Speaker 1: How's everyone doing on this cold winter day. I know
Speaker 1: there are many many things to dislike about this time
Speaker 1: of year, but there are so many things to love
Speaker 1: about it, like making snow angels are going sledding if
Speaker 1: you live in an area with snow, or endless cups
Speaker 1: of your favorite hot beverage warming you from the inside out.
Speaker 1: There's books to read and puzzles to put together unless
Speaker 1: you've got a five year old like I do, and
Speaker 1: then the puzzle pieces disappear, and games that you never
Speaker 1: have time for. Shoots and Ladders is the big one
Speaker 1: in our house these days. How about extra snuggles with
Speaker 1: your babies or your fur babies. There are so many activities, experiences,
Speaker 1: and things that are only possible when shorter days keep
Speaker 1: us inside longer and cooler temperatures make that time more inviting.
Speaker 1: I hope that if you feel a little down or loomy,
Speaker 1: you can find something to love about this season we're
Speaker 1: in right now, because that is the best way to
Speaker 1: chase away the winner blues. Well. That and walking. If
Speaker 1: I can get in a good walk every day, even
Speaker 1: if it's raining, I am so much happier. Maybe this
Speaker 1: podcast is one of those things you can save her
Speaker 1: and enjoy I sure hope. So that is my goal,
Speaker 1: after all, to spread a little joy and a lot
Speaker 1: of love and a lot of light into some of
Speaker 1: the dark places of our world. Right now, my guest
Speaker 1: today will definitely help too. She's an Emmy, Grammy and
Speaker 1: Golden Globe nominated actress, singer, and songwriter who became famous
Speaker 1: at the age of fifteen with her debut pop single
Speaker 1: Candy and her platinum albums So Real. After releasing multiple
Speaker 1: chart toppers, she made the move from stage to screen,
Speaker 1: starring as Lanta Thomas in the comedy film The Princess
Speaker 1: Diaries and Jamie Sullivan in the gut wrenching A Walk
Speaker 1: to Remember and several more in the early to mid
Speaker 1: two thousand's, But since twenty sixteen, many of us know
Speaker 1: her as Rebecca Pearson from the hit NBC family drama
Speaker 1: series This Is Us. That's how I fell in love
Speaker 1: with her. I am obviously not alone. I can't wait
Speaker 1: to ask her a thousand questions about her role on
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Speaker 1: With me on our new episode of Love Someone. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I just confessed off the air. Uh. But it's
Speaker 1: gonna be hard for me to have this conversation without
Speaker 1: just gushing and drooling because I am such a fan girl.
Speaker 1: Mandy Moore, Welcome to Delilah's Love Someone. Hello, I'm so
Speaker 1: happy to be here. So we've got a lot to
Speaker 1: cover because you've got music that came out right before
Speaker 1: COVID that we didn't ever get to connect on You've
Speaker 1: got music that's about to come out, and you've been
Speaker 1: a little busy, you know, out with that little TV
Speaker 1: show that Please tell me they were lying when they
Speaker 1: said this is the last year. I wish, I wish
Speaker 1: it wasn't the truth. But yes, we're we're about halfway
Speaker 1: through with our final season, season six. I hate that
Speaker 1: word final, you and me both. I mean, this has
Speaker 1: just been like the best job I've ever had, and
Speaker 1: I've been in the industry for twenty one years. It's
Speaker 1: going to be so challenging to say goodbye to the character.
Speaker 1: But also, like my friends, I get just like go
Speaker 1: to work every single day with with like my family,
Speaker 1: and we've been a family from the very beginning, and
Speaker 1: the idea that I'm not going to see those faces
Speaker 1: every day is just gutting to me. So there was
Speaker 1: a woman who called into a radio show, not even
Speaker 1: my radio show, my girlfriend Linda, who was on the
Speaker 1: air in um Worcester, Massachusetts. A woman called in who
Speaker 1: had been kicked out of her parents home h as
Speaker 1: a teenager, and she had had some really hard times
Speaker 1: and she said, you know, if I had known it
Speaker 1: was my last night, I would have enjoyed it more.
