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Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, it's Sophia. Welcome to work in progress. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to this week's work in progress. Friends, I am

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Speaker 1: sitting down with someone I love to watch and that

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Speaker 1: I love to act with. This week's guest is none

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Speaker 1: other than the iconic Kelly Giddish. She has spent over

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Speaker 1: a decade inhabiting one of television's most complex and quietly

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Speaker 1: evolving characters on Lawn Order SVU. Kelly brings a depth

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Speaker 1: and grit and vulnerability and kindness to Amanda Rollins in

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Speaker 1: ways that have resonated so far beyond the screen and

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Speaker 1: off screen. I've been lucky enough to spend some wonderful

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Speaker 1: time with her, and let me tell you something, there

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Speaker 1: is nobody cooler to grab a burger and a beer

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Speaker 1: with than miss Kelly Giddish. Her journey has been shaped

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Speaker 1: by her early ambition in the South and the grind

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Speaker 1: of New York theater and moments of uncertainty that tested

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Speaker 1: her resolve, And in this conversation, I was just so

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Speaker 1: inspired to hear about the turning points that have defined

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Speaker 1: her path and who she's found in herself in the

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Speaker 1: quiet moments. Kelly has really mastered the art of giving

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Speaker 1: work her all stepping away to take really considered time

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Speaker 1: for herself and then diving right back in with her

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Speaker 1: full heart. Let's figure out how she's figured that out.

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Speaker 2: Let's dive in with Kelly Kiddish.

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Speaker 1: Well, gosh, hi, my dear, it's so nice to have

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Speaker 1: you here today.

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Speaker 3: Nice to be here.

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Speaker 1: I've just missed you. I can't believe how long it's been.

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Speaker 3: I know, I know, I am. It's I think about

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Speaker 3: I don't know how many times I came over and

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Speaker 3: get to play on Chicago p d's set when you

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Speaker 3: were when you were there, but they were so memorable

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Speaker 3: those times, and like you you showed me Chicago and

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Speaker 3: the places to eat yeah in a Chibal I don't

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Speaker 3: know if you remember. And now they did want here

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Speaker 3: and that's like the only place my husband and I

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Speaker 3: go out to eat here is abal here. And it's

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Speaker 3: I'm like, well, we can thank Sophia Bush for this time. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's been a long time. It's been a long time.

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Speaker 3: I'm so happy to see all of the things you're into,

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Speaker 3: all of the things you're you're getting to do. It's

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Speaker 3: really exciting following what you're doing.

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Speaker 1: Thanks, honey, it's so nice and Yeah, it was. It

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Speaker 1: was so much fun when you guys came to visit,

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Speaker 1: and I always had the best time coming to work

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Speaker 1: on your set. I mean, you just run such a

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Speaker 1: great ship, all of you over on SVU. Congratulations on it.

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Speaker 3: I think so too. It's a really it's a really

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Speaker 1: Really, oh it's the best.

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Speaker 3: And especially in this in this environment, this atmosphere, this

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Speaker 3: this time where they're like, oh, yeah, the show, it's

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Speaker 3: a it's a great show. You you you read the script.

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Speaker 3: You're like excited about everyone who's involved. You know, maybe

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Speaker 3: it's a new possibility. And they're like, and it's going

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Speaker 3: to be in Dublin and you're.

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Speaker 4: Like, oh, oh yeah, you know, or just Budapest or

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Speaker 4: I've this my fifteenth season of SVU.

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Speaker 3: So I've I've gotten to be in New York, you know,

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Speaker 1: Know, oh totally. I mean it's really interesting. I've always

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Speaker 1: had to pick up and go for work and it's

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Speaker 1: so tough. Yeah, and I think to be in a

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Speaker 1: like winning the lottery.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's huge. You don't you don't factor that in

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Speaker 3: when you're when you're twenty eight years old and you're like, yeah, whatever,

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Speaker 3: I need a kitchen ittte first of all, like whatever, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, it's like, also my kids are in school.

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Speaker 3: Wait what Yeah, it's it's totally totally different from from

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Speaker 3: the priorities you have in your twenties, as they should be. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: but that was fun then too, like getting to hop

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Speaker 3: It's like not everything, you know, not everything revolves around

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I had such a similar experience in North Carolina.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's it is really special to get to

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Speaker 1: both and it's so great, And it's hard to leave

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Speaker 1: you're trying to navigate something really difficult given the hours

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Speaker 1: able to go home a little bit and work. You know,

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Speaker 1: in your adulthood, when you think about growing up in Georgia,

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Speaker 1: I'll never forget, you know. Talking with you over burgers,

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Speaker 1: and you said this thing that really stuck with me

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Speaker 1: that I think is it's the way you phrase it.

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Speaker 1: You say that you were a latchkey kid with a

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Speaker 1: wonder what was your childhood, Like, what was Georgia like

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Speaker 1: when you were eight or nine years old? Were you

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Speaker 1: into performing already? Can you give us a little child peek? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I mean I played. I played softball, you know, like

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Speaker 3: just she she curated, you know, so many experiences for

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Speaker 3: She she she brought us to New York. She you know,

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Speaker 3: Like my my other friend had a go kart that

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Speaker 3: that's kind of what it was like growing up. It

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Speaker 3: was it was absolutely a beautiful place to grow up,

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Speaker 3: it's like all kinds of local lore about different different

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Speaker 3: it was it was really kind of idyllic.

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Speaker 1: I love that. Yeah, it's so special, and you're right,

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Speaker 1: it's a weird thing. I hear you on watching your

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Speaker 1: I think about when I was a kid, we did

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Speaker 1: the sunset. And I realize, even for me now, if

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Speaker 1: I don't structure a break, like if I don't put

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Speaker 1: take a walk in my calendar, I won't go outside.

