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"Somebody Dies Every Week and It's Delightful — Brooke Shields on Her New Show You're Killing Me" · Inside The Moms Club

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  Speaker 1: Murder sobbing icon by day, mom who Embarrasses her kids
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  Speaker 1: by night, Brookshields is on Inside the Mom's Clubs. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: to Inside the Mom's Club. I'm your host Monica Samuel's
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  Speaker 1: and I'm here with my co host, Julie Orkiddelo. Julie, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we are empty nesters, but you're kinda not because your
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  Speaker 1: daughter is about to finish her She.
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  Speaker 2: Finished her freshman year and I think she's coming home.
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  Speaker 2: You know, she's yet to be seen yet, but she's
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  Speaker 2: out traveling doing her thing.
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  Speaker 3: So I am she's gonna come barreling through the door.
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  Speaker 2: And quite honestly, I kind of got used to doing
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  Speaker 2: my own thing, but I'll I'll be happy.
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  Speaker 3: To see her and then she has to go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the beauty of this part of life. I
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  Speaker 1: guess the college because you know, it's the summer and
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  Speaker 1: it's not like they're just going back to school. They're
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  Speaker 1: they're going back somewhere usually.
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  Speaker 2: Right, And so I think that the hard part is
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  Speaker 2: is that you you kind of mourn it.
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  Speaker 3: You don't know what you're gonna do.
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  Speaker 2: If you've been doing the mom thing for a while
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  Speaker 2: and you're like, how am I going to transition, what
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  Speaker 2: am I going to do? And then next thing you know, poof,
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  Speaker 2: they're like back home. So it's like this motion that
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  Speaker 2: a range of emotions. You're sad, You're happy, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what I'm gonna do with myself, and yeah, it
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  Speaker 2: can just really get to you. And I have to
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  Speaker 2: say I follow Brookshields and I remember seeing an Instagram
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  Speaker 2: post quite some time ago about her child leaving, and
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  Speaker 2: it was just a bunch of grief and what am
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  Speaker 2: I going to Where am I? What am I going
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  Speaker 2: to do with it? Where am I going to place it?
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  Speaker 2: And I also was unable to take my daughter to
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  Speaker 2: the airport a few weeks ago. I got my dad
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  Speaker 2: to do it because I knew I was going to
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  Speaker 2: lose it. So I think it comes and goes in
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  Speaker 2: waves and then get used.
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  Speaker 1: To the new you. But that's what happens, and then
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  Speaker 1: you go through all that.
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  Speaker 3: But I think that's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: I think that we have this role of motherhood, but
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  Speaker 2: you and I talk about this a lot. It's an
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  Speaker 2: important role, the most important role, but there's other roles
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  Speaker 2: in life. And I think it's important for kids to
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  Speaker 2: see that that you know, I'm doing this and this
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  Speaker 2: and this so I can be more available or a
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  Speaker 2: better mom.
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  Speaker 3: Or you know what I mean, listening to you when
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  Speaker 3: you need it well.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the exciting thing for women our age is
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  Speaker 1: that this is our next chapter in life and maybe
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  Speaker 1: this is when we do the biggest and biggest things
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  Speaker 1: as far as professionally and all those things. We might
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  Speaker 1: have stopped for a little while, but now we're going.
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  Speaker 1: Great guns Brookshields, who were talking to today, She definitely
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  Speaker 1: is an example to us of that she's Oh, I
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  Speaker 1: think she's right to talk about things.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think it's been a huge deal for her.
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  Speaker 1: Here on the Mom's Club, we have a word that
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  Speaker 1: we use or amazing, but it's better than amazing. It's amazing, amazing, amazing.
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  Speaker 1: And today we are thrilled to have with this the beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: the iconic Brooke Shields. Brooke, welcome to the Mom's Club.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, I've been in the Mom's Club, let's see twenty
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  Speaker 4: three years.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, definitely qualify.
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  Speaker 1: I'm thrilled that you're he and I know and I
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  Speaker 1: know you're in the Mom's Club because you have actually
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  Speaker 1: met my co host here, Julie. Your daughter and her
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  Speaker 1: daughter were in a play together at wake Forest. I
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  Speaker 1: understand that.
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  Speaker 3: Play girl that was I felt.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it was like, Georgia, a little heads up
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  Speaker 2: next time that you know, you play the role of
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  Speaker 2: a crazy mom, so I can say that it was
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  Speaker 2: nothing like how you were raised or what's going on
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  Speaker 2: in this ouse?
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  Speaker 1: Are you sure? Georgia told me she did base that
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  Speaker 1: off of Oh, that's not true.
