Speaker 1: I get to turn the tables on today's podcast Gas
Speaker 1: because usually when I'm in a room with this woman,
Speaker 1: she is the one doing the interview, asking the questions.
Speaker 1: She is a four time Emmy Award winner and a
Speaker 1: former co host of not one, but two of America's
Speaker 1: most beloved morning shows. She sat next to Regis Philbin
Speaker 1: for fifteen years, then Hoda for eleven before stepping down
Speaker 1: last year to pursue other opportunities. In she was inducted
Speaker 1: into the Broadcast and Cable Hall of Fame, and she's
Speaker 1: recently been chosen to receive a star on the Hollywood
Speaker 1: Walk of Fame. She's a book author, she's a playwright,
Speaker 1: she's a producer, a singer, a songstress, an actress. She
Speaker 1: has her own record label, and she's written several musicals,
Speaker 1: including Broadways Scandalous that got a Tony nomination. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: I could go on and on and on about today's
Speaker 1: guest and her list of impressive accomplishments, but if I
Speaker 1: tried to cover them all, there wouldn't be time for
Speaker 1: this interview. This podcast Love Someone with the Lila's guest today,
Speaker 1: as of course, Kathy Lee Gifford. She is the star
Speaker 1: of the hour. Today, she's popping in to talk with
Speaker 1: us about her new movie, A delightful rom com. I
Speaker 1: got to watch it. It's called Then Came You. We'll
Speaker 1: be back to get the full scoop right after I
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Speaker 1: Kathie Lee, how are you? I am wonderful? Let's talk
Speaker 1: about this new movie, because when I got off the
Speaker 1: air last night, I gave myself a present and I
Speaker 1: watched they sent me a sneak peek of then came you,
Speaker 1: and I was laughing. I was emotional. I was I
Speaker 1: was blessed, and I thought, oh my god, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I get to talk to this lady and like find
Speaker 1: out more about this. But you co wrote the songs
Speaker 1: the soundtrack, yep. I I co wrote the songs, I
Speaker 1: wrote the screenplays and produced it. And I star opposite
Speaker 1: my dear, dear friend Craig Ferguson, whom I actually wrote
Speaker 1: it for. He had co hosted with me on the
Speaker 1: Today Show and we had had a blast together, and
Speaker 1: he said, you know, if we wait for our agents
Speaker 1: to get us another job in television, we're in diet razing.
Speaker 1: He said, God, let's just write a I write a
Speaker 1: movie together, and he left for home and I went
Speaker 1: to bed that night, and right on time, two o'clock
Speaker 1: in the morning, bing, I wake up and I knew
Speaker 1: what the movie should be, Delilah. I just knew it.
Speaker 1: I knew it should be Annabel her name Annabelle Wilson.
Speaker 1: He should be Howard Odds, and I knew how I
Speaker 1: could get her to Scotland, and I just I just
Speaker 1: let my imagination run wild and I had a ball
Speaker 1: writing it. Called him that day and said, you remember
Speaker 1: that movie. I think I just wrote it because Scott
Speaker 1: I haven't even been home a day so anyways, uh,
Speaker 1: but I sent him the six scenes that I had
Speaker 1: written and he said, this is your baby. I standard
Speaker 1: lady deserves. So we had a ball in the highlands
Speaker 1: of Scotland. We had so many labs. This movie is
Speaker 1: basically a romantic comedy for people who think that romances
Speaker 1: in their rear view mirror. You know, they're never going
Speaker 1: to have a romance again, they're never gonna love again.
Speaker 1: That that's over and nothing's very funny anymore either. And
Speaker 1: there are millions of people in the world like that.
