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Speaker 1: Queen Elizabeth is being attacked by bass King. Charles is
Speaker 1: finally get his hands dirty and here with a new
Speaker 1: memoir about being a child star on Iconie Janette McCurdy
Speaker 1: is joining us on the show. So let's do this people,
Speaker 1: let's start. If you don't headlines all right, Before we
Speaker 1: get into the big stories, let's catch up on a
Speaker 1: few other things going on in the world. First up,
Speaker 1: following last week's extreme heats, California has announced that they
Speaker 1: will become the first states to introduce a ranking system
Speaker 1: for heat waves so people can easily understand how hot
Speaker 1: it's going to get. Which isn't that just temperature? Did
Speaker 1: they just invent the thermometer? Like what, I guess I
Speaker 1: could see how this will be useful. It will be
Speaker 1: like hot, extremely hot, dangerously hot. And then in dress alba,
Speaker 1: and if it's idriss alba, stay in doors, stay in
Speaker 1: doors and check on your grandmother. In economic news on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: the government parted that despite raising interest rates, inflation is
Speaker 1: still incredibly high, and in response, the stock market dropped
Speaker 1: thirt points, the worst drop since And can I just
Speaker 1: say the stock market is a little bit no, I mean,
Speaker 1: every single one of our wi supposed to be really
Speaker 1: an inflation not inflacion, down unemployment. We just have to
Speaker 1: do it. We'll roll with it. But the slightest bad
Speaker 1: news and the stock markets like, oh, I'm craggy, this
Speaker 1: is my worst day in two years. Anything I can
Speaker 1: ever come back frightness. And then every time the next
Speaker 1: day it will be like, so I might have reacted
Speaker 1: a little harshly yesterday, I might have ever reacted, And
Speaker 1: I feel like today's gonna be my best day ever.
Speaker 1: So much drama. In science news, NASA is testing a
Speaker 1: new planetary defense system by launching a space probe directly
Speaker 1: into ANATIONID to see if it can knock it off
Speaker 1: its course. Yeah, and I guess if that doesn't work,
Speaker 1: I'm assuming NASA is gonna go with Plan B, which
Speaker 1: is talking to the asteroid about bitcoin until it naturally
Speaker 1: veers away. I'm just gonna drift away from Earth. But
Speaker 1: let's move on to the big news of the day,
Speaker 1: and it is still about Queen Elizabeth, the second Queen
Speaker 1: of the Adels and the First men Calisi of the
Speaker 1: Great Grass Sea and Wales, mother of Corgis and maker
Speaker 1: of chains. After ninety six years of living her best life,
Speaker 1: the Queen's passing has obviously made headlines all over the globe,
Speaker 1: so let's catch up on all those headlines in our
Speaker 1: latest installments of the Royal Rumble Today. Queen Elizabeth was
Speaker 1: laid in states at Westminster, and no surprise, the British
Speaker 1: went all out for it, because the British love doing
Speaker 1: ship all dignified. But they do. Have you seen the
Speaker 1: changing of the guard. That's a forty five minute ceremony
Speaker 1: just to clock out. So when the Queen herself dies,
Speaker 1: best believed the pump was going to be a free way.
Speaker 1: I'm talking streets filled with giant British flags. I'm talking
Speaker 1: soldiers with their fanciest hats. I'm talking to cosket decked
Speaker 1: out with the royal crown on top of it, which
Speaker 1: means technically, for a while that casket was the rule
Speaker 1: of England. Yeah, I read that on Wikipedia, and officials
Speaker 1: expect that more than seven hundred thousand mourners will come
Speaker 1: to see the queen lying in states, with people waiting
Speaker 1: up to thirty hours in a line stretching five miles long.
Speaker 1: It's basically like trying to vote in Georgia. That's how
Speaker 1: dedicated you have to be to see the queen. But
Speaker 1: my favorite ritual, my favorite ritual in this whole thing
Speaker 1: is that, and this is completely true, the Royal beekeeper
Speaker 1: has to inform the queen's bees that the queen had died.
Speaker 1: That is a real thing that they have to do.
Speaker 1: And look, they don't have any footage of it, but
Speaker 1: I feel like I can imagine that it didn't go well.
Speaker 1: Hello everyone, Hello, I'm afraid I have some difficult news.
