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Lucy DeVito on Growing Up with Danny DeVito, Hollywood & Finding Her Own Path · Inside The Moms Club

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  Speaker 1: Working with my dad on the play was incredible because
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  Speaker 1: that was just an experience of a lifetime being on
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  Speaker 1: Broadway playing father and daughter. I found out I was
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  Speaker 1: pregnant while doing that play and told him told him
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  Speaker 1: in between shows.
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  Speaker 2: To welcome to Inside the Mom's Club. I'm your host,
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  Speaker 2: Monica Samuels, and I'm here with my very dear friend,
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  Speaker 2: Julie Orchid. Okay, we're very excited today because our guest
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  Speaker 2: is an actress, producer and mom. Yes, she is the
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  Speaker 2: daughter of Danny DeVito and Ria Pearlman. In her career
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  Speaker 2: thus far, she's worked extensively in film, television, and on stage,
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  Speaker 2: and she runs the production company with her dad and
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  Speaker 2: her brother, Jersey film Second Avenue, a recently premiered world
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  Speaker 2: premiere here in Austin. I know, I'm so Southwest, a
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  Speaker 2: film called Drag, which sounds exciting. Please welcome to the
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  Speaker 2: Mom's Club.
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  Speaker 3: Lucy DeVito.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome, Lucy, Hey, Lucy, Hi, We're great. Thank you so
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  Speaker 2: much for joining us. This is so much fun and
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  Speaker 2: so exciting, and we're looking forward to learning a lot
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  Speaker 2: about you and your career and your family, and so
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  Speaker 2: let's just jump right into it. So Julie alluded to it.
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  Speaker 2: You have two famous parents. I mean some people have
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  Speaker 2: one famous parent. Both your parents are famous, So tell
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  Speaker 2: us what that asks like growing up in Los Angeles
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  Speaker 2: with two famous parents.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, I think it was unusual, but we
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  Speaker 1: are very like very close knit family luckily, and I
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  Speaker 1: think that I don't know. My my parents were famous
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  Speaker 1: but always very down to earth, and we I felt
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  Speaker 1: like a normal I had a very normal upbringing, I
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  Speaker 1: would say, but people knew who we were, so so
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  Speaker 1: I was never like very anonymous going into schools, going
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  Speaker 1: into camps, which sometimes was hard, you know, getting that attention,
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  Speaker 1: uh and and butt then also fun, you know, getting
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  Speaker 1: the attention. Just some days you want it, some days
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  Speaker 1: you don't. Uh uh. But my parents were were amazing,
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  Speaker 1: and I grew up like on sets, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: cheers a lot, the cheer set and my mom had
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  Speaker 1: a there was like a daycare there, and uh we
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  Speaker 1: would always go visit my parents on on you know,
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  Speaker 1: on the lots.
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  Speaker 3: Ye get all the good snacks, good food like that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, that was the best part I was
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  Speaker 1: getting then, I bet. Well, yeah, I didn't care about
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  Speaker 1: seeing any of the celebrities or anything. I just wanted
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  Speaker 1: the craft services.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that sounds wonderful.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I've heard.
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  Speaker 2: So what was so you said you going to school
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  Speaker 2: in camp and doing all of that. Were you around
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  Speaker 2: other families, kids of celebrities? I mean, was that customary
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  Speaker 2: for you where you were in school or were you
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  Speaker 2: was that unusual? Like you stood out because of who
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  Speaker 2: your parents were. Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I think I think that it is usual, but it wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: There was no one else in my class who was
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  Speaker 1: like that, so it did. I think I did stand
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  Speaker 1: out at times or people knew who I was without
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  Speaker 1: knowing who I was.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, Now you have a brother and a sister, correct.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Yes, I have a sister who's two years younger
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  Speaker 1: than me, Gracie, and a brother who's two years younger
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  Speaker 1: than her, Jake. And we're all very close to which
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  Speaker 1: was which was awesome growing up with very close siblings
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  Speaker 1: all going through like the same experience. Uh. And we
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  Speaker 1: all went to the same school too.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So, and the school I went to was very very great.
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  Speaker 1: It was great and we Uh, I didn't feel uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 1: I just going into a new situation. Usually people knew
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  Speaker 1: who who I was before I knew who they were.
