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Speaker 2: It is almost twenty twenty five, It is almost New
Speaker 2: Year's you guys, and time is just moving quick. So
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go back in time and welcome to another episode.
Speaker 3: Of Wait for It.
Speaker 4: This one is New Year's at the Manor.
Speaker 2: I got winded there, so typically Amy does these with me,
Speaker 2: but Amy is not here today, so Ruth Anne might
Speaker 2: jump in. You're bestowed the honor of asking me what
Speaker 2: it was like, and you might be shocked.
Speaker 3: I'm sure I will be.
Speaker 5: So we've heard a bunch about Christmas at the Manor,
Speaker 5: but I'm assuming New Year's at the man was quite
Speaker 5: a big to do as well. Am I right about that?
Speaker 4: You're wrong about that? Oh Y didn't see that one coming.
Speaker 2: So you know how I talk about traditions and feeling
Speaker 2: guilty if I can't do things that we've done past
Speaker 2: years with the kids. It comes from my parents, Like
Speaker 2: my mom was a believer in traditions. We always would
Speaker 2: look forward to that, and I feel like that's something
Speaker 2: that imprints on you throughout your life and it's something
Speaker 2: you carry on and it's a really beautiful thing.
Speaker 4: Traditions.
Speaker 2: So whereas we went all out growing up, well, my
Speaker 2: mom went all out for Christmas Eve party and then
Speaker 2: all out for the Christmas dinner we would have New Year's.
Speaker 2: I feel like this is just for my feelings and
Speaker 2: memories and perception of it. My dad kind of handled
Speaker 2: New Year's now, even though we talk about the manner.
Speaker 4: I'm going to go back to the house.
Speaker 2: I grew up in the money manner, right, so I
Speaker 2: feel like my mom did so much. You know, I
Speaker 2: always talk about she did all the shopping for my dad,
Speaker 2: thousands of gifts for everyone that worked with my dad,
Speaker 2: and then you know, she did all her family and
Speaker 2: this huge Christmas Eve party and then Christmas dinner and
Speaker 2: she still made everything happen for the kids at home,
Speaker 2: Like while doing all this, it just I'm sure.
Speaker 4: She was exhausted.
Speaker 2: So New Year's Eve was very small at our house,
Speaker 2: which no one would think, and we would have it.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna go back to the house I grew
Speaker 2: up and like I said, and we would have it
Speaker 2: in what we would call our den, and we would
Speaker 2: have like our big screen TV there, which you know
Speaker 2: was the big box at the time, right one on
Speaker 2: the ground isn't that.
Speaker 4: Crazy how TV's used to like be a huge.
Speaker 2: Box and then once they became like you have your
Speaker 2: big screen, it was like a console. It like sat
Speaker 2: on the ground and went feet back and yeah, it's wild.
Speaker 2: There wasn't a flat screen. Then it didn't pull from
Speaker 2: the ceiling. Oh, my mom was ahead of her time.
Speaker 2: She had this screen that pulled from the ceiling. But
Speaker 2: she's always been ahead of her time.
Speaker 3: So how old are you? Give us the picture? How
Speaker 3: old are you? Is Randy Bourne?
Speaker 4: Yet, I'm just talking like general memories.
Speaker 2: Okay, So we would on Christmas Eve, my dad would
Speaker 2: take me shopping. So I'm just gonna talk about me now.
Speaker 2: So I was probably younger. My brother was little because
Speaker 2: he didn't go. And this is my memory of it.
Speaker 2: Let's say I'm like eight. Let's just go with that
Speaker 2: number because it's coming to my head. And we would
Speaker 2: go to Thrifties, which is in Beverly Hills, which is
Speaker 2: no longer Thrifties. It's like right, aid, right, but they
Speaker 2: still carry Thrifties ice cream, just saying, but Thrifties.
Speaker 4: It was like a Walgreens.
