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Jeff Bridges’ daughter, Isabelle Bridges | He’s not “The Dude” to them! | Relatively Famous · Relatively Famous with Chip White

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  Speaker 0: Welcome to this episode of Relatively Famous, the
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  Speaker 0: podcast where I, Chip White, interview relatives of
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  Speaker 0: famous people. My famous relative is Vanna White,
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  Speaker 0: Wheel of Fortune. She's my sister, and that's
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  Speaker 0: why I have a podcast because we wanna
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  Speaker 0: know what it's like standing in the shadow
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  Speaker 0: of a... Whatever the last name may be
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  Speaker 0: or who their relative might be. Today's relative
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  Speaker 0: we have is... That kind of rocked my
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  Speaker 0: boat when she said yes. We get to
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  Speaker 0: have the daughter of the dude. So Jeff
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  Speaker 0: Bridges' Jeff Bridges' daughter, Isabel Bridges, is our
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  Speaker 0: guest today.
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  Speaker 1: Relatively Famous podcast with Chip White.
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  Speaker 0: Isabelle, welcome to Relatively Famous.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 0: I I am so appreciative when you finally
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  Speaker 0: reached back out. I know there was... Because
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  Speaker 0: I do this social media thing, and sometimes
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  Speaker 0: I don't hear anything. So I was grateful
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  Speaker 0: when you when you was like, yeah. Hey.
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  Speaker 0: Let's talk.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 0: Now I have to ask a question off
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  Speaker 0: the bat because one of my engineers asked
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  Speaker 0: me this. Do your friends call your dad
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  Speaker 0: the dude?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it depends on the friend. But I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you this, my kids call my dad
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  Speaker 1: duty. So there you go.
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  Speaker 0: Duty. I like that. Yeah. Mhmm. Now your
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  Speaker 0: your dad has been around for a long
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  Speaker 0: time. Your grandfather was famous. Your uncle's famous.
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  Speaker 0: They're all kind of this lineage. Did you
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  Speaker 0: want to, at some point, kind of follow
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  Speaker 0: in that path?
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  Speaker 1: Never. Never. I did not catch the acting
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  Speaker 1: bug. I know a couple of my cousins
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  Speaker 1: are actors as well, but my dad... You
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  Speaker 1: know, his brother was eight years older, and
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  Speaker 1: he and my grandfather really encouraged my dad
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  Speaker 1: to go into acting. And he did it
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  Speaker 1: kicking and screaming a little bit because what
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  Speaker 1: he really wanted to do was sing. So
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  Speaker 1: he wanted to be a musician, but his
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  Speaker 1: dad and his older brother really wanted him
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  Speaker 1: to take advantage of this opportunity. So he
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  Speaker 1: didn't wanna push his kids the way his
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  Speaker 1: older brother and his dad had pushed him.
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  Speaker 1: Likewise, my uncle encouraged his kids, and so
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  Speaker 1: who knows what would have happened if we
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  Speaker 1: had been more encouraged, but we weren't. So
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  Speaker 0: Yeah. I I had read that your dad
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  Speaker 0: really wanted to be a musician, and that's
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  Speaker 0: kinda where he thought his path would go.
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  Speaker 0: But he's been lucky enough to include... Incorporate
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  Speaker 0: that into several movies.
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  Speaker 1: And, you know, he has an album out,
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  Speaker 1: so he is a musician, as well as
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  Speaker 1: an actor. So he is... He he got
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  Speaker 1: to do all of it.
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  Speaker 0: Okay. Did the music bug bite you?
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  Speaker 1: No. But it bite... It bit my sister,
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  Speaker 1: Jesse. So she's a musician, and my dad
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  Speaker 1: is still trying to, you know, get me
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  Speaker 1: to play guitar with him, which we do
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  Speaker 1: every once in a while. But I definitely
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  Speaker 1: would not call myself, any sort of performer.
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  Speaker 1: I do I do have my own podcast.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm kind of a create... Creative in
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  Speaker 1: that way, but not in the musical arts
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  Speaker 1: for sure.
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  Speaker 0: And what made you decide to wanna do
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  Speaker 0: a podcast?
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  Speaker 1: To host a podcast?
