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Teri Hatcher, Andrea Bowen and Emerson Tenney · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Fun with Mario Lopez. Hi, so bro, Mario Lopez joining
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  Speaker 1: me right now the host of the new podcast Desperately
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  Speaker 1: Devoted Terry Hatcher, Andrea Bowen and Emerson Teddy, how are you, ladies.
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  Speaker 1: We're great, Thank you for taking the time. So in
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  Speaker 1: the new podcast, you're going to be rewatching Desperate Housewives,
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  Speaker 1: the iconic show. But the twist here, Terry, you have
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  Speaker 1: your real life daughter Emerson as a host and your
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  Speaker 1: TV daughter from the series, Andrea as the other hosts.
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  Speaker 1: That's a fun dynamic.
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  Speaker 2: Gosh, isn't that great. I'm surrounded by brilliant women.
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  Speaker 3: Andrea actually kind of brought the idea to me, maybe
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  Speaker 3: with thinking that her and I would do it together,
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  Speaker 3: and then I was the one that said, like, wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: it be amazing? Since Emerson is a writer, she's not
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  Speaker 3: an actor, and she's also never seen it before, and
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  Speaker 3: so she's, you know, twenty seven, We've got that generation.
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  Speaker 3: We have Andrew who's thirty five, and me who's eighty please,
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  Speaker 3: and so we have all these different points of view
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  Speaker 3: of this iconic show. And plus we love each other,
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  Speaker 3: so we're really excited.
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  Speaker 1: That's so much fun and it's so cool. I can't believe, though, Emerson,
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  Speaker 1: it is funny because I feel really old. I remember
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  Speaker 1: when you were a little little girl.
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy all grown up now.
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  Speaker 1: Time goes by so quick. I can't believe it's the
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  Speaker 1: first time you're got to watch this series. Was that
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  Speaker 1: a deliberate move on your part?
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, I think I was way too young
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  Speaker 4: to watch it when it first came out.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I was seven when the pilot aired.
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  Speaker 4: Why I remember you yeah, and then and then you know,
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  Speaker 4: there wasn't streaming for a while. I feel like it
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  Speaker 4: was really during COVID in twenty twenty when a lot
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  Speaker 4: of my friends from college. I think it was when
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  Speaker 4: Despert Housewives first came out, either on Netflix or maybe
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  Speaker 4: it was Hulu, and I had all these friends from
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  Speaker 4: college who you know, had not really grown up necessarily
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  Speaker 4: watching the show reaching out to me, going.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, is this Your mom is your mom?
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  Speaker 4: Susan your mom who came to parents' weekend when we
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  Speaker 4: were in college. And so when this opportune maybe presented itself,
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  Speaker 4: it was such an easy yes because I am a screenwriter.
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  Speaker 4: It is such an iconic piece of television. Not to
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  Speaker 4: mention that my mom is amazing and it's so fun
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  Speaker 4: to get to celebrate her and watch her achievements in
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  Speaker 4: that show.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, it's it's been a blast.
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  Speaker 4: I mean we're only into it, well I'm only into
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  Speaker 4: the first first season a little ways, but I'm loving it.
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  Speaker 1: I know your mom is fantastic in it. And what
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  Speaker 1: are your thoughts, Terry and looking back and rewatching it now?
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  Speaker 3: And well I also like Andrea, I think both of
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  Speaker 3: us obviously we've seen it before, but not.
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  Speaker 2: In over decade.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, And I have to say I was so
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  Speaker 3: I don't even know the I mean shock and awe.
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  Speaker 3: Really when I just just the pilot, just the first
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  Speaker 3: two minutes of the pilot, before any of the main
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  Speaker 3: actors even enter the scene, really just the street itself
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  Speaker 3: and the whole like kind of Mary Alice set up
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  Speaker 3: when she does what she does. I mean, you can't
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  Speaker 3: watch you have spoiler If you have spoiler alerts on
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  Speaker 3: a show that's twenty one years old.
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  Speaker 1: You see, you're good.