Speaker 1: And Lyndash I listened, you know, I was listening to
Speaker 1: her show and I heard that, and then she shared it.
Speaker 1: You know, when we got together and talked about how
Speaker 1: impactful that was for her, and we kind of made
Speaker 1: a pact, our little circle of friends that we would
Speaker 1: face every day based on that phone call. Because you
Speaker 1: don't know when it's going to be your last. But
Speaker 1: this girl said, if I know it was my last
Speaker 1: night at home, I would have enjoyed it more. Goodness,
Speaker 1: that is so heartbreaking. Yeah, I mean, isn't that sort
Speaker 1: of the trick of being human as trying to be
Speaker 1: as present as possible And it's it's indefinitely hard, Like
Speaker 1: I I struggle with it every day. But yes, I
Speaker 1: give you that gift because you know it's your last season, unless, yes,
Speaker 1: the network decides to get smart and with a good thing.
Speaker 1: You know, Can I just put a vote as it's
Speaker 1: up for a vote. So let me let me tell you,
Speaker 1: Mandy Moore, how I discovered you and fell in love
Speaker 1: with you. I had adopted a young boy out of
Speaker 1: foster care. He was twelve when we got him, and
Speaker 1: he had had a really really horrible experience. He had
Speaker 1: been in foster care most of his life, bounced around
Speaker 1: to eight or ten different homes, and had a pretty
Speaker 1: tough exterior, And so I thought it would be good
Speaker 1: to get him involved in our youth group at a church.
Speaker 1: And so the youth group decided to go see a
Speaker 1: movie at the local theater. And my tough, really tough
Speaker 1: exterior son came home like's not crying that movie? You
Speaker 1: gotta go see? You what to remember, Mom, but take
Speaker 1: a lot of tissue. Like he was still crying when
Speaker 1: he got home, And I'm like, wow, Like what touched
Speaker 1: him so deeply? I wanted to know? So, like the
Speaker 1: next day, I call a couple of my dearest friends
Speaker 1: and we went to see a walk to Remember. I'm
Speaker 1: so floored. You were like two years older than him
Speaker 1: or three years older than him at the time you
Speaker 1: started in that right, How old were your seventeen? I was,
Speaker 1: I was sixteen. I turned seventeen in the middle of filming.
Speaker 1: He will to this day if you ask him what
Speaker 1: movie touched him the most, it was you and the
Speaker 1: character you played, and for some reason, just that reality
Speaker 1: that life's not fair, like he knew, he knew that
Speaker 1: life wasn't fair, but I don't think he had words
Speaker 1: to put with it. And I don't know seeing your
Speaker 1: character and seeing what you faced in the and I
Speaker 1: know that was a character, but but you played it
Speaker 1: so convincingly that it touched my heart. And and so
Speaker 1: from that moment on, I was a fan girl. And
Speaker 1: then I went back and and just ever your music,
Speaker 1: what you had released as a couple of years before,
Speaker 1: and uh, and and and then I've just followed you
Speaker 1: all along Princess Diaries and everything. Oh my goodness, I
Speaker 1: am so flattered. Wow. Yeah, for some reason, that movie
Speaker 1: in particular, Oh my gosh, it's actually the twentieth anniversary
Speaker 1: of that movie this year. It really had just it
Speaker 1: resonated then and continued somehow to resonate with with folks.