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, wait, Like I'm a nature kid, how

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Speaker 1: strange way. But yeah, man, the idea that we have

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Speaker 3: It's been It's been a lot of fun at this

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Speaker 3: seven year old, it's not they're not old. But I

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Speaker 1: if you've been living under a rock, I am a

431
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Speaker 1: beekeeper and it is truly my favorite hobby. I started

432
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Speaker 1: building out a garden in a really small way. I'm

433
00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:16,440
Speaker 1: talking about a little patch with a couple of herbs,

434
00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:19,439
Speaker 1: and then I got a tomato plant. And then I

435
00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:22,359
Speaker 1: spent the next five years going crazy, and I built

436
00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:27,320
Speaker 1: myself my own little wonderland, and being out there brings

437
00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:30,240
Speaker 1: me so much peace, especially when I'm getting down in

438
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Speaker 1: the dirt. I think gardening is such a special hobby

439
00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:38,240
Speaker 1: because it becomes part of your lifestyle. You get to

440
00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:40,159
Speaker 1: grow food, and you get to give it away, and

441
00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:43,639
Speaker 1: you get to really be reminded how magical it is

442
00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:47,879
Speaker 1: being outside. I love watching the birds and watching my

443
00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:52,560
Speaker 1: plants grow and feeling like I'm really in rhythm with nature,

444
00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:56,520
Speaker 1: with the seasons, and you know, I get a thrill

445
00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:58,720
Speaker 1: every once in a while having to chase a neighborhood

446
00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:00,720
Speaker 1: critter out of the yard because, let me tell you what,

447
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:03,240
Speaker 1: they come after my fruit, and they got to go.

448
00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:06,679
Speaker 1: But now that I'm spending an awful lot more time

449
00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:10,159
Speaker 1: on the East Coast, bless my West Coast roommates for

450
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:13,119
Speaker 1: attending to my garden while I am gone. You know,

451
00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:17,000
Speaker 1: I had to start a garden over here. My latest project.

452
00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 1: I'm deep in research to figure out I might need

453
00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:23,920
Speaker 1: a greenhouse. Guys, it gets cold here and I still

454
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:26,920
Speaker 1: want to grow tomatoes and herbs and other plants all

455
00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:30,600
Speaker 1: year round, even in the snow. So in case you're

456
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:32,919
Speaker 1: ever wondering what I'm doing when I can't sleep, I

457
00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:36,760
Speaker 1: am in a research rabbit hole learning every single thing

458
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:40,200
Speaker 1: I can about growing in the winter. This is new

459
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Speaker 1: for me, so I have been going full dirt nerd

460
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Speaker 1: to find out what I can use to set my

461
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Speaker 1: plants up for success. I am not an experienced snow grower,

462
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:50,960
Speaker 1: but give me a few years and I think I'm

463
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Speaker 1: going to do great. I've really started realizing how important

464
00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:57,959
Speaker 1: things are that I didn't think about as much on

465
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Speaker 1: the West Coast, like ierration and moisture control and the

466
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Speaker 1: quality of my potting mix. I mean, that is so

467
00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:11,280
Speaker 1: so important to growing, and it's exponentially more important when

468
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Speaker 1: you're dealing with serious variations in temperature. I'm learning a

469
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Speaker 1: lot about growing in a more controlled space, and I

470
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,639
Speaker 1: will keep you all posted, ever fear. What I do

471
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:24,119
Speaker 1: know is that the littlest things make a huge difference,

472
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Speaker 1: which is where Miracle Grow organic outdoor potting mix comes in.

473
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Speaker 1: It is the best here. The organic feeding power helps

474
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Speaker 1: keep the plants going strong, even when they're just starting

475
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476
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477
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478
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Speaker 1: this just right, and I am also trying to decide

479
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Speaker 1: which plants I should grow and what lighting sources will

480
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Speaker 1: be my best I'm honestly so thrilled that Miracle Grow

481
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Speaker 1: is joining the work in progress family because now I

482
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Speaker 1: get to ask the experts. Gardening is and always will

483
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Speaker 1: be its own work in progress, but that's what makes

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Speaker 1: all of their easy to use products and start your

486
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Speaker 1: growth journey today. I'm curious about that for you too,

487
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:17,160
Speaker 1: you know, because you've been playing Amanda Rawlin since two

488
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Speaker 1: thousand and seven. You know, you're coming up on twenty

489
00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:24,639
Speaker 1: years here, which is so crazy. And in the middle

490
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:28,959
Speaker 1: of that, as you've discussed, you became a mom, you know,

491
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:33,200
Speaker 1: for the first time ten years ago, and I really

492
00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:35,919
Speaker 1: wonder I've said it. I think you guys do a

493
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:39,880
Speaker 1: really great job of taking the material very seriously as

494
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:44,240
Speaker 1: it deserves to be. And as a cast you have

495
00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:47,160
Speaker 1: such a great group you managed to find such levity.

496
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 1: I mean, I've done some of my favorite acting and

497
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 1: then also like laughed the hardest I've ever laughed on

498
00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:58,280
Speaker 1: set with you guys. Yeah, Like, do you think that

499
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 1: being a well to do both at work when you're

500
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:06,720
Speaker 1: playing a character who is immersed in so much hardship,

501
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:10,520
Speaker 1: you know, trauma, heavy stuff. Did the duality you guys

502
00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:13,359
Speaker 1: have on set help you keep the light side at

503
00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:14,520
Speaker 1: home as a mom?

504
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:18,879
Speaker 3: Absolutely? Yeah? Absolutely? And people people are like, are you

505
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:24,000
Speaker 3: do you parents scared? And I'm like, no, like my no,

506
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:26,840
Speaker 3: like my kids a lot of free They're like, how

507
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:28,640
Speaker 3: can you let him do that working on the show

508
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 3: you work on and I'm like that that doesn't It's

509
00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 3: not like, yeah, you can't live scared just because you're

510
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:41,120
Speaker 3: immersed in these horrible stories, you know, on a day

511
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,480
Speaker 3: to day basis, and I rarely ever like bring that

512
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:49,159
Speaker 3: that side of my work home. So it definitely helps.

513
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 3: I know, when I've taken breaks from the show. The

514
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,919
Speaker 3: biggest thing I I I find that I miss is

515
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 3: the belly laughs that we have on set. Yeah, you know,

516
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:03,120
Speaker 3: but I I like, I certainly didn't have an actor

517
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:05,919
Speaker 3: as a mom, and I don't. It's got to be

518
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:10,919
Speaker 3: annoying at points from like I'm so sorry. I'm like,

519
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:15,480
Speaker 3: I you know, because I'm I give it to them,

520
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 3: you know, and it's they they roll with it, and

521
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:21,159
Speaker 3: you know, we laugh a lot, and there's a lot

522
00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:23,240
Speaker 3: of different characters they get to see and a lot

523
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:26,200
Speaker 3: of different funny voices, just like every mom goes out there,

524
00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:29,920
Speaker 3: you know. Yeah, like today, I go I was doing

525
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:32,359
Speaker 3: like I was doing, like, oh my gosh, I forgot

526
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Speaker 3: my external hard driver at work. Oh And I was like,

527
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:38,000
Speaker 3: I was like, was that good acting? Guys? And they

528
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 3: were like no, I was terrible.

