Speaker 1: Hey, guys, welcome to I've never said this before with me,
Speaker 1: Tommy di Dario. I have been thinking so much about
Speaker 1: everyone out in LA and being here in New York,
Speaker 1: which feels like a world away. It's so hard to
Speaker 1: figure out how we can even help. But I brought
Speaker 1: my dear friend Jennifer of Viewett onto the Elvis Da
Speaker 1: Ran Show, and I wanted to share that conversation with
Speaker 1: you today. So take a listen and find out how
Speaker 1: you can help that beautiful community. I'm sending so much
Speaker 1: love to everybody out in LA.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you're like me, and maybe you
Speaker 2: are somewhat. You just cannot stop watching the news. You
Speaker 2: cannot stop watching about what's going on in Los Angeles
Speaker 2: right now. And there's so many moving parts to this story.
Speaker 2: I mean, you've got people, you've got lives, you've got animals,
Speaker 2: you've got property, you've got one of those naturally beautiful
Speaker 2: parts of our country up in flames right now. And
Speaker 2: to not be there is both a blessing and also
Speaker 2: there's this this I don't know about you, guys. Do
Speaker 2: you have this desire like not just not be there
Speaker 2: to help, but do anything you can to help, yes,
Speaker 2: of course, sorry without being in the way, of course.
Speaker 2: So our little brother Tommy de Dario, is he on
Speaker 2: the phone. Let's get him on the phone.
Speaker 3: You know what, hey, guys, Usually you know we have
Speaker 3: you on.
Speaker 2: We do our best to ras you and insult you
Speaker 2: and make you feel lesser, lesser of human being. Today,
Speaker 2: today we're gonna actually be nice for a chance, so
Speaker 2: for a change.
Speaker 3: So it's all good. We love you, are you all?
Speaker 1: I love you, guys. I'm here. I'm here and any
Speaker 1: kind of any day of the week that I can
Speaker 1: be abused by y'all, I love but I'm happy to
Speaker 1: take a break.
Speaker 3: Okay, very good. So it was. It wasn't long ago.
Speaker 2: On Tommy's Incredibly Cool podcast he had Jennifer Love Hewitt
Speaker 2: on as a guest, and, uh, you were like floating
Speaker 2: on a cloud, right, I mean you you? That was
Speaker 2: that was what they called in the business. I get
Speaker 2: you loved having.
Speaker 1: A right, Oh my god. And I told her when
Speaker 1: I interviewed her, she was someone I've always wanted to
Speaker 1: talk to. I've always admired, admired her work so much,
Speaker 1: And we had this amazing conversation at the beginning of
Speaker 1: December and we've literally talked every day since. Like my
Speaker 1: husband Geo's best he's with her, like we're all just
Speaker 1: so tight and we formed this beautiful friendship.
Speaker 2: Well, I need to get her on the line and
Speaker 2: warn her about the bad evil side of your by.
Speaker 3: We'll do that later, you know. Jennifer Love Hewitt was.
Speaker 2: On our show many many years ago for many great reasons,
Speaker 2: and it's been so many years since then, and I'm glad,
Speaker 2: even though it's because of this opportunity, which is not
Speaker 2: the most positive opportunities, because of this opportunity, we have
Speaker 2: her back. Please welcome to the show, Tommy's gay crush
Speaker 2: and and someone that we're so excited to have on
Speaker 2: the show, Jennifer Love Hewitt.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Jennifer. How are you doing?
Speaker 4: Good money for a laugh? I needed it, I know,
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 2: In it weird after you go through and you were
Speaker 2: going through something as as awful and dreadful as what's
Speaker 2: going on in Los Angeles, the first time you laugh,
Speaker 2: it kind of scares you a little bit.
Speaker 3: You're like, am I allowed to laugh?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I know. Really weird, But it's a good feeling.
Speaker 4: It's a good feeling.
Speaker 2: Well, thank both you and Tommy for waking up in
Speaker 2: the middle of the night to come on with us.
Speaker 2: I guess it's a stupid question, but I'm gonna ask
Speaker 2: you in anyway. How are you? How are your friends?
Speaker 2: How are your family? How are you doing?
Speaker 3: Just overall? How you doing?
Speaker 4: If you know? It changes every couple of minutes. If
Speaker 4: I'm being honest, I think it kind of the day
Speaker 4: is weird. It's like you, Yeah, I'm a mom of three,
Speaker 4: so I have to try to be okay as much
Speaker 4: as possible because my kids are watching and they kind
Speaker 4: of take on, you know, where I'm at. So I'm
Speaker 4: trying to, you know, still be silly and present and
Speaker 4: all of that stuff. On the flip side, I'm heartbroken
Speaker 4: and panic and you know all of the other things.