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  Speaker 0: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I am a very curious person, and whenever...
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  Speaker 1: I love podcasts, so I love to listen
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  Speaker 1: and absorb information through audio. And every time
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  Speaker 1: I listen to a podcast, I felt like
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to speak to the guest and
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  Speaker 1: ask my own questions. And so I was
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  Speaker 1: like, well, the way to do that is
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  Speaker 1: to start my own podcast. So that was
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  Speaker 1: really why I did it is because I
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  Speaker 1: was curious enough to wanna speak to these
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  Speaker 1: incredibly interesting people.
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  Speaker 0: Now do you find it... Sorry. Do you
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  Speaker 0: find it easier to be the the interviewer
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  Speaker 0: or the interviewee?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god. I have not been on
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  Speaker 1: nearly as many podcasts. This is, like, maybe
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  Speaker 1: one of four podcasts that I've ever been
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  Speaker 1: on. So I am so much more used
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  Speaker 1: to being the host and much more comfortable
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  Speaker 1: being the host than being in the guest
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  Speaker 1: seat. I'm like, I don't know what you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna ask me, but when I'm the host,
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  Speaker 1: I know exactly where we're going and how
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  Speaker 1: to steer the ship.
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  Speaker 0: Yeah. I... We have a... We did an
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  Speaker 0: episode that started season four where my sister
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  Speaker 0: interviewed me, and she was like, I'm not
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  Speaker 0: used to being in the interviewer's seat. This
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  Speaker 0: is nerve wracking.
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  Speaker 1: So interesting. Yeah. How was it for you
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  Speaker 1: to be interviewed?
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  Speaker 0: You know, I don't mind it. I've been...
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  Speaker 0: I probably was being interviewed before I started
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  Speaker 0: interviewing. I mean, I did red carpets and
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  Speaker 0: stuff like that for MTV and VH1 and
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  Speaker 0: King World, stuff like that. So it's a
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  Speaker 0: little... I mean, it's different being an interviewer
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  Speaker 0: when they're not going to use your voice.
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  Speaker 0: Right? You can just flat out ask a
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  Speaker 0: question and then... But I don't mind it.
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  Speaker 0: You know? Mhmm. As as you can tell,
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  Speaker 0: I like to talk.
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  Speaker 1: Mhmm. Exactly.
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  Speaker 0: What now... What is your podcast about?
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  Speaker 1: Really, it's about women who have a vision
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  Speaker 1: for their life and who are looking for
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  Speaker 1: ways to explore that vision through different modalities.
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  Speaker 1: So I just had a guest on to
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  Speaker 1: speak about perimenopause and menopause and kinda what
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  Speaker 1: that does to the nervous system of a
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  Speaker 1: woman who also has a sacred vision. I
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  Speaker 1: have someone, a guest, coming on next month
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  Speaker 1: talking about love and how loving ourselves is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the basis of all love that
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  Speaker 1: we share with each other and with the
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  Speaker 1: world. So, really, it's it's on topics that
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  Speaker 1: I love and that I'm interested in because
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  Speaker 1: I am my first, listener. So
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  Speaker 0: Now for me, it's an endless supply of
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  Speaker 0: guests. Right? They're they're gonna be a bazillion
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  Speaker 0: relatives of famous people around the world. How
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  Speaker 0: how do you find your guest or or
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  Speaker 0: kinda research? Is there something that kinda like
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  Speaker 0: you have a vision when you go looking?
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  Speaker 1: You know what? I'm at the point in
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  Speaker 1: my career where my guests are coming to
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  Speaker 1: me. They're coming and they are asking me
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  Speaker 1: if they can be on the show. So
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  Speaker 1: I am not at a point where I'm
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  Speaker 1: out looking for people. I admire your tenacity
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  Speaker 1: in reaching out to these children and siblings
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  Speaker 1: and whatever, family members, because I imagine you
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  Speaker 1: get a lot of either silence or rejection.
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  Speaker 1: So for me, I'm either interviewing a colleague
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  Speaker 1: who I already have a relationship with them
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  Speaker 1: or I'm interviewing someone who's asking to be
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  Speaker 1: on the podcast.
