Latest / I Do, Part 2 / Bill And Giuliana Rancic’s New Podcast, Answering Questions You Google In The Dark (Part One)
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- 0:02Speaker 1: Hey, the folks, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ.
- 0:05Speaker 1: And this is a new one for us road We
- 0:06Speaker 1: actually take issue with our guests today.
- 0:09Speaker 2: They are trying to compete with.
- 0:12Speaker 1: Us for the Iheart's Most Adored couple right here they come. Now,
- 0:17Speaker 1: we thought we finally got a lock on this thing,
- 0:20Speaker 1: and now here comes another iHeart couple.
- 0:22Speaker 3: Yeah right, and they've got some years on us.
- 0:24Speaker 4: Yeah, I think they've got what twenty years together or
- 0:27Speaker 4: so to speak. But yes, we are so excited to
- 0:29Speaker 4: have Juliana and Bill Ransick with us and you all
- 0:33Speaker 4: are now officially a couple podcasting duo.
- 0:37Speaker 3: Yes, how's it going on here for Advice one Weekend?
- 0:41Speaker 4: You just launched this month in May when we're recording this,
- 0:44Speaker 4: so tell us how it's going.
- 0:46Speaker 3: And first of all, why why did you want to
- 0:48Speaker 3: do a podcast?
- 0:48Speaker 5: I know, you know, we.
- 0:49Speaker 6: Had the idea a long time ago, like a lot
- 0:51Speaker 6: of people, right, but there was never like that, that
- 0:55Speaker 6: thing that would set it apart from all the other
- 0:57Speaker 6: podcasts out there. And honestly, it came from a colonoscopy.
- 1:01Speaker 6: I had my first colonoscopy this year.
- 1:03Speaker 2: That's a great start to story.
- 1:05Speaker 5: Un let's get right to it. But it is the truth.
- 1:08Speaker 5: It's the truth.
- 1:09Speaker 6: So I had my first colonoscopy, and you know the prep.
- 1:13Speaker 6: You have to drink all that liquid, all this prep,
- 1:15Speaker 6: and it's easier for some people than others.
- 1:18Speaker 5: And I did not enjoy it at all.
- 1:20Speaker 6: I couldn't get through the prep, and so I had
- 1:22Speaker 6: to set an alarm for two in the morning to
- 1:25Speaker 6: finish the prep before the meeting in the morning, or
- 1:27Speaker 6: the meeting. I wish it was just a meeting, the
- 1:30Speaker 6: appointment in the morning. And so two in the morning,
- 1:33Speaker 6: I'm like, I can't have another sip of this stuff.
- 1:35Speaker 6: So I went online and I searched do I have
- 1:38Speaker 6: to finish the colonoscopy prep? And so I got a
- 1:42Speaker 6: bunch of different answers. A nurse, actually there was some
- 1:45Speaker 6: nurse in a chat room who said, as a colonoscopy
- 1:48Speaker 6: nurse of twenty five years dot dot dot, and I went,
- 1:50Speaker 6: this is the person I'm listening to. Left a little
- 1:54Speaker 6: of that prep behind, did the colonopy. Everything was fine,
- 1:56Speaker 6: but it was the next day I said to Bill,
- 1:58Speaker 6: I'm like, you know, what if we did a podcast that,
- 2:01Speaker 6: you know, where we answered questions that people search at
- 2:04Speaker 6: two in the morning where people are just curious about
- 2:07Speaker 6: and face every episode on that.
- 2:09Speaker 5: So that's how I did get dicey.
- 2:10Speaker 7: Also debunking a lot of a lot of the myths,
- 2:13Speaker 7: like I get a lot of my health and wellness
- 2:15Speaker 7: information from Instagram reels.
- 2:17Speaker 5: Which is scary, so it should be very Yeah.
- 2:19Speaker 7: Yeah, it's really kind of incredible some of the things
- 2:22Speaker 7: I've tried over the last two years now that I'm
- 2:24Speaker 7: getting older.
- 2:24Speaker 2: So what have you tried? I mean that went back.