Speaker 2: Write a CBS back in the day, back in the
Speaker 2: damn soul. It was in Beverly Hills. We had a
Speaker 2: massive one and my dad we would go there every
Speaker 2: year and we would get like a fake little tree
Speaker 2: because we always had real trees and ginormous trees, even
Speaker 2: when I was little in the mini manner, and we
Speaker 2: would get like a fake little white Christmas tree and
Speaker 2: it would be the New Year's tree, and he would
Speaker 2: let me go around and pick like bulbs to decorate
Speaker 2: it with, and he would let me shop for like
Speaker 2: every family member. So basically it was like for him
Speaker 2: and he would like look away, and it would be
Speaker 2: for my mom and my brother once he got a
Speaker 2: little older, and our nanny and you know, anyone that
Speaker 2: worked at our house, like security or whatever. So I
Speaker 2: would go through and buy write aid products in a bag.
Speaker 2: And back then I was like really fascinated because I
Speaker 2: was a little Beverly Hills girl that we had really
Speaker 2: fancy stuff everywhere. And to me going to like a
Speaker 2: drug store, I hadn't seen stuff like that before.
Speaker 4: Does this sounding terrible? So I would be.
Speaker 2: You know, little bottles of shampoo and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: I was like, my mind was blown.
Speaker 4: This sounds awful.
Speaker 2: And yeah, it was like travel sized, like you know, toothpaste.
Speaker 4: I was like, what what is this?
Speaker 2: You know, the dollar shelf. I'm like, wait, what's a
Speaker 2: dollar Like? Oh yeah, see I wish he had turned
Speaker 2: and taught me that then actually, But anyway, I'm sure
Speaker 2: once I bought all these little like tiny little things
Speaker 2: and oh and I was fascinated with the little kids
Speaker 2: that would have like perfume.
Speaker 4: And back then it was like Jenne ta right, is
Speaker 4: that right?
Speaker 3: Or Charlie?
Speaker 2: Yeah, remember Charlie perfume, And they would make the little
Speaker 2: mini ones, I think, and I would, and it would.
Speaker 4: It was like on sale.
Speaker 2: It was left over from Christmas, and it would be like,
Speaker 2: you know, a little box or a little wreath, and
Speaker 2: like you could get like sample little perfumes in there
Speaker 2: and the cream and everything. I think I would get
Speaker 2: it for my mom, and I'm sure she was just like,
Speaker 2: oh my god. First of all, my mom didn't like
Speaker 2: perfumes or sense. She wore one perfume growing up called Joy,
Speaker 2: which once I became an adult, I wore Joy because
Speaker 2: it's what my mom wore. But she did not like
Speaker 2: it would give her allergies in migraines. If like you
Speaker 2: sprayed random perfumes and random like fragrances, and they were
Speaker 2: very potent. She always like politely thanks me, but I'm
Speaker 2: sure she was like, oh my gosh, I don't blame her,
Speaker 2: but anyway, and then I'd come home, so we'd have.
Speaker 4: Like a bag of like random little travel.
Speaker 2: Size things and little perfumes. I'm sure it was like
Speaker 2: one hundred dollars each person. You know, it wasn't listen.
Speaker 2: Shopping has always been my blood, so always in my DNA,
Speaker 2: so I could shop anywhere, and I think I learned at.
Speaker 4: A young age. I would come home with the foot massager.
Speaker 2: You plug it in and put your feet in and
Speaker 2: it vibrates and you know, illuminates the water with the
Speaker 2: lights and like.
Speaker 3: Like as seen on TV.
Speaker 2: Ding ding, ding ding as seen on TV products. But
Speaker 2: back in the day, Oh my gosh, Oh yeah, I
Speaker 2: like loved it. But like he loved taking me and
Speaker 2: we would get stuff and they had a toy aisle
Speaker 2: with off brand barbies and like you know, the three
Speaker 2: dollars barbies the stuffies. Yeah, And I would get that
Speaker 2: from my brother and stuff and just would have so
Speaker 2: much fun doing it. He would always do it personally
Speaker 2: with me, and I remember out in the parking lot,
Speaker 2: we'd be walking in, fans would be like stopping him.
