Speaker 1: This is Let's be Clear with Shannon Doherty. Hi, welcome
Speaker 1: to Let's be Clear with Shannon Doherty. All right, so guys,
Speaker 1: normally I talk about, you know, either my career, past, present,
Speaker 1: maybe future, or I talk about things that really resonate
Speaker 1: with me personally, for instance, cancer, divorce, relationships, ex boyfriends,
Speaker 1: you name it. We kind of cover it, and certainly
Speaker 1: we have a lot more to cover, and we will,
Speaker 1: especially getting into the coming weeks, probably have a lot
Speaker 1: of new updates for everyone. But today I wanted to
Speaker 1: try something a little different, and I also wanted to,
Speaker 1: you know, make sure that sometimes there's episodes that are
Speaker 1: uplifting and just informative random questions that people ask me. Yes,
Speaker 1: we do Q and a's, but people have specifically asked
Speaker 1: me like what are my favorite things to do? My
Speaker 1: favorite TV shows, et cetera, et cetera. So I'm going
Speaker 1: to start with some of these questions and then I'll probably,
Speaker 1: as I always do, go off on a little bit
Speaker 1: of a tangent. So here we are what TV show
Speaker 1: do you love? But you are embarrassed to admit? That's
Speaker 1: a hard one for me because I don't really have
Speaker 1: any problem admitting things you know, like if I watch
Speaker 1: a reality show, I'm not embarrassed by it. I got
Speaker 1: to tell you, my mom and I are big family
Speaker 1: feud people, and we love, you know, answering before anybody
Speaker 1: presses the buzzer hopefully we love the last bit where
Speaker 1: you know, you go and you give like five answers.
Speaker 1: So family feud. But I'm not really embarrassed that I
Speaker 1: like family feud. I love watching Family Feud, and like
Speaker 1: People Puzzler and some of those. I just think that
Speaker 1: they're cool. And also I like keeping my brain very active,
Speaker 1: especially because I do have mets in my brain. I'm
Speaker 1: always worried and because I had brain surgeries you guys
Speaker 1: know in January two thousand and twenty three. I really
Speaker 1: like to constantly keep my brain going and challenging and
Speaker 1: doing puzzles and stuff of that nature. So for me,
Speaker 1: I show like People Puzzler or Family Feud doesn't seem
Speaker 1: like something I would worry about admitting, or that I'm
Speaker 1: embarrassed to admit. I got to say I've probably watched
Speaker 1: Sex in the City. I don't know how many times.
Speaker 1: It's so soothing to me. I put it on at
Speaker 1: night and I'm now up to season I don't even
Speaker 1: know what, but I literally watch it over and over
Speaker 1: and over again because it's just one of those shows.
Speaker 1: It's like Seinfeld to me that I can relax to
Speaker 1: and I don't have to overthink things. In general, I
Speaker 1: have TV shows that I love, but I'm not you know,
Speaker 1: they're nothing embarrassing. Succession was one of my favorite shows,
Speaker 1: and The Veil, I think now is one of my
Speaker 1: favorite shows. So not embarrassed to admit things. For sure,
Speaker 1: I'm not a real Housewives person. The only time I
Speaker 1: got into that was the year that a friend of mine,
Speaker 1: Diana Jenkins, was on and I watched it for her.
Speaker 1: And I've never been a big bachelor person. I know
Speaker 1: that's everybody's guilty pleasure, not mine. What movie could you
Speaker 1: see over and over again and never get tired of? Ooh?
Speaker 1: Pride and Prejudice Joe Wright was the director. Kiera Knightley.
Speaker 1: I have seen that movie so many times. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: I absolutely love it. And Stepbrothers. Oh, whenever I need
Speaker 1: to laugh, I watch step Brothers. It's one of the
Speaker 1: funniest movies I've ever seen. And I always look at
Speaker 1: people and go, did we just become best friends. So
Speaker 1: there's that too. Do you like to bargain shop, and
Speaker 1: so what's your favorite store. I do like to bargain shop.
Speaker 1: I do a lot of bargain shopping for home stuff.
Speaker 1: I think I've mentioned to you guys that like one
Speaker 1: of my things that I love to do is in
Speaker 1: tier design. I if I was uber wealthy, I would
Speaker 1: just buy houses and flip them and flip them and
Speaker 1: flow them just for the opportunity to decorate them and
Speaker 1: do interior design. And I just find that so many
Speaker 1: people la New York, Miami all over the world, but
Speaker 1: particularly in those big, huge cities, they spend a fortune
Speaker 1: on furniture and on making it seem lived in or whatever,
Speaker 1: and because they go to all these high end stores
Speaker 1: and you really don't have to. Antique shopping is one
Speaker 1: of my favorite things. Bargains shopping. I love that. As
Speaker 1: far as clothes go, you know, I used to be
Speaker 1: a big vintage girl. I am not so much so anymore.
Speaker 1: There's still a couple of vintage stores I will go
Speaker 1: to as far as clothing goes, but it's just so
Speaker 1: I can get a really good deal on like a
Speaker 1: Chanel skirt or something of that nature. But for the
Speaker 1: most part, when it comes to clothing, I do a
Speaker 1: lot of my shopping online. Now there's you know, Netta
Speaker 1: Portee and my Teresa and places like that where I
Speaker 1: can buy high end and there's no problem with sending
Speaker 1: it back if it doesn't fit or whatever. But and
Speaker 1: T shirts. They now make so many cool vintage T
Speaker 1: shirts that you can buy online as well. So a
Speaker 1: lot of my personal clothing is online. But definitely for
Speaker 1: design and for house I do the majority of that.
