Speaker 1: Miss Spelling with Tory Spelling and iHeartRadio podcast. Okay, you guys,
Speaker 1: welcome to another Tory story. So I was just at
Speaker 1: another convention. My TV hubby and boy Bessy, Brian, Austin
Speaker 1: Green and I were there and I feel like I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know what, they don't want to hear about another convention.
Speaker 1: We've talked about it. The stories just keep happening, you
Speaker 1: guys that when there's too much goodness of funny things
Speaker 1: that happen. I got to talk about a con again.
Speaker 1: I feel like this and Brian and I have more
Speaker 1: coming up. In fact, we're going our next convention is
Speaker 1: in Palm Springs. I feel like that's going to be
Speaker 1: a great story. So I feel like how we have
Speaker 1: many like versions of the show, like it's misspell but
Speaker 1: then we have Tory stories and then we have bow talks.
Speaker 1: I kind of feel we need like kind of a
Speaker 1: convention one because they're not stopping. We're going on the
Speaker 1: road to these conventions all summer long. Oh yeah, got
Speaker 1: Niagara Falls coming up? What would that be? I'm good
Speaker 1: with puns. I would say I'm typically good with puns,
Speaker 1: but at this point I have been traveling and working
Speaker 1: since Thursday, and I don't even know what day it is, like,
Speaker 1: it has not stopped. I literally got back last night
Speaker 1: two connections east coast to get to Huntsville, Alabama, and
Speaker 1: it was we're talking delays. You guys know, I don't
Speaker 1: like flying getting better, getting better, but there's no direct
Speaker 1: flight there. So you got multiple connections, delays in Dallas,
Speaker 1: delay like four hour delays, crazy storms. And then I
Speaker 1: think I got home. We're there. We got home with
Speaker 1: two in the morning last night, and.
Speaker 2: Here we are, yep, here we are.
Speaker 1: You know why, because the stories are just too good
Speaker 1: and we're professionals. We you just got to keep going.
Speaker 1: You just got to keep going. What would be a
Speaker 1: fun pun for our convention stories? Both our brains are
Speaker 1: a little fried right now. We literally have not stopped working, traveling,
Speaker 1: or slept in four days. Four days, yeah, and not
Speaker 1: for any like like we've been for four days and
Speaker 1: not for any fun reasons.
Speaker 2: We'll have to work on the pun.
Speaker 1: Oh god, you know, I want to come up with
Speaker 1: it on the spot. Matt myself right now.
Speaker 2: Miss Unconventional, I think we did that already.
Speaker 1: We've done that. But if it's its own like little.
Speaker 1: It's not an episode like it's very many one because
Speaker 1: we have we're going to continue to have conn stories
Speaker 1: because you've booked me through like next year on so
Speaker 1: many of them. Thank you.
Speaker 3: And I always tell Torry when she's like, I can't
Speaker 3: believe I have another convention this week and or we
Speaker 3: have to get up at the crack of dawn. I
Speaker 3: have to remind her. Me too. Lucky me, I get
Speaker 3: to go with.
Speaker 1: Her, and then I love to remind her. But it's
Speaker 1: my face that is on camera right now for our
Speaker 1: social clips. Oh and that's where I think I'd like
Speaker 1: to start with your face. Okay, God, I love a
Speaker 1: good segue. Okay, So Ruthanne and I travel at this convention.
Speaker 1: Keep in mind, I am grateful for these conventions like
Speaker 1: I have. I come back with the fullest heart, so
Speaker 1: much love, so much energy. I'm a people person, you
Speaker 1: guys know. I like to talk. It's so amazing to
Speaker 1: meet these people and see what a part of their
Speaker 1: lives you have been in the effect you've had, and
Speaker 1: just waile to connect. For me, like even just as
Speaker 1: a human, I get human connection and I get to
Speaker 1: hear stories and meet great amazing people. So it's great.
Speaker 1: And you know, the kids are always like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: you're gone for another weekend. And I'm like, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm this is how I provide for my family at
Speaker 1: this point, you know, it's one of my jobs. But anyway,
Speaker 1: so we have to do a connecting flight. We apply
Speaker 1: out of lax which is hell in itself, Miss Burbank.
Speaker 1: But we get there, we have to go to Dallas
Speaker 1: and do a connecting flight. And because of the storms,
Speaker 1: and Ruth Anne tells me, because I have not flown
Speaker 1: through Dallas before that Dallas is notorious for delays. That
Speaker 1: airport it wasn't even an airport. It was like it
Speaker 1: was the biggest thing I have ever seen in my
Speaker 1: lifetime so far.
Speaker 2: It's like it's own city.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what it is. Oh, it's like the Truman show.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, in an airport. Ooh should we do that?
Speaker 1: Added to my list ideas that'd be a good TV show. Okay.
Speaker 3: Anyway, anyway, if you get laid over there long enough,
Speaker 3: you might have to live there, because that's how long
Speaker 3: the delays are.
Speaker 1: I'd rather get laid and not layover, but yeah.
Speaker 2: That's possible.
Speaker 1: Anything can happen in the mecca that is the Dallas Airport. No,
Speaker 1: so we landed. We had a delay four hours, you guys,
Speaker 1: because there was crazy storms happening. And then oh, so
Speaker 1: Brian is not on our flight, but he's in Dallas,
Speaker 1: he's landed and he's taking another flight to Huntsville, Alabama.
Speaker 1: And so I'm panicked. And this is how well Brian
Speaker 1: knows me, like I say to him, and ruth Ann
Speaker 1: knows me well and she didn't even know this. I
Speaker 1: was panicked because I'm like, Brian and I aren't on
Speaker 1: the same flight. And she's like, he puts it the headphones.
Speaker 1: He's listening to music and stuff the whole time, like
Speaker 1: it's not even like you're gonna be talking. And I
Speaker 1: was like okay, okay. And so Brian's like where are you.
Speaker 1: You're not on my flight and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm on a different flight. And I go I'm freaking out.
Speaker 1: I only like to fly with you. And he's like
Speaker 1: he texts me and he's like why because you feel
Speaker 1: safer knowing that both of us are on that flight,
Speaker 1: Like crying face, crying face knowing me. Well, then I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: in my irrational flying fear, like if Brian and I
Speaker 1: are on the same flight, like that's that flight won't
Speaker 1: go down basically, like and you know, I've talked about
Speaker 1: my fears before of like if there's the celebrity on
Speaker 1: the flight and babies, I'm like, okay, this flight will
Speaker 1: be okay. Like it's irrational, I know, but anyway, I
Speaker 1: loved that Brian knew my irrational fear in that, and
Speaker 1: I was like, duh, yeah, that's exactly it. Anyway, So
Speaker 1: we get to Dallas and Brian's like, oh, I'm getting
Speaker 1: on this flight and it was earlier and didn't have
Speaker 1: a delay, and I said to Ruthanne, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: can we get on that flight? And she was like,
Speaker 1: we can try. Well, there was nobody to change the ticket,
Speaker 1: so we couldn't go online, we couldn't call, so we
Speaker 1: decide to just run and we have to run. And
Speaker 1: when I'm thinking, okay, we have to run to get
Speaker 1: to Brian's gate, I'm like, okay, it'll be like a couple.