Speaker 1: The Queen is dead. Yeah no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: not your not your queen, not your queen, the queen,
Speaker 1: not your queen. Calmed down, everyone calmed down. Everything is
Speaker 1: going to be fine, and everything is gonna be fine. Okay,
Speaker 1: we have a new leader and Charles will now be
Speaker 1: the king. No, no, no, camp I'm coming into me.
Speaker 1: So yeah, a lot of people are mourning. But it
Speaker 1: turns out while the Royal family has their official rituals,
Speaker 1: the people have their own way of mourning their beloved queen,
Speaker 1: and Buckingham Palace has politely asked them to cut that
Speaker 1: ship out. Who've also heard that authorities are asking the
Speaker 1: public to stop leaving certain gifts outside Buckingham Palace. What
Speaker 1: can you tell us about that? Yeah, so there's this
Speaker 1: typically asking people not to bring anymore toy bears. So
Speaker 1: this all started during the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations. The
Speaker 1: Queen participated in a video skit alongside an animated version
Speaker 1: of Paddington Bear that was a real hit here a sensation,
Speaker 1: and so in honor of that, people have been bringing
Speaker 1: toy bears and marmalade sandwiches, which were mentioned in Naskit,
Speaker 1: to the grounds of bucking I Palace. There have been
Speaker 1: so many bears brought that the Royal Park Service is
Speaker 1: asking people not to bring any more bears into instead
Speaker 1: bring organic tributes such as unwrapped flowers. Okay, hold up,
Speaker 1: hold up, hold up. This woman ruled the world's largest empire,
Speaker 1: and that's what people remember her for. People like, oh
Speaker 1: the lady who are tea with Paddington? Yeah? Are you
Speaker 1: kidding me? She was the longest reigning queen in world history.
Speaker 1: She drove an ambulance in World War Two. She enlightened legends,
Speaker 1: and she had Princess Diana Killden. You remember her from
Speaker 1: a sketch show some respect Caddington Bears. By the way,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure leaving a trail of teddy bears outside
Speaker 1: the palace is a good idea. I mean, that's already
Speaker 1: how Prince Andrew finds his girlfriends. But it's not just
Speaker 1: marmalade and bears. People are leaving all sorts of things.
Speaker 1: They're leaving flowers, they're leaving pictures. I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: This is a great opportunity to get rid of anything
Speaker 1: that you don't want to. Just disguise it as a gift,
Speaker 1: Just be like, oh, glorious Queen, and I honor you
Speaker 1: with this ottoman that has a wobbly leg. It is
Speaker 1: from the Great Swedish Kingdom of Ikea. But while some
Speaker 1: people and bees are morning her Majesty's passing, many other
Speaker 1: people are having a slightly different reaction. Not everything was
Speaker 1: scripted today. One person protesting Prince Andrew was quickly removed
Speaker 1: from the crown a day earlier. It was signage not
Speaker 1: shouting that police in Edinburgh had issued. This woman's sign
Speaker 1: was in protest and imperialism inflicted the global South, she says,
Speaker 1: and now has been charged with breach of the peace.
Speaker 1: Another man, Simon Hill, where he was arrested and de
Speaker 1: arrested in Oxford and a proclamation ceremony for the king
Speaker 1: after he shouted out who elected him? I love that.
Speaker 1: I feel like everyone in the UK is amazing. It's
Speaker 1: like people heckling you'r sick. Old man's were like, who
Speaker 1: elected him? That's a great lion? Who made you kid?
Speaker 1: All right, your mom, sorry about that, but yeah. The
Speaker 1: police in Britain have arrested people for disrupting the royal
Speaker 1: ceremonies basically but with their opinions, which I was like,
Speaker 1: as the crown has gotten soft, someone just holding a
Speaker 1: sign your guys back in the day, a crowd that
Speaker 1: didn't like you. Their opinion would be that your body
Speaker 1: should be separated from your head. Now they're just holding
Speaker 1: up a sign. You can just turn the other way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you still got a neck. Use it like you're gonna
Speaker 1: arrest the lady in Scotland for holding a sign. I've seen,
Speaker 1: brave heart. When the Scottish want to protest the British crown,
Speaker 1: you'll know, you will know. And this really makes you
Speaker 1: appreciate how much freedom of speech people have you in America.
