Speaker 1: You're listening to I Choose Me with Jenny Girl. Hey, everyone,
Speaker 1: welcome to I Choose Me. Today.
Speaker 2: We've got a quick little holiday bonus inspired by Ross
Speaker 2: matthews hilarious book name Drop. So we've thought it would
Speaker 2: be fun to play our own fast, festive name drop
Speaker 2: game from childhood traditions to unforgettable celebrity moments and of
Speaker 2: course rossippies he swears by. Let's jump right in name
Speaker 2: drop fun. Okay, quick fire holiday bonus with Ross Matthewska,
Speaker 2: what is ready?
Speaker 1: Are you ready?
Speaker 3: I'm ready? Hello?
Speaker 2: Ho one holiday tradition you did as a kid that
Speaker 2: you've brought into your adult life.
Speaker 3: Go. That would be Nana's potatoes. And it was my
Speaker 3: favorite thing as a kid. Okay, it is so trashy
Speaker 3: and so delicious. Okay, ready, Obrian potatoes frogs. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: give you the recipe right now, and everyone, this is
Speaker 3: a roscipe. You guys, listen up, take notes. Okay, So
Speaker 3: one bag, frozen O'Brien potato hash brown things, the square
Speaker 3: ones got it square one's eye. And if you want
Speaker 3: to do the peppers and onion ones, do that? Go creasy?
Speaker 1: What about the shredded ones?
Speaker 3: You can do that. I don't care. Do it go nuts.
Speaker 3: I've made this, don't I've made it with the cauliflower before.
Speaker 3: You want to be healthier too, Oh so put that
Speaker 3: in a casserole dish. Then mix two cups of grated
Speaker 3: sharp shuddar cheese with like basically a bagg of cheddar
Speaker 3: cheese and a whole bagule bag essentially, and then a tuba.
Speaker 1: Wait, what's happening.
Speaker 3: It's like two cups of each, but essentially it works
Speaker 3: out to the like the tub of sour cream, the
Speaker 3: bag of cheddar cheese, two cups each. Mix it. It's
Speaker 3: calm down, I'm really it's good. It's near that sinning
Speaker 3: just hearing about it. Go ahead, you smear that on
Speaker 3: top of the frozen potatoes. Then are you ready for this?
Speaker 3: Two cups of corn flakes in a bowl mixed with
Speaker 3: like uh some melted butter, mix, mix mixics mix, Spread
Speaker 3: that on top of it, bake it in the oven
Speaker 3: three seventy five for like an hour, and you are welcome.
Speaker 3: I bring that everywhere, to every holiday. I bring that.
Speaker 3: It is the best thing ever. Good Lord, I want
Speaker 3: that in my mouth, in my belly, right okay, I'll
Speaker 3: make it for you if I'm ever with you on holiday.
Speaker 1: The corn flakes really sent me over the edge, though.
Speaker 2: Okay, on days like we're having right now in the
Speaker 2: holiday season, when calories don't count. What's your dream Starbucks order?
Speaker 3: Oh my god? So okay, oh god, get it, get
Speaker 3: it all that you want. Okay. I'm much more of
Speaker 3: a salty person than a sweet. But if I'm going
Speaker 3: to do it, I would do some sort of salted caramel,
Speaker 3: like I would do frozen. I like an ice beverage.
Speaker 3: I don't care. You know that movie Alive when it's
Speaker 3: like so cold they're eating each other. I'd still ask
Speaker 3: for a prappuccino there, Like I like a cold beverage,
Speaker 3: So I would. I would do some sort of salted
Speaker 3: caramel something, just where they do the kramel on the
Speaker 3: side of the cup on the inside so you see it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I would do that.
Speaker 1: Oh, and then you get to scrape the edges with
Speaker 1: the straw and get it all out.
Speaker 3: I would put it on the ground and lick it
Speaker 3: into a corner like a dog.
Speaker 2: Bold Oh, so you can really get some leverage. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I like that favorite teacher. What was it that they
Speaker 2: taught you or how do they make you feel?
Speaker 3: I had great teachers. Kathy Clark Smith was a She
Speaker 3: was actually a like a substitute teacher. She was like
Speaker 3: a student teacher, but later in life she went to
Speaker 3: school to become one. And she thought I was fabulous
Speaker 3: at a time when I could have easily gone the
Speaker 3: other way. And I remember like she would ask me
Speaker 3: my opinion on things, which I thought was interesting. And
Speaker 3: then when I was like the lead of the school play.
Speaker 3: Of course you probably know, there's still Tony buzz for
Speaker 3: my performance as Henry Higgins and my Fair Lady, and
Speaker 3: she showed up in a like a thrist store ball
Speaker 3: gown to watch me perform, and I just felt like
Speaker 3: I was the most popular boy in school.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's so special when someone sees you.
Speaker 3: Are you watching? Wait?
Speaker 2: Sorry, I'm totally going off, but are you watching the
Speaker 2: show where they don't see each other and then they
Speaker 2: get married?