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  Speaker 0: Yeah, it it can be frustrating sometimes. So,
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  Speaker 0: hey, if you know anybody, send them away.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 0: If you enjoyed it. Yeah. If you enjoyed
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  Speaker 0: it, tell your friends.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, totally.
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  Speaker 0: So do you have any specific, like, memory
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  Speaker 0: of your favorite Christmas gift from your childhood?
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  Speaker 1: Wow, okay. My favorite Christmas gift. You know,
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  Speaker 1: interestingly enough, I don't remember... Like, my memory
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  Speaker 1: isn't recalling the specific gifts. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you know about love languages, but, like,
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  Speaker 1: there are five love languages, and gift giving
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  Speaker 1: is one of them. And it's not one
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  Speaker 1: of my love languages, meaning I don't really
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  Speaker 1: receive love through gifts, and I don't demonstrate
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  Speaker 1: my love through giving gifts. But what I
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  Speaker 1: do... My most memorable Christmas was when we
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  Speaker 1: lived in Santa Monica, and my parents had
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  Speaker 1: this big blowout celebration. And I must have
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  Speaker 1: been, like, ten, and I had gotten into
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  Speaker 1: the eggnog, which was super full of sugar
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  Speaker 1: and delicious and also had alcohol in it.
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  Speaker 1: And so, you know, I remember feeling a
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  Speaker 1: little bit woozy, drunk at ten, and coming
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  Speaker 1: up to my mom in her, like, big
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  Speaker 1: eighties hairdo and saying, mommy, I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 1: to bed. And she was just completely puzzled.
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  Speaker 1: And then to this day, we both joke
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  Speaker 1: about, well, that was my first drink is
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  Speaker 1: the eggnog at the Christmas party.
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  Speaker 0: Well, hey. At least you didn't follow it
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  Speaker 0: up with, like, you threw up all over
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  Speaker 0: her dress or something. No.
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  Speaker 1: I know. I don't remember the rest. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think that was part of it, but...
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 0: Is there a specific memory that you you
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  Speaker 0: have that you gave to your children for
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  Speaker 0: Christmas? Like, a crazy... Like, oh, man. This
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  Speaker 0: was as a mom, this was like, oh,
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  Speaker 0: tear jerking for you in a good way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's like something that I... Oh, like
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  Speaker 1: a Christmas present that I... You know, I
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  Speaker 1: actually try to not make Christmas about gifts,
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  Speaker 1: because of all of the consumerism that we
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  Speaker 1: already have in our culture. I prefer Christmas
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  Speaker 1: to be about, like, being together as a
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  Speaker 1: family. I really like solstice as a celebration
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  Speaker 1: because it celebrates the actual season, which is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, quiet, whereas Christmas can feel really
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  Speaker 1: like... You know, I personally experience a lot
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  Speaker 1: of anxiety around Christmas, leading up to Christmas,
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  Speaker 1: sending all the cards, wrapping all the presents,
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  Speaker 1: all that. And so for me, you know,
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  Speaker 1: solstice is much more of a holiday that
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  Speaker 1: I like to celebrate. One of the things
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  Speaker 1: we have done, not always, but one of
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  Speaker 1: the things we do as a family, we
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  Speaker 1: have a ranch in Montana, and we will,
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  Speaker 1: make lanterns. So it'll be, you know, usually
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  Speaker 1: snowing or there will be snow on the
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  Speaker 1: ground, and we'll make lanterns, and we'll go
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  Speaker 1: on a lantern walk. And it'll be at
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  Speaker 1: night, so we'll all be, you know, bundled
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  Speaker 1: up in the in the winter holiday. Doesn't...
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  Speaker 1: Maybe not right around Christmas, probably a little
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  Speaker 1: bit earlier in the year. But we'll go
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  Speaker 1: on a lantern walk, and we'll sing songs
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  Speaker 1: and we'll come back and we'll have something
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  Speaker 1: warm waiting for us when we return. So,
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  Speaker 1: that's... Those are the more of the memories
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  Speaker 1: that I love and I remember both about,
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  Speaker 1: like, being with my family growing up and
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  Speaker 1: then now that's what I love about having
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  Speaker 1: family and being a mom.
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  Speaker 0: Okay. So you're... I've... I come to Montana.
