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How Rescuing Needy Dogs Saved Mary Bonnet · I Choose Me with Jennie Garth

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to I Choose Me with Jenny Garland. Mary
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  Speaker 1: Bonnet is a ton of fun and creating all sorts
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  Speaker 1: of new adventures now that her time on Selling Sunset
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  Speaker 1: is done. Here's the rest of our conversation. Well, we
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  Speaker 1: share a passion for the animals. We love the animals.
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  Speaker 2: We sure do.
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  Speaker 1: I have four dogs running around following me wherever I
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  Speaker 1: go all day long. You have eight?
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  Speaker 2: I have seven at the house right now.
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  Speaker 1: Seven dogs. You have a pack. I have a pack.
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  Speaker 2: It's lower than 13. I have 13.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That was too many.
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  Speaker 1: You started fostering. That's how you have all these dogs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Fostering. And then I'm actually in the process of starting
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  Speaker 2: my own rescue. I've started noticing that, well, some of
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  Speaker 2: the rescues haven't really, they, they, they have me foster
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  Speaker 2: and then they disappear.
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  Speaker 1: Um, that happened to us.
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 1: I called it a foster fail.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, they just dropped the dog off and I never
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  Speaker 1: heard from him again.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty much. And I've got that with most of
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  Speaker 2: my dogs. Well, there's a, there's some, um, with the,
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  Speaker 2: with the mom and eight pups that that rescue was amazing.
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  Speaker 2: And she has, she's stuck it out through like what
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  Speaker 2: nobody else I think would. I mean, I give her
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  Speaker 2: so much credit. Um, And, but a lot of them
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  Speaker 2: have done that. And I was like, okay, well, I
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  Speaker 2: am paying for all of this on my own. I
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  Speaker 2: was like, and I can't go rescue from the shelters
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  Speaker 2: on my own. Like as a foster, like if I
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  Speaker 2: see one, I'm like, is there a rescue that they
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  Speaker 2: would pull? Even knowing like if I have to pay
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  Speaker 2: for it, which I probably will, but I just need
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  Speaker 2: to pull. And a lot of them are rescue only.
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  Speaker 1: So how did you come to find out about this
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  Speaker 1: whole issue with It was by chance.
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  Speaker 2: It was someone– it was very good timing and just
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  Speaker 2: by chance. At the same time, everything aligned. It was
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  Speaker 2: right when things were happening with the show where I saw–
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  Speaker 2: I got a DM saying, listen, I've always loved you
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  Speaker 2: on your show. I think you're such a good person.
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  Speaker 1: So if you.
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  Speaker 2: Don't do something or say something about this with your platform, then– like,
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  Speaker 2: you're not as good. You're kind of evil.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, sorry, what? I was like, that's
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  Speaker 1: not evil. I was like, what do you mean?
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  Speaker 2: And so I went on to see what she was
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  Speaker 2: talking about. And in the video I watched, like what
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  Speaker 2: was happening in the shelters, I was like, that's not happening.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's like, and she's like, really? And started
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  Speaker 2: sending me one after another, after another. And I was like,
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  Speaker 2: I just started having a panic attack. I was like,
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  Speaker 2: How did I not know this? I mean, I've heard
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  Speaker 2: about overcrowding. I've heard about stuff, but I still went
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  Speaker 2: and bought my dogs. But I didn't get it, and
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  Speaker 2: I didn't realize how many are dying every day, the
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  Speaker 2: conditions that they're living in. What is happening with Skid
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  Speaker 2: Row and stuff like that, all the abuse and everything.
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  Speaker 2: I just didn't understand the gravity of it. And once
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  Speaker 2: I did, you can't unsee it. And I started printing out, okay,
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  Speaker 2: how do I make the biggest impact with what I've got?
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  Speaker 2: I've got a fully gated yard. So I was like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: this is great for them. I've got a decent amount
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  Speaker 2: of land. I pulled all the equipment out of my gym,
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  Speaker 2: turned it into a puppy room. I don't ever use
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  Speaker 2: it that much anyway.
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  Speaker 1: You have a puppy room. I'm so jealous.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. And so I did a mom and eight
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  Speaker 2: pups because I thought, okay, well, I can do one
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  Speaker 2: pup and then I'm really rescuing nine, right?
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't really work like that because they are Malinois
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  Speaker 2: husky mixes. And so they're not little puppies. They're like,
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  Speaker 2: even at seven weeks old, they're like the size of
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  Speaker 2: my Pomeranian or bigger than my Pomeranian. And now they're massive.
