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Episode 119 Candace Cameron Bure: Something Blue and the Chicken Dance · MESSmerized - Funny and faith based encouragement in marriage , family , Christian parenting , and finding purpose

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is Cynthia Gannoff and you are listening to the mesmerized podcast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hey friends, welcome to the podcast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm glad you are here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Listen, it's October and I love October and I love it because it's my birthday moms.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love it because it's Mike's birthday month and I love fall in the leaves changing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean hypothetically in some other state that
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[SPEAKER_00]: It also happens to be breast cancer awareness month, and so today I got my mammogram, I don't think that's TMI, but nonetheless, if you haven't gotten yours, this is your, this is your sign to do that, this is the plea I give you to make the appointment.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I was thinking, okay, well, it's October, breast cancer awareness month, I'll just throw a little post up there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Can we have a moment of silence?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, what am I Sarah from the Bible?
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, I'm not pregnant.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like a hundred years old.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Girl doesn't know what a mammogram is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I knew it was gonna bite me in the butt.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I knew it that I didn't use the anatomically correct words to describe their bits and pieces as kids.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I always said it's your front bottom or your back bottom.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I shouldn't use the biology that was necessary because now she's all confused.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The girl thinks I'm pregnant.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm getting a mammogram.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we got a good check-out of that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was on my social.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you follow me, you probably saw her text.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you don't follow me, I would love for you too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, at Cynthia again off.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then, here's a quick little announcement.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mentioned last week.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll mention it again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you are looking for someone to speak, and an event next year, I am booking 2026.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Y'all know, I've a book coming out more to come on that that I will be speaking and I would love to speak to your nonprofit organization, your church or women's group all the things so reach out to me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's on the best way to that is on Cynthia again off dot com.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, today Candace Cameron puree is with us.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my gosh, she's my fave anytime I reach out and ask her if she'll come on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She's like, yeah, of course.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's do it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And listen, I don't know why I feel like it's necessary to play little games when she's on the show.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, but every time I have her on, I'm like, okay, we're going to do some games and something funny and listen, there's some pretty massive fail at the end.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, not kind of, but definitely a fail.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, chat GPT did me wrong, did me dirty, but she's such a such a, such a hoot and she laughed and is a good sport and here we are.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So listen, enjoy and I'm so thrilled to have her here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So let's go with Candace Cameron here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Candace welcome back.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for having me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'm always so excited and I just want everyone to know this like not that anybody Questions whether or not Candace is the real deal, but this is how kind and sweet you are literally we Follow each other Instagram and once in a blue main I'll just DM you and say like hey you want to come back on the show and you DM backing on Yeah, I'll go to show.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's do that and then you do and here we are in your darling.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So thank you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're welcome
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[SPEAKER_00]: I always love coming on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, well, you're sweet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I see you over there embracing fall Candace.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know you're in California.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you're in Canada.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I see you trying to be fall-ish over there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I want you to know it's recognized and acknowledged.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Is it cooling down where you are?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I forget where you are.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Dallas, no, it's like July, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: So the temperature dropped like 10 degrees today.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's still fairly warm, but it is in the low 70s.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, that's not bad, but so obviously you're in California then, you're not taping in California.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, no.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We did have a little cool front come through for September, whatever today is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think it might be 89 now, so everybody stand down.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm wearing denim.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's fine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Your girl got married, let's talk about that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Your daughter got married.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She did.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was such an exciting day.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was such a great weekend and it was really, I'm so, I was so happy for them that they chose not to share the engagement or any of the pre-wetting stuff until they didn't share the news with publicly until they got married.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so it made the process
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[SPEAKER_01]: way more intimate and fun in that way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It times it was a hard and secret to keep, but it just made the celebration all that much more.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it was a really exciting, like, very quick six months of planning a wedding.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, yes, yes, yes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, and so what was your favorite part like as the mom?