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  Speaker 3: I'm kidding on Joe.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And then there was a whole other sexual piece
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  Speaker 4: of it, which I was like, Okay, what we're doing
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  Speaker 4: that was no joke, Like the amount of time that
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  Speaker 4: they had to prepare that and then do it being written,
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  Speaker 4: produced directed, like the memorization and like it was. I
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  Speaker 4: was so impressed by their talent and their hard work,
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  Speaker 4: Like and I'm.
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  Speaker 2: This very tough play to do, and I think you
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  Speaker 2: and I were both eman from ear to ear.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm so nervous. I was sick to my stomach.
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  Speaker 4: And then I tried not to cry, and then she
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  Speaker 4: was like, just don't cry, don't cry.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they were both pit sweating Brooke for sure,
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  Speaker 2: I was flop sweat flop. So yes, it was definitely
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  Speaker 2: a moment, but I was really proud of them it
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  Speaker 2: was a difficult play.
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  Speaker 3: To do, and yeah it was. I don't know what
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  Speaker 3: to say except well, it's good.
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  Speaker 1: And now your daughters have graduated, and now we are
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  Speaker 1: all empty nesters.
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  Speaker 4: Here now mine came back.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, well all right, I say, lucky you. I
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  Speaker 1: guess I don't wish well, I'm friend of.
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  Speaker 4: I just got used to it. Like at first I
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  Speaker 4: was gutted, and then I was like, oh no, this
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  Speaker 4: is okay. Now I can I can actually live my
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  Speaker 4: life a little bit without being completely preoccupied and dictated.
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  Speaker 4: And then lo and.
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  Speaker 3: Behold here they come.
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  Speaker 1: Well, so now you're happy.
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  Speaker 4: And then you're like, okay, it's rend free, but can
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  Speaker 4: you at least put fishes in the sink plea do something?
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  Speaker 1: So you you were moving on with other parts of
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  Speaker 1: your life, and boy, howdy have you really been busy?
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  Speaker 1: You are now producing and storing in a new show
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  Speaker 1: which I love the name of it because it fits
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  Speaker 1: all moms, because it's a phrase we can all remember
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  Speaker 1: because we've all said it a million times. You're killing me,
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  Speaker 1: So I just love the name of it. It's an
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  Speaker 1: Acorn TV. Can you tell us a little bit about
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  Speaker 1: the show.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it's it is a mystery O murder. Mystery takes
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  Speaker 4: place in a very small town. My character, Alison Chandler,
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  Speaker 4: is a very prolific mystery writer who's kind of coming
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  Speaker 4: to the end of her tenure, you know her, they're
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  Speaker 4: starting to she's starting to age out. Luckily, there's a
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  Speaker 4: murder because that solves everything, and she gets paired with
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  Speaker 4: a young, very different generation podcaster and it's these two
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  Speaker 4: women that come together and end up solving this murder.
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  Speaker 4: And the generational divide is a huge, huge piece of
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  Speaker 4: it because it's basically what I experience with my daughters
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  Speaker 4: all the time, that making fun of my lack of technology,
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  Speaker 4: prowess and everything else. And there are these two women
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  Speaker 4: really come together, and there's a maternal moment a bit
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  Speaker 4: of it. There's a they learn from each other, they
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  Speaker 4: grow with each other, but they're stronger together. Her character's
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  Speaker 4: really good with forensics and facts and putting them all together.
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  Speaker 4: My character is much better at motive and story and
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  Speaker 4: character and why people would act a certain way, and
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  Speaker 4: it leads us together and we end up solving mysteries
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  Speaker 4: even faster than the detectives do. There's a lot of humor,
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  Speaker 4: there's a lot of the sort of these two women
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  Speaker 4: in different generations. She makes fun of me all the time,
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  Speaker 4: but then my wisdom she appreciates and learns from, so
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  Speaker 4: we end up learning from each other. She helps me
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  Speaker 4: be sort of freer in my sexuality and in my
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  Speaker 4: life and how I approach things, and I help her
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  Speaker 4: become more focused and hone in on what's going to
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  Speaker 4: give her a career. And it's a sweet relationship and
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  Speaker 4: it's very funny.
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  Speaker 1: So that sounds like it's a great show. You can
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  Speaker 1: watch with your.
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  Speaker 4: Old yeah, then you can watch with younger kids, like, yes,
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  Speaker 4: there's a body that dies every week in this sweet,
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  Speaker 4: little small main town. It's amazing how many murders there are.
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  Speaker 4: But there's no like blood or gore. It's like it's
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  Speaker 4: very Agatha Christie esque. You know, the body falls out
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  Speaker 4: of the closet with a knife in it, but you
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  Speaker 4: don't see anything. You know, it's it has that knives
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  Speaker 4: out magist kind of tongue to it.