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, I go to stores. I always bargainshop
Speaker 1: you guys like I always negotiate. I don't care if
Speaker 1: it's a high end store or not. I'm always like,
Speaker 1: you want what for this? No, I actually think it
Speaker 1: should be priced at this. Here's what I'll give you.
Speaker 1: I'm forever doing that, just because the markup and stores
Speaker 1: is so huge. But you know, I also really like
Speaker 1: to go to smaller stores. I don't like big, huge
Speaker 1: chain stores. I think that. But COVID was a real issue,
Speaker 1: and it took out so many of our mom and
Speaker 1: pop stores, and we people went out of business. They
Speaker 1: lost their jobs, they lost they lost homes, they lost
Speaker 1: because their business had to close. So many restaurants, stores,
Speaker 1: all of that that I really have a big thing
Speaker 1: about supporting those stores. Those stores I don't really negotiate
Speaker 1: with as much because I want them to succeed. But
Speaker 1: you know, there's always a little room for negotiation. I think,
Speaker 1: all right, let's see, so what's my favorite store. There's
Speaker 1: just too many of them. There's a place called Dandelion
Speaker 1: and something which is on Abbot, Kenney and Venice for
Speaker 1: like knick knacks and some pieces of furniture and rugs,
Speaker 1: which I love. There's Big Daddy's Antiques, which I'm obsessed with.
Speaker 1: There's you know, there's huge sort of markets. They're not
Speaker 1: called markets, they're not called festivals, they're whatever they're called.
Speaker 1: Like the one in Roundtop in Texas is one where
Speaker 1: you go and it's all these different sort of antique
Speaker 1: dealers or just dealers in general that have all these
Speaker 1: little different stands. And I love going to places like
Speaker 1: that to just find something really unique. I'm gonta find gifts,
Speaker 1: and I'll buy gifts way ahead of time for Christmas
Speaker 1: or for somebody's birthday. If I see something that resonates
Speaker 1: with me that I know that they're gonna like, I
Speaker 1: love doing that. I do have a big shoe fetish.
Speaker 1: I'm a shoe slut, you guys. I love shoes. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: I really like high end shoes, either like tennis shoes
Speaker 1: or high end shoes new in between. What is something
Speaker 1: that you have to have in your fridge or pantry
Speaker 1: no matter what Canada dry ginger ail. I'm obsessed with
Speaker 1: Canada dry ginger all. I don't know why it's clean
Speaker 1: and I like the taste, but specifically Canada Dry. I
Speaker 1: always have Gatorade on hand because when I did chemo
Speaker 1: back in twenty sixteen, I was so dehydrated and they
Speaker 1: were having to do ivs on me constantly, and I
Speaker 1: couldn't eat and I was throwing up all the time.
Speaker 1: And I found that if I did gatorade in ice
Speaker 1: cube trays and froze it, that I could tolerate sucking
Speaker 1: on an ice cube that was a Gatorade ice cube
Speaker 1: and it would hydrate me enough give me the electrolytes
Speaker 1: that I needed. So I always keep it close by
Speaker 1: just in case I'm sick or or you know, just dehydrated.
Speaker 1: I always have the little cut oranges. I keep them
Speaker 1: in the refrigerator because I like them really cold, so
Speaker 1: I always have those. As far as something kind of unhealthy,
Speaker 1: I always keep milk and cereal because sometimes late at
Speaker 1: night I get really hungry and I'm too lazy sometimes
Speaker 1: to cook dinner, and I love a bowl of cereal.
Speaker 1: I just think it's fantastic. Actually, that's what I've had
Speaker 1: for two nights in a row for dinner lately. I've
Speaker 1: been a little lazy this week. All Right, What is
Speaker 1: something you like to splurge on because it's worth it. Shoes?
Speaker 1: I really really like to splurge on shoes. Good quality
Speaker 1: shoes means that I don't have foot issues, They're not
Speaker 1: pinching my feet, they fit well, they're cable, so I'm
Speaker 1: big on that. I'm sort of big on skincare in
Speaker 1: the sense of that I love trying new products all
Speaker 1: the time. I'm a fan of that, but it doesn't
Speaker 1: always mean that I'm going to choose something expensive. I've
Speaker 1: been using Seravey, which you get at a drug store,
Speaker 1: on my lines, and I've noticed a difference. But then
Speaker 1: I have a product, a moisturizer that's in my opinion, overpriced,
Speaker 1: but it works. So skincare, I like to splurge on shoes.
Speaker 1: I like to splurge on. I like to splurge on
Speaker 1: my mom. I like spoiling her a lot, and she
Speaker 1: in turn likes to spoil me as well. And I
Speaker 1: splurge on dinners. I do like a really good dinner.
Speaker 1: And obviously I splurge on wine because I do enjoy
Speaker 1: my wine. And I think some people would say that
Speaker 1: I splurge on my house, which is true, But to me,
Speaker 1: that's not a splurge. Right to me, that's an investment.
Speaker 1: I know that whatever I put into the home, I'm
Speaker 1: going to be able to sell the house for so
Speaker 1: much more than I bought it for. So that's always
Speaker 1: that's not a splurge. That's just a healthy investment. All right,
Speaker 1: Let's keep going all the places that you've traveled in
Speaker 1: the world. Is there one country you would consider moving to? Italy?
Speaker 1: I would love to move to Italy. I would love
Speaker 1: to move to Africa for like six months to a
Speaker 1: year and work at a sanctuary. There's an elephant sanctuary.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of sanctuaries there. I would love to
Speaker 1: do that as well. My problem always is the same,
Speaker 1: I'm not going anywhere without my dog. Not long term.