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I will tell you, there definitely was a difference being mother of the groom versus mother of the bride.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I felt more involved as mother of the bride, which is exciting because I love to be involved and want to be involved, but my daughter is
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[SPEAKER_01]: If, if she decides to quit acting one day, I think party planner would be her next because she's so good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She was so detailed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She planned every bit of her wedding.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She di died.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So much of it also.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean down to the detail.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We didn't have a wedding coordinator.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She was the wedding coordinator.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Wow She just had all of these special touches so I as a as her mom I got to just sit back and watch and then she would be like do you like this or this this or this and she already knew I just kind of got to give my opinion on the easy stuff and then at the end of the day It was my job to make sure that her vision was executed but she did
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[SPEAKER_01]: all of the prep work, everything meticulously.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so she made being mother of the bride like the best experience for me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, yes, yes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's nice, because she has an eye for it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She knows what she wants, all the things.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, that's super helpful.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you have any wedding advice for those of us?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm thinking,
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[SPEAKER_00]: myself actually.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't have anybody getting married immediately, but all of my daughters, they graduate from college are all getting married, all the friends are, and my daughter's had a boyfriend.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So for a while, it has a boyfriend, I guess.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so I'm, you know, all those things she start thinking.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So any advice for us that maybe walking through this the next several years?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, you have to have the Mary Poppins bag.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's saved the day.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like the big Mary Poppins bag and you just have like anything you could think of that might be needed on the day.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I have brought a bunch of stuff that I knew fashion-wise that I'm like, okay, this, I brought nipple covers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I brought the boost, hate, I brought, you know, a little sewing kit, stuff like that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: My assistant brought the Mary Poppins bag and she stayed the day.
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[SPEAKER_01]: She had, like, contact lens solution.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We had breakable ice packs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, these were things we ended up using because someone's eyes went dry.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Natasha at one point got so overwhelmed with emotion that she was like, so hot.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We broke out the ice packs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Put them on her.
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[SPEAKER_01]: you know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's like have that bag that has anything and everything you could even think about growing in the bag and bring it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you're not that person, like me, I would pack the bag, Candace, and I'd be like, okay, I have tweezers and some duct tape, and then I'd be nothing that we need.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, if you're not the person that you find, okay, I'll call you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then you can be like, here's the breakdowns of the, of what to have in the bag.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, your dress was phenomenal, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, and you were the something blue.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Did I read that writer was that just media frenzy?
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[SPEAKER_00]: You were her something blue.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was so sweet, so when she went to look for her wedding dress, we went to this fantastic shop called Kinsley Kotur, and they were so great there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, they make it an experience.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They give you champagne if you want it, or juice, and there's like little charcuterie in Natasha had prepared
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[SPEAKER_01]: these little gift boxes for me, and my daughter-in-law, Elliot, who was a bride's maid, and the two of us went wedding dress shopping with her for her first visit, and in that box had all these special little gifts, and then there was a no card in it, and Natasha wrote all these amazing things that you just want to hear as a mom, and then at the end she was like, would you be my something blue?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my gosh, I got to do something like this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Or is it next?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I'll be here something blue.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so that was, that was my other job.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I needed to find a blue dress.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, thank goodness you look so good in blue.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because the last thing we need is you go in all Karen and like, oh, that's not my color wheel.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then it ruined the whole thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So thank goodness, Candace, you look great in blue.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sorry.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's in my color wheel.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's totally in your color will okay, I read a quote that Natasha said and it was somewhere like really It was pretty sophisticated journalism like people or somewhere like that that I found it But it said I get emotional just thinking about the two of them because I feel so lucky to have them as my parents I couldn't dream of more amazing humans to experience this all with talking about her wedding and I was like holy cow And so I assume that's an accurate quote
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So like for all of us that want to have that relationship with our grown kids, like do you have any advice and he thoughts things you did or maybe wouldn't do now that helps foster that later in life relationship?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's all the intentionality growing up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's all the intentionality as a parent.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's all the time spent with them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is the conversations that you have.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's the safety that you create at home.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's having an open door to listening to their thoughts, their experiences, allowing the questions to happen and not.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Feeling like you have to correct them every time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Even though it's parents, and especially, I would say as a parent of faith, we're teaching from a biblical perspective, we have guard weight rails, we have boundaries, but it's being open enough to say, there's nothing you can't ask, there's nothing we can't talk about and I'm gonna show you from why God says that, but I wanna hear if you disagree with God, you tell me why, and let's talk about it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: it's just creating that safety zone that it's not this no, no, no.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, when our kids were younger, I hated, we had val and I hated saying no all the time because it's pretty much what you do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're just like nope, nope can't do it, nope you can't go there, no you can't eat that, no you have to do your homework, nope.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so we started saying yes all the time, we'd go can I do that?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, but not right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I go to my friend says, sure, but not till Saturday afternoon.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Can we just became that?