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  Speaker 3: Right, yeah, right, yeah exactly. So does that mean that
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  Speaker 3: you would define working with your dad and your brother
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  Speaker 3: and acting with your dad in the recent play easy
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  Speaker 3: or would you describe it, you know, because I know
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  Speaker 3: if I worked with my brother, yeah, there would probably
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  Speaker 3: be yeah, some good times, some bad times. I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: in between definitely, but.
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  Speaker 1: We have a shorthand we uh there's no filter, which
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  Speaker 1: you know, creates for sometimes tension but also pretty uh
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  Speaker 1: like getting straight to the point and productivity. Uh. Working
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  Speaker 1: with my dad on the play was incredible because that
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  Speaker 1: was just an experience of a lifetime being on Broadway
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  Speaker 1: playing father and daughter. I I found out I was
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  Speaker 1: pregnant while doing that and told him. I told him
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  Speaker 1: in between shows one Saturday. And I know, I know.
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  Speaker 1: Uh so it made for made for a rich Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but it was. It was really It was a beautiful play,
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  Speaker 1: very heartfelt and funny, so it was very appropriate for
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  Speaker 1: our relationship. We really bonded and I learned a lot
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  Speaker 1: from him too. Being acting opposite him every day was
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  Speaker 1: such a gift, and I don't think many people get that.
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  Speaker 1: So I was just very much aware of how special
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  Speaker 1: it was. While it was happening and we had a
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  Speaker 1: great time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was one of my questions. I was like,
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  Speaker 3: what was it like A obviously you answered that about
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  Speaker 3: working with your dad, but because I don't know that
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  Speaker 3: we can imagine that, you know, because you're the child
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  Speaker 3: when you also played the child. But the other thing
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  Speaker 3: is is like, what is it like to talk about
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  Speaker 3: a subject that affects so many people in America? From
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  Speaker 3: the play?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah you mean hoarding? Yes, yeah, yeah, it's it's interesting. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The play was about a man who was an obsessive
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  Speaker 1: hoarder and was getting kicked out his house, and I
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  Speaker 1: played his daughter. And it's interesting because it, uh, it
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  Speaker 1: is a real illness and also there's a spectrum of it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I was a room. I felt like I
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  Speaker 1: had similarities in a lot of ways. I think that
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  Speaker 1: there was we can relate, and I think everyone kind
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  Speaker 1: of knows a lot of people came up to me
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  Speaker 1: afterwards and said, this is my aunt, I know, my
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  Speaker 1: best friend, is this the everyone someone knew, someone who
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  Speaker 1: just collected stuff, and and I think it was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: pretty relatable to a lot of people. And uh, it
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  Speaker 1: really made me think about the things I surround myself
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  Speaker 1: with what I choose to eat, what I choose to
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  Speaker 1: get rid of, and or what I you know, what
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  Speaker 1: I choose to buy. And I still sure remind myself
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  Speaker 1: sometimes that it's okay to get rid of stuff. I'm
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  Speaker 1: I like to hang on to things because it sparks memory,
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  Speaker 1: and but also having like getting rid of clutter is
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  Speaker 1: so great for my mental health and seeing cleanliness and
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  Speaker 1: all of that. So it's it's both.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I've been told it's free, and I can't
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  Speaker 3: say that.
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  Speaker 2: It's well, you know, we all, I think to some degree.
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  Speaker 2: There's very few of us that don't do that to
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  Speaker 2: some degree. So I know, at one point my husband
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  Speaker 2: told me, oh, Monica, you're a hoarder. I'm like, well,
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  Speaker 2: well let me check. So I started watching that show
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  Speaker 2: Hoarders to compare myself, like, well, I'm not that bad.
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  Speaker 2: Well you got to be pretty bad to make that show.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, but yeah, it's it does teach you something.
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  Speaker 2: Like over the weekend, we got some invitation to this
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  Speaker 2: thing that we went to and it was in this
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  Speaker 2: fancy box and Mark said, do you want to keep that? Like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to keep that because why am I
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  Speaker 2: keeping that for my museum somedays. So yeah, no, that's
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  Speaker 2: that's yeah. I'm glad the good subject for you all
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  Speaker 2: to tackle.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought it was really interesting.
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  Speaker 2: So what made you decide? You know, your family's in acting,
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  Speaker 2: but did you ever consider doing anything else in your
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  Speaker 2: career or were you just always you know, you had
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  Speaker 2: the genes and the talent and the motivation, and I.
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  Speaker 1: Was always drawn to acting or something in the arts.