529
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Like oh, my god, mom, you're a shract.

530
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 3: I tried it again and they're like, that's terrible, terrible,

531
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 3: and I go, Okay, your turn, and like we're trying

532
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 3: to get out the door to go to school. We're late,

533
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:51,960
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, but we take the moment

534
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 3: to like get the moment the acting down right for

535
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 3: leaving your external charger at work and not being whatever.

536
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:03,960
Speaker 3: So's it's just like it's you know, that's that. Hopefully

537
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 3: it's fun for them, you know, And yeah, it's it

538
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:10,800
Speaker 3: certainly does. Like the level of play that that you

539
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 3: do at work, it definitely carries over when you come home.

540
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:17,120
Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, totally. Oh I have found that especially for

541
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 1: me loving voice work as much as I do, and

542
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 1: you know, having having been lucky enough to play a

543
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 1: character in a Pixar movie, it's like, now I'm lucky

544
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:29,880
Speaker 1: enough to live with these two magical little humans thanks

545
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 1: to my partner, and oh my god, like I turn out,

546
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 1: I do full Pixar movies. When we read books every

547
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 1: night with like voices and characters, I'm a great big girl,

548
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 1: a little witch and there you know, and she's just like,

549
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 1: who are all these people? And I'm like, I don't know,

550
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:49,800
Speaker 1: it's just coming out of me. They love it. Yeah,

551
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 1: and it's like all those years of theater school you

552
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 1: you think you did and left there. Oh they're they're

553
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 1: in us.

554
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,920
Speaker 3: Oh they're there, They're there are five.

555
00:29:57,720 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 1: And three and a half.

556
00:29:58,640 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 3: Oh perfect.

557
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Speaker 1: It's so fun. A Plaza, Oh my god, the funniest,

558
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 1: which is the joy of my life. Aubrey Plaza wrote

559
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,720
Speaker 1: this great Halloween book about a little girl on a

560
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,720
Speaker 1: block who becomes friends with the witch who lives across

561
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:17,280
Speaker 1: the street. Wonderful and like, oh man, you've got to

562
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:21,840
Speaker 1: read her. That book is a big hit in our house.

563
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,520
Speaker 1: And doing all the little voices is so fun.

564
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:26,240
Speaker 3: That's great. Yeah.

565
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 1: I feel like being an actor gives you really great

566
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 1: play skills at home, Like you can just make anything

567
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:34,680
Speaker 1: into an improv game.

568
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly. You know a lot of times, like

569
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:41,400
Speaker 3: if Oldie the little one, if he's like really upset,

570
00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:45,240
Speaker 3: I mean just totally not reachable, you know, Like then

571
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 3: I'll pretend like his voice is knocking me down, you know,

572
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 3: and like all of a sudden, I'm crawling across the kitchen,

573
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:52,240
Speaker 3: you know, and it's just like, yeah, at least I

574
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 3: got that, Like I got that in my tool kid

575
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:55,840
Speaker 3: to make him laugh, you know what I mean? And

576
00:30:56,360 --> 00:31:00,880
Speaker 3: that being that parent is you know, I may, I

577
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 3: may mess up a lot of other stuff, but at

578
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:05,719
Speaker 3: least at least I can reach him and make him

579
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 3: laugh when when things are getting hairy inside of his brain.

580
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 1: How is it having such a little one with two

581
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 1: bigger kids, Like do they love having the baby around?

582
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 3: Or they love? Oh it's magic? And like my old

583
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:23,920
Speaker 3: he burst onto the scene and he was like, heard

584
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 3: you needed a baby in the family, So you know

585
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 3: what I mean, He was like, got it, got it,

586
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 3: got it, got it. But also, to be honest, it's

587
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 3: frustrating because we can't ever play the same board game.

588
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,760
Speaker 3: So it's like the age difference is I mean, they

589
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 3: dote on him, they take care of him. They're such

590
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 3: good big brothers. He can throw a spiral and dunk

591
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 3: and you know what I mean, like way ahead their

592
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 3: two year old. I've seen so he's advanced and a

593
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 3: lot of that thing and a lot of those things.

594
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 3: But like find a board game, Absolutely.

595
00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 1: Not a two year old's gonna swallow the pieces of

596
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 1: the board game. You can't even you can't open those

597
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 1: boxes anymore, exactly.

598
00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 3: Find Yeah, I guess that's the first chune find a

599
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 3: board game in my house with all the pieces intact,

600
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 3: right first, Yeah, that's that's not me. Organization is not

601
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 3: my not my strong suit, but it is. It's frustrating.

602
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 3: And so like when you find a show, you know,

603
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 3: or a movie that you can all watch, sit down

604
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 3: and watch for for a while and everyone is like engaged,

605
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 3: it's like it's a win. It's like, oh, my dad,

606
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 3: one's actually doing the same thing all at once, you know.

607
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 3: So that's when the pool, you know, we're like going outside,

608
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 3: you know, like going for walks. That's those things everyone

609
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 3: can do and everyone has a different interest level in

610
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 3: something and we're all doing something together though.

611
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.

612
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:48,360
Speaker 3: So it's those kind of things that you have to find.

613
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 1: Oh that's so fun. Thank god it's finally getting warm

614
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 1: out here too. Right This winter was so tough.

615
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:58,160
Speaker 3: I well, last week, I think it got up to

616
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 3: like seventy for a day, call my husband, I dropped

617
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:02,960
Speaker 3: the two year off at school and I was like,

618
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:05,760
Speaker 3: he didn't answer. He was doing something. So I was like,

619
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Speaker 3: I just want to tell you, I'm so grateful for

620
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 3: you and for the boys. Love our life and this

621
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 3: is so great. All right, have a good day. And

622
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:19,160
Speaker 3: like and I'm like, what's going on? I was like, Oh,

623
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 3: the sun is.

624
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 1: Out, the sun's out. Yeah, this seasonal effective depression is

625
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 1: starting to wane.

626
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 3: Yes, it's so crazy how much it affects everyone. But

627
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 3: like for me, I was just like, what is going

628
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:34,760
Speaker 3: Oh that's right, it's it's above three.

629
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, yes, I can walk outside without my snot

630
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:40,640
Speaker 1: freezing in my nose.

