The Shocking (!) Connection Between Disney...and Young Sheldon!

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[SPEAKER_03]: And welcome to very amusing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You're one stop shop for the story secrets and shenanigans of a popular fueled theme park journalist.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm Carly Myself, and yeah, calm.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I know.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The title of this podcast you might be like, why is this on the feed?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, for multiple reasons, one, I think there's a very big crossover between people who share my taste in television and people who share my taste in theme parks, so I figured why not?
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[SPEAKER_03]: My friend Jessica Radloff is so you're gonna hear about you're not how hard she's at working But as somebody who is actively nervous about reading the Joe Rodi book for the Joe Rodi book club But Joe Rodi book book club episode with Molly from mammoth club like I still haven't opened it I'm so scared.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm so scared read it on the other hand Jessica's books are the most readable books I've ever read in my entire life.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I had the PDF open on my computer I needed to do something else and I was a hundred pages in before I realized it is that
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[SPEAKER_03]: Good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And number three, is that sometimes it's just really nice to talk to somebody who is adjacent to too many celebrities.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Jessica has been doing red carpet interviews forever and is a master at it and she has talked to celebrities and I basically used the lightning lane round of this interview.
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[SPEAKER_03]: No spoilers, but I used it to ask a lot of random questions about talking to famous people.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The most embarrassing thing she's ever done in front of a famous person.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The story.
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[SPEAKER_03]: reason credible um about how to interact with famous people when you see them on the street Jessica like gave us truly incredible advice even though that has not much to do with her it doesn't have to do with y'knowing children the big bang theory theme parks or me but we get into all of those things and that's why I'm so excited for this episode also the advice that she gave about how to say hi to a celebrity
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[SPEAKER_03]: You're gonna want to listen to that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You're gonna want to listen to this for that alone.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I again got caught up with my mom and doll paper.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I need to put up a shield so that I don't get lost.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm just staring at an animal and I forget what I'm gonna say.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I forget what I'm gonna say.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, stick around.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This one, we talked about the birth of little.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's a little less about it, but it's really, really interesting to hear how someone puts a book like this together, how they get the entire cast of one of the most shockingly, highly rated shows.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She's going to get into it, shockingly highest rated show to all participants in the audiobook looking press play on the audiobook and hear all of the actors talk, which is wild.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Nobody participates like that, but they do it for Jessica, because Jessica's the best, and also, um, you're going to hear a great anecdote about George Clooney.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's all I've been to say!
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's all I've been to say, stick around and we've got a lot of fun ahead.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I know I'm gonna talk about her and the other intro, but I just can't help myself.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I just need to just set the scene to set the scene, okay?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'll be on the other side.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'll see you soon.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Bye-bye.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome back.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We are so lucky to have New York Times best selling author Jessica Rathloff on the podcast this week, because I am such a freak for her first book.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The Big Bang Theory the definitive inside story of the epic hit series that I brought it with me to the hospital when I was giving birth.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I did not have a scheduled appointment, okay?
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[SPEAKER_03]: It was in my bag knowing I would be in back breaking pain.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But you know,
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[SPEAKER_03]: just want to be flipping through some pages to read about the actor's negotiations in later seasons.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Anyway, that is how good her writing is.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I also brought it on my honeymoon and one of the waiters and I gabbed about how good the show is, the Big Bang Theory truly brings everyone together.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And this episode is no exception, because there's only one reason I know Jessica, and it's not because we're colleagues.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Me, a freelancer, her a long time Hollywood entertainment reporter who most recently was the smartest person in the building at glamour.
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[SPEAKER_03]: My words, not hers, but I stand behind it because I have never meant anyone who works harder than Jessica, full stop.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She's on the red carpet interviewing every actor in the world.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She's writing stories on the regular, she's turning out books, books with unbelievable access inside these shows, simply because she's been there, putting in the work and putting in the time to report on them for years.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Now, like I said, I do not know Jessica because we're colleagues, I know her because her first book was so good, I wield our friendship into existence.
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[SPEAKER_03]: like a sculptor chiseling a piece of art out of stone.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I yelled at her so much about how good her big big theory book was.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Then...
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know, it ends with you compliment someone enough and you have enough in common, they will consider becoming your friend.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Jessica, I love you and I'm so lucky to have you in my life.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But Alas, Jessica is finally coming here on the podcast because she's done it again.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She's done it again.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Her latest young children, the juicier than Mimo's brisket inside story of the hit comedy, is not just quite possibly the first time that we're Mimo has been using a book title.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's also the second installment of one of the greatest journalists on the planet putting her entire butt into a book because these books aren't like long-tombs about how they built the set.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Ooh, they let the pain dry.
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[SPEAKER_03]: No!
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[SPEAKER_03]: It is a full conversation with quotes from everyone involved, creatives, actors, showrunners, creators, a quote
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[SPEAKER_03]: lost the board all of it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Quotes!
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's like reading the most delicious magazine story you've ever seen, like being in the room with all these people.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And simply, reporting like this doesn't exist anymore, so we must save for it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, and by the way, the audiobook, you bet that one's got talent from the show.
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[SPEAKER_03]: More on that in a moment.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to try to stop spoiling our interview, but this thing's this girl pulls out of interviews with people who are professionally interviewed all the time is wild.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It is so wild!
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[SPEAKER_03]: There is no one else like her in the game, which is why I am so particularly excited for her new book.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And don't worry, we are going to get into all of it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Jim Parsons, Walt Disney World, and everything in between.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Friends, I present to you America's best reporter, Jessica Ratloff.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Just to go, well, I'm going to be amazing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Harley, I'm so amused to be on the podcast with you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm very excited.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This is really a full circle moment because I don't know if listeners know that I, essentially bully you into becoming my friend.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You did not bully me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I guess I did.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You tell the story because it's great.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, my version of it might be different from yours, but my version of it is that I read your book and it was so your first book.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Your first book, how exciting you say that now?
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[SPEAKER_03]: your first book, The Big Bang Theory, The Defendeded Insights Story of the Epic hit series, available on a hardcover and paper bag and you should get bowls because I own both of them is great.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You need a travel version, it's that good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So I read this book and I could not contain myself because as a fellow reporter and I guess as someone who knows how to read, I was shocked by what you did.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I have never seen something so brilliantly well-reported but also easy to digest and I just could not stop screaming about how good it was and I needed to know the person who did that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: that is the sweetest way to tell that story.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It is so cute and it is exactly why I love you so much from the very beginning of the day.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I will never forget seeing you post about the book and you attacked me on Instagram and I remember telling my mom.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know who this girl is, but this is the nicest thing ever.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I am so honored and I, I just, and then I kind of, we have some mutual friends and everything, but I just remember thinking, gosh, you know, everybody thinks when you write a book and especially when it's about a show that has such massive popularity that it's going to be easy to get the support of others or people are going to post-fat it and that really isn't the case a lot of times.
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[SPEAKER_02]: For somebody like yourself who I hold in such high regard and I think is so fascinating and fabulous and wonderful, you do such an amazing job with everything you do for you to put that passion and excitement into promoting the book.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It just meant everything.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It meant everything.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't even have friends that went as far as you did.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's why I was so happy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, Jessica, I was like, I need to be friends with this girl because she is amazing and so sweet and so fun.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And you didn't bully me in anything.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was equally as like, I gotta know who Carly is.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's just like I feel like that's the biggest testament of how talented you are that I was like I will never stop yelling in these streets about how good this book is because it's just that good I think you know this I brought it with me to the hospital when I was giving birth Why did I think I would have time to read the back few pages of your book why why did I think I would have time for that But I was like I'm not bringing a child into this world without Jessica's word beside me
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[SPEAKER_02]: Listen, labor can take a long time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You never know, you know?
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[SPEAKER_02]: So why not bring a 500 page book to the hospital?
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, we can take your mind off of things.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It is just that good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I, I'm going to say it and you might shake your head, but I'm okay.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You are the hardest working journalist.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I know I can't even imagine we're going to get into the process.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I can't even imagine how you have done this.
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[SPEAKER_03]: not just once but twice because I've read the new book Young Sheldon D. I can't so hard to say it loud.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Juicy or then Mima's brisket inside story of the hit comedy, it is another hit.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And now I'm just happy to have an opportunity to yell into the world about how fantastic it is.
