1 00:00:01,600 --> 00:00:05,000 Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to I've never said this before with 2 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:09,960 Speaker 1: me Tommy di Dario, so today's guest. Oh man, she 3 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:12,879 Speaker 1: brings so much joy to the world and to experience 4 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:15,800 Speaker 1: her beautiful spirit up close and personal, h it was 5 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:19,279 Speaker 1: such a treat. The talented actress Melissa Peterman joins my 6 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 1: show today. Who you know and you love from so 7 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 1: many beloved roles, but you most likely fell in love 8 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 1: with her from her role in the smashit television series Riba, 9 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 1: where she worked alongside the one and only Reba McIntyre. 10 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:33,920 Speaker 1: Of course, so all is right in the world again 11 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,800 Speaker 1: because she's teaming up with her friend in the NBC 12 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 1: comedy Happy's Place, which just got renewed for season two 13 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:43,040 Speaker 1: because that's how popular it is now. Not only did 14 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:45,880 Speaker 1: she reunite with Riba for Happy's Place, but she reunited 15 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 1: with the Riba team of writers to make some magic 16 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:52,239 Speaker 1: come to life in a completely different and new, unique story. 17 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 1: And if you haven't seen Happy's Place yet, here's the 18 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: cliff Notes version. Follow me here. It's about a tough 19 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:00,360 Speaker 1: and lovable woman. That's who Riba plays who and it's 20 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 1: her late father's Tennessee tavern to well only then discover 21 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:08,040 Speaker 1: her new co owner is also the half sister that 22 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 1: she never knew she had. Yeah, did you get all that? 23 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:14,520 Speaker 1: And Melissa plays Gabby, who's worked at the tavern for 24 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:17,440 Speaker 1: quite some time. And let me tell you, Melissa's character 25 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 1: is a total vibe. But here's what I love about 26 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:24,039 Speaker 1: this series. It's about three women that are definitely in 27 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 1: all different places in their lives, and on paper they 28 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 1: seem so opposite, but in reality, well, they all have 29 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 1: some pretty important things to learn from each other. It's 30 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 1: a show full of so much heart. And do you 31 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:37,120 Speaker 1: want to know how much I love hanging out with Melissa? 32 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 1: So much so that I am embarrassed to admit I 33 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 1: invited myself on her next vacation with Reba because that's 34 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:45,960 Speaker 1: how much I enjoyed her company. I didn't want to 35 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:49,760 Speaker 1: leave her. We laughed, we cried, and we had many 36 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 1: heartfelt moments in this conversation that you're about to hear. 37 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 1: So let's see if today we can get Melissa to 38 00:01:55,680 --> 00:02:05,160 Speaker 1: say something that she has never said before. Melissa, Hi, 39 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 1: I am so happy to see you. How are you? 40 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 2: I'm great? Thanks? 41 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:10,200 Speaker 1: You are like radiating right now. 42 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 2: Well, it only took a mirror, I don't know. Two 43 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:15,800 Speaker 2: and a half hours and I just start to radiate. 44 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:17,800 Speaker 1: Well, there we go. Welcome to New York. 45 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:18,959 Speaker 2: Thanks. I love it here. 46 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:20,240 Speaker 1: You love it here, I really do. 47 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 2: I still, in my mind have that thought that someday 48 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 2: I'll have a little place here and I can come 49 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 2: and just see five shows in a weekend and be there. 50 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:31,120 Speaker 2: But I don't know if that's in the cards. You 51 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 2: have to be really young and willing to live with 52 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:36,840 Speaker 2: like ten people, or extremely wealthy. I think to maneuver 53 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:38,640 Speaker 2: New York, right, it could be. 54 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:40,320 Speaker 1: A tough city. It can be a tough city, but 55 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 1: it's a good city. 56 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:43,920 Speaker 2: But it is, and I really I love love being here. 57 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:46,640 Speaker 1: Well, we're happy to have you. Welcome to the show. 58 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 2: Thank you. 59 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 1: I feel like I've already fallen in love with you 60 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:53,720 Speaker 1: because I was looking at your Instagram and I came 61 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:57,920 Speaker 1: across a video where Reba came to set and announced 62 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:01,839 Speaker 1: the season two pickup of Happy Place. Yeah, and your 63 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 1: reaction was so sweet. You have the biggest goofiest beautiful 64 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:09,280 Speaker 1: smile on your face, tears of joy. You were so 65 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,119 Speaker 1: ecstatic in that moment. What does that mean to you? 66 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 2: Ah? Well, clearly a lot I mean it means everything. 67 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:20,040 Speaker 2: I mean, you I felt like I've won the lottery 68 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:23,600 Speaker 2: several times in my lifetime just do a show that 69 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 2: got picked up one time and then to have it 70 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 2: happen a couple times. It's like, it's not that's not 71 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 2: who gets to do that, and just very grateful and 72 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:37,880 Speaker 2: you know, it's funny. I think I was talking about 73 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 2: thinking about it the first time around. I didn't know 74 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:41,840 Speaker 2: what it was going to mean, you know, getting to 75 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 2: do that show. I was naive. I was like, I've 76 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 2: got a job, I'm an actor. I'm doing it, and 77 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 2: I'm just trying to keep my head like low and like, 78 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 2: don't get fired, Melissa, you know. And turns out that 79 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:53,640 Speaker 2: that show, the first Rieba show, changed my life in 80 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 2: so many ways professionally, personally I have lifelong friends and 81 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 2: forever family from there. And the second time around, it's 82 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 2: almost more precious because I know now I know how 83 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 2: rare it is. I know, like when you're kids, like ah, 84 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:08,600 Speaker 2: I'll do this show and then I'll do that show, 85 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 2: and you know, life's all ahead of you, and now 86 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 2: you think it's far more precious to me. This could 87 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:17,040 Speaker 2: be it's really rare and we're taking you want to 88 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:19,159 Speaker 2: like take good care of it, you know, in a 89 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 2: way I know how rare it is. That was a 90 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 2: really long answer. Yes, I was extremely nappy and grateful, 91 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:27,120 Speaker 2: and I cried. 92 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:29,280 Speaker 1: Yes, well, it's beautiful, it really is. And I mean 93 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 1: this show is resonating with people in such a big way. 94 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:36,040 Speaker 1: I mean, seventeen point six million people watch the premiere 95 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 1: across all platforms, which is just a number you don't 96 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:44,160 Speaker 1: see these days anymore. It's right. I mean, you know, 97 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 1: it's such a rarity to hit that kind of a number, 98 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 1: which means people are loving it, they're buying it, they 99 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:50,839 Speaker 1: want more of it. Why do you think that is? 100 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:56,080 Speaker 2: I think I think there's a renaissance of multicams in particular, 101 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:59,039 Speaker 2: because it feels nostalgic. It feels like it's something you 102 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:02,600 Speaker 2: can watch and forget things, and you want to hang 103 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 2: out with these people for what is it now? Twenty 104 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:08,719 Speaker 2: three minutes at a time, I think about what I 105 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 2: watched or what I continue to watch. In times where 106 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:14,280 Speaker 2: I'm like, ugh, this is it's crazy. I need to 107 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:16,359 Speaker 2: turn off. I go to my favorite sitcoms. I go 108 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:19,120 Speaker 2: to my favorite characters, those families. I still watch those 109 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:22,400 Speaker 2: I'll go watch. I think during COVID, I was watching 110 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 2: Family Ties again because I wanted some time with the Keatons. 111 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:27,800 Speaker 2: So I think these kind of shows where you get 112 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:31,719 Speaker 2: to know these characters and they feel like family, they're fun, 113 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:33,400 Speaker 2: they feel good. I think there's a hunger out there 114 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:36,040 Speaker 2: again for them. And people say, you know, sitcoms, they 115 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 2: were dead, they went away. I don't think they ever did. 116 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:41,719 Speaker 2: I just think something felt cooler for a minute, and 117 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:44,520 Speaker 2: then they made more of those, and there's always a 118 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:46,280 Speaker 2: place for them. I like to believe that. 119 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:48,600 Speaker 1: And they're having a big moment right they are. You know, 120 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:51,719 Speaker 1: there's a lot as that comes across traditional broadcast television 121 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 1: that I feel like are pretty explosive. 