1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:17,800 Speaker 1: I Am all in Again. Let's you. I Am all 2 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 1: in again with Scott Patterson in iHeartRadio Podcast. Hey Everybody, 3 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:27,480 Speaker 1: Scott Patterson, I Am all in Podcast one eleven productions. iHeartRadio, iHeartMedia, 4 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 1: iHeart Podcast. Very special guest today on Luke Steiner Joanna 5 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:36,000 Speaker 1: Garcia Swisher. Let me tell you a little bit about Joanna. 6 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 1: She's an American actress and a businesswoman, widely recognized for 7 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:42,599 Speaker 1: her roles as Sam on Are You Afraid of the Dark, 8 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:46,920 Speaker 1: Vicky Appleby on Freaks and Geeks, and Seyanne Hart Montgomery 9 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:50,880 Speaker 1: on Riba. She currently stars in the Netflix show Sweet Magnolia's. 10 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 1: She is also the founder of the blog The Happy Place, 11 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 1: where she shares her favorite insights on food, home design, 12 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 1: and self care. She is married to former baseball star 13 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 1: Nick Swisher and is a mother of two. Hello, Joanne, 14 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:09,759 Speaker 1: nice to meet you. 15 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:12,319 Speaker 2: Got it? Who wrote that? Because I feel like I 16 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 2: need to I need that I need. 17 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:15,319 Speaker 1: That wasn't me, wasn't man. 18 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 2: Like you covered all the bases. 19 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:23,040 Speaker 1: There's there's a very very competent team of specialists here. 20 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:25,759 Speaker 2: I mean, send that over. 21 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:32,160 Speaker 1: Okay, you got it? So thanks for coming on. And 22 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:34,960 Speaker 1: I didn't know that you were such a foodie and 23 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 1: you all, oh yeah, besides all of your other, you know, 24 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:44,160 Speaker 1: busy career highlights and accomplishments, you are a foodie and 25 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 1: you blog about food. 26 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 2: I do. 27 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:47,720 Speaker 1: How did that start? 28 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 3: It actually started about in twenty seventeen. It was more 29 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:55,000 Speaker 3: of an interior design based because I went to school 30 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 3: for that and that was something that I felt really 31 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 3: passionate about. 32 00:01:57,400 --> 00:01:59,120 Speaker 2: And so someone asked me if I should you know, like, 33 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 2: Wh're not sure? That what the word old? And I 34 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 2: thought why not? 35 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 3: But as time went on, I realized that what I 36 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 3: enjoyed about the Happy Place was just sort of sharing 37 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:10,800 Speaker 3: a little slice of my life, and a lot of 38 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:12,919 Speaker 3: that is eating and in the kitchen, and as I 39 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 3: became a mother and all of those things, and you know, 40 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,240 Speaker 3: I'm certainly no chef. In fact, one of my friends 41 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 3: who is a chef, she says that she watches me 42 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:26,079 Speaker 3: with knives on the Happy Place. That is like, oh God, 43 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 3: is she gonna she gonna take her tip, the tip 44 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:31,240 Speaker 3: of her knife, the tip of her figure up. But 45 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 3: it's so much a part of you know, I'm my 46 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:38,919 Speaker 3: I'm Cuban and my mom was a great cook and 47 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 3: so so many of my memories with her were in 48 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 3: the kitchen, and I just it's a passion and we 49 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 3: just I just share what I like. 50 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:52,320 Speaker 1: So what's what's one nostalgic food from your childhood that 51 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 1: you that you still prepare and still crave. 52 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 3: And I still prepare pigadillo, which is like a ground 53 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:02,919 Speaker 3: beef Cuban. It's a Cuban dish, very much a beloved 54 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 3: meal in our home and something that really just brings 55 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 3: us back, and I love as my mom is amazing 56 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:12,400 Speaker 3: at it. It was I think that my most favorite 57 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 3: thing that she made. But I can't make it. My 58 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:18,120 Speaker 3: brother makes it just like my mom did with like 59 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 3: the rice that was just crispy enough. 