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  Speaker 1: I was. I started I started acting in school, in
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  Speaker 1: middle school, you know, and I but my parents were
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  Speaker 1: very they didn't want me to be like a child actor.
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  Speaker 1: So I applied myself in school and went to Liberal
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  Speaker 1: Arts College and took classes and you know, archaeology and
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  Speaker 1: what I studied Italian and I just felt that the
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  Speaker 1: theater brought me joy and it was it's it's like
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  Speaker 1: maybe in blood my blood a little uh. I grew up,
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  Speaker 1: you know, watching so many movies, going to see the
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  Speaker 1: whenever we went to New York. We I grew up
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  Speaker 1: primarily in Los Angeles, but we went to New York
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  Speaker 1: and the East Coast a lot because my dad's family
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  Speaker 1: was there, so I was there. I was there in
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  Speaker 1: New York a lot, and every single time we went,
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  Speaker 1: we would just see play after play after play, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's it was just always part of topic of conversation.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, you know, my brother is a producer and
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  Speaker 1: my sister is a visual artist, but she also writes
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  Speaker 1: and does does performance art. My parents were really supportive
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  Speaker 1: of us following our artistic goals. And uh, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what else I would have been. I I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I really don't.
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  Speaker 2: So you never considered orthodontis or anything like, Oh.
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  Speaker 1: I never really did well in biology.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I hear you. I I once thought i'd
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  Speaker 2: be a dermatologist until in biology they told me how
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  Speaker 2: to prick my finger in the side of blood.
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  Speaker 3: That's the end of that.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I went to law school.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah I was.
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  Speaker 2: I could not Yeah, I could not do that. What's so,
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  Speaker 2: what's your favorite thing to do? I once asked Paul Sorvino,
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  Speaker 2: who actually was He was an actor and artist, a sculptor,
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  Speaker 2: like he actually said sculpting was his favorite thing of
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  Speaker 2: everything he did. What what do you enjoy the most?
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  Speaker 2: Because you're a producer, you're you, you do plays, you
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  Speaker 2: do film. What what do you think you enjoy the most?
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  Speaker 2: Or is it all just so interesting and different.
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  Speaker 1: It's it is interesting and different. I think that I'm
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  Speaker 1: more drawn to the performance side of things. That brings
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  Speaker 1: me the most joy being in rehearsal, being in ste age,
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  Speaker 1: or being on a set and being in the thick
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  Speaker 1: of it, working with collaborating with other people, figuring out
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  Speaker 1: what a scene is, trying different things, ah, and relating
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  Speaker 1: to people in that in that way, I think, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: but producing is very satisfying when you find a great
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  Speaker 1: story and you find a great filmmaker or a great
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  Speaker 1: writer and can support those people making, you know, to
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  Speaker 1: make their put their thing on the on the screen
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  Speaker 1: or the state.
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  Speaker 3: I think that that's a really good tell us about
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  Speaker 3: drag tell us about the premiere that happened in Austin.
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  Speaker 2: In our hometown.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, it was amazing. It's a uh it's a
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  Speaker 1: pretty dark comedy thriller ish horror ish so uh. We
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  Speaker 1: were really excited to see it in uh in a
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  Speaker 1: theater with an audience to see what the reaction was.
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  Speaker 1: It's a very uh. There's some moments that are pretty cringey. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: some some uh. There was there was great vocal response,
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  Speaker 1: I would say, and that was really exciting to to see. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: yeah it was and uh yeah the whole cast came
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  Speaker 1: out and we we had dinners, we we celebrated. It
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  Speaker 1: was great and uh it was it was like I
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  Speaker 1: felt very I felt very proud of the project. My
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  Speaker 1: uh the writer directors are friends of mine, and uh
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  Speaker 1: we sort of we just put it together and made
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  Speaker 1: it very quickly and got him out there very quickly.
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  Speaker 1: And it felt feels really good to have accomplished something
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  Speaker 1: like that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that is great.
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  Speaker 2: Be it south by Southwest to be Yeah, one of
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  Speaker 2: the film screen there is. I hope you got to
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  Speaker 2: enjoy all of Austin that you came home with a
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  Speaker 2: great pair of cowboy boots, because.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I didn't. I didn't, but my husband did. He
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  Speaker 1: got some some some nice kicks. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's part of it.
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  Speaker 2: That's part of the deal.
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  Speaker 3