122 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:56,160 Speaker 2: Yeah. So I think Nightcourt was that first time where 123 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:57,839 Speaker 2: they were doing it and that sort of opened the 124 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 2: door for more sitcoms and four camera multicams to be made. 125 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 2: And I know right now, I feel like I'm opening 126 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:08,200 Speaker 2: up and reading a deadline article, you know, at least 127 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:11,840 Speaker 2: weekly where I'm seeing another multiicam pilot happening, which is exciting, 128 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 2: and you know, I think people think, well, does that 129 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:17,239 Speaker 2: make you nervous that there's no when there's more there's enough. 130 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:20,040 Speaker 2: There's enough pieces of pie for everyone, and when one succeeds, 131 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:23,040 Speaker 2: that means more can succeed, and that's there's not an 132 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 2: infinite amount of success, so it's exciting. 133 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 1: Well, that mentality is one of the many reasons why 134 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:31,599 Speaker 1: you've had so much success in your career, right because 135 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:34,560 Speaker 1: I don't know if everybody thinks like that, and to 136 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:36,720 Speaker 1: support other people and want other people to do well 137 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:39,840 Speaker 1: and look at the big picture of television and think 138 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 1: like that, it's rare. 139 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 2: I think, well, that makes me sad. I think it 140 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:50,840 Speaker 2: should not be rare. But maybe that is why I'm 141 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 2: you know it, When one funny woman succeeds, it doesn't 142 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:56,360 Speaker 2: mean there's less roles for me. Means that means they 143 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:59,280 Speaker 2: want more funny women. And I learned early on. I 144 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:02,279 Speaker 2: don't know or knew early on. Maybe I you know, 145 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:05,320 Speaker 2: Reba was always a great example of watch knowing that 146 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 2: if one person shined, it's better for us. She was 147 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 2: the first one to be like, give Steve Howie that line, 148 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:13,440 Speaker 2: or give Melissa that line, because it's going to be funnier, 149 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 2: and then if we get a laugh, it means everyone 150 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:18,800 Speaker 2: did better that night. So I think that's just been 151 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 2: a night. Maybe I don't know. I'm my parents, I'm 152 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 2: a Midwest girl. It was sort of that way, but 153 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:26,280 Speaker 2: you know, you can still have moments like oh, I 154 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 2: wish I would have gotten that part, but I'm sure 155 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:33,160 Speaker 2: glad she did. And I just think success begets success. 156 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:35,520 Speaker 2: Did I say it begets a word? Let's say it's 157 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 2: a word. It's a word, and it has helped me 158 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 2: in times where I felt like, where's my thing? You know? 159 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 2: And I think that's a bad place to live in. 160 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 2: Whatever you do is where's mine. It's never a healthy, 161 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 2: good place and no success will come to you in 162 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:56,800 Speaker 2: that place. So I really I really made an effort 163 00:07:56,880 --> 00:08:00,520 Speaker 2: early on to really go you know what it's the 164 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 2: part wasn't yours. Yours is still out there, and yes 165 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 2: they went another way, and that person's going to be great, 166 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 2: but it's not you because you have to think that 167 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 2: way as an actor. There's a lot of talented people, 168 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 2: but there's no one that no one will do it 169 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 2: like you did it. So that wasn't your part. They 170 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 2: didn't need that for this part. 171 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 1: You're bringing me to church today and I'm here for it. 172 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:21,679 Speaker 2: Oh, I'm going to be to be fair. I've also 173 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:23,960 Speaker 2: eaten a pack of Cheetos in my car cried for 174 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:27,120 Speaker 2: a minute, you know, after an audition, going like shoot, 175 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 2: I really wanted that. 176 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. 177 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:31,640 Speaker 2: I also feel like there's been times like I've done 178 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:33,679 Speaker 2: a network test and I think I lost a role 179 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:35,720 Speaker 2: because I had a bubble in my throat, like where 180 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:39,319 Speaker 2: you did that any way, and like, no, I've got timing. 181 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 2: I had a bubble. 182 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:42,680 Speaker 1: You've been through it all. 183 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 2: I've been through it all. 184 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:46,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, Well that's amazing. I'm so happy to see you 185 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:47,920 Speaker 1: here at this point of your career on a show 186 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 1: that people love, and you know, coming off of the 187 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 1: Riba Show, I'm working with a lot of the similar 188 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:55,680 Speaker 1: folks you know, behind the camera and front in front 189 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:57,559 Speaker 1: of the camera as well, and now doing the show. 190 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:01,880 Speaker 1: Did you have any fear or anxiety or a worry like, Okay, 191 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 1: people know Reeb and I on this hit show and 192 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:05,920 Speaker 1: now we're doing another one, like are they going to 193 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 1: compare them? What do we did you do? Think like that? 194 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 1: Or no? 195 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:13,679 Speaker 2: Absolutely, you know there was excitement and also yeah, anxiety too, 196 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:16,480 Speaker 2: because people want they love that show is so beloved 197 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:20,480 Speaker 2: and it lives on in syndication and people they maybe 198 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:22,880 Speaker 2: want we want exactly what that was, and we weren't 199 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:25,040 Speaker 2: going to be were It wasn't going to be a reboot, 200 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:26,920 Speaker 2: so you worry like, oh, are they going to like this? 201 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,839 Speaker 2: You're like, well, that's not exactly what we wanted because 202 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:33,440 Speaker 2: people wanted it. They wanted that reboot, and we were 203 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:36,600 Speaker 2: nervous and excited but really hopeful that they would be 204 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:40,520 Speaker 2: accepting of this. And I think we were. Kevin Abbott, 205 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:43,160 Speaker 2: who is was the showrunner on the Riba TV show 206 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:45,520 Speaker 2: and is the showrunner for Happy's Place, We've got him, 207 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:48,400 Speaker 2: We've got Matt Barry, We've got our producers Michael and Mindy, 208 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:51,360 Speaker 2: so we've all been there, and so I think they 209 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:53,720 Speaker 2: were very mindful of going it is going to be different, 210 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:55,880 Speaker 2: and it might bump people for a minute, but if 211 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:58,240 Speaker 2: they hang on, they're going to see that we are 212 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:01,920 Speaker 2: keeping true to the chemist. You two have the feel 213 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:04,079 Speaker 2: of that show, the tone of that show, which is 214 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:06,240 Speaker 2: we want it to be funny, we want it to 215 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:09,160 Speaker 2: have heart, and we want people to want to come 216 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:12,360 Speaker 2: back and spend time with him every week. So but yeah, 217 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:13,640 Speaker 2: I was scared. I was like, Oh, what if they 218 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:15,960 Speaker 2: they're like, it's not Barbara. You know, it's not Reeba 219 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:18,120 Speaker 2: and Barbara Jing again, it's Bobby and Gabby And are 220 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:20,840 Speaker 2: they going to be okay with that? And I'm not 221 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:24,440 Speaker 2: the half sister, I'm this person, and so I think 222 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:27,040 Speaker 2: maybe there probably were people that they were like, well, 223 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:29,560 Speaker 2: this isn't it. But I think if they came back, 224 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:32,480 Speaker 2: they they'll stay. And they did stay. So that was 225 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 2: a relief too. But I was scared. I was like, 226 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:38,199 Speaker 2: what if they what if they want exactly that and 227 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:40,320 Speaker 2: it's not that it's different. 