Speaker 2: And that's one of my first memories of realizing, oh,
Speaker 2: my dad's someone famous.
Speaker 4: Was it was six actually going to.
Speaker 2: Thrifties and while through that parking lot, him holding my
Speaker 2: hand and we were going in. He didn't drive, so
Speaker 2: a driver dropped us off, but we would walk in.
Speaker 2: He didn't have security with him or anything. It was
Speaker 2: just me and him back then and fans coming over
Speaker 2: and getting his autograph. And I was like, oh, hm,
Speaker 2: my dad's somebody. So now that I'm thinking about it,
Speaker 2: sorry talking out loud.
Speaker 3: Would he explain it to you? Or like, would you
Speaker 3: ask or no?
Speaker 4: I never asked.
Speaker 2: Interesting, No, I never asked that is interesting. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: just I've always been an observer and I would just
Speaker 2: take notes and I was.
Speaker 4: Like, hmm, okay, noted.
Speaker 2: So Christmas Eve, my mom would have like the big
Speaker 2: catered caviar shrimp towers, you know, like all the massive stuff.
Speaker 2: Christmas Dinner was like, oh my god, next level, like
Speaker 2: the turkey, the honey baked tam a million ties.
Speaker 4: Like yeah.
Speaker 2: So in all our traditions that we had, and then
Speaker 2: New Year's Eve.
Speaker 4: We would just have like burgers. It was just very
Speaker 4: low key.
Speaker 2: We would get the confetti, not the confetti, it's like
Speaker 2: the stacked one and you peel them off and you
Speaker 2: just throw them and it goes comes.
Speaker 6: Out like streamers, kind of streamers ish, and you would
Speaker 6: get it in like a kit and it would be
Speaker 6: like the plastic party hats and be like in silver.
Speaker 4: The glitter would all fall off.
Speaker 2: Right, and you would have the not a kazoo, it
Speaker 2: would be the thing you just wun around and be like.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: You would have poppers, but they'd be the little like
Speaker 2: it looked like a little bottle of champagne.
Speaker 4: You pull the string and be like would come out.
Speaker 4: So all of that stuff. So he would let me
Speaker 4: get that too, and.
Speaker 2: I would decorate our den and our big screen TV
Speaker 2: and we would watch the ball drop and do all that.
Speaker 3: Did you guys get dressed up?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: So it was totally casual.
Speaker 4: Totally casual.
Speaker 2: I mean we always dress like it'd be fun like, oh,
Speaker 2: you know, we're like black and silver and like metallic,
Speaker 2: like something cute.
Speaker 3: But it wasn't like a formal thing, were you Oh.
Speaker 2: My dad would be in his sweatsuit right with his
Speaker 2: pipe and it was like literally just that.
Speaker 1: So the staff at the house they were bought for
Speaker 1: the holiday, or was there somebody there like cooking?
Speaker 3: Was there a chefs there making burgers?
Speaker 2: So when we were younger, younger, we would get like
Speaker 2: take out and bring it in and do that.
Speaker 4: And my parents.
Speaker 2: I feel like, would have like, you know, a bottle
Speaker 2: of champagne and we'd have a bottle of Martinelli sparkling
Speaker 2: cider and put him in the plastic like champagne cups. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: And we would do all that and it was really fun.
Speaker 2: And yeah, that's my memory of New Year's Eve was
Speaker 2: always super low key. Now cuts you, I know what
Speaker 2: you're alluding to. At this point, I'm allowed to have
Speaker 2: friends over.
Speaker 1: But you're now in the manor, you know, all in
Speaker 1: the mini manor, still in the mini manner?
Speaker 2: Got it, still in the mini Manor. I feel like
Speaker 2: it was our final year in the mini manner or
Speaker 2: we had one more. Yeah anyway, same room, same setup.