Speaker 1: I'll go do conventions for a weekend, or I'll go
Speaker 1: in a trip here and there for you know, four
Speaker 1: days or a week, but I don't I don't like
Speaker 1: leaving my dog long periods of time, especially because she's
Speaker 1: a lot older now and I think she's thirteen or fourteen,
Speaker 1: and she doesn't walk as well. She's just got a
Speaker 1: few issues, and I would hate to be out of
Speaker 1: town when my dog needs to be a rushed to
Speaker 1: the hospital because I'm yes, she loves my mom and
Speaker 1: my friends, but she's even when she's being loved one
Speaker 1: by them, she's always looking at me. I'm her safety net,
Speaker 1: just like she's my safety net, And so I really
Speaker 1: want to be here. I would have to buy a
Speaker 1: seat for her and fly her. Africa is way too far,
Speaker 1: so I don't think that's happening anytime soon, but maybe Italy.
Speaker 1: A couple of us have been talking about going there
Speaker 1: for a week and a half or so and learning
Speaker 1: how to make homemade pasta really well and pizza do.
Speaker 1: Even though I really like my pizza do, I know
Speaker 1: it can be a lot better, and I'm going to
Speaker 1: learn that from the knowness. So that's something that I've
Speaker 1: been wanting to do. What's your favorite thing to do
Speaker 1: on a Sunday morning. Absolutely nothing. I think my brain
Speaker 1: is constantly going, and I'm usually on my computer every
Speaker 1: day going through the latest clinical trials, any breakthrough with cancer.
Speaker 1: I'm always reaching out to new doctors that I hear
Speaker 1: about and having conversations with them. I think I'm seeking
Speaker 1: answers for my own health, but also for everybody with
Speaker 1: cancer for their health. So therefore I spend so much
Speaker 1: time doing that, and it can be incredibly draining because
Speaker 1: as you're going through all that research, you're also seeing yourself,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, is this what I have? Is this
Speaker 1: what I have? Is like all these new symptoms is
Speaker 1: And that can be incredibly taxing and heavy and a
Speaker 1: lot of stress weighing you down. So Sundays I like
Speaker 1: to wake up in the morning, I fix myself a
Speaker 1: coffee and I'll play like a little game on my iPad,
Speaker 1: whether it's a jigsaw puzzle or or crosswords, whatever it is,
Speaker 1: in order to get my brain to start going. But
Speaker 1: really I like it to be very, very very quiet.
Speaker 1: In general. I like things to be quiet. I'm not
Speaker 1: somebody who blasts music only when my friends are over.
Speaker 1: I'm not someone who turns on the TV immediately. I
Speaker 1: like it like this right now, right It's very quiet
Speaker 1: in my house, and I enjoy that. It gives me
Speaker 1: time to reflect and to sort of settle into my day,
Speaker 1: and then my Sunday usually continues. I love to garden.
Speaker 1: I have an amazing organic garden that I built and
Speaker 1: I love tenning to it. And now I've just started
Speaker 1: a whole like rose garden, and I love experimenting with
Speaker 1: putting different things next to vegetables. So yes, obviously I
Speaker 1: have the merrygolds and the mint to drive away insects
Speaker 1: and all of that. But I had read this article
Speaker 1: that tested tomatoes and there was a tomato plant, well
Speaker 1: two they both grew very very very well, but the
Speaker 1: one that was next to the rose bush where they
Speaker 1: almost intertwined essentially, the tomato tasted different. It tasted a
Speaker 1: little bit sweeter, it took on more of the tones
Speaker 1: of a rose. And so I loved doing stuff like that.
Speaker 1: I love just experimenting and figuring out the best way
Speaker 1: to grow the natural products to use. Stuff that you
Speaker 1: can combine in the house, banana peels and water for
Speaker 1: fertilizing tomatoes or roses or whatever. So that's always a
Speaker 1: very good Sunday for me, as well as going bargain hunting.
Speaker 1: That's great. Taking a drive to santy Nez, which is
Speaker 1: one of my favorite places. It's about an hour and
Speaker 1: a half from where I live, and going and spending
Speaker 1: time at Return to Freedom which is up in santin As,
Speaker 1: and they take in a lot of the wild mustangs
Speaker 1: that the BLM has rounded up and putting corals, and
Speaker 1: then eventually those horses end up at a kilpin and
Speaker 1: get sold for slaughter unless people go and buy them,
Speaker 1: Like all Seated in the barn is an amazing organization
Speaker 1: along with Return to Freedom. So I love going to
Speaker 1: Return to Freedom and just hanging out with Netta, who's
Speaker 1: the head of it, and walking the grounds or driving
Speaker 1: the ATV type thing and seeing the horses left alone
Speaker 1: and hanging out and their bands and their dynamic and
Speaker 1: taking photos of them. There's one right there behind me
Speaker 1: that I took and that's a voute you know, wild
Speaker 1: horse that was at Return of Freedom that let me
Speaker 1: get semi close to it. Those are my relaxing Sundays
Speaker 1: or even Saturdays, really Okay, So that was answering trouble
Speaker 1: of where I would move to, and I'm saying Italy
Speaker 1: for sure. I just there is something about Italy that
Speaker 1: I The food, the people, everything about it inspires me.
Speaker 1: The architecture, the history. You can transport yourself to a
Speaker 1: different day and age and imagine a totally different life,
Speaker 1: and I love that. But you can learn so much
Speaker 1: and learn so much about art and people, and the
Speaker 1: people that are happy and kind and just they take
Speaker 1: you in. It's Italy to me is the warmest, biggest
Speaker 1: hug you can possibly get. And it's not one of
Speaker 1: the only places. As I said, Africa would be really interesting.