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  Speaker 0: It's December. There's some snow on the ground.
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  Speaker 0: You're gonna take me on my first lantern
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  Speaker 0: walk. What's the first song you're gonna sing
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  Speaker 0: or that we are supposed to sing together?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. You're... Are you gonna ask
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  Speaker 1: me to sing on a podcast? That's
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  Speaker 0: when I'm a little bit...
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  Speaker 1: Not a singer? Okay. Let me think. Oh
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  Speaker 1: my gosh.
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  Speaker 0: Is it a pop song?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no. No. These are not pop songs
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  Speaker 1: at all. These are like, my kids go
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  Speaker 1: to a Waldorf school, and so these are
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  Speaker 1: very, like, Waldorf wholesome songs, about going out
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  Speaker 1: into the darkness with me and my lantern.
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  Speaker 1: And we are stars to the sky. And
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  Speaker 1: above, we look at the stars shining down
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  Speaker 1: at us. A lot of talk about nature
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  Speaker 1: and how, like, wide open it is and
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  Speaker 1: how, like, wide open our hearts are, that
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  Speaker 1: kind of thing.
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  Speaker 0: Now is there a favorite song that your
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  Speaker 0: dad sang to you when you were younger?
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Oh my gosh. You... I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you can see it. It's this, it's
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  Speaker 1: right outside. I'm gonna go get it. One
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  Speaker 1: second. I'll be right back.
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  Speaker 0: Just so you know, she ran to the
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  Speaker 0: hall and grabbed a framed...
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So Betty Garrett was my dad's got...
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  Speaker 1: My... Actually, my dad's sister's godmother, and she
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  Speaker 1: wrote a lullaby for all of the kid...
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  Speaker 1: The kids in the Bridges family. And so
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  Speaker 1: one of the songs that was sung to
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  Speaker 1: me every night by my dad is this
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  Speaker 1: lullaby, and now I sing it to my
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  Speaker 1: kids when they let me. They're older now,
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  Speaker 1: so they don't wanna be fun too as
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  Speaker 1: much. But you can find the lullaby on
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  Speaker 1: our website, which is daddy daughter day dot
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  Speaker 1: com. You can listen to, you know, him
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  Speaker 1: singing it and also, see the words, which
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you're gonna see what
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  Speaker 1: I'm holding up, but...
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  Speaker 0: I see them. Yeah. We will make sure
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  Speaker 0: we put that in the in the show
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  Speaker 0: notes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. So we wrote a book together,
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  Speaker 1: it's called Daddy Daughter Day, hence why that's
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  Speaker 1: the website, daddy daughter day dot com.
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  Speaker 0: What... Tell me about the book.
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  Speaker 1: It's a children's book. It's a children's book
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  Speaker 1: that I wrote the words, and my dad
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  Speaker 1: illustrated it, And it's about a little girl
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  Speaker 1: named Belle and kind of like, the most
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  Speaker 1: magical day that you could ever imagine spending
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  Speaker 1: with your dad, and that's what they do
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  Speaker 1: together.
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  Speaker 0: Now spending time with your with your dad,
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  Speaker 0: is it difficult in public? I know with
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  Speaker 0: my sister, it... It's not as... She's not
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  Speaker 0: as popular as she used to be, obviously,
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  Speaker 0: in the eighties and nineties, so it's crazy.
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  Speaker 0: I mean, people still recognize her. So it's
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  Speaker 0: not insane. But your dad's... He's been... He's
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  Speaker 0: known around the world. So is it difficult
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  Speaker 0: for you guys to just go hang out
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  Speaker 0: and go shopping, go get a coffee?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I would call it
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  Speaker 1: difficult. I think it is unusual if you...
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  Speaker 1: If someone else were to be there with
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  Speaker 1: us, they might find it unusual, but it's
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  Speaker 1: not unusual to me because he's been my
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  Speaker 1: dad for my whole life. But we also
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  Speaker 1: don't go out to coffee or do some
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  Speaker 1: of the things that I think other families
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  Speaker 1: do together, as much as they do. But
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  Speaker 1: we also live in a town that is
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  Speaker 1: mostly respectful. So when we do do that,
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  Speaker 1: people are mostly respectful and give us space.