Speaker 1: Many of them listen to you, Delilah. They listen to
Speaker 1: you and love you because you bring hope to them
Speaker 1: in the songs that you play. So this this brings
Speaker 1: up my first question in the movie, then can you
Speaker 1: you play opposite this gorgeous, funny, oozing, sexy character. Yes,
Speaker 1: Mr Odds. And in the movie, Cathy, you try to feign,
Speaker 1: you try to act like he discussed you. He annoys you,
Speaker 1: he ticks you off, he shuts the radio off. But
Speaker 1: I wasn't buying that because there was so much chemistry
Speaker 1: between you two. Oh my god, we have had that
Speaker 1: since the day we met years ago. And nobody understands
Speaker 1: it better and and loves it more than his wife, Megan,
Speaker 1: who she read the script and finally finished it and
Speaker 1: I sent it off to Craig. She read it first
Speaker 1: and she said, Craig, you have got to make this movie. Boy,
Speaker 1: does Kathy have you down? So it was totally with
Speaker 1: her blessing, And yeah, we have chemical reaction to one another.
Speaker 1: It's obvious on screen. And I didn't I didn't mean
Speaker 1: to imply chemistry as in, um, you know that the
Speaker 1: love scenes were real. I meant to imply that there
Speaker 1: is such an energy that is between you two. It's
Speaker 1: palpable on screen. It's it's palpable. We've always said if
Speaker 1: things had gone differently in our lives that we would
Speaker 1: have ended up together, we might have killed each other.
Speaker 1: But it's there. It's there. So that's what to do
Speaker 1: in a movie. You harness it, you know, in a
Speaker 1: way that brings it, brings it to life. Without you know,
Speaker 1: hurting each other's personal lives. You know, I mean, I
Speaker 1: adore his wife and you know, I've spent a weekend
Speaker 1: at their house with them and their little boy out
Speaker 1: in the Scottish countryside, and you know, no, he's a
Speaker 1: really really cherished friend to me, one of the most
Speaker 1: brilliant people. And isn't he in a great dramatic actor too.
Speaker 1: He played his role brilliantly, like he came across as
Speaker 1: this jerky and a caustic guy. But then when he
Speaker 1: let the walls down in the scene where you you
Speaker 1: wrote it for him, where he let the walls down,
Speaker 1: it was so subtly believable. Yes, very very very beautiful.
Speaker 1: He wounded too, but we all deal with our woundedness
Speaker 1: in different ways. Annabelle has found an actual physical way
Speaker 1: for her degree by taking her husband's ashes on this journey.
Speaker 1: He in aach box and it's I'm going to ruin
Speaker 1: a part of it there, and in a chocolate box.
Speaker 1: You know what it's in. It's in the trailer. So
Speaker 1: they give half the movie away these days and trailers,
Speaker 1: but it does get people, you know, sort of excited
Speaker 1: about the movie. And that's what happened with that trailer.
Speaker 1: They did a brilliant trailer on it, and there's tons
Speaker 1: more in the movie as well too. But it's a
Speaker 1: story of two very unlikely people, um dealing with their
Speaker 1: own grief and their own needs in different ways, but
Speaker 1: discovering that you know, you don't go out. She's got
Speaker 1: out looking for love. She isn't, She's just her husband's
Speaker 1: been gone for a year. She's she's just doing first
Speaker 1: of all, what he said to do with his ashes,
Speaker 1: that was part of his will, and the rest of it.
Speaker 1: She figures out a way to also try to make
Speaker 1: her long lost dreams come true. And I think, Delilah,
Speaker 1: you and I are blessed. You and I've had big lives,
Speaker 1: big careers, big families. You more than me. You know,
Speaker 1: we've got a lot more kids than I do. But many,
Speaker 1: many women, I think, have settled in their life, not
Speaker 1: because they chose to or wanted to. Many of them
Speaker 1: had to because of different circumstances. But Annabelle is like
Speaker 1: so many women who never got to see the world
Speaker 1: the way she wants to dreams. She could never had
Speaker 1: her dreams of being an actress and a singer fulfilled
Speaker 1: and This movie is the first of five about these
Speaker 1: characters that I want to shoot and and and she
Speaker 1: discovers even in her later life, that she has gifts
Speaker 1: she didn't even know she had, and we see those
Speaker 1: dreams come to pass as Annabelle's journey continues, and each
Speaker 1: movie takes place in a different place as she follows
Speaker 1: along with the lists that she brings with her to Scotland.