Speaker 1: Like I don't know, what are those things you get on.
Speaker 1: It's not an escalator goes flat, moving walkway. If you're
Speaker 1: going to stand still go to the right. If you're
Speaker 1: going to walk, please let people buy and go on
Speaker 1: the left left. It's a courtesy. I always stand still
Speaker 1: on it. It's my mee time. Anyway, I'm not a runner,
Speaker 1: as you guys know, but we did because I was like,
Speaker 1: I feel safe for being on the second floor with Brian,
Speaker 1: so you know, I'm going to actually bolt, and we ran.
Speaker 1: But what we didn't.
Speaker 3: Realize is that the airport is a city, and even
Speaker 3: though it's the same airline, Dallas is the hub for American,
Speaker 3: So American is in every terminal, not just one. So
Speaker 3: you could be changing flights from one terminal to another
Speaker 3: and still be on American, which is right.
Speaker 2: Exactly what was.
Speaker 1: Happening, Well, I mean you'll say this didn't happen, but
Speaker 1: this happened. You did look down and you didn't have
Speaker 1: your glasses on. You were squinting, and I said, what
Speaker 1: terminal is it in? And you said it's in B.
Speaker 1: But she misread it and it was an E.
Speaker 3: Well you do know how tiny the print is. For
Speaker 3: some reason, it's a cruel joke the airlines play on you.
Speaker 2: But yes, that is true. It is true.
Speaker 1: I Miss I was like, oh my god, it's e
Speaker 1: and you were like, okay, and do'll we find So
Speaker 1: we're running, we're running, and then we see that we
Speaker 1: have to go on a train. It takes you to
Speaker 1: a different terminal. And so I'm running and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm on a mission. Now I'm going to get
Speaker 1: on that flight with Brian Austin Green, like David and
Speaker 1: Donna are flying together. It's irrational. It's in my mind.
Speaker 1: And once I put my mind to something, I make
Speaker 1: it happen. So I'm like, it's happening.
Speaker 3: So I mean, even so you're still behind me and
Speaker 3: I'm in front of you, and I'm on the escalator
Speaker 3: going up.
Speaker 2: She's walking up the stairs and you are.
Speaker 3: Not walking on the escalator. You were standing still as
Speaker 3: you do. And I got to the platform and I'm
Speaker 3: walking ahead, and so she's walking ahead out and you're
Speaker 3: not there.
Speaker 1: She's walking ahead. But what happened is that by walking ahead,
Speaker 1: and I hope you learned your lesson. I saw the
Speaker 1: skylink and I saw it opened up and it said
Speaker 1: get on here, and it's taken you to eat. And
Speaker 1: she was probably squinting even though she was ahead and
Speaker 1: didn't see that and kept walking. I jumped on that.
Speaker 1: I jumped on that skylink and it wasn't until I
Speaker 1: got on there that I realized, oh my god, what
Speaker 1: if ruth Ann doesn't get on? And I panic because
Speaker 1: now I am alone and I've never been on a skylink,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, what is this thing? So I say,
Speaker 1: oh my god, wait my friend, I don't think she
Speaker 1: got on, and these two men are like, oh, she'll
Speaker 1: make it. There's one that comes every two minutes. So
Speaker 1: I was like, no, I'm scared of being alone. I
Speaker 1: didn't say that. So I bulked to the thing because
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm going to get off, and I see
Speaker 1: ruth Anne come back around, like what And literally right
Speaker 1: as I go to get off, it closes and I'm
Speaker 1: pressed up against the glass. We have proof. Ruthan, while
Speaker 1: she was laughing her ass off, ran up and took pictures.
Speaker 1: And I'm pressed up against the glass.
Speaker 3: Like no, there was Torri's little face squitshed up against
Speaker 3: the glass as the skylink pulled away from the platform,
Speaker 3: and I was a little panicked.
Speaker 1: That can't be sanitary either, And I didn't give two books.
Speaker 1: I was just I full mouth pressed up against that glass, panicked.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I was like, oh no, because I don't
Speaker 3: really trust toy to navigate an airport fire.
Speaker 1: Or navigate anywhere. I have the worst sense of direction
Speaker 1: and time, you guys. So anyway, she he texted me
Speaker 1: and she's like, I'm right behind you. I'm getting on
Speaker 1: the next one. Wait there at the next station, right,
Speaker 1: So I did. I did, and then she got there
Speaker 1: and we ran and we ran. I'd like to say
Speaker 1: we found Brian. We found him on his gate on
Speaker 1: his earlier flight that wasn't delayed with the three Lawrence
Speaker 1: brothers and uh yeah, they were there, probably every other
Speaker 1: celebrity and we were on this like random later flight
Speaker 1: and we get there. That's directed of me, duh me
Speaker 1: passive aggressive what But we wouldn't have these stories if
Speaker 1: we had got on the earlier flight.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 1: So I do believe there are no coincidences. I do
Speaker 1: believe in signs and yeah, so this is what happened.
Speaker 1: Brian's like, oh, you made it, and I was like yeah,
Speaker 1: and I was like, we're going to change her ticket
Speaker 1: and they were like, you have to wait for someone
Speaker 1: at the gate. So we wait, we wait. No one
Speaker 1: ever came to that gate, and then they were boarding
Speaker 1: and there was nothing left, so uh, Brian had to
Speaker 1: go and he even like texted me, He's like, did
Speaker 1: you get on the flight, and like nope, but our
Speaker 1: flight is four hours delayed. So see in Huntsville. Oh man,
Speaker 1: So we have time to kill a lot of time.
Speaker 1: So we go to what is it called what is
Speaker 1: it called?
Speaker 2: Well? First? Oh, we.
Speaker 3: First, we try to go to the American Lounge because
Speaker 3: we always seem to forget whether or not if you're
Speaker 3: flying first class they'll just let you in.
Speaker 1: The answer is no, but she forgets what I told her,
Speaker 1: I doubt they will let us in.
Speaker 2: And that was quite a long ways away.
Speaker 3: But we had four hours, so we figured, okay, let's
Speaker 3: give back to try and at the same time, we're
Speaker 3: talking about maybe just staying in Dallas overnight because it's
Speaker 3: already so late.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. So I am now and you know me,
Speaker 1: you guys, I am a positive person. I don't really
Speaker 1: get in bad moods. I'm now in a mood and
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm exhausted, I have been traveling all day.