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we didn't feel like a negative melial the time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it just kind of, yeah, it repositions that the net is still a no, but it's kind of a better no.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It feels like a better no, a later, a later.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I really like that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think one of the hardest things I've seen now that I've won, just graduated from college and won, that's in college in a little one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But that pivot between when they're in your house and they, you need to respond or check in or have a vote on everything they do to when they are pivoting into like young adults and realizing like they're not actually asking for my advice they're not I mean they're just brainstorming talking and me wanting to weigh in on things and being like wait I don't believe anybody asked me and so I just try to stand down a lot and I think that's hard, but it's so important to
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[SPEAKER_01]: it is hard and it's so important and I started doing that even when a conversation would come in or one of my kids would just start talking.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Before I would ask the question, I started saying, do you want my opinion, are you asking me to talk about this with you or do you just need me to listen?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so asking that question just set the table in the right way as to how I would then
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[SPEAKER_01]: or they weren't mad at like that they didn't get the right reaction from me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Totally totally yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay good advice.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So here we're gonna, I don't know why, I really don't do this with most people on this show, but every time you're on I'm like, we should play a game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know why I think this is funny every time, but yet you always, you always, uh,
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[SPEAKER_00]: humor me so here we're going to start with this this is the would you rather game but it's going to be like wedding edition and so i'm going to ask you would you rather so this is for you personally not for Natasha for you would you rather lose a fake eyelash mid-vowse or have your lipstick or have lipstick on your teeth in every photo oh lose an eyelash
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I just that fall out just naturally.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I feel like I'm walking around like this all the time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, would you rather have the cake collapse right before cutting it or break a heel when you're walking down the aisle?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I won't work the heel.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Honestly, I want the picture and I can walk on my tippy toes like nobody's business.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've lost heels before and I still walk and you wouldn't know it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're a professional and also, and by the way, I'm really at the wedding for the cake.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I really enjoy wedding cakes, so I'm with you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just like, let me hobble, let me, whatever happens it is, what it is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, would you rather have one of your ex-boyfriends show up and be in some of the pictures or have Uncle Larry give a 20 minute rogue toast about his journey with taking similar glutides?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my gosh, I think I'm gonna choose the crazy uncle, you know what I'm just gonna laugh about it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I feel like the next boyfriend showed up and was in pictures I never hear the end of it from my eyes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll take the 20,000 feet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll take the 20 minutes feet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, here's the last one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Would you rather have the DJ accidentally play the chicken dance for the first dance or sexual healing as they're leaving the chapel?
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[SPEAKER_00]: off the funny.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, but I feel like I'd want the chicken dance for my first dance.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is actually really fun.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like you would set the party in the right mood.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So choosing that, it's not even a bad option.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a good one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not even that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, let me tell you first hand, Candace, that you don't want sexual healing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That happened at my wedding.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't leaving the chapel, but we did hire a band, and you have to know my background.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I grew up very Baptist, very faith home.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My mom worked for the Baptist General Convention.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so it was my wedding was like, no drinking, all ministers, and in my friends, whatever.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And our sweet band about three songs in played sexual healing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm pretty sure that there's some people
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[SPEAKER_00]: Nobody needed that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Nobody needed that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So you made the right choice.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, we're moving on to, I'm taking a hard right turn, because I want to talk to you about the season of the podcast that's been going on with Lisa Whittle, that your podcast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's been so, so amazing talking about body healing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not sexually body healing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, let's you guys.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a big difference between sexual healing and body healing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Take it from this girl.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, you said at some point in the podcast just that um, it's felt complicated with your body and the way you think about your body for years and I'm just curious can you share with us a little bit about that like when did you come to that realization that maybe that's just harder for you or feels different for you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe then it does for other people or maybe a lot of us feel that way, but what does that journey look like?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh goodness, I think the older, the older I've gotten, the more I've realized that it is a complicated issue.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think when I realize that there are some people in the world that don't think about food 24-7 that aren't always like as soon as they finish eating aren't thinking about the next meal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That was eye-opening to me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: when you realize that like not everyone is thinking about their body shape or losing weight or being on a diet 24-7 that not all people think about that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, oh, okay, oh, yeah, good to know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's an issue there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I've been I've been very public about having an eating disorders since I that started when I was around 18 years old.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's just been a journey in life.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm sure that being in the public eye, it's exacerbated.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I know so many women and men struggle with it, whether you're in the public eye or not.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And this podcast season on the Candace Gamerai podcast with Lisa Whittle has been probably one of the most healing experiences for me personally because her Bible study is slow.