Speaker 1: I think the idea of, you know, having someone recognize
Speaker 1: the goodness in you that you may not see in yourself,
Speaker 1: the idea of being able to change, Like, there's just
Speaker 1: so many themes I think that like feels so universal
Speaker 1: to people that they have really just like taken that
Speaker 1: film to heart. And uh, it's it's fun to watch
Speaker 1: like younger folks discover it even now. It's it's amazing. Well,
Speaker 1: you play a character that that's kind of old. Yes,
Speaker 1: I do, Like right now, your character and this is
Speaker 1: Us is seventy right, Yeah, I get to play the
Speaker 1: matriarch character on the show. Yeah that I I get
Speaker 1: to play this this woman from her mid twenties to
Speaker 1: her mid eighties and everything in between. It's it's an
Speaker 1: incredible um gift to be able to to portray this
Speaker 1: woman at so many different junctures of her life. I
Speaker 1: get to work with all of the actors, all of
Speaker 1: the different ages of the children portrayed, from like babies
Speaker 1: to adults. It's it's a dream. Well, you play it
Speaker 1: so convincingly that when I was doing research for this interview,
Speaker 1: I was shocked to remember. And I had a traumatic
Speaker 1: experience a few years ago, so my memory is gone.
Speaker 1: I'm almost as bad as your character in the movie.
Speaker 1: But I was shocked to remember that you could be
Speaker 1: my child in real life. Now, in in the TV show,
Speaker 1: you're ten years older than me almost of the day,
Speaker 1: but in real life, you could be one of my children.
Speaker 1: And I was like, how do you play a seventy
Speaker 1: year old woman so convincingly? Oh, you're very kind. I
Speaker 1: have to say so much of the physical transformation I
Speaker 1: think is a huge part of it. I I go
Speaker 1: through about three and a half hours of prosthetic hair
Speaker 1: and makeup, um with you know, to sort of go
Speaker 1: through the aging process to play Rebecca Pearson and her
Speaker 1: seventies and so I can interact with my adult children.
Speaker 1: That helps. It also gives me like the you know,
Speaker 1: the three and a half hours to sort of get
Speaker 1: into that frame of mind. I mean, because normally there's something,
Speaker 1: you know, undoubtedly emotional going on, so just be the
Speaker 1: time to sort of just zen out and think about
Speaker 1: who I am, where I am, what I've lived through
Speaker 1: at this point in my life. And I I love it.
Speaker 1: So Often people are like, oh my gosh, how do
Speaker 1: you go through, you know, hours and hours of pir
Speaker 1: and makeup. I think we've this season alone already done
Speaker 1: it over twenty times. Um, it's a lot of hours
Speaker 1: of my life. But I I really like look forward
Speaker 1: to that time. Actually, I think it does help me
Speaker 1: sort of prepare and mentally get in the right frame
Speaker 1: of mind to approach today's work. But yeah, I think
Speaker 1: the physical transformation has so much to do with it.
Speaker 1: I was really nervous initially because I remember the very
Speaker 1: first scene in the first season for them to sort
Speaker 1: of really uh give the sums up that this was
Speaker 1: going to be something that worked. Instead of potentially hiring
Speaker 1: an actress who was a little bit older than me
Speaker 1: to portray the character, um, I had to interact in
Speaker 1: a scene with ron Cephas Jones, who is quite a
Speaker 1: bit older than me. He's not quite as old as
Speaker 1: he was playing, but he's you know, a fair bit
Speaker 1: older than me. And I was so nervous to have
Speaker 1: to you know, get made up and do this very
Speaker 1: emotional scene with him. But somehow it worked. And now
Speaker 1: it feels so comfortable to sort of slip on those
Speaker 1: shoes and and to be that woman at that age
Speaker 1: and a place in her life, even even though she's
Speaker 1: in the midst of dealing with dementia and Alzheimer's and
Speaker 1: and everything that sort of comes along with it. It's
Speaker 1: a yeah, this this season is a real doozy for
Speaker 1: all of us. Well for anybody who has not seen
Speaker 1: this is us. Um, they're just they're missing out on
Speaker 1: such such a treat, in such an emotional roller coaster.
Speaker 1: I told you I have many children that are adopted.
Speaker 1: So I love the the care with which the adoption
Speaker 1: stories are threaded throughout. But I have to tell you,
Speaker 1: it was hard for me to forgive your character there
Speaker 1: for a while when she didn't tell Randol the truth.