631
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 3: That's correct.

632
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 1: Yeah.

633
00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 3: But I still love the seasons, you know, like I

634
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:47,160
Speaker 3: still love going through all of it because it really

635
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 3: did to create the crocus and the daffodil is coming up,

636
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 3: and yeah, you know it makes it all special because

637
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 3: you've waited for it for so long.

638
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 1: I love it. Just starting to see, you know where

639
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 1: I am. The birds are all starting to come back.

640
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 1: We just saw our first pack of turkeys, you know,

641
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 1: moving through the property the other day and I was like,

642
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:09,280
Speaker 1: oh my god, they're all home. Everyone's coming home.

643
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 3: You know.

644
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:13,280
Speaker 1: It's really it is really sweet.

645
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,839
Speaker 3: The little things are not so little, you know. Yeah,

646
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 3: it makes you make your whole day better.

647
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:25,320
Speaker 1: You mentioned your sweet husband Bo. You guys met while

648
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 1: you were at SVU, like and forgive me. I know

649
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:31,720
Speaker 1: we've talked about this, but I feel like it's probably

650
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: been ten years since the last time we had a

651
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 1: beer together. Remind me of your meet cute story.

652
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:42,319
Speaker 3: So he he was, he was, he was driving me,

653
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 3: and I like, it's we didn't even talk that much

654
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:51,840
Speaker 3: in the car, you know what I mean. And I

655
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 3: I was going through a divorce, butuch when he met me,

656
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 3: and like we didn't really we didn't really even talk

657
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:01,919
Speaker 3: like personal stuff. We just played music in the car

658
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:06,720
Speaker 3: and it was just like a beautiful little oasis of peace,

659
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:12,239
Speaker 3: and and his taste of music was really good, you know,

660
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:14,960
Speaker 3: and like, yeah, I was like, oh my gosh. And

661
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,160
Speaker 3: then the then the divorce was happening, and so that

662
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 3: I was leaving that behind, and then he kind of

663
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:27,399
Speaker 3: emerged his It's like, oh, I'm like I I kind

664
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:30,919
Speaker 3: of wanted more of that, you know. It just kind

665
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 3: of it just kind of slowly bloomed into something really

666
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:38,840
Speaker 3: special and really like I'm like, oh, this is my

667
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 3: person I want to rely on and I want him

668
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:46,440
Speaker 3: to rely on me, and I want to be like

669
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 3: I'm going to be a bigger, better person with this

670
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 3: this guy beside me, and that that to me is like,

671
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 3: I mean, the biggest thing you can say for your

672
00:35:56,560 --> 00:36:00,880
Speaker 3: relationship is just just wanting one to be better so

673
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:03,319
Speaker 3: that you can make them better. And you know, and

674
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 3: like knowing you go through really hard stuff with someone

675
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 3: and they're just they're going to be right beside you,

676
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:12,920
Speaker 3: and it's who you want rubbing your back. You know,

677
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:16,280
Speaker 3: it's back you want to rub, you know, and it's

678
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 3: I'm so I'm so grateful the sound and shining, but

679
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 3: I am I'm so grateful. So we we had we

680
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:30,399
Speaker 3: had a son together almost three years ago and now

681
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:33,879
Speaker 3: we have this beautiful, little blended family that's just it's

682
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:36,759
Speaker 3: a lot of boys and a lot of balls in

683
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:41,319
Speaker 3: the house and and it's just we're rolling along and

684
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:45,319
Speaker 3: time it's crazy how fast time goes. But you know,

685
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:48,239
Speaker 3: it's like these kids have known him since he was

686
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 3: little and now and as as their stepfather, and you know,

687
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 3: he really embraces that role in a beautiful way. And

688
00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 3: he's embraced fatherhood to two oldie and such a beautiful way.

689
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:07,239
Speaker 3: And you know, seeing that, it's I like you, I'm

690
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 3: just still excited for what's to come, even though like

691
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:11,840
Speaker 3: we've done the big milestones of having a baby and

692
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 3: gotten married, Like now it's like okay, now, like the

693
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,440
Speaker 3: meat of the relationship starts, you know, it's like the

694
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 3: falling in love and everything like that. That's beautiful. But

695
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:23,880
Speaker 3: it's like I said to him the other day, I

696
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 3: was like, that's that's kind of the easy part, you know,

697
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:29,680
Speaker 3: like now to get to make our relationship what it's

698
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:32,799
Speaker 3: going to be, you know, in ten twenty years, and

699
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 3: that all that work is exciting exciting for me.

700
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:41,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my gosh, I yes, yes, yes, yes, I

701
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 1: feel like everything you're saying. I'm like in that part

702
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 1: and that part and that part and that part. I

703
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:54,240
Speaker 1: think there's a really profound thing that can happen when

704
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 1: when you have the courage to say, oh, the checklist

705
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 1: we all get handed, isn't I don't think it's my list,

706
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:07,400
Speaker 1: like I did it, but I don't think it's for me.

707
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 1: And I think when you wind up in community with

708
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 1: people that are having their versions of that experience, magic

709
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 1: can can come out of that. I know that it

710
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:22,799
Speaker 1: did for me, and there is something really special. I

711
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:29,520
Speaker 1: think about recalibrating your life to what brings you joy,

712
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 1: not just falling in line and doing the thing that

713
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 1: everyone told you to do and it yeah, it's like,

714
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 1: it's so I don't know if you feel this, but

715
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:44,719
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm living the most normal version of

716
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 1: my life I've ever lived, and it's also the most exciting.

717
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:55,000
Speaker 3: Yes, same, same, it's crazy that. Yeah, if you had

718
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 3: written it down, I would have been like, wait, what

719
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:59,759
Speaker 3: Then I fell in love with my driver and now

720
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:01,959
Speaker 3: we're we get to work in the same place, and

721
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,840
Speaker 3: then we have an I have three children in that library,

722
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 3: Like I'm the mom to three kids. That's crazy, right,

723
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 3: he told me that it Yeah, if you told me

724
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 3: that at twenty five or do you know or whatever,

725
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:19,279
Speaker 3: it's it's And now it's like, I'm I don't know,

726
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:24,719
Speaker 3: I've carved it out and I'm I'm so I don't know.