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  Speaker 1: And when they don't, we're just used to
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  Speaker 1: it.
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  Speaker 0: Now what do your your your daughter and
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  Speaker 0: your son, what's their take on duty? You
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  Speaker 0: know, as being granddad and all of a
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  Speaker 0: sudden they look up and here he is
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  Speaker 0: on the movie screen or the TV's channel.
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  Speaker 0: I mean, there are... And people going, oh
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  Speaker 0: my god. Your grandfather is mister Bridges?
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  Speaker 1: It's just, you know, just like it's, not
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  Speaker 1: unusual for me. It's not unusual for them
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  Speaker 1: either because that's all they've ever known. So
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, my daughter especially, she's
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  Speaker 1: fifteen. She is very private and doesn't really
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  Speaker 1: wanna let her high school friends know, who
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  Speaker 1: her duty is, but I don't think they
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  Speaker 1: would know. I don't think this next generation
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  Speaker 1: really knows who he is. Even if they
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  Speaker 1: were to see him walking down the street,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they'd say, say, oh, you
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  Speaker 1: know, that's the dude, that's Big Lebowski, like
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  Speaker 1: say my generation does. And then they just
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  Speaker 1: think he's funny and goofy, and he is,
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  Speaker 1: and he's just their grandfather.
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  Speaker 0: Yeah. He's one celebrity that... He's been on
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  Speaker 0: my my list. Like, yeah, I'd love to
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  Speaker 0: meet Jeff Bridges. I think we talked briefly
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  Speaker 0: one time, and then was talking about how
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  Speaker 0: your dad's hairstyles and mine seem to have
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  Speaker 0: mirrored each other over our lives. People say,
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  Speaker 0: hey. You look like Jim. Like, I don't
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  Speaker 0: look like mister Bridges. He's a lot more
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  Speaker 0: handsome. But her hair is the same at
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  Speaker 0: the time.
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  Speaker 1: That's so funny.
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  Speaker 0: So it'd be fun to kind of meet
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  Speaker 0: him and just, I don't know, do
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  Speaker 1: you ever do a beard? Because that's what
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  Speaker 1: he's got right now. He's got a beard
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 0: Yeah. And, you know, I've got some stubble.
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  Speaker 0: My wife does not like facial hair, so
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  Speaker 0: I don't use a girl beard and they
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  Speaker 0: start irritating me anyway. But...
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 0: Yeah. The young... And now
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  Speaker 1: your hair is similar to his, but he
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  Speaker 1: does have a beard.
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  Speaker 0: Yeah. It would be like we'd cut our
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  Speaker 0: hair short, and all of a sudden, it'd
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  Speaker 0: be grow really long. And the Fisher King
• 18:50
  Speaker 0: look, you know, back in my motorcycle days,
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  Speaker 0: rock and roll days.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 0: Is there or has there been, sorry, a
• 19:01
  Speaker 0: a favorite guest on your podcast that their
• 19:04
  Speaker 0: story has just kinda blown blown your mind?
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Now you're asking me to
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  Speaker 1: pick a favorite.
• 19:14
  Speaker 0: Not a favorite. Just someone that... A story
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  Speaker 0: that...
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I'll just say, you know, one
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  Speaker 1: of my most recent guests was, Lillian Eve
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Moore, and she's the one that I was
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: referencing talking about self love. And one of
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: the things that really, like, blew my mind
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: is when she was talking about how our
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: trauma is actually part of us. And if
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: all of us is lovable and our trauma
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: is part of us, then we get to
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: love the trauma. We don't have to like
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: it in order to love that part of
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: us that experienced it and maybe you're still
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: experiencing it. So I I really loved that
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: episode. I can, send you a link to
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  Speaker 1: it if you wanna put it in the
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: show notes.
• 20:15
  Speaker 0: Yeah. Yes. Send the link and we'll put
• 20:17
  Speaker 0: it in the show notes. Do do you
• 20:25
  Speaker 0: feel... I don't know. This is kind of
• 20:26
  Speaker 0: maybe reach, but you were saying trauma. A
• 20:29
  Speaker 0: lot of celebrity children especially seems to be
• 20:35
  Speaker 0: lately in the news, like, they blame their
• 20:37
  Speaker 0: parents for trauma Mhmm. Because because they, they
• 20:42
  Speaker 0: can't compete or whatever. Do you feel... Have...