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[SPEAKER_01]: great and so deep and rich and theologically sound and I was so grateful that Lisa was willing to talk about it also and open up and be vulnerable with me and we will just have boo-hooed through the whole season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's been amazing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's been the best therapy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, and so do you think and I mean obviously there's really no way to predict this but do you think?
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[SPEAKER_00]: If Candace wasn't full house Candace back in the day, you think you would have had the same challenges with body image and eating that you versus not being in the public eye.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you were just whoever at whatever high school and you were a nurse, do you think you would still have the same struggle?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I do because I remember feeling so self-conscious about my body before I was on full house.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, even though I was doing commercials and a little kid like that,
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[SPEAKER_01]: the reason why, but I could remember being embarrassed about my body and my arms in fifth grade compared just looking at other kids compared to me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so what tools, maybe if someone's listening to this, I'm sure there's a lot of us listening to this that have, have this have fought the same battles you have, like what tools have you found that have helped you, you know, spiritually and only emotionally, what's helped you walk through this with a little more wisdom?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I've been, I've been given this over to God for a long time, you know, for probably 30 years at this point and it hasn't gone away, you know, I always say like, well, this is probably the thorn in my side, you know, but I never stop praying about it, giving it over to God every single day.
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[SPEAKER_01]: that part's been really important.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I have to tell you, and I did share this on the podcast, and this clip went viral because God opened my eyes up in a way that was earth-shattering for me in a dream about the story.
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[SPEAKER_01]: in the Old Testament, it's in numbers 22 and it's the story of bailam and the donkey when the donkey opens his mouth and talks to him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And if you if you go and read that story, I have this dream that my body was the donkey talking to me, Candace, like my body got to speak back to me and say,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Why are you treating me this way?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like I'm here to love you and protect you and carry you and do all the things that you ask me to do and yet you are treating me terribly.
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[SPEAKER_01]: just like Baylem did to his donkey.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I woke up and I was like, that was the first stream that I ever felt like God really spoke to me, but it gave me this great gratitude for my body, it gave me a different perspective as to how I was talking to myself and looking at myself instead of realizing this unique,
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[SPEAKER_01]: gift that God gave me to do all the things that I do in my life.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I feel like I've probably heard that speech from other people before, but it just never clicked for me until that dream.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so, you know, again, I walked through every step daily with God, but doing a Bible study, like like body and soul from Lisa Whittle,
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[SPEAKER_01]: that connects a whole body theology because I think especially as a Christian it's so easy to understand it intellectually and and even like have a heart for certain things but like disconnect our body when it comes to those relationships and so she melds all three together which is what it is in the Bible and it is it's just been a blessing yeah yeah I mean
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to say that like you were showboding there with your dream from numbers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, my dreams are literally like, you know, like a teeth are falling out or I, you know, I forgot to take the final exam and I have to go back to college and you're over here dreaming out of numbers, but it's fine, can't, it's just fine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We all have our things.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, no, but that, that's, that is really, I love that that's how the Lord spoke that over you.
22:06
[SPEAKER_00]: And like you said, you've probably heard that and known that academically from a lot of different places and sources and like, God's like, no, I'm like going to make this
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm going to put a dream, and I think that's, I mean, it's incredible.
22:18
[SPEAKER_00]: Is there anything just from all of the fan feedback and people who listen to your podcast?
22:22
[SPEAKER_00]: Anything that's surprised you, like you went into this knowing if you talk about body images or eating disorders to different things, that you're going to have people respond.
22:31
[SPEAKER_00]: But is there anything that's kind of surprised you about how people reacted to this season?
22:36
[SPEAKER_01]: The response is been incredible.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is definitely my highest watched and listened to season.
22:44
[SPEAKER_01]: and I'm not surprised and I think that what the feedback that I hear the most is how grateful people are for it and it really is the vulnerability and the honesty coming from both Lisa and myself and I think people just appreciate that so much but I think the one thing that I'm learning is that I'm still learning from the season because we take this in advance
23:14
[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't always go back and listen to the episodes that I've taped, but this season was so important to me.
23:20
[SPEAKER_01]: And I've been listening along each week.
23:23
[SPEAKER_01]: And as I'm listening to myself, answer some of Lisa's questions or have a certain response.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, oh, I don't get it yet.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think this is a bystandard and then here my own response and I'm like, nope, Candace, you still have to learn that, like you're not there, you're not totally being honest.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I kind of love it because it's like, I get to check myself.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I continue to learn from this season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Total growth, along with your audience, which is the best kind, right?