727
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:26,840
Speaker 3: I'm so happy and like the things that I have

728
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:30,800
Speaker 3: to make decisions on are so wildly so wildly normal,

729
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:33,560
Speaker 3: you know, like you have to make them together with

730
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:36,880
Speaker 3: a partner and and and then you have to you

731
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:39,920
Speaker 3: have to worry about your kids and like all the

732
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,400
Speaker 3: all the things you're you're doing good and all the

733
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 3: things you're messing up, and the finite amount of time

734
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:49,840
Speaker 3: you have with them at home, Like I never. I

735
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:52,120
Speaker 3: don't know you just like because when I was when

736
00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:54,880
Speaker 3: I got my driver's license at sixteen, my parents like

737
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 3: we were laughing about it the other day. They were like,

738
00:39:56,600 --> 00:40:00,720
Speaker 3: we never saw you after that. Yeah bye, yeah, super tight,

739
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:03,360
Speaker 3: like and and I don't remember calling them when I

740
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 3: was in college, Like I like, they were just always

741
00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:10,160
Speaker 3: there for me, and I I like, I loved speaking

742
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:12,239
Speaker 3: with them, I loved going back home to visit, but

743
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:14,919
Speaker 3: it was just like they were always just the net

744
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:17,520
Speaker 3: for me, and yeah, you know, hopefully that's how I

745
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 3: can be for my kids. But I'm like, but they

746
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 3: have to call me a lot. And I was thinking't

747
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:28,160
Speaker 3: be like I was, you know, in England and traveling

748
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:30,719
Speaker 3: the world and just not just you know, they have

749
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:33,080
Speaker 3: to email. But it's like we didn't. We didn't even

750
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 3: do any of that. You know. It's like life three

751
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:38,760
Speaker 3: sixty like that didn't that stuff didn't exist.

752
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 1: No way. I was so similar. I went to college

753
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:44,759
Speaker 1: and you know, my mom and I have talked about

754
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 1: this more recently, but you know, I finally was like,

755
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:50,520
Speaker 1: you were really but her that I didn't call anymore,

756
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:53,880
Speaker 1: and she was like, well, you know, we were just

757
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:57,799
Speaker 1: so close and you left and I was like, Mom, like,

758
00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 1: you got to reframe that you did a good job.

759
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 1: You raised me to be an independent kid, and then

760
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 1: I was independent, like aren't you glad? I wasn't like

761
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:09,360
Speaker 1: calling you to clean up my messes and asking you

762
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:09,840
Speaker 1: for money.

763
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:12,920
Speaker 3: And then she was kind of like oh.

764
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,080
Speaker 1: I was like, that's a sign you did well as

765
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 1: a mom, and she was like, oh, I never thought

766
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:21,360
Speaker 1: about it that way, and we had a really good giggle,

767
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:26,799
Speaker 1: you know, and yeah, you know, serving kind of in

768
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:30,840
Speaker 1: the role in my household that you know bo dozen yours.

769
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:34,000
Speaker 1: Like now my mom knows these kids that are in

770
00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:38,160
Speaker 1: my world and she's you know, she's so god, she's

771
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 1: so sweet with them. And then there's these moments where

772
00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 1: I'll be talking about like a leap, you know, some

773
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:47,000
Speaker 1: verbal leap or some some streak of independence about something,

774
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:50,279
Speaker 1: and she's like, oh, gee, wonder what that's karma for.

775
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 1: And I'm like, you know, they're like, no, let me

776
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 1: help you. I know you can do it yourself, but

777
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 1: let me help you. I love, I love like doing

778
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 1: things with you, like get ready, where do they get

779
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:05,279
Speaker 1: a driver's license? So it's that I think, for.

780
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 3: Sure, super big karma coming back at us but in

781
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 3: a good way. That means we've done a good job

782
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 3: at that part.

783
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:16,799
Speaker 1: That part and now a word from our sponsors that

784
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:26,279
Speaker 1: I really enjoy and I think you will too. You

785
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 1: know you were mentioning how cool it is. You couldn't

786
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:31,719
Speaker 1: have seen it coming, which, wow, do I understand that

787
00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:34,879
Speaker 1: in my bones? But you know, now you you get

788
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 1: to work with your man. You've built this big family,

789
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:42,440
Speaker 1: you know, SVU in its own way, I would imagine

790
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:45,120
Speaker 1: feels like a family. It's your other home, it's your

791
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:49,720
Speaker 1: other world. Sure, and then you know it's also work,

792
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 1: and work can be complicated, like you know, as things are,

793
00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:57,799
Speaker 1: you clearly love it and you all love each other,

794
00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 1: and you've you've talked about how there were tougher seasons

795
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:04,360
Speaker 1: and there were moments where you were all in in

796
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:06,640
Speaker 1: moments where you were kind of out, not you know,

797
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:10,200
Speaker 1: by choice, like we all know what that's like in

798
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:16,840
Speaker 1: the world of creativity. How did you take a break

799
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 1: that felt weird and figure out how to make it

800
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 1: feel amazing? Like you touched on it a little bit earlier.

801
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 1: I'm curious, do you feel like it gave you the

802
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:31,760
Speaker 1: space to recalibrate priorities? Did it give you the space

803
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:35,839
Speaker 1: to try a creative thing you hadn't tried, like cause

804
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:38,200
Speaker 1: you seemed, at least from the outside from somebody who

805
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:43,840
Speaker 1: likes to cheerlead, you seemed like you made incredible strides

806
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:46,840
Speaker 1: during that time. So in reflection, does it feel.

807
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 3: Like that, Yes, it does. I mean the break that

808
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:55,640
Speaker 3: I took coincided with with the birth of my third

809
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:59,120
Speaker 3: third baby. Now, in the first two I had breastfed

810
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:03,759
Speaker 3: on set. I am like, like for one of them,

811
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 3: I was back doing adr week after giving birth, like

812
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:11,520
Speaker 3: back filming like four weeks after, you know. And I'm

813
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:15,560
Speaker 3: a workhorse, like I love I'm good at I'm good

814
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 3: at showing up, I'm good at long hours, I'm good.

815
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:20,919
Speaker 3: I'm just good at working. I liked it. I like it.

816
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:25,440
Speaker 3: But when I didn't have a call sheet coming to

817
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:29,120
Speaker 3: my inbox every morning and you're like, oh, there's no

818
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:31,760
Speaker 3: plan for me today, I get to make my own plan.

819
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:36,919
Speaker 3: You know, That's when I started lifting weights a lot.