60 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 2: I haven't. 61 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 3: I don't have it. I don't have the secret sauce 62 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:26,240 Speaker 3: to be able to do that. But I'm my brother is. 63 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 3: I think he's an orthpeedic surgeon, but I think he 64 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 3: could be a chef and loves it, so I always 65 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:32,920 Speaker 3: make him cook that or paea. 66 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 2: You know, I love like rice and meat. 67 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 1: All all right? So do you go to a lot 68 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 1: of concerts? We just we just had Vicki Pedis and 69 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 1: from the Bangles on and they were in this episode 70 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 1: the concert interrupted. Do you go to concerts? Do you 71 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 1: and Nick go to concerts? 72 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 2: We do, I mean we anything that really comes into town. 73 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 2: We try. 74 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 3: I feel like I find myself most these days going 75 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 3: to country music. We're going to Kelsea Ballerini that's coming 76 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 3: to Tampa a couple of weeks. My girlfriend or my 77 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:03,720 Speaker 3: children are so excited, and so we're taking all of 78 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 3: their friends and their mom friends beating only dude. But 79 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 3: someone needs to be there to kind of rein it 80 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:12,160 Speaker 3: in and make sure we don't like lose our minds. 81 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:15,520 Speaker 3: Reva's coming back to town. She's coming to a strawberry 82 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 3: festival in Tampa, So I'm super excited about that. But yeah, 83 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 3: I love I love music. I love live music, and 84 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:24,720 Speaker 3: I just anything that comes to town. I usually try 85 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:25,720 Speaker 3: to get in there. 86 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 1: Do you guys take your own food? You have concert 87 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:32,360 Speaker 1: food or just get and what's they're selling it there? 88 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 3: Yeah? 89 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:37,279 Speaker 2: Well, I love a tailgate more than anything in life. 90 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:38,719 Speaker 2: Is well, I won't. 91 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:40,119 Speaker 3: Say more than anything in life, but I do really 92 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:42,800 Speaker 3: love a tailgate, and I do find the shows that 93 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:45,440 Speaker 3: come to the stadium you get a lot of tailgating, 94 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:48,719 Speaker 3: which is this is where I really thrive up, like 95 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:52,800 Speaker 3: bringing a dish that's gonna stand up to the hours 96 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:55,320 Speaker 3: on end that you can nibble on that after a 97 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:58,279 Speaker 3: few cocktails you can come back to and eat cold 98 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:00,239 Speaker 3: even though it started warm. 99 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:02,159 Speaker 2: Things that really have that you know that age. 100 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:05,600 Speaker 3: Well, that's where I that's where I feel like I 101 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:07,159 Speaker 3: drive right. 102 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:10,360 Speaker 1: By the way. Shout out to your husband. I was 103 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 1: a Yankee myself. Oh my god, a long time ago. 104 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:18,119 Speaker 1: I was on the forty man roster in nineteen eighty three. 105 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 2: Fun real, what position? 106 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:21,599 Speaker 1: I was a starting pitcher. 107 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:22,720 Speaker 2: That's so cool. 108 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 1: And guys like your husband were always you know, they're 109 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 1: rare because you want a guy like that in the 110 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:33,720 Speaker 1: clubhouse who's positive and energetic, and you know that's that's 111 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 1: the kind of a guy that gets you through like 112 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 1: the rough parts of the season, because it doesn't matter 113 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 1: how good your team is, you're going to have downturns. 114 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:43,840 Speaker 1: But anyway, shout out to him. He had a great 115 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 1: he had a great career. Positive guy, full of energy 116 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 1: and good vibes and uh and with him and a 117 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:54,840 Speaker 1: very very dangerous hitter. 118 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:58,160 Speaker 3: But yeah, part I had no idea what I was 119 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 3: getting into when I met him, But I now quite 120 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 3: a baseball efficient, it's not. 121 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 1: And you guys met while he was still playing. 122 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:10,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, we met in two thousand and nine here in 123 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:10,360 Speaker 2: New York. 124 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 3: I was shooting Gossip Girl and he it was his 125 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:15,359 Speaker 3: first year with the Yankees, and we got set up 126 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:18,560 Speaker 3: by a mutual friend, and ten months later we were engaged. 