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[SPEAKER_03]: because I talked to me about the first one.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let's take a little back because you didn't just decide to when the show ended to write this retrospective.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like you were actually there the whole time, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I will level the whole time actually.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was there starting around like season five and up because I wasn't working for glamour until 2011.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So the first four seasons had pretty much
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[SPEAKER_02]: in love with the show.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The way that anybody would need to be to write a book on it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I watched the first episode.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I thought, okay, it's cute, but I don't know if this is really, you know, the kind of show I'm going to stick with.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I just didn't watch it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And
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[SPEAKER_02]: When I started at glamour in 2011, I got to know the cast on a personal level because I would always see them at award shows.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So when I was on the carpet for the Emmys or the Segwards or the Golden Globes, they were always nominated.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's how I got to know them.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I actually knew, well, my him didn't know this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But when I was right out of college and I had first moved to Los Angeles, I went to services for the High Holy Days at UCLA, their hello.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And my him, The Allic, was the canter.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I turned to my best friend, and I must have been like 22 at the time, and I was like, okay, I know that Hollywood is an interesting place, but I'm pretty sure Blossom is the camp.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like what's happening?
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, that is so LA to be like, I'm rolling into a new temple.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's a famous actor.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh yeah, I was very, very confused.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I love to tell my in this story.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And you know, so we just bonded over all those types of things.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then it really wasn't until December 2012 where I was sick as a dog with the stomach flu.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was home and saint Lewis over the holidays.
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[SPEAKER_02]: My parents said to me,
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[SPEAKER_02]: The Big Bang Theory and it's amazing and it's in reruns now and it's hilarious and all these things and I was so sick I was like I don't care put whatever you want on put sea span on it doesn't matter to me You know, but as I sort of feel a little bit better I was like oh this show is Really smart and it's really good my parents had you a lot of explaining about the character Trains for me to understand why certain humor landed the way that it did so I never tell anyone You know to go
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[SPEAKER_02]: to just start wherever in the series if you're new to it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like you have to start at the beginning, but
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[SPEAKER_02]: I became more aware of it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I thought it was funny.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I started watching it and then it really became a hit with our readers at Glamour.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so they're like, okay, you know them already.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You start covering the show.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that's how it took off.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But never in a million years that I think I was ever gonna write a book about it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, the show ended.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Still didn't think I was gonna write a book on it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was a happy accident all it came about.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, that's the, that's the gist of how I got involved with the big bank there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my gosh.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I think so many of us do think it's one of the greatest it comes ever made, but you And yet the New York Times didn't even include it in the top one hundred.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I saw that shows.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I saw friends.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think I don't think friends was in there either It like what is this list
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think people are so judgmental of it from the outside because it's like the bizzing of it all, but I always explain it to people as like this is sketch comedy because people know their characters and they play them to the highest level and that's why it's so funny.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, it's so good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And if I just, it does perk me when people, you know, just don't understand why it is so brilliantly done.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm just like you didn't give it a chance or you didn't watch it really like maybe you saw an episode and you're like, whatever.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No, you have to give it a chance.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Just like so many other shows and yeah, I don't understand it to this day, but, you know, they're laughing all the way to the bank with the ratings and, you know, then the numbers they pull in on streaming.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, you know,
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's actually, it's so funny to me because as someone who is a diehard fan of the Big Bank Theory, I knew very little of Young Sheldon until you told me you were going to write this book and you told me that young people were obsessed with the show.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Can you tell the listeners a little bit about that because this was this is still shocking to me even though I've known it for a while now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, okay, so this is really funny because back when I was working on the Big Bang Theory book, I had interviewed Annie Pots for something else and Annie was like, so your next book's going to be about young children, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And you know, I was like, oh boy, I was like, duh, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, Annie, I think my feet wanted done after the Big Bang book.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I, you know, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And the truth of the matter is, I really didn't think there was going to be a young children book in my future.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and it wasn't because I didn't like the show or think it deserved it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was a fact that even though it was the number one show on broadcast for its seven year run, it was the number one show, but that was thanks to mostly because of a certain demographic that watched it on CBS.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And when you're going to do a book, you need to know that there is a massive fandom to help push it out there because if you don't have that, it's going to be really hard to sell a book.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it really was, you know, it wasn't the type of show that people would talk about.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It wasn't like big bang where they would show up at Comic Con 48 hours in advance to get a seat in a hall-h or get tattoos of the cast on their You know, their arms are something so I just didn't think necessarily that it'd pierce the zeitgeist in the way that it needed to to do a book
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[SPEAKER_02]: that was until I will never forget December 2023.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I log on to Netflix, and it was like the last week of a year, and I see Young Sheldon, not only in the top 10, but in the number one spot, and I remember texting the publicists for the show, and I was like,
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[SPEAKER_02]: What's going on here?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, when I showed children coming to Netflix and did you know it was in the number one spot?
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[SPEAKER_02]: He goes, oh yeah, because this happened like two weeks ago.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I was stunned and it stayed there in the top 10 on Netflix for 13 weeks, over three months, it beat Louis, it beat Grey's Anatomy, it beat sex in the city by triple the amount of minutes spent watching it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like,
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my god, like it completely took off.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then I realized when I was on a trip to Europe two years ago, two and a half years ago, and my parents would always say to people all over Europe, oh my daughter wrote the Big Bang Theory oral history.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, if you ever seen the show or whatever, because it does have a massive international audience, but it was so funny because so many people in Europe like Switzerland,
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, yeah, I've heard about it, but I really watch young Sheldon.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I love young Sheldon.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, huh, I was like, this is okay.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is very interesting.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then it just so happened that when young Sheldon was going off the air in May of 2024, I had done a sit-down interview with the Steve.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Steve Holland and Steve Milaro, who were instrumental to the big bang theory success.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And they also were the EP's on Young Sheldon.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that was the first time we had sat down for an interview that wasn't the big bang theory book.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I realized how much I missed.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Not just doing a deep dive on a show, but doing it with them, because we had worked so closely.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I missed it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And also, I'm being honest with me at the time, there was an editor from another,
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[SPEAKER_02]: big publishing house, one of the top five, who all the sudden approached my agent about a young child in book because her kids were obsessed with it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's where I was like, okay, this is all making sense.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, we eventually has shut, which is my publisher and also one of the big five they had a
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[SPEAKER_02]: second book first look so they got to determine you know if if they would make a you know pitch for the book first and they did and they wanted it and and that's kind of how it came about and then I went back to Chuck Laurie and the Steve to say okay guys you know what was involved with the first book do you want to do this again?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And they said, yes, and that was amazing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then again, it wasn't until I was really getting into it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I was talking to Jim Parsons, who was like, most kids now recognize me as the narrator from Young Sheldon instead of the original Sheldon on Big Bang.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And he talks about this in his forward, where he says, these kids who have never seen Big Bang one day are gonna start watching Big Bang and be like,
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[SPEAKER_02]: what the fresh hell is this shelf because they only know him from young children and the massive fandom.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, to to give you an idea, young child in his number 14 on the 20 most popular shows on Netflix of the last decade as of last month.
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[SPEAKER_02]: last decade.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Think about all the shows on Netflix.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It is number 14 out of 20 of the most popular shows on Netflix and last decade.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And as of September 2026, it was still in the top 10 of the
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[SPEAKER_03]: minutes viewed, because you would never expect a young people to be watching this and like posting on TikTok about it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They post on it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that's the other thing too, Carly, is that they Montana Jordan, who plays Georgie would get such a kick out of this because kids would then
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[SPEAKER_02]: take the show and make 30-second videos of young sheldon flip the frame so that they wouldn't get sued basically and then run how many ever clips you need to make an entire episode but in 30-second increments and these kids would watch it in 30-second like the new microcommitier whatever and it's just and then on YouTube and these clips I mean it just took off so basically all that is to say I need parents to buy the book for their kids.
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[SPEAKER_02]: um, big time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a wonderful Christmas and Hanukkah gift or just holiday gift in general, and then I need all the the parents and also grandparents to read it for themselves.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Because like, truly, who knew I thought that people, I thought that people watching this were just deeper big bang theory fans of me, even though I do truly have it on every night.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'm shocked.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The fact that people look at Jim Parsons and they're like, that's that random man who voices young Sheldon is beyond two.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's so crazy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's also why I was like, I need him to write the forward for this book because he is the narrator.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And who are the narrator to write the introduction to the young Sheldon book.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm so happy I did it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm so happy I did it because I truly love this show.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think it was so underrated.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It deserves all the acclates.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It deserves this fandom now because when I watch it, I'm like, my god, how did it not win Emmys?
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was brilliant.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I don't see how everyone's watching it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Everyone's secretly in their homes watching themselves.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I love it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I love it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, it's just very funny.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my gosh, yeah, speaking of unknown things.