Speaker 3: Was blind? Of course every episode?
Speaker 1: Okay, did you watch the end?
Speaker 3: Wait? Are you talking about Love is Blind? Or Married
Speaker 3: at First Sight?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Love is Blind? I like them both, But okay, I
Speaker 3: watch Love is Blind? Okay, do I see at the end? Continue?
Speaker 1: Did you see at the end Edwards Edwin. Edwin's teacher
Speaker 1: came back.
Speaker 3: That yeah, was the most the ways that she just
Speaker 3: like held him and reassured them that he was a
Speaker 3: worthy human.
Speaker 1: That was your Kathy Joan Smith.
Speaker 3: Is that her name? Kathy Clark Smith.
Speaker 1: Kathy Clark Smith. That was Kathy.
Speaker 3: By the way, I'm still Facebook friends with Kathy Clark
Speaker 3: Smith and she's doing great. She looks great.
Speaker 1: I love that for Kathy.
Speaker 3: Kathy.
Speaker 1: Good things happen to good people.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna send this to Kathy Clarkslyss She's going to
Speaker 3: be screaming.
Speaker 2: Okay, name drop a relative, grandparent, uncle, aunt, somebody in
Speaker 2: your family who has made a significant impact on your
Speaker 2: life and why.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'll pick my uncle John who he and my
Speaker 3: aunt Jill, So both of them, John and Jill were
Speaker 3: just here visiting. And when I was in high school,
Speaker 3: like later in high school and wanted to go to college,
Speaker 3: I mean, we had no money, and he bought me
Speaker 3: a ticket to go to a visit to the college,
Speaker 3: you know, to like go there and meet with them.
Speaker 3: And that's how I got all these scholarships. And it
Speaker 3: was because he bought me probably a two hundred dollar
Speaker 3: ticket from Seattle to la that that happened, and you
Speaker 3: think about like just a little gesture like that, and
Speaker 3: twohunjo is not nothing, but it's something we couldn't have afforded.
Speaker 3: And the fact that he did that and that twohund
Speaker 3: dollars impact in my life so much is I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's just indicative of how large even little impacts it
Speaker 3: little gestures can be on people's lives. So Uncle John
Speaker 3: and Antil, A lot.
Speaker 2: Of celebrities have come through your life, whether on red
Speaker 2: carpets or on the couch on the show. Who was
Speaker 2: one person that wore something so amazing that you've never
Speaker 2: forgotten it?
Speaker 3: Who wore something?
Speaker 1: Yes, who wore something that like you were like a gasp?
Speaker 3: I can you know? Miley Cyrus sat next to me.
Speaker 3: I love her. She sat next to me on drag
Speaker 3: Race And have you done You've done drag Race? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 3: So you know there it's like kind of a long day.
Speaker 3: You're there for maybe eight ten hours. It's just long,
Speaker 3: so you get to really converse. And she was wearing
Speaker 3: a dress that had it was made out of records
Speaker 3: and it would looked so imagine sitting in a dress
Speaker 3: made out of records for right, yeah, and it was
Speaker 3: so like and she was had to be so uncomfortable
Speaker 3: it's cold in there, and she just didn't complain. And
Speaker 3: I remember reading all the record it was made from
Speaker 3: real records, all the records that they were, and so
Speaker 3: I was like, one, it was Miley, and then two
Speaker 3: I wanted to look at the dress and read it,
Speaker 3: and I was concerned about her, but it almost looked
Speaker 3: like pervy that I was like looking so hard at her.
Speaker 3: So it was like this constant battle not to freak
Speaker 3: out Miley Cyrus. But on that show in particular, people
Speaker 3: wear looks that are instantly I from the queens to
Speaker 3: the guests, and so that I think that's one of them.
Speaker 3: It should be on the Smithsonian.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's got some crazy good style. Okay, it is
Speaker 2: the holidays. I need some I need one more recipe.
Speaker 2: I need a sweet one. Now.
Speaker 1: I know you like savory, but give me a sweet one.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, but it's still going to be salty. So okay, Okay,
Speaker 3: this is not it's a Rossby in essence about trying
Speaker 3: to crack the coat and make them healthy. This isn't healthy.
Speaker 3: So but I'm going to give you how raw seats dessert.
Speaker 3: There's this place called Quality Italian on fifty eighth and
Speaker 3: six that I love in New York. It's a great
Speaker 3: restaurant and they do this like as everyone else is
Speaker 3: getting cheesecake and all this stuff, They'll bring me just
Speaker 3: a scoop of really great vanilla ice cream drizzle with
Speaker 3: a little olive oil and then big chunky flakes of
Speaker 3: sea salt on top of it. That is per because
Speaker 3: it's not overly sweet. There's that you know, salt, What
Speaker 3: it does to a sweet thing. It's so good. That's
Speaker 3: what I would do.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I love salting sweet things.