Speaker 1: You can do whatever you want here. You can say
Speaker 1: the president, you can give a congressman the middle finger,
Speaker 1: you can try to murder the vice president. It's all
Speaker 1: free speech. Maybe it's all free speech. And the backlash,
Speaker 1: the backlash to the British monarchy hasn't just been coming
Speaker 1: from the United King himself, because in many parts of
Speaker 1: the world, especially Africa, people have a very different relationship
Speaker 1: with the queen. Across the African continent, there have been
Speaker 1: people who are saying I will not mourn for Queen
Speaker 1: Elizabeth and they heard it more than a million people
Speaker 1: into a concentration comes where they were tortured and the humanized,
Speaker 1: which is why you see a statement like this from
Speaker 1: the South African opposition and party, the Economic Freedom Fighters
Speaker 1: that said, we do not mourn the death of Elizabeth
Speaker 1: because to us, her death as a reminder of a
Speaker 1: very tragic period in this country, in Africa's history. During
Speaker 1: her seven year reign as queen, she never once acknowledged
Speaker 1: the trust the is that her family inflicted on many
Speaker 1: a Native people that Briton invaded across the world. If
Speaker 1: there is really life and justice after death, Elizabeth and
Speaker 1: her ancistors get what they deserve, May Elizabeth and her
Speaker 1: ancestors get what they deserve. You know what I love
Speaker 1: about that line is that you can't really get angry,
Speaker 1: because if you do, then it means that you acknowledge
Speaker 1: what she deserves is bad. Mad she get what she did?
Speaker 1: How dare you say that, Well, why don't she deserve?
Speaker 1: I don't know, and I know some of these reactions
Speaker 1: seem extreme, but when you consider what the British Empire did,
Speaker 1: these reactions are actually pretty reasonable. Right. You can't expect
Speaker 1: the oppressed to mourn the oppressor. It's never gonna happen,
Speaker 1: and it would be like giving a utgy for the
Speaker 1: guy who stole your hub caps. So I didn't know
Speaker 1: more Reese. Well, but he was definitely a go getter.
Speaker 1: By the way, has anyone seen my hub caps? And
Speaker 1: I of some people would say, but look, Trevor, the
Speaker 1: Queen wasn't really in charge. She's just a figurehead. You
Speaker 1: can't blame her for the atrocities that the British Empire committed. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: fair enough, But you also understand in her entire reign
Speaker 1: she never repented. She never once made amends. Right, there
Speaker 1: wasn't even one like notes apopology on her Twitter. Nothing.
Speaker 1: I mean her crown. Her crown still has that big
Speaker 1: ass diamond that they took from South Africa, right, it
Speaker 1: still has the color of the diamond is the ultimate
Speaker 1: conflict diamond. The least you could do is give it
Speaker 1: back to who, I don't know what kind of loan
Speaker 1: because like you could you could try no find find
Speaker 1: a South African who hosts a letting a TV shows.
Speaker 1: It could be any one of them. Then we'll be
Speaker 1: on the park to forgiveness. All right, that's it for
Speaker 1: the headlines. But before we go to a quick break,
Speaker 1: let's check it on the stock market without finance expert
Speaker 1: Michael Cost to everybody, Michael, it seems like chaos, man,
Speaker 1: What what the hell is happening in the markets. Look,
Speaker 1: the market is down, but Trevor, I am crushing it.
Speaker 1: I mean I crush it so hard. NASA is shooting
Speaker 1: a rocket into me to keep me from crush You
Speaker 1: can even harder than I already m Yeah. By the way,
Speaker 1: that's nuts. The NASA is doing that, shooting a rocket
Speaker 1: into an asteroid. Right, you know what NASA stands for. Okay,
Speaker 1: no asteroid sucker. Hey, NASA, you give us twenty five years.
Speaker 1: We'll take care of Earth on our own. Okay. Well,
Speaker 1: by the way, I got a hot tip for you. Okay,
Speaker 1: And I got a hot tip for you, okay. So
Speaker 1: behind me here these are the three major stock indexes.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna get to that. But first that story
Speaker 1: about in California. How that the new labels for temperature, Trevor. Look, look,
Speaker 1: we can do new labeling. We can we can limit
Speaker 1: carbon emissions, we can go fully electric. But you know
Speaker 1: what the source of that warming is. No one wants
Speaker 1: to talk about this, Okay, the sun, that's right, Hey, son,
Speaker 1: what's your problem? You know you only work half the day.