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[SPEAKER_03]: One of my favorite things about your books is that you uncover so many unknown details, like how in your first book, how a different actor who's also in the Big Bang Theory universe was supposed to play Wallowitz, which I'm a let's boil because I want people to read your book.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You have to read your, like, you need to read them authentically.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It is, you'll be screaming alone in your house reading it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And also that, like, originally one of the would-be hires for young Sheldon, almost didn't make it through casting.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Which if any of the surprises that you've uncovered through these interviews through both of your books resonates with you the most?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, it's really funny because I've become now the go-to person to tell an actor that they weren't the original choice for all.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm like, and the way that I have to approach that I really think I should have a PhD in, you know, psychology or something or sociology, because I'm like,
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[SPEAKER_02]: you know, doesn't make them think that they, you know, can't do their job.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that happened again on this book in this book with Young Sheldon.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that was crazy to have to do.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But as for what reveal resonated with me the most, um, oh, goodness gracious, I am going to say,
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[SPEAKER_02]: Rachel Bay Jones, who guest start on Young Sheldon as Audrey, Mandy's mother in the last couple seasons.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She, now of course, is one of the main characters on Georgian Mandy's first marriage.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Rachel told me some really fascinating stories and ensoded Will Sasseau, who plays Jim McAllister, Mandy's dad about,
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[SPEAKER_02]: other roles that they didn't get overfired from and how timing is everything and you just have to ride the roller coaster were on.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think that was very, I know that, but hearing it and hearing their specific stories that are in the book really helps because you realize, you know, you just sometimes you just don't know how certain rejection works in your favor.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it's a lesson, I think, for all of us perfectionists or people that strive so hard and keep, you know, hitting, hitting the gas pedal, trying to make things happen.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That sometimes is like you just have to let life unfold as it's going to.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's one of the lessons that I really, that really stuck with me from doing it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And also, too,
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[SPEAKER_02]: being more open about the difficult times because I think we're so inclined to not talk about hard times behind the scenes because we're supposed to present this either united front or everything is great and you know and that's just not how it is and I think the more we can be open about the hard times and then use it to also talk about how it made things better in the end
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[SPEAKER_02]: is so important and I it allowed me to get more comfortable sitting with the hard stuff in order to tell this story because there was a lot of hard stuff on young children behind the scenes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But how do you get so much raw honesty out of people who are so deeply media-trade?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe they feel sorry for me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I go.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I think, you know, I listen, I think that's very sweet of you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: A huge part, and this is not lost on me, is that...
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[SPEAKER_02]: Over the years, I managed to game the trust and support of Chuck Lori and Steve Milaro and Steve Holland and when you have that, that is one of the greatest gifts of all and you know, I don't mind even saying I actually did take less money to write this book than big bang because we're just we're hoping that the audience will show up and you just don't know because you're dealing with a lot of kids who don't have credit cards.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, like, and that's hard, but part of the reason that I did is because I was so honored that Chuck and the Steve's wanted to go down this road again, that was not lost on me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That when you have people as powerful and as excellent as they are in their line of work, say, we trust you to do this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I take that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: so seriously.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that goes a long way.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then the actors, they know that too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, they're willing to put their trust in you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that's what really means a lot.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think, you know, the only way to do a book like this is to be honest.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's what I said from the very start with every cast member.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I said, listen, there's going to be things that are going to be hard.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I want you to talk freely with me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I do not want you to worry that I'm going to be like, oh, I got it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to run with it and print it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Because talk freely, don't hold it back.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then if you want to pull it back in the final copy, or it's too much, let's work on that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But you have to have that relationship in order to do something this honest.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Because otherwise, it'll just be a watered down.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Kumbaya, we all love each other and got along, present and nobody's interested in reading that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's just so rare.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It feels so rare to have now two books like this that I just hope you get to keep doing these for every single teller.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I know it, I know it, I know it, you might just fall over into like a dehydrated heap, but personally, I hope to read your tomes for the rest of my life.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I, that means so much.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I actually send a one of the directors of Young Sheldon the other week.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I said remind me that this might be the last book I ever do or if I do another one it might be about pancakes or something or maybe just bread.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know because it's a lot.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a lot.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's a lot.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You would interview 250 breadmakers.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, probably probably.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's what would happen.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But no, I'm, I'm so grateful.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's the other thing too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I genuinely care and
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[SPEAKER_02]: have a worry like a Jewish mother for these people that I talk to.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I want to make sure they're okay, you know, because they go deep.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They talk about very, um,
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[SPEAKER_02]: for lack of a better word, again, deep issues that are not easy, and you feel very vulnerable when you do that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I wanted to make sure that they were okay with putting it out there, because that's my name's on the book.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And if they're not happy, then I am not happy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it's hard being a people-pleaser when you are also a journalist, so I'll say that, but yeah, relatable.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Can you walk us through the full process like start to finish on doing something like this?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Especially because Young Sheldon's audiobook.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sorry.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The Young Sheldon book audiobook is so special.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The audiobook is so special.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, nearly every single main cast member did it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I never, in a million years, what I thought that they would have shown up in that way, because they were not making much money at all.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, it's because, especially compared to what they're used to, like, when Reba McIntyre shows up at this little studio in Burbank to record her portion of the audiobook, and she is making sag scale for this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, she's not doing it for the money by any means.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, this is like a sandwich for them.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, it's sandwich money.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And they did it because they loved to show that much and they were so proud of it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And there's no other higher compliment that I could get from that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, so tell me what your question again is in terms of how did I, like, was it a process with, yes, like, your thoughts or, with all of it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like, you're sitting down, you're like, right, day one, we're working on Young Sheldon.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What do you do?
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[SPEAKER_03]: You just scheduled two calendar years of zooms?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like, I guess I said.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I immediately did sign up for my own Zoom account so I couldn't do all these interviews because I knew, like, okay, I got to make sure I have this, no, before I even sign the contract, I was already watching the show from the start because I hadn't actually seen every episode.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not afraid to admit that only because, you know, I was listen, I was working a full-time job, I was also working on a big bank theory book doing the big bank theory podcast.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I couldn't watch everything, and so I had to start from scratch with Young Sheldon, and I would write notes about every episode.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it wasn't just summaries.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was like noticing certain themes or wait a second.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Why isn't this person in this episode or how is this evolving?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I took over a hundred pages of notes on Young Sheldon, after watching all seven seasons back to back.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I would come up with questions, you know, and that was my research, and it really wasn't until I was nearly finished with that process that then I start scheduling the interviews.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And here's a fun fact, maybe nobody cares about it, but, but me, but the way that my brain is wired when I did the big bank theory book, my first interview for it was Steve Malar, the executive producer, and I wanted Steve to be the first interview again for young Sheldon.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And not only was he the first interview for this book as well, but we did it on the exact date that he did the first book interview was the end of February.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, it's a good omin.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I hope, but I want to I want to keep it to that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And so yeah, so then I start with the interviews and
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[SPEAKER_02]: multiple interviews.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a very rarely one in done.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's going back to them for hours more, transcribing all of that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's just a long, long process.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then once you finish all the interviews, you would take months, then you have to, or at least what I do, is I start
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[SPEAKER_02]: like copying and pasting them into sections of where this will fit within the book.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it was terrifying the first time around, because I didn't know what I was doing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I basically, I'm like, all right, well, work the first time around.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just going to do that again for the second time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, it's all these things.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then it's, you know, separating it by important quotes and pulling out, you know, what's filler and what you don't need and what, you know, so,
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's a it's a whole process.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I don't know if every author doesn't that way for an oral history, but that's what worked for me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that's how I did it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And yeah, it's it's about a two year process all in all.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I don't know how I did it to be honest.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I just, you know, it's this insane drive that I sometimes wish I didn't have.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like it makes a lot of sense that in preparing for this interview, I discovered that you were a triple major in college, but you, I think, graduated in two and a half years.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, it's a little, I mean, that makes it sound like I'm sheldon level.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Right, you know, it was, it was technically, I majored in media arts, double minored in journalism and theater arts, and then I was only at the University of Arizona for two and a half years, because the rest was either on location in LA for an internship, or
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[SPEAKER_02]: because I had had so many college credits heading into college that I was already a sophomore standing so I only spent two and a half years at college all things.