Speaker 1: I'm a terrified flyer. Like it doesn't it's not good
Speaker 1: to my nervous system. Emotionally, it's like I'm leaving my kids.
Speaker 1: It's been a long day. And I was like, you
Speaker 1: know what I said, you know, I'm at the point
Speaker 1: like it's eight something now, like maybe we just like
Speaker 1: stay at the airport hotel and we catch the first
Speaker 1: flight in the morning, because the convention itself didn't start
Speaker 1: that day on Friday till four o'clock. So Rudan says,
Speaker 1: I have a friend who has an amazing house here.
Speaker 1: She'll give us the code, which I I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Anyway, I text Brian and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I think we might and he was like fuck no, no,
Speaker 1: he said, you get on that next flight. He goes,
Speaker 1: do not. You're gonna be miserable.
Speaker 2: Do not.
Speaker 1: This is funny, he said, do not stay a night,
Speaker 1: just get there. You can go to sleep, you can
Speaker 1: sleep in, you could have breakfast. You could go to
Speaker 1: the gym. And I was like, who do you think
Speaker 1: you're talking to and he's like, oh right, He's like
Speaker 1: I forgot. He goes, well, you can sleep in. You
Speaker 1: could have a diet doctor pepper in the morning. You
Speaker 1: could avoid water at all costs, and you could watch
Speaker 1: people and laugh as they walk in and out of
Speaker 1: the gym. I go, ah, there's my best friend, good boy,
Speaker 1: good for knowing me, and he goes, yeah, it felt
Speaker 1: better writing it that way. Yeah, anyway, we make the law, We.
Speaker 3: Make the long haul to the American Lounge, only to
Speaker 3: be declined, and then I look up and see if
Speaker 3: there's any other lounges.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna mind you though you had a choice.
Speaker 1: They said, there's two lounges near where your your gate
Speaker 1: is that you can go to, and she has American Express.
Speaker 1: There was one you could buy for like it was
Speaker 1: like ninety nine dollars a person, No, no, no, is
Speaker 1: that writer sixty nine dollars. I just loved the number
Speaker 1: sixty nine. Okay, it was ninety nine. And or there's
Speaker 1: one that you could buy with your American Express for
Speaker 1: nine dollars.
Speaker 2: No, it was free.
Speaker 1: It ended up being free. But this is what the
Speaker 1: woman told us. And she was like, they're both right here,
Speaker 1: and you said we should save money. Let's you know,
Speaker 1: it's just, you know, it's just a lounge. We should
Speaker 1: go to the one that's nine dollars, which did end
Speaker 1: up being free, but it also costs you your sanity
Speaker 1: going to that lounge because we got there.
Speaker 3: Okay, fair, good good good. Being with you though always
Speaker 3: cost me myself. It doesn't matter where I go.
Speaker 1: Twenty five years and we're still going though, go on, no,
Speaker 1: you go on? Okay, no, literally, we've known each other
Speaker 1: twenty five years. I was being literal. And so we
Speaker 1: get to the lounge and we're checking in, giving our
Speaker 1: passes so they can scan them and say, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: say let's go to the lounge. Oh god, I love
Speaker 1: this one. And the woman says to her, oh, is
Speaker 1: it a mother daughter trip?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And they.
Speaker 3: Were referring to me as the mother in case anybody
Speaker 3: had any confusion about that.
Speaker 1: So once again standing behind Ruth Anne and she's doing
Speaker 1: all the talking and I'm just behind her and so
Speaker 1: oh yeah, it's no missing any any who are they
Speaker 1: talking to? They are talking to her. I'm just in
Speaker 1: the background. Oh is this a mother daughter trip? And
Speaker 1: I froze because if you all remember, if you haven't,
Speaker 1: you should go back and listen to that episode. Make
Speaker 1: sure you download listen give us five stars. We love you.
Speaker 1: When we went to another convention and we were packing
Speaker 1: like we went to the front and the luggage they
Speaker 1: were weighing it. The woman at that airport had said,
Speaker 1: is this your daughter? Right?
Speaker 2: Yep, yep?
Speaker 3: That would be united at the Burbank airport, and I
Speaker 3: was horrified and I ran out the door and immediately
Speaker 3: got botox.
Speaker 2: So I was feeling a little better about myself on
Speaker 2: this trip. Once again, be looked a great.
Speaker 1: She by the way, your botox looks great, very natural.
Speaker 1: You looked refreshed. You even said your husband was like, oh,
Speaker 1: you just looked fresh, liked. She didn't even know you
Speaker 1: bout anything done. She was looking good, by the way.
Speaker 1: So I now panic because I'm like.
Speaker 2: Panic in between laughing maniacally.
Speaker 1: Yes, uh huh so uh So the last time this happened,
Speaker 1: I was just like, oh my god, I'm going to
Speaker 1: shut up and just we got to get on that flight. Well,
Speaker 1: now we have four hours to kill so I'm going
Speaker 1: to jump in on this this time. Now it's happened
Speaker 1: two times, and I say, oh, we're friends. I go,
Speaker 1: we're actually only nine years apart THEYD care so I
Speaker 1: was like trying to say, like, there's no way she
Speaker 1: could have had me. So anyway, we get into the
Speaker 1: lounge and I was like, are you okay? As I'm laughing,
Speaker 1: She's like, no, I just spent three thousand dollars on
Speaker 1: my face. Like I was feeling good, and this happens again.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, I said, well, and
Speaker 1: then I tried to make excuses. I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I tried to make it about me me. I don't
Speaker 1: dress my age. I'm the bad one. I'm in the
Speaker 1: inappropriate I'm dressed like a teenager, which everyone gives me
Speaker 1: shit about, even though I like dressing like this. I'm
Speaker 1: standing behind you, I have sunglasses on, I'm dressed like
Speaker 1: a skater girl, and you're doing all the talking. So
Speaker 1: I was trying to give her all the reasons why
Speaker 1: they might have assumed it was a mother and her daughter.
Speaker 3: She was decided the next trip, I'm wearing my hair
Speaker 3: up and pigtails. I'm gonna be having I'll have a
Speaker 3: lollipop in my hand and a stuffed animal in my arm.
Speaker 3: And then let's see if they think I'm your mother
Speaker 3: or what did you say?
Speaker 2: No, They'll think that i'm baby Jane.
Speaker 1: Yeah, whatever happened to baby Jane? That just that just
Speaker 1: sounds that sounds like some creepy fetish I don't know, but.
Speaker 3: Everybody in the lounge got in on it and made comments, and.
Speaker 1: Well, because she had to tell everybody in the lounge,
Speaker 1: and we, you know us, we make friends with everybody
Speaker 1: where before we go. So we're talking and telling. Anyway,
Speaker 1: third times the charm comedy happens in three So I'm
Speaker 1: really sorry, my friend, but I think it's probably gonna
Speaker 1: happen one more time.