820
00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:42,839
Speaker 3: And after I swear it was like I love doing that,

821
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:45,799
Speaker 3: like actually finding that, you know, like like in your

822
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:48,239
Speaker 3: twenties and thirties, you're just like running on the on

823
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 3: the track or like the treadmill you know, like actually

824
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:56,080
Speaker 3: like really making myself strong, like really strong physically, and

825
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 3: like pursuing an opportunity to sell a show, you know,

826
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:02,279
Speaker 3: and go out on pitches for for this show that

827
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:06,920
Speaker 3: I absolutely loved based on this book, and then all

828
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:10,640
Speaker 3: these conversations happened about like starting up this. I did

829
00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:13,200
Speaker 3: this show called The Burg, which is like it was

830
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:16,520
Speaker 3: like one of the first Internet shows. Like SAG didn't

831
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:19,000
Speaker 3: even know what to do. They were like, you don't

832
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 3: know what to do?

833
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:21,239
Speaker 1: Like what is this?

834
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:24,759
Speaker 3: Yeah? It was? It was that was really fun. And

835
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:28,520
Speaker 3: I've I've kept those the the creators of that show

836
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:31,160
Speaker 3: close to to me, close to my heart, and then

837
00:45:31,239 --> 00:45:34,279
Speaker 3: they're the funniest people I know and like just get

838
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:37,000
Speaker 3: circling back with them and going, hey, what are you

839
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:40,399
Speaker 3: guys up to? Like like what, Yeah, let's let's see

840
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:42,200
Speaker 3: if this has any more life in it, you know,

841
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 3: and like so that's an ongoing thing and like I

842
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 3: think just learning those lessons of of it's it's okay

843
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 3: to make your own schedule, Like you're good at this,

844
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 3: you know, like you you get you get shit done.

845
00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:58,399
Speaker 3: It's okay, you know, and like getting to be at

846
00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 3: home with a baby, you just at home, yeah, you know,

847
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:07,000
Speaker 3: and like watching a Rick Rubin documentary at twelve o'clock

848
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:09,200
Speaker 3: in the afternoon if I want to with the baby,

849
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:11,799
Speaker 3: you know what I mean? Like that felt I've never

850
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:14,440
Speaker 3: I haven't done that, Like I've been working. Oh, I've

851
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 3: been working for since forever. So to kind of be

852
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:22,400
Speaker 3: able to that was the big thing I learned is

853
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:25,799
Speaker 3: that you can make your own schedule pretty well and

854
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:30,799
Speaker 3: you make good use of your time. It's okay, you know,

855
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:33,200
Speaker 3: it's okay. You don't get a call sheet in your

856
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:34,879
Speaker 3: inbox every morning, do you.

857
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:39,520
Speaker 1: Feel like did you have a kind of template for

858
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 1: your schedule or was it different every day? And the

859
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:46,160
Speaker 1: reason I ask is because I like you am a

860
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:48,160
Speaker 1: great workhorse. I love to show up, tell me where

861
00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:49,880
Speaker 1: to be, tell me what to do. I'm all in.

862
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:51,800
Speaker 1: I'll figure out how to make it fun. I'll probably

863
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:56,200
Speaker 1: get a snack truck like that's my vibe. And I

864
00:46:56,400 --> 00:47:02,000
Speaker 1: find that unscheduled time is my It's the most exciting

865
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 1: thing to me and also my biggest source of panic

866
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:08,080
Speaker 1: because the list of things like the Rick Rubin documentary

867
00:47:08,160 --> 00:47:10,160
Speaker 1: and everything else that I haven't had time to do

868
00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:11,960
Speaker 1: that I want to do is so overwhelming that then

869
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:15,640
Speaker 1: I can't decide what to do. Yes, So like how'd

870
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:18,799
Speaker 1: you do it? Did you have certain days you did

871
00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 1: certain things on to give it a cadence, or like

872
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 1: what's the inside scoop on how you learned how to

873
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:24,799
Speaker 1: manage your time?

874
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 3: Well, the gym and the sauna were the priority, you know, okay,

875
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:31,239
Speaker 3: that was the priority, and like as long as you know,

876
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:32,840
Speaker 3: and like I would do that during nap time, so

877
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:35,439
Speaker 3: I wasn't missing oldie time, you know what I mean.

878
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:37,760
Speaker 3: So it's like, so I didn't have mom guilt about

879
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:39,799
Speaker 3: going to take care of myself because it was during

880
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:43,480
Speaker 3: the morning nap. He was asleep anyway. So then then

881
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:45,440
Speaker 3: you get to go out to the park and then

882
00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:48,959
Speaker 3: you get to schedule a meeting in the afternoon nap, right,

883
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 3: So I never because the mom guilt is crushing for me, Like, yeah,

884
00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:55,320
Speaker 3: I don't know what did it. I'm like, it's it's fine, you're.

885
00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:57,360
Speaker 1: There, you're there, You're right there.

886
00:47:57,680 --> 00:48:00,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, it doesn't it's it's very hard to like go

887
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:03,319
Speaker 3: of that for me. So I think, you know, it's

888
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:08,880
Speaker 3: like scheduling meetings and knowing, you know, like knowing that

889
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:11,840
Speaker 3: I had to I had to give myself time to

890
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 3: prepare for that meeting the day before or two hours before,

891
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:17,720
Speaker 3: you know, to kind of go off on a tangent

892
00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:20,080
Speaker 3: and write some some new ideas, you know, to bring

893
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:23,560
Speaker 3: to that meeting to you know, like yeah, I because

894
00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:26,080
Speaker 3: I know I need I need thirty minutes of time

895
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:28,719
Speaker 3: to like settle down, and then I'll work for like

896
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:31,440
Speaker 3: an hour hour and a half and then I'm like, Okay,

897
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 3: who's missing me? You know what I mean? And then

898
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:35,680
Speaker 3: I come back out of it, you know. So it's

899
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:39,319
Speaker 3: like I know my cadence about like about It's like

900
00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:41,680
Speaker 3: when you go on vacation, you need like two days

901
00:48:41,719 --> 00:48:45,319
Speaker 3: to calm down, to like settle You're like, okay, let's

902
00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:47,680
Speaker 3: go do something. Let's not do something. You don't care

903
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:49,880
Speaker 3: at that point because you're already settled in. You're like

904
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:52,239
Speaker 3: we can go on the boat or we cannot really

905
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:55,239
Speaker 3: give a shit less. Yeah, and then like you come

906
00:48:55,239 --> 00:48:57,440
Speaker 3: home and you need a data to do it. You know.