Speaker 1: I almost broke up with you over that. I was like,
Speaker 1: how could you, um, how could you hide such a
Speaker 1: huge truth from him? But being an adoptive mom and
Speaker 1: being in the adoption community so much, there are there
Speaker 1: are times where you ask yourself, you know, is is
Speaker 1: this a truth that I should share? Or is this
Speaker 1: something that would hurt my child? Or so I forgave you. No,
Speaker 1: I had to forgive her as well. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: the thing about playing a character when you often don't
Speaker 1: agree with all the choices that they make. And that's
Speaker 1: such the truth of this show is, you know, the
Speaker 1: Pearsons are not a perfect family. They're human, they're fallible.
Speaker 1: They make choices that we're not all going to agree
Speaker 1: with the way that they handle their life. But ultimately
Speaker 1: they're trying to be, you know, the best version of themselves,
Speaker 1: and they live and they learn and and Repelta is
Speaker 1: a seriercely loyal matriarch. She loves her family, She puts
Speaker 1: her family before everything else, and that was a you know,
Speaker 1: a particularly challenging part of the character, especially in the beginning,
Speaker 1: to sort of forgive her and allow myself to like
Speaker 1: to hold space for her and have grace for this this,
Speaker 1: you know, what I presumed to be a big mistake,
Speaker 1: that she had been, this lie she had been living
Speaker 1: for you know, over thirty years of her life. But um,
Speaker 1: but it certainly is fun to sort of take all
Speaker 1: of the colors of who these people are and sort
Speaker 1: of flash it on the canvas. Every day. How many
Speaker 1: days a week do you guys shoot five days a
Speaker 1: week and months out of the year, long days, long days? Yes,
Speaker 1: Because I I would watch and I go, did they
Speaker 1: like shoot this? Because you know, you're in the same room,
Speaker 1: in the same costume, in the same conversation two years later,
Speaker 1: and I'm a detailed person. So I look at all
Speaker 1: the details. I look at the decorations, I look at
Speaker 1: the cops that you serve, the tang in. I look
Speaker 1: at all that because that was my generation. So I'm
Speaker 1: sitting there going, I remember that. I remember that. I
Speaker 1: remember that, And then I think, do they like? They go, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna shoot all of the scenes from the fire
Speaker 1: all at the same time. I wish we did. It
Speaker 1: never happens that way. And the funny thing about our
Speaker 1: show as well, it's like, no one should ever assume
Speaker 1: if they're just coming on and they have one line
Speaker 1: in an episode that that's it. There's very often a
Speaker 1: chance that they might be brought in and have an
Speaker 1: entire episode built around them. Like it's been wild to
Speaker 1: watch that, And yes, uh, it's so often you think like, okay,
Speaker 1: we're we're done with that scene, and to three seasons
Speaker 1: later you'll revisit that exact same time period with the
Speaker 1: exact same costume and sort of have to you know,
Speaker 1: sort of file through the filing cabinet and go back
Speaker 1: to that that particular time and go, Okay, I need
Speaker 1: to like place myself back there again, because here we are.
Speaker 1: It's important. And the kids, the kids have now the
Speaker 1: first set of kids have aged out, because I see
Speaker 1: this season it's another set of kids, and yet they're
Speaker 1: they're they're they're able to get into character as well
Speaker 1: as the first set of kids. Yeah, at six years
Speaker 1: old too. It's just unbelievable. We're so lucky. We we
Speaker 1: have never had a bad apple, like from the very top.
Speaker 1: Um uh from from our boss who created a show, Dan,
Speaker 1: it's sort of a trickle down effect. No, everybody is
Speaker 1: just fantastic and the kid actors are so much fun.