Speaker 1: I learned a lot when I went to Africa and
Speaker 1: it definitely changed me as a person. But if I
Speaker 1: had moved somewhere it would it would it would be Italy.
Speaker 1: I think an island would drive me crazy. I remember
Speaker 1: I did a show called north Shore and I had
Speaker 1: to go live in Hawaii, which sounds like the best
Speaker 1: thing in the world, and it really was. I was
Speaker 1: surfing every single day. It was phenomenal. But after a
Speaker 1: while I got island fever and I was having a
Speaker 1: fly home constantly just to sort of settle myself and
Speaker 1: then go back and film some more. So I'm not
Speaker 1: sure I would pick an island. Saint Barts is probably
Speaker 1: my favorite island, but I don't think I could. I
Speaker 1: actually know I could not live there. So that's the
Speaker 1: moving we address Sunday morning. What's your favorite fast food restaurant? None.
Speaker 1: I don't like fast food. It doesn't mean I don't
Speaker 1: have it. On occasion. I sometimes get very rushed and
Speaker 1: I have to I get really hungry, and when I'm
Speaker 1: that hungry, and my blood sugar dips, and when my
Speaker 1: blood sugar dips, I become a little testy. So I
Speaker 1: have pulled into fast food restaurants. I used to eat
Speaker 1: a lot of fast food when I was in my twenties,
Speaker 1: but I think now the only ones I'll really pull
Speaker 1: into is like a Windy's, and that's drive through. But
Speaker 1: I also consider like Habit Burger or this dand kind
Speaker 1: of fast food, and I will go to those on occasion.
Speaker 1: I love Sharkis, but for the most part, I would
Speaker 1: rather eat at home because I know that my food
Speaker 1: is without chemicals, without antibiotics, without I know that my
Speaker 1: food is none of the stuff that Bill Gates likes
Speaker 1: to tamper with so you know, I won't buy fruit
Speaker 1: with appeal on it. That's horrifying to me. Everything that's
Speaker 1: in appeal is like if you actually read what's in it,
Speaker 1: you will probably avoid a Bill Gates product for the
Speaker 1: rest of your life. Along with you know, taking away
Speaker 1: jobs from our farmers, which I don't approve of. Everything
Speaker 1: is very bad. So when I make my food at
Speaker 1: home or certain restaurants that I know very well and
Speaker 1: I know where they buy from, I just feel healthier.
Speaker 1: And when I go to a fast food restaurant or
Speaker 1: I'm serve something that is monsantos or whatever, I end
Speaker 1: up feeling a little. It's almost like you feel bloated
Speaker 1: and overfull, Whereas if I'm cooking for myself or at
Speaker 1: an organic restaurant, none of that happens. And what's crazy
Speaker 1: is that people think that the organic is so much
Speaker 1: more expensive, and it's really not. It's knowing where to
Speaker 1: get the organic and really shopping it out. And if
Speaker 1: you do shop it out, you'll find that it ends
Speaker 1: up being the same price to a certain degree, and
Speaker 1: certainly it saves you. In Doctor Bill Slater, what's your
Speaker 1: favorite designer? Ah Come on I have too many. I
Speaker 1: really do have too many. I mean I can go
Speaker 1: from like low end to high end. On designers. I
Speaker 1: obviously already mentioned Chanel, which I love, and why sel
Speaker 1: I love Victoria Beckham. I'm a big fan of There's
Speaker 1: just so many good designers, and I really admire the
Speaker 1: designers that years ago said no for that are making
Speaker 1: an attempt at being sustainable. I really appreciate that. I
Speaker 1: also love free people and little stores, and by the way,
Speaker 1: I love going to like Marshals sometimes and TJ Max.
Speaker 1: It's amazing what you can find at those stores. So designers,
Speaker 1: there's just that's such a broad question. I just like
Speaker 1: my clothes to be comfortable at the end of the
Speaker 1: day and classic. I'm not someone who likes to show
Speaker 1: a lot of TNA. Am I allowed to say that.
Speaker 1: I don't need low cut. I don't need, you know,
Speaker 1: my butt hanging out of a skirt. I'm too old
Speaker 1: for it. And I also think leaving something to the
Speaker 1: imagination is way sexier. So it's not necessarily about a designer.
Speaker 1: It's about what fits me properly. To me, there's nothing
Speaker 1: like a beautiful pair of trousers and a nice sweater. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's dressing with confidence and with comfort and not dressing
Speaker 1: as if I want every single eye on me, whether
Speaker 1: it's a good eye or a bad eye. And there's
Speaker 1: a lot of high end and low end designers that
Speaker 1: do that really well. Costs is a store. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's outside of LA I know it's online
Speaker 1: cos that I order online from all the time. I
Speaker 1: love it. And their clothes are affordable but classy. And
Speaker 1: so there you go. Which holiday do you like to
Speaker 1: go all out for?
Speaker 2: Oh, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas. I, as you guys know,
Speaker 2: in the middle of a divorce and my Christmases were
Speaker 2: not great because.
Speaker 1: My husband was not into Christmas. Christmas was apparently, as
Speaker 1: I was told, not a big deal in his family,
Speaker 1: and to my family, Christmas was a huge deal. I
Speaker 1: mean a the religious aspect of Christmas was a big
Speaker 1: deal to us, as we're Christians. But it's the joy.