Speaker 2: I was allowed to have friends over. So I have
Speaker 2: two girlfriends that were sleeping over. My brother was ten,
Speaker 2: I think he had a friend sleeping over, and my
Speaker 2: parents and I think a couple of my you know,
Speaker 2: I always say, my kids called my best friends uncle
Speaker 2: or aunts.
Speaker 4: I grew up with that tradition.
Speaker 2: So a couple of their, like real close best friends,
Speaker 2: we would call uncle and aunt like they would come
Speaker 2: over and hang with my parents.
Speaker 4: Super low key, But there was a chef that worked
Speaker 4: for us.
Speaker 2: And I've talked about this in my books, and I
Speaker 2: think I've talked about an OMG, but there was a
Speaker 2: chef that worked for us, and super cute grew up
Speaker 2: in La surfer boy turned chefs, gone to culinary school
Speaker 2: and was kind of working his way up and came to,
Speaker 2: you know, be a personal chef at my parents' house.
Speaker 2: And we would have this like flirtation because all my
Speaker 2: girlfriends would come over and be like, oh.
Speaker 4: My god, he's so cute.
Speaker 2: And we'd be like, oh giggling and be like, oh
Speaker 2: my god, should we just walk through the kitchen like
Speaker 2: flirt you know how girls are.
Speaker 4: And my friends would be.
Speaker 2: Like, I think he's flirting back with you, and I
Speaker 2: was like, oh my god, no, like that can't be
Speaker 2: and yeah, sure enough, he was starting back with me
Speaker 2: and oh yeah yeah. And I would do in the
Speaker 2: breakfast room with the mini manner. I would do my homework,
Speaker 2: and so I would like study there. I had my
Speaker 2: homework and I would leave it out and I would
Speaker 2: like then go up to my room, be on the
Speaker 2: phone with my friends, and late night i'd come down
Speaker 2: to study or the next morning I'd be looking through
Speaker 2: my homework and my tray binder and he would have
Speaker 2: written like little notes to me.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So it was it like a one way street. I
Speaker 2: was like, whoa, what is happening?
Speaker 3: So wait, what kind of notes? What did he say?
Speaker 4: I don't even remember. I don't remember.
Speaker 2: It was just cute boy notes, but like not too flirtatious,
Speaker 2: but like something.
Speaker 4: I mean, he took a big leap of faith that
Speaker 4: I wouldn't.
Speaker 2: Be like mom the chefs. I was writing love notes
Speaker 2: in my yeah, in my binder.
Speaker 4: Help you know? Wow?
Speaker 3: Wow? Is right?
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So anyway, we had enough interactions that it was.
Speaker 4: Like, Okay, we're totally flirting with each other.
Speaker 1: How long had he been there before the flirting started
Speaker 1: in the notes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he was like not concealing that. He was
Speaker 2: looking at me, like you know, and looking me up
Speaker 2: and down and like always like doing his stuff and
Speaker 2: like looking over if I was in the kitchen, like
Speaker 2: getting snacks with my friends and after school and he
Speaker 2: was cooking dinner. It was like letting me know, I'm
Speaker 2: sure there's stuff I'm missing here. But we would have
Speaker 2: a little bancer and you know, even then, even though
Speaker 2: I was like kind of shy, like I was still
Speaker 2: funny and like still like, you know, we would have
Speaker 2: cute panter in the kitchen anyway, So off the kitchen
Speaker 2: is the laundry room. And on this particular New Year's Eve,
Speaker 2: my friends and I were hanging in the den. I
Speaker 2: had dressed up so like I was wearing I don't
Speaker 2: know what was in then. I think it was like
Speaker 2: a cute little like leather like black mini skirt.
Speaker 4: I'm like, I don't know what was in then I know.