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  Speaker 1: And that's fun. Have you have you always been drawn
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  Speaker 1: to those kind of uh, that genre that are you
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  Speaker 1: into mysteries and that's what drew you to this project.
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  Speaker 4: Or what well, I've always loved that. Ag at that
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  Speaker 4: Christie or Nancy Drew or I've loved that, and I
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  Speaker 4: love these. You know, when you see, especially with Nancy Drew,
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  Speaker 4: when you see a woman, you know, young gorilla at
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  Speaker 4: the time, but like a female solving the mystery, you know,
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  Speaker 4: that's a very powerful thing as a young woman to
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  Speaker 4: read and and sort of latch onto the genre itself
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  Speaker 4: with only murders in the building and murder, she wrote,
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  Speaker 4: And this sort of historical affinity for this type of mystery,
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  Speaker 4: especially in the world that we're in now, where there's
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  Speaker 4: so much really dark drama and really gory drama. This
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  Speaker 4: type of entertainment it kind of falls into family but
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  Speaker 4: pushes the envelope a little bit, like we're a little inappropriate.
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  Speaker 4: We you know, we show certain things that you you
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  Speaker 4: know that would not be gate and g rated, but
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  Speaker 4: but you're still but you're still okay and safe. Like
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  Speaker 4: there's it strikes a really good chord. And so Robin
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  Speaker 4: Bernheim and I, who I've worked with on multiple projects,
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  Speaker 4: I said, let's try to create characters and a world,
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  Speaker 4: and mystery is a very popular one right now, and
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  Speaker 4: maybe we can pitch something. And the two eight the
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  Speaker 4: age difference was I thought was a really good and
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  Speaker 4: the kind of hacks way of starting in that world together.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I totally agree.
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  Speaker 2: I love the trailer and it made me giggle for
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  Speaker 2: sure because I have two daughters and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: oh lord, I was like, this happens in our household
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  Speaker 2: all the time. Do you have a particular memory about
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  Speaker 2: making this and doing this that you think about?
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  Speaker 4: So I sort of bizarrely obsessively watched the different trailers
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  Speaker 4: because I have to see everything and we have to
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  Speaker 4: kind of craft them for different shows. Yeah, we need
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  Speaker 4: a trailer. I just love when my character Ali is
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  Speaker 4: really flawed when there's a bit of physical comedy. But
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  Speaker 4: even in What's what has been airing Now, where she
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  Speaker 4: says I've never been handcuffed before and then she kind
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  Speaker 4: of goes, well, what's not entirely it's sort of like
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  Speaker 4: what did that one? So you're kind of like it
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  Speaker 4: makes you like, that's not the stuff you hear on
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  Speaker 4: TV often, right, and that you know antsy Acorn. They
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  Speaker 4: let me be a bit inappropriate, push it and balance
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  Speaker 4: it with these really beautiful, sensitive, sweet scenes between these
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  Speaker 4: two women who are one is trying to find her
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  Speaker 4: mother one is my age. She only has a son,
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  Speaker 4: doesn't have a daughter, and is really trying to figure out,
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  Speaker 4: oh my god, is this it in her life? You know,
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  Speaker 4: as she has she aged out, and how do you
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  Speaker 4: stay relevant and how do you you know, still teach
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  Speaker 4: and how do you still grow and learn? So it
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  Speaker 4: touched upon all of that, and the physical comedy was
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  Speaker 4: just a joy and people are loving it like they
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  Speaker 4: love it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we need some of that right now, Like you said,
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  Speaker 2: like that's you know, definitely something that you know, lightens
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  Speaker 2: everything up a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: So I love having the humor aspect of it that
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  Speaker 1: I would thoroughly enjoy. So you're you're producing it and
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  Speaker 1: you're starring in it. What's that like?
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  Speaker 3: Is that a lot?
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  Speaker 1: Is that make it tougher?
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  Speaker 2: Or is that?
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  Speaker 3: What was that?
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  Speaker 4: So I've been an executive producer before, but I've never
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  Speaker 4: had this much input. Often you get the title of
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  Speaker 4: an executive producer just so that you can at least
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  Speaker 4: hear the network notes or the studio notes or streaming
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  Speaker 4: notes whatever you call it anymore. And so the times
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  Speaker 4: that I have been an epedia's just been really by title.