Speaker 1: So Craig's on board for all the the Shenanigans of
Speaker 1: boards on board. I don't think that Elizabeth Hurley will
Speaker 1: be because I sort of got rid of her. Boy,
Speaker 1: wasn't that a fun scene The minute she's the minute
Speaker 1: she said that's not the tent I ordered. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: let's just get rid of this little gorgeous thing. But
Speaker 1: didn't see every woman's worst nightmare. The man you are
Speaker 1: falling for is engaged to her Elizabeth early And I'm
Speaker 1: in that outfit when I've been fixing the furnace or
Speaker 1: something and I look like crap, and I have to
Speaker 1: meet her, and I'm going, I hope when you see me,
Speaker 1: take the scrunch sheet out of my hair and just
Speaker 1: try to make myself halfway pretty and sitting there looking
Speaker 1: at Elizabeth Hurley, who is impossibly beautiful and of sweet
Speaker 1: girl too. I've known her a long long time, reached.
Speaker 1: I wrote that for her too, And one day she
Speaker 1: was at the Today Show and I said, after we
Speaker 1: finished the segment, I said, can I talk to you
Speaker 1: for a moment my dressing room? So she went into
Speaker 1: my dressing room with her. I said, listen, maybe this
Speaker 1: is unprofessional, but I forgive me. I said, Elizabeth, I've
Speaker 1: just written a screenplay for my friend, Craig Ferguson says, Oh,
Speaker 1: I love Craig all He's an absolute doll. Yes, she
Speaker 1: I said, I wrote a part for you in it,
Speaker 1: and it would just mean the world to me if
Speaker 1: you if you'd read the scriptures, well let me have it, dolling.
Speaker 1: I'll read it on the plane on the way home,
Speaker 1: you know. So she took the script, read it on
Speaker 1: the plane. Her agent called and said she'd love to
Speaker 1: do it if we can fit it into her schedule.
Speaker 1: So this was meant to happen, this movie, and I
Speaker 1: think it's the timing of it's perfect, don't you, Delilah.
Speaker 1: People there are needing escape. They wanted to kick it
Speaker 1: on a plane and fly anywhere, and now they get
Speaker 1: to get on a plane with Annabelle and go to Scotland.
Speaker 1: Well after, after I watched it last night, I did
Speaker 1: go online to see you know what the travel restrictions are, because,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, it's so beautiful where you filmed it.
Speaker 1: It's in the Highlands, just west of Glasgow and Scotland.
Speaker 1: I've been to Scotland many times and always loved it.
Speaker 1: But then when we decided to do the movie together
Speaker 1: with Craig, I knew that I've had to write a
Speaker 1: story set there. And annabel has only seen the world
Speaker 1: through movies. So there are a lot of people like that.
Speaker 1: And people have places on their bucket list before they die,
Speaker 1: and you put Scotland on my bucket list with this movie.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad. And the Scottish people are so lovely.
Speaker 1: They're so funny, very cleverly written, very good. Thank you.
Speaker 1: That means a lot to me. Well again, the soundtrack
Speaker 1: is something that is also a star of the movie.
Speaker 1: The music really is another star in the film because
Speaker 1: it's uh and you don't get to hear all the
Speaker 1: lyrics of it and everything except if you get the soundtrack.
Speaker 1: And our friends Salo Lavery also wrote this underscore with
Speaker 1: breat Somebody said to me the other day that some
Speaker 1: critics said, you know what, it's a beautiful film because
Speaker 1: it's it's a jolly rump and I went, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: that's what I wanted to be, and I want to
Speaker 1: surprise people with it. There are twenty three different places
Speaker 1: where it takes a turn that you don't see it coming.