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  Speaker 2: You're good.
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  Speaker 3: But I really felt like it. The jumping off point
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  Speaker 3: was with Steria. Lane is a big star and the
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  Speaker 3: writing is so amazing, and every single actor in it
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  Speaker 3: is just I just I can't get over it. It's
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  Speaker 3: like watching a show that I wasn't in, Like I
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  Speaker 3: so it really is holding up.
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  Speaker 2: At least so far.
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  Speaker 3: And uh, I'm we're really enjoying it, and you know, hindsight,
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  Speaker 3: it just it just it's just joy. I mean, these
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  Speaker 3: guys every every episode when we do when we do
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  Speaker 3: our podcast, we talk about our individual highlights and sometimes
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  Speaker 3: we'll say, like, what line jumped out at us? What
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  Speaker 3: line of dialogue jumped out at us the most? And
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  Speaker 3: for me, it's just constant. It's to the point, now, let's.
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  Speaker 2: Stop talking about this line. Yeah, well, yeah, it is true.
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  Speaker 3: I won't say the line because I've been saying. But
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  Speaker 3: everything I pick it's Marcia. I just keep going back to,
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  Speaker 3: like three is so amazing. I just, I mean, everyone's amazing,
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  Speaker 3: but I think that character and Marsha's performance of it
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  Speaker 3: is I don't know, it's just it's just genius.
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  Speaker 5: And how quickly too, I mean we talk about this
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  Speaker 5: because we mentioned, as Emerson said, we've only we're only
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  Speaker 5: at the kind of beginning of the first season, but
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  Speaker 5: so quickly watching the first few episodes, you know, you're
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  Speaker 5: just so committed to this world. You're just you're you're
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  Speaker 5: fascinated by these people and their friendships and what they're hiding,
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  Speaker 5: and it's it's fantastic television. And I think that there's
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  Speaker 5: a lane for rewatch podcasts happening, but I imagine not
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  Speaker 5: everybody gets to rewatch their show with you know, so
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  Speaker 5: much pride and so much entertainment values still to reap
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  Speaker 5: from today. And I watch it as now a fan,
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  Speaker 5: like I am very much a fan of Desperate Housewives,
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  Speaker 5: and that feels really cool twenty one years after it premiered.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I wasn't the exact target demo, but I really
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And you know, we're.
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  Speaker 4: Holding a lot of space for the men on the show,
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  Speaker 4: the husbands and the gardeners. No, it's true, they do
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  Speaker 4: they they really, they are incredible characters, even though obviously
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  Speaker 4: it's promoted as Desperate Housewives.
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  Speaker 3: The press obviously at the time really took off with
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  Speaker 3: the housewives aspect of it, as they should have. But
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  Speaker 3: now twenty years later, with us rewatching it, it is
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  Speaker 3: really fun to really focus on the men and look
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  Speaker 3: at what they were doing and what those characters were representing.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we're.
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  Speaker 3: Looking at it all we're even looking at the food, Mario,
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  Speaker 3: we are like, we've added this thing because you know,
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  Speaker 3: Susan is notoriously horrible, Crisly a horrible cook, which I'm
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  Speaker 3: not because I went to cooking school and I've cooked
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  Speaker 3: my whole life, and food is how I show love.
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  Speaker 3: But so we decided to add from each episode, we'll
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  Speaker 3: pick a food that stands out and we'll make it
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  Speaker 3: for our podcast and for our listeners, will put the
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  Speaker 3: recipes up and whatever, and it's just like a little
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  Speaker 3: extra bonus.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe if it's a big success, we'll get to do
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  Speaker 4: a desperately devoted cookbook.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 5: It's a little extra way we can we can show
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  Speaker 5: love to our listeners because that's kind of what the
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  Speaker 5: podcast is as well.
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  Speaker 2: It's a bit of a love lever letter. Yeah. Desert Housewives.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was not aware of the culinary skills Terry
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  Speaker 1: very cool.