Speaker 4: I think that watching it feels unbelievable. It feels like
Speaker 4: it's been six months and it's only been a few days.
Speaker 4: And it's yeah, it's just sort of a it's just
Speaker 4: sort of an ever changing feeling. But we're here. I'm
Speaker 4: with my family, and we are as safe as we
Speaker 4: can be. We've really missed our little community, our friends,
Speaker 4: you know, have checked in on us. A thousand times
Speaker 4: as we're checking in on them. And I think the
Speaker 4: interesting thing is that we've all had a totally different
Speaker 4: experience in the same situation, which has been kind of
Speaker 4: wild as well, but everybody's checking in on each other
Speaker 4: and taking care of each other as best they can.
Speaker 4: So it's been nice in that way.
Speaker 5: I feel like that's the one thing that you take
Speaker 5: away from this. You know, obviously it's horrific, but the
Speaker 5: fact that everybody does come together and help each other
Speaker 5: and is there for it's like, it's just amazing to
Speaker 5: watch that aspect.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we talked about that last night with our kids.
Speaker 4: We were like, listen, this is something that you take
Speaker 4: away from this situation. Always check on your friends, Always
Speaker 4: see how they're doing, not just like in extreme circumstances,
Speaker 4: but be there for people, hope where you can in
Speaker 4: your community, be good hearted, you know, look out for
Speaker 4: each other, that kind of stuff, because I do think,
Speaker 4: you know, we tend to do it more in these
Speaker 4: situations and we should just be doing it all the time.
Speaker 4: And so it's it's a good lesson, I think, especially
Speaker 4: my kids are really young, so it's been a good
Speaker 4: lesson for them. I think. Hopefully just for their lifetime.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't know what it's like to be
Speaker 2: a parent. I have Schnauzers. That's as deep as I get.
Speaker 3: But but no, I would never like it.
Speaker 2: But but you know, it's you do everything you can
Speaker 2: to protect your children because you don't want innocence to
Speaker 2: be lost. At the same time, we're still kids in
Speaker 2: a way, we're still we're losing our innocence every day
Speaker 2: when these things happen, no matter how old you are.
Speaker 2: And so God bless you and all the parents out
Speaker 2: there who and look everyone for getting through this. Just
Speaker 2: it's one step at a time, right, you know, Gandhi,
Speaker 2: what do you think?
Speaker 3: What do you have a question for?
Speaker 6: Jennif love youeck I do so you said you're as
Speaker 6: safe as you can be. And we've been reading about
Speaker 6: how these winds are about to pick up and get
Speaker 6: stronger today as a day goes on, What is the
Speaker 6: best thing for people to do because you're literally in
Speaker 6: this area where any area could nite ignite again. Should
Speaker 6: people get out? Are people being told to stay because
Speaker 6: you need volunteers on the ground, but you also don't
Speaker 6: want all the extras around. Is there any sort of
Speaker 6: directive about that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I would say for us, the second
Speaker 4: we were told to get out, we got out because
Speaker 4: the truth is, you can't do anything about the fire
Speaker 4: part of it. You have to leave room for you know,
Speaker 4: first responders to be able to do what they need
Speaker 4: to do to save what they can the winds they hear.
Speaker 4: There's such a strange feeling of like just palpable anxiety
Speaker 4: this morning. I think for everyone I have talked to,
Speaker 4: like seven or eight different moms. None of us slept
Speaker 4: last night. It was all been watching the news and
Speaker 4: we're just kind of like what is going to be next?
Speaker 4: Where is it going to go? You know? And also
Speaker 4: like especially for the palisades and eaten and everything, it's
Speaker 4: just embers right now, like sitting there. So if the
Speaker 4: wind gus go too crazy, what happened? Like you know,
Speaker 4: do those nimbers come up and ignite again? Like what
Speaker 4: is what is the situation? So yeah, I would say,
Speaker 4: if you know, if you're in one of those areas
Speaker 4: and they're saying highlands, I would gather what you can
Speaker 4: and I would get out and I would watch it
Speaker 4: all from somewhere safe because that is most important, and
Speaker 4: you know, just do what you can. We got out
Speaker 4: very quickly. I wasted no time. I think most of
Speaker 4: my friends, including my husband, probably thought I was a
Speaker 4: little bananas because he was like, wait, they just said it,
Speaker 4: but like right, and we're out. So, you know, we
Speaker 4: got out very quickly. But I'm glad that we did
Speaker 4: because traffic was crazy. It took us, you know, over
Speaker 4: an hour to even get out of our area, to
Speaker 4: go like two blocks and that was within literally twenty
Speaker 4: minutes of them asking people to leave. So yeah, I
Speaker 4: would just say, don't wait, get your importance and you
Speaker 4: send it out.