Speaker 1: And those are my favorite kinds of movies. You know,
Speaker 1: one of my favorite rom coms is Love Actually and
Speaker 1: I Love It's Complicated. Those are the movies that I
Speaker 1: enjoy watching because they're they're they're for adults. It's, you know,
Speaker 1: there for for mature people who've been through life and
Speaker 1: they've got a lot of baggage. Now their baggage maybe
Speaker 1: Louis Witamp, but they still got baggage. And I find
Speaker 1: that sort of entertainments so much more interesting. I don't
Speaker 1: want to see things blow up anymore. I never did.
Speaker 1: I don't want to see gratuitous sex or gratuitous violence.
Speaker 1: I just can we please just go someplace beautiful and
Speaker 1: watch life unfurl for two people who who think life
Speaker 1: is basically over for them, it's not. It's not. If
Speaker 1: you got a pulse, you've still got a purpose. And
Speaker 1: I have that. Every morning I take an emotional pulse
Speaker 1: rate and if I'm still here, it means God's not
Speaker 1: finished with me yet. I have so much work to
Speaker 1: do and that I'm just loving and excite it every
Speaker 1: day about what's new. And finally this movie's out. It's
Speaker 1: on demand now on any service that you can rent films,
Speaker 1: and I just can't wait to hear if people are
Speaker 1: tapping their toes to the music we wrote and and
Speaker 1: laughing in the right places and crying in the right places.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for watching it, Deliland, and for loving
Speaker 1: if that means the world to me. I'm not done
Speaker 1: talking about it yet. Because the character of Craig Ferguson's
Speaker 1: Howard Odds best friend. Yes, Gavin, he was very funny,
Speaker 1: but he was he was perfect. He was perfect in
Speaker 1: honesty and I don't ever not speaking honestly, but I
Speaker 1: did write that role originally for Ricky Gervais. Oh that
Speaker 1: would have been good too, yeah yeah, And and Ricky
Speaker 1: loved the script but he said, hell yeah, I just
Speaker 1: find with Netflix and I can't And I said, okay,
Speaker 1: so um, They said, do you know who Ford Karenan
Speaker 1: is And I said, no, is that he's a number
Speaker 1: one comedic actor in the entire UK. Said let's get him.
Speaker 1: He was so brilliant. And when he had the talk
Speaker 1: with you with your character Annabelle about his best friend, yes,
Speaker 1: that's where I was crying. I wasn't crying at the
Speaker 1: other you know parts that I think some people, especially
Speaker 1: if you've lost your partner, would cry at. I was
Speaker 1: crying there because I have that best friend. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: that would move heaven and earth for me. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: and thank god, boy did that come across beautifully. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: he and Craig were friends before, they had worked together before.
Speaker 1: So Craig was thrilled when we got Forward and we
Speaker 1: only I had written a small role because originally I
Speaker 1: thought it was going to be Ricky and I knew
Speaker 1: we'd probably only get him for a day or two.
Speaker 1: But once we started working, and this is the beauty
Speaker 1: of an independent film. Once we started working, I said,
Speaker 1: can Forward, Can you work next week? Because I have
Speaker 1: this idea for a scene for you and can. He
Speaker 1: ended up being in about, you know, ten more scenes
Speaker 1: than I than I originally anticipated, and he's agreed to
Speaker 1: go forward with them as we as we keep writing.