Speaker 1: You're you're so sensitive. We can't even look direct actually
Speaker 1: at you. Everyone has to revolve around you and son.
Speaker 1: You discriminate against white people. It's true, it's true. It's true.
Speaker 1: It's true. The whider you are, yeah, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: The whider you are, the more the sun hates you.
Speaker 1: But I guess when you're a star, they let you
Speaker 1: do it. Cost the cousin, what do you? Just stop
Speaker 1: talking about the sun? Right, just get to the thing,
Speaker 1: you know. Meanwhile, the moon is just so chill, you
Speaker 1: know photographs. Well, let's you walk on. It controls the tides,
Speaker 1: so I get an early waves so I can rip
Speaker 1: double barrel a frames. Think about it. We made love
Speaker 1: under the moonlight romantic, We made love under the sunlight.
Speaker 1: I get arrested for public fornication. Okay, don't worry. I
Speaker 1: got de arrested later. But why when I get to
Speaker 1: the chart, the on get the chart. The char Americans
Speaker 1: lost billions in value yesterday. That's the negative. Okay, now
Speaker 1: here's the positive. We had billions. That's really good. That's
Speaker 1: a side of a wealthy country, Trevor. If South Africa
Speaker 1: had a bad day, what do they lose forty bucks?
Speaker 1: You know? I mean, look, look, look, look, look look
Speaker 1: at this drop off. Look at this drop off right here.
Speaker 1: That's the SNP. That's the NASDEC, that's the DOW bang
Speaker 1: all at once. By the way, SMP and DOW. Don't
Speaker 1: be afraid to do your own thing. Okay, just once.
Speaker 1: I want the nasteck to go down and the STPN
Speaker 1: now to go up. You don't always have to follow
Speaker 1: the Naztec. It's a naztec jumped off a clip, would
Speaker 1: you because you did? I don't remember the good news
Speaker 1: in the stock market. When someone loses money, somebody makes money.
Speaker 1: And here's my hot tip, all right, find the person
Speaker 1: that made the money and steal the our money. Okay, Trevor,
Speaker 1: back to you. That is that's a lot a tip.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a crime. Michael class everybody, all right,
Speaker 1: when we come back, we're gonna look at how Charles
Speaker 1: has gonna been king for a few days. When we're
Speaker 1: gonna wady at war. You don't listen at the crime.
Speaker 1: Talking back to the Daily Show now, before the break,
Speaker 1: we were talking about how there is a ton of
Speaker 1: baggage surrounding the British monarchy and it has a lot
Speaker 1: of people asking questions about its future. You know, shouldn't continue.
Speaker 1: Should they make Ted lasso the queen? You know he
Speaker 1: might surprise you. Should British taxpayers have to continue funding
Speaker 1: the royal family or should they just privatize it the
Speaker 1: crypto dot com King of England. Either way, it's gonna
Speaker 1: take a lot of work to shape the monarchy into
Speaker 1: something that everyone can get behind. Based on his first
Speaker 1: weekend power, it looks like King Charles isn't the guy
Speaker 1: to do it. When we begin with King Charles and
Speaker 1: his problems with pen his reign to this point has
Speaker 1: been marked by pen problems. The latest was in Northern
Speaker 1: Ireland where he wrote the wrong date on a document
Speaker 1: and then the pen started leaking. He's gonna get And
Speaker 1: that trouble came just days after Charles appeared to get
Speaker 1: angry when there were too many pens on a desk
Speaker 1: he was using, urgently telling an aid to get rid
Speaker 1: of them quick quick, quait I'm sorry, what the hell
Speaker 1: was that? Did you see that thing he did? Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: He's also the rule of an animal kingdom. And by
Speaker 1: the way, I love how Charles says the pens leak
Speaker 1: on him all the time, because is the way bloody
Speaker 1: you literally the King of England. Dude. If you don't
Speaker 1: like the pens, get different pens. I'm not an expert
Speaker 1: in the monarchy, but I'm pretty sure the hierarchy doesn't
Speaker 1: go Prince William, King Charles and then the guy who
Speaker 1: buys the pens. I don't think that's how it goes,
Speaker 1: just getting new pen. I will say, though, I feel
Speaker 1: kind of bad for him. I do because in the
Speaker 1: old days, the king would have never had these issues.
