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Speaker 1: What do you do when life doesn't go according to

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Speaker 1: plan that moment you lose a job, or a loved one,

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Speaker 1: or even a piece of yourself. I'm Brookshields and this

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Speaker 1: is now What a podcast about pivotal moments as told

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Speaker 1: by people who lived them. Each week, I sit down

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Speaker 1: with a guest to talk about the times they were

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Speaker 1: knocked off course and what they did to move forward.

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Speaker 1: Some stories are funny, others are gut wrenching, but all

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Speaker 1: are unapologetically human and remind us that every success and

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Speaker 1: every setback is accompanied by a choice, and that choice

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Speaker 1: answers one question. Now, what are either of your son's performers?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Are they very different?

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, completely different, but they have the same

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Speaker 2: interest in that they're both very into to sports baseball, basketball, football, soccer.

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Speaker 2: But then our son Max is into musicals, but only

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Speaker 2: if there's an orphan involved, and so that's we hear

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Speaker 3: Oliver and Annie and.

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Speaker 1: Oliver Annie and probably Newsy's has a there's an orphan Newsy's.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's it. Yes, yeah, all about orphans.

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Speaker 2: And Stephanie always says if Max went in for an audition,

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Speaker 3: He's just so comfortable with himself.

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Speaker 1: My guest today is the hilarious Tig Nataro Take as

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Speaker 1: a comedian, an actor, a podcaster, a writer, a wife,

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Speaker 1: and a loving mother to twin boys. I'm a huge

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Speaker 1: fan of her many stand up specials, her Amazon series

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Speaker 1: One Mississippi, and her gut wrenching documentary Take, which chronicles

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Speaker 1: a number of life altering events, including her twenty twelve

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Speaker 1: cancer diagnosis. To an outsider, Tigs now, what moments seem insurmountable,

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Speaker 1: yet she's here encouraging us to be vulnerable and making

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Speaker 1: us laugh. I'm so pleased that she agreed to speak

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Speaker 1: with me, and I think that her courage in the

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Speaker 1: face of adversity is something that we could all emulate. So,

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Speaker 1: without further ado, here is Tig Nataro. I just want

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Speaker 1: to say thank you so much for taking your time

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Speaker 1: to spend a little time with me. I'm a huge fan,

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Speaker 1: and I wanted to thank you for not only doing

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Speaker 1: the show, but for all the wonderfully sweet things that

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Speaker 1: you and Cheryl Hines said about my documentary. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: as you know, you are a symbol of we admire

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Speaker 1: in the documentary as well, Well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was stunned to see myself pop up. I

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Speaker 2: was with my childhood friend and we were watching it,

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Speaker 2: and uh and my face popped up, and she's like, did.

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Speaker 1: You know that was gonna happen?

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Speaker 2: No, No, in fact, I thought I hallucinated that.

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Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate it and thank you for watching it.

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Speaker 1: And I absolutely loved your documentary.

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Speaker 3: Oh, thank you.

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Speaker 1: I just I think that you your type of comedy is

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Speaker 1: my favorite favorite place to be. It's so perfect, and

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Speaker 1: I just I'm so thank you. You do what you

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Speaker 1: do well.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate that.

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Speaker 2: And I I guess you saw in the documentary.

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Speaker 3: I know your husband. I love your husband.

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Speaker 2: I had I had that memory of telling him to

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Speaker 2: tell you that I loved your book. I mean it

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Speaker 2: was so, so, so great. And then anyway, anyway, I

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Tell me a little bit about

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's so much of it is in your documentary.

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Speaker 1: But for people don't know, what was your world like

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Speaker 2: When I was little growing up, I mean I would

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Speaker 1: I was basically an only child of an alcoholic mom.

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Speaker 1: What do you think having that kind of a mother

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Speaker 3: It is where there's just there's both of those.

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Speaker 1: I can identify with that. I mean, you know, my

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 2: My mother was the funniest person in the room. And

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Speaker 1: What kind of mothering from her. Do you retain for

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Speaker 2: I think just the side of me that's very much

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Speaker 1: And you talked about always wanting children when you were

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's so funny because it was clearly before

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Speaker 2: It's so weird to look up in my life and

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Speaker 1: At what point do you think that you started to

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Speaker 2: And I think that when I got really sick in

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Speaker 2: some form. I don't know if it's through a restaurant

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Speaker 1: What would you call it?

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Speaker 2: That? Brookshields is the mystery? What do I call it?

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Speaker 2: It's I did during the pandemic. I got a plant

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Speaker 2: based certification, nutrition certification, and I was helping people on zoom.

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Speaker 2: Family members, my next door neighbor, people that were that

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Speaker 2: had these little health issues where if they potentially changed

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Speaker 2: their diet they could see some exciting results. And when

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Speaker 2: I did that, I was calling that firmly planted with Tignataro.

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Speaker 1: Firmly planted. Yeah, I like that.

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Speaker 3: Oh that's good.

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Speaker 1: Are you able to feel proud of yourself and your

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Speaker 1: comedy and your life.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm somebody that is not very hard on myself.

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Speaker 2: I mean, look how I showed up to your podcast.

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Speaker 2: I mean, this is this is my hair? Okay, So yeah,

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Speaker 2: I'm pretty good at being like, wow, wow, look how

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Speaker 2: far I came. And I'm alive, and my body's healthy

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Speaker 2: and strong, so far, so good, and my wife and

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Speaker 2: my family, and I kind of can't believe it. And

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Speaker 2: I'm still having hard days, hard moments. All my health

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Speaker 2: is up and down over the past decade. But I'm

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Speaker 2: I'm really good, and I'm very quick to acknowledge that

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Speaker 2: I've come a long way.

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Speaker 1: That was the wonderful Tig Nataro. To hear more from her,

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Speaker 1: go listen to her podcast. Don't ask Tig on the

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Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. That's it.

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Speaker 1: For US Today, Talk to you next week. Now. What

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Speaker 1: producer and wonderful showrunner is Julia Weaver. Additional research and

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