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[SPEAKER_02]: center.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, that's not normal dude.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But no, well, I also didn't go to frat.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I hated frat parties.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I hated like I would I was literally a 60 year old in an 18 year old's body because my idea of a great Saturday night and Tucson was going to an expensive restaurant.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And having a wonderful girl chicken sandwich.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That would, and then coming home and watching Saturday night live, or reruns of old TV shows, like, to get me to go to a party for get it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's like, I mean, that is sheldon like that was his worst nightmare.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That was my worst nightmare.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm just laughing that your job for many years now has been to professionally go to parties.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Isn't that funny?
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[SPEAKER_03]: To go like the biggest events in the country and work all day and all that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, but at least they're not getting totally trashed and it's elegant.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's really elevated.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I don't do well in heels on, you know, mushy grass and someone's backyard with, you know, solo rent, those rent solo cups or whatever.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like I would like an actual glass cup with water in it and shrimp and all that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I can do those kinds of parties.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Unbelievable.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Again, hardest working journalist in Los Angeles.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You're very sweet.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We all are, though.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We all have to look at you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Come on.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I listen.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I took like a 45 minute break to learn how to make a different type of cold foam at home today.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, we are not the same.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Just like a round of love.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We are not the same.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We, I started this book and I was like, she did this a second time.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She had for me.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But I'm grateful because now I'm back in.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm watching every episode of Young Sheldon because
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[SPEAKER_02]: That means so much.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I like you're basically calling me insane and I love it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But you're like insane for the greater.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe we can get Disney to send us both on a cruise because I need it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I need a sugar.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, we plug that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Is there somebody from Disney listening that can send us all the money from Disney listening, but the problem is, if we go on a cruise together considering the one that I just got off of, I'll tell you this, I just got off of the cruise.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I just got off of Disney Wish where I learned about the Disney belief, but you know, we'll be chatting about it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I went to an acupuncturist today and she said that I have been experiencing too much excitement.
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[SPEAKER_03]: so much like it that it's destroying my body.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So that is kind of the level I'm operating at when I'm not talking about next week.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm talking about like we can do this in January.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The honor of having you sit next to me on a lounge chair watching me read your book.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I want to go so badly because let me tell you this, I have only been on one Disney cruise and it was back when it was called The Big Red Boats for Mir, it was the first cruise my parents ever took us on and this was in 1990.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And we were little kids and, you know, it was like themed dinners every night, but Disney didn't even technically own the cruise ship yet.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like they hadn't, but it was a big red boat.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that was the very first cruise.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I haven't been on a Disney cruise then since.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I need a vacation.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I would like some Mickey Mouse Benier's and, you know,
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's real waffles, they've waffles that are covered in cinnamon sugar and they're only at one day of the news and you just want to just agree with you on like the ocean cafe deck or whatever.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And the only problem is that 48 hours into this cruise, we would be co-authoring the oral history of Disney cruise lines.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So just know what you're getting yourself into, okay?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, that could be fine.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It could be good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You heard it here first.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Disney publishing, you call her.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She's more organized.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but I guess speaking of Disney, to tie it all together, I did not know.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I've seen at least a season and a half of young children.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I know John Fabrow directed the pilot.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Isn't that easy?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Isn't okay.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is so funny, partly, because John and I, I told his public says, I'm like, I'm a casual person.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They reference him.
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[SPEAKER_03]: No, I told him.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Wait, wait, wait for this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I told him I need 20 minutes on Zoom.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's a busy man.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's all he can probably give me 20 minutes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: John and I talked for almost an hour and a half.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He was late for his next meeting.
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[SPEAKER_02]: My mom, I'm so sorry, Mom.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She didn't know who he was at first.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I said, Mom,
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's when she's like, oh, yes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know Pete from friends.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So when I got on with John, I told John this story.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, you must love this because I know that Pete from friends was a big deal.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I know that that is not what you're known for now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, how weird must this be to be doing an interview.
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[SPEAKER_02]: about young Sheldon.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, and he's like, it's kind of a nice break.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's like, I got it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, to be talking with John Favre, for as long as we did about young Sheldon and his sourdough starter that he brought because he made them all fresh bread every day.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And it's another insane red lofted bit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, no, he loves bread as much as I do.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I was like, oh, this is wonderful.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, so I still need the John Favro bread and I actually have a picture of him handing it out and everything, which is really fun.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I also have a photo in the book of him with Bob Newhart because Bob Newhart was in the pilot of Young Sheldon playing a, it was a flash vaccine of him as Professor proton.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So there's a photo of John with Bob, which is a great elf reunion, also.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that's in the book and we talked about Bob and that was wonderful and also what I didn't know that John revealed to me is that originally there was no narrator for young children.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, Jim Parsons is the narrator.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There wasn't going to be a narrator originally.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That was John's idea where he's like, if you already have Jim Parsons attached as an EP because the story is technically based on his real-life nephew, use him, use him in other ways to also help you with the show that has kids in it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We have to think John for that because we never would have had Jim Parsons narrate if it wasn't for John coming up with that and Yeah, that was really cool.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Jim Parsons might be a nobody to the youth if it wasn't for this It wasn't for this exactly.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I ran into John Favreau last month at the premiere of Lion because he
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[SPEAKER_02]: he peed that for National Geographic, and that was a person we had met in person actually.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And he was so sweet and he's like, I can't wait to get a copy of the book and everything.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it's really cool because nobody guesses that John Fevrow would have directed the pilot of Young Sheldon, but he did.
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[SPEAKER_03]: No, it's just so mind-blowing to me that the same man who made Iron Man and the Mandalorian set the tone for all of Young Sheldon.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And a lot of that tone was inspired by the Wonder Years Christmas story, you know, all of these classics that gave it that period piece nostalgia in a way that I just, I think that's also what's resonated because it's so fun to live in that world again, especially now given that we're all just looking at our screens all day long.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's also really like if you really, it's gonna hurt my brain to even say this out loud, but young Sheldon, which is like a spin-off, a flashback of Sheldon Cooper, who's obsessed with comic books, it was his childhood story was directed by the man who made the comic book movies that his character loved, like it's too much, it's too much to do with it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's, and then David Hasselhoff also comes on and plays himself in an episode of Young Sheldon, Alph is in
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[SPEAKER_02]: uh, an episode of Young Sheldon.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like there's so many things you're like, what is going on?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I just thought the biggest missed opportunity on Young Sheldon was that as much as Missy loved and Georgie loved watching TV at home.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Why didn't they ever stumble across designing women?
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[SPEAKER_02]: because designing women was owned by CVS.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Young children was on CVS.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They could have totally had any pots.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, just happen to be in a screen as an Easter egg and Missy could have been like, this looks like a really fun show.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I want to watch it and you can have Mary be like, you're not old enough yet.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But like, that's like, how did they not do that?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know, because they do the top opportunity.
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[SPEAKER_03]: For those who don't know, they do already have the daughter of the actress Lori McAfee plays Sheldon Cooper's mom on the Big Bang Theory.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Her daughter plays Sheldon's mom on Young Sheldon.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Weird, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Number texting you screaming when I realize that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And the text messages.
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[SPEAKER_02]: from between the producers and Jim Parsons, who really recommended Zoe Perry to come in, those hex messages are in the book.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm so grateful that they gave them to me because I'm like, this is, I love those artifacts of like, this is how it came to be.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Cause Chuck Lori was like, Zoe Perry, no, she's like 10 years old and you know, and Jim's like, sorry to break it to you, but you're a little older now and you are thinking of the Zoe Perry from the days of Rosanne when she visited her mom on set.
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[SPEAKER_02]: but guess what?
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[SPEAKER_02]: She's 35 now and she could easily play Sheldon's mother.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So there you go.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What was it like just casually being friendly with the man who has shaped American television for the last years?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I like to give him crap.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Chuck Lorry because that's how I make myself feel comfortable.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But yes, it is a bit intimidating.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's never lost on you who you're sitting in front of.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Because he is such a legend in this business and I'm so grateful and I'm like, I cannot mess up because you know otherwise that's it But I also you know, that's thing with anybody you have to treat them as real people that That they don't have all the accolades surrounding them like I know they do, but I have to try to block it out because otherwise I'm gonna it's gonna be too hard for me to do my job
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that's what I have to try to do is pretend they are not the people that I know they are in order to sit down and go deep with them.
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[SPEAKER_03]: because you have interviewed a lot of people, which is what we are going to get into in our lightning lane around.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh boy, we'll talk about a little bit of theme park, but mostly just because you have, you have like the wildest coolest job.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I just wanted to ask you a bunch of random questions about it, which I know people listening would have.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, Jessica, this one's a little tough, but which red carpet interview do you think is your most iconic or memorable?