Speaker 1: There's be no leaking pens. Also, the king would never
Speaker 1: get corrected after righting the wrong date that that just
Speaker 1: would have been the new dates. The king would just
Speaker 1: be like Valentine's Days, the fifteenth right, Yes, of course,
Speaker 1: my lord, of course, my lord. Canceling your dinner, everybody,
Speaker 1: I don't care if you are going to propose, just
Speaker 1: cancel it, Patty can Let now, look, maybe King Charles
Speaker 1: is just stressed out right now, maybe that's why this
Speaker 1: is happening, because becoming king is a lot of pressure.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's like fifteen different folks to memorize, and
Speaker 1: you have to sleep with that crowd on. That's not comfortable.
Speaker 1: But if you paid attention to King Charles, back during
Speaker 1: his prince days, you would know that this is pretty
Speaker 1: much how he's always been. The Prince of Wals has
Speaker 1: grown up in such a privileged lifestyle that he doesn't
Speaker 1: have mechanics to choose for himself anymore. Everything he's done
Speaker 1: for him is pajamas oppressed. Every morning is che lasers
Speaker 1: are pressed flat with an iron. The water temperature has
Speaker 1: to be just tepid and only half full. Prince Charles
Speaker 1: does have his valet squeeze one inch of toothpaste onto
Speaker 1: his toothbrush every morning. If anyone gets anything wrong, everybody
Speaker 1: is scolded. On one occasion, he rang me from his
Speaker 1: library and he said, oh, Paul, a letter from the
Speaker 1: Queen seems to have fallen into my waste paper bin.
Speaker 1: Would you pick it out? The waste paper bin was there,
Speaker 1: He was sat. I had to bend down into the
Speaker 1: paper bin and pick out the letter put it back
Speaker 1: on his desk. Will that be all, your Royal highness?
Speaker 1: You know what? This guy had to bend down and
Speaker 1: pick something up for Charles for it, Like when I
Speaker 1: was a kid after King's had to pull swords out
Speaker 1: of stones. This dude can barely pull his dick out
Speaker 1: of his own pants, Percy, I need assistance. I'll cancel
Speaker 1: your dead I need to pay you know you know
Speaker 1: what this this, this tells you. The story about Charles
Speaker 1: is like one the royals have been royally spoilt, all right,
Speaker 1: and too I can tell you that nobody who works
Speaker 1: in that palace is African, because I'll tell you not
Speaker 1: if there was one African mom who worked in that palace.
Speaker 1: You try and pull that, you try and pull that,
Speaker 1: just be over there, just be like, can you come
Speaker 1: and pick this up for me? And she'd be like,
Speaker 1: are you are you? Are you missing your us right now?
Speaker 1: Are you telling me to pick up where I am?
Speaker 1: That there is only one king and that is Jesus
Speaker 1: is only one king in this way, and that is
Speaker 1: jes You pick up that pepper. You pick up that pepper, now,
Speaker 1: Charles look instead of getting angry, Maybe we need to
Speaker 1: understand that the Royals aren't ordinary people, you know, They're
Speaker 1: like strange creatures you need to observe from a distance
Speaker 1: to understand. And that's probably why David Attenborough has teamed
Speaker 1: up with the BBC once again for a new kind
Speaker 1: of nature show. Here we have a rare sighting of
Speaker 1: a silver hairs Charles, who has just been made leader
Speaker 1: of his island kingdom. He is the alpha now, and
Speaker 1: he is not afraid to display his dominus. The rest
Speaker 1: of the tribe watches as the Alpha performs a ceremonial task,
Speaker 1: the ritualistic marking of his territory on an incredibly large
Speaker 1: piece of paper. Boodwit Charles, He's disleased a tossen with
Speaker 1: the positioning of a pen. He bears his teeth in
Speaker 1: an attempt to intimidate you. Confuse us. A message has
Speaker 1: been sent. Your new ruler isn't in her heart? All right,
Speaker 1: Sat June, Because when we come back, Janete McCarney will
Speaker 1: be journey on the show to tell us why she's
Speaker 1: glad her mom dal go away. Welcome back to your
Speaker 1: Damner show. My guest tonight, there's a former Nickelodeon star
Speaker 1: who is here to talk about her best selling memoir,
Speaker 1: I'm Glad my Mom died. Please welcome Jeanettemcody. Ye, Jeanette McCurdy,
Speaker 1: I'll come to the Daily Show. I feel so short,
Speaker 1: aren't touching? That's fine as long as like you can
Speaker 1: you can swing them and you can. Yeah, it's as
Speaker 1: long as you enjoy it, I can lower the desk
Speaker 1: as well if you'd like. This is good, Okay, good, Okay,
Speaker 1: I can't actually do it, I'm glad you asked me
Speaker 1: to do it. Um. Welcome to the show, and congratulations
Speaker 1: on writing a book that I think, for many people
Speaker 1: is seen as not just something funny, not just a
Speaker 1: story that's interesting, but in many ways a cathartic exploration
Speaker 1: of how we see the relationships that we have with
Speaker 1: many of our parents, our care give us, whoever it
Speaker 1: was in our world. Because you wrote a book entitled
Speaker 1: I'm Glad My Mom died and it is a massive hit.
