seeing. 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:50.840 Me at them all the other day, I was like, oh, 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:54.280 I'm doing this, but I was like, oh. 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:56.760 Yes, yeah, we just there. We had such a great time. 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.080 I don't know what anyone else was doing, but the 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:03.440 two of us, he really did. It was like every 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:06.400 It was like every vision you have of what two 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:11.000 teen girls released on their own in New York and 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:13.080 the Hampton's minus pillow fights. 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:14.560 We didn't have any pillow fights. 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:18.760 But otherwise, you know, why didn't we Why didn't we 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:20.960 ruined the w in Times Square? 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:25.119 That was like the place they would put us. 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:26.480 That's where they put us up. 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:29.720 Because even when like it was like seventh teven. I 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:31.920 feel like I was always at the w Were you guys. 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:34.160 Too, No, we never got to New York. 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:35.600 I never said anywhere. 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:41.800 Well, you immediately sold out all of your first dates 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:44.520 when they were announced, and so then they added more. 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:46.560 Did you see that coming or was it a surprise 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:46.840 to you? 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:49.800 It was a surprise to me. I mean I didn't 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:53.879 really know what to expect for me. I was just like, oh, 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:57.200 like in general, to get back to play those songs 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:00.199 and the twenty five version of it, which is like 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:05.440 what I've been being in the room enjoying is I'm like, oh, Ashley, Yeah, 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:08.080 because a lot of my lyrics, like I go through 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:10.680 and every day when I was younger, it was like therapy. 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:12.800 I'd go to the studio, Like my boyfriend broke up 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:14.879 with me, I'd go to the studio write about it. 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:19.200 And what people don't do in their music anymore are bridges. 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:22.400 And that's like yours. That's like your light, that's your 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:24.520 and so like every song like I have that, and 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:28.199 I'm like, ah, you always found it even though you 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:30.720 were young and going through so much. You know, I 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:32.480 feel like I always was like finding that, And I 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:35.120 feel like as a four year old woman. I'm still 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:37.399 able to connect that and see so much of that 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:39.520 and I'm like, ooh yeah, I was. 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:42.440 Like, yeah, girl, yeah, proud of you. 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:45.840 Like, well, it's so hard because you don't pat yourself 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:48.320 on the back at that time. Yeah, it was like 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:50.800 at this age, now you can be like, oh that 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:51.560 was really good. 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:55.040 Isn't it nice too to be able to look back 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:57.119 and give that younger version of you that you were 0:18:57.200 --> 0:18:57.920 so hard on. 0:18:57.880 --> 0:18:59.960 A nice hug, be like, I mean, do you do 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:04.080