- 2:28Speaker 7: There is a lot of bad information out there, right,
- 2:31Speaker 7: Like one that's going around now. I don't agree to it,
- 2:34Speaker 7: but that nicotine prevents Alzheimer's and dementia, and so had doctor.
- 2:38Speaker 7: So I sampled some of those little nicotine pouches and zins. Yes, yeah,
- 2:43Speaker 7: oh yeah no, And then Mike, I'll do one a
- 2:45Speaker 7: day just to keep the Alzheimer's away. And then it
- 2:48Speaker 7: went to two, and then it went to three, and
- 2:50Speaker 7: and then I'm like, I got it. So then after
- 2:52Speaker 7: like two weeks of this, I'm like, I'm gonna I
- 2:54Speaker 7: gotta nip this.
- 2:55Speaker 2: Wait, you get hooked on nicotine?
- 2:56Speaker 7: Well no, I mean it was for two weeks.
- 2:59Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess I was.
- 3:00Speaker 4: I had one of those that hilariously, one of my
- 3:03Speaker 4: daughters older, like she's twenty three, but one of her
- 3:05Speaker 4: friends said.
- 3:06Speaker 3: You gotta try this. I tried it and I got
- 3:09Speaker 3: so lightheaded.
- 3:10Speaker 2: You did okay, and I freaked out.
- 3:11Speaker 3: I was like, I am never doing that again.
- 3:13Speaker 7: It is a rush, right, Well, we debunked the myth,
- 3:17Speaker 7: so we had a neurologist come on. He's like, no, no, no,
- 3:20Speaker 7: you don't want to be doing that.
- 3:21Speaker 3: So you stopped immediately.
- 3:22Speaker 7: I stopped immediately after two weeks, but it was a
- 3:26Speaker 7: still kind of a tough four or five days, like
- 3:29Speaker 7: I was craving it.
- 3:30Speaker 1: What was her What was your reaction though? Back to
- 3:32Speaker 1: the Colonosco, because you come to you about the podcast,
- 3:34Speaker 1: I dad, what was your initial reaction?
- 3:36Speaker 7: Well, you know, we did we did a reality show
- 3:38Speaker 7: an e called The Julianna Bill Show for eight seasons,
- 3:40Speaker 7: and you know we've always said, well, maybe we'll bring
- 3:43Speaker 7: it back one day, but in a different version. We
- 3:44Speaker 7: don't want our son to be part of it and
- 3:46Speaker 7: just not fair to him. He doesn't want to be
- 3:48Speaker 7: in the limelight. So this seemed like a great kind
- 3:50Speaker 7: of next step from the julyn Bill Show. Because it
- 3:53Speaker 7: was you know, it was a really very popular show,
- 3:56Speaker 7: believe it or not, I guess for more interesting than
- 3:58Speaker 7: we thought.
- 3:59Speaker 3: I believe you believe it?
- 4:00Speaker 7: Yeah?
- 4:01Speaker 3: No, And so how does this Does this feel less invasive?
- 4:04Speaker 3: I mean I don't know. I can never look.
- 4:06Speaker 4: We did Morning News, yes, and we know what it's
- 4:09Speaker 4: like to have private lies out there, and we know
- 4:11Speaker 4: what good can come out of it, and we know
- 4:13Speaker 4: what bad can come out of it. And so is
- 4:17Speaker 4: there any trepidation at all in just letting people into
- 4:20Speaker 4: your lives and knowing what's going on?
- 4:22Speaker 5: I know, you know what's crazy.
- 4:23Speaker 6: When we did the reality show, I mean we did
- 4:25Speaker 6: eighty episodes and it was a very you know, like
- 4:30Speaker 6: there were a lot of topics.
- 4:32Speaker 5: We got into.
- 4:33Speaker 7: Breast cancer to infertility to you know, we covered a
- 4:36Speaker 7: lot of really heavy duty stuff.
- 4:37Speaker 5: Yeah, they did.
- 4:38Speaker 6: And what's interesting is, you know, when we signed on
- 4:41Speaker 6: to do this podcast, or we had this idea to
- 4:43Speaker 6: do the podcast, I honestly was like, well, you know,
- 4:46Speaker 6: it's not going to be more revealing than the reality show.