• 20:44
  Speaker 0: Has you ever felt that way in your
• 20:46
  Speaker 0: life, like, I I can't measure or what
• 20:49
  Speaker 0: am I gonna do? I mean, does the
• 20:51
  Speaker 0: question make sense?
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  Speaker 1: I think so. I'll just, like, interpret it
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: through my lens. It's so easy. It's so
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: easy to blame our parents for our trauma
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: or to just blame our parents for everything.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: I love to blame my mom for everything,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: but it's such a deflection. And if I'm
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: blaming her, I'm not able able to actually
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: heal it within myself. So sure. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: are parents responsible for raising their children? And
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: does how we are raised impact the rest
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: of our lives, of course? And as a
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: parent myself, do I wanna be blamed for
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  Speaker 1: everything my children struggle with as they get
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: older? No. So I'm... The lens I take
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: is repair is one of the most important
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: gifts I can have in my relationships. So
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: when I make a mistake or when I
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: am out of line, I repair, especially with
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: my kids. So, you know, when it comes
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: to my parents, they're not necessarily always in
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: a position where they wanna repair from their
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: end. Just... I, again, I think it's a
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: generational thing. But I know that if I'm
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: willing to repair from my end and take
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: a hundred percent responsibility for my part of
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: the relationship, blaming them for the trauma that
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: I experienced as a child. It doesn't real...
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: It doesn't actually help, because they also are
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: coming from their own trauma. Right? We all...
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: None of us get through life without having
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: some sort of hardship, even those who are,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: you know, privileged beyond anything else.
• 22:49
  Speaker 0: Oh, absolutely. Yeah. I, I got twenty four
• 22:53
  Speaker 0: years clean and sober. You know? And and
• 22:56
  Speaker 0: I never blamed it on my parents. It's
• 22:59
  Speaker 0: like, dude, I started doing drugs, and it
• 23:01
  Speaker 0: was awesome. And next thing you know, it
• 23:03
  Speaker 0: wasn't. Yeah. Yeah. And and I can point
• 23:06
  Speaker 0: back, you know, to in my mind, like,
• 23:09
  Speaker 0: my dad saying something or my mom saying
• 23:12
  Speaker 0: something, but I had no real... Wasn't the
• 23:15
  Speaker 0: the reason or the effect for for what
• 23:18
  Speaker 0: I chose to do. You know? And, like
• 23:22
  Speaker 0: I said, a different generation. You know? They're...
• 23:25
  Speaker 0: I don't know. I don't even know where
• 23:28
  Speaker 0: I'm going with that.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, a lot of what our parents
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: say to us has a big impact, whether
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: it's the right thing or the wrong thing.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: It does, but also we're responsible for our
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: own lives and our own experiences. That's why...
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you've ever interviewed siblings
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: of a famous parent or just like, you
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: know, I have two younger sisters and we
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: grew up in the same family and yet
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: our experiences of that family are completely different
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: and so we're all looking at it through
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: our own, you know, experiences. And so there's
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: no real, like, one reality. So once... One
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: person's trauma that is held for, like, a
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: lifetime, another person is able to say, well,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: that experience happened. Those circumstances happened, but I'm
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: not traumatized the same way you were traumatized.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: And so while the trauma itself is real,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: I never wanna, like, take someone's trauma and
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: say, well, that's not real. The circumstances are
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: neutral.
• 24:50
  Speaker 0: Yeah. And the perspective is different, like you're
• 24:52
  Speaker 0: saying, if it's two different people. You you
• 24:55
  Speaker 0: and I could be standing in the same
• 24:57
  Speaker 0: bank and a bank robbery happened, and we're
• 24:59
  Speaker 0: gonna tell two different stories. And both are
• 25:03
  Speaker 0: correct. Yeah. They're just different different perspective. Yeah.
• 25:09
  Speaker 0: They say that smell triggers memories faster than
• 25:15
  Speaker 0: than any other scents.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:18
  Speaker 0: What did your childhood smell like?