228 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:43,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, well it's clearly resonating in such a big way. 229 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 1: We're there conversations about rebooting Riba before this came to be, 230 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:50,040 Speaker 1: and like how did that happen? And what made you 231 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:52,280 Speaker 1: all decide, you know what, let's do something new. 232 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:54,040 Speaker 2: I wish I could say I'm ever the one who 233 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:57,360 Speaker 2: decides anything, because I'm not. I'm the one like when 234 00:10:57,400 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 2: do you where do I show up? What time? 235 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:00,560 Speaker 1: In your opinion matters? 236 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:05,440 Speaker 2: Well in my house it does. But you know that 237 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:08,160 Speaker 2: the reboot idea has been floated all the time, like 238 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:13,040 Speaker 2: whether it was rumors on social media or actual conversations, 239 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 2: it's been there. I think again, I'm never involved in 240 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:18,880 Speaker 2: any of the big decisions. But part of it I 241 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:21,559 Speaker 2: think was is the timing right? Who owns the rights 242 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:24,080 Speaker 2: to this? And then now somebody bought that company, Now 243 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:25,520 Speaker 2: they own the rights to this. We have to get 244 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:30,040 Speaker 2: permission here, there, and everywhere. So it's always never I 245 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:34,439 Speaker 2: don't think the timing was right for us or for 246 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:36,560 Speaker 2: the people who owned it. I don't know. I don't 247 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:39,920 Speaker 2: know that part. I know that there was conversations about 248 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:42,720 Speaker 2: it and it didn't work out, and then you get 249 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:45,560 Speaker 2: disappointed and you think, is it ever gonna Are we 250 00:11:45,559 --> 00:11:48,080 Speaker 2: gonna ever get to do anything again? And Reba's always 251 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:51,199 Speaker 2: been I think the reason why she is still working 252 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:54,079 Speaker 2: and resonating with people is she's always like, what I'm 253 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:56,520 Speaker 2: supposed to be doing will happen when it's supposed to happen. 254 00:11:56,520 --> 00:11:59,000 Speaker 2: So she was always like, let's have faith, and other 255 00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:02,559 Speaker 2: ideas were floated, like the ideas, different ideas for us 256 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:04,760 Speaker 2: her and I to work together didn't pan out, and 257 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:07,520 Speaker 2: then Julia Abbot, Kevin Abbitt's wife, had this idea about 258 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:10,080 Speaker 2: what if it's woman finds out that has a half 259 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:12,920 Speaker 2: sister upon you know, the reading of the will, and 260 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 2: it came up with this idea and Kevin Abbott wrote 261 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 2: it it felt right, and then little baby steps happened, 262 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:20,959 Speaker 2: and I'm still very cautious when I'm like, okay, great, 263 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:22,439 Speaker 2: so they want you to write a pilot, all right, 264 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 2: Well call me when that goes. And then like, now 265 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:27,120 Speaker 2: they want to we want to make a pilot, all right, 266 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:28,880 Speaker 2: Well we did that. That was great. All right, we'll 267 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 2: call me if it gets picked up. And it was 268 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:35,199 Speaker 2: what did Reba say? It was like cautiously optimistic always 269 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:39,600 Speaker 2: because in this business you don't know. And so yeah, 270 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:42,439 Speaker 2: in every little step it just kept we kept getting 271 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:46,520 Speaker 2: a yes, and that felt really, really good, really good, 272 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:49,080 Speaker 2: And I won't lie the first time we walked on 273 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:51,480 Speaker 2: the first day of walking on the set and seeing 274 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:53,120 Speaker 2: the set and seeing her sitting there, it was like 275 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:56,640 Speaker 2: there were some tears of like it hits here. We've 276 00:12:56,679 --> 00:12:59,560 Speaker 2: been talking about this for twenty years. 277 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:02,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like and it's so rare that you 278 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:04,800 Speaker 1: get to work with people again who you gel with 279 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:06,600 Speaker 1: and love and want to work with. I mean, that's 280 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:09,400 Speaker 1: just not a norm in the business. So what keeps 281 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 1: you coming back from more with three? But why do 282 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 1: you want to keep working with her? 283 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:18,440 Speaker 2: Well, she's truly become one of my closest friends. We 284 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:21,960 Speaker 2: have the timing, like I know, I don't even have 285 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:24,520 Speaker 2: to say anything, and she knows what I'm going to do, 286 00:13:24,559 --> 00:13:26,320 Speaker 2: and I know what she's going to do. And I've 287 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:29,520 Speaker 2: been so lucky. I've worked with so many amazing people 288 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 2: and actors, and there's been there's a few that are 289 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:36,240 Speaker 2: just you just you don't know what it is. But 290 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:38,240 Speaker 2: I felt like that on the first show, like especially 291 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 2: in that season two where just like, oh, we're supposed 292 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:43,600 Speaker 2: to this is supposed to be a comedic duo sort 293 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:47,200 Speaker 2: of thing. She's easy, we have a shorthand, she makes 294 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:50,400 Speaker 2: me laugh. We trust each other, and I think that's 295 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:52,760 Speaker 2: really important for actors, Like when you trust, I know, 296 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:57,040 Speaker 2: I trust, she's got my best interests at heart. She's generous, 297 00:13:57,080 --> 00:13:59,440 Speaker 2: she's fun to work with, and who doesn't. I mean, 298 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:01,520 Speaker 2: as you get older, you don't want to you want 299 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:04,480 Speaker 2: to work with people you like, and I know it's 300 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:07,560 Speaker 2: going to work. Also, here's the deal. If you're gonna 301 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:11,599 Speaker 2: hitch on anyway, and hitch on the one is really successful. 302 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:14,560 Speaker 2: Like I had to tell you, I've done. I mean, 303 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:17,480 Speaker 2: when you're doing when Reba's name is involved, it usually 304 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:20,840 Speaker 2: seems to really work out, and I think I love 305 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:24,080 Speaker 2: watching she assembles really good people around her, and I 306 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 2: think that's why it does do that. So I always 307 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:29,320 Speaker 2: I feel safe with her too in a way because 308 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:32,080 Speaker 2: I feel like she's got everyone's best interest at heart, 309 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:35,400 Speaker 2: you know, And it's fun. She makes me laugh, I 310 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 2: make her laugh, and we have a blast together. 311 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:41,040 Speaker 1: And before you began working together, you didn't know each other, 312 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 1: which is amazing that you built this organic chemistry through 313 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:46,280 Speaker 1: years and years of working together. 314 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 2: The first day, I you know, I knew who she was. 315 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:51,640 Speaker 2: You know, I mean I wasn't living under a rock, 316 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:54,040 Speaker 2: so I knew who she was. And she that first 317 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 2: day in the RIBA show, she's like, hey, I'm Reba McIntyre. Like, 318 00:14:57,120 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 2: we don't need your last name, We're where And even 319 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:02,280 Speaker 2: the first I she called me, I was like, I 320 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:04,760 Speaker 2: was so weird. On the phone, She's like, Melissa, it's 321 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:10,120 Speaker 2: Raba and then McIntyre, I'm like, I know, and I got. 322 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:11,600 Speaker 2: The thing about her is like she puts you at 323 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:13,800 Speaker 2: ease right away, and then we just had fun together. 324 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:17,600 Speaker 2: And you know, I keep shoes at her house in Nashville, 325 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:18,640 Speaker 2: so no one takes my room. 326 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:22,880 Speaker 1: Well, Yeah, you have fun to go your vacation together. 327 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:23,680 Speaker 2: Vacation together? 328 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:26,160 Speaker 1: What is a vacation like with Melissa and Raba? What 329 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:26,880 Speaker 1: can we expect? 330 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 2: A lot of games have been played, Backgammon, Sky Joe everything, 331 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 2: any game, margariteas. 332 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:38,800 Speaker 1: Ooh spicy regular, What are we talking? 333 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:44,040 Speaker 2: Whatever comes out of the blender, cocktails games, lots of 334 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:50,240 Speaker 2: laughs and no makeup. Like everyone's sort of just comfy. 335 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 2: And you always know when lunches. That's a very important 336 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 2: riba McIntire thing. Whether you're traveling or on vacation, we 337 00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:59,720 Speaker 2: always know what time lunches. She needs to know one lunches. 338 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 2: That's good. I like that. 339 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:02,240 Speaker 1: That sounds like a fun trip. 340 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:04,120 Speaker 2: It's a great trip because like I just need to 341 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:05,440 Speaker 2: know where i'd be at lunch. 