Speaker 1: They are also patients. Um. Yeah, I can't say enough
Speaker 1: good good stuff about everybody. Well, you guys do a
Speaker 1: phenomenal job. And your character in the show is a
Speaker 1: young woman who wants to be a singer. You went
Speaker 1: to California when you went to l A and the
Speaker 1: record producer said you're great for Pittsburgh. Yeah, it's good.
Speaker 1: That line broke my heart, I gotta say, but I
Speaker 1: love that throughout the storyline you put your career on
Speaker 1: the back burner so that you can focus on your triplets,
Speaker 1: on the three kids. Um. And I think a lot
Speaker 1: of women who do that have a lot of mixed
Speaker 1: emotions joy to be with their kids, anger or resentment
Speaker 1: that they, you know, put that part of their life
Speaker 1: on hold. And um. In real life, you are quite
Speaker 1: an accomplished singer performer. That was that happened before the
Speaker 1: acting happened. Do you ever feel like you had to
Speaker 1: put your music on hold for for this baby of
Speaker 1: this is us? Or no, it's it's funny, I think
Speaker 1: had it. I started off in the music industry, you know,
Speaker 1: when I was fifteen years old, and that's sort of
Speaker 1: what opened all of the doors for the Princess Diaries
Speaker 1: and A Walk to Remember and all of the acting
Speaker 1: things that subsequently came after that. And there was a
Speaker 1: period of my life where music was really dormant for
Speaker 1: about almost a decade or a little over a decade.
Speaker 1: And I think it really was the gift of This
Speaker 1: is Us and Dan Fogelman and our writers that decided
Speaker 1: to sort of infuse my character's backstory with music because
Speaker 1: it unlocked something and me again that I really couldn't ignore,
Speaker 1: which was that music is a huge part of who
Speaker 1: I am. It's a huge part of my identity, and
Speaker 1: I missed it and I just needed some way to
Speaker 1: sort of find, you know, find my way back to
Speaker 1: myself for that part of myself. When when when COVID hit,
Speaker 1: you guys had some challenges with filming everything we did.
Speaker 1: I read some of the rigamarole you had to go
Speaker 1: through just to be on the set, just to be
Speaker 1: able to shoot. And you were pregnant then, yeah, I
Speaker 1: was pregnant. I was five months pregnant when we went
Speaker 1: back um and started season five, and um, it was
Speaker 1: it sort of felt like the wild West because you know,
Speaker 1: it was pre vaccines, still sort of understanding what COVID meant,
Speaker 1: and we were one of the first shows or productions
Speaker 1: at least in Los Angeles to go back to work.
Speaker 1: So there were tons of protocol, most of which is
Speaker 1: still very much in place to this day of you know,
Speaker 1: the ppe that everybody had to wear, we test multiple
Speaker 1: times a week. Um. But yeah, it made it feel
Speaker 1: a little, um crazier just because I was pregnant. UM.
Speaker 1: But oddly like once we've sort of gotten the flow
Speaker 1: of things, I felt safe for being at work than
Speaker 1: I did pretty much anywhere else besides like being at home,
Speaker 1: just because there was you know, we were surrounded by
Speaker 1: folks in masks and shields and so much for cautions
Speaker 1: were taken. Um. But it does make things tough in
Speaker 1: the sense that you know, I remember in the early days,
Speaker 1: one you know, positive case would potentially shut the whole
Speaker 1: show down for like a week in a time or
Speaker 1: something until we started to understand the virus more and
Speaker 1: how things spread. But but it's still challenging. I mean,
Speaker 1: we were just I'm directing an episode this season, and
Speaker 1: we were just up in San Francisco and one positive
Speaker 1: case sort of had the trickle effective, like well, this
Speaker 1: person was around this person and around this person, and
Speaker 1: it kind of like wiped everybody out and we ended
Speaker 1: up having to come home a day early. So it's, uh,
Speaker 1: it's certainly not ideal. It's better now, but um, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's a strange days to be shooting during this,
Speaker 1: this era of of COVID. So, um, how far in
Speaker 1: advance of shooting an episode, do you guys know what's