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[SPEAKER_03]: And which one still haunts you to this day?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Whoa, okay, what is my most iconic or memorable?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I think I have to go, it really wasn't an interview, but it was when George Clooney came over, I gave him a hug and I got one sentence right off the bat.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know, I got bronzer all over his Tuxedo at the critical point.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I was mortified.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, well, there goes my career.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it wasn't even an interview, but I was just like, oh crap, I feel like this is it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What are you?
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[SPEAKER_02]: He was like, I'll send you the bill for the dry cleaner.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like he's the nicest, easiest guy to joke with, but I mean, I was mortified, hardly, like, oh, this is, I mean, I really thought this was, this was it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Talk to me about your experience with Disney parks because we've established you went on a big red boat, but did you go to the theme parks is a kid?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Did you go to an adult?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Have you gone back?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Do you like it?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, I my first Memories are Disney World and Epcot holds a very special place in my heart and I still have my original like
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[SPEAKER_02]: to foot tall, figment, stuffed animal that's back in my bedroom in St. Louis.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I loved Epcot.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Epcot to me was everything and the, you know, all the different countries and I haven't been back in it's it's been well over a decade or maybe 15 years and part of me is scared because I know so much has changed and I just want to keep alive and my memory what Epcot was to
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[SPEAKER_02]: There's so I even saved my parents saved everything like the original, you know, pamphlets and the books with all of the Disney rides and I'm like Like we don't that's not how it is.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't mind going to Disney land that that is fine because I never grew up
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[SPEAKER_02]: out here, and I didn't go to Disneyland as a kid, so that's fine.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But Disney worlds, like, I might have a tough time going back to it, because I also remember when it was MGM Studios, you know, and it's just, it's changed so much.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I kind of want to keep it alive and what, I like the retro and the, the old versions in my head.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I completely understand, because we, I mean, we love the new, the new Disney, we love the things that have changed, but there's a lot of things that are going in it, I guess.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I've never go away, figment though, the land, oh, that also the dancing fruits and vegetables in the, the living world was added in Epcot.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They had like.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I know that's not around anymore.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That means I was like, oh, no, I'm the person you're going to tell me now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No, no, I know it's not around anymore, but there's nothing like a freaking celery stalk dancing and singing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, I'm like, this was the best it was.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, now it's like we have to hold on to the things that are still there, because things are always going to be changing, so you just have to hold on, but at least the new stuff they make is great, at least there should be a retro Disney park where they take all the old stuff and put it into this retro version that you can experience it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I would pay $400.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You're welcome, Disney.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They need to, yeah, they need to pay me for that idea, but there you go.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, I wonder where did they didn't get rid of them?
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[SPEAKER_02]: They have to have them somewhere.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Some, well, boy, do I have a documentary for you?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, boy.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I recommend watching Stolen Kingdom.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's about how, with there was, do you remember like, cranium command, buzzy?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So it's all about how buzzy was there in an abandoned building, essentially, and someone stole it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, so that's a fun dive a lot of stuff goes to the Walt Disney Archives.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They do a great job of doing that some stuff like not as iconic stuff gets sold off like there's people who have like old Fort wilderness cabins or whatever in their backyard like there's stuff like that, but the buzzy buzzy is
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, no, that's like in the whole tells to like what I remember, you know, I remember when the swan and the dolphin Yeah, we're erected and I was like, oh my god, this is amazing and you know, so yeah, those two hotels still slap they come up on every episode because everyone loves them so much
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[SPEAKER_02]: I love that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, yeah, it's the, maybe that should be the next book is all the Disney world hotels.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Come into our world, yeah, like I'm using your expertise.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If someone listening to this podcast sees an actor, there are a huge fan of out in a public place and they want to say hi.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What's the best way to do that?
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[SPEAKER_03]: What's a great thing to say?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Do you have any advice for how to make that interaction, kind of efficient and sufficient?
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a very, very good question.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, make sure one they're not in the middle of eating.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And if they're with their kids also, be just being mindful, have an awareness of if they're in the middle of something like that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Usually they can tell if someone is staring at them.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Or, you know, or trying to get their attention, I do recommend not slipping, not trying to take your phone and take a photo when you think they're not aware because they are aware they know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it's best to go up to them when there is a nice break.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and say, you know, I'm sorry to bother you, but my name is, and I am such a huge fan of yours.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Because that's the one thing I hear from actors, a lot is that people come up to them, and I get it, they're so overwhelmed with the fact that they're seeing a favorite actor in the wild, so to speak, but they never say their name.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and they and actors love hearing people say introduce themselves say their name and you know that makes them feel good too and they're like oh hi Carly it's so nice to meet you and stuff and you're never really going to have anybody that's going to turn away someone that is super friendly and so nice or you know says do you mind if we take a photo or
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, something or just a conversation, but but always say like hi, my name is and I'm such a big fan because otherwise sometimes actors, you know, they get really scared too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're not used to it and they feel caught off guard.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So if you present yourself knowing that they're equally is like, you know, coming into this situation, it's easier on them to that is incredible advice.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's incredible advice because nobody does that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No one does that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No one does that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't see it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, say your name.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: All of us, all of us normies think that premieres and award shows are the most glamorous things in the entire world.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Can you see bunk that for us right now?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Can you give us a little reality check?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, you know, they were at first.
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[SPEAKER_02]: My very first view, I was, I got there two hours early.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my God, to see all this stuff, it's amazing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But then you learn, eh, not so, not so much.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I also would get really worried because if you're there to do a job, that's the other thing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like if you're there, it's a guest.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It is really exciting.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, you're seeing all the glitz and glamour of it all, but if you're there to do a job, you do have to get there early, usually have to park far away, you know, you then have to walk along to find where your place is on the carpet, it might be somewhere that is not great all the way down at the bottom, then you're like, it might even get to talk to the people that I came here for.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, it's, it's a lot of work and a lot of prep for not always the payoff and that's hard and, you know, so sometimes it's like, it isn't worth it and if I can say home, I will stay home because it doesn't offer the same excitement, especially if I've seen a screener of something already, but I will always go if it's to support people that I know or have worked hard for a project because that's really important to do.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, and then sometimes like I remember when stranger things premiered on Netflix and they didn't really have a premiere for season one, but for seasons two and three for sure.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They had these amazing after parties and it was carnivals and like all the food you could eat and that was incredible.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like those are the kinds of events you want to go to, but you know sometimes yeah, it's just it's a slog.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and you don't know if you're actually going to get the interviews, that's, you can leave really feeling defeated.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, man, I can't even imagine how tough that is.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's, that's hard.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was once on a carpet for the office, the final season, they're final like episode.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think we waited.
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[SPEAKER_02]: for five hours because they were still, it was their taping was running late and we were just in place for hours and hours and hours.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And finally, I told our videographer, like, we're gonna call it, let's go home.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is where outside.
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[SPEAKER_02]: we haven't eaten, you know, we're still waiting like we can't do that's like let's come on.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But that was really hard or the lackma they had one of their big gallas.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This was a few years ago and you had all these major alisters coming.
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[SPEAKER_02]: None of them did press.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They just did photos and they walked in and I remember like I got already for it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We hired a videographer and then you get nothing and it was so hard.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You just feel like you failed at your job, you know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So you learn okay, that's not an event.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to go to again because you're not going to get anything.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's just a photos only type of thing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So,
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, it takes practice to learn what's worth it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What isn't, you know, but I don't want to say I get jaded.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe I do get jaded, but you just you learn, you know, and and you're not there to like, trot and go inside.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like you're there to do your job in a strange office.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, it's exactly right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It is a strange office and that is your workplace.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it's very, very bizarre.
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[UNKNOWN]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Do you just have like 40 sequin gowns?
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[SPEAKER_03]: You wrote a pipe like what do you do?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I listened to this year's Emmys, I wore a dress that I had since I was 20 and I hadn't worn it in forever that I had gotten it from the nails and so I just keep, as long as I can fit into something, I will re wear it a million times because people aren't looking at me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Sometimes I will see like, I'm watching Kelteen and I eat on the red carpet and she has the most fabulous gowns that she wears and looks and I'm like, okay.