Speaker 1: But uh. And then the original title of the movie
Speaker 1: was called Loved Me to Death. And then I was
Speaker 1: on a two weeks before we wrapped, I was on
Speaker 1: a big five hour long hike in the Highlands. My
Speaker 1: one and only day off every week was on a Sunday,
Speaker 1: and I had to clear my head and take these
Speaker 1: long walks. And I felt the Lord saying so clearly
Speaker 1: to m Cathy, go back, take your pad and your
Speaker 1: pen I have a present for you. So I went
Speaker 1: home and walked home, got up to that spot which
Speaker 1: you will see at the end of our movie, and
Speaker 1: and the lyrics to then came you, came to me,
Speaker 1: then came you, then came you. So I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1: I climbed down those steps, called Brett James and said, Brett,
Speaker 1: I'm going to change the end of the movie, and
Speaker 1: I I'm gonna change the title. And we were able
Speaker 1: to change that ending completely two weeks before we even
Speaker 1: wrapped the film. Brett added a melody to the lyrics
Speaker 1: that I had written. He sent them off to me,
Speaker 1: and that's him singing it in the movie. And uh,
Speaker 1: that's him also in the in the pub singing with
Speaker 1: Me Whiskey and Wine, which is our next single, Bring
Speaker 1: the Whiskey, Bring the Wine. I mean, it's just a fun, fun,
Speaker 1: fun musical romp too. And so he is not an actor,
Speaker 1: but I think he did just great. He did awesome.
Speaker 1: And you guys played off each other so well. But
Speaker 1: when you when you were doing the bubble bath scene, girlfriend, dang,
Speaker 1: you naked. God has blessed you. God has blessed you.
Speaker 1: You look as beautiful as you ever have, Oh sweetie.
Speaker 1: So I know a theme in the movie is, you know,
Speaker 1: when we have to come to grips with the fact
Speaker 1: that we're not sixteen anymore, um, and that and you
Speaker 1: you work that in very very subtly. You know when
Speaker 1: you said, what are you checking? Are you checking my age?
Speaker 1: You're checking my age? You're checking my age? And you
Speaker 1: know it was subtle. But but for those of us
Speaker 1: that have to look in the mirror and see our
Speaker 1: mother looking back at us, it's very real. And that
Speaker 1: is a morning process that we have to go through
Speaker 1: that we're not sixteen. But let me tell you, there
Speaker 1: are a few scenes in this movie where I was like, dang,
Speaker 1: I I gotta, I gotta kick it back into the gym,
Speaker 1: because if she could look that hot in a bathtub,
Speaker 1: I got a little work to do here. We thank
Speaker 1: you well. I I really got in shape for that movie.
Speaker 1: I lost a lot of weight for it because she's
Speaker 1: a runner, and the originally in the script she was
Speaker 1: she ran, she talked about running and what it did?
Speaker 1: You know? So much has to be lost in the
Speaker 1: editing process. But it'll all if I get a chance
Speaker 1: to do the next four films, it'll all come out. Um. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The clothes are also a star of this film. My
Speaker 1: friend Michael Hurd's uh British, delightful designer. Every outfit is
Speaker 1: made in the UK, one one country or another, so
Speaker 1: it's all very organic and authentic to to the United Kingdom.
Speaker 1: And I don't think I could fit in one outfit
Speaker 1: at this point. I really maybe my shoes, but that's it.
Speaker 1: You were, you were beautiful. And the costumes, I gotta
Speaker 1: say though, the one you wore to the when you
Speaker 1: went out to the pub when you sang um, whiskey
Speaker 1: and wine, that was my favorite of them all. Everybody
Speaker 1: has a different favorite. Yeah. I love that one too,
Speaker 1: Um yeah, oh gosh, God, when he told you to
Speaker 1: go change your clothes, if he was gonna take you
Speaker 1: of fishing, I was howling because it looks like a
Speaker 1: tin something. I forget what he says, a plaids plaid
Speaker 1: tin or something? Yes, yeah, cookie tin something. She was
Speaker 1: living out her dreams. And you notice in the movie
Speaker 1: she he says, what are you checking? Checking movie times?