Speaker 1: going to happen in the episode? Like, do you know
Speaker 1: what happens in this season? Are you? Oh? Yes, how
Speaker 1: it all ends. We've actually shot part of the very
Speaker 1: very last episode a couple of seasons ago, so yes,
Speaker 1: we're we're in the know. I mean, I think it's
Speaker 1: important for all of us to sort of be able
Speaker 1: to understand the journey that we're on, like it informs
Speaker 1: how do you keep it a secret? Like how do
Speaker 1: you keep it a secret? If you and I were buddies,
Speaker 1: if we were friends, there is no way I would
Speaker 1: let you keep that a secret from me. I would
Speaker 1: like cook you your favorite foods. I would have a
Speaker 1: glass of wine give you. My friends know that. Do
Speaker 1: they ever use that to their advantage? I think in
Speaker 1: earlier seasons, But at this point everybody's like no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: especially my family. My family used to want to know,
Speaker 1: and now they're they're sort of of of the minds like, no,
Speaker 1: we want to sort of watch it unfold with everybody
Speaker 1: else and be surprised. And so yeah, I'm I'm pretty
Speaker 1: good at at staying tight lipped. Well, I hope it
Speaker 1: has happy endings, because if I have been married to
Speaker 1: you guys for six years now and then it ends
Speaker 1: with you know, it'll make you feel good. I promise. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: Well I would watch anyway because I don't have it.
Speaker 1: We don't have TV in our house and I don't
Speaker 1: let my kids have very much screen time at all.
Speaker 1: But you are my guilty pleasure. Oh well, I am honored.
Speaker 1: Thank you. So back to music. You had an album
Speaker 1: that you released like the week that COVID hit. Yes, ma'am. Yeah,
Speaker 1: good timing there, great timing there. Yeah, I mean who
Speaker 1: was who was to know what was about to hit us?
Speaker 1: So I made my first record was called Silver Landing's
Speaker 1: first record in over a decade. We were four days
Speaker 1: away from hitting the road for my first tour since
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven. I wrote the entire album with
Speaker 1: my husband. He played on it, he was in my band,
Speaker 1: and yes, the record came out and the next week
Speaker 1: the world sort of shut down, so it was wild.
Speaker 1: We were actually in New York. We did Today's show,
Speaker 1: we had done Fallon, and it was funny. In between
Speaker 1: the time that we got to Fallon and and sound checked.
Speaker 1: I remember them telling us, like, you guys at the
Speaker 1: last show with an audience, because starting next week on Monday, like,
Speaker 1: we're taping without an audience, And I remember all of
Speaker 1: us thinking like, wow, that's crazy. We got in right
Speaker 1: under the wire by the time sound check rolled around,
Speaker 1: and then the time we started filming, they were like, actually,
Speaker 1: there's no audience and we're getting like the heck out
Speaker 1: of Dodge as soon as we're done taping the show,
Speaker 1: and I remember we performed for a completely empty theater.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Fallon had already left to go home, and I
Speaker 1: don't think they none of the crew like they that
Speaker 1: nobody showed back up to that theater. I thinks for
Speaker 1: you know, six eight months or something was crazy. So
Speaker 1: it was a very strange time and uh yeah, but
Speaker 1: the silver lining for me was, um, I got to
Speaker 1: come home and spend some time with my husband, and
Speaker 1: I got pregnant. So there you go, there you go.
Speaker 1: That was the silver lining. That was the silver lining.
Speaker 1: And now you're working on another album that, ma'am, that
Speaker 1: is going to be out soon. Yes, sometime this year,
Speaker 1: I think, probably just in time with the end of
Speaker 1: of This Is Us and then hopefully we'll be able
Speaker 1: to pick up, you know, where we left off with
Speaker 1: the tour in June and July of this year. But
Speaker 1: I think the idea was trying to find some some
Speaker 1: way to sort of pour the creative momentum that we
Speaker 1: had making Silver Landings, making the last album, trying to
Speaker 1: find a way, um to still feel creative during the pandemic.