Speaker 1: It's hanging lights outside, It's going and finding that perfect
Speaker 1: Christmas tree and deciding whether you want it flocked or
Speaker 1: not flocked, and the how intricate I can get with
Speaker 1: putting the lights on the Christmas tree and hanging stock
Speaker 1: and if you're having guests over, buying stockings and getting
Speaker 1: their names on them, which sometimes I do with just
Speaker 1: the you know glue that glitters in different colors, simple
Speaker 1: things making decorations, but making all the food, making desserts,
Speaker 1: and planning a Christmas Eve or Christmas big dinner, inviting
Speaker 1: your friends over. To me, there is nothing like it.
Speaker 1: I find that almost everybody's attitude is going to be
Speaker 1: really good Christmas, even Christmas, and they're nice and full.
Speaker 1: Their bellies, you know, have been filled up by the food.
Speaker 1: Buying presents for people, whether it be a present for
Speaker 1: five dollars or a present for one hundred dollars, it
Speaker 1: doesn't it's the fact that I've already bought it way
Speaker 1: ahead because of my bargain hunting thing and going to
Speaker 1: you know, different stores. So when I see something, going
Speaker 1: back to that, when I see something that strikes me
Speaker 1: being a particular person, I just go ahead and buy it,
Speaker 1: and I keep it in a closet so that that
Speaker 1: becomes their birthday or their Christmas present. And I love
Speaker 1: seeing people unwrap their Christmas present and them knowing that
Speaker 1: it's so specific to them, that I know them that well,
Speaker 1: that I knew one hundred percent something that they would want,
Speaker 1: that they've been coveting, or something to me just makes
Speaker 1: me feel good. It's kind of this goes back to
Speaker 1: this is going slightly off topic, but not really. It
Speaker 1: goes back to My mom has this thing of where
Speaker 1: when somebody registers right when they're having a baby or
Speaker 1: they're getting married, she doesn't like to buy off the registry.
Speaker 1: She likes to get them something that she feels. And
Speaker 1: I'm different when somebody registers. I'm like, if they register,
Speaker 1: this is what they need. I'm not going off of
Speaker 1: the register and registry. So that is when I buy
Speaker 1: presents for Christmas. It's because I've given so much thought
Speaker 1: into that person and I know exactly as if they've registered,
Speaker 1: I know exactly what they need in their house. Maybe
Speaker 1: they want to pust a machine, maybe they're looking for
Speaker 1: an antique face. Whatever it is, I know that they
Speaker 1: really need it, and when I find it, I buy it.
Speaker 1: So Christmas, yeah, I just I love decorating. And this
Speaker 1: last year was a really good Christmas where I got
Speaker 1: to do a lot of that, and like Holly was
Speaker 1: here and my friend Mike was here, and we put
Speaker 1: up the tree, it's just fun. It just it's festive
Speaker 1: and it it I don't know. It makes me smile
Speaker 1: a lot. So definitely, definitely definitely Christmas. What is my
Speaker 1: favorite dessert? Every dessert? Oh god, So I actually make
Speaker 1: one of my favorite desserts, which is a panacotta. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to tell you what's in it because I
Speaker 1: made it up and it's really delicious. But I also
Speaker 1: do with the panacotta, I do this sort of BlackBerry
Speaker 1: I guess the technical term would be gooli and that's
Speaker 1: one of my favorite desserts. My friend Christy, who owns
Speaker 1: Christie's Cafe, makes the best trace liches cake I've ever had.
Speaker 1: That's one of my favorites. I love. There's this dessert
Speaker 1: that comes in a little glass jar and it's Copa
Speaker 1: de aura is the name of it. It's like a
Speaker 1: crispy bottom, dark chocolate milk, chocolate, white chocolate cream. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, this dessert is so amazing. And what's crazy
Speaker 1: is I used to not be a dessert person at all,
Speaker 1: and now I love dessert and maybe and I know
Speaker 1: dessert's really bad when you have cancer because it's sugar.
Speaker 1: So I try not to eat dessert that often. But
Speaker 1: there's also moments in your life where I think it's
Speaker 1: okay to spoil yourself, whether it's great for you or not.
Speaker 1: I know that this happened with my dad a lot
Speaker 1: when he was really sick, and there was always a
Speaker 1: discussion about his diet. But towards the end, when you
Speaker 1: knew things were pretty bad, there were moments where it
Speaker 1: was like, no, let him have shrimp scampy, let him
Speaker 1: have his favorite foods. Yes, not every day, but you
Speaker 1: also want quality of life to be great, particularly when
Speaker 1: you're dying, particularly when you have a terminal disease. Everybody
Speaker 1: should try to go for quality of life because you
Speaker 1: never know how long you're going to be on this
Speaker 1: earth for before we pass on to a better place.
Speaker 1: But so I will. I will spoil myself with desserts sometimes.
Speaker 1: And oh, how can I forget one of my other
Speaker 1: favorite desserts, well, two other favorites is so I told
Speaker 1: you guys already about my love of ginger ale, but
Speaker 1: I love taking vanilla ice cream and with ginger ale
Speaker 1: over the vanilla ice cream, it is delicious. It's like
Speaker 1: the best float ever. I like it better than root beer,
Speaker 1: and I also like doing the same thing with orange sherbet.
Speaker 1: There you go. Do you have a favorite rom com?