Speaker 3: One more time. But we'll say that for a little
Speaker 3: bit later. So we make friends with everybody in the lounge.
Speaker 3: We say oah, goodbyes, we give you a five star review,
Speaker 3: and we go to our gate.
Speaker 1: So as she's so divisive sometimes, so as we're walking
Speaker 1: like no, no, no, no, no, we've checked our tickets. We're walking
Speaker 1: through that little like time yea ramp. Sorry, I don't
Speaker 1: know flying terms. I hate flying onto the plane, she goes,
Speaker 1: I have a little bit of bad news.
Speaker 3: In between laughing hysteria and practically being in my pants.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh god, you know what, I
Speaker 1: go bad news for me. I'm used to his sister
Speaker 1: every day like what I'm flappable tory spelling like whatever,
Speaker 1: what is it now? And I go is it? I go? Wait,
Speaker 1: let me know how bad is it. I'm thinking she's
Speaker 1: gonna tell me like the convention's canceled, like or so,
Speaker 1: I don't know what she's gonna tell me. But but
Speaker 1: she said, uh, I hope you like who you're sitting
Speaker 1: next to on the plane. I'm like, oh my god.
Speaker 1: So being a scared flyer, it's not like I'm look
Speaker 1: at me having to defend myself, like I don't have
Speaker 1: to be in first class, I don't have to be
Speaker 1: with a friend, but I don't.
Speaker 3: We're usually seated together, that's but on this particular flight,
Speaker 3: it wasn't available, so I had put us like behind
Speaker 3: each other, assuming someone would switch. But I had forgotten
Speaker 3: about it until we were getting on the plane, and
Speaker 3: it just seemed and listen hilarious to me in that moment.
Speaker 1: Okay, here here's the thing. And I told Dean this
Speaker 1: for twenty years and he still never listened. I am
Speaker 1: way better at handling things if you're tell me up front.
Speaker 1: I don't like surprises. I hate surprises that plummets me worse.
Speaker 1: I like knowing everything up front, and I'll bitch about
Speaker 1: it whatever, and then I'll move on and we'll deal
Speaker 1: with it. But yeah, anyway, So we get on the
Speaker 1: flight and she says, don't worry, I'll ask the person
Speaker 1: because I always get nervous, like I'm sorry, I don't
Speaker 1: want you know me. So I'm sorry, I'm sorry for
Speaker 1: my existence. I don't want to ask you to move.
Speaker 1: So we get on. Were the last people the board
Speaker 1: of course, final call, and there's only two rows in
Speaker 1: first class because you booked us on this tiny plane.
Speaker 1: Another thing, I'm like, my choice.
Speaker 3: I decided we would fly on the tiniest plain possible.
Speaker 3: So I decide, all right, there's two guys I can ask,
Speaker 3: one sitting in the front, one sitting behind, and I'm
Speaker 3: going to go for the guy behind who has his
Speaker 3: head down. And I tapped him on the shoulder and said.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, sir, would you.
Speaker 3: Terribly mind switching seats till my friend and I could
Speaker 3: sit together?
Speaker 2: And then Tory says, yes, I'm terrified.
Speaker 1: Right, I pipe in and tell the truth. I'm a
Speaker 1: terrified flyer. Over explaining myself always I'm a terrified flyer.
Speaker 1: Would be so grateful and because you guys, it's true,
Speaker 1: like I'm getting better, I'm working on my fear of flying.
Speaker 1: But in the past like I I will clutch you,
Speaker 1: i will scream, i will bruise your arms because I'm
Speaker 1: holding on so tight, nails, digging into you, crying on
Speaker 1: your shoulder. It's not pretty, Like you don't want to
Speaker 1: be that human sitting next to me and that alone.
Speaker 1: I've explained in the past, people are like, cool, I'm up,
Speaker 1: I'll switch. But anyway, this gentleman was very accommodating. He
Speaker 1: looked at me and said, oh, of course, no problem,
Speaker 1: no problem. Got up. So he goes and sits right
Speaker 1: in front of us. We take our seats, and then
Speaker 1: ruth Anne goes, oh my god, do you know who
Speaker 1: that is? And I was so scared and in the
Speaker 1: moment and not looking. I don't know. So at this
Speaker 1: point all I have anything to base anything on is
Speaker 1: looking at his luscious curls long hair because I'm looking
Speaker 1: at his head. He's in front of me, and she
Speaker 1: texts me, it's weird al yankiffing.
Speaker 3: I couldn't say it because I was laughing too, so
Speaker 3: I had a texting yeah, because I was laughing in him.
Speaker 3: But it was just so absurd of all the people
Speaker 3: in the world. Because we are big fans, actually weird
Speaker 3: al Yankvich and.
Speaker 1: He's very nice, huge legend, legend, icon legend. So but
Speaker 1: in my tory brain, I'm like, oh, well, screw Brian,
Speaker 1: I'm on a flight with weird al Nothing's happening to
Speaker 1: this flight. I'm good, I'm solid. But I text my
Speaker 1: kids and my son Liam is like a huge sick
Speaker 1: fan of weird Awl, Like he loves old school stuff
Speaker 1: and he's just like and I said, weird Alice sitting
Speaker 1: in front of me, and he said, no way, no way.
Speaker 1: And he said, oh my gosh, Mom, I know you
Speaker 1: hate doing this, but would you ask him for a photo.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh my gosh, I said, I'll try, baby,
Speaker 1: But I knew in my head. I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: too scared. I'm too scared. It's weird al Yo, like
Speaker 1: he's a legend. Anyway. Yeah, So that flight, I got
Speaker 1: to say, in the history of my flights, was one
Speaker 1: of the scariest flights I've ever been off.
Speaker 2: It was rough. Admit, that was a rough light.
Speaker 1: I mean we went through a thunderstorm, we went the
Speaker 1: plane was dropping and there's lights and here's the thing.
Speaker 1: God bless them, they got us there safely, but when
Speaker 1: the pilot when you land and they're like ding and
Speaker 1: everyone gets up to leave, and he comes out of
Speaker 1: the cockpit and he goes, phew.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: That was a bad one, right, It's not my irrational fear.
Speaker 1: He goes, phew oh. And then he turns to the
Speaker 1: flight attend and he goes, yeah, that's storm. That was
Speaker 1: a bad one we went through. So I'm like, oh
Speaker 1: my god. Even he was like, I don't know if
Speaker 1: we're gonna be okay. And then he goes she says something, oh,
Speaker 1: well we made it.
Speaker 2: Or or she said that was a great landing.
Speaker 1: Great landing, and he goes through, any landing is a
Speaker 1: great landing. And you know what, I was like, Dann.
Speaker 2: Straight, yeh wow, we are right.