907
00:48:57,480 --> 00:48:59,400
Speaker 3: It's like it's a tame kind of thing, you know.

908
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:04,239
Speaker 3: So it's like just knowing how much time like it

909
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:06,360
Speaker 3: takes for me to to kind of get in the

910
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:09,879
Speaker 3: headspace like that, that's super important. To me, but yeah,

911
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:12,279
Speaker 3: the g the gym was super important. And then like

912
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:15,800
Speaker 3: scheduling things in the afternoon where I knew, like the

913
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:17,799
Speaker 3: kids were already taken care of, they were already doing

914
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:21,239
Speaker 3: their own thing. They didn't need me, So then i'd

915
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:24,120
Speaker 3: be back for you know, even if I didn't leave

916
00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:26,080
Speaker 3: the house, I'd be back, you know in the mix

917
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:29,280
Speaker 3: for yah market and dinner and all of that.

918
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:31,359
Speaker 1: That's so cool. It's like you you figured out how

919
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:33,759
Speaker 1: to take the nap trap and make it work for you.

920
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:38,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, and now this little guy is like he's barely

921
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:41,960
Speaker 3: taking naps. So now I'm just like, ah, okay, all right,

922
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:44,440
Speaker 3: we've got preschool in the morning, that's what. We've got

923
00:49:44,480 --> 00:49:46,239
Speaker 3: three and a half hours go and get it done.

924
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:48,719
Speaker 3: But I do feel that pressure of like, okay, you've

925
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:50,480
Speaker 3: got three and a half hours preschool, last three and

926
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:51,879
Speaker 3: a half what what do you what do you want

927
00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:55,920
Speaker 3: to accomplish? You know, And you're just like it's okay, guys,

928
00:49:56,120 --> 00:49:59,759
Speaker 3: Like behind me, it's like there's maybe nothing. Maybe I

929
00:49:59,840 --> 00:50:00,680
Speaker 3: just want to read.

930
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:03,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe maybe I want to go for a walk.

931
00:50:04,080 --> 00:50:10,680
Speaker 3: Unscheduled free time, unstructured playtime for Kelly, who could imagine it.

932
00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:14,920
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Yeah, I've got a friend who twice

933
00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:20,520
Speaker 1: a week blocks unmovable meeting do not overlap in her calendar,

934
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:27,160
Speaker 1: and it's just unstructured time. And she said to me,

935
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:29,799
Speaker 1: if I do not save the time, I'll fill it.

936
00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:31,520
Speaker 1: And I just thought that.

937
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:35,400
Speaker 3: Was pretty genius. That's that is smart. Yeah, very smart.

938
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 1: Well, you got in your groove and then you showed

939
00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:44,040
Speaker 1: back up for season twenty seven. What was that like?

940
00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:44,160
Speaker 3: Like?

941
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:47,560
Speaker 1: What felt like a homecoming? What felt new? I know

942
00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:50,160
Speaker 1: the show has its first ever female showrunner now, which

943
00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:51,439
Speaker 1: is so cool.

944
00:50:51,560 --> 00:50:54,759
Speaker 3: Huge, So what like, what's it like? Right? And we

945
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:58,160
Speaker 3: got Brenna molloy who is the producing director. I don't

946
00:50:58,200 --> 00:51:00,160
Speaker 3: know if we've ever had a female producing director her

947
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:03,920
Speaker 3: and I am. I'm so I'm so in love with

948
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:08,400
Speaker 3: her and how she directs and how she runs the set. Yeah,

949
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:12,680
Speaker 3: and like she calls you like on your poop, you

950
00:51:12,719 --> 00:51:14,960
Speaker 3: know what I mean, She's like, you know how you

951
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:18,080
Speaker 3: were doing it, Let's get back to that. And you're like, wow,

952
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:21,120
Speaker 3: some awesome, you know what I mean. So it's just

953
00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:23,439
Speaker 3: like you have to be present in the moment every take,

954
00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:28,480
Speaker 3: and that's exciting for me. Whenever she gets to direct.

955
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:31,880
Speaker 3: I'm I'm like thrilled. I'm like, oh God, his friend's episode,

956
00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:33,640
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, because you know it's you're

957
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:35,680
Speaker 3: you're in for a treat and you know you're going

958
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:39,160
Speaker 3: to do this work, and like so much of it

959
00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:42,200
Speaker 3: was just like being back with the crew. I I

960
00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:45,680
Speaker 3: love that crew. I love it. I love them, I

961
00:51:45,719 --> 00:51:48,560
Speaker 3: love it. I love our camera, I love our sound apart,

962
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:50,600
Speaker 3: I love wardrobe, I love makeup, I love it. I

963
00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:53,480
Speaker 3: love every love props I love It's just like I

964
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:56,960
Speaker 3: have so much love for all those people, all the

965
00:51:57,040 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 3: hours we've been with them, and all the things that

966
00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:02,000
Speaker 3: we've all gone through over all of these years that

967
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:06,200
Speaker 3: we've all worked together. You know. I mean like I

968
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:08,960
Speaker 3: wonder about films, you know, because like they set up

969
00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:11,920
Speaker 3: a circus for three months, six months, and then it

970
00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:15,759
Speaker 3: blooms and it grows, and then it just gone. You know,

971
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:17,920
Speaker 3: you never see those people again. You know. It's like,

972
00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:20,920
Speaker 3: I'm going to take it for what, for what I

973
00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:23,000
Speaker 3: can find that I love about it, which is just

974
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:25,560
Speaker 3: I get to see these people year after year, and

975
00:52:25,560 --> 00:52:29,160
Speaker 3: their kids have graduated middle school, in high school and

976
00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:31,239
Speaker 3: then college and gotten married, you know what I mean.