342 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:07,840 Speaker 1: Do you need a pool boy? 343 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:08,840 Speaker 2: Yes? 344 00:16:09,040 --> 00:16:14,200 Speaker 1: Okay, well absolutely, I'm in great, are in great? I 345 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:23,440 Speaker 1: am so excited. I love hearing stories like that. I 346 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:26,240 Speaker 1: think it's so nice in the arts when people who 347 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 1: work together genuinely love each other and it's a job, 348 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:30,960 Speaker 1: and I think people forget that sometimes and you're paired 349 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:35,080 Speaker 1: with coworkers that maybe not that you don't love, but 350 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:36,800 Speaker 1: you just kind of do your job at go home, 351 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:41,840 Speaker 1: there's you don't like, right, So I think it's always 352 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:44,720 Speaker 1: refreshing to see that. And I think that's the magic 353 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:48,440 Speaker 1: of this show and the other show you guys did together. 354 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:51,200 Speaker 1: It's like you want to be in that circle of friendship, 355 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:51,840 Speaker 1: you know. 356 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:54,600 Speaker 2: And you were talking about like what the nerves were 357 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:56,440 Speaker 2: like too, And then I get nervous, thinking we have 358 00:16:56,440 --> 00:16:59,040 Speaker 2: the we're adding these new cast members, we've got, you know, 359 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:02,200 Speaker 2: to call, and we've got and obviously Rex I've gotten 360 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:04,520 Speaker 2: to hang out with because you know, he and Reebarre together, 361 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 2: so I've gotten to spend time with him. But I 362 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:09,479 Speaker 2: didn't know Bellisa or Pablo or Tokala. And you were like, 363 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:12,480 Speaker 2: I don't want to be I don't want to force that. 364 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:17,320 Speaker 2: Let's we're best friends in force at Chemistry. And it 365 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:22,080 Speaker 2: was a really big relief to genuinely like them so 366 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:24,879 Speaker 2: much at the very beginning because you don't know, you 367 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:26,960 Speaker 2: really don't. You can walk onto any set and you 368 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:29,840 Speaker 2: can respect them, have a good time, do a great 369 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:31,800 Speaker 2: scene together, but do you genuinely want to hang out 370 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:35,320 Speaker 2: with them outside of work? Maybe not. And we've been 371 00:17:35,359 --> 00:17:38,439 Speaker 2: really I've been very lucky. On the first show on 372 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:40,919 Speaker 2: Baby Daddy on Young Sheldon and on this show that 373 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:44,120 Speaker 2: I genuinely like to be with them and hang out 374 00:17:44,119 --> 00:17:47,960 Speaker 2: with these people like I hang out with I still 375 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:51,440 Speaker 2: John Luke and Derek who played the on A Baby Daddy. 376 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:53,920 Speaker 2: My sons came and watched a taping of Happiest Place 377 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:57,359 Speaker 2: for a finale, and I'm still friends with them, and 378 00:17:57,400 --> 00:17:59,639 Speaker 2: Annie Potts and like you know, from Young shelld I 379 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:01,919 Speaker 2: love to see her and I'm Rachel. So it's like, 380 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:04,320 Speaker 2: you're so lucky when you get friendships out of what 381 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:07,399 Speaker 2: you do for eleven you probably have that happen all 382 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:07,760 Speaker 2: the time. 383 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:10,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think it's it's special when that happens, 384 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:12,679 Speaker 1: you know, And you strike me as someone who's very 385 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:16,280 Speaker 1: easy to get along with too, So you you you asked, well, okay, 386 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:18,880 Speaker 1: all right, we'll take up those skeletons later. 387 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:21,760 Speaker 2: My husband's been with me for twenty six years, so 388 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:25,920 Speaker 2: I'm not always but I think so yeah. 389 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:27,640 Speaker 1: And that's a cool energy to bring to any sort 390 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:30,919 Speaker 1: of job. And I think that also sets the tone 391 00:18:31,119 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 1: for what the experience will be like, which is really 392 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:36,359 Speaker 1: cool and amazing. People keep popping up in this show 393 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:40,520 Speaker 1: from from the past. We'll say, right, yes, Christopher rich Rich. 394 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:43,960 Speaker 1: He really hasn't done a ton, right. He was sick 395 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,959 Speaker 1: and I believe had a stroke, Yeah, and hasn't acted 396 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:47,959 Speaker 1: much since. 397 00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:51,200 Speaker 2: This is not much really sense the stroke. And I 398 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:53,600 Speaker 2: think a lot of people didn't know that he had 399 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:55,680 Speaker 2: had a stroke, you know. I mean obviously it's not 400 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 2: something that he probably announced him, you know, immediately, but 401 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:01,720 Speaker 2: I think that he's and open about it in more 402 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:05,359 Speaker 2: recent years. But yeah, he had a he had a 403 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:07,800 Speaker 2: pretty big stroke. I think about eight years ago. I 404 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 2: think it was eight years ago around Eastern and terrifying 405 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:13,840 Speaker 2: and scary because you know, this was it is prime. 406 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:15,800 Speaker 2: He's got he had two he has two kids and 407 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:20,239 Speaker 2: three kids and anyway, it was, it was it was. 408 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:23,760 Speaker 2: I was at the hospital I think within days of 409 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:25,520 Speaker 2: that happening, and we were all there for him, and 410 00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:28,320 Speaker 2: it was really terrifying, and so it was so lovely 411 00:19:28,359 --> 00:19:32,560 Speaker 2: to get him to come back and and to and 412 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:35,119 Speaker 2: to do his thing and to watch him do it 413 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:36,639 Speaker 2: and have a place for like we were like you 414 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 2: you need to come back, they want to see you. 415 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:42,160 Speaker 2: And I think for him he was always He's always Chris. 416 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:44,760 Speaker 2: His body betrayed him in a way that terrified him. 417 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:47,560 Speaker 2: And I think he was nervous, and so this was 418 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:50,439 Speaker 2: a safe place to go. You are Chris Rich, You 419 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:54,680 Speaker 2: are an amazing actor. And to me, he's my family 420 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:58,320 Speaker 2: because Rock was he was Brock and Barbaging. He was 421 00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:00,960 Speaker 2: my truly my partner on that show. And I was 422 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:03,520 Speaker 2: young and he taught me so much and he is 423 00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:06,800 Speaker 2: forever my family. So it was just so gratifying to 424 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:10,760 Speaker 2: have him come and he crushed it. He crushed it 425 00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:14,600 Speaker 2: and he and he was so open about and even 426 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:16,760 Speaker 2: in those women there was talks before about if there 427 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:19,160 Speaker 2: was a possible rebo what happening. Chris was very much 428 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:22,080 Speaker 2: like I will say that Brock had a stroke. He 429 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:24,800 Speaker 2: was not going to be shy about wanting to explore 430 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:27,359 Speaker 2: what those what that story would be, and that what 431 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:29,480 Speaker 2: it would be like for Barbaging if she was a caretaker, 432 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:31,320 Speaker 2: and stuff like that. So I love that he was 433 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:34,720 Speaker 2: really willing to be open about it and talk about 434 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 2: what the realities of it are, find humor in it, 435 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:42,400 Speaker 2: make the jokes, because again you have to if you 436 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:45,680 Speaker 2: you know, we all know somebody or were related to somebody, 437 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:48,199 Speaker 2: or someone we love is related to somebody that has 438 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:52,359 Speaker 2: maybe gone through a stroke, Parkinson's any of these things 439 00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:55,119 Speaker 2: that are just hard for everybody to deal with. So 440 00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:57,320 Speaker 2: again I feel like I'm rambling. 441 00:20:57,359 --> 00:21:00,280 Speaker 1: Do you edit these You're weally want to edit yoube 442 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:02,040 Speaker 1: we don't want to edit you. I'm here for all 443 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 1: of it. That's that's the beauty of the show. You 444 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:06,680 Speaker 1: can actually freely speak and not worry about a SoundBite, 445 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:07,240 Speaker 1: you know what I mean? 446 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:09,680 Speaker 2: Well, it was it was for we was so great. 