- 4:49Speaker 6: But it has been already so much more revealing than
- 4:53Speaker 6: the reality show. And I think it's because it's just
- 4:56Speaker 6: us talking and talking and meeting different people, different things
- 4:59Speaker 6: come up, and you don't know what he's going to say.
- 5:02Speaker 5: It doesn't know what I'm going to say.
- 5:03Speaker 6: So I think it's actually kind of much more revealing
- 5:09Speaker 6: than the reality show.
- 5:10Speaker 5: It's didn't expect at all. Do you feel that way?
- 5:12Speaker 4: Podcasting is intimate, it's discerning, and especially we've spent our
- 5:17Speaker 4: whole careers, especially with a microphone in front of us,
- 5:20Speaker 4: being very protective about what we said, very deliberate about
- 5:23Speaker 4: what we said, very intentional, and almost never offering an opinion,
- 5:27Speaker 4: even if it was a professional opinion.
- 5:29Speaker 3: You still steered clear of that.
- 5:31Speaker 4: You didn't want to make waves, You didn't want to
- 5:32Speaker 4: upset anybody that was broadcast news, podcasting, anything goes, and
- 5:37Speaker 4: we've kind of tried to figure out where that line
- 5:39Speaker 4: is because it is a very different, a very different
- 5:43Speaker 4: medium where you do end up saying things you didn't
- 5:46Speaker 4: even plan on sexty exactly?
- 5:48Speaker 2: Is that kind of easier for you all? You lived
- 5:49Speaker 2: in front of the camera right for a long time?
- 5:52Speaker 2: Does it?
- 5:52Speaker 1: It seems like this would be an easier transition to
- 5:56Speaker 1: be open, But it sounds like you all are still
- 5:57Speaker 1: finding I mean, I.
- 5:58Speaker 7: Think it's fun.
- 5:59Speaker 2: It's easy.
- 6:00Speaker 7: I think it's easy. You know.
- 6:01Speaker 5: The thing is, I have to.
- 6:02Speaker 6: Be honest, Like I thought I would be more natural
- 6:07Speaker 6: at it, if you will, just because I did a
- 6:09Speaker 6: news for so long every day, right like you guys
- 6:12Speaker 6: like doing you know why did entertainment news entertainment news
- 6:15Speaker 6: every day and interviewing a red carpet. So I thought like,
- 6:19Speaker 6: oh my gosh, this is like gonna be a piece
- 6:21Speaker 6: of cake. And then I thought, actually, Bill would have
- 6:24Speaker 6: more of a problem with it, Like I thought, is
- 6:26Speaker 6: Bill really gonna be intimate and reveal things and be
- 6:31Speaker 6: like a real guy? And I know that sounds weird,
- 6:34Speaker 6: but I have to because you're like very like you're
- 6:37Speaker 6: more like buttoned up, and you know, you're like more
- 6:39Speaker 6: people think you're more serious. And I wanted to know,
- 6:42Speaker 6: and I know the real you. And I was curious,
- 6:43Speaker 6: like is the real Bill going to come out? Within
- 6:45Speaker 6: ten minutes, the real Bill came out. He's unhinged in
- 6:49Speaker 6: a lot of these stretch literally stretch. I didn't even
- 6:53Speaker 6: come up with that because it was actually someone's We
- 6:56Speaker 6: were on someone's podcast and they said these two young
- 6:59Speaker 6: women were like Bill, like where'd you come from? You're unhinged,
- 7:02Speaker 6: and he I think he just also, but you said,
- 7:05Speaker 6: what are you telling? Because we're on Kelly Clarkson show
- 7:07Speaker 6: recently and he said to Kelly Clarkston. She goes, Bill, gosh,
- 7:10Speaker 6: you're just saying anything, and he goes, what did you say?
- 7:12Speaker 7: I'm fifty five? Now I don't care anymore? Like who
- 7:17Speaker 7: caress it?
- 7:17Speaker 5: Mix it two things.
- 7:19Speaker 6: I think that it's a much more intimate medium, as
- 7:22Speaker 6: we were talking about, write an intimate for platform. But
- 7:26Speaker 6: I also think that in our older age, we care
- 7:30Speaker 6: less what we say.