Speaker 2: Ross.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Have you ever had watermelon with salt? Or like a
Speaker 2: blood orange with salt on it?
Speaker 3: That's how my dad used to eat it. He would
Speaker 3: cut it and have to just pour salt on it
Speaker 3: and then like scoop it out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, me too, It's weird.
Speaker 2: Do you ever dip a French friend in that ice
Speaker 2: cream with olive oil?
Speaker 3: Now there's a line, Jenny Garth, I'm not going to
Speaker 3: CRUs it. Okay, did you ever get a frosty? I
Speaker 3: understand it, Yes I have. I don't like that. I
Speaker 3: like fries and ketchup okay, or tartar sauce. I would do.
Speaker 3: I love a tartar sauce. That's an underrated You're.
Speaker 1: Really not a sweet guy.
Speaker 3: No, I mean you are a sweet eye.
Speaker 2: But yeah, what's one thing you learned from j leno?
Speaker 3: Oh, show up on time? Be nice. Everyone gets home
Speaker 3: to dinner on time. That's good professionalism. Perhaps exactly Okay,
Speaker 3: same question for Drew. That's one thing, if you could
Speaker 3: narrow it down to one thing. Drew teaches me so much.
Speaker 3: Drew's We're very different, very different. I'm much more I'm
Speaker 3: much more structured, I think, and or maybe I am.
Speaker 3: She's magic. She talks about the camera. She literally calls
Speaker 3: the camera a butterfly net that captures life's moments. That's
Speaker 3: how she thinks of like a film camera or the
Speaker 3: camera in the studio, and that's how she approaches the show.
Speaker 3: If you think about it, when you were shooting the show,
Speaker 3: she doesn't know where camera one is or camera two,
Speaker 3: and she doesn't care. I know where camera one is
Speaker 3: and camera two is and what camera I'm on and
Speaker 3: who's cutting to next, Like I'm very hyper aware of
Speaker 3: that stuff, and she just wants this authentic thing that's captured,
Speaker 3: and that's her approach to everything. There's nothing that's not authentic.
Speaker 3: I could fake it. I can like smile through some
Speaker 3: pain and get to commercial break and then go cry
Speaker 3: in a corner and come back and get back to work.
Speaker 3: She's not that, and I'm so envious of that, Like,
Speaker 3: why do I put that pressure on myself that I
Speaker 3: have to be that when what really people are seeking
Speaker 3: out is authenticity and Drew is is just authentic through
Speaker 3: and through, and that is not only something I envy,
Speaker 3: but something I am working to emulate.
Speaker 1: Okay, what is.
Speaker 2: One funny on air red carpet oopsies that you can
Speaker 2: laugh about? Now?
Speaker 3: Oh, I called Dame Elizabeth t Taylor day Medna once
Speaker 3: on accident. Oh no, they told me to call her
Speaker 3: Dame Elizabeth, and I was in my head, I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: like day Medna. And then I walked in and there
Speaker 3: was a dog barking, and I didn't know I was
Speaker 3: going to interview her. There's like thirty seconds I had
Speaker 3: to prep you know, like literally, they said, oh, come here,
Speaker 3: Elizabeth Taylor, and I told you I wouldn't be interviewing her,
Speaker 3: which made more sense like I shouldn't. And then they said,
Speaker 3: like Dame Elizabeth, like Dame Edna. So I walked in,
Speaker 3: she was like not what I sured? It was different,
Speaker 3: and it just came I go, Dame Edna, it's a
Speaker 3: bit Taylor like that.
Speaker 1: Did she notice?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, we all did. And then what I love
Speaker 3: about myself is that rather than like edit that out
Speaker 3: for the tonight show, I aired it, paused it and
Speaker 3: did a voice or that said I just called her
Speaker 3: Dame Edna. Listened back, and then we played it back
Speaker 3: in slow motion so good, just to embarrass myself further,
Speaker 3: but you know it, Dame ed No that I wish
Speaker 3: I could have met her now because she loved gay men.
Speaker 3: I know a lot of men who like Martin Lawrence
Speaker 3: Billard is a friend of mine. He's this brilliant designer
Speaker 3: and he knew her and like would hang like they
Speaker 3: knew each other, and she was fabulous, And I just
Speaker 3: feel like I would have loved her and she would
Speaker 3: have loved me for reals if I could have been
Speaker 3: my real self.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, okay named her up eminems are skittles, yes, okay, good, good,
Speaker 2: that's it. You've passed all the name drop tests.
Speaker 3: Well, I had to taste the rainbow at the end,
Speaker 3: you know. Thank you for saving that for me.
Speaker 1: You're welcome. I love you so much.
Speaker 2: Happy Holidays to you and your fam and Audrey you too.
Speaker 3: I've been looking forward to this, you know, for for
Speaker 3: a long time, and thank you for being just exactly
Speaker 3: and even better than what I pictured.
Speaker 1: Thank you, I love you.
Speaker 2: I love you too.
Speaker 1: Bye.