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[SPEAKER_02]: that makes me jealous like I want I'm envious I should say because I'm like okay I want that dry so I went that count but sometimes I just don't have it in me to like do all the work to to go about sourcing that or something so you just want to feel good at the end of the day and you know stuff like that but no I don't have 40 I have like 39 counts.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my god, just so much.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I'm big, I'm big about re-wearing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, I'm gonna go for everybody who's seen me and every single it's very rare when someone's like, oh my god, I haven't seen this before because it has been re-worned so many times.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you need a colleague who's the same measurements as you, so you guys can pull more drugs.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, so, you know, that's exactly right.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That would be beautiful.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I only have a couple more.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I will, I will try to go more quickly.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Go for it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What is something you've always wanted to report on, but have not done so yet?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Ooh, that's such a good question.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um...
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[SPEAKER_02]: I...
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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, my, I always say the people that I'm obsessed with that I haven't gotten to talk to that I really wanted to is the royals because I was especially when like Kate William got married and they started having kids like I just wanted to interview them so much I finally got to do an interview this summer with Megan Markle the Duchess of Sussex which was so cool because
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, whatever you think about her, she is one of the most well-known people on the planet.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So getting to do that was really something and I'm so grateful for that and she was truly lovely.
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[SPEAKER_02]: As for reporting on, I...
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[SPEAKER_02]: Gosh, I'm going to say right now, honestly, and this is the challenge of things is that I think I've done everything that I've wanted to in terms of things.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and that's, it almost makes me sad, though, saying that because it's like, you want to have something that excites you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'll never forget when I got to meet the castorful house and, you know, or when Fuller House was in production and I got to like see the recreated set and it was like, oh my god, my dream as a kid was to be able to visit this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So to do that, that was amazing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, or meet people that you loved in your childhood and got to meet them.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There's nothing that really comes to mind.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I just want to keep talking to people that have something to say and are willing to be open and share it with you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's all that I want, you know, because that's what makes the most engaging in interviews.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's kind of a boring answer.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I realize.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Nobody's like, it's so true to the work that you've done.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You've been doing it and you've made it happen.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, so that I really think I would love to, I joke, but I'm kind of serious.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I would love to go to the cot's walls and just like follow around the most like influential influencer and see how they get all their content.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's what I, that's what I would like to do.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I really do.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There's like there's a girl on Instagram.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think I hope I get it right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think her handle is at Madeline Lou and she's in Switzerland so much and just all over Europe and I'm so obsessed with her content that I want to follow her and see how she goes about doing it because she actually does report on some really great travel things and I just I'm so fascinated by that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I want to follow I want to follow the travel people to see
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If you could churn out two of these books, you would absolutely do that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, we'll see.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Who knows.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I can't wait for the the Madeleine Lou book.
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[SPEAKER_03]: or the pancake book don't forget the pancake, no, because you're gonna be like the history of pancake.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's gonna take years off your life.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I can't like you write the pancake book.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You're gonna go too hard.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my gosh, I will say if there was a book and people have asked me this that I would have loved to do.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I don't wanna say past tense because I still think there's a way you could do it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The one that I would really love the chance is a proper friend's oral history.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Of course it's so sad now because you don't have Matthew Perry there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: you know, or James who played Gunther, but I would have loved to have sat down with them and really go deep on these episodes because they've never, like they've given us little things over the years, but you've never gotten to really go deep with them about the front history, that would be cool.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And it's strange that that doesn't exist.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There's a lot of books, there's a lot of books and even, you know, uh, cough and crane, bright, they've done some, but nothing with the whole cast, like an oral history, like what I've done with Big Bang and Young Sheldon, that's what I'd like to see.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I would like to see that too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I don't think it's going to happen, but that's that's what I'd like to say.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, if anybody could do it, yeah, I've been doing it for you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Last but not least, Jessica, I am going to abuse friend privilege.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm going to ask, how does your hair always look so good?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't understand.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Your hair always looks good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It makes no sense.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The weather does not seem to affect it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What are you doing?
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[SPEAKER_03]: What is your secret?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Literally, I just washed it before we got on Zoom and dried it because I have to be on extra tomorrow.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I needed to look at otherwise it was very flat and not camera ready.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The other is, it's my parent, like thanks to my parents, it's genetics.
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[SPEAKER_02]: My mom has a lot of hair, hers is frizzy though and curly.
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[SPEAKER_02]: My dad is very straight and fine.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I got a lot of hair from my mom, but I got like, it's fine strands from my dad.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that is, but the amount of people that think it's a wig.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, I don't know if I should be insulted by that because I don't want to look so consistently looks good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's like a newscaster.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's like your hair is always camera ready.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He was like, I'm still waiting for my shampoo or conditioner commercial that or something.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I need a hair commercial or sponsorship because, you know, what are you watching with?
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[SPEAKER_03]: What are you putting in?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I need to know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I will say that I often rotate because I know that your hair is not alive in the sense that, like, it's not going to necessarily know, oh, I'm using, I'm using Laurel today and I'm using, you know, you know, Palm Mitchell and other day, but I do use, I think it's the Swav clarifying conditioner, which is important, especially if you put hair spray in your hair moves or all that you got to get, you got to get, you got to get, you got to get, you got to get, you got to get, you got to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get to get
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, doing this with Swav.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Swav, I go look, hold on.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I got to tell you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't understand.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I know.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Wait a moment.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The, uh, the, uh, the Swav.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Swav daily clarifying shampoo is great for when you need to really just clean out all of that gunk that you've put in your hair or the dry shampoo that I always use.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I love Palm Mitchell's clean line.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're hydrating shampoo and conditioner.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That makes it so smooth.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Also,
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I'd have to give you a list because there's a lot that I really do like also the kills amino acid shampoo, it smells divine.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't need to use it a lot because it also helps make your hair thicker and I don't need that, but it smells so good that I'm like who cares if it's a little thicker today.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Look in, but yeah, conditioners are everything, but yeah, that's big secrets.
01:00:00.770 --> 01:00:01.651
[SPEAKER_03]: What are you blood drying with?
01:00:02.440 --> 01:00:03.361
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, the T3.
01:00:03.801 --> 01:00:05.402
[SPEAKER_02]: The T3 is amazing.
01:00:06.023 --> 01:00:06.663
[SPEAKER_02]: It is saved.
01:00:06.683 --> 01:00:09.125
[SPEAKER_02]: They're hair dryer to create, but also they're three and one.
01:00:09.505 --> 01:00:13.608
[SPEAKER_02]: Like it helps like they've got a round brush that you can after it's mainly dry.
01:00:13.708 --> 01:00:15.049
[SPEAKER_02]: Use that and then you can style it.
01:00:15.089 --> 01:00:16.110
[SPEAKER_02]: I swear by T3.
01:00:16.230 --> 01:00:20.473
[SPEAKER_02]: And then that part your the connier hot rollers for when you went extra down.
01:00:20.513 --> 01:00:21.514
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
01:00:21.594 --> 01:00:23.456
[SPEAKER_02]: And then you go when I have to go section by section.
01:00:23.496 --> 01:00:24.076
[SPEAKER_02]: You're in a rush.
01:00:24.116 --> 01:00:26.518
[SPEAKER_02]: You just sit with the hot rollers and your hair get things done.
01:00:26.538 --> 01:00:27.499
[SPEAKER_02]: And then take them out.
01:00:27.759 --> 01:00:28.039
[SPEAKER_02]: Smart.
01:00:28.139 --> 01:00:31.070
[SPEAKER_03]: Because I bought the dice and whatever when everyone's like, you gotta get the dice in.
01:00:31.170 --> 01:00:31.913
[SPEAKER_03]: I can't figure it out.
01:00:31.933 --> 01:00:32.917
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm too stupid for it.
01:00:33.017 --> 01:00:33.861
[SPEAKER_03]: I can't figure it out.
01:00:34.382 --> 01:00:35.663
[SPEAKER_02]: It, it is hard.
01:00:35.723 --> 01:00:37.424
[SPEAKER_02]: I was almost afraid to use the T3.
01:00:37.624 --> 01:00:55.097
[SPEAKER_02]: I put it off for a while because I was like, I don't have the patients to learn this, but T3 is still very expensive, but it's less expensive than the Dyson and I haven't really used Dyson that much, but I can't imagine it being better than the T3 and I'm always about let's save some money if we can.
01:00:55.157 --> 01:00:58.159
[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, I bought my a lot Friday sale years ago.
01:00:58.279 --> 01:01:01.662
[SPEAKER_03]: So I know and I'm going to be looking for this late November is the T3.
01:01:02.303 --> 01:01:05.784
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the T3, their devices and their dual voltage now.
01:01:05.804 --> 01:01:09.145
[SPEAKER_02]: So you can bring it overseas, it's great.