Speaker 1: Anyway, we made it. We went went to sleep. We
Speaker 1: got in literally by the time we got to the hotel,
Speaker 1: it was like what three in the morning.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: But we're like, hey, weird all can do this, we
Speaker 1: can do this. Yeah, So we go to sleep. The
Speaker 1: convention the next day we get there. Refresh my memory.
Speaker 3: What happened on Friday, Well, what happened on Friday was
Speaker 3: weet up with Brian to go to the convention. And
Speaker 3: lo and behold, he's broken his towel and he is
Speaker 3: having a very hard time getting around.
Speaker 1: And yes, and then on the way to the convention,
Speaker 1: I see my friend Rose McGowan, because Rose McGowan and
Speaker 1: Holly Marie Combes we kind of are all doing the
Speaker 1: same circle and doing these conventions. And I see Rose
Speaker 1: and she's in a boot and she's on like a
Speaker 1: knee scooter. I'm like, what happened? And she tells me
Speaker 1: this horrific story that happened, and I'm not going to
Speaker 1: tell it right because I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what is happening? But basically, you know,
Speaker 1: she broke.
Speaker 2: Her foot, she pulled all the.
Speaker 1: Ligaments and and yeah, she was on an I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: but you made it here, and good for you. So
Speaker 1: we got we got Rose on a knee scooter with
Speaker 1: a boot broken. We got Brian with a broken toe
Speaker 1: who's like limping but like still walking. And he's such
Speaker 1: a dude, like, you know, he wouldn't like I was like,
Speaker 1: let's get in an uber when we were going to
Speaker 1: like dinners and stuff or you know, and he's like,
Speaker 1: I'm okay, I'm just going slower I'm like, oh, it's
Speaker 1: such a man like not to be like I got this,
Speaker 1: I got this, like because you know, they don't want
Speaker 1: to be like, okay, I'll take it easy. So he
Speaker 1: was a trooper. Rose was a trooper. And then Saturday,
Speaker 1: Jamie Presley comes in. She's doing a whole they got
Speaker 1: everyone from my name is Earl there, very cool, and
Speaker 1: she comes in and when she gets there, she breaks
Speaker 1: her foot at the airport. At the airport coming in,
Speaker 1: Jamie has broken her foot. It was like an old injury,
Speaker 1: hairline fracture. And now at the airport she had a
Speaker 1: Dallas connection and was trying to get through fast and
Speaker 1: like make that connection at the Mecca City and yeah,
Speaker 1: and broke rebroke it but like bad. And again I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, my friends are all troopers, like super troopers.
Speaker 1: So anyway, she has a boot on two. She had
Speaker 1: the boot on two, so you have boots galore, except
Speaker 1: the boy who refuses to do it. So he's and.
Speaker 2: She's suffering through it, suffering.
Speaker 3: So we leave our table during the convention to get
Speaker 3: photos taken.
Speaker 2: And it's Brian and Tory and myself and.
Speaker 1: We're walking really slow because we know how you know,
Speaker 1: we're hanging back for Brian.
Speaker 3: They assigned an escort, a volunteer escort, to take you
Speaker 3: to your next event. And at first I'm thinking the
Speaker 3: guy we're walking with us is walking.
Speaker 1: He's walking in front of us with Brian and RUTHI Harry.
Speaker 2: We're like, oh, that's very respectful that he's going so slow.
Speaker 2: And then I took take another look and I.
Speaker 3: Say, actually he's badly limping as well, so he's either
Speaker 3: imitating Brian, which I highly doubt, or he too has
Speaker 3: an injury and.
Speaker 1: Need to find out. When we get to the panel,
Speaker 1: he says to me, I've met you before, and I said,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I'm so sorry. Where did we meet?
Speaker 1: And he said, in twenty nineteen, you were doing BH
Speaker 1: nine oh two and zero and at Century City Mall.
Speaker 1: They had like a fashion institute and we had like
Speaker 1: your clothes from the show and your design, your costume
Speaker 1: designer Mandy Lyin was there, and you and Jenny and
Speaker 1: I think Gabrielle, yeah, all the girls. And he said
Speaker 1: there was massive security because there was so many people
Speaker 1: like kind of bum rushing you. And I came up
Speaker 1: and wanted to get a photo with you as you
Speaker 1: were leaving, and he said, I still have the photo
Speaker 1: because all security swarmed in to keep me away, and
Speaker 1: you said, no, no, no, I'm fine, I'll take a
Speaker 1: photo with him. And the photo is kind of me
Speaker 1: kind of leaning in and you could see the security
Speaker 1: in the background, just like coming for this guy, and
Speaker 1: I took the picture quickly. They rushed me on. I
Speaker 1: thought it was okay. I haven't seen him since. Apparently
Speaker 1: they like tackled him. They thought he was like doing
Speaker 1: something to me. Wasn't. He was just a fan there
Speaker 1: at the time, like tackled him and he's had an injury.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh my god. So literally, this.
Speaker 3: This unfortunate limp he has was caused by Tory.
Speaker 1: Oh take it back, take it back. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: that's the headline. Uh listen, it was. It was not
Speaker 1: directly caused by me, but it Yeah. Anyway, we hugged
Speaker 1: it out. I said, I'm so sorry. He's like, well,
Speaker 1: you didn't do it, you weren't responsible. He was so nice.
Speaker 1: I said, you know what the least I could do
Speaker 1: was let's do a proper picture without a security guard
Speaker 1: in the background about to tack you. So we took
Speaker 1: some really good pictures. Anyway, I got to see my
Speaker 1: old friend, not old, well, I mean he's older. I
Speaker 1: got to see William Shatner lunch with us. We had
Speaker 1: lunch with William Shatner, Me and Brian, Ruth and Tracy, Brian,
Speaker 1: Samandrain and Bill and that man. And again, if you
Speaker 1: have not heard that episode with William Shatner, we go,
Speaker 1: we go where no one has ever gone before. So
Speaker 1: he told me. And that is the infamous episode where
Speaker 1: I inform William Shatner that you should do an enema
Speaker 1: before anal sex. And he had never heard that women.
Speaker 2: Do that, so he appreciated the info.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he really did. But that man has I thought
Speaker 1: I had a good memory. He's how old ninety two
Speaker 1: ninety threety three, I think, and one of the best memories,
Speaker 1: I mean, one of the most intelligent, witty, quick men
Speaker 1: I have ever met in my life.
Speaker 2: Human, handsome.
Speaker 1: I'm still handsome, so I said to him. So, if
Speaker 1: you haven't listened to that episode, mister William Shatner, you
Speaker 1: got to listen to it. It's amazing on misspelling podcasts.
Speaker 1: But I said to him, Oh my god, my friend.