977
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:35,920
Speaker 3: And it's there's so few friendships I think that we

978
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:39,000
Speaker 3: all have from from when we were little like this,

979
00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:42,719
Speaker 3: I have that with these people. So that's a lot

980
00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:46,160
Speaker 3: of it felt like really really really good. I haven't

981
00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:48,959
Speaker 3: done one single thing to my dressing room. There's still

982
00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:52,400
Speaker 3: stock stock paintings up there. There's still an ugly rug,

983
00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:55,920
Speaker 3: and just like, I refuse to do anything that that

984
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:59,879
Speaker 3: stakes my claim in this particular place because it could

985
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:03,560
Speaker 3: be very very temporary, and I'm okay with that. Yeah,

986
00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:06,920
Speaker 3: I'm okay with it. It is what it is, and

987
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:10,600
Speaker 3: I I the nature of the beast, I totally understand,

988
00:53:10,760 --> 00:53:15,680
Speaker 3: and the way the business is changing and moving and

989
00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:20,640
Speaker 3: it's it's it's absolutely insane. All the things that I

990
00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:23,640
Speaker 3: think that all the suits are having to juggle. I

991
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:26,760
Speaker 3: do think it's it's crazy, you know, and their numbers

992
00:53:26,760 --> 00:53:31,400
Speaker 3: look look probably a lot different. And so I'm okay

993
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:34,240
Speaker 3: with it just being what it is right now, this month,

994
00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 3: this season, you know, and we'll see about next season,

995
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:40,120
Speaker 3: but who knows, you know, I'm grateful for this year.

996
00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:42,920
Speaker 1: I think when you're in such a good place in

997
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:47,400
Speaker 1: your life and your workplace feels so healthy and everything

998
00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:52,160
Speaker 1: feels like it's rooted in something good. It's so I

999
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:54,320
Speaker 1: don't want to say it's easy. I think it's easier

1000
00:53:54,400 --> 00:53:57,320
Speaker 1: to hold all that goodness with an open hand.

1001
00:53:57,719 --> 00:54:00,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know, not clenching at all.

1002
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:04,360
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, And it's I don't know, it's just so

1003
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:05,760
Speaker 1: nice to see you so happy.

1004
00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:09,120
Speaker 3: Oh, thanks you too. I'm really I'm really happy to

1005
00:54:09,160 --> 00:54:12,120
Speaker 3: see how successful this has been. I think it's such

1006
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:15,439
Speaker 3: a perfect thing for you because you you've always asked

1007
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:19,680
Speaker 3: such great questions and coquisitive and been such a good host.

1008
00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:22,600
Speaker 3: I think you're the best, and you you shall be

1009
00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:25,239
Speaker 3: such a nice time every time I've seen you, and

1010
00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:28,359
Speaker 3: so I'm really really happy to see you me too.

1011
00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:31,920
Speaker 1: We'll have to we'll have to plan a non zoom

1012
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:34,000
Speaker 1: hang soon. And so I'm on your coast.

1013
00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:35,040
Speaker 3: Sounds good.

1014
00:54:35,960 --> 00:54:38,200
Speaker 1: Well, I have to ask you my very favorite question

1015
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:43,440
Speaker 1: to ask everyone. Yes, you know, things feel so good

1016
00:54:43,600 --> 00:54:47,759
Speaker 1: for you and so in the right place. And I'm

1017
00:54:47,840 --> 00:54:50,799
Speaker 1: curious from this moment, you know, as you look around

1018
00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:53,520
Speaker 1: at your life, as you look at the rest of

1019
00:54:53,520 --> 00:54:56,840
Speaker 1: the year ahead, what feels like your work in progress

1020
00:54:56,920 --> 00:54:57,359
Speaker 1: right now?

1021
00:54:57,760 --> 00:55:02,319
Speaker 3: My work in progress is to really to carve out

1022
00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:09,000
Speaker 3: more time where you are you're just you can be

1023
00:55:09,040 --> 00:55:12,960
Speaker 3: an island for a little while, you know, and all

1024
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:17,680
Speaker 3: that all that space and all that stuff happening inside

1025
00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:20,120
Speaker 3: my head, you know, and because I love my mind,

1026
00:55:20,480 --> 00:55:22,719
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, And and just to just

1027
00:55:22,760 --> 00:55:27,520
Speaker 3: to get some some time to access that and and

1028
00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:31,480
Speaker 3: not have to be any you know, at the at

1029
00:55:31,800 --> 00:55:33,880
Speaker 3: the school door at seven forty five and the other

1030
00:55:33,880 --> 00:55:35,880
Speaker 3: school door at eight twenty. And then make sure that

1031
00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:37,520
Speaker 3: he had a half of sandwich and make sure that

1032
00:55:37,520 --> 00:55:41,000
Speaker 3: there's out and oh my gosh, there's no goldfish for

1033
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:43,760
Speaker 3: his lunch. And I can't believe I forgot the cucumbers

1034
00:55:43,760 --> 00:55:45,319
Speaker 3: and they really want send them in rolls tomorrow morning.

1035
00:55:45,560 --> 00:55:51,600
Speaker 3: Like to just leave leave some of that and know

1036
00:55:51,680 --> 00:55:55,040
Speaker 3: that these are really good boys. My husband's really happy,

1037
00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:58,440
Speaker 3: like everybody's in a good place, and I can go, okay,

1038
00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:01,320
Speaker 3: I think that there's some there's some there's some stuff

1039
00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:03,920
Speaker 3: to carve out of me now, you know, and and

1040
00:56:04,280 --> 00:56:08,240
Speaker 3: it'll happen like it's the work in progress, but it's there.

1041
00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:12,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, well, congrats on everything.

1042
00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:16,280
Speaker 3: And to play piano, I need that to work in progress.

1043
00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:18,640
Speaker 3: I'm taking lessons, so that's a big work progress.

1044
00:56:18,880 --> 00:56:21,520
Speaker 1: That's on my list too, and I still haven't done it.

1045
00:56:21,640 --> 00:56:25,640
Speaker 3: So you do it. It's so fun. It's so fun.

1046
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:27,960
Speaker 3: I play the same thing over and over and over

1047
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:31,399
Speaker 3: and my my family is like, oh, that's great, that's

1048
00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:31,919
Speaker 3: really good.

1049
00:56:32,040 --> 00:56:33,520
Speaker 1: Congratulations, you did it.

1050
00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:37,360
Speaker 3: I nailed it again.

1051
00:56:39,160 --> 00:56:41,040
Speaker 1: Look at me. I'm an artist.

1052
00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:42,920
Speaker 3: Oh.

1053
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:46,040
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it well, congrats on everything.

1054
00:56:47,160 --> 00:56:49,400
Speaker 1: Just so so happy for you.

1055
00:56:49,640 --> 00:56:51,960
Speaker 3: Thank you for you too. It's nice to see your face.

1056
00:56:52,360 --> 00:57:00,640
Speaker 1: You too.

1057
00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:01,439
Speaker 3: Oh.