WEBVTT - IDINA MENZEL: "Drama Queen" 0:00:01.560 --> 0:00:10.360 July, Oh July, How I love your warm evenings. Warm 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:13.080 nights that bring folks onto their back decks and their 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:19.640 front stoops. Warm nights that invite summer strolling around the lake, 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:26.960 along the river, extended visits to neighborhood parks. I'm grateful 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:31.280 for the days that stresssch out long into the evening 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:36.879 hours and the lovely, laid back, lazy pace. I'm grateful 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:39.440 for so much. The ability to step out of the 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:44.600 studio and into the warm embrace of July or fresh 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:48.839 air and fresh perspective is no small thing. I'm grateful 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:54.000 for gratitude, for love, for entertainment, for inspiration. These are 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:56.520 the things that I want to share with you with you, 0:00:56.640 --> 0:01:00.320 my listeners, and I believe today's episode will help me 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:04.200 on that mission. Some folks just seem to have it all. 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:08.280 Today's guest is one of those people. Adina Menzel is 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:13.200 a Tony Award winning powerhouse. She is, of course, a singer, 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:19.760 an actress in film and TV, a songwriter, a Broadway star, 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:24.720 and a philanthropist. She rose to fame as Maureen in 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:29.400 the popular Broadway musical Rent, and her career took off 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:34.040 when she won a Tony Award for her role as Alphaba, Alphaba, 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:37.080 the Wicked Witch of the West, who really wasn't wicked 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:40.959 at all in the smash music Wicked. Her voice can 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:45.119 be heard, of course, as Elsa in Disney's Award winning 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:49.400 Frozen and its song that my kids and my grandkids 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:54.440 sing every day, Let It Go, voiced by aDNA, It 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:58.640 became an instant international phenomenon, winning the Oscar for Best 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:04.160 Original Song. It's a song that you hear everywhere, everywhere 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:07.520 you go, still to this day. In addition to her 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:12.640 contribution to multiple cast albums, her prolific recording career includes 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:16.640 a catalog of successful solo albums Still I can't be 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:21.720 still Here I stand a Dina, and you know how 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:24.440 we love Christmas Here at the Delilah Show, Christmas a 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:27.880 Season of Love. 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So 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:57.760 how are you, Adina Menzel, Welcome to love someone with Delilah. 0:03:57.840 --> 0:03:59.560 I haven't talked to you in what seems like for 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:04.000 but because you know I have so many children and grandchildren, 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:05.120 I hear you every day. 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:07.200 I know it's a good thing or a bad thing. 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:08.760 It's a good thing because I love you. 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:10.120 Thank you. 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:15.240 You've got little ones do they do they watch you? O, he's. 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:18.119 Just thirtyen, he's thirteen going on fourteen. He wants nothing 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:20.240 to do with me. That's not true. No, what I 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:22.599 did a I did a show the other night, and 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:24.320 I forced him to come because I thought it would 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:26.520 be really cool for him to see me do this 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:30.200 particular music for the first time. And he came up 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:32.400 to me after and he was very emotional. He said, 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:35.320 I'm very emotional, mom, and he hugged me in front 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:36.280 of a lot of people. 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:41.080 Wow. Yeah, yeah for a thirteen almost fourteen year old boy, 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:41.799 that's huge. 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:45.320 Yeah, So that was that was really nice. But most 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:46.919 of the time he wants nothing to do with me. 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:49.880 He's at a math final right now, and well, let's 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:53.039 just send him pauseitive energy because it's seventh grade. You know, 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:56.279 how is this boring for your listeners, this kind of 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:56.880 mommy stuff. 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.880 We're all moms or grandmoms at this point in the game. 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:04.080 So he's, uh, yeah, he's at he's at a math final, 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:07.719 and I was just handing him positive energy because you know, 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:10.520 seventh grade is such a transition from elementary school, and 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:12.680 like he didn't have tests in the elementary school that 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:17.039 he was at So it's just been crazy this for him, 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:20.839 and the workload. More than the workload, the executive functioning 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:24.760 for a young boy, you know, is a whole new thing. Anyway, 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:26.200 let's talk about something else. 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:29.320 Uh well, I was just going to say, my daughter, 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:32.240 who is setting in on this Delilah Junior. He's going 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:35.200 into high school next year. So she's going from a 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:38.279 school of three hundred students to a school of almost 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:39.760 a thousand students. 