24:01
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like those are the moments.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I also think it's hard in your defense.
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[SPEAKER_00]: on the spot like I noticed sometimes like when I'm interviewing someone and if I go listen to it later I'm like oh I didn't even catch that or you can't really absorb it all until you're outside of the moment so yeah okay I love Bible recap so to you
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[SPEAKER_00]: And let's talk to the folks that have not read through the Bible before.
24:26
[SPEAKER_00]: And I listen, again, a girl who grew up in church and all the way through the sexual healing days of my wedding, it's fine, everybody, it's fine.
24:33
[SPEAKER_00]: But I think about that, and I mean, when I tell you, like, I grew up, and I know God's word, like I've just been around exposed to it, but I'm not sure I read through the Bible completely until
24:46
[SPEAKER_00]: I guess after law school, maybe my mid 20s and then not again until my 40s and I love that terribly cobble has done this in such a way that it's so accessible and relatable and practical but also really like it's needed and I was wondering if there's if you could just begin to that like how is that changed your faith walk to actually be going through God's word beginning to end.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's changed everything.
25:12
[SPEAKER_01]: So in the same way really really coming to my own faith in my early 20s I've have done a lot of Bible studies and I've read portions of the Bible a whole lot and I've probably had read every book at some point but I've never read through the Bible
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[SPEAKER_01]: chronologically as a whole and saw that overview of who God is and the best advice that Terrily shares which was given to her by a pastor was, don't look for yourself in the Bible.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Look for God, which seems obvious, and yet I think of every Bible study that I've done.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think of every time I turn to Scripture, I'm like, well, where can I find this so that I can find myself in this?
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[SPEAKER_01]: How does this apply to me?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Me, me, me, me.
26:05
[SPEAKER_01]: And so ever tell me, I've read the Bible if I'm honest, it's been very me-focused.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've never really looked for God in it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so it changed everything to have that perspective reading it as a whole and not being afraid of the Old Testament and who God is, but it allowed me to see what an amazing patient loving God is in the Old Testament.
26:34
[SPEAKER_01]: And of course, we know, to that Jesus is there, he's there in the Old Testament.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not like bad God in the Old Testament.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then Jesus comes and he's the good God, you know, and I feel like there's all of these preconceived notions that we have as baby believers or people coming to faith that we just
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[SPEAKER_01]: have some assumptions.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so it is made me fall in love with the Bible so much reading it in context as a whole book and I couldn't recommend it more.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I encourage all of you because we are starting the New Testament October 1st.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I keep telling everyone on my socials.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So if you've never read the Bible,
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[SPEAKER_01]: or you just want to do it in a different way, start reading the Old Testament with the Bible Recap October 1st and then you'll just come back around and January 1st, you're going to start that Old Testament and it just is going to blow your mind.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Are you doing this?
27:30
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you doing like a group of sorts?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, well, people follow you on Instagram or anywhere.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Are you going to be posting anything as you do it?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Are you just saying join me, start October 1st and fall terribly?
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's what I'm saying.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is my fourth time around, so I don't have a separate Bible study or anything, but I just check in with all of you on my Instagram to just say, like, hey, it's been a month, are you still reading?
27:51
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, yes, well, I think it's amazing.
27:54
[SPEAKER_00]: I think when I went through the Bible with Bible recap, one of the themes that stuck out to me, I'm wondering if there were any that stuck out to you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I think from beginning to end,
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[SPEAKER_00]: seeing the broader perspective is that God is just pursuing us relentlessly over and over.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think I grew up and I'm not nobody told me doctorally something incorrect, but in my mind, I felt like I need to be good enough.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and be pursuing him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if I wasn't good enough, it wasn't kind of doing the right things and all that, then you know, then maybe I wouldn't keep his interest or I don't know, some that I'm like, oh my gosh, you just see over and over again how he relentlessly pursues his people even in the midst of their sin and their fallenness and all the things.
28:36
[SPEAKER_00]: And he leaves the 99 for the one and we're the one, right?
28:40
[SPEAKER_00]: And
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[SPEAKER_00]: He knew what he was getting, like we're flawed and we mess up and we're, you know, indignant and we lack humility.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I just think that that was a theme over and over that I was just like, man, he's pursuing us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Saw that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Saw that theme so very much.