Speaker 2: Exactly what I was wearing, a little leather black mini
Speaker 2: skirt and and like a chiffon black blouse with like
Speaker 2: a little like brawl and underneath, oh my god, and
Speaker 2: my hair was kind of big then oof. It was
Speaker 2: very Donna esque and I think I had like my
Speaker 2: Doc Martins on or whatever. And we had gotten into
Speaker 2: the champagne because my parents were like, Okay, you know,
Speaker 2: you guys are here, you can have one glass of
Speaker 2: champagne with us, so we each got our half a
Speaker 2: glass like whatever. And of course when you're that young,
Speaker 2: you're like ooh, like anyway, little liquid courage. Here's what
Speaker 2: I think probably happened. My parents were like, you can
Speaker 2: have like a little thing, so we could do with cheers,
Speaker 2: and then when they weren't looking, we were like grab
Speaker 2: everyone's glass, like down it, you know, like the thing
Speaker 2: teens do, right, like, oh, someone put.
Speaker 4: Their wine glass down, drink it.
Speaker 2: So a little liquid courage. And my friends were like,
Speaker 2: go in there. You have to go in and talk
Speaker 2: to him. So I basically went in there and wait.
Speaker 3: Wait, wait, you're in the den. I need details. Your
Speaker 3: parents are in the den. Okay, they're in the den.
Speaker 4: Yeah. It wasn't night like he was home by midnight.
Speaker 2: This was like probably nine o'clock and he was making
Speaker 2: food for us and cooking, and then he was cleaning
Speaker 2: up so before when he was cooking. I'm not sure
Speaker 2: how this transpired. I can't remember, but somehow he had
Speaker 2: said like when I'm done, like meet me back in
Speaker 2: the laundry room. Yeah, very subtle, I'm sure it was,
Speaker 2: but I don't remember how it came across or like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, are you gonna hang out with me?
Speaker 2: Like it's New Year's and my friends were probably like
Speaker 2: you should hang out with her, and he was like, okay,
Speaker 2: well I have to clean up everything, like you know,
Speaker 2: his stuff was in the laundry room, like that's where
Speaker 2: everyone would go like that worked in the house, like
Speaker 2: you would have your like not cupboards, but like so
Speaker 2: your locker kind of but not a locker. It was
Speaker 2: like a family laundryroom. But you would go back there
Speaker 2: and and like he would take off his chef's jacket
Speaker 2: and like his apron and like put it away and
Speaker 2: like you know, put his clothes on his jacket's leather jacket.
Speaker 2: He was like really cool, had a pickup truck, rode
Speaker 2: a motorcycle, you know, very like bad boy like I like.
Speaker 4: And then would leave.
Speaker 2: So he was probably like when I'm back there, like
Speaker 2: I'm off, so if you want to, like you know,
Speaker 2: meet me back there or something, which for me was
Speaker 2: very what's the movie, Like I'll meet you like the
Speaker 2: Eiffel Tower, Will.
Speaker 4: He be there? Will he not be there?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: Anyway, it was like, oh, I'll meet you there, So
Speaker 2: I was like counting down like, he's off at nine,
Speaker 2: I have to meet him back there.
Speaker 4: I was like panic.
Speaker 2: My friends were like you got this, you know, pumping
Speaker 2: me up pregame. Anyway, long story short, I went back
Speaker 2: there and I was like, what if he's just lefting
Speaker 2: my But he's not going to be there. He's just like, oh,
Speaker 2: silly young girl. Of course she's going to come meet
Speaker 2: me back there, and like whatever, I'm off, I'm leaving.
Speaker 2: But he didn't leave, and he was there and he
Speaker 2: was like dressed in his normal clothes and he looked
Speaker 2: so hot. And anyway, he kissed me against the washing machine.
Speaker 2: Whoa yeah, And I was like, oh my god, that
Speaker 2: is crazy. I just quite literally kissed our family chef
Speaker 2: against the washing machine on New Year's Eve.
Speaker 4: It was iconic. That imagine.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine if your mother walked in?
Speaker 4: Oh my poor mom. I stressed her out so much.