Speaker 1: So two questions, One did you hate your mom? And
Speaker 1: two does everybody? Um? No, I definitely don't hate my mom.
Speaker 1: I I think she was a really complicated and nuanced person,
Speaker 1: and I try to kind of articulate her to the
Speaker 1: best of my ability and all of her many shades
Speaker 1: and colors. To me, her humor is really uh. She
Speaker 1: could say things that were so wild and at times abusive,
Speaker 1: but she just had a certain cadence and a rhythm
Speaker 1: that was so humorous. So I tried to capture that.
Speaker 1: But I certainly didn't hate her, and I think. I
Speaker 1: think that's why it was so important for me to
Speaker 1: write this book, because getting to the place where I
Speaker 1: was finally glad and relieved that she was dead, you know,
Speaker 1: it took me so long to be able to accept
Speaker 1: that um reality. And I also think that's something that
Speaker 1: people I didn't hear anybody talking about. I didn't hear
Speaker 1: anybody saying, you know that the sort of honest reality
Speaker 1: of what their experience with their with their parents was,
Speaker 1: if they had a similar one. It feels like a
Speaker 1: thing that you can't say because society doesn't accept it.
Speaker 1: It just you have to keep moms on pedestal one
Speaker 1: and we all have to have the same experience, and
Speaker 1: that just wasn't mine. So it felt even more important
Speaker 1: to express it in the book. You you go through
Speaker 1: your entire journey. Many people, you know, in American some
Speaker 1: parts of the world will remember you from my colleague you.
Speaker 1: You were this massive child star and on the camera
Speaker 1: you were all smiles. You made people laugh, everybody enjoyed
Speaker 1: what you were doing. As soon as you read through
Speaker 1: the book, you realized that you were suffering, You're experiencing trauma.
Speaker 1: It was really abusive in how you were doing what
Speaker 1: you were doing it. It feels like in many ways
Speaker 1: you were living your mom's dream and she was making
Speaker 1: you do this. Yeah, I would love to know how
Speaker 1: you did it, Like did you have a switch? Did
Speaker 1: you have a did you compartmentalize? Because you you talk
Speaker 1: about it in the book, but you could you could
Speaker 1: never tell. You could never tell on screen what you
Speaker 1: were going through. No. No, So my mom always wanted
Speaker 1: to be an actress. Her dream was to be famous,
Speaker 1: and she would recount sort of these tales of how
Speaker 1: her parents wouldn't let her. She would camp out in
Speaker 1: front of Donny Osmond's house bring him like posters. Chris
Speaker 1: Knight had played Peter Brady in a Brady Bunch. She
Speaker 1: swore like, oh, they had a relationship. I think that
Speaker 1: was not true. Chris Knight, if you're watching, please let
Speaker 1: me know if my mom actually had a relation with you. Um.
Speaker 1: But so, she she was always fascinated with kind of
Speaker 1: Hollywood and the aura in the romance as she saw it,
Speaker 1: and so she put me in acting when I was
Speaker 1: six to kind of give I think in my eyes
Speaker 1: it was to live vicariously through me and to fulfill
Speaker 1: her dream and what she had always wanted. But it
Speaker 1: seems like she subjected you to a nightmare because you
Speaker 1: were in a world where it's supposed to be fun.