Speaker 2: If you're just turning us on, Jennifer, love you it
Speaker 2: is here. Of course, Tommy Dedaria brought us what brought
Speaker 2: her to us this morning, and he's on the line
Speaker 2: in Denver.
Speaker 3: Everyone's waking up for us. I feel so powerful.
Speaker 2: This is crazy your I mean powerful, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: I just don't even know how powerful. Line, Tommy, have
Speaker 2: you been speaking with with Jennifer? You said, almost on
Speaker 2: a daily basis, What is something that you've picked up
Speaker 2: from her that maybe she maybe she's not talking about
Speaker 2: something that that is something important for us to know
Speaker 2: about her experience in the condition she's in.
Speaker 1: You know, I think that no two people have the
Speaker 1: same experience when you're going through something so devastating, right,
Speaker 1: So I think the sensitivity is so important. Some people
Speaker 1: lost homes, some do not. Some won't be able to
Speaker 1: get into homes for years and years and years. Some
Speaker 1: you know, maybe do have a second home that burned down,
Speaker 1: but that was their main family home. Like, everybody has
Speaker 1: a different experience. So I think the sensitivity is so
Speaker 1: important with anybody who is going through this period, no
Speaker 1: matter you know, what walk of life you come from
Speaker 1: or who you are, lost is loss, you know. I
Speaker 1: have One of my dear friends is Rachel Ray. Her
Speaker 1: home burned down upstate a few years ago, and she
Speaker 1: lost the most personal things to her, like letters that
Speaker 1: her mother wrote her who's no longer here, and that's irreplaceable.
Speaker 1: So whatever the optics might seem like from the outside,
Speaker 1: trust me, you don't know what's going on, and just
Speaker 1: be there for people. Just be of a listening ear,
Speaker 1: be a hug you can give. You know that the
Speaker 1: judgments I think are just something that can exist for anybody.
Speaker 1: And I think what's so cool about Jennifer. She's going
Speaker 1: through so much, but she's someone who's been there for
Speaker 1: everyon buddy in her life as well. So if you
Speaker 1: can make a little room, just a little bit of
Speaker 1: room for people, even when you're going through something tough,
Speaker 1: I think that ends up helping you and healing you
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 4: All I have to say, I have to say Tommy
Speaker 4: and Gier have had me and my family one hundred
Speaker 4: percent of the time since this has happened. Like literally,
Speaker 4: they are they are maybe my newest friends. That they
Speaker 4: are the most loving and most kind and have held
Speaker 4: me and my kids in such strength and goodness. It's
Speaker 4: just honestly been so touching. It means so much to us.
Speaker 4: So there's most.
Speaker 2: People ever we called we called them the Tommy and
Speaker 2: Geo Show. We love them every chance.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 3: I know it's a it's a show. It's never ending,
Speaker 3: and it's it's it's got high ratings of my house.
Speaker 2: Hey, so so, Jennifer, there's more to it than what
Speaker 2: we've talked about here. You're actually doing more.
Speaker 3: And I was.
Speaker 2: I went to uh b f S, b f f
Speaker 2: S andbabes dot com and we're gonna we're gonna post
Speaker 2: this at Elvis Duran show and Instagram. You have come
Speaker 2: up with an incredible Love Angelus collection talk about that
Speaker 2: and about how one of the proceeds are going to people.
Speaker 3: Who need it.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So again, I've just been sitting and watching all
Speaker 4: of this, and I often in my life when I'm hurting,
Speaker 4: try to figure out a way to turn that into
Speaker 4: something active, because it just is. It just doesn't serve
Speaker 4: us to sit in all of that heaviness. And so
Speaker 4: this company, BFF and Babes, they have been so lovely
Speaker 4: to me and my family for the last few years,
Speaker 4: and I've posted for them, They've posted for me and
Speaker 4: whatever it was. And so I was sitting up in
Speaker 4: the middle of the night and I was like, oh
Speaker 4: my gosh, Like I just love Los Angeles so much.
Speaker 4: It's like I just want to do something to help them.
Speaker 4: And so I was like, oh my gosh, instead of
Speaker 4: Los Angeles, maybe it could be Love Angelis because it's
Speaker 4: my middle name, but it's also what I want to
Speaker 4: give out to the city and all of that. So I,
Speaker 4: you know, DMed her and said, listen, I have this idea.