01:01:09.225 --> 01:01:18.348
[SPEAKER_02]: Because let me tell you, I almost burned down the plaza on today in Paris with my curling devices, didn't that go well?
01:01:18.588 --> 01:01:24.231
[SPEAKER_02]: That is not really, that's an exaggeration that I was burned it down, but it did get overheated and start, you know.
01:01:24.671 --> 01:01:25.972
[SPEAKER_03]: That is not a place you wanted.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Doing things in the bathroom and I was like, oh crap.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That is like a generational debt to repay if you mess up that hotel.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's why I stop bringing it.
01:01:34.756 --> 01:01:39.598
[SPEAKER_02]: I let my hair go naturally wavy on trips in Europe until the T3 dual vote.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Voltage came along because I can't.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I can't burn that hotel.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No thank you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, thank you.
01:01:47.061 --> 01:01:54.306
[SPEAKER_03]: Now I'm going to buy that and just think of coming on the podcast and talking to us about your second book and about how to say how to celebrity in a polite and kind way.
01:01:54.686 --> 01:01:55.627
[SPEAKER_02]: I love being on with you.
01:01:55.647 --> 01:01:56.288
[SPEAKER_02]: You're the best.
01:01:56.408 --> 01:01:57.549
[SPEAKER_03]: You're the best.
01:01:57.729 --> 01:01:59.810
[SPEAKER_02]: You're the best supportive friend.
01:01:59.870 --> 01:02:04.934
[SPEAKER_02]: I wish more people were like you because you make others feel so happy and it means everything.
01:02:04.974 --> 01:02:05.795
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my god, you're so kind.
01:02:05.835 --> 01:02:09.037
[SPEAKER_03]: I just can't believe that you accomplished this more than once.
01:02:09.237 --> 01:02:11.279
[SPEAKER_03]: Like you're crazy and we all benefit from it.
01:02:11.319 --> 01:02:11.959
[SPEAKER_03]: So thank you.
01:02:12.140 --> 01:02:14.121
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, again, it might be this might be it.
01:02:15.382 --> 01:02:16.203
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we'll see ya!
01:02:16.243 --> 01:02:18.866
[SPEAKER_03]: We'll see you in a year and a half for the third book, whatever it may be.
01:02:19.307 --> 01:02:22.430
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, either the cruise light or pancakes, I don't know.
01:02:22.450 --> 01:02:23.492
[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's either one.
01:02:23.932 --> 01:02:24.573
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe both.
01:02:24.713 --> 01:02:25.394
[SPEAKER_03]: A little happening up.
01:02:42.142 --> 01:02:44.944
[SPEAKER_01]: Early high exam, it is a Tuesday morning.
01:02:45.084 --> 01:02:45.784
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm at work.
01:02:46.044 --> 01:02:47.405
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm having a lovely day.
01:02:47.906 --> 01:02:56.671
[SPEAKER_01]: And then I get a ping from the Walt Disney World AP site of no math lounge, new food, and I click on it.
01:02:56.751 --> 01:02:59.113
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm like, then, then, then the sweet, some seasonal stuff.
01:02:59.633 --> 01:03:01.114
[SPEAKER_01]: And then I read further on the blog.
01:03:01.474 --> 01:03:02.895
[SPEAKER_01]: And they're supposed to be adding,
01:03:03.540 --> 01:03:05.742
[SPEAKER_01]: Reservations now starting November.
01:03:05.982 --> 01:03:06.403
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
01:03:06.483 --> 01:03:07.844
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't find any news on it.
01:03:07.924 --> 01:03:12.369
[SPEAKER_01]: There's no staff got them on it, but I'm trying not to go full nuclear meltdown at work.
01:03:12.389 --> 01:03:15.892
[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't know, but I feel like this is what the hotline for.
01:03:15.972 --> 01:03:17.634
[SPEAKER_01]: So anyway, love you all.
01:03:17.734 --> 01:03:18.274
[SPEAKER_01]: Bye.
01:03:18.615 --> 01:03:18.935
[SPEAKER_01]: Please.
01:03:20.341 --> 01:03:27.163
[SPEAKER_03]: It's truly so funny that you could not find out anything about this because as you said, Scott and I were on a cruise together, solving a puzzle.
01:03:27.223 --> 01:03:29.104
[SPEAKER_03]: I think on castaway, he when this news broke.
01:03:29.124 --> 01:03:44.248
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, we were too busy solving a cruise line puzzle to be able to understand what was happening in Nomad Lounge, but I'm going to answer your questions and also provide a little more context to what's happening because there are three different things that are changing in Nomad Lounge and we are going to get into it.
01:03:44.648 --> 01:03:48.329
[SPEAKER_03]: Now if you have no idea what I'm talking about, Nomad Lounge is the bar that is attached
01:03:50.230 --> 01:03:52.632
[SPEAKER_03]: And they have done a lot of change.
01:03:52.652 --> 01:04:02.698
[SPEAKER_03]: They've announced a lot of changes in the past week, starting with the first bit of news that Nomad Lounge essentially began launched a dessert lemonade stand.
01:04:03.038 --> 01:04:06.440
[SPEAKER_03]: They basically began offering their beloved chose for mobile order.
01:04:06.641 --> 01:04:10.503
[SPEAKER_03]: Just the chose, just mobile order, and I'll say it, it's odd.
01:04:10.563 --> 01:04:15.386
[SPEAKER_03]: I should have known the other shoe was going to drop because they announced this before they announced reservations.
01:04:15.426 --> 01:04:17.968
[SPEAKER_03]: But everything happening here is a little odd and we're going to get into it.
01:04:18.248 --> 01:04:21.249
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it's odd that a bar is offering a takeaway dessert.
01:04:21.329 --> 01:04:27.072
[SPEAKER_03]: And also one of the options on the menu I saw is a gluten allergy churro when I thought they were supposed to be gluten-free.
01:04:27.652 --> 01:04:28.412
[SPEAKER_03]: So put a pin in that.
01:04:28.452 --> 01:04:29.373
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know what's going on there.
01:04:29.493 --> 01:04:31.614
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm just kind of trying to tackle it all in once.
01:04:32.174 --> 01:04:34.895
[SPEAKER_03]: But yes, the churros are now available for mobile order.
01:04:35.375 --> 01:04:43.739
[SPEAKER_03]: And the strangest change is what you call it about, which is that they are now going to be accepting reservations, starting, I believe, by the time this podcast comes out.
01:04:44.279 --> 01:04:54.502
[SPEAKER_03]: know my lounge used to just be like a walk up bar lounge you get a table you get a drink maybe get some snackies you get the churros all chill all good but they are going to start taking reservations.
01:04:54.562 --> 01:05:03.565
[SPEAKER_03]: Now typically when they take dining reservations that doesn't mean that you can't walk up and join the wait list they will have that as well but it doesn't mean it might be a little harder to get in.
01:05:04.185 --> 01:05:09.107
[SPEAKER_03]: I am curious behind why they are doing this but the final piece of the puzzle I
01:05:10.727 --> 01:05:17.449
[SPEAKER_03]: No ad lounge is also adding limited time-only advanced dining reservation offer for annual passholders.
01:05:17.809 --> 01:05:25.511
[SPEAKER_03]: So from October 20th to December 18th, annual passholders can get two drinks and two small plates from 3 p.m. until Park Closing for $45.
01:05:29.332 --> 01:05:30.513
[SPEAKER_03]: Sorry, I didn't write it down in my notes.
01:05:31.353 --> 01:05:33.294
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, oh, how much is it?
01:05:33.394 --> 01:05:34.655
[SPEAKER_03]: Tell me Tom Brecker, $49.
01:05:34.735 --> 01:05:38.937
[SPEAKER_03]: I was right, I'm just gonna read Tom Brecker's headline cause it makes a lot of sense.
01:05:39.217 --> 01:05:43.440
[SPEAKER_03]: Disney World's best in Park Lounge adds $49 dining deal reservations and dessert takeout.
01:05:43.580 --> 01:05:44.800
[SPEAKER_03]: That is what's happening.
01:05:44.840 --> 01:05:49.743
[SPEAKER_03]: Now for this annual passholder situation, reservations are recommended, but they're not required.
01:05:49.823 --> 01:05:52.885
[SPEAKER_03]: Guests must be 21 or older because part of the deal is drinks.
01:05:53.465 --> 01:05:57.288
[SPEAKER_03]: And it is unclear to me at the time, recording this if it's tiny drinks or full-size drinks.