447 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:12,840 Speaker 2: We've had Steve and which was a whole other wonderful 448 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:15,320 Speaker 2: thing because he's like my brother that I grew up with. 449 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:18,960 Speaker 2: I remember watching him go in for his final test 450 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:22,640 Speaker 2: as Van on Riva and he just was bouncing off 451 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:25,919 Speaker 2: the walls and so funny, so great, and I'm like, 452 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:28,240 Speaker 2: if this guy doesn't get it, I don't know who 453 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:32,439 Speaker 2: could play Van. He was just amazing. No one funnier, 454 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:35,320 Speaker 2: no one makes me laugh like Steve Howie and that 455 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:37,480 Speaker 2: was lovely. But for Chris, it was especially sort of 456 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:41,960 Speaker 2: gratifying just to watch him come out and be received 457 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,280 Speaker 2: so well, like you can. You're such a great you 458 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:48,720 Speaker 2: give so much hope to everybody like that. Keep going 459 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:52,360 Speaker 2: and get back out there, and I hope he comes back. 460 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:54,280 Speaker 2: The doors are open for him to come back. 461 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:56,479 Speaker 1: Well, I know the fans are going wild over it, 462 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:59,680 Speaker 1: and they love seeing these little you know, respects to 463 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:02,359 Speaker 1: the past that keep popping up in this show, in 464 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:07,159 Speaker 1: particular the finalees coming up? Yeah, can you tell us anything? 465 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:08,440 Speaker 1: Is there anything we can expect? 466 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:12,959 Speaker 2: Oh? I was like, when did we shoot that? I remember? 467 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:13,199 Speaker 1: Oh? 468 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:18,600 Speaker 2: Yes, I know we have as all good finale season finales, 469 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:21,640 Speaker 2: and there is a little bit of a cliffhanger where 470 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:23,680 Speaker 2: we want to pick it up right where it lefts off. 471 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:28,360 Speaker 2: What can I say? I think I can. I think 472 00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:31,000 Speaker 2: they've hinted a little bit about on the show. I 473 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:34,160 Speaker 2: know the episodes, they've hinted a little bit about Emmett 474 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:36,640 Speaker 2: and Bobby, a little bit of that relationship. And I 475 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:41,240 Speaker 2: think that there's there's a moment in this finale that's 476 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:44,040 Speaker 2: kind of fun. Okay, I can say that, you'll want 477 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:46,439 Speaker 2: you here's what I'll say. You'll watch it go like, 478 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:48,320 Speaker 2: when is it coming back? I want to know what happens. 479 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,000 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, oh, cliffhanger. 480 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:53,399 Speaker 2: There might be a little I can say. I can. 481 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:55,000 Speaker 2: I think I can say there might be a little 482 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 2: love in there. 483 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Well, we're ready for it. We're ready 484 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:01,480 Speaker 1: to watch that. I think it's so cool that you're 485 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:03,280 Speaker 1: sitting here across from me and I'm thinking in my 486 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:05,880 Speaker 1: mind about all the shows you've done and how you've 487 00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:09,720 Speaker 1: consistently been working in that sitcom space, right, like you've 488 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:11,920 Speaker 1: become one of the raining queens of sitcom. 489 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:14,320 Speaker 2: And wow you have and you have you recorded that? Right? 490 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:20,640 Speaker 1: You should put that on your Instagram Buio queen of 491 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:21,639 Speaker 1: rob coms too. 492 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:24,639 Speaker 2: Maybe right, that's you know what, there's still life in 493 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:26,600 Speaker 2: this old girl. I can be wrong. It can be 494 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:27,919 Speaker 2: a romantic comedy, right. 495 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:31,600 Speaker 1: You can do it all, but it's it's amazing because 496 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:34,080 Speaker 1: that's not the norm. So what do you think is 497 00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:38,879 Speaker 1: one of your secrets to success with your work? 498 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 2: Don't be afraid to not be number one on the 499 00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:47,040 Speaker 2: call sheet or number two or number three or even 500 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:52,679 Speaker 2: number four, Like don't it's be the team player, be that, 501 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:56,080 Speaker 2: be the sidekicks. Sometimes it comes in and like, I 502 00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:57,600 Speaker 2: don't know, I think some people are like, oh, I 503 00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:00,199 Speaker 2: don't want to do that. That's that seems like it's 504 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:02,120 Speaker 2: not enough or it's not big enough. Like no, it's 505 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:04,879 Speaker 2: being part of an ensemble. To me is where I 506 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:08,320 Speaker 2: think everyone can really shine. So I don't know, don't 507 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:12,919 Speaker 2: be afraid to be the bet story. I think because 508 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:15,679 Speaker 2: sometimes when you're great at the B story, you become 509 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:19,680 Speaker 2: the A story. Does that make sense. I've always felt 510 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:24,679 Speaker 2: such freedom and not on being the sidekick in a 511 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:27,200 Speaker 2: way and getting there's to me there's freedom and getting 512 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,639 Speaker 2: to be a little bit crazy, the crazy one, the 513 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:33,399 Speaker 2: one that has a little I don't have to hold 514 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:36,119 Speaker 2: everything together. I can have a little of freedom in there. 515 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:39,439 Speaker 2: And I love that. And I love sitcoms. I'm a 516 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:42,720 Speaker 2: theater girl at heart, and so there's to me that 517 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:45,200 Speaker 2: medium is like a one act play every week. So 518 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:48,359 Speaker 2: I love rehearsal. I love coming up with bits. I 519 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:52,320 Speaker 2: think if I could say if I had a secret sauce, 520 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 2: and I don't know if I have a secret sauce, 521 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:56,480 Speaker 2: but I think it's my ability in rehearsals to try 522 00:24:56,480 --> 00:25:01,639 Speaker 2: stuff and to not be afraid to to ask to 523 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:05,520 Speaker 2: try something. And and I've been very lucky that I've 524 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:10,520 Speaker 2: been with showrunners and writers that allow that to happen. 525 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 2: Like I love to I have ideas. I think that's 526 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 2: a good thing, come to work with ideas. I think 527 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:18,760 Speaker 2: that makes maybe people I hope want to work with 528 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:21,000 Speaker 2: me that I just don't wait for them to tell 529 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:22,560 Speaker 2: me what to do. I've like, I've already thought of 530 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:24,479 Speaker 2: six things. What if we had this, this, and this. 531 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 2: You know it's funny. Straws are funny. Let's get a 532 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:29,080 Speaker 2: straw in there, Like I like to be that person 533 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:31,320 Speaker 2: that and I love it. You know, I've been really lucky, 534 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 2: Like we've got a props department that you know that 535 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:35,959 Speaker 2: goes Kenny. You know it'll be funny. Let's try this 536 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:38,920 Speaker 2: and those little details of like really, I really love 537 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:42,199 Speaker 2: the medium. I just love and I love funny. And 538 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:48,119 Speaker 2: I think I think I understand comedy. I think so 539 00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:51,520 Speaker 2: I understand comedy. Maybe that's why I'm good at it. 540 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:53,560 Speaker 2: But I love it. And I think there's been times 541 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:55,520 Speaker 2: where I've taken the job that maybe felt like it 542 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:59,280 Speaker 2: wasn't not not it wasn't, but just like you do 543 00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:01,440 Speaker 2: want to be there. You're supposed to be the guest 544 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:04,280 Speaker 2: star on just a Pilom, Well maybe I was supposed 545 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:07,000 Speaker 2: to be, but now I'm on every episode, you know 546 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:08,760 Speaker 2: what I mean? Like, don't I think there was some 547 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:10,919 Speaker 2: of some of those moments in my life and for 548 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,199 Speaker 2: sure on that's how it happened on Baby Daddy. I 549 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:17,400 Speaker 2: think Bonnie Wheeler was supposed to not be in every episode, 550 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 2: and I think people like, you're just gonna play the mom, 551 00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:20,760 Speaker 2: and they're like, yeah, I'm gonna play the mom on 552 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:22,280 Speaker 2: that and I'm gonna have a great time. It's gonna 553 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:25,720 Speaker 2: be fun. And it turns out I did a hundred episodes. 554 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:29,360 Speaker 2: So I think, say yes to those things and show. 555 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:30,920 Speaker 1: Up, because you never know where it's gonna do. 556 00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:33,439 Speaker 2: You never know, you never know. I always tell it 557 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:35,520 Speaker 2: to people. Someone asks you to come fill in at 558 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:37,320 Speaker 2: a table read because an actor can't make it, and 559 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:39,320 Speaker 2: even though you know it's not your part, go in 560 00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:42,640 Speaker 2: there and kill it at the table read. Someone's watching 561 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:47,080 Speaker 2: you that has another part somewhere else, So say yes 562 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:47,760 Speaker 2: and show up. 563 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:50,720 Speaker 1: Are you somebody who has faced a lot of rejection 564 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,359 Speaker 1: in your career because it seems like you've been working 565 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:54,280 Speaker 1: non stop? 566 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,680 Speaker 2: Well, that's it appears that way, I mean, and I've 567 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 2: been very lucky that I have, and very pretty much not. 568 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:07,040 Speaker 2: I've had some dry years for sure, and faced rejections. 