Speaker 1: And he's like, how are you? As we go over
Speaker 1: and we hug and give him a kiss, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I missed you. Oh my god, I love you. And
Speaker 1: then I said I still owe you pickles and he said, yes,
Speaker 1: you do. You never sent me those pickles. So in
Speaker 1: the episode, I randomly because I was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: everyone has asked William Shatner everything in his career, so
Speaker 1: I kind of was like freestyling, freestyling podcast version. That's
Speaker 1: a new thing. And I was like, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: rogue and whatever comes to mind in this moment with him,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna ask. In the day before, I had
Speaker 1: just made homeweede pickles, like the DIY version, so and
Speaker 1: I'm obsessed with pickles. So, you know, we're in the
Speaker 1: middle of talking about his career and everything. I look
Speaker 1: at him and I say do you like pickles? And
Speaker 1: he goes, I do I love pickles? And then he goes,
Speaker 1: oh my god, that reminds me of a funny story
Speaker 1: that I don't think I've ever shared with anyone. And
Speaker 1: he talks about this whole pickle story of when he
Speaker 1: was eighteen and working as a counsel and this whole
Speaker 1: thing and pickle barrel, which he proceeds to tell Brian
Speaker 1: and ruth Anna Tracy. But yeah, so god, I got
Speaker 1: to get him those pickles. I got to make pickles
Speaker 1: and give it.
Speaker 2: To him, all right.
Speaker 3: Speaking of handsome men, Yes, let's talk about that bartender
Speaker 3: you met.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, you guys in different cities. Apparently bartenders
Speaker 1: have a thing for me. So here I am again.
Speaker 1: If you remember an episode if you haven't listened to it,
Speaker 1: with my best friend Jess, we went to Kansas City
Speaker 1: for an immersive whole experience with our friend Darren Bausman,
Speaker 1: who does the creator Saw and Everything. And there was
Speaker 1: a bartender at the bar that we were like kind
Speaker 1: of flirting, and I was just it was kind of
Speaker 1: like made me feel good about myself that someone was
Speaker 1: like actually interested in me. And anyway, he ended up
Speaker 1: being twenty four years old, ended up telling us that
Speaker 1: didn't know who I was, but he was definitely flirting
Speaker 1: with me, and I was feeling all good until he
Speaker 1: told me his mom because is two years younger than me.
Speaker 1: I mean, he said it nicely, but when he found
Speaker 1: out who I was, he was like, oh, my mom
Speaker 1: knows who you are, she watched your show, and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, and he is like all these siblings,
Speaker 1: how was your mom? And he's like, oh, what do
Speaker 1: you say, My mom's forty nine or something or forty eight.
Speaker 1: I'm like, how fuck my life? Anyway, So that was
Speaker 1: then listened to that episode. It's really great. But here
Speaker 1: I am again at the bar and we'd had a
Speaker 1: long day, so we were just sitting there and we
Speaker 1: had food and I randomly got spinach arta choke dip
Speaker 1: and slan because that's what everyone orders for dinner when
Speaker 1: in Huntsville, Bama's so random. Anyway, we have some drinks
Speaker 1: and this one is different than the last bartender. So
Speaker 1: this one is he has his hair and like a
Speaker 1: man bun, and he's kind of alternative and cool and
Speaker 1: like dark sense of humor. Totally my jam. But unlike
Speaker 1: the other one, who I felt like I was flirting
Speaker 1: with him and then he then it reciprocated, this one
Speaker 1: was like all him on me and he just kept
Speaker 1: like winking at me and like I'm like, okay, this guy,
Speaker 1: this guy's flirting with me. He's into me. So I
Speaker 1: say at this point it's Brian had gone to bed
Speaker 1: and it was Tracy brand'smander and Ruth Anne. I said, you, guys,
Speaker 1: I got to go to the bathroom. So I go
Speaker 1: to the bathroom and then I go outside. There's like
Speaker 1: a little area to go outside, go outside, and I'm
Speaker 1: literally about to FaceTime my kids to say good night.
Speaker 1: And asked me about to FaceTime my kids. I hear hi,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, okay. I turn around and he's come
Speaker 1: out and he's come outside and I'm sitting on the
Speaker 1: stoop there and he's like, oh, how are you? And
Speaker 1: he said, oh no, he said hi, and then he
Speaker 1: said I heard your famous, and I, being me in
Speaker 1: an adorable way, said ew, well, that's not the way
Speaker 1: to lead. And he was like, no, I don't know
Speaker 1: who you are, but I heard your famous. And I
Speaker 1: was like, I don't know whatever. I'm like, that's weird.
Speaker 1: So we end up talking very nice, cool guy. Really
Speaker 1: I liked him, and I was just like the way
Speaker 1: I liked the other bartender. I didn't feel it for
Speaker 1: this one.
Speaker 2: Well wait, but you're missing an important part.
Speaker 1: By the time he came out to tell me, I
Speaker 1: hear your famous and pick up on me, he had
Speaker 1: let down his hair. Now I raise boys who make choices,
Speaker 1: and they all have long hair. I love a good
Speaker 1: head of hair, like longish kind of hair is my thing,
Speaker 1: but I don't mean long like it was like long.
Speaker 1: We call him Fabio now minus the goose blood hitting
Speaker 1: him in the face on the roller coaster that I
Speaker 1: had to tell Tracy and ruth Ann and Brian about,
Speaker 1: and they didn't know that story. I'm like, you guys
Speaker 1: never heard that horrific story of Fabio on the roller
Speaker 1: coaster and the goose hit him in the face and
Speaker 1: died and there's blood everywhere. So they had this story. Ever,
Speaker 1: but I digress. So he had like shaken his locks out,
Speaker 1: and I'm sitting on the stoop and he's standing above me,
Speaker 1: and he must have thought like he would come out
Speaker 1: with this long hair and I'd be like ooh, and
Speaker 1: I was like ooo. But anyway, very good looking guy, though,
Speaker 1: very nice guy. Again, this one wasn't twenty four, but
Speaker 1: I was like, how old are you? And he's like
Speaker 1: twenty eight, and I'm like, gosh, I'm like these young
Speaker 1: ones like me for some reason. But you know what,
Speaker 1: And Brian pointed this out when I told him the story.
Speaker 1: This guy was really confident for a guy in his twenties,
Speaker 1: especially dealing with someone that he had just found out
Speaker 1: was like famous or something and an older woman like he.
Speaker 1: He goes right into uh, there's a famous arts and
Speaker 1: crafts fair here this weekend, and I said, oh, I
Speaker 1: heard about that, and he said, I'd like to take
Speaker 1: you tomorrow night. And he said, I'll buy you a ticket,
Speaker 1: I'll come pick you up. I have the day off.
Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, so very confident, like ballsy,
Speaker 1: like wow, good, you know what? Good for him? Of course,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, well, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: We're working late. I don't want her his feelings, so
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know, we're working late. Was Henry
Speaker 1: working till? I said oh? And I can't lie? And
Speaker 1: I said, oh, the convention is at eight, and he goes, oh,
Speaker 1: that's perfect timing. I'll pick you up at nine. And
Speaker 1: I was like, you know what. I gave him my
Speaker 1: cell and I said text me. I said, brag. Got
Speaker 1: to tell you, I'm not sure these conventions are exhausting
Speaker 1: and I'm not sure what we're gonna do. But and
Speaker 1: he said, okay, okay, I'll hit you up tomorrow and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, showing his age. Hit me up, Yeah,
Speaker 1: hit me up. Anyway, we go to bed and I
Speaker 1: did text my best friend Jess and I was like,
Speaker 1: so I got another bartender and she was like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, tell me everything. And I was like no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm like no, no, no, this one. But she even said,
Speaker 1: she goes, wait, I like this guy. She goes, first
Speaker 1: of all, I can't get past the fact that I
Speaker 1: invite you to an arts and crafts fair in Alabama.
Speaker 1: But I'll let that one go. She was like, that's
Speaker 1: really gutsy. I'm like, yeah, that's what Brian said. Anyway,
Speaker 1: So the next day back at the convention, I had
Speaker 1: told him it ends at eight, and I'm at my
Speaker 1: table and at tables and conventions, if you've ever met
Speaker 1: me some celebrities, it's fine, sit behind the table with
Speaker 1: all their pictures and you come to the table and
Speaker 1: they're nice and they interact and sign for you. Brian
Speaker 1: and I and I really eat the more. Like Brian
Speaker 1: and I like travel and do all this stuff together,
Speaker 1: even though I pretty much always knew it, Like Brian
Speaker 1: and I are the same human. And I'm proud to
Speaker 1: say that because I'm his TV wife and gosh, you know,
Speaker 1: one of the greatest loves of my life in whatever
Speaker 1: form that is. But I'm proud to say, like we
Speaker 1: are the same human. He's the male form, I'm the
Speaker 1: female form. Yep, Donn and David forever. It's real. But anyway,
Speaker 1: we both don't ever sit down the entire time. I'm
Speaker 1: talking like if it goes ten hours, like, we don't
Speaker 1: ever sit We stand and on our table and we
Speaker 1: go right up to our everyone in our lines, and
Speaker 1: we're just we are both huggers and we go write in,
Speaker 1: we introduce ourselves, ask their name, we hug them, we
Speaker 1: talk to them. At previous conventions, people have said, like,
Speaker 1: people are getting bummed because they're waiting in such long lines.
Speaker 1: You got to go quicker, and Brian and I are
Speaker 1: both like, you know what, No, this is like a
Speaker 1: moment for people, and we love people. We're going to
Speaker 1: give as much time as they need. And they want
Speaker 1: to tell us stories, we want to talk to them.
Speaker 1: It's only fair, so you know, and it's what we enjoy.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I'm in front of my table. I've just
Speaker 1: you know, signed something. I turned back around to OCD
Speaker 1: organize my pictures weird. And ruth Anne, who is sitting
Speaker 1: behind the table because she handles the money and everything,
Speaker 1: she says behind you now, she claims she said, because
Speaker 1: I I heard behind me, and I was like, oh
Speaker 1: my god. I panicked, and I was like, who, what's
Speaker 1: behind me? I have no idea. It reminds me of
Speaker 1: city slickers where like do you remember that where he
Speaker 1: says something and then he's like, he's right behind me,
Speaker 1: isn't he? Oh my god, Billy Crystal says something and
Speaker 1: he's right anyway.
Speaker 3: But I did say I said, bartender behind you. Maybe
Speaker 3: that wasn't descriptive enough. I was trying to be efficient.
Speaker 1: And why five kids. My hearing at this point is
Speaker 1: so not good and so all I heard is and
Speaker 1: I can't see barely anymore. I mean I can, but
Speaker 1: it's just like my eyes aren't as good as they
Speaker 1: used to. I used to be able to read lips
Speaker 1: like a mother. But but all I heard is behind you,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, huh, frozen. I like swirl around quickly,
Speaker 1: like what's happening? And yep, it's the bartender and he's there,
Speaker 1: hair down and he's got like very like cool kind
Speaker 1: of almost like seventies vibes, like hipster, I don't kind
Speaker 1: of festival hotel in his shirts and buttoned all the
Speaker 1: way to like down his chest. He's got some gold
Speaker 1: chains on. I did like his off white slides, the
Speaker 1: brand off white with socks. That's what everyone wears. You
Speaker 1: and Tracy kept obsessing and Brian about the slides with
Speaker 1: the socks. That is a fashion statement these days. I'm
Speaker 1: not defending him. And he's wearing something around his neck
Speaker 1: and he holds it up and he goes, I bought
Speaker 1: a day pass and I'm like, yay, and he is.
Speaker 1: He is holding a cocktail and Ruth Anne when you say, I.
Speaker 2: Said, oh, are you working tonight?
Speaker 3: And he says, no, I am drinking tonight and he
Speaker 3: holds up his cup and unfortunately for him, a couple
Speaker 3: of the staff members saw that and he was immediately
Speaker 3: shuffled off the convention.
Speaker 1: Floor because you can't drink there. Yes, so, but he
Speaker 1: didn't know. And then they said, is this man harassing you?
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, don't kick him out. I'm like, at
Speaker 1: my age, it's so flattering to anyone to be interested
Speaker 1: in me, I said, I said, it's a it's a
Speaker 1: boy and he's wait what was that line? Uh, this
Speaker 1: is just a girl asking a boy to love notting
Speaker 1: Hill anyway, Julia Roberts, Sorry, anyway, he did. I was like, don't, don't,
Speaker 1: don't make him leave. Like, I was like, I don't
Speaker 1: want to go out with this guy. But he asked
Speaker 1: me out. But it's so flattering that he's flirting with
Speaker 1: me and he's twenty eight and he's cute. Mine is
Speaker 1: long hair. Anyway, Yeah, he was amusing.
Speaker 2: I will give him.
Speaker 1: He did text me later and say you're still doing
Speaker 1: a right and I feel bad at ghosted him. I
Speaker 1: did I should text him.
Speaker 2: No, you really should not. You should lose the phone
Speaker 2: number and move on. That is what you should do.
Speaker 2: Leave it in the past.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I just don't want to feel bad about himself.
Speaker 1: There's no closure there for him.
Speaker 3: Okay, Moving along, The convention was a success.