Speaker 1: And I go, no, lifetimes. I've got to get to
Speaker 1: a Roman holiday. And he says, what are you gonna
Speaker 1: where they're at toga? And I go maybe so um, yes,
Speaker 1: I with a great director. Adriana Trigiana has been a
Speaker 1: friend of mine for many, many years, and she hasn't
Speaker 1: She's a novelist. Just check out her like she's got
Speaker 1: like twenty novels and her she's loved details. She's a
Speaker 1: really huge fan of movies anyway. This movie is our movies,
Speaker 1: like an homage to the screwball comedies of the fifties,
Speaker 1: like the Pillow Talk with Doris Day and Rock Hudson
Speaker 1: kind of movies. But even back thirties and forties. She's
Speaker 1: a real connoisseur of those kinds of films, and she
Speaker 1: brought that kind of a directorial sense to the film
Speaker 1: as well. Um, so you know it takes everybody to
Speaker 1: bring a movie like this to the four And yeah,
Speaker 1: the fact that it's now out, Delilah is it's kind
Speaker 1: of surreal to me. All I ever wanted to be
Speaker 1: when I was growing up was to be in the movies.
Speaker 1: I wanted to be Hayley Mills or a net Punicello.
Speaker 1: You know, I wanted to sing. And the very first
Speaker 1: movie I ever really did see in life in the
Speaker 1: theater was his Family Robinson, So that part was true
Speaker 1: in the film as well. So there are lots of
Speaker 1: little things that I brought from my life. But Annabelle
Speaker 1: uh is very, very different from the person that I am.
Speaker 1: But you know what, I loved playing her so much
Speaker 1: because there's an innocence about Annabelle that I lost a
Speaker 1: long long time ago. Fifty years. In this business, you
Speaker 1: lose a bit of innocence, and she's fun to play
Speaker 1: in that regard. And I can go back to my
Speaker 1: my other self years and years ago, and I just
Speaker 1: you know, I thought the world was just beautiful everywhere,
Speaker 1: and people were all nice, and everybody had two parents
Speaker 1: who loved each other. You know that leave it to
Speaker 1: beaver kind of world that I grew up in. Okay,
Speaker 1: So a personal question, and you don't have to answer
Speaker 1: this if you don't want to. But the character Annabelle
Speaker 1: was in the beginning grief stages, the first year of
Speaker 1: losing her husband, and I remember, I saw you less
Speaker 1: than a year after you lost your husband, right, how
Speaker 1: much of that real grief? Because one of the beautiful
Speaker 1: things about this movie is the characters are multidimensional. Because
Speaker 1: my mom gave up all of her dreams for my dad,
Speaker 1: but they had a very contentious, bitter marriage. They didn't
Speaker 1: it didn't divorce right before both of them died. It's
Speaker 1: like they couldn't live with each other and they couldn't
Speaker 1: live without each other. But one of the beautiful things
Speaker 1: that I really appreciated was that, yes, she gave up
Speaker 1: her dreams to be married and to live in Nantucket,
Speaker 1: but there didn't seem to be any bitterness or um resentment.
Speaker 1: You could tell she truly loved her husband and missed him.
Speaker 1: How much of Kathy Lee and your grief missing your
Speaker 1: hobby was written in that. You know, people are asking
Speaker 1: me that because it's a it's a very fair question,
Speaker 1: and and and and the nastural one. But the truth
Speaker 1: is that I didn't. I wasn't really aware. I wasn't
Speaker 1: consciously aware that I was dealing with grief. I started
Speaker 1: writing it at two years after Frank had passed. I knew,
Speaker 1: I knew the grief of widow dim So you're right
Speaker 1: what you know, um, But they remember the scene with
Speaker 1: the first night she gets to the in and she's
Speaker 1: by the fire with the dog in her room. Unfortunately
Speaker 1: we had to cut a lot of that scene because
Speaker 1: of time. But you see her take her wedding ring
Speaker 1: off her left finger and put it on a chain,
Speaker 1: and that's I didn't put mine on a chain, but
Speaker 1: I wore my wedding ring for a year, and then
Speaker 1: on the first hand of her her Frank's passing, I
Speaker 1: moved it to my right hand. And then just a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago when I moved to Nashville, because
Speaker 1: there's a song in the movie called New Everything, and
Speaker 1: I just thought, no, I'm starting You know the line
Speaker 1: in the movie that says, I gotta make new memories
Speaker 1: of the old ones are going to kill me. I
Speaker 1: took off my wedding ring off my right hand as well,
Speaker 1: and put it on my daughter's charm bracelet that I've
Speaker 1: been keeping for her since she was born, and those
Speaker 1: are just sort of milestone moments, so I was trying
Speaker 1: to do that in the movie. It doesn't make as
Speaker 1: much sense now that we've edited it the way it is,
Speaker 1: but you can tell she's grieving and she's got the
Speaker 1: ring in her hand. That's what she was doing, was
Speaker 1: changing it over, which was is a signal that, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm ready for the next step. I have a girlfriend
Speaker 1: named Kimmy who started out as my housekeeper and then
Speaker 1: became my nanny and now she just my best friend.