- 7:33Speaker 7: You know, well that you've hit sixty.
- 7:34Speaker 5: I mean, I'm not saying don't say that because kill
- 7:37Speaker 5: people will be like you look great for six. I'm
- 7:40Speaker 5: younger than Bill, she's fifty five. I'm fifty one. But anyways,
- 7:44Speaker 5: good to say that, because I'm afraid people are going
- 7:46Speaker 5: to be like you do look.
- 7:49Speaker 6: But anyways, so bottom line is we've discovered a lot
- 7:53Speaker 6: about ourselves that we didn't realize.
- 7:55Speaker 1: You called, you said the real Bill? Was he the
- 7:58Speaker 1: real Bill on the TV show?
- 8:01Speaker 5: Yes, he was definitely the real Bill on the TV show.
- 8:03Speaker 6: And I think that's why, Well back then, the Bill
- 8:06Speaker 6: back then was the real Bill.
- 8:08Speaker 7: But I think that we're talking about me way too
- 8:11Speaker 7: much here in the room. I'm right here.
- 8:14Speaker 3: Everything we're saying he is.
- 8:16Speaker 6: He has, he's like much looser now. I think I
- 8:19Speaker 6: am too. I think that does come.
- 8:21Speaker 7: It comes with age, with age, you.
- 8:22Speaker 6: Know, right, and experience and life experience, right, and you
- 8:27Speaker 6: just realize kind of you know, I don't know, you
- 8:29Speaker 6: just you get more comfortable with yourself as you get
- 8:33Speaker 6: A lot.
- 8:33Speaker 2: Was said about you there, Bill, I'll give you a
- 8:34Speaker 2: chance for a rebuttal you want to take.
- 8:36Speaker 7: It's not like I'm you know, like some of these
- 8:39Speaker 7: old guys that are walking around passing gas and they
- 8:41Speaker 7: don't care like, you know, like the.
- 8:43Speaker 2: Old guys we talked about that.
- 8:45Speaker 7: Yeah, No, I think it's just I'm enjoying it. It's fun.
- 8:49Speaker 7: We get to meet a lot of great people like
- 8:51Speaker 7: the two of you, you know, so we're really kind
- 8:53Speaker 7: of embracing it and hopefully we're giving people good information
- 8:57Speaker 7: at the end of the day that they can count on.
- 8:58Speaker 7: We have really high quality, vetted experts that we're having
- 9:02Speaker 7: on the show, where it's not some of these guys
- 9:04Speaker 7: on Instagram that you know, you listen to that I
- 9:07Speaker 7: I'm a sucker. I bought all the vitamins. I've the skins,
- 9:11Speaker 7: anything to regrow hair. I'm like, I'm your customer.
- 9:15Speaker 6: I'll give you some brands and we trust me. We
- 9:17Speaker 6: would love a deal with these people. But we don't
- 9:19Speaker 6: have a deal with these people. But you know those grooms,
- 9:23Speaker 6: those gummy.
- 9:24Speaker 7: Every celebrity is doing a pitching on Instagram.
- 9:27Speaker 6: Bill sees like all these like reality people, all these
- 9:29Speaker 6: people were doing do you guys know the grooms.
- 9:31Speaker 5: All these people were doing these videos on these.
- 9:34Speaker 7: They just sold for like a two hundred million dollars
- 9:36Speaker 7: or something.
- 9:36Speaker 5: For the next thing. I know, Box like shows up of.
- 9:39Speaker 7: These vit I'm like, I get the monthly, I get
- 9:42Speaker 7: the monthly shipman Ship.
- 9:45Speaker 5: I'm like Bill, He's like, oh, I saw them on Instagram.
- 9:47Speaker 5: They're great.
- 9:48Speaker 6: I'm like, oh my god, if you fall for one
- 9:49Speaker 6: more Instagram thing, you know, and just everything like anything like.
- 9:53Speaker 5: Hair growth or this or cleanser.
- 9:55Speaker 6: I don't even know what he's buying, but I literally
- 9:58Speaker 6: thought to myself, I'm like, advertisers go after like the
- 10:01Speaker 6: eighteen to thirty four year old women.