Speaker 2: You guys did a great panel.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, the panel. For one second, I got
Speaker 1: to say, we went to Alabama not knowing what to expect,
Speaker 1: and Huntsville is beautiful. They have one they have the biggest,
Speaker 1: they have the space camp there. They have so many
Speaker 1: like it's so many professionals and doctors and some of
Speaker 1: the best like medical things like it's it's really and
Speaker 1: beautiful architecture, great food, and the kindest people. Oh my,
Speaker 1: And everyone kept saying, you got to find yourself is
Speaker 1: the Southern what is say, Southern charm, Southern hospitality? You
Speaker 1: got to find yourself a Southern man. And I was like, maybe,
Speaker 1: but oh my god, the fried creen tomatoes were so
Speaker 1: good there. Oh the hush puppies, Oh god, it was insane. Anyway,
Speaker 1: the panel, we do panels all the time, and it
Speaker 1: was me and Brian and usually the panels are very
Speaker 1: light and like, what are your favorite memories, what's your
Speaker 1: favorite show? Your character? Uh, this is the first time
Speaker 1: during a panel that people could in the audience have
Speaker 1: a mic and ask questions. And this is the first
Speaker 1: time that And this had happened to me all day
Speaker 1: while I was there. Someone said, Tori, I know you've
Speaker 1: personally gone through a lot and just want to say
Speaker 1: we're proud of you. And I had gotten that from
Speaker 1: women all day long, and it meant a lot, because
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess at times, I doubt myself at
Speaker 1: times and sometimes I'll be like, you know, the press
Speaker 1: has such a way of turning everything into like, you know,
Speaker 1: life fallowed apart, like broke home, like they've been such
Speaker 1: horrible things because a nice story doesn't sell, you know.
Speaker 1: And I sometimes read the press and it's like, God,
Speaker 1: do people just perceive me as a hot mess, Like
Speaker 1: I'm a single mom going through it. Stuff has happened,
Speaker 1: but I'm a fighter like I and people are like,
Speaker 1: get a job, people say, I'm like, I have fifty try.
Speaker 1: I'm scrambling to provide for my family as a single mom.
Speaker 1: I don't have help. I don't have like I am.
Speaker 1: I'm working through stuff, and I'm working through it a
Speaker 1: lot of the emotional stuff and things that have happened
Speaker 1: through you know, trauma and stuff personally and emotionally, like
Speaker 1: I'm working through it as I go, you know, and
Speaker 1: and not not missing a beat because it's fight or flight.
Speaker 1: But my kids are my everything, and I keep going.
Speaker 1: But that's who I am, and no matter if my
Speaker 1: life fell apart or didn't fall apart, I'm always going
Speaker 1: to keep going. And it was a nice reminder that
Speaker 1: there are people humans. It's not just this stuff we
Speaker 1: read online that people can hide behind. And it was
Speaker 1: nice to be reminded the humans and men even said it,
Speaker 1: and especially women and moms, and they're just like this woman,
Speaker 1: this woman had three kids and she was there and
Speaker 1: she said, I know what you've been through. I read
Speaker 1: it and she said, I'm proud of you. And she's like,
Speaker 1: you just keep going. She's like, you got this, and
Speaker 1: she hugged me and she prayed for me while she
Speaker 1: hugged me and said this beautiful prayer and I said
Speaker 1: thank you. And she's like, I'm going to put you
Speaker 1: at the top of my prayer list every night. I said,
Speaker 1: oh my god, no, I'm not worthy. Just put me
Speaker 1: like number five or something whatever. No. I was like, no,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, and she said, no, you're on it.
Speaker 1: She's like, because I believe in you, and it's going
Speaker 1: to be okay. You're going to get through everything and
Speaker 1: elevate and be even better. And anyway, in this panel,
Speaker 1: people start saying that and they said, we've been through
Speaker 1: a lot and you're a warrior. You know you keep going.
Speaker 1: And I just I had a moment, you know me,
Speaker 1: I don't crack easy where I spoke to my truth
Speaker 1: and I acknowledge that Brian, since he was right next
Speaker 1: to me. He's been so instrumental in being that person
Speaker 1: to lean on in my rock through a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff and believing in me when I didn't think I
Speaker 1: could believe in myself. And I realize that I don't
Speaker 1: have a big I have a big outer circle. I
Speaker 1: don't have a big. Small circle is my inner circle.
Speaker 1: It's very small. But everyone that's in that believes in
Speaker 1: me and has been there for me. And it makes
Speaker 1: you realize in life, who's there for you for the
Speaker 1: right reason, who's not? And those are the people that
Speaker 1: really kind of were there for you. I mean, you
Speaker 1: gotta no one can save you. You know you got to.
Speaker 1: You gotta step up and do it for yourself. But
Speaker 1: I did. I started crying at the panel, and I
Speaker 1: spoke my truth of my why, and I acknowledged in
Speaker 1: my tory way that everyone goes through stuff and people's
Speaker 1: lives fall apart, and what you know is what's happened
Speaker 1: to me is very might look very different than what's
Speaker 1: happened to someone else. I might be an LA girl
Speaker 1: and going through stuff and publicly and I'm an actress
Speaker 1: and a podcaster, but that doesn't minimize what the person
Speaker 1: here all the way here across the country, and Alabama
Speaker 1: is going through and we're connecting. I'm connecting with women
Speaker 1: daily on struggles and things and trauma and getting past
Speaker 1: that and the effect it has on you, and and
Speaker 1: you realize how none of them like, we're all just humans.
Speaker 1: We're all just human on a human level. And we
Speaker 1: might be in different places going through different things, and
Speaker 1: we might be doing it on different levels, in different
Speaker 1: places of life or professions, but at the heart of it,
Speaker 1: we are all human beings. And it was so nice
Speaker 1: to connect with people and know that. And I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just turned to Brian and I said I love you,
Speaker 1: and he said I love you too. And he's been
Speaker 1: a really great friend. I'm very grateful for him. So
Speaker 1: there was a reason Donna and David forever. Literally he
Speaker 1: stuck with me in this lifetime. Poor guy. Anyway, Okay,
Speaker 1: we saw a lot of great people, met a lot
Speaker 1: of great people. But then I was like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: we're dan. The convention's ending, and I liam really wanted
Speaker 1: to picture with weird al and I'm terrified. I'm scared
Speaker 1: to say anything, and so all ruth Anne went and asked,
Speaker 1: and he was so nice.
Speaker 2: He couldn't have been nicer.
Speaker 1: He got up from his table, came behind the curtains
Speaker 1: because there's a green room kind of backstage, and came
Speaker 1: over and took a picture and I said, thank you
Speaker 1: so much. My son eighteen, huge fan, so your a
Speaker 1: legend and took a picture and I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: that is full circle. Until we were flying home to
Speaker 1: connecting flights through Dallas again delayed another four hours. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: delayed another four hours. We get on our final leg,
Speaker 1: our final connection back to LA and guess who's on it?
Speaker 1: Weird al Now that's full circle.
Speaker 2: Wait, but back to the lounge.
Speaker 1: Yes, we went back to the lounge and a very
Speaker 1: nice man next to her said, you remind me of
Speaker 1: my mother. Third times the term there's comedy in three's.
Speaker 1: I forgot about that. Yep, it happened. Oh so you're good.
Speaker 1: From now on, you might just get referred to as
Speaker 1: my grandmother.