Speaker 1: Dy one would take me forever to think about. I
Speaker 1: love rum coms because it also brings up a lot
Speaker 1: of warmth, like in your heart. It brings up a
Speaker 1: lot of warmth, and I like movies like that. I
Speaker 1: also like really serious movies. But for the most part,
Speaker 1: especially since being diagnosed with cancer, I find that all
Speaker 1: I want to do is watch stuff that makes me
Speaker 1: laugh because the rest of life is so hard and
Speaker 1: you're constantly worried that to be able to turn your
Speaker 1: brain off for an hour and a half to two
Speaker 1: hours and just laugh is incredibly important, and laughter is
Speaker 1: the best medicine, right, so I do. There's just too
Speaker 1: many rom coms out there. I obviously love Sandra Bullock.
Speaker 1: There's just people that are funny without even trying. And
Speaker 1: I'm going to think about that one, like if there's
Speaker 1: a specific one, and I'll name it, But it's not,
Speaker 1: you know, like step Brothers and Pride and Prejudice come
Speaker 1: to mind immediately, but so does Godfather too, by the way,
Speaker 1: I've watched that twenty one times, I think. But a
Speaker 1: rom com I would really have to think that through.
Speaker 1: Like I know offhand the Sandra Bullock Ryan Reynolds one,
Speaker 1: I think it was called The Proposal. I loved that movie.
Speaker 1: What is your favorite musical actacy and concert? Well, I
Speaker 1: am the biggest Youtwo fan in the world, and I've
Speaker 1: had the pleasure of meeting the Edge a couple of times. Now.
Speaker 1: I've seen so many of their concerts and then the
Speaker 1: latest one was its fhear in Las Vegas, and I
Speaker 1: was just blown away. I think my mouth was hanging
Speaker 1: open the entire time. It was so phenomenal. Jim Dolan,
Speaker 1: who owns Madison Square Garden, was essential and putting on
Speaker 1: the spear and he did a fabulous job, so did
Speaker 1: everybody involved. So that was the last concert I think
Speaker 1: I went to, but I would go to any concert
Speaker 1: of theirs. I really want to go see Chris Stapleton.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen him in concert yet, and I love
Speaker 1: Chris Stapleton. And the other person I desperately desperately want
Speaker 1: to see in concert is Pink. I love her. I
Speaker 1: love everything about her, her personality, her voice, her songwriting,
Speaker 1: her messages, and I've seen obviously some of it on TV,
Speaker 1: but it just looks like an amazing time. Other than that,
Speaker 1: I have grown to really really like my space and
Speaker 1: I don't like to be crowded. Like, what was so
Speaker 1: amazing about seeing you too, it sphear was I was
Speaker 1: in Jim Dolan's suite there, and so there was a
Speaker 1: lot of space and you could get up from your
Speaker 1: seat and go grab There was like this amazing display
Speaker 1: of food and drinks and everything else. So I didn't
Speaker 1: feel like people were close to me and breathing on me.
Speaker 1: I you know, don't ever want to get somebody else's
Speaker 1: cold or somebody else's whatever. I'm very I'm much more
Speaker 1: aware of that stuff now, So those kind of venues
Speaker 1: are great for me to go to the rest now,
Speaker 1: I don't think it would have to be somebody that
Speaker 1: I really really really really love in order to want
Speaker 1: to go. Do you have a favorite TV or movie villain? God,
Speaker 1: I mean Heath Ledger is a joker? Is Like, That's
Speaker 1: just what popped into my brain. How phenomenal is he?
Speaker 1: What's your favorite thing to receive in the mail? In
Speaker 1: the mail not delivered to the house, right, so in
Speaker 1: the mail because I don't get anything to my house
Speaker 1: and in the mail probably when I, like, late at night,
Speaker 1: get an itch and I order something off off of site,
Speaker 1: Amazon or whatever. It's really exciting when it finally comes
Speaker 1: because you have to try it on and see if
Speaker 1: it fits. And I ordered a bathing suit recently from
Speaker 1: a bathing suit company and it finally came and I
Speaker 1: tried it on and I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: it actually fits and it's flattering. That's really fun. Other
Speaker 1: than that, I don't I don't love mail. Wouldn't it
Speaker 1: be funny, you guys if I said, oh, I love
Speaker 1: to get bills in the mail. Nobody likes bills. And
Speaker 1: what kills me is that there's even such a thing
Speaker 1: as mail for bills. I don't understand that. I have
Speaker 1: this conversation with companies all the time where they're like, oh, hey,
Speaker 1: it's been a week and you haven't paid our invoice.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, yeah, because there's no like click to pay,
Speaker 1: and they're like, no, you'll have to send in a track.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what, like what century are we living in?
Speaker 1: Like why do we have to go back to the
Speaker 1: dark ages? Which is silly of me, I know, but
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't even have a stamp in my
Speaker 1: house and to go to a post office what a
Speaker 1: in the butt? So getting mail is a little odd
Speaker 1: to me unless it's something that you specifically ordered. But
Speaker 1: are you guys happy I didn't say that I love
Speaker 1: to get bills in the mail. Nobody really likes that,
Speaker 1: do they. Maybe that's where my dislike of mail has
Speaker 1: come in. I do really like to get checks in
Speaker 1: the mail. That's fun. When I get certain checks and
Speaker 1: I see on the outside who they're from, and I
Speaker 1: know it's money, I get very excited. That's the mail
Speaker 1: I open immediately. Everything else kind of doesn't get open.
Speaker 1: To be honest, what's your favorite compliment? I have a couple.
Speaker 1: So I think my favorite compliment is when somebody comments
Speaker 1: on my intelligence, because my brain is what I'm the
Speaker 1: most proud of in this vessel. My my brain is
Speaker 1: the thing I'm them was proud of. And then the
Speaker 1: second compliment that I love the most is I call
Speaker 1: it a compliment, is when somebody tells me how much
Speaker 1: I've helped them go through cancer with a loved one
Speaker 1: or go through cancer themselves. Because helping anybody that's sick,
Speaker 1: anybody that's struggling in any way, shape or form, is.