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  Speaker 2: Oh she is amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, culinary skills and I don't know if you remember,
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  Speaker 3: but my my Christmas village building skills.
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  Speaker 1: Also, I do remember that.
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  Speaker 2: I do remember that, you know what, I think that's
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  Speaker 2: what your most famous was.
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  Speaker 1: What I find fascinating is Desperate Housewives was such a phenomenon.
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  Speaker 1: It it initially spawned the Real Housewives franchise and Bravo
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  Speaker 1: which now just dominates the whole network. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how many franchises are. It's bizarre to see how
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  Speaker 1: far that's come. But essentially springboarding from your show, No,
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  Speaker 1: it really did, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I did a little research into this, and the word
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  Speaker 3: housewife itself kind of fell out of favor, like all
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  Speaker 3: the way back in the seventies when you had the
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  Speaker 3: liberation of women and the free you know, freedom and
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  Speaker 3: the bra burning, and in a way, that idea of
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  Speaker 3: that sort of free character of the perfect housewife didn't
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  Speaker 3: really exist until Mark Cherry brought this show back and
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  Speaker 3: the word housewives.
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  Speaker 2: He really, you know, created.
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  Speaker 3: That a resurgence, had that idea, and you're right, Bravo
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  Speaker 3: took off with it. I used to say back in
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  Speaker 3: the day that Mark Cherry deserved some small percentage of
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  Speaker 3: all of.
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  Speaker 2: That, which I don't think he ever got, but he
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  Speaker 2: should have. But I mean it's true, and as a
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  Speaker 2: as a Bravo Real Housewives fan.
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  Speaker 5: I think about it every time because they're openings, they're
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  Speaker 5: holding the orange, or they're holding this or that that
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  Speaker 5: for their various cities that they're in, and it's.
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  Speaker 2: Just so obvious what the source material is.
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  Speaker 3: But also, can I just say kind that does kind
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  Speaker 3: of bring us back to like one of the things
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  Speaker 3: we're doing is we are analyzing and rewatching the show,
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  Speaker 3: but we're also using it as a springboard to talk
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  Speaker 3: about modern day culture and certainly as issues apply to women,
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  Speaker 3: which is what's happening on.
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  Speaker 2: The Real Housewives too, you know.
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  Speaker 3: So we have that aspect of bringing all of our
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  Speaker 3: different lives into our podcast and hopefully those things will
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  Speaker 3: be people think people that things people want to hear
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  Speaker 3: inspired by.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so much fun, Andrew. I saw by the way
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  Speaker 1: you announced on social that you're expecting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, congratulated.
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  Speaker 5: Connect with my first baby and we're so excited.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's fantastic. When when's a baby? Do?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm having a little girl and we're due later
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  Speaker 5: this year.
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  Speaker 1: So all right, not too much longer.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but that's another thing that is so cool. That
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  Speaker 5: was an unexpected kind of turn of events in a
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  Speaker 5: way that I get to do this with my on
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  Speaker 5: screen mom and her daughter, and you know, I get
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  Speaker 5: to sit here while getting ready to become a mom
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  Speaker 5: to my daughter, and it's it's just perfect timing to
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  Speaker 5: revisit the show and re visit our memories of it together,
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  Speaker 5: and it's just I feel so grateful to be getting
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  Speaker 5: to do this with both of you.
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  Speaker 3: That's great.
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  Speaker 1: Well, congratulations and congratulations to all you ladies. Everyone. Please
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  Speaker 1: be sure to check out the new podcast, Desperately Devoted,
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  Speaker 1: which you can hear right now on iHeartRadio or wherever
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  Speaker 1: you get podcasts. Thanks for stopping, bye, Thank you so
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  Speaker 1: much for having us.
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  Speaker 3: I would say, go put on a shirt, but don't.
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  Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna see you later. I will have
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  Speaker 1: a shirt on when I see you later. I think
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to do my show, okay, but you can
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  Speaker 1: give me a hard time, okay, girls, Thank you with
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  Speaker 1: Mario Lopez