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  Speaker 2: But having eight of them, it was not... It was
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  Speaker 2: not just a mom and a couple of pups. It
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  Speaker 2: was a full-time job.
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  Speaker 1: You took a deep dive.
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  Speaker 2: I did. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I wouldn't trade it for the world. It was
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  Speaker 2: the hardest thing I think I've ever done. And then
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  Speaker 2: five of them got sick with parvo and distemper. And
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  Speaker 2: so I was not sleeping at all. Like when they
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  Speaker 2: would go to sleep, I was like sanitizing the whole house.
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  Speaker 2: My nails were literally melting off, like my acrylic nails.
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  Speaker 2: And my feet were, like, cracking. Like, all the chemicals
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  Speaker 2: and stuff. I was, like, scrubbing what the vets use.
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  Speaker 2: And so I was, like, disinfecting everything, trying to keep
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  Speaker 2: everything clean. And going to– I was in the hospital, like, constantly.
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  Speaker 1: And the vet?
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  Speaker 2: The vets, I realized, are– I have an issue with
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  Speaker 2: a lot of vets right now.
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  Speaker 1: Me too.
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 1: There's something happening in LA with veterinarians and the amount
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  Speaker 1: of money that they charge people to take care of
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  Speaker 1: their animals.
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  Speaker 2: It's because I became like besties with a vet. She
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  Speaker 2: reached out to me and she explained the whole thing
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  Speaker 2: because she reached out. She's like, if you have a
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  Speaker 2: platform and I have the knowledge on everything, let's work together.
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, done. And we've become such good friends.
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  Speaker 2: She's amazing. Her name's Wendy.
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  Speaker 1: How do you avoid going to the vet then?
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  Speaker 2: Well, something needs to happen. This is where something needs
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  Speaker 2: to happen about this. The reason why it's happening is
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  Speaker 2: because there's a bunch of companies that are just buying
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  Speaker 2: out all of these vets. So it's monetary-based. And so
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  Speaker 2: the vets have restrictions on what they can do. And
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  Speaker 2: they get paid for commissioning. So they will just add
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  Speaker 2: a lot of things onto the bill because that's how
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  Speaker 2: they get money. But in most cases, their salary is
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  Speaker 2: like way low. And then when they add on all
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  Speaker 2: these things, saying, oh, here's your quote before they do work.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you go in for an ear infection and you
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  Speaker 1: come out with blood tests and everything. Skin tests and x-rays.
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  Speaker 2: And all these things. It's like, wait, they really need
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  Speaker 2: like this?
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  Speaker 1: Like, why do they need this?
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, because that's, and so it's something where the
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  Speaker 2: lack of care, I think, is, they took an oath
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  Speaker 2: to care for the dogs and put their health first,
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  Speaker 2: but they're being restricted on what they can do because
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  Speaker 2: of the companies that own them. So my friend Wendy
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  Speaker 2: is like, I call her for everything and I FaceTime
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  Speaker 2: her when anything happens. Okay, what do you think? What's happening?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's a good friend of mine.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. And so I was like, do I need
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  Speaker 2: to take him in? Do I not? And she's like,
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  Speaker 2: let me see. Okay, do this, like here, like it.
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  Speaker 2: And she's like, so it's been very helpful, very helpful.
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  Speaker 2: And she's going to be on board with the rescue
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  Speaker 2: and stuff too. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's amazing that you're going to now use
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  Speaker 1: your platform for something that you're so passionate about and
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  Speaker 1: that you were able to kind of like figure that out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, I always wanted to find something like
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  Speaker 2: where I could use it for good. I was like,
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  Speaker 2: it's a waste to have it and not do anything
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  Speaker 2: with it. Like there, there has to be something that
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  Speaker 2: I want to, and I couldn't figure it out like forever.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, I'm not just going to do it
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  Speaker 2: just for the sake of it. But then this happened.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, This is it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's so exciting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I wish you so much luck because I know that
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  Speaker 1: there's such a huge crisis with the shelter system, especially
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  Speaker 1: in LA.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. So I think I'm, well, I'm trying to
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  Speaker 2: go to Nashville actually. I might move to Nashville to
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  Speaker 2: get a lot like more land and be able to
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  Speaker 2: do it there. And then I've got a team of
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  Speaker 2: pilots that from all over the country so that we
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  Speaker 2: can like try to pull some of the dogs because
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the big dogs, they get pulled. Like
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  Speaker 2: in my situation, you can pull them from the shelter
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  Speaker 2: and you can't get them adopted. No one in LA
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  Speaker 2: is adopting big dogs.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's hard. It's my dream. It's always been my
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  Speaker 1: dream to have like just land and one of every
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  Speaker 1: kind of dog right now. But I'm just there to
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  Speaker 1: play with them and enjoy them. And then somebody else
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  Speaker 1: has to do the work. Like it's too much. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it is a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I would have to have like volunteers and people working
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  Speaker 2: like with me and stuff, but I have to, one
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  Speaker 2: step at a time, I have to have Donations first
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  Speaker 2: and then have different things. I have to have a
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  Speaker 2: whole system before I can hire people. Yeah, that's important.