Speaker 1: It's validation and it makes you feel good. It makes
Speaker 1: you feel like you're here for a purpose, and that's
Speaker 1: really important to me. I love the Charmed fans that
Speaker 1: talk all the time about how that show got them
Speaker 1: through really difficult times and helped them build better relationships
Speaker 1: with their parents and find sort of a family that
Speaker 1: accepted them, which is other Charms fans. And recently somebody
Speaker 1: was talking to me about nine oh two and oh
Speaker 1: and they said, wow, nine oh oh really opened up
Speaker 1: conversations with my parents when I was a teenager of
Speaker 1: certain issues that were not discussed. So those are those
Speaker 1: are huge, huge, huge compliments to me. And here's my
Speaker 1: all time favorite. You're a good daughter. That's my favorite.
Speaker 1: Uh what's your favorite time of day? And why I
Speaker 1: don't really have a favorite time of day. I think
Speaker 1: every time of day that I wake up and I'm
Speaker 1: still breathing is a gift. So if that's seven o'clock
Speaker 1: in the morning, if that's midnight, it doesn't matter. I
Speaker 1: just any second that I'm awake and breathe and it's
Speaker 1: not painful or it's not filled with stress is my favorite.
Speaker 1: And beautiful, my favorite accent. There's so many that are beautiful. Obviously,
Speaker 1: because I love Italy so much. An Italian accent it's
Speaker 1: just so sexy and so lyrical, and I don't know,
Speaker 1: you can write poems about an Italian accent. But there's
Speaker 1: also African accents that are beautiful, in Indian accents that
Speaker 1: are beautiful. I think it's not about the accent, right,
Speaker 1: I think it's about when you meet somebody with an
Speaker 1: accent from a different culture, from anything, and you learn
Speaker 1: different words, different quirks, different meanings of things, and you
Speaker 1: get to speak to them and really dove into their culture.
Speaker 1: I love all of that. It's I mean, obviously a
Speaker 1: British accent is very sexy as well, but I think
Speaker 1: all accents are beautiful. Like when I was in Japan,
Speaker 1: that was you know, that accent was gorgeous. That language
Speaker 1: is gorgeous, And it's an appreciation for going outside of
Speaker 1: your own box and experiencing something else, which is why
Speaker 1: I really love to travel. Who is your favorite comedian?
Speaker 1: David Chappelle. Dave Chappelle is my favorite comedian. I absolutely
Speaker 1: absolutely love him. He I think his comedy is thought provoking.
Speaker 1: And I realized that some of you may be upset
Speaker 1: hearing Dave Chappelle because he has ruffled a lot of
Speaker 1: feathers and not apologized for certain things. And what I
Speaker 1: learned from that is not necessarily that I agreed with
Speaker 1: it or didn't agree with it, but that he stood
Speaker 1: by his beliefs or he stood by what his comedy
Speaker 1: act was about. And comedy is a way to explore
Speaker 1: different thoughts and to turn hot topics into I think,
Speaker 1: bigger and deeper conversations, to be honest, like for me,
Speaker 1: that's what it does. And he does that, and he
Speaker 1: does it without flinching, and that is incredibly admirable because
Speaker 1: I still find that I don't do that, and I
Speaker 1: wish I had his courage and his bravery. I also
Speaker 1: absolutely love Chris Rock. He's genius. They both are genius.
Speaker 1: There's so many comedians out there, like Ricky Charves is ough.
Speaker 1: So those are the three that I desperately want to
Speaker 1: want to meet. Brickis jar Vas. Everything he does for
Speaker 1: animals and how he calls out humans, you're still left
Speaker 1: like laughing. But again, it's thought provoking, and that's these
Speaker 1: three men specifically are thought provoking comedians and their comedy
Speaker 1: is incredibly intelligent. It's not silly. It's not like calling
Speaker 1: yourself a whore. It's not any of that stuff. It's
Speaker 1: just intelligent comedy. And so those are my absolute three favorites.
Speaker 1: What is your favorite way to pamper yourself? I don't.
Speaker 1: You don't really have one, because honestly, I get a
Speaker 1: little itchy, Like just sitting around, even getting my hair done,
Speaker 1: I'm always looking at my watch, going Okay, how long
Speaker 1: is this going to take? I think if I had
Speaker 1: to pick out of just the pamper stuff, it would
Speaker 1: probably be a massage and maybe a facial But even
Speaker 1: then I find that after a while, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: when are we done? I need to get up, I
Speaker 1: need to leave. There are certain things that I call pampering,
Speaker 1: like when I got micro pigmentation on my eyebrows. To me,
Speaker 1: that was definitely a pamper situation, and it's still one
Speaker 1: of the best things that I ever did. But I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think I pamper myself, Like I
Speaker 1: can't even even pedicure as bug me. I get them
Speaker 1: on occasion, more than on occasion, but I get them.