28:56
[SPEAKER_01]: There's that song by Cory Asbury, which is called Reckless Love.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Every time I sing that song, I just change the word to relentless, because of his relentless pursuit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's probably crazy, but I, anyway, I just, that's exactly what I think of when I have read the whole Bible.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, it's just, yeah, so encouraging.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, another turn.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Here we go,
29:31
[SPEAKER_00]: That kind of aged everyone, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
29:33
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, well, I mean, it's fine, Candace.
29:35
[SPEAKER_00]: Like you look 20, so you're fine.
29:36
[SPEAKER_00]: But when I saw that I'm like 38, I mean, I must have been a newborn.
29:41
[SPEAKER_00]: What happened when it came out?
29:42
[SPEAKER_00]: But that's crazy.
29:43
[SPEAKER_00]: So tell us a little bit about that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, did y'all have,
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[SPEAKER_00]: big like 30 happy 38 birthday parties or do is there any sort of recognition?
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[SPEAKER_00]: No.
29:51
[SPEAKER_01]: There was I there probably will be on the 40 and any three but I just wanted to we all kind of recognize it individually on our social media pages but 38 years is a long time and so it's always fun and the fans love it and just to go back and remember things about the show was
30:11
[SPEAKER_01]: is always heartwarming.
30:12
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, how old were you when you started on that show?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Did you start?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like were you on the original first show?
30:18
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I let episode.
30:21
[SPEAKER_01]: I only missed one episode of Full House in the 196 episodes that we filmed and that was because
30:31
[SPEAKER_01]: At the beginning of one of the seasons, I wanted to go to a camp and it overlapped a week and my parents begged the producers like, she really wants to do this.
30:42
[SPEAKER_01]: She's never done this.
30:43
[SPEAKER_01]: And so they wrote me out of one episode, so I could go to camp.
30:47
[SPEAKER_00]: Wow, and you're at camp and you're like, thank goodness I got to go to camp and all the camp kids are like, what's wrong with you girl?
30:53
[SPEAKER_00]: Like how do we get a full house?
30:57
[SPEAKER_00]: And so how many years?
30:58
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I, if I could do math, it would really help us.
31:00
[SPEAKER_00]: But how many years did you take weeks like those were nice?
31:03
[SPEAKER_01]: It was on for eight years.
31:05
[SPEAKER_01]: I started when I was 10 years old that pilot episode and then yeah, until I was 18.
31:12
[SPEAKER_00]: Wow, wow, wow, what would you tell 18-year-old Candace now knowing what you know to help yourself transition into the years from 18 to now?
31:22
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I wanted to tell myself that the best decision I actually made, which I did, was like, you marry that man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You marry him, because I was 18 when I met Val.
31:33
[SPEAKER_01]: I agree on this, oh, you're too young.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I made the best decision of my life.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So 30 years later, I'm like,
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I would probably, and all honesty, tell myself, read more books, study of more, I did not go to college, I didn't go to a university, and that doesn't bother me, but I so wanted to get through school quickly, because I just didn't enjoy it, and so.
32:03
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel that I lack intelligence.
32:05
[SPEAKER_01]: I study up on things now, but you know, when you're younger, you're a sponge.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I wish I studied more and just had a broader, just a broader view, a broader understanding and just more general wisdom out there about life, about history, about things I would read in books.
32:29
[SPEAKER_00]: I totally get that.
32:29
[SPEAKER_00]: And for what it's worth, Candace, I went to college and I went to law school.
32:33
[SPEAKER_00]: I know nothing.
32:34
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't really know what happened, but I know nothing.
32:36
[SPEAKER_00]: I literally had to think hard the other day about what the other state was, well, there's several, but the border Texas.
32:42
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I got all confused about like North Carolina, I'm like, well, is that close to Kentucky?
32:47
[SPEAKER_00]: I had to go through this whole mental exercise.
32:49
[SPEAKER_00]: And then it's just as bad.
32:51
[SPEAKER_00]: Geography just forget it.
32:53
[SPEAKER_00]: But history's just as bad.
32:54
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, in Texas, one of the big events is the alamo.
32:57
[SPEAKER_00]: And I literally told my kids that we won the Alamo.
33:00
[SPEAKER_00]: We didn't, no, we didn't.
33:03
[SPEAKER_00]: And I talk about this all, I mean, I win there a little, I'm like, I'm telling you, we won the Alamo, my husband's like, oh my gosh, you have to step away from history.
33:10
[SPEAKER_00]: So for what it's worth, I did all of the things, and I can't, I don't know if I can't remember it, I never learned it, it's a situation, but yeah, it won't be feel better.
33:18
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I feel you.