Speaker 1: And very early on I just decided with my husband Taylor, like,
Speaker 1: let's just keep writing music and figure out how to
Speaker 1: record it and make another record and go on the
Speaker 1: road with it when the world opens back up, and
Speaker 1: and you know, it just sort of coincided with this
Speaker 1: idea of like my entire world turning upside down. And
Speaker 1: becoming new parents and being on the precipice of so
Speaker 1: much change. So the records really rooted in that, in
Speaker 1: the idea of this discovering, this new sense of self
Speaker 1: and wondering what our life was going to be like
Speaker 1: and this you know, indescribable love and the immediacy of
Speaker 1: it all, and um, yeah, so that's I'm super excited
Speaker 1: for everything that this record is is gonna unlock and
Speaker 1: open up and hopefully be able to go on the
Speaker 1: road and be with my husband and with my my
Speaker 1: son with us, and he'll he'll come with us and
Speaker 1: it'll be a whole family affair. The best part of
Speaker 1: just everything, everything like the unknown. I mean, everyone told
Speaker 1: us it gets it just keeps getting better, and that
Speaker 1: is the truth, every phase, every age. Just when you
Speaker 1: think like it can't get better, um it does. Write
Speaker 1: a song about that, and then when they're thirteen, listen
Speaker 1: to it every night. I'm sure that's coming months. He's
Speaker 1: only ten months old. He's only he's just starting to like,
Speaker 1: you know, pull himself up and starting to you know,
Speaker 1: because he's on the precipice walking and so it's like
Speaker 1: all the good stuff of the laughing and smiling, and
Speaker 1: his personality is coming to light, and it's just it's
Speaker 1: the best. And I feel so lucky that I get to,
Speaker 1: you know, bring him to work with me most days.
Speaker 1: And he's just like he's come to work with me
Speaker 1: since I was since he was a month old. And
Speaker 1: he's very confused sometimes when I'm in the prosthetic age makeup,
Speaker 1: he's like, I joke that he's he calls me Grandma
Speaker 1: mom because you know, I'm like the grandma and the
Speaker 1: mom in one. It's very weird. He hears my voice.
Speaker 1: I know he smells me, but I look entirely different.
Speaker 1: So um. I don't know. He'll probably have to therapy
Speaker 1: at some point in his life because of it, but
Speaker 1: but I feel lucky I get to bring him with me.
Speaker 1: I am so grateful to my podcast sponsors, because without them,
Speaker 1: we would have these wonderful conversations. Hi, it's Delilah. If
Speaker 1: you have been listening to my voice on the radio
Speaker 1: four years, then you know that I have been around
Speaker 1: on the radio four years. Off the radio, I'm taking
Speaker 1: care of my kids, taking care of my dogs, riding
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Speaker 1: and your husband. Happiest moment of your life, um, I
Speaker 1: would say summiting Mount Kilimanjaro was the happiest day of
Speaker 1: my life. It was something I had wanted to do
Speaker 1: since I was a teenager, and to sort of fully
Speaker 1: realize this goal that I had had in mind for
Speaker 1: so long, and to be there and to be present,
Speaker 1: and it was just this incredibly foggy day. It almost
Speaker 1: felt like we were in a light installation, all these
Speaker 1: sort of pastel colors from the sun and being up
Speaker 1: on top of this glacier. It was mind blowing. How
Speaker 1: long did you train for it, Chilly, I didn't really
Speaker 1: train for it, but we took I believe it was
Speaker 1: like a seven day adventure of like camping as you
Speaker 1: as you climb the mountain. I love hiking and I
Speaker 1: love being in the mountains. So um, this was yeah,
Speaker 1: just in unbelievable bucket list accomplishment. Um. Definitely the happiest moment.
Speaker 1: There are lots of tears on the summit. Very fun,
Speaker 1: very fun. Well, I can't wait to see what other
Speaker 1: mountains you're going to climb. Ah, you're very kind. Thank you.