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  Speaker 2: It's in the works.
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  Speaker 1: You're working on it, which is really exciting. And I
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  Speaker 1: can see the passion that you have for it in
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  Speaker 1: your eyes. It sort of lights you up, which is
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  Speaker 1: really cool to see.
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  Speaker 2: It's important. I think on the days where I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: what are you guys doing? And they're terrorizing my house
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  Speaker 2: and they have terrorized my house. I just look at
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  Speaker 2: them and I'm like, they would be dead. Because I've
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  Speaker 2: rescued all of them like on the day that they
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  Speaker 2: are supposed to be euthanized. And so when I look
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  Speaker 2: at them and I see that and I'm like, they're puppies.
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  Speaker 2: They're all puppies. And I was like, that's what they do.
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  Speaker 2: I just have a lot of them. And so, you know.
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  Speaker 1: They're supposed to do that. They're having fun.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 1: Like instead of being, you know, euthanized. Now they're at
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  Speaker 1: your house having a good time. Exactly. Ripping up things.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure. What's the worst things one of them ever
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  Speaker 1: did to your house?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, God.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They have eaten the window sills. They've eaten the stairs,
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  Speaker 2: the wood off the stairs. Every corner of the baseboards
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  Speaker 2: are gone. They have– all my doors are like completely
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  Speaker 2: scratched and paint is chipping off. So I'm trying to
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  Speaker 2: get other people to come in and fix it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, it's just going to happen immediately.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe someday you'll get it I guess I.
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  Speaker 2: Would just say it's falling apart.
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  Speaker 1: I'm curious though, this newfound passion has kind of saved
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  Speaker 1: you because it was very big news that you decided
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  Speaker 1: to walk away from your reality show, Selling Sunset. Can
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  Speaker 1: I tell you something? I've never watched an episode of it.
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  Speaker 1: And I only want to say that to be really
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  Speaker 1: transparent with you because- I don't know you through that show.
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  Speaker 1: I know you from like your platform and from talking
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  Speaker 1: to you and reading some of your book. Oh, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: But I know it was just the hugest success.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 1: People are fascinated by like, you know, these strong independent
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  Speaker 1: women as realtors, like selling, you know, luxury homes, multimillion
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  Speaker 1: dollar deals while managing all the things that we as
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  Speaker 1: women manage.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And what do you think, what do you think that
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  Speaker 1: was the appeal that made the show so popular?
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  Speaker 2: I think that there, I think it was a combination
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  Speaker 2: of things. Like LA real estate is always like eye candy,
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  Speaker 2: you know? I think all the women on the show,
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  Speaker 2: the fashion, the drama.
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  Speaker 1: When you started out, was there drama? Was it meant
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  Speaker 1: to be?
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  Speaker 2: No. Well, I'm sure, I'm sure the producers thought that and, and,
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  Speaker 2: Jason and I always were like, how are we going
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  Speaker 2: to get drama? It's like we all get along. We're
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  Speaker 2: like best friends. Yeah. Like there's no drama.
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  Speaker 1: I heard you say once, like, I'm boring. Why do
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  Speaker 1: they want to call me?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I had no idea. Every year I
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  Speaker 2: think I'm going to get fired. Every year. Because I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I just don't bring the drama. I was like, so
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know if I'm coming back. They're like, Mary,
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  Speaker 2: would you shut up? You're not going anywhere. I was like,
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  Speaker 2: but I didn't give you anything. And they're like, we
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  Speaker 2: can't have everybody fighting. Okay. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: No, you came off as like the– from what I understand,
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  Speaker 1: you came off as like the nice, kind one, always
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  Speaker 1: trying to help other people.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I was always trying to stop the fighting. Trying
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  Speaker 2: to stop the fighting. It drives me– it gets to me.
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  Speaker 2: I hate conflict.