127 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 3: Six months after that we were married. And he won 128 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 3: the World Series that year. And so I really didn't 129 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:25,159 Speaker 3: I thought you'd do that every year. 130 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:26,359 Speaker 1: Oh No, I. 131 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 3: Really closed this year in New York, and I have 132 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:31,839 Speaker 3: high hope hopes next year. 133 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:34,480 Speaker 2: But I realized that it's not so easy to do that. 134 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:38,279 Speaker 3: So I feel super grateful for the experience. But I 135 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:41,360 Speaker 3: think if you're a Yankee fan, I know not everyone is, 136 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:43,719 Speaker 3: but in our house we are very much Yankee fans. 137 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:45,880 Speaker 2: I think we're ready for another one. So we'd like 138 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:46,719 Speaker 2: to see another one. 139 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 1: Yes, So if you could share a meal with any 140 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 1: Gilmore girl's character, who would it be? And why? 141 00:06:57,279 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 2: Oh? I mean Rory. I think, you know, I just 142 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:05,599 Speaker 2: feel like I just related so much to her character, and. 143 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 3: It'd be nice just to kind of hash it all out, 144 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:11,160 Speaker 3: just be like, let's let's talk, let's talk. 145 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 2: About all of it. 146 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:15,760 Speaker 1: Mm hmmm mm hmm. All right, let's talk about your 147 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 1: happy place, your your your blog okay, focuses on food, 148 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:24,920 Speaker 1: home designs, some self care. What inspired you to create it? 149 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 1: How do you and how do you hope it'll it'll 150 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 1: help others find their own happy place? 151 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:33,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's like I said, it's a real 152 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 3: It's like my diary almost. You know, we we certainly 153 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 3: aren't always talking about things that make us happy. You know, 154 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 3: I've shared my grief, I've shared my moments of anxiety, 155 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 3: what it feels like to become a mother, the balance 156 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:52,600 Speaker 3: of being a working mom. It really just is a 157 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 3: little peek into my heart and my life and and 158 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:01,200 Speaker 3: as it's grown, it's really just it's, like I said, 159 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:03,080 Speaker 3: I've said this so many times, but it's like saved 160 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 3: me in so many ways and connecting. And I do 161 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 3: really feel like the energy that you put out comes 162 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 3: back to you. And I think that this world can 163 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:14,120 Speaker 3: be really overwhelming at times. And not to say that 164 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 3: I always like this because I am I am a 165 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:17,800 Speaker 3: fiery latina. 166 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:21,120 Speaker 2: I can get worked up with the best of my 167 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:23,960 Speaker 2: mom's as an actress. But I do feel like. 168 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:29,720 Speaker 3: We have created this community of just you know, positivity 169 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 3: and being real and not nothing's too perfect, and it 170 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:38,839 Speaker 3: certainly isn't you know, too polished or you know, it 171 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:42,120 Speaker 3: just just it's a little part of my heart and 172 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:47,280 Speaker 3: I feel like it's attracted that in our community. And 173 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:51,920 Speaker 3: then our production company that we've launched was inspired by 174 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 3: our book club. 175 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 2: Now we're actively like producing right now. 176 00:08:56,280 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 3: We're I'm leaving tonight to go to Ireland because we 177 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:01,760 Speaker 3: have movies and products and we're shooting in Ireland over 178 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:04,199 Speaker 3: the next little bit. And it just feels like a 179 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:06,960 Speaker 3: dream come true. And so it really, like I said, 180 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 3: it's taken on shape in so many ways, but that 181 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:12,800 Speaker 3: really was came from my love of reading and sharing 182 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:16,480 Speaker 3: books and not books that are fancy or necessarily you know, 183 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:18,360 Speaker 3: the book of the month or whatever it may be, 184 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 3: or one that everybody's talking about like it sometimes they're 185 00:09:21,679 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 3: smutty romance. 