569 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:09,000 Speaker 2: A lot of parts I really wanted that I didn't get. 570 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:14,000 Speaker 2: Sometimes felt like not part of the cool club of comedy, 571 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:17,679 Speaker 2: you know sometimes but then reminding myself that there is 572 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:20,320 Speaker 2: way everyone feels like they're not in a club sometimes. 573 00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:22,800 Speaker 2: I think I've learned that lesson as I got older, too, 574 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 2: where like you can be in a room where everyone 575 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,600 Speaker 2: I just think are legendary and I admire so much, 576 00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:30,080 Speaker 2: and I guarantee you they're probably and I went, oh 577 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:32,960 Speaker 2: my gosh, they that person. They looked at me and 578 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,280 Speaker 2: they might have known my name or or I can 579 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:37,600 Speaker 2: tell them how much. And everyone feels like they don't 580 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:40,560 Speaker 2: they're not in the club. I kind of think that, 581 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:43,800 Speaker 2: I know, I know that, I think everyone doesn't feel 582 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:45,720 Speaker 2: like they're part of the club. But I have faced rejection. 583 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:50,639 Speaker 2: I've been fired before, and that's awful, and it happens 584 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:52,679 Speaker 2: to everyone where you get fired from a pilot or 585 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:54,880 Speaker 2: you get recast, that's what they call it. It doesn't 586 00:27:55,119 --> 00:28:00,440 Speaker 2: make it not be firing. You're fired, and I'll forget 587 00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:03,879 Speaker 2: it was. And the people on the show called me 588 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,399 Speaker 2: and just said, it wasn't about you, and you're funny 589 00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:08,520 Speaker 2: and great, and it was. It really wasn't about me. 590 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:13,080 Speaker 2: It's sometimes about that they wanted somebody shorter or whatever. 591 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:15,880 Speaker 2: But I've really tried very hard, and I think I've 592 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:17,600 Speaker 2: been I think I've done it every time when I 593 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:20,040 Speaker 2: when it's been someone else that's gone Friday, I made 594 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,080 Speaker 2: sure I reached out and let them know, because when 595 00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:24,919 Speaker 2: someone reached out to me, it made the difference for me, 596 00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:27,199 Speaker 2: you know. And the very next day I had an 597 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:29,760 Speaker 2: audition for another thing by the same producers, so in 598 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:31,840 Speaker 2: their mind it was like, no big deal. We just 599 00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:34,520 Speaker 2: fired her from there because she wasn't right. There's this 600 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,200 Speaker 2: other thing, and I'm like, oh my god, I still 601 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:40,160 Speaker 2: have orange dust on my fingers from the Cheetos I 602 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:42,200 Speaker 2: ate in the car. I got to wash this off 603 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:45,480 Speaker 2: and go to an audition, you know. And I do 604 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:47,680 Speaker 2: remember that quite clearly, thinking if I don't get up 605 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:51,240 Speaker 2: and go to that audition today, I might not do 606 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,800 Speaker 2: it for a while. And I did. And I think 607 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:56,640 Speaker 2: that every actor and any it doesn't even matter if 608 00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,800 Speaker 2: you're in the business. I think where all everyone gets rejected. 609 00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:02,760 Speaker 2: I think it hurts my parents more now than it 610 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:04,920 Speaker 2: ever did me. My mom like, you know what, I'm 611 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,200 Speaker 2: not gonna I'm not going to buy that cereal. You 612 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,440 Speaker 2: didn't get that commercial like A like I'm not going 613 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:11,320 Speaker 2: to I'm like you know, Pam, I think that they 614 00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:14,160 Speaker 2: noticed that big dip in the Midwest sales and the 615 00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:17,880 Speaker 2: director feels horrible. They feel horrible, or sometimes she'll be like, 616 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:21,120 Speaker 2: do you have his number? I'm like, you're not calling them, Pam. 617 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:22,240 Speaker 1: I love a protective parent. 618 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:25,760 Speaker 2: They're very protective and if a show doesn't get you know, 619 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:28,400 Speaker 2: if I didn't get picked up with my mom, they 620 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,360 Speaker 2: would be devastated, which I understand now. As a parent, 621 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:33,800 Speaker 2: you just want you don't want your kids to face it. 622 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:37,000 Speaker 2: But I'm getting I'm pretty good at rejection. You have 623 00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:44,600 Speaker 2: to be yeah, right, yeah. 624 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:47,600 Speaker 1: Sometimes from the outside it con SeeMe oh my god, 625 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:50,120 Speaker 1: there's nothing to worry about in your world and everything 626 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:53,240 Speaker 1: just comes so naturally and easy. But you too have 627 00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:55,600 Speaker 1: had to overcome your own hurdles to get to where 628 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:58,520 Speaker 1: you are. And you've had longevity in this business because 629 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:00,960 Speaker 1: a your talented, but be you've never stop believing in 630 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,400 Speaker 1: yourself and you keep going and you don't let those 631 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:05,440 Speaker 1: hardships stop you and believing that. 632 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:09,040 Speaker 2: There might be years where you're not consistently working, but 633 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:12,720 Speaker 2: you're working enough, and then you have a year that's 634 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:17,200 Speaker 2: spectacular as far as you've been so busy and cherishing that. 635 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:18,640 Speaker 2: I think that's what I was sort of alluding to 636 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:20,880 Speaker 2: in the beginning of like, I know how special it 637 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:22,960 Speaker 2: is now, Like you know, twenty some years ago, you're 638 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,040 Speaker 2: like great, and then I'll do this show and I'll 639 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:26,920 Speaker 2: get this show and that show, and now you know, 640 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:30,000 Speaker 2: like this might be the last show or the last thing, 641 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:33,080 Speaker 2: or or for a while it might be. So enjoy 642 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:36,160 Speaker 2: every minute and then be ready to ride out maybe 643 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:39,720 Speaker 2: that next little dry wave until it comes back at you. 644 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:43,400 Speaker 1: You know. So from being that woman on day one 645 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:46,800 Speaker 1: of Reba to where you are right now, what do 646 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,160 Speaker 1: you think you've learned about yourself? What's been one of 647 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:52,479 Speaker 1: the greatest lessons you've given yourself throughout all those years? 648 00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:55,600 Speaker 2: My knees are not going to stay as good as 649 00:30:55,680 --> 00:31:01,760 Speaker 2: they were. And you know more than you think you do? 650 00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:02,800 Speaker 1: Mmm? 651 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:06,240 Speaker 2: I think that I think I know more. I always thought, 652 00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:08,280 Speaker 2: well I didn't know that, or why would I be 653 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:10,160 Speaker 2: able to answer that question. I think I think I 654 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:12,360 Speaker 2: know more than I thought I did. As far as 655 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:14,280 Speaker 2: you know, I think we all learned stuff through us. 656 00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:16,040 Speaker 2: Most is that we don't give our self credit for 657 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:19,160 Speaker 2: or if you're paying attention, And I think I know 658 00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:23,840 Speaker 2: I know more about particularly this business and I than 659 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,080 Speaker 2: I thought I did. I don't know does that I 660 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:27,160 Speaker 2: don't even know if that makes sense? 