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  Speaker 4: But to be able to have access to what everybody
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  Speaker 4: is talking about behind the scenes. So it just gives
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  Speaker 4: you a little bit more knowledge of what's happening with
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  Speaker 4: your show. With this show, I have ever been given
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  Speaker 4: this much access to every element, and I was in
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  Speaker 4: every decision, every location of casting, all the wardrobe, all
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  Speaker 4: the hair, all the all the trailers, all the edits,
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  Speaker 4: all the So I was so much more ensconced in
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  Speaker 4: the crafting of it, and I was able to fight
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  Speaker 4: for things that I knew where I would be very
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  Speaker 4: appealing to people, but you know, you don't know, And
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  Speaker 4: then you're sitting in the premiere with total strangers and
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  Speaker 4: you're just praying that they're reacting to the things that
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  Speaker 4: you fought for, and see you said okay, and Acorn
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  Speaker 4: was on board, and so it was all like, all
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  Speaker 4: of a sudden, it was on me. So this was
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  Speaker 4: just creatively a really important experience for me to be
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  Speaker 4: able to be cast in something first just as an actress,
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  Speaker 4: and then to sort of earn the EP position and credit.
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  Speaker 1: So were you more nervous sitting there watching people watch
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  Speaker 1: it with you something you created, or watching your daughter,
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  Speaker 1: as you described earlier, appear on a plane in wake
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  Speaker 1: forest what as a Mom, what did did which one
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  Speaker 1: hit you out yourself in their position? Or watching your
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  Speaker 1: daughter do that?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I wanted to throw up watching my daughter. Oh.
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  Speaker 4: I literally was like, I don't know if I can hear,
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  Speaker 4: I don't think. If I don't, I just don't think,
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  Speaker 4: because you know, I'm used to scrutiny, like I'm used
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  Speaker 4: to did people being tough on me and whatever, And
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  Speaker 4: you just kind of going like, all right, look, I
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  Speaker 4: did my best, I'm really happy with what I did,
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  Speaker 4: I'm proud, whatever. But you're watching your daughter put herself
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  Speaker 4: out there and on a limb, and you know it
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  Speaker 4: matters to her and you cannot do anything about it.
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  Speaker 4: You can't save it, make it better.
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  Speaker 3: You just just got a buckle up. You got to
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  Speaker 3: buckle up and just go for it.
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  Speaker 2: So on, inside the mom's club, we can totally relate
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  Speaker 2: to you going back and forth.
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  Speaker 3: He is there one thing that your daughters.
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  Speaker 2: I can name a few myself that go and say, Mom,
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  Speaker 2: you've got to be kidding me, or I can't believe
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  Speaker 2: you don't know how to do that, or anything that
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  Speaker 2: they give you a hard time, like I'm not supposed
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  Speaker 2: to put emojis on everything like that drives them nuts.
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  Speaker 2: So between generations, I mean, I could go on and on,
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  Speaker 2: but what's one that you hear often from your children?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, it's all technology. It's it's it's what we put
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  Speaker 4: in the show. When I was trying to apple pay something.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, oh we're gonna say that, and it
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  Speaker 2: was like apple pay, I bet yeah, And I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing.
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  Speaker 4: This like a like a mime, like a mime dancer.
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  Speaker 4: And she's going, oh my god, Mom, take yourself put
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  Speaker 4: it there. And now it's done putting and you're in.
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  Speaker 4: She's like, I just don't understand how you can be
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  Speaker 4: so smart in some things and just so dumb. I'm
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  Speaker 4: the technologically.
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  Speaker 3: So now we're amazing, Well amazing.
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  Speaker 1: This show has a second season. I've got another one
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  Speaker 1: for you. I once couldn't make my font big enough
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  Speaker 1: on the screen for what I was watching, so I
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  Speaker 1: got a magnifying glass out. I literally put it up
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  Speaker 1: to the computer and my son walked in. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: an attorney, I mean, like, I think I'm a smart person,
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  Speaker 1: and he walking said, what are you doing. I said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to see this. He said, there's a zoom button,
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  Speaker 1: So yes, I totally. I totally can relate. Well, we're
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  Speaker 1: so excited to see you are killing me and moms.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, you will not forget that title. Just
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  Speaker 1: remember things you've always told your kids.
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  Speaker 4: There's a murder every week. It's eightcorn TV, it's streaming now,
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  Speaker 4: and it's also, yes, you're killing me, somebody dies every week.
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  Speaker 4: But then you're also like, you know what you're doing.
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  Speaker 4: You're killing me right now, and so it has a
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  Speaker 4: devil on TNDRA and that's why I wanted to change
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  Speaker 4: the title to that.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, well, we love it, we can't wait to see it,
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  Speaker 1: and thank you so much for being with us.
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  Speaker 4: Well, thank you for having me on Inky brook all
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  Speaker 4: in the Mom's club and with your wonderful grown children.
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  Speaker 1: Check out Brooks new show on Acorn TV and check
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  Speaker 1: us out on YouTube