186 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:24,880 Speaker 2: Novels or really simple homecoms or. 187 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:27,640 Speaker 3: You know, we're not trying to be anything that we're not, 188 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:31,679 Speaker 3: which is just like we were just living and right that. 189 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 3: You know, if you want to come along for the ride, 190 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:34,720 Speaker 3: you are more than welcome. 191 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 1: So you see food as a form of well it 192 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:49,960 Speaker 1: is I mean it's just sort of giving love. Yes, 193 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:53,599 Speaker 1: you know, it's it's how you prepare the food, and 194 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:56,600 Speaker 1: you want to see the reactions on people's faces when 195 00:09:56,640 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 1: they eat it their first bite, and you want to 196 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:03,560 Speaker 1: feedback because I cook for my family. I love cooking. 197 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:06,280 Speaker 1: I love it. I love it, and I'm always trying 198 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:09,839 Speaker 1: new recipes or new additives and sauces and things like that, 199 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 1: and I want the reaction. Sometimes I get a thumbs down, 200 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:14,559 Speaker 1: a lot of times I get a thumbs up, but 201 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 1: I'm invested, you know. So you're the same the same way, right, 202 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 1: So what's what's your meal? What's the one meal the 203 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:26,000 Speaker 1: two meals that you really love to prepare for your family? 204 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:29,199 Speaker 2: Well, dinner is kind of a non negotiable. 205 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:31,760 Speaker 3: When we're all home, we eat together, even though, but 206 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:34,320 Speaker 3: I will say, as much as I paint this picture 207 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:38,520 Speaker 3: on happy place that you know we're cooking, and like, yes, 208 00:10:38,559 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 3: do I put this on the table for my family, 209 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:43,199 Speaker 3: my kids are still real kids and they're like, that's 210 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 3: got some weird spice in it or what is that 211 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 3: looks weird or something like that. So like it's very 212 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:52,560 Speaker 3: real at my house and also has a lot of feedback. 213 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 2: But so I want to just make sure that's out 214 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:59,320 Speaker 2: there that I don't have these like magical kids that 215 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:02,320 Speaker 2: eat everything that I or love to eat. We do 216 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:03,280 Speaker 2: have something in. 217 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:07,600 Speaker 3: Our house called food challenge. Also, Nick eats more than anything. 218 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 3: I cannot keep up with his eating, so he now 219 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 3: is like a food delivery service, but he will People 220 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:17,520 Speaker 3: will be like, I think, I just saw you eat 221 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:21,679 Speaker 3: three meals. I hear that the fork puncturing the plastic 222 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:24,800 Speaker 3: and microwave go on, and I could be in the 223 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 3: kitchen cooking and nothing enrages me more around like jeez, Nick, 224 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:30,560 Speaker 3: like what the hell you know? 225 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 1: Like what are you meaning? 226 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:35,880 Speaker 3: But we have food challenge in our house and it 227 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:39,120 Speaker 3: usually is when we're out to dinner because when we're 228 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:42,720 Speaker 3: are traveling, we kind of ask our kids to, you know, 229 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:46,439 Speaker 3: do the food challenge. And that's just picking something that 230 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:48,880 Speaker 3: they normally wouldn't eat. And my kids have tried oysters. 231 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:51,720 Speaker 3: They didn't like them, but they've tried things that normally 232 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:54,199 Speaker 3: they wouldn't and that's just fun. It's fun to experience 233 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:56,360 Speaker 3: food and be a little bit adventurous. And like I said, 234 00:11:56,679 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 3: so much, I mean, we are the family where it's 235 00:11:58,800 --> 00:11:59,679 Speaker 3: like I'm cooking breakfast. 236 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:01,480 Speaker 2: That's the other thing you ask me. The two meals. 237 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:04,880 Speaker 3: I really love breakfast just because it's just like the 238 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:07,320 Speaker 3: start of the day and knowing there's something you know, 239 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:09,000 Speaker 3: I'm a mom, there's something in me knowing that like 240 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:11,240 Speaker 3: I've given my kids some like nourishment and their brain 241 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 3: and their bodies before I send them off to school 242 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:15,560 Speaker 3: or on their feels like Okay, I checked that box. 243 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:18,720 Speaker 2: I did that really well. But yeah, so those were 244 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:20,520 Speaker 2: the two those are the two big meals for me. 245 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:23,640 Speaker 2: But yeah, it's like just about for me. 246 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:27,760 Speaker 3: It's I completely associate eating with like togetherness and memories 247 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:31,319 Speaker 3: and you know, they're activating our senses, our sense of 248 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:33,520 Speaker 3: smell or sense of taste, and our sense of sight. 