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:45.440 Yes, that's overwhelming. It is, Yeah, so overwhelming. Walker's in 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:49.240 the school right now that his school, the junior high 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:51.280 and the high school in the same school, So he's 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.719 got these huge kids walking around. You know. The good 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:57.240 thing is that they're really sweet and they act like 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:00.960 big sisters and brothers, and so it's cool. Back in 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.240 my day, I would have been like bullied in harass, 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:06.479 and I remember that these girls would throw spitballs in 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:08.640 my hair down the locker room. Was afraid to go, 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:10.520 I mean down the hall, and I was afraid to 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:12.120 go to the bathroom. 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:15.640 Okay, now where do you think How do you think 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:19.279 they feel now when you know you're winning every award 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:23.200 in the world and you have an album that's coming out, 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:26.039 do you think they're like, dang, we probably should have 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:28.480 hung out with her instead of throwing spitballs in her hair. 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.200 Now most of them have come to my shows and 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:35.520 stuff after and acted like we were best friends. And 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:40.960 one girl that's never the one, the worst one. It's 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.720 probably really sweet now and everything, but in my head, 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:47.520 she'll never redeem herself, you know, And I've never seen 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:50.719 She's the only one I've never seen since, and she 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:53.560 was the queen of the bullies. Yeah, she was so 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:57.880 mean to me. So maybe she really did have a thing, 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:00.760 or maybe she doesn't even remember, you know. That's the thing. 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:02.960 I don't know anyway. 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:05.480 Do you go to class reunions, do you go back 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:07.719 to your high school? Do you do those down memory 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:08.440 lane trips? 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:11.800 I would have, but I haven't. Every time there is one, 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:15.120 I had a show or something, so I haven't. But 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.360 I see certain people a lot, Like I said, the 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:21.560 doing theater and concerts and going on tour. You know, 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:24.400 people come and they ask the tickets and they come backstage, 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:26.559 and so I can. I've seen a lot of people 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:32.440 through that that it's actually been really nice too. And 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:35.000 then I sort of re establish a relationship with some 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:36.440 of them. Which has been really cool. 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:41.920 I've known Michael Bubla since he was a teenager, like twelve, 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:45.160 do you have yeah? And he says, got to I 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:48.200 was such a nerd when I was a kid, you know. 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:50.640 I think he was twenty the first time I had 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:52.800 a chance to meet him. Same with Josh grob And 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:56.160 I met him when he was a teenager. And I 0:07:56.200 --> 0:08:00.320 always wonder because you know, they've shared being bold lead 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:03.120 or made fun of or you know, for being music geeks. 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:06.120 I always wonder, like, do people come to your shows 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:10.040 and say, oh my gosh, I'm so sorry, or like 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:12.240 in your case, they pretend they knew you, they were 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:12.800 friends with you. 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:19.120 Yeah, no, they just they don't say they're sorry. 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:24.000 Well, the good news is the first time I met you, 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:25.840 I was in love with you. I had seen you 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:34.920 in Chicago as Alphaba, and I was in love with 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:38.680 you from the first note you sang the first time 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:42.160 you appeared on the stage in your green and I 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:43.400 have loved you ever since. 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:46.880 So thank you. That was a special time for me. 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:50.360 That show So yeah, and. 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:53.560 I loved you so much as Alphaba. I have seen 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:56.800 the show I saw you. I saw it with you twice, 0:08:57.480 --> 0:08:58.960 but I've seen the show eight times. 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:02.360 Now, wow, well, you probably take the girls to see it. 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:02.880 I do. 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:04.960 I take the girls to see it. I take my 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:08.480 grandkids now to see it. And oh my gosh, it's 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:12.800 just such a such a beautiful story of true friendship. 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:14.640 It really is. 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.040 People's like, isn't it a love story? I said, yeah, 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:18.120 it's a love story, but. 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:21.199 Not not that, do you think exactly? 