- 10:02Speaker 5: They should go after.
- 10:03Speaker 4: Brandon's eyeglasses back when we were younger, and you know,
- 10:09Speaker 4: you're uplate at night and if you order now, you'll
- 10:12Speaker 4: get this free set of mumps. And everyone's calling one
- 10:14Speaker 4: eight hundred. But now it's just so accessible. It's right there,
- 10:17Speaker 4: you just click the link. I'm Bill, I'll admit I'm guilty.
- 10:20Speaker 4: I have absolutely purchased things that I've seen advertise me
- 10:23Speaker 4: on Instagram.
- 10:24Speaker 5: I'm that girl too, Bill.
- 10:25Speaker 2: You are going to get flooded. Oh, bring after this
- 10:29Speaker 2: because every advertiser knows.
- 10:31Speaker 7: He'll buy I am I'm your target demographic.
- 10:43Speaker 4: I'm curious you two for all the people who really
- 10:46Speaker 4: went along this journey with you. Everyone over uses that
- 10:50Speaker 4: word all the time, but I can't think of another
- 10:52Speaker 4: way to describe people who really spent those It was
- 10:55Speaker 4: eight sees and seventies and eighties right with your reality show,
- 10:59Speaker 4: and they saw you go through so much.
- 11:01Speaker 3: You mentioned infertility.
- 11:02Speaker 4: Obviously, you and I Julian I have talked about breast
- 11:04Speaker 4: cancer and your fertility journey actually is what brought you
- 11:07Speaker 4: and showed you that you actually had breast cancer. So
- 11:10Speaker 4: there's a whole incredible story and lesson to be learned
- 11:13Speaker 4: from that. But people went along with you, and they
- 11:16Speaker 4: watched you and they were rooting for you and saw
- 11:19Speaker 4: you all go into business together and all of these things.
- 11:23Speaker 4: For folks who are tuning in now to the podcast
- 11:26Speaker 4: you've mentioned you've changed. Are who are they going to
- 11:29Speaker 4: meet now versus who you were ten years ago or
- 11:32Speaker 4: twelve years ago when your show ended.
- 11:34Speaker 5: That's a good question.
- 11:36Speaker 7: I mean, I think we're a little bit wiser, you know.
- 11:38Speaker 7: I think that comes with age. I think you've you
- 11:40Speaker 7: turn the as the older you get, the more you
- 11:42Speaker 7: turn the volume on the down on the things that
- 11:44Speaker 7: don't matter, Especially when you go through cancer scare or
- 11:48Speaker 7: things like that, you realize what's really important in life
- 11:50Speaker 7: and what's not.
- 11:51Speaker 5: I don't think, yeah, I think so, you know.
- 11:53Speaker 6: I honestly, I think a lot of it is just
- 11:55Speaker 6: a more confident version of ourselves. I think, you know,
- 11:58Speaker 6: every decade of life you discover something new about yourself.
- 12:02Speaker 6: Like when I look back at when I was in
- 12:04Speaker 6: my thirties, I looked back at my twenties and thought,
- 12:06Speaker 6: oh my gosh, I'm so different now, I'm so much
- 12:09Speaker 6: more confident, mature. But then as you get older, you
- 12:12Speaker 6: really do get so much more confidence. And so I
- 12:15Speaker 6: think for us, I don't know, I'm like very proud.
- 12:19Speaker 5: Of what we've done in our lives.
- 12:21Speaker 6: I'm proud of the people we are, you know, and
- 12:25Speaker 6: so I love just being able to share information and
- 12:28Speaker 6: I'm very comfortable talking about my life, you know. So
- 12:31Speaker 6: I think that I think that's what will show more
- 12:35Speaker 6: than anything. And also another thing you were touching on
- 12:37Speaker 6: this before, Amy, I think also you know a lot
- 12:41Speaker 6: of people know us or let's say no me from
- 12:43Speaker 6: twenty years of doing the entertainment right, A lot of
- 12:46Speaker 6: that was scripted, right, So like E News, a lot
- 12:49Speaker 6: of it was on scripts, reading prompt or reading prompter.