661 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:27,960 Speaker 1: It does? It does? 662 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:29,320 Speaker 2: I don't feel like I'm in a studio and I 663 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:31,800 Speaker 2: want to I'm trying to like like give a Ted 664 00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:34,760 Speaker 2: talk and I is it? But you know what I mean, Like, 665 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:36,440 Speaker 2: am I saying it right? You are? 666 00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:38,720 Speaker 1: You are? I think that's very right on. I think 667 00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:43,040 Speaker 1: we sometimes we're our biggest doubters sometimes right and to 668 00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:45,920 Speaker 1: your point, we need a trust and we know what 669 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:46,239 Speaker 1: we know. 670 00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:48,640 Speaker 2: And I know I know more than I thought. Like 671 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:50,400 Speaker 2: there's times where I'm like, oh, I know why we're 672 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,560 Speaker 2: switching this scene because that set's got to come down, 673 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,840 Speaker 2: because that can't stay there, because we need to bring 674 00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:56,520 Speaker 2: this thing. And there's stuff like that where I'm like, 675 00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:58,640 Speaker 2: I did know that and I knew that then, or 676 00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:00,800 Speaker 2: I know why we have to do it in this order, 677 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:04,200 Speaker 2: or I understand why this line doesn't work if we're 678 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:07,360 Speaker 2: moving on it, if you're standing still hilarious, if we're 679 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:10,400 Speaker 2: moving doesn't work, you can't have him. You know, there's 680 00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:12,880 Speaker 2: stuff like that where I go I do know more, 681 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,720 Speaker 2: I know more than I than I thought I did. 682 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:18,560 Speaker 1: So speaking of what you didn't know, when did you 683 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:20,560 Speaker 1: know you were actually funny? Like did you have a 684 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:23,400 Speaker 1: moment where that clicked and you thought, oh, hmm, I 685 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:24,560 Speaker 1: can make a career in this. 686 00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:26,440 Speaker 2: I don't know if I thought I could make a 687 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:28,000 Speaker 2: career in it, but I knew that there was I had. 688 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:31,560 Speaker 2: I knew that there was something about the power of it. 689 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:33,720 Speaker 2: Like it was junior high and I think I made 690 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,400 Speaker 2: like people laugh in a classroom and I was like, huh, 691 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,000 Speaker 2: I like this, Oh, maybe not going to notice how 692 00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:40,880 Speaker 2: tall I am, or how awkward I am, or how 693 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:45,800 Speaker 2: this perm is not quite working on me. And I 694 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:48,120 Speaker 2: knew then that I liked that. And also as a 695 00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:51,000 Speaker 2: little kid, for real, my aunt Susan Cathy, they were 696 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,520 Speaker 2: like my mom's younger sisters, and they they had an 697 00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:55,240 Speaker 2: apartment and my sister and I got to go over 698 00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:57,880 Speaker 2: there on weekends and I got to watch Saturday Night Live. 699 00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:03,080 Speaker 2: I got to watch you know, Carol Burnett, Second SETV 700 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:05,400 Speaker 2: all that stuff, and I was like, I don't I 701 00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:08,440 Speaker 2: want to do that. I want to do whatever they're doing. 702 00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:13,000 Speaker 2: And I would put it. I would, you know, try 703 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:14,800 Speaker 2: to make my aunts laugh then, But it was junior 704 00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:17,080 Speaker 2: high where I really like. I remember like I made 705 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:19,760 Speaker 2: a joke. I think maybe it was in geometry, and 706 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:22,120 Speaker 2: I know that I made everyone laugh, and I thought, huh, 707 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:26,760 Speaker 2: all right, lean into this Peterman because Homecoming Queen is 708 00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,600 Speaker 2: not going to be yours. It ain't happening. And I 709 00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:32,480 Speaker 2: was voted in high school most likely to become a comedian. 710 00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:34,760 Speaker 2: I think I sort of leaned into into it then. 711 00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:36,440 Speaker 2: But I think I knew was a little kid like 712 00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:39,440 Speaker 2: I was always observing, and I think that's what people, 713 00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:42,760 Speaker 2: or I think when people are surprised at the funniest 714 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:44,640 Speaker 2: person like that, they want to meet her a comic. 715 00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:46,960 Speaker 2: Maybe in real life they're a little more of an introvert. 716 00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:48,600 Speaker 2: And I think that a lot of people that are 717 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:51,719 Speaker 2: funny are watching people. And I loved to like watch 718 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,360 Speaker 2: people and observe them. And I think I knew what 719 00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:56,760 Speaker 2: funny was pretty early on. 720 00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:00,600 Speaker 1: Thank God, Thank God. Imagine a world without your I mean, 721 00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:01,280 Speaker 1: what would we do? 722 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:05,080 Speaker 2: It will be quieter if I bring a lot of quality, 723 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:06,440 Speaker 2: but I make up for it in volume. 724 00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:08,319 Speaker 1: Well, we're here for all of that. We want more 725 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:08,960 Speaker 1: and more and more. 726 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:10,720 Speaker 2: If it wasn't funny, then get louder. 727 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:14,160 Speaker 1: Oh, I like that. Yeah, I like that, Melissa. I 728 00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:16,560 Speaker 1: could talk to you for twenty more hours, but I'm 729 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:17,720 Speaker 1: not going to keep coffee. 730 00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:18,680 Speaker 2: I'm not going to sleep tonight. 731 00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:19,720 Speaker 1: Should we get cocktails? 732 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:20,640 Speaker 2: Yes? 733 00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:22,560 Speaker 1: I should have had cocktails. 734 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:23,200 Speaker 2: Express some martinis. 735 00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:25,600 Speaker 1: Oh, I mess that up next time, next time. But 736 00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:29,799 Speaker 1: as we wrap up this episode, I know the name 737 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,200 Speaker 1: of the show is called I've never said this before, 738 00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:35,840 Speaker 1: Oh you know it's coming. So this was born because 739 00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:38,080 Speaker 1: I cover a lot of red carpets and junkets, and 740 00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:39,840 Speaker 1: you get a minute and a half on a carpet, 741 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:42,799 Speaker 1: you get three minutes in a junket. It's not real conversation. 742 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:46,120 Speaker 1: It's you know, headline based, and it's mainly about the 743 00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:48,080 Speaker 1: project and only the project, which is great and has 744 00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:50,920 Speaker 1: tremendous value. But I wanted to create a space where 745 00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,480 Speaker 1: people can come on and really show a different side 746 00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:55,279 Speaker 1: that they don't get to. We's show and show that 747 00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:59,759 Speaker 1: human connection. So is there anything you can think of 748 00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:02,279 Speaker 1: what what that means to you that you've never said 749 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:05,240 Speaker 1: before in an interview that you want to share today? 750 00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:09,440 Speaker 2: Well, you were great because you gave me time to ponder, 751 00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:14,319 Speaker 2: and I think I've pondered it so much and there's 752 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:19,480 Speaker 2: so many ways to go, and I know that I 753 00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:21,319 Speaker 2: thought about it, and I thought about it a lot, 754 00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:23,040 Speaker 2: and I think that I don't know if this will 755 00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,920 Speaker 2: be helpful. I will probably cry, but I think you 756 00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:29,759 Speaker 2: want me to cry. No, When I think this might 757 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,240 Speaker 2: be helpful, I think that something I've never said before 758 00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:40,280 Speaker 2: is I was always the mom I wanted to be. Yeah, Wow, 759 00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:44,240 Speaker 2: it's hard to balance everything. 760 00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:46,240 Speaker 1: Did you ever doubt? 761 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:50,200 Speaker 2: I always every parent out there will feel like they 762 00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:54,320 Speaker 2: doubt how they did. My son is great, he's wonderful. 763 00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:56,719 Speaker 2: He's nineteen. And I know I was there more than 764 00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:59,400 Speaker 2: you know you could always have been because I had 765 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:03,160 Speaker 2: the luxury of nine to five. But sometimes you just wish. 766 00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:06,600 Speaker 2: I don't know. I think I was always the best 767 00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:09,719 Speaker 2: mom that I could be in that moment, But as 768 00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:12,200 Speaker 2: a parent, I think maybe I'm an empty nester right now. 769 00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:15,080 Speaker 2: So he just left, so I'm like really missing him. 770 00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:17,000 Speaker 2: So I think I just want to go back and 771 00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:18,040 Speaker 2: do moments again. 772 00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:19,120 Speaker 1: It goes fast. 773 00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,000 Speaker 2: It goes fast. So everyone out there when they go like, oh, 774 00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,360 Speaker 2: enjoy every minute goes fast, and you're like, no, it doesn't. 775 00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:26,719 Speaker 2: I'm I'm holding a shitty diaper right now and I 776 00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:28,879 Speaker 2: want to take a nap, enjoy it for real, because 777 00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:32,799 Speaker 2: it does go super fast and I like it. I 778 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:34,960 Speaker 2: wanted to say that because I think everyone thinks you 779 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:36,799 Speaker 2: can do it all every second, and the reality is 780 00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:39,719 Speaker 2: every day you can do one thing really well and 781 00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:41,160 Speaker 2: one thing kind of well, and the next day you 782 00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:42,960 Speaker 2: might do the other thing really well and the other 783 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,759 Speaker 2: thing kind of well. So yeah, I don't think I oh, 784 00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:47,360 Speaker 2: I don't think you always get the luxury to be 785 00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:50,600 Speaker 2: the exact parent in every moment, Like you're like, uh, 786 00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:53,120 Speaker 2: I wish I didn't have the phone that day, or 787 00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:56,840 Speaker 2: you know, there's just a little nothing tragic or anything 788 00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:59,839 Speaker 2: like that. Just embrace those moments, you. 789 00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:03,880 Speaker 1: Know, Yeah, was was there a lot of moments throughout 790 00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:07,400 Speaker 1: your life where you thought, God, I'm not being the 791 00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:09,400 Speaker 1: mom I want to be And you're finally at that 792 00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:11,640 Speaker 1: place now, Like, was this a hard place for you 793 00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:13,680 Speaker 1: to get at because you're so emotional about. 