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:24.880 Yeah, so you've been busy now, you haven't slowed down. 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:30.280 You've you've got a new album out. And Delilah Junior 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:32.720 and I were talking before the interviews. She said, talk 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:35.000 to her about Enchanted. Did she like being the mean 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:35.600 step mom? 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:38.920 You mean? And Cinderella? I was the mean step mosment 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:41.960 and I came back as the princess that I mean, 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:46.239 as the queen that I went up into the animated 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:48.160 world at the end of Enchanted one and then we 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:51.600 come back and we revisit James Martin and I and 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:53.440 then yeah, Cinderella. 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:55.280 Was the Cinderella that was the one I was thinking 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:56.560 toy and. 0:09:56.640 --> 0:10:00.200 It was that was so much fun. Camilla cou it 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:06.600 was a gorgeous person inside it out, and yeah, so 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:09.120 it was all fun. I spent during COVID once they 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:12.200 started to get to figure out production for things. I 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:20.520 spent my life in like corsets around and enchanted, you know, 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:23.040 and well like we went there, then they'd shut down. 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:25.560 We'd come home and get back with my pj's and 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:28.120 do my day coupage and then hang out with my 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.079 son in virtual school. And then they'd say, oh, we're 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:31.560 back up for a month. So I go back and 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:36.200 try to fit my ass into these coursets again. My 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:38.800 boobs got bigger because I put on weight. Then they'd 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:40.520 be like spilling out of the course and then they 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:43.720 have to add you know. Anyway, that was a lot 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:44.839 of my COVID, But. 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:49.240 I have you lost the because you look fabulous. Everybody 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:52.080 called it the COVID fifteen, and my world it was 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:58.200 the COVID forty exactly because sourdough. Because my girlfriend Marta 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:01.440 like a year before COVID hits started talking sourdough and 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:06.000 she taught a sourdough class and sourdough, Hello. 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:11.600 Cowardough class is so funny. Yeah, my husband started baking. Yeah, 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:14.880 that was his destress. Well, he kept working during COVID 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:21.520 because he works in an impatient facility for chemical dependency 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:24.360 and mental illness. So he was still going every day. 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:27.000 But so then he came home and he started baking 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:28.960 as his sort of way to decompress. 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:31.480 But so he and I have a have an extra 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:33.680 pound or two. Are you saying that we found? 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:37.760 No, he doesn't because he doesn't gain a freaking pound. 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:40.199 Ever, I has to run like miles, you know. It 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:44.320 just makes me And yeah, my husband can. He's he's 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:49.600 almost seventy. He can wear his green beret uniform from 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:51.200 when he was in his early twenties. 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:57.319 Amazing, what what? I not fair? Not fair? Anyway, I've 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:00.560 been I have been getting working out so that I 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:04.280 can get these great disco kind of inspired jumpsuits and 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:08.120 move around the stage and I have dancers now, and 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:10.920 I've been having the best time with this new album 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:16.920 because during COVID, actually I had this epiphany that I 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.160 didn't want to I wanted to do music where people 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:22.560 could like really get up and move and dance and 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:25.040 have a different experience with me where they don't have 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:27.920 to sit in their seats and like feel like their 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:31.920 behave theater goers. Because I had done some clubs late 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:35.040 at night, in the middle of the night in London 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:37.400 when I was there doing press for something, and I'd 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:40.360 show up at clubs at like one in the morning 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:47.360 and and the crowd was like pushed up against the 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:50.080 stage and the energy was amazing, and so I was 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:54.320 I really was like excited to make music like that. 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:57.040 And I thought, well, what kind of music really showcases 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:00.480 a big voice? But still, you know, grew and I 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:02.520 thought of all the people I loved, that, all the 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:06.640 women I loved, especially that did disco albums and dance albums. 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.760 So I've been able to, you know, not compromise my 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:13.120 big melodies and big singing and but also do something 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:16.040 that felt really good that I felt like was an 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:19.480 organic transition but also would be something a little unexpected. 