- 12:51Speaker 6: Even my questions prepared on the red carpet. There was
- 12:54Speaker 6: definitely a lot of ad living going on. But there's
- 12:57Speaker 6: always like a level of being prepared on these shows.
- 13:02Speaker 6: But a podcast is very different. I think people are
- 13:06Speaker 6: like hearing our personalities and seeing our persons more than
- 13:09Speaker 6: we've ever shown. I guess if you, you know, can say,
- 13:12Speaker 6: don't you think they'll especially you.
- 13:14Speaker 7: I'm telling you, I don't mean, I don't mean to laugh,
- 13:17Speaker 7: but I see that refrigerator there. I got served an
- 13:20Speaker 7: ad yesterday for Factor food Delivery. Nice from my buddies.
- 13:25Speaker 7: My buddy Sheldon sires A retired NHL guy, but his
- 13:28Speaker 7: wife was pitching the food delivery and I'm about.
- 13:31Speaker 2: To order it.
- 13:32Speaker 7: That's already here in your studio.
- 13:35Speaker 3: You have it in your student I don't mean to
- 13:39Speaker 3: change the subject.
- 13:40Speaker 5: I didn't even know why he sent it to me,
- 13:41Speaker 5: Like why do I know that name? Like, yeah, I'm
- 13:43Speaker 5: about to order that.
- 13:44Speaker 7: Because I want to eat healthier and this is going
- 13:46Speaker 7: to deliver food.
- 13:47Speaker 6: Sent me our friends, well our friend Tessa's post. I
- 13:51Speaker 6: thought you were just saying like, oh, look what they're
- 13:52Speaker 6: up to.
- 13:53Speaker 2: No, no, no, I'm about to buy it.
- 13:55Speaker 7: She convinced me that guys get the weekly They deliver
- 13:57Speaker 7: food your house every week, helping bring advertisers to the show.
- 14:01Speaker 1: Here, guys, I hate that we don't have a product
- 14:07Speaker 1: like anything pure life.
- 14:11Speaker 7: Well even my son, like he wore me down and
- 14:13Speaker 7: wore me down about buying a car, and I couldn't
- 14:17Speaker 7: take it. I bought a car and I literally woke
- 14:20Speaker 7: up the next morning, I said, what the hell did
- 14:22Speaker 7: I just do this? Thirteen year old just beat he
- 14:25Speaker 7: just just I mean, did a PowerPoint presentation to me.
- 14:30Speaker 2: And he's not driving it.
- 14:31Speaker 7: He's thirteen. He talked to you and buying he's thirteen,
- 14:34Speaker 7: and I did. And I literally woke up the next
- 14:36Speaker 7: morning with like buyer's remorse.
- 14:38Speaker 2: Like what what car? I need to know about?
- 14:40Speaker 7: I didn't even want to say I didn't, but I
- 14:42Speaker 7: sold it. I sold them and I sold the How
- 14:45Speaker 7: long did you have it? I had it for six
- 14:46Speaker 7: months and then we I'm like, it's going away for
- 14:49Speaker 7: the winter. I told them, and I put it in
- 14:51Speaker 7: storage for the winter, and then they sold.
- 14:52Speaker 5: It's a sports car.
- 14:55Speaker 3: I love it, but we do not judge on that.
- 14:57Speaker 3: I have my pie in the sky car that I
- 14:59Speaker 3: want to what is it?
- 15:00Speaker 2: We're not going to tell you.
- 15:02Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we can play this game.
- 15:07Speaker 4: Hear more of our conversation in our next episode on
- 15:11Speaker 4: the Feed. Part two of our sit down with Bill
- 15:13Speaker 4: and Juliana Ransick should be posting right after this episode,
- 15:17Speaker 4: and in it you're going to hear the Ransicks describe
- 15:19Speaker 4: their marriage today after being in the spotlight for the
- 15:22Speaker 4: past two decades. In the meantime, thank you so much
- 15:25Speaker 4: for listening on behalf of TJ.
- 15:28Speaker 5: Holmes.
- 15:28Speaker 3: I'm Amy Robot. We will talk to you soon.