Speaker 1: Okay, so wait, so I mean you have your kiss
Speaker 1: and then he leaves and you just go back to
Speaker 1: the den and you're like happy here.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It was like a good kiss too, It was like
Speaker 2: a full on kiss. I was very Donna Martin at
Speaker 2: that age, so I wasn't experienced like kissing a lot
Speaker 2: of boys or doing anything else. So I mean I
Speaker 2: had kissed screech On Saved by the Bell. I think
Speaker 2: I had kissed like one boy in real life, and
Speaker 2: then like he was like the third, like second real
Speaker 2: boy I had kissed. Anyway, my friends were dying. They
Speaker 2: were like, you are the coolest chick ever. Like, imagine
Speaker 2: the stories I had when I went back to school
Speaker 2: after winter break. Oh my god, I went.
Speaker 4: Back ruling the roost.
Speaker 2: So there's going to be a part two to this,
Speaker 2: you guys, because welcome to teen girls. I passed notes
Speaker 2: and talked a little too much to girls, and they
Speaker 2: were like, oh my.
Speaker 4: God, what what happened?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, you kissed the cute chef in your parents'
Speaker 2: house and this got back and there's a whole story
Speaker 2: what happened. Oh yeah, that's her Part two. Chef Boyard
Speaker 2: has got nothing on me. Let me tell you, no
Speaker 2: chefs will be hurt in the making of this story.
Speaker 2: But all I'm gonna say is I ran into him
Speaker 2: fifteen years ago. No way, way, okay, anyway, So that's
Speaker 2: my New Year's story.
Speaker 3: That was a very very happy New Year for you.
Speaker 2: I know, I've never had a good one since. Oh
Speaker 2: my gosh, I have never had a good New Year since.
Speaker 3: New Year's is super overrated. So the fact that you
Speaker 3: have this iconic, crazy story, well, it's just.
Speaker 2: That every teenage girl's dream. The older boy he's.
Speaker 4: Flirting with you.
Speaker 2: It's that one summer, except it was this one winter
Speaker 2: and You're like, he'll never like me.
Speaker 4: I'm so awkward. Why would you think I'm cute? He
Speaker 4: could have any girl, and then like he likes you.
Speaker 4: It was just every like movie. It was every John
Speaker 4: Hughes movie wrapped in.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, it's like sixteen Candles.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, he was my Jake Ryan Yep, yes, oh.
Speaker 4: No, I'm acting like my grind.
Speaker 2: Sorry, but anyway, so I'll have one of what she
Speaker 2: had who was me on that New Year's Eve? Because
Speaker 2: I've never had a good one since, and I would
Speaker 2: love good New Year's That's all I'm saying. But now
Speaker 2: it's all about the kids, and until they're older, I
Speaker 2: feel like I'm not going to be like, you know,
Speaker 2: having the romantic, fun New Years. But yeah, so that
Speaker 2: was New Year's at the Mini Manor. They're actually sorry,
Speaker 2: now I'm going to break everyone's heart. I don't think
Speaker 2: we ever had New Year's at the Manor. Like, once
Speaker 2: we got to the Manor, we went out for New
Speaker 2: Year's Eve because I was, you know, my late teens
Speaker 2: and then my early twenties, and my brother was with
Speaker 2: his friends and we kind of just went out, so
Speaker 2: we didn't even have any manner New Year's Eve.
Speaker 4: Sorry, Okay, guys.
Speaker 2: On that note, Wow, may you find your chef to
Speaker 2: kiss against a washing machine in twenty twenty five. Wow,
Speaker 2: so many wishes for all of you. No, honestly, as
Speaker 2: we go into this new year, let's take the pressure off.
Speaker 2: I always make New Year's resolutions that I don't hold
Speaker 2: myself accountable for. Let's just say, going into the new year,
Speaker 2: this is our year, Like it's a time to do
Speaker 2: a restart, a refresh, a reboot, and a brig and
Speaker 2: glow up. So let's make this one iconic. I love
Speaker 2: you guys, Be safe and see you in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4: Love you,