Speaker 1: And she lost her husband on my birthday sadly um
Speaker 1: ten years ago, and she has never never taken the
Speaker 1: ring off or moved it. And somebody asked her one day.
Speaker 1: I was kind of eavesdropping. They said, do you everything
Speaker 1: you'll date again, and she looks shocked. She said, why
Speaker 1: would I do that. I'm still married. Oh wow, And
Speaker 1: she says, my husband's waiting for me. Oh, and she
Speaker 1: is completely content. Mm hmm. He's the only boy she
Speaker 1: ever kissed, the only man she ever loved. And she's like,
Speaker 1: I don't have any interest in trying to fit my
Speaker 1: life in with someone else's again. You know, I understand
Speaker 1: both things. I understand you know, so many I've been
Speaker 1: out on a few days since in the last year,
Speaker 1: and they're all wonderful guys, really sweet guys. But they're
Speaker 1: either overwhelmed and by my personality the bigness of my life,
Speaker 1: or they're overwhelmed by the fact that I was married
Speaker 1: to Frank for almost thirty years. You know, Frank Gifford
Speaker 1: is in eight Halls of Fame, and there they sort
Speaker 1: of say to themselves, Wow, you know, I can't be
Speaker 1: Frank Gifford. She was married one of the greatest guys
Speaker 1: they who ever lived, and I don't expect anybody to
Speaker 1: be Frank. But it's so funny, Delilah. The guys that
Speaker 1: I did I want to date, it's like four they
Speaker 1: either wanna run for the hills because I scared them
Speaker 1: to death, or they want to get married within two weeks.
Speaker 1: And and it's just you know, somewhere, maybe there's a
Speaker 1: guy somewhere that you know is writing right down the
Speaker 1: middle a little bit, you know, you know, when I
Speaker 1: quit looking, when I made up my mind that I
Speaker 1: was you know, I had at the time eight kids.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what guy is gonna want to date a
Speaker 1: woman that's got eight kids? Um, and I really, you know, said, okay, God,
Speaker 1: if if it's going to be you and me for
Speaker 1: the rest of my life, I'm okay with that. Literally, yes,
Speaker 1: I feel that way too. And my life is so busy.
Speaker 1: I'm writing these oratorios, I'm directing now. Hopefully I'll start
Speaker 1: writing these new films, maybe direct one of those. Well,
Speaker 1: you have to you have to write them now, because
Speaker 1: you've told me you've got a whole series coming, so
Speaker 1: you you can't get out of this. No, I've written.
Speaker 1: I've just heard from our main producer this morning and
Speaker 1: he just texted me said, I listen, I met what
Speaker 1: I said, Let's do all five of these. So um,
Speaker 1: I'm excited about that. But I'm I'm just with the
Speaker 1: same with you. If this, if God has it for me,
Speaker 1: then I'm not going to go out looking for it.
Speaker 1: One of my favorites. I love all the music in
Speaker 1: the movie, but the song once again has a lyric
Speaker 1: and and and when Brett saw the lyric, that's when
Speaker 1: he first decided to be to write with me for
Speaker 1: the movie. He goes, oh, I love these lyrics. Took
Speaker 1: a look at the lyrics for the song called Once Again,
Speaker 1: and the lyric goes, you don't find love, Love finds
Speaker 1: you in the midst of a moment, right out of
Speaker 1: the blue. It sneaks up on your heart, hardly making
Speaker 1: a sound, till all of a suddenly find you've been found.