33:20
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, let's talk about what's going on.
33:23
[SPEAKER_00]: It's fall, and we're going into Christmas.
33:24
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that's why I always, this time of year, like I associate Christmas primarily with Jesus' birth and secondarily with Candice, yes, and so talk to us about what's happening shows, I know you have a tour too, but what's going on is fall going into Christmas.
33:43
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, yes, so I do have a live tour coming up in November, which is exciting.
33:49
[SPEAKER_01]: And so we're just going to talk about things like we're talking about.
33:53
[SPEAKER_01]: We're just going to have a fun, fun girls night.
33:57
[SPEAKER_01]: And so what I'm very excited about that, there are still two cities that have tickets available, which is Anderson, Indiana and Wyoming, Michigan.
34:07
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, and the rest are sold out and if they go well, I'll probably do another tour and add cities, but this is I needed to start small because I just wanted to see how I like it because I'm literally on a tour bus like I've never done a tour bus thing.
34:23
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm not a rock star, you know?
34:25
[SPEAKER_01]: So, we got to see how this goes.
34:30
[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm excited about that.
34:31
[SPEAKER_01]: And then as far as Christmas movies better coming up, I have a couple of new ones that will be out this year.
34:39
[SPEAKER_01]: One, I can't talk about yet.
34:40
[SPEAKER_01]: A lot, over, but I do have one that will be on Great American Family Channel or the streaming platform PureFlex.
34:48
[SPEAKER_01]: And that one's called Timeless Tidings of Joy.
34:50
[SPEAKER_01]: And it co-stars my daughter Natasha.
34:53
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my goodness, how fun was it so fun to work with her?
34:56
[SPEAKER_01]: It was, it was fantastic.
34:59
[SPEAKER_01]: I, I, it was one of those things.
35:01
[SPEAKER_01]: We have a great relationship, but you know, we, it can go.
35:07
[SPEAKER_01]: sour real fast just because your mother daughter and I can be annoying and stuff like that so all the things we shot this movie in Canada and we got like an apartment so we can stay together the whole time and then the day before I'm like this is going to either be really good or really bad I don't know I don't know
35:30
[SPEAKER_01]: And we prayed.
35:31
[SPEAKER_01]: I prayed a lot before she even came and I'm telling you it was the best time.
35:38
[SPEAKER_01]: It was the best time.
35:41
[SPEAKER_01]: I loved it.
35:41
[SPEAKER_01]: She is fantastic.
35:44
[SPEAKER_01]: She's fantastic in the movie, but then we just had so much fun.
35:47
[SPEAKER_01]: coming home together, making dinner together, learning our lines together, watching movies together, and it was just, I couldn't have asked at, you know, for her, she's 27 years old, you know, and for this mama, like, to have that kind of concentrated time for three, four weeks with my daughter, and both of us being in mature places in our lives,
36:16
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, not on the roller coaster of emotion of like it was awesome.
36:21
[SPEAKER_01]: It was so good and it's yeah, that's just time you'll never get was this before she was engaged so it was right before she was engaged the whole time we were filming the movie I'm texting with her
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[SPEAKER_01]: boyfriend at the time because he had already asked me, he asked Val, he asked her to brothers, he talked with us, asked permission.
36:44
[SPEAKER_01]: So we all knew the engagement was coming, but we are all over the country.
36:48
[SPEAKER_01]: So we were trying to coordinate a date where we would all be could all meet in the same city along with his family because Natasha really wanted everyone
37:01
[SPEAKER_01]: when they got engaged.
37:02
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm tasting with Bradley the whole time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Doing dates, she had no clue.
37:09
[SPEAKER_00]: That's amazing.
37:10
[SPEAKER_00]: That's amazing.
37:10
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, back the tour for one second.
37:12
[SPEAKER_00]: I would like to put in a vote that if we expand the tour that we bring the bus to Dallas, because we could really have some fun Candace.
37:21
[SPEAKER_01]: I would love, I would love to come to Texas.
37:23
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, yes, it will be on the list.
37:26
[SPEAKER_01]: I am going to be in Texas, not Dallas, but but I don't think too far.
37:32
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm forgetting at a women and joy conference, but yeah.
37:37
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I want to say that's like a McKinney or somewhere like yeah, it's too far, it's I think it's outside Dallas, but I can't remember, but yeah, okay, so you'll be there in October, but yes, if we do another tour, I would love for Dallas to be part of that for sure.
37:51
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, yes, yes.