Speaker 1: That means so much to all of us. Please when
Speaker 1: the album is ready to be released, UM, I will
Speaker 1: be back. I'll talk about it anytime. I would love
Speaker 1: to love to have another chat with you. This is
Speaker 1: so much fun. You promised me you'd call me back,
Speaker 1: So we're gonna. We're gonna have that conversation as soon
Speaker 1: as you're ready to release the music. It has been
Speaker 1: such a joy to talk to you. You too, I
Speaker 1: look forward to chatting again at some point soon, very soon,
Speaker 1: Mandy Moore, thank you for for joining us, and just
Speaker 1: be safe, be blessed. I'm gonna I'm enjoying all the moments,
Speaker 1: soaking it all in. Okay, thank you, Bye, bye, Hunt Bye,
Speaker 1: thank you. Who What a pleasure it was to share
Speaker 1: this time with Mandy Moore. She has been a fixture
Speaker 1: on stage and screen since a very young age, and
Speaker 1: has matured in both her music and acting skills beautifully.
Speaker 1: I watched very little TV, but I fell in love
Speaker 1: with This Is Us when it first debuted six years ago. Actually,
Speaker 1: my friend Leslie told me about it and she said,
Speaker 1: you've got to watch this show because I have um,
Speaker 1: I have adopted children, and she knew it would resonate
Speaker 1: with me, and I'm hooked. I will miss the series
Speaker 1: so much, but I am eager to see and hear
Speaker 1: what this now season veteran takes on next. She's teased
Speaker 1: us with the promise of some new music later this year,
Speaker 1: so keep your ear to the ground for that. In
Speaker 1: the meantime, do sit for a minute and ask yourself
Speaker 1: what beautiful things are unfolding in your life right now
Speaker 1: that you might be overlooking. It's easy to do when
Speaker 1: the weather isn't welcoming, when you're eager for spring, when
Speaker 1: there are COVID shutdowns, when the kids bus schedule has
Speaker 1: been canceled. Are there birds or squirrels outside your windows?
Speaker 1: They can entertain me for as long as I let them.
Speaker 1: I love watching the wild birds. I love listening to
Speaker 1: the sound of my children's laughter when you let them
Speaker 1: go play in the snow. If you have snow in
Speaker 1: your area, or just go outside and splash in the rain,
Speaker 1: allow yourself the luxury of a long, hot bath at
Speaker 1: the end of a long cold day. Nothing else can
Speaker 1: steal your joy when you stay focused on the goodness.
Speaker 1: Twinkle lights aren't nearly as sparkly in the sunshine as
Speaker 1: they are in the dark. Enjoy winter while it's here.
Speaker 1: We'll have plenty of opportunity to complain about the heat
Speaker 1: of summer soon enough. I'll try to keep you company,
Speaker 1: no matter what the weather is outside, no matter what
Speaker 1: craziness is going on in our world. Join me on
Speaker 1: the next episode of Love Someone, and of course nightly
Speaker 1: on my radio show. Because I love spending time with you.
Speaker 1: Since you've all been so wonderful and supportive of Love Someone,
Speaker 1: I was inspired to do more on the podcast platform,
Speaker 1: So earlier this month, on Valentine's Day, I launched a
Speaker 1: new daily podcast called Hey It's Delilah. This one's a
Speaker 1: little different most days. It will be ten to fifteen
Speaker 1: minutes long, and it's made up of some of my
Speaker 1: favorite moments on the radio. It'll be a mixture of
Speaker 1: listener calls and dedications, Delilah's dilemmas, things that cracked me up,
Speaker 1: or thoughts I had that I felt worth sharing again.
Speaker 1: So look for Hey It's Delilah on your favorite podcast
Speaker 1: platform and subscribe. It's a little daily dose of Delilah
Speaker 1: that you can listen to whenever it's convenient for you.