Speaker 4: Can we do this? And she was like, one hundred percent,
Speaker 4: let's do this. You you find you know who we
Speaker 4: want to like help and sort of send this out
Speaker 4: to and I'll send you the designs. In two hours,
Speaker 4: she sent me the designs. I was floored. I absolutely
Speaker 4: love them. And here in La and everywhere really, there's
Speaker 4: this organization called Baby to Baby and they do this
Speaker 4: incredible stuff. They're national nonprofit and they support children affected
Speaker 4: by devastating fires. They distribute one point five million emergency
Speaker 4: supplies diapers, food, formula, water, everything. They're just incredible, like
Speaker 4: critical items that children and families need. So I reached
Speaker 4: out to them and I said, listen, can we send
Speaker 4: one hundred percent of the proceeds sold to you guys?
Speaker 4: And they were, you know, very happy about that and
Speaker 4: said sure, And so we put the whole thing together
Speaker 4: literally in like two hours, and so far we've been
Speaker 4: able to sell a lot, but we just want to
Speaker 4: keep going and get them as much as possible because
Speaker 4: there's so many people affective and it just seems to
Speaker 4: keep going that I think we still have a long
Speaker 4: way to go, but I'm really excited about it. And yeah,
Speaker 4: just hope that people will will know that that's a
Speaker 4: little piece of something they can do to sort of
Speaker 4: help people here in La.
Speaker 2: Well, okay again, it's b ffsandbabes dot com and we're
Speaker 2: going to have it up on Elvis Durand's show Social
Speaker 2: on Instagram in any minute now.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: So Danielle here, who was with us years ago when
Speaker 2: we interviewed you for many different reasons, does she know
Speaker 2: that you've her song was the first song you played
Speaker 2: at your wedding.
Speaker 5: Yes, she knows that. I don't know if you remember,
Speaker 5: but years ago you actually were here hanging out with us,
Speaker 5: and you made me a nice little clip to play
Speaker 5: at the wedding, and No Ordinary Love was our wedding song.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, I'm so honored. Thank you.
Speaker 3: And they're still married. They're still married. They're still married.
Speaker 2: And I will tell you, one of the first people
Speaker 2: in line on our show to hop onto bff s
Speaker 2: and babes dot com and by merch was Danielle.
Speaker 5: I already bought mine. I'm all good. I can't wait.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, thank you so much, thank you.
Speaker 2: I know that it's hard to live in living in
Speaker 2: Los Angeles. No matter where in the area you are,
Speaker 2: you want to stay watching that news and even though
Speaker 2: they recycle the same stories over and over and it
Speaker 2: becomes a lot to deal with what the TV cameras
Speaker 2: are showing us across the country. Is it accurate? What
Speaker 2: are we not seeing on these on these reports from
Speaker 2: the networks?
Speaker 4: I mean, I think what you're not seeing is how many,
Speaker 4: like Tommy said, how many different sides to the story
Speaker 4: there are? You know, I think you're seeing the images
Speaker 4: and the drone shots and the helicopter shots of you know,
Speaker 4: everything burning down or burnt down. I think you know
Speaker 4: you're seeing you're seeing some of the bravery of these
Speaker 4: first responders. It's so weird for me that I play
Speaker 4: a first responder on the show that I'm on, and
Speaker 4: you know, we talk about these things and we do
Speaker 4: these sake fires and everything is unreal when it becomes
Speaker 4: a very real situation. These firefighters are working so hard,
Speaker 4: and I feel like a lot of the stories that
Speaker 4: are happening are either you know, political, or about like
Speaker 4: what the city's doing and what the city's not doing,
Speaker 4: and you know, all of that stuff, and I get
Speaker 4: all of that and that has to be out there,
Speaker 4: but truly, these these firefighters have not stopped trying to
Speaker 4: save people's homes and experiences and memories, and they're working
Speaker 4: so hard, and so I just hope that people know
Speaker 4: that even if they're losing, they're they're trying, you know,
Speaker 4: and they're working really hard. And also I think that
Speaker 4: you know, there are people that have lost everything. There
Speaker 4: are also people you know, whose homes are still standing
Speaker 4: but literally can't get there and won't get there for
Speaker 4: very very or our damage beyond repair inside because of
Speaker 4: toxicity and you know, all the stuff in the air
Speaker 4: and everything, and that their house will have to be
Speaker 4: knocked down and rebuilt. And there's just so many stories
Speaker 4: that I don't feel like they can tell them all.