01:05:57.308 --> 01:06:04.113
[SPEAKER_03]: If that's full-size drinks, two small plates and two full-size drinks for 49 bucks is like a really good light dinner situation.
01:06:04.153 --> 01:06:05.294
[SPEAKER_03]: Like that works.
01:06:05.475 --> 01:06:08.577
[SPEAKER_03]: But I don't think they're doing this out of the kindness of their heart.
01:06:08.817 --> 01:06:19.127
[SPEAKER_03]: I think if I'm looking at this purely from a business perspective, they took what was a lounge that people like and they now have multiple business changes to it.
01:06:19.167 --> 01:06:21.410
[SPEAKER_03]: They now have a to go business that they're running out of it.
01:06:21.810 --> 01:06:24.433
[SPEAKER_03]: They now have this special like
01:06:25.013 --> 01:06:35.340
[SPEAKER_03]: free fixed bar situation where typically if you're maybe leaving and going for one drink, you wouldn't spend that much or conversely 3 p.m. onwards and one kingdom is pretty much denseville.
01:06:35.961 --> 01:06:38.082
[SPEAKER_03]: So they're only doing this till the end of the year.
01:06:38.122 --> 01:06:47.769
[SPEAKER_03]: It's when the construction still happening like I think they're trying to pull people in to know mad lounge when the park is quieter to make sure that that business is boosted during those final hours of the day.
01:06:48.309 --> 01:07:02.922
[SPEAKER_03]: adding advanced timing reservations might also play into that because I would assume if you wanted to go here then now you will be planning your trip around if you're making that reservation and maybe you're making that reservation you know what time you're going to go and so you're going to make sure you get some food and you're going to plan it around a meal time.
01:07:03.723 --> 01:07:10.187
[SPEAKER_03]: Again, I think that this is to squeeze more juice out of no man lounge, that's the only explanation I can think of.
01:07:10.828 --> 01:07:12.068
[SPEAKER_03]: But if you have anything else, let me know.
01:07:12.169 --> 01:07:13.709
[SPEAKER_03]: Again, I'm not a math with.
01:07:14.370 --> 01:07:16.972
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, I don't, I don't understand finance.
01:07:17.012 --> 01:07:20.914
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm pretty sure their fiscal year just ended, so I don't know how this fits into that.
01:07:21.234 --> 01:07:24.456
[SPEAKER_03]: But to put it scientifically, this feels a little
01:07:27.118 --> 01:07:37.342
[SPEAKER_03]: because even if they're trying to squeeze more money at a no mad lounge, now you can, if you only wanted to get chose, now you can get chose without having to sit down and maybe get a drink you didn't want, you can like get in and out and get your chose.
01:07:37.682 --> 01:07:44.164
[SPEAKER_03]: If you want to go there, now you can guarantee you get a table and if you want a steal of a dinner, you have that too.
01:07:44.224 --> 01:07:45.824
[SPEAKER_03]: So I think it's a win-win-win for everyone.
01:07:45.844 --> 01:07:47.025
[SPEAKER_03]: I guess win-win-win-win-win-win.
01:07:47.425 --> 01:07:49.006
[SPEAKER_03]: because it went for Disney on the end.
01:07:49.207 --> 01:07:50.668
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm okay with it, I think.
01:07:50.768 --> 01:07:54.651
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't love when the launch has reservations, but the annual Pazzleder deals really great.
01:07:54.711 --> 01:08:01.237
[SPEAKER_03]: It'll bring people in there later in the day, and anything to keep an establishment like this, which is, I would say universally loved.
01:08:01.297 --> 01:08:02.277
[SPEAKER_03]: Like we all love it.
01:08:02.638 --> 01:08:04.219
[SPEAKER_03]: Anything to keep them thriving.
01:08:04.739 --> 01:08:08.222
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe that means we'll get more stuff like that in other parks and more places to set up like this.
01:08:08.282 --> 01:08:08.483
[SPEAKER_02]: So
01:08:09.223 --> 01:08:13.688
[SPEAKER_03]: It ends up, it feels, I mean, I'm dancing a little round, it feels okay, I guess.
01:08:13.748 --> 01:08:15.150
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know about the reservations.
01:08:15.230 --> 01:08:17.112
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't like any barriers to entry for any plans.
01:08:17.152 --> 01:08:23.539
[SPEAKER_03]: I love to be chill and roll up, but they have that too still, so hopefully this is a net win for all of us.
01:08:23.559 --> 01:08:28.285
[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you so much for calling and sorry that we left you without your timely news updates while we were on the ship.
01:08:28.605 --> 01:08:29.106
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sorry.
01:08:29.466 --> 01:08:30.247
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01:08:38.905 --> 01:08:43.829
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01:09:00.985 --> 01:09:03.488
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[SPEAKER_00]: 1921.
01:11:07.419 --> 01:11:07.939
[SPEAKER_00]: It's 1922.
01:11:08.179 --> 01:11:09.580
[SPEAKER_00]: I just wanted to collect that.
01:11:10.000 --> 01:11:15.784
[SPEAKER_00]: But so exciting to be on the wish with you and Pearl, mostly Pearl, because you were working.
01:11:15.844 --> 01:11:17.845
[SPEAKER_00]: And it was the best time.
01:11:18.285 --> 01:11:22.648
[SPEAKER_00]: I am very excited about the new shift destiny coming out December of 27.
01:11:23.108 --> 01:11:25.089
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my gosh, so much fun.
01:11:25.730 --> 01:11:31.373
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I wanted to thank you for that Swedish shout out you did for me for watching Pearl this week.
01:11:31.433 --> 01:11:32.714
[SPEAKER_00]: It was my pleasure and we had
01:11:35.021 --> 01:11:37.002
[SPEAKER_00]: I love being with Pearl and you so much.
01:11:37.443 --> 01:11:42.326
[SPEAKER_00]: And dancing with Mickey and Minnie at the kids club, Pearl was sliding down a fast slide.
01:11:42.546 --> 01:11:44.607
[SPEAKER_00]: We just split down a water slide together.
01:11:45.007 --> 01:11:46.288
[SPEAKER_00]: We both loved it so much.
01:11:46.348 --> 01:11:52.352
[SPEAKER_00]: We built sand castles and picking up seashells at Castilecoe Island was a wonderful experience.
01:11:52.652 --> 01:11:58.416
[SPEAKER_00]: But the highlight of the trip I had to reiterate was Pearl having a vivid poverty blue appointment.
01:11:58.516 --> 01:12:00.597
[SPEAKER_00]: I have worked it for this for so long.
01:12:01.182 --> 01:12:15.693
[SPEAKER_00]: from picking out any princess dress that she wanted to a wonderful hairdo to jewelry make-up nails, T.R.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I, however, purchased my souvenirs throughout steeping.
01:12:33.689 --> 01:12:34.991
[SPEAKER_00]: I love to the pillowcase.
01:12:35.391 --> 01:12:38.715
[SPEAKER_00]: I love my little towels with the insignia of Mickey and a shrimp.
01:12:38.815 --> 01:12:39.456
[SPEAKER_00]: I love that.
01:12:39.896 --> 01:12:51.008
[SPEAKER_00]: So I was able to get a $10 Disney pillowcase, but for like 21, you can get the one with the embroidery with all the Disney, which was a great bargain as a souvenir anyway.
01:12:51.394 --> 01:12:59.758
[SPEAKER_00]: And I bought a plush white hand towel for $7, you can buy a bath towel, but I only wanted a hand towel because my suitcase was very heavy.
01:13:00.058 --> 01:13:06.921
[SPEAKER_00]: But the Disney Shirt logo on it is such a fun souvenir to have, and by the way, you're here with so beautiful from the blowout.
01:13:06.941 --> 01:13:08.281
[SPEAKER_00]: You look fabulous all week.
01:13:08.702 --> 01:13:13.604
[SPEAKER_00]: I had such a great week, pearl head such a great week, you had such a great week.
01:13:13.664 --> 01:13:15.945
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to thank you so much for taking me.
01:13:16.245 --> 01:13:18.406
[SPEAKER_00]: It was just a pleasure to be with my pearly.
01:13:18.920 --> 01:13:20.404
[SPEAKER_00]: I love you so much, Carly.
01:13:20.584 --> 01:13:21.947
[SPEAKER_00]: I love you so much, Carly.
01:13:21.987 --> 01:13:23.471
[SPEAKER_00]: And yes, I love you, James Daymos.
01:13:24.032 --> 01:13:24.333
[SPEAKER_00]: Bye.