Speaker 1: You know, you're making kids television and yeah, and yet
Speaker 1: it seems pretty horrible. I also wonder if this is
Speaker 1: the relationship of many child stars or do you know,
Speaker 1: was was this isolated or do you think this is
Speaker 1: a lot more normal than we'd like to admit. I
Speaker 1: think it's way more common than anyone would care to admit.
Speaker 1: I know, just from my experience of going into auditions
Speaker 1: countless times, I'd have like a hundred three feet for
Speaker 1: my mom would be having me child gatorade. I'd be
Speaker 1: walking in to like pretend to be a homeless child,
Speaker 1: which is just already so kind of messed up as
Speaker 1: it is. And there's these this you know, dozens of
Speaker 1: other girls lined up to also try and be this
Speaker 1: homeless child, and the moms are like eyeing each other
Speaker 1: and like, oh, I hope my daughter is better being
Speaker 1: homeless than yours, And it's like this is so what
Speaker 1: is this world? It's so weird? But I I am
Speaker 1: able to now kind of look back and see the
Speaker 1: humor in it, and I think it is a very
Speaker 1: absurd reality. But I do think there's a lot of
Speaker 1: inherent um iron camera there. I think what you've done
Speaker 1: in the book is precisely that you've looked back and
Speaker 1: you've seen the humor. You use the humor because this book,
Speaker 1: without the humor is a devastating tale of a young
Speaker 1: child who it really would be so awful. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: it would be awful. I think it just would be.
Speaker 1: It would be a lot harder for people to read.
Speaker 1: I think it would be. It would be painful because
Speaker 1: it is still the real thing, you know. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: even think of it as a pretty grab. But but
Speaker 1: the humor is a coping mechanism. It's a tool you're
Speaker 1: processing your life through. There's a point in the book
Speaker 1: where I find myself reading the stories of your mom,
Speaker 1: understanding the complicated world that she existed in, but then wondering,
Speaker 1: you know, like how you see her, Like like did
Speaker 1: you forgive her? Were you able to let it all go?
Speaker 1: Do you still do you still hold some of those feelings?
Speaker 1: Like what has your journey been? Oh my god, what
Speaker 1: a big, good question. That's such a deep like this
Speaker 1: is what I spent ten years in therapy to be
Speaker 1: able to now say on the Daily Show, that's so cool,
Speaker 1: that's really awesome. Um, well, I'm glad you initially you
Speaker 1: know you're speaking kind of the humor, and I do
Speaker 1: think it's a great coping mechanism and and I don't
Speaker 1: I try not to use it as a defense mechanism.
Speaker 1: I use it that way for a long time initially
Speaker 1: when I was first kind of trying to grapple with everything,
Speaker 1: and I think that led to really unfunny choices, and
Speaker 1: my my sense of humor just sort of overcompetatory and
Speaker 1: kind of flailing and obnoxious to be honest. Um, but
Speaker 1: I think finding humor in those really intense moments and
Speaker 1: that those tragedies can bring glevity where it's necessary. I
Speaker 1: hope I've done that. Um with my mom, I haven't
Speaker 1: gotten to a place of forgiveness, and I was trying
Speaker 1: to get to a place of forgiveness for so long.
Speaker 1: In therapy, I would uh sort of plead almost with
Speaker 1: my therapist, like why am I not able to get
Speaker 1: to this place? What is what's wrong with me that
Speaker 1: I'm not able to forgive my mom for this abuse?
Speaker 1: Why am I so terrible that I can't get to
Speaker 1: get to that place. And she eventually said, you know, Janette,
Speaker 1: what if you just kind of dropped uh forgiveness and
Speaker 1: didn't make that your goal, because that's you still trying
Speaker 1: to do your mom's work. I couldn't. Yeah, right, I
Speaker 1: mean that's exactly my react. And I moved to Aaron. Yeah, wow, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's um, yeah, it's it's it's a journey that I
Speaker 1: think far too many people have been. I think a
Speaker 1: lot of the success of the book has been that
Speaker 1: Obviously it's well written, Obviously it's it's it's fantastically told,
Speaker 1: but it is a very complicated topic. How do you
Speaker 1: address the lack of love or the lack of parenting
Speaker 1: that you were supposed to get from that figure, Because,
Speaker 1: as you say, Mom is supposed to be this this
Speaker 1: you know, this god, this icon of everything. Dad in
Speaker 1: some ways as well, but not the same. And yet
Speaker 1: you're in a world where you're going, oh, no, it's true.