Speaker 1: I never get manicures, which is why my fingernails always
Speaker 1: look broken because often they are. And I can't stand
Speaker 1: the smell of nail polish on my hands because I
Speaker 1: feel like I can almost taste it in my food afterwards,
Speaker 1: like once it's on, I can almost taste it in
Speaker 1: my food. So I'm not big on manicures pedicures. It's
Speaker 1: just because you want pretty feet. But if I could
Speaker 1: have really beautiful feet without a pedicure, I would do
Speaker 1: it all day long. I don't. Lately, I've had some
Speaker 1: aches and pains, and my mom has been pampering me
Speaker 1: show like massage my feet as we're watching family food,
Speaker 1: And that is amazing because you can always pull away,
Speaker 1: you can always stop, You can always be like, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm pampered enough, thank you very much. But I don't
Speaker 1: know I mean pampering. There's so many different different definitions
Speaker 1: of pampering to me, taking the day off, ignoring the
Speaker 1: divorce attorney's emails, ignoring the you know iheart's emails, and
Speaker 1: ignoring responsibilities, being like, oh, I'll pay my guest bill
Speaker 1: tomorrow instead of today, even though it's due. I think
Speaker 1: that pampering to me is taking those days and saying, hey,
Speaker 1: I really need to unwind. I really need to unplug,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to do that by literally ignoring everything
Speaker 1: today and I'm going to jump in my car with
Speaker 1: my dog. I'm going to listen to some music or
Speaker 1: no music, and I'm going to take a drive to
Speaker 1: Sannynez or to the beach or whatever, and read a book,
Speaker 1: play with horses, ride horses. That is That is pampering myself.
Speaker 1: Literally taking an entire day and finishing a book. Starting
Speaker 1: in finishing a book in one day is a big
Speaker 1: pamper because I'm tuning out the rest of the world.
Speaker 1: I'm tuning out all of the noise, and that is
Speaker 1: pampering for me. So those are some of my favorite things.
Speaker 1: I hope I don't know. I hope you guys pamper yourselves.
Speaker 1: I hope you take the time to unplug every once
Speaker 1: in a while, because I think that if you don't unplug,
Speaker 1: there's no way to be even. You know, I think
Speaker 1: your equilibrium is always a little off if you don't
Speaker 1: reset it. In order to reset it, I think you
Speaker 1: have to unplug. Whether it's for thirty minutes, listening to
Speaker 1: meditation tape or watching your favorite program, whatever, it's important.
Speaker 1: Whether you have children, no children, high stress job, no job.
Speaker 1: I just think there's so much noise in the world
Speaker 1: right now. There's so much noise, and it's really stressful,
Speaker 1: really stressful. There's everybody's got an opinion. Everybody wants to
Speaker 1: argue about Biden or Trump, or Israel or Hamas, about protests,
Speaker 1: no protest, there's it's tumultuous right now, and understandably so.
Speaker 1: And believe me, I have very very strong opinions about that.
Speaker 1: And you know, if ever there comes a time when
Speaker 1: I'm you know, definite on my timeline, You'll probably hear
Speaker 1: all of my opinions because I'll have nothing to lose
Speaker 1: at that point. For now, I have to maintain peace
Speaker 1: for myself. But I just find that there's it's constantly
Speaker 1: coming at all of us again, whether it be political
Speaker 1: stuff or whether it be if you're an animal lover
Speaker 1: and you're watching dogs being you denies all the time
Speaker 1: because you know, the mayor of La Karen Bass is
Speaker 1: doing a really shit job. Like she's probably the worst
Speaker 1: mayor ever for there's an opinion for you, cancel me
Speaker 1: if you want, but she's a horrible, horrible, horrible mare
Speaker 1: in every respect, not just with dogs and dealing with
Speaker 1: the homeless. Anything that she said complete, she's done nothing.
Speaker 1: And for me, because I love animals, that's incredibly stressful.
Speaker 1: And when I go on Instagram, there's a gazillion dogs
Speaker 1: that are about to be killed just in LA shelters
Speaker 1: alone because of because her lack of doing anything about it.
Speaker 1: And when I get that every day, it's like I
Speaker 1: get a lot of anxiety and my stomach starts hurting
Speaker 1: and I get stressed. And it's the same with you know,
Speaker 1: the horses that are a for slaughter and trying to
Speaker 1: raise money really quickly. There's pressure of just engaging and
Speaker 1: trying to make sure that you're doing the right thing
Speaker 1: for everyone and putting out the right message and connecting
Speaker 1: with people and fulfilling your purpose. And that's for all
Speaker 1: of us, right, that's not just for me. So we
Speaker 1: all get inundated every single day by the noise in
Speaker 1: this world and in particular this country, but really the world,
Speaker 1: and so find that time to unplug again. It can
Speaker 1: only it can be just thirty minutes, but you got
Speaker 1: to we all have to center ourselves because if we
Speaker 1: center ourselves, I think we're able to hear better. I
Speaker 1: think that when somebody has a different political agenda than
Speaker 1: you do, I think if you're centered, you're able to
Speaker 1: hear why they feel that way. And we have free will, right,
Speaker 1: that's some people should have free will, but we do.
Speaker 1: God gave us free will, and so everybody has a
Speaker 1: right to their opinion. Sometimes how it's expressed it's not okay.
Speaker 1: But what's not okay is not hearing somebody else at
Speaker 1: all and not taking into consideration something else. And I
Speaker 1: think it's very hard to hear clearly when you're not centered.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to log off now and probably go
Speaker 1: center myself. But I hope you all find that time
Speaker 1: when you're done with work, the kids are in bed,
Speaker 1: you've taken your meds, whatever it is, that thirty minutes
Speaker 1: to just unplug and hear your own thoughts loud and clear,
Speaker 1: connect with your own thoughts, quiet them, and center yourself
Speaker 1: so that you can wake up or continue your day
Speaker 1: in a much more like relaxed, accepting manner. That's what
Speaker 1: I wish for all of you and for myself as well.
Speaker 1: So thank you for listening to a sort of random
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