Speaker 4: But it is a city of people who are really
Speaker 4: supporting each other and and care about each other and
Speaker 4: are looking out for each other, and there is a
Speaker 4: there is a beautiful spirit amongst all the level right
Speaker 4: now that is it's very moving. It's hard to be talkbooks.
Speaker 4: It's just very moving. It's really they're they're just I mean,
Speaker 4: I have hugged more strangers that have hugged me in
Speaker 4: the last you know, four days, and it's everything. It
Speaker 4: just means so much, and so I just hope that
Speaker 4: people know that there's a really beautiful part of what's
Speaker 4: happening here. That maybe they don't get the chance to
Speaker 4: tell in quick clips on the news that is really inspiring.
Speaker 4: And I hope will cherry passed all at some point.
Speaker 3: Well you will.
Speaker 2: It's easy for me to sit here and say that,
Speaker 2: but no, you will. It's going to take time and
Speaker 2: lessons learned. You know, every time something devastating happens, there
Speaker 2: are lessons in the story and.
Speaker 3: You don't see them immediately, and you shouldn't.
Speaker 2: Now is not the time to learn the lessons, and
Speaker 2: now this is the time to take action and help people.
Speaker 2: Right Like we've been talking about the Los Angeles Fire
Speaker 2: Department Foundation making sure that they're taking care of there's
Speaker 2: a whole list of a million people that are doing
Speaker 2: teams that need our help. And Jennifer love Hewett so
Speaker 2: great having you here.
Speaker 3: I know that. I'm sure. Well, I bet you've had
Speaker 3: a lot of alerts on your phone.
Speaker 2: You've never known a phone to have so many alerts
Speaker 2: in it until something like this happens.
Speaker 3: It's like it's like, shut up, just shut up. They're
Speaker 3: all very important.
Speaker 2: And Tommy, the fact that that you brought Jennifer to
Speaker 2: us today, we do appreciate that. And I will be
Speaker 2: nice to you for exactly two weeks.
Speaker 4: You're gonna miss you, You're gonna you're gonna miss the torture,
Speaker 4: You're gonna miss it.
Speaker 2: But is there any Jennifer, is there anything in closing
Speaker 2: that maybe we didn't cover that you want to say
Speaker 2: or other than what we talked about.
Speaker 4: No, I just wanted to say, you know, thank you,
Speaker 4: thank you to you, thank you to Tommy, thank you
Speaker 4: guys for you know, allowing me a minute to talk
Speaker 4: about kind of what this is, what this is. Then
Speaker 4: I do hope that people, you know, besides just us,
Speaker 4: there are so many amazing companies doing small things that
Speaker 4: you can purchase if you're not in LA, to support
Speaker 4: l A, to give back to people. If you are
Speaker 4: in l A, check all the WhatsApp chats. There are
Speaker 4: so many wols willing to help you with clothes and
Speaker 4: salons now are opening your doors to just like wash
Speaker 4: your hair and you know, take care of you and
Speaker 4: make you feel loved and cared for. So look for
Speaker 4: all of those check those things when they're sent to you,
Speaker 4: and yeah, you know, I just I just hope that
Speaker 4: we make it through these next couple of days of
Speaker 4: these crazy wings without any more big news. Honestly, there
Speaker 4: you go.
Speaker 2: You've had enough big news for a while, all right,
Speaker 2: Love Hewett of course, Tommy to Dario, thank you both
Speaker 2: so much. And if you choose to do so, you
Speaker 2: can probably put your head back on the pillow and
Speaker 2: try to get a moment of sleep. You probably deserve it,
Speaker 2: so try it out, you know.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Something tells me you're both up. But thank you, Tommy,
Speaker 2: Thank you, Tommy.
Speaker 3: Did you fall asleep? How dare you?
Speaker 4: I'm here, I'm here.
Speaker 1: I'm wiping my tears away because y'all are making me emotional.
Speaker 2: Oh Tommy, you had too much to drink last night,
Speaker 2: I can tell. But it's so good. I love you guys.
Speaker 2: And when when you're in New York next, Jennifer, please
Speaker 2: come buye it and say hi to us.
Speaker 4: Okay, Oh my gosh, I would love that. I promise
Speaker 4: I will thank you so much.
Speaker 3: You too, Tommy, even you. It's all right, Pop bye,
Speaker 3: Pop bye.
Speaker 2: All right, guys, thank you for being on the show today.
Speaker 2: It really changed. It changed everything. It's fantastic. Have a
Speaker 2: great day, good luck everyone, all right, love you old.
Speaker 3: Love you to by Bike.
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