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Oh oh my god. Oh, this is so
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: funny. So same house in Santa Monica. I
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: can picture it. So we're pushing away the
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Christmas memory, and now it's like a normal
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Tuesday, Tuesday night, let's say. And I see
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: my little girl self walking into my dad's
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: studio, opening the door. And what... Before I
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: say what it smells like, can you guess
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: what it smells like?
• 25:52
  Speaker 0: Cigarette smoke.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: No. But you're very close.
• 25:57
  Speaker 0: Cigar?
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Cigar and weed.
• 26:01
  Speaker 0: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: So I thought that I thought that that's
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: just what dad smelled like and maybe a
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: little bit of, like, b o and that...
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: I just thought that's what dad smell like.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: But then as I grew older and smelled
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: that in high school, I was like, wait.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Is there a dad around? Is my dad
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: around? Oh, no. That's not what dad smell
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: like. That's a very specific thing. Yeah.
• 26:28
  Speaker 0: That's funny. Okay. Our our Zoom time is
• 26:31
  Speaker 0: running out.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 26:33
  Speaker 0: So what is the one question that I
• 26:36
  Speaker 0: didn't ask or or a question that people
• 26:39
  Speaker 0: never asked that you wish they would?
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Oh, that is a really... That's a really
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: good question. You know what? I wish that
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: you had asked me about, what is coming
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: up in the Bridges family. Like, what new
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: amazing adventures are you taking in the next
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: couple of years?
• 27:12
  Speaker 0: What new adventures are coming up in the
• 27:14
  Speaker 0: Bridges family?
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Well, what a good question. I'm so glad
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: that you asked me. We are opening a
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: gallery here in Santa Barbara called the Bridges
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Gallery, and opening day is December fifth. So
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: along with those lanterns that we're gonna be
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: walking around, we are also going to be
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: celebrating the opening of the Bridges Gallery in
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Santa Barbara where we're gonna be featuring a
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: lot of, you know, photographs that my mom
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: and my dad have taken, but also other
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: local artists. I will also be, I hold
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: women's circles, so I'll be holding women's circles
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: in the space. It's just... It's really gonna
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: be a community where people can come and
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: take in the beautiful art, but also get
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: to know one another, get to know the
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: family in in a new and unique way.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: And it's also been really cool because this
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: is my sister, Jesse's, brainchild, and she and
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: my dad has been working tireless tire... Tirelessly
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: for months to get this up and running.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: So December fifth, the door is open. And
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: so I don't know exactly what it's gonna
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: be, but that's the next adventure for the
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Bridges family.
• 28:45
  Speaker 0: Cool. Send us a link to the... I
• 28:47
  Speaker 0: will. And we'll put that in the show
• 28:49
  Speaker 0: notes. And I'm gonna say goodbye before our
• 28:53
  Speaker 0: Zoom just cuts us off.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 28:56
  Speaker 0: Isabelle, thank you so much for being on,
• 28:58
  Speaker 0: and I hope that we can chat again
• 29:00
  Speaker 0: and and our past cross up in Santa
• 29:03
  Speaker 0: Barbara.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Thank you for having me. Take care.
• 29:06
  Speaker 0: Isabel, thank you so much for being on.
• 29:08
  Speaker 0: I really enjoyed my time talking with you,
• 29:10
  Speaker 0: finding out more about your life, your dad's
• 29:12
  Speaker 0: life, your... The whole Bridges family. I hope
• 29:15
  Speaker 0: everyone enjoyed as much as I did. I
• 29:17
  Speaker 0: wanna thank Isabelle. I wanna thank Nelco Media.
• 29:20
  Speaker 0: We're actually shooting in the office today, not
• 29:22
  Speaker 0: at the comic book shop. And we still
• 29:24
  Speaker 0: wanna thank Nelco Comics for our sponsorship and
• 29:28
  Speaker 0: our our our podcast studio. Normally, if you're
• 29:30
  Speaker 0: looking for a crazy comic book, go to
• 29:32
  Speaker 0: Nelco Comics. I think they're even online. I
• 29:36
  Speaker 0: want to thank Philip, our producer. I wanna
• 29:38
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• 29:40
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• 29:42
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• 29:44
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