249 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:35,440 Speaker 3: So it's just like all of these things that are 250 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 3: really important and stick with you, is what it is. 251 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:44,240 Speaker 1: And well, yeah, our our our family dinners are everything 252 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:47,880 Speaker 1: to me. Yeah right, it's I mean when we're home, Yeah, 253 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 1: it's it's got to be a family dinner. We go 254 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:52,360 Speaker 1: out once in a while and love it. But you know, 255 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:57,440 Speaker 1: those round the dinner table conversations are priceless, they are, 256 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:00,440 Speaker 1: and it's it's where we really have the best time 257 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:03,200 Speaker 1: together as a family unless we're on a vacation some 258 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:04,560 Speaker 1: fabulous place. Yeah. 259 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:06,720 Speaker 2: And by the way, usually around a table there too. 260 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 1: Exactly right, right, Yeah, I just looked so forward to dinner. OK, 261 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 1: let's talk a little bit about Sweet Magnolias. Tell us 262 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 1: a little bit about it. It's it's it's on Netflix. 263 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:25,160 Speaker 1: Are are you? This is season more four? Oh yeah? Wow? 264 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 1: So that's that's a good long run for Netflix show. 265 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:30,840 Speaker 2: Well, I know, it feels like a dream come true. 266 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:32,920 Speaker 3: I was just talking to Heather Hedley, who's one of 267 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:35,400 Speaker 3: my co stars, she's one of the Magnolias this morning 268 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:39,079 Speaker 3: and we were just reflecting on it, like we talk 269 00:13:39,160 --> 00:13:41,480 Speaker 3: all the time, but these moments of like the day 270 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:43,920 Speaker 3: of when things drop and it's like we are both 271 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:47,600 Speaker 3: so nervous and you know, we work hard on these 272 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:49,480 Speaker 3: things and we care so much. But then she said, 273 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:52,200 Speaker 3: you know, Joe, like this, like I was like breastfeeding 274 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 3: my daughter when this offer came in. You got a 275 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:56,640 Speaker 3: call and said you have to move to your family 276 00:13:56,679 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 3: to Atlanta in like three days, Like it just material 277 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:05,600 Speaker 3: materialized out of nowhere and then and it's been this 278 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:11,240 Speaker 3: beautiful story and it's been such a gift, you know, 279 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:14,080 Speaker 3: the last four years in my life, I've lost my mom, 280 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:15,480 Speaker 3: my dad, and my grandmother. 281 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:19,080 Speaker 2: We've had a pandemic, we've had writer strike, actor strike, like, 282 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:20,280 Speaker 2: it's a lot. 283 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:22,000 Speaker 1: It's a lot now and. 284 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:26,440 Speaker 3: This show has been such a mainstay and there's such 285 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 3: a beautiful love that we've all created and it feels 286 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:32,280 Speaker 3: really special because, as you know, those things don't come 287 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:35,600 Speaker 3: around very often, and those opportunities to really dig in 288 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:39,440 Speaker 3: and become a family, you know, things don't last that long, 289 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:42,920 Speaker 3: and so it just really has been such a blessing 290 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:46,680 Speaker 3: and the show I think, really has that heart and 291 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 3: you know, it's not trying to be anything that it's not. 292 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 3: It's you know, it's a sexy, sweet drama that's said 293 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:57,160 Speaker 3: in the South, but it's also about friendship and it's 294 00:14:57,160 --> 00:15:00,600 Speaker 3: a I think that it really celebrates friendshi in its 295 00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 3: most beautiful form, which is you know, your chosen family 296 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 3: and supporting each other and really being in it with 297 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:08,400 Speaker 3: each other through thick and thin. 298 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:10,200 Speaker 2: And we certainly have been through a lot. 299 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 1: And you're doing what you're doing ten episodes, nine episodes, Yeah, 300 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 1: and you're what are you down there for like four 301 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 1: months or something? 