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Speaker 1: Misspelling with Tory Spelling and iHeartRadio podcast.

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Speaker 2: So we are back home. We had been evacuated and

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Speaker 2: had headed up north.

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Speaker 1: For the last week. We stayed up there, which is

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Speaker 1: mind boggling. We were actually in came Rio and we

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Speaker 1: head back this weekend so that the kids could start

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Speaker 1: back normal routines, trying to give them normalcy during this time.

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Speaker 1: On Sunday to our home in the valley, and all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden.

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Speaker 2: It's like, okay, we're back.

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Speaker 1: Everyone's safe, fires are under control. You know, I know

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Speaker 1: we've all been hooked to our watch duty app. It

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Speaker 1: looked like that was starting to you know, Okay, we

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Speaker 1: could not focus on that as much.

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Speaker 2: We could go back to well.

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Speaker 1: It definitely wasn't TikTok this week past weekend. But you

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Speaker 1: know which, I'm not mad at. I'm not a TikTok girl. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying it. Uh my seven year old is

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Speaker 1: sick today and he's here watching me do a podcast

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Speaker 1: because I life goes on.

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Speaker 2: I have to work and he has to do it

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Speaker 2: here with me. Will I do this? But he just

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Speaker 2: gave me side eye when I said I'm not.

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Speaker 1: A TikTok girl because you're a TikTok dude, what are

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Speaker 1: you YouTube?

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Speaker 2: YouTube or bust. He's a YouTube guy.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, So you know, go back to look in at

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Speaker 1: our Instagram or for as creatives out there.

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Speaker 2: Pentrist is nice and distracting.

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Speaker 1: I got to tell you, if you needs something to

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Speaker 1: get your mind off of all the crazy shit that

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Speaker 1: is going on everywhere, go to Pinterest. I encourage it.

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Speaker 1: Start a board, start pulling creative stuff. You can find

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Speaker 1: stuff for dinner. You could find clothing references. You can

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Speaker 1: even design a home that you're not even going to build,

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Speaker 1: but just a home just.

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Speaker 2: To distract yourself.

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Speaker 1: I find when I need like a mindless thing to do,

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Speaker 1: to Pinterest my aging myself here.

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Speaker 2: I know it's not the coolest thing to do, but

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Speaker 2: really really good. Anyway. So we get home. We finally which.

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Speaker 1: The owners of the airbnb that were so kind to

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Speaker 1: us in Camerao. They had a cleaning crew come as

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Speaker 1: Funny enough, in that thirty minutes when I got the

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Speaker 1: it wasn't comfortable. Most kids couldn't breathe. There were fairs

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Speaker 1: To this time. It was kind of on our own

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Speaker 2: So I called an uber. I called an uber and

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Speaker 1: Back to our home in Calabasas, and my oldest son,

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Speaker 1: Liam went with me and he said, no, Mom, I'm

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Speaker 1: my son's lap had pooped. And I said, well, hey,

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Speaker 1: We get back home, we pull in. The uber is

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Speaker 1: But now I'm letting you go and moving on. Marie Condo,

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Speaker 1: Marie Condo, very wise human. So yeah, I'm really ready

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Speaker 1: So I said to my best friend Jess, I said,

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Speaker 1: So if I wasn't backing it up myself, now my

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