Speaker 1: That's a great lyric, straight from heaven. And I'm not
Speaker 1: looking for it, you know, but if God brings it,
Speaker 1: I will be deeply grateful for it. I was just
Speaker 1: going to say. My prayer for you is that if
Speaker 1: it is the Lord's will, that you would discover that
Speaker 1: you have been found by a man that God has
Speaker 1: ordained for you, who will love all of you, who
Speaker 1: won't be intimidated. Though you're small, you have more personality
Speaker 1: in your little finger than most people have in their
Speaker 1: whole body. And to most people that could be intimidating.
Speaker 1: But to the man that if God is going to
Speaker 1: bring him, he will cherish every bit of you and you.
Speaker 1: I mean that. I mean that, and like the cat
Speaker 1: and the dog analogy, be just a little bit um,
Speaker 1: a little bit playful in that you have to reach
Speaker 1: for him. Yeah, yeah, I I'm open to it. Believe me.
Speaker 1: And in fact, a friend of mine was asking me
Speaker 1: right after Frank had passed. He said, I guess Frank
Speaker 1: was the love of your life. Huh? And I said
Speaker 1: so far. Even then, I said so far because I
Speaker 1: was I'm open to love. I don't want to closed heart.
Speaker 1: And he said I've never had a love like that,
Speaker 1: and I said, not yet. You'll know when you're ready.
Speaker 1: You'll know when you're ready. And so I incorporate everything
Speaker 1: that I go through in life and everything I experienced
Speaker 1: into whatever I write. And this was especially fun to
Speaker 1: write because I wasn't um beholden to a real to
Speaker 1: two real people that I wanted to be faithful to,
Speaker 1: their their legacy, their their memory. So this was the
Speaker 1: first time I could just let my imagination go crazy.
Speaker 1: You know. Um. Yeah, I was so good to talk
Speaker 1: to you. See. I love talking to you, and through
Speaker 1: all these years, you are sort of my my steady eddie.
Speaker 1: You know that's because because God has us on different paths,
Speaker 1: but the same path, you're walking each other home. Well,
Speaker 1: bless you, my sister, have the same prayer for your life,
Speaker 1: and I just ask God to bless you richly and
Speaker 1: continue to give you that soothing, loving, comforting voice you
Speaker 1: have from millions. You bring great joy to people and
Speaker 1: great comfort, and you just keep doing what He's chosen
Speaker 1: you to do, sweet as beautifully as you do. And
Speaker 1: thanks again for having me on. I love you all right,
Speaker 1: Thank you, honey, Lord bless you you take care. Bye
Speaker 1: bye bye bye. I'm so glad we got to spend
Speaker 1: this time together today and catch up on all things.
Speaker 1: If I know Kathie Lee, she's got so many irons
Speaker 1: in the fire. I know she's working on like sequels too.
Speaker 1: Then came You, and then I'll get to invite her
Speaker 1: back again to tell us all about whatever is going
Speaker 1: on when the time is right. Reserve sometime soon for
Speaker 1: this up coming romantic comedy. It's got beautiful scenery. I
Speaker 1: mean beautiful scenery. Uh, it's got an award winning cast.
Speaker 1: Then came You, available on demand since October two. I
Speaker 1: didn't have time to talk about it in this interview.
Speaker 1: But I also encourage you to pick up a copy
Speaker 1: of the beautiful little book Kathy Lee has just written,
Speaker 1: called Hello, Little Dreamer. Get one for every child on
Speaker 1: your holiday gift giving list, because the gift you'll be
Speaker 1: giving is that of encouragement to follow their dreams. And
Speaker 1: if you're having a tough day, a bad day, a
Speaker 1: down moment, try this little trick. Go do something for
Speaker 1: someone else, Go do something from your heart without expecting
Speaker 1: anything in return. Will be back with another episode of
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