302 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, Like it doesn't take as long. 303 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:21,000 Speaker 3: And that's why these shows are so great to have 304 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:23,800 Speaker 3: a balance in your life, because you know, you get 305 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:27,840 Speaker 3: I get an opportunity to really be a mom and 306 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:31,760 Speaker 3: an entrepreneur and now a producer and explore all of 307 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:33,280 Speaker 3: those things. But then I also get to do the 308 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:37,400 Speaker 3: show that I'm so so proud of. So it has 309 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 3: been such a gift and I am in a very 310 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 3: heightened moment of gratitude in my life right now where 311 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:50,080 Speaker 3: I'm like, Okay, these are really great gifts and so 312 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 3: I'm super thankful. 313 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 1: Atlanta. You're in Atlanta. Huh Yeah. 314 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:56,440 Speaker 2: We love Atlanta. 315 00:15:56,480 --> 00:16:00,560 Speaker 3: And we bought a home right outside of Atlanta on 316 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:02,520 Speaker 3: a lake called Lake a Cony And talk about my 317 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:06,320 Speaker 3: happy place, Like that is the most magical place ever. 318 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:10,040 Speaker 2: And we have these incredible friends and this incredible. 319 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:13,280 Speaker 3: Community that my kids get to go and my husband 320 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:16,040 Speaker 3: gets to be at that we like, they love, and 321 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:19,360 Speaker 3: I get to work and then we have this like 322 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:22,600 Speaker 3: small town that's wrapped its arms around me. And one 323 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:27,080 Speaker 3: of our guys in the prop department told me one 324 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:30,000 Speaker 3: night after we were working, He's like, you know, my 325 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:31,520 Speaker 3: parents live in Like a Cony and they're just so 326 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:34,200 Speaker 3: proud of you. And I was like, oh my god, absolutely, 327 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:37,920 Speaker 3: I would like thank you, and he's like, no, it's 328 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:39,880 Speaker 3: just like you're a part of the community now, and 329 00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:42,640 Speaker 3: so it feels like that same feeling of like sweet 330 00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:44,840 Speaker 3: my noise, like serenity, like a coney for me, where 331 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:49,720 Speaker 3: I'm just like people are magic, wonderful. 332 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:52,960 Speaker 1: Well, it's been great getting to talk to you a 333 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:56,640 Speaker 1: little bit. I wish we had more time. There's so 334 00:16:56,840 --> 00:16:58,000 Speaker 1: many more questions I want. 335 00:16:58,080 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 2: I don't come back anytime. 336 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:01,280 Speaker 1: Oh love love to have you back. 337 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:02,680 Speaker 2: Have Nick come back and talk to you. 338 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:05,240 Speaker 1: Oh that would be fun. Yes, Oh I'd love to 339 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:08,840 Speaker 1: meet him. Yeah, that'd be great. Sure, yes, love it absolutely, 340 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:12,920 Speaker 1: yeah with him. What you said, Oh great, thank you? Yes, yes, good, good, 341 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:16,840 Speaker 1: good good. Yeah. Anyway, it's been a pleasure. Good luck 342 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:21,680 Speaker 1: with uh Sweet Magnolias on an epic four year run 343 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:26,000 Speaker 1: and counting, and all the best to you and your family, 344 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:29,840 Speaker 1: and good luck with your your blog, the Happy Place 345 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:34,320 Speaker 1: and all that you're doing, all the productions that you're producing. 346 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:38,000 Speaker 1: And man, you're you are a busy, busy lady. I'll 347 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:40,320 Speaker 1: tell you that much. And it's good good to be busy, 348 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:40,760 Speaker 1: isn't it. 349 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:41,720 Speaker 2: Grateful? 350 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:43,879 Speaker 3: Thank you and it was just such a breath of 351 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:46,359 Speaker 3: fresh air. So I really great to talk to you. 352 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:49,639 Speaker 1: Good talking to you too, and we'll hopefully see you 353 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:50,160 Speaker 1: real soon. 354 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:52,320 Speaker 2: Let's do it all right, all right. 355 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:57,639 Speaker 1: Take care Joanna. That's Joanna Garcia Swisher. Everybody love talking 356 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 1: to her. She'll be back for a future episode. I 357 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:03,800 Speaker 1: am sure, all right, We will see you next time. 358 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:06,520 Speaker 1: Best fans on the planet. Thank you all so much 359 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 1: for your downloads. 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