794 00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:16,440 Speaker 2: I honestly think it's because he just he's not at 795 00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:17,040 Speaker 2: home anymore. 796 00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:18,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I was. 797 00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:21,040 Speaker 2: Honestly, I really know I was a good mom and 798 00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:23,400 Speaker 2: I had so much time with him, and my husband 799 00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:25,920 Speaker 2: was I was. I had the luxury of having my 800 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,279 Speaker 2: husband be at home if I had to work, and 801 00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:31,279 Speaker 2: a sitcom is like like the best schedule. I was 802 00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:34,600 Speaker 2: always there and I didn't miss a lot of stuff 803 00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:37,759 Speaker 2: or time. I really didn't. But you know, I just 804 00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:40,920 Speaker 2: it's not even about my job. It was just about 805 00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:44,799 Speaker 2: it went so fast, and I wish and I do 806 00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:47,600 Speaker 2: that thing where I will like look at baby pictures 807 00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:50,319 Speaker 2: and go like I want that moment back. So I 808 00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:56,959 Speaker 2: think it's just being present in moments. Sometimes we rush things, 809 00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,760 Speaker 2: we fast forward through things, like even like little moments 810 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:01,800 Speaker 2: like oh, I can't wait till this birthday party is 811 00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:04,800 Speaker 2: over and I can clean up, Like no, it's don't 812 00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:07,000 Speaker 2: so No. I don't think it was any moment where 813 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:10,960 Speaker 2: I thought I was a wasn't the mom a bad mom. 814 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,520 Speaker 2: It was just in hindsight, I wish I had moments. 815 00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:17,080 Speaker 2: I wish I enjoyed every moment a little bit more. Yeah, 816 00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:18,359 Speaker 2: but I think we all have those. 817 00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:20,400 Speaker 1: It's hard to always be present. 818 00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:21,000 Speaker 2: It's hard. 819 00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:22,560 Speaker 1: It's a fight, right, it's a fight. 820 00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:24,680 Speaker 2: And I really was lucky I had we always had 821 00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:29,520 Speaker 2: one of us was always home. Yeah, and maybe it's 822 00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:31,560 Speaker 2: that time where you feel like I've gotten so lucky 823 00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:33,960 Speaker 2: that I've gotten to I've been blessed to do what 824 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:37,440 Speaker 2: I love and also have and get to be a parent. 825 00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:43,000 Speaker 2: And maybe you feel like how lucky. Maybe I don't know. 826 00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:46,800 Speaker 2: I just miss him. Call your mother, Riley, if you're listening. 827 00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:50,800 Speaker 2: I miss you, really, I do. He left in January 828 00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:53,680 Speaker 2: is when he started school. So I just want my 829 00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:56,200 Speaker 2: baby back for like a day. And my mom used 830 00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:59,000 Speaker 2: to always say, if I could ever have a time machine, 831 00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:00,880 Speaker 2: I'd have one more day with you and your sister 832 00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:04,839 Speaker 2: as little girls. And I would be like whatever, And 833 00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:07,600 Speaker 2: then now I go, oh, I get it. I absolutely 834 00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:11,840 Speaker 2: I get it. So now as a daughter, I have 835 00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:13,759 Speaker 2: made a vow my sister and I've actually said it 836 00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:16,640 Speaker 2: that if we ever have an opportunity where we both 837 00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:19,319 Speaker 2: have a free weekend, or we both have time and 838 00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:23,000 Speaker 2: it's possible to see our parents, we do you know. 839 00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:26,160 Speaker 1: Well, something tells me if he was in this room 840 00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:27,920 Speaker 1: next to me and we were asking him a question 841 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:31,000 Speaker 1: about you being an amazing mom, he would be beaming 842 00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:32,920 Speaker 1: and saying she is the best. 843 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,840 Speaker 2: I think I was. Really, I'll just know. I just 844 00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:37,839 Speaker 2: know that every parent out there will go no matter 845 00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:40,759 Speaker 2: how wonderful or good of a mom you were it's 846 00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:42,040 Speaker 2: you never feel like it's enough. 847 00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:44,879 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, it's I trust me. I'm not a parent, 848 00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:47,200 Speaker 1: but I am an uncle and a lot of friends 849 00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:49,120 Speaker 1: are parents, and it's a very common thing I hear. 850 00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:51,799 Speaker 1: And I love that you share that today because it's 851 00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,480 Speaker 1: so relatable. And again, when are you going to say 852 00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:55,879 Speaker 1: this on a red carpet when you have a minute 853 00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:56,880 Speaker 1: with somebody? Probably not. 854 00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:00,520 Speaker 2: If I did, they might go, ma'am, I am, You're 855 00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:03,200 Speaker 2: fifty minutes are up. You need to get to your 856 00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:06,600 Speaker 2: seat because the seed filler's done with it. They were like, no, 857 00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:07,560 Speaker 2: I've got one more. 858 00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:08,440 Speaker 1: You know what. 859 00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:11,440 Speaker 2: As a child, I never I mean I could have 860 00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:12,960 Speaker 2: gone what was The other one was like, you know, 861 00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:15,000 Speaker 2: I've never said you're paying me too much? 862 00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:16,440 Speaker 1: Which was it bro like that? 863 00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:19,800 Speaker 2: But no, I really wanted to share that because I 864 00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:23,080 Speaker 2: think mothers we do not and parents just have to 865 00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:27,440 Speaker 2: be everyone parents. You never to cut your because I 866 00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:29,920 Speaker 2: felt like I always say to people, cut yourself some slack. 867 00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:31,719 Speaker 2: I think I feel like that's something I would say 868 00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:35,160 Speaker 2: in red carpets, like you know, and then going like yeah, 869 00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:39,320 Speaker 2: but sometimes at night I go, oh, I don't cut myself. 870 00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:41,960 Speaker 1: That, you know, So yeah, well, thank you, thank you 871 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,680 Speaker 1: for sharing that, thank you for being here, thank you 872 00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:47,800 Speaker 1: for the gift of your comedy, and for happiest. 873 00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:48,600 Speaker 2: Place to watch this ago. 874 00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:50,719 Speaker 1: She's hilarious right right now. 875 00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:54,479 Speaker 2: Look at her, She's just hilarious, balling all over his mic, 876 00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:55,919 Speaker 2: drinking coffee. 877 00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:59,239 Speaker 1: I love it all. It makes you more human And seriously, 878 00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:02,640 Speaker 1: the show couldn't be more needed, I think in this 879 00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:05,319 Speaker 1: world than right now. I am so happy. There's a 880 00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:08,160 Speaker 1: season two coming out too, and we look forward to 881 00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:12,440 Speaker 1: the finale airing later this month. And just keep bringing 882 00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:14,120 Speaker 1: us more joy. I'm progie. 883 00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:16,960 Speaker 2: I promise, I absolutely promise. We do need it. 884 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:19,040 Speaker 1: We need lots of it, and you bring a lot 885 00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:20,880 Speaker 1: of it. So thank you for hanging out. I'm so 886 00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:22,040 Speaker 1: happy you could come today. 887 00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:23,840 Speaker 2: I'm too thank you, thank you. 888 00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:30,480 Speaker 1: I've Never Said This Before is hosted by Me Tommy Dedario. 889 00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:35,400 Speaker 1: This podcast is executive produced by Andrew Publisi at iHeartRadio 890 00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:39,839 Speaker 1: and by Me Tommy, with editing by Joshua Colaudney. I've 891 00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:42,280 Speaker 1: Never Said This Before is part of the Elvis Duran 892 00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:46,640 Speaker 1: podcast network on iHeart Podcasts. For more, rate review and 893 00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:49,640 Speaker 1: subscribe to our show and if you liked this episode, 894 00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:53,200 Speaker 1: tell your friends. Until next time, I'm Tommy de Dario