Speaker 1: You know, people be like, oh dad mom and dad
Speaker 1: was okay, but Mom is is untouching. Or even with Dad,
Speaker 1: you can be like, oh my dad never showed up,
Speaker 1: and people like my neither, And then it's totally normal,
Speaker 1: but I feel like with moms it is very very
Speaker 1: much and this there's this pedestal of their mind. When
Speaker 1: you when you broached this topic, when you started thinking
Speaker 1: about it, were you worried that people would turn on you? Um?
Speaker 1: I felt even if they did, it was a message
Speaker 1: worth sharing. I really, I really mean that. Wow. I
Speaker 1: love that. Thanks, I really do. That's because that's a
Speaker 1: brave stuns to take, because a lot of people be like,
Speaker 1: how day you talk about your mom like that? It's
Speaker 1: actually it's it's it's it's so crazy, how I mean,
Speaker 1: everything gets memified. And you know, there was a there
Speaker 1: was a post I saw online where someone was trying
Speaker 1: to chastise everybody for talking about the queen, you know,
Speaker 1: and like just going like we're dead, We're glad this
Speaker 1: monarchy is ending in some way. And someone's like, replace
Speaker 1: you think it's funny, try and replace the queen with
Speaker 1: your mom and see how funny it is. And someone
Speaker 1: put a picture of your book up and then it
Speaker 1: was like, I'm glad the queen died. And it feels like, no,
Speaker 1: but it feels like that is it feels like that's
Speaker 1: what the book is dealing with. Is you dealing with
Speaker 1: the idea of a mom and how that how that
Speaker 1: competes or conflicts with your actual mom. Yes, oh my god,
Speaker 1: yeah that should be on the back flap. I can
Speaker 1: write it. You shared your story with us, You've gone
Speaker 1: through world. Now you are back in the world of
Speaker 1: entertainment in a very different way. You behind the camera,
Speaker 1: you're directing, you're writing, You've got a podcasts. It's it's
Speaker 1: interesting because it's a world that was so toxic to you,
Speaker 1: and now you've come back in a different way. Do
Speaker 1: you have a worry that it may suck you back
Speaker 1: in and how do you prevent yourself from going back
Speaker 1: into that space of feeling like you're defined by the
Speaker 1: everything that's that you hated once? Oh my god, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm so can I just say I respect you so much.
Speaker 1: This is so cool. I'm so happy to be here.
Speaker 1: It's true, like this is amazing, like very much. Um.
Speaker 1: I have been scared of that. There have been a
Speaker 1: few times when I've done some some press that shall
Speaker 1: not be named, where it's so bizarre because I'm like
Speaker 1: hearing the pre roll of you know, they show like
Speaker 1: the clip of me from the past or whatever, and
Speaker 1: it's so dramatic. It's like McCurdy vanished from the spotlight
Speaker 1: after her dramatic childhood with the trauma and the deadest.
Speaker 1: It's like, jeez, can we calm down? And then I'm
Speaker 1: like walked out to this, you know, to this like cold,
Speaker 1: dominary kind of set, and then there's the journalist and
Speaker 1: there's three inches of makeup on the guy's face, and
Speaker 1: it's just like, you know, it does feel kind of, um,
Speaker 1: it feels easy to lose sight of reality in these environments.
Speaker 1: And so I really try to keep myself grounded and
Speaker 1: stay on top of you know, therapy and and being
Speaker 1: in touch with things that really are are good touchdowns
Speaker 1: and grounding tools for me, because I do not want
Speaker 1: to get lost in it. But also I will say
Speaker 1: I trust that I won't. I don't think I had
Speaker 1: the tools before to not get lost in it and
Speaker 1: to not feel sort of caught up in the whirlwind
Speaker 1: of show biz. Um. But now I feel like, you
Speaker 1: know what, there's some elements that are really cool about it,
Speaker 1: um like this, and then there are some that aren't,
Speaker 1: and and that's fine. I can use my own discernment
Speaker 1: and and just be grateful for the good experiences. We
Speaker 1: grateful for your book. Thank you it really wonderful. Ay,
Speaker 1: thank you so more. I'm g my mom died it
Speaker 1: was available. About where do you buy your book? Because
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