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:29.400 Because you're younger than me, you kind of missed out 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:33.760 on the jump suits. Yeah, you were in onesies when 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:34.880 I was in jumpsuits. 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:36.080 That's not true. 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:40.600 It is true. It is true. You were Okay, maybe 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:46.520 not onesies, but you were probably in the parachute pants 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:51.600 with matching jacket teal and pink. Yeah, did you have 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:55.079 the teal in pink matching jacket and yeah, but a. 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:59.240 Lot of fluorescent and my hair was like this, like 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:02.600 like this with hairspray, like I think that, yeah, so 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:06.840 is mine. So yeah, but yeah, I named the album 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:10.880 Drama Queen one because, as your daughter knows, I played 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:13.840 queens a lot of queens in my career for some reason. 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:18.160 Two because I sometimes think I'm a queen in my 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:23.120 own mind, but also because I feel like I wanted 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:27.640 to reclaim the term a little bit. You know, it's 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:31.160 kind of like reclaiming the term diva. And you know, 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:33.360 a drama queen in my case is someone that has 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:39.880 lots of big emotional you know, big feelings, bold feelings, 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:42.000 passionate feelings. 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:46.640 I tried the same with broad to me, when you're abroad, 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:48.240 that's a compliment. 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:52.960 Yes, exactly well, that's yeah, that's my East Coast, you know, 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:58.040 Long Island. Yeah, exactly so. And then I really feel 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:02.080 like it it encompass a lot of the themes that 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:05.200 have been sort of you know, a pattern in my 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:07.360 life and in the projects I've been a part of 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:12.000 where we really, you know, especially as women, embrace, you know, 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:17.800 this real fire that we have in us and not 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:20.560 trying to shy away from that, and so a lot 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:22.880 of the songs have to do with that. I'm really 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:26.040 glad that it coincides with Pride. So I'm going out 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:30.120 and hitting a lot of the Pride festivals and I've 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:33.080 just been having the best time with it. I'm really 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:34.520 I'm really proud of it too. 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:36.920 Now do you have do you have any many disco 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:39.080 skirts that you can twirl in? 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:42.800 Only if I wear like two pairs of tights because 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:44.440 I don't feel like my legs are I feel like 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:46.720 my legs are too flabby for the mini minis. 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:52.680 I met Cher backstage in one of her outfits and 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:54.880 she was in her seventies at the time, I think, 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:59.720 and damn she was rocking it. I'm like, you, you 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:00.560 are my goal. 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:03.960 You are my goal, one of my inspirations for the 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:06.320 album because she came out with members, she came out 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:10.440 and Believe and that whole dance album. Oh yeah yeah, 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:11.760 rocking it. 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:15.040 Well, I can't Where can we find out a Dina 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:15.960 about your tour? 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:21.560 Uh, it's mostly this summer, hitting a lot of the festivals. 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:24.320 I guess you can go on my website, you can 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:28.440 check out I'm going to be in DC at Pride, Provincetown, 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:34.400 No Providence, Rhode Island, Saint Petersburg, Saint Louis. Then I'm 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:35.920 going to go to London and hit a bunch of 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:38.640 cities in New Europe, which I'm really excited about, and 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:41.160 then we'll see about a tour and a couple months. 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:44.520 You know as well, you could just check out on 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:48.200 my website or my socials, I guess. So I'm figuring 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:50.080 out how can I do Let it Go and find 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:52.760 gravity as dance tunes, you know as well, give them 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:53.400 a little. 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:57.680 Good oh yeah, you know. Oh, and let it Go 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:00.200 as a dance tune could become an anthem of a 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:01.440 whole different nature. 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:02.600 Exactly. 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:07.879 I would play that song on my show for women 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:13.200 who need to walk away from destructive marriages or destructive relationships. 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:14.760 I have played let It Go. 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:15.080 You know. 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.080 Everybody thinks of it as a kid's song or a 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:19.919 Disney song, but really it's kind of an anthem. 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:21.359 Yes, it is an anthem. 