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  Speaker 1: What changed, though? When did you start to feel that
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  Speaker 1: shift of, you know, them pushing for more drama, especially
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  Speaker 1: from you? I mean, you felt the pressure of it.
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  Speaker 2: When did it start? I think– Funny enough, when Nicole
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  Speaker 2: came on, I think, and she was a good friend.
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  Speaker 2: She actually married my husband and I. I think when
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  Speaker 2: she came on, things started– the fighting took– it started
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  Speaker 2: going next level. Like it was below the belt. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: like it was below the belt. It was very revengeful.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of drama? Since I didn't watch it, can
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  Speaker 1: you just tell me? Like, what kind of vengeful drama
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  Speaker 1: is in a real estate? I mean, I know it's cutthroat. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it was nothing about real estate.
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  Speaker 1: It was nothing about real estate?
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  Speaker 2: No. It was personal drama, just, like, tearing each other apart.
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  Speaker 1: Why?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Did they try to tear you apart? No, not normally.
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  Speaker 2: Until the last season. And then.
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  Speaker 1: And then.
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  Speaker 2: I went through it and I was like, no, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Because it's like, I just don't, the issues that they're
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  Speaker 2: trying to, that people are making up and saying just
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  Speaker 2: for like, just for attention. I was like, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: having any part of this. Like it is.
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  Speaker 1: So did they come to you and say like, this
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  Speaker 1: is what we need to film today? No.
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  Speaker 2: Because I've tried to avoid talking about it because I
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  Speaker 2: just like, I am not going to have that out
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  Speaker 2: in society because it's not true. And I mean, I've
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  Speaker 2: had to go through it anyway, but they were just
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  Speaker 2: bringing up issues and saying things publicly that were very,
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  Speaker 2: very false and very hurtful. And I lost clients because
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  Speaker 2: of it. It was very, very damaging. And it was,
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't be, more, it couldn't be more opposite. It
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  Speaker 2: was like polar opposite of who I am. So it was,
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  Speaker 2: it was very hard. And then, and production and everything,
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  Speaker 2: they just wouldn't, the way I think it was edited
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  Speaker 2: and then what we were allowed to say afterwards, if
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  Speaker 2: it's not on the show, then, then you can't talk
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  Speaker 2: about it and stuff. And so couldn't defend myself. Couldn't like,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, I'm not having any part of
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  Speaker 2: this anymore. Like, so.
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  Speaker 1: And that's a big decision. That's a big I choose
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  Speaker 1: me moment, actually. Yeah. To walk away from something that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you stepped into.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It made you famous.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you had great success with it. You built
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  Speaker 1: this great platform.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You sold a lot of houses.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Made a lot of money.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And for you to step away from that must have
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  Speaker 1: been really scary.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. It's still like, I mean, I still look
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  Speaker 2: at it and wonder... wonder if I made the right decision,
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  Speaker 2: but I know for my, for my own mental health
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  Speaker 2: and stuff, and unless things change, because I always, I
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  Speaker 2: loved doing a show. I loved being with my friends
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  Speaker 2: on there. I loved like being inspirational too. Like these
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  Speaker 2: younger girls are like, I want to be like a
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  Speaker 2: boss too. Like, and, and I loved that aspect of it,
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  Speaker 2: what it turned into, at least for me, I don't
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  Speaker 2: think was healthy. I don't think it was like in
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  Speaker 2: alignment with who I am. It's such a shame because.
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  Speaker 1: They just want the ratings.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. But they did change up the whole cast now.
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  Speaker 2: So maybe it's different. Maybe it'll be different.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it'll be even worse.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it will.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know when it comes out. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: supposed to come out sometime soon. So I'll have to
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  Speaker 2: watch it and see.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. That, I mean, I'm glad I told
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  Speaker 1: you that I had never watched it. So like, I'm
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  Speaker 1: just like learning why it is getting left and like,
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  Speaker 1: I have a lot of admiration for you that you
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  Speaker 1: were like, this does not align with who I am
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  Speaker 1: or who I want to be in this world.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's a little scary because the market is down
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  Speaker 2: a lot. I mean, it sucks right now. And then
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  Speaker 2: not getting the money from the show too. Maybe it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't the best timing, but spending all the money on
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: the dogs. Yeah. You need to find me a new job.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: I like the idea. Move to Nashville. Start your own
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: reality show there about your dog rescue.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: I love that.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: Because you're a very interesting woman. My buddy, my rescue
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: dog is in love with you. Oh, dogs do love me.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: Dogs do love me.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: I love them. So you're really at this kind of
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: transition in your life where you're like, which path am
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: I going to go down? How does that feel?