37:53
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so we're going to, um, we're going to end with one more game because again, who knows why can't this, but, and this may be everyone, the very last time can, this is on the show, but we're going to go with it.
38:05
[SPEAKER_00]: So, I am going to give you a clue to one of your previous holiday Christmas movies, and you're going to tell me which one it is by name.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Are you ready?
38:17
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A traveling nurse stranded in a picture perfect Christmas town must decide between returning to her big city career or staying to help a handsome local restore his family in and maybe her own faith in miracles.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Is that Christmas under wraps?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I believe it's called a Christmas present.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Great American family 22.
38:36
[SPEAKER_00]: Wait, is that raw to nurse?
38:40
[SPEAKER_00]: I was, whoa, that is not correct.
38:42
[SPEAKER_00]: I was a whole family, not a nurse in that room.
38:45
[SPEAKER_00]: What were you?
38:47
[SPEAKER_00]: That's even worse, the wheels really fell off chat, GPT.
38:50
[SPEAKER_01]: We tried, can this is so funny, because it feels like Christmas enderapsic, except I was a doctor, not a nurse, but a Christmas enderapsic, that was like more about a marriage story.
39:01
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, well let's see if this would be great.
39:04
[SPEAKER_00]: And ambitious food stylist, enters a televised holiday bake off.
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[SPEAKER_00]: only discover her on-camera partner is the ex-boyfriend she never got over.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not my move.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, never, never, never.
39:17
[SPEAKER_01]: Wait, please watch out, GBT is like creating new movies for me.
39:22
[SPEAKER_01]: And not, they said this is the Christmas contest of Hallmark 2021.
39:27
[SPEAKER_00]: Did I not do the stylist or a food?
39:32
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, this is a fun game that we don't know, really, and because I'm so hard-hitting in my journalistic approach, did I check these can to snow?
39:41
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, well, we're, we're, uh, oh, for two.
39:43
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's, let's, let's, let's hit this last one.
39:45
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you ready?
39:45
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A menopausal mom with three kids, three podcasts and a dying dream of one day co-hosting QVC with you.
39:53
[SPEAKER_00]: Spends every holiday season awkwardly pitching herself as a background extra in her favorite Candace Cameron, Burea Christmas movies.
40:01
[SPEAKER_00]: After years of politely dodging her request, the queen of Christmas finally says yes, but only in an effort to awkwardly get off a very long podcast.
40:09
[SPEAKER_00]: She's sorry, she ever signed up for her.
40:10
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to get that movie.
40:14
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's movie.
40:15
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just saying we could make that movie Candace in it.
40:19
[SPEAKER_00]: It would be spectacular.
40:20
[SPEAKER_00]: It would be.
40:21
[SPEAKER_01]: It would be.
40:23
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's do it.
40:24
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, the wheels clearly fell off it.
40:26
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what?
40:27
[SPEAKER_00]: Here we are, Candace.
40:28
[SPEAKER_00]: Here we are.
40:29
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, thank you so much for being here, and thank you for all the fun and honesty and all the work that you do.
40:37
[SPEAKER_00]: And we will be looking you guys, if you are in the two locations still have tickets, I will definitely link in podcasts notes, get tickets, go see her.
40:45
[SPEAKER_00]: If she comes to Dallas, we can all, in the healthiest way possible stock.
40:49
[SPEAKER_00]: her bus and see her one day here but then obviously you got Christmas stuff coming out and read the Bible with her and if you haven't listened to her podcast you need to especially this one with Lisa Widdles so thanks for everything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Peace and be yeah!
41:06
[SPEAKER_00]: All right friends, now listen, do you have those moments where you like watch a TV show like the office or one of those and you kind of sweat because it's uncomfortable and it makes you uncomfortable even just watching the show on TV?
41:18
[SPEAKER_00]: Did you also have that moment just now with me in Candace when I was totally trying to play this game with her and giving out movies that she was literally never in?
41:27
[SPEAKER_00]: Good thing she is a hilarious, fun, good sport.
41:30
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm so grateful for her.
41:31
[SPEAKER_00]: Make sure you check out her upcoming tour, all the movie she has coming up, all kinds of fun things, and her podcast is awesome.
41:38
[SPEAKER_00]: So be sure and check the podcast notes.
41:40
[SPEAKER_00]: I will link it and guys, we have so many fun interviews coming your way.
41:44
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm so excited from now through the end of the year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So make sure that you are subscribed and thanks for being a part of the mesmerized family.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're the best.