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:24.080 Throw a beat in there and flash some lights and 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:24.920 we'll be dancing. 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:28.920 Yeah, and let your fire out, you know, don't withhold 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:33.119 your talents or what makes you special for anybody. 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:35.679 You know, or your ice in that case, let your. 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:38.360 Eyes exactly, and don't wear your gloves to keep your 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:40.400 icicles from coming out of your you know. 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:45.560 Yeah, take those damn gloves off. 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I'm very flattered, partly because you're so stink 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:56.840 and talented and you're in a lot of their favorite 0:18:56.880 --> 0:18:59.640 movies that I let them watch, and partly because since 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:02.640 the day I met you. I've been impressed by your 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:07.080 grace and your kindness to everyone and your honesty. 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:11.919 Thank you. I appreciate that. Yeah, for better or for worse, 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:15.720 that's my deal. You know. Sometimes I get myself in trouble, 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:17.879 put my foot in my mouth, or you know, when 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:21.159 you're really honest, you allow people to see your weaknesses 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:24.040 and you got to be careful there, you know. But 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:28.359 I think the vulnerability is all of our strengths, you know, 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:31.600 it's what makes us human, and the fact that we 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:35.560 can make mistakes. It's just more interesting, you know, than 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:38.560 being perfect. So that's the way I tumut myself when 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:39.920 I feel like shit. 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:43.320 You know, have you ever met anybody whose life appeared perfect? 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:49.439 Yeah? Yeah, Or that I thought was perfect, Yeah, like 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:58.120 three kids, skinny as can be, gorgeous, dresser, doctor, saving 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:01.159 lives doing you know, and then found out, you know, 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:04.639 marriage is a mess and just a bunch of things. 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:08.480 So if you never know what people are experiencing. So 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:11.359 I try to think about that when I show up 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:11.920 to school. 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:17.000 I think people whose lives appear perfect are a better 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:19.480 actor than you, you know what I mean. I think 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:24.000 they're acting so hard and working so hard to manage 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:28.240 other people's perceptions of them. I don't know how old 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:31.720 I was when I gave myself permission to not give 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:35.400 a damn what somebody else thought about me. Their opinion 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:38.080 to me is none of my business. Number one and 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:42.600 number two, I don't have the time or energy to 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:46.879 waste one second trying to impress you. I'm just going 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:47.280 to be me. 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:50.280 I on the other hand, I mean, I know I'm successful, 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:53.520 but I do want to impress people. I still want 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:55.719 people to like what I do. It's still hard for 0:20:55.760 --> 0:20:59.040 me to have critics come to my play and give. 0:20:58.880 --> 0:21:01.480 Me But you got to know at this stage in 0:21:01.520 --> 0:21:05.080 the game that you have a voice of an angel, 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:09.400 powerful angel, a warring angel. You know, we're talking about 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:11.679 the ten foot tall angels that are blazing. 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:13.040 A little cherub. 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:16.840 You're not a little cherub. But I hope that I 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:19.800 hope that you are able to receive the truth of 0:21:19.880 --> 0:21:26.080 your gifting. Thank you, and then forget them where the 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:29.879 clunky heels were the platform shoes and have some fun. 0:21:30.680 --> 0:21:36.800 A little shoulder, yeah, show a lot of shoulder. Yeah. 0:21:36.160 --> 0:21:41.320 I had I hijacked my Halloween party eleven years ago 0:21:41.480 --> 0:21:42.280 and got married. 0:21:42.760 --> 0:21:43.320 What's that mean? 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:46.959 Like We didn't tell anybody we eloped. We eloped at 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:48.720 our Halloween party. We didn't tell anybody. 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:50.040 Sparing when you got married. 0:21:50.160 --> 0:21:53.960 Well, I ordered a dress offline and I didn't have time. 0:21:54.000 --> 0:21:55.920 It came like the day before. I didn't have time 0:21:56.000 --> 0:22:00.439 to try it on beforehand, and so I pop my 0:22:00.560 --> 0:22:05.320 dress on and everything was kind of popping out. Spillage. 0:22:05.359 --> 0:22:08.359 There was spillage. Yeah, we didn't have because we didn't 0:22:08.359 --> 0:22:10.119 tell anybody we were doing it. We didn't have a 0:22:10.119 --> 0:22:13.439 professional photographer or anybody there. But some folks, you know, 0:22:13.520 --> 0:22:16.760 snap pictures with their friends or whatnot. And I have 0:22:16.840 --> 0:22:18.800 a couple of those pictures and I'm like, WHOA, I 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:20.960 should have tried that dress on before. 0:22:21.240 --> 0:22:23.440 I got married. In my backyard too, to my husband 0:22:23.480 --> 0:22:26.080 that I'm with now. And it was great. Although our 0:22:26.119 --> 0:22:29.080 neighbors new neighbors moved in, they tried to report us 0:22:29.119 --> 0:22:31.080 and everything. So then we tried to kiss their butt 0:22:31.119 --> 0:22:33.760 and like bring them champagne and because we were doing 0:22:33.800 --> 0:22:36.320 renovations in the backyards, and then they were like annoyed, 0:22:36.640 --> 0:22:39.439 so we went over. We invited them, you know, but 0:22:39.560 --> 0:22:41.960 it was so stressful because I felt like, we're just 0:22:42.160 --> 0:22:45.520