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: A little scary, but I'm good with change. I just,
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: I always feel like if you don't like it, change it.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: And if you don't like that, come back, do something
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: different again.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: Try again. Do something else.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: You don't have to be stuck. So I feel like
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: we got to give it a go. My husband is, again,
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: always on board with anything. He's A little nervous. He
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: doesn't know what he's going to do there. I was like,
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of construction there because he's a project manager.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: I was like, there's so much construction. There's so much.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: The market there is way better than here. So get
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: my license there and he can be a project manager
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: there and we have our dog rescue and maybe do
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: a show. Who knows?
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: I love this. It's exciting. Yeah, I think so. Oh
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: my gosh. Well, oh wait, I forgot. I have to
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: tell you this story. Okay. So I love real estate,
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: first of all. My parents were, I could tell it
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: to you, but my mom was a realtor. My dad
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: tried being a realtor for a minute. So my first
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: job was in a real estate office, Century 21. Oh, really?
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: I was like the lady that answered the calls and
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: then directed them. They would call and say, oh, I
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: saw a sign up because they would call the real
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: estate office and I would like send them to the
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: right realtor.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: It was really fun. I think I was like 15.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: But when I bought this house, when Dave and I
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: came to see this house for the first time They
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: were filming– it was an open house, which I was
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: like just stumbled upon. And they were filming a show
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: called Million Dollar Listing. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: I was– I had no idea that there was going
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: to be a whole film crew in the house, hors
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: d'oeuvres on trays, people dressed to the nines. I'm like
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: in my sweats walking in, just a hoodie. And so
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: they were– we hid in the bathroom.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Oh my God.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: The powder room because we walked in and it's the
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: first door to your right. So we just hid in
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: there from all the people because I was really nervous. Like,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: what is happening? Are all these people going to buy
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: this house? So we just like buzzed through the house
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: really quickly and saw everything and I made an offer.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: that night. Oh, my gosh. Because I was like, oh,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: there's got to be so much competition. Because all those
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: people were there. But I didn't really put two and
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: two together that they were making.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: A TV show. Oh, my God. Well, oh, I'm sorry
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: about that.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: No, but it just made me think that.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: We didn't go like way over asking or something.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: I don't, I, no. I think that's a good deal,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: I think. Okay, good. Unfortunately.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Good.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: But it's just so crazy, the real estate and the
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: reality shows.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. People don't normally dress up that much for–
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: I mean, people look nice for Brokers Open.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Like if, you know, it's like this Twilight Open, it's
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: like a really bougie one for a $ 40 million listing
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: or something. You dress a little nicer. But on Sundays,
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: going into an open house, people just dress normal. Like
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: people are not dressed like in ball gowns. I mean,
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: they start getting ridiculous ownership. People have to wear ball gowns.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: And I was like, okay, this is a little extreme.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: I remember the woman that had the listing was dressed
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: in a leopard suit and like really high heels. And
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: I was like, wow. I don't know if this house
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: doesn't feel like... I felt like I had to save
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: the house, honestly, from like the Hollywood because it's so
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: not Hollywood, this property. Oh my gosh, I had to
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: share that story with you.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Oh my God, I love it.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: I don't get to talk to realtors very often.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm a Yeah, I completely understand what you went through.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you know what I saw. Yep, sure do. Well,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: I'm so happy that you joined me. Thank you so much.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Thank you. And I'm just, thank you for caring so
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: much about animals too. We need more people like you.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: And I just wish you so much happiness and so
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: much like fun on.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: This next adventure.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Less stress.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Yes, less stress.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Like build it in a way. That it's less stress.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Let that be like your number one priority.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: I think– now I know what stresses me out. And before,
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: I don't think I knew because I just don't– if
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: I didn't get along with somebody, I just walked away.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: I'm like, I didn't need to have drama in my life.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: I didn't realize how much it really impacts me. And
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: so now I can– I know what I like. I
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: know what I don't. And now I just need to
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: find an opportunity to do that. Yes. Just– yeah. Wow. Wow.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: I'm excited for you. But before I let you go,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Mary Bonnet, what was your last I choose me moment?
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: I think probably the decision with the show and giving
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: myself permission to just uproot my life and go where
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: I want to go. Start over if new at 46.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: That is boss energy right there.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: That takes bravery.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: We'll see how it goes. Yeah. I'll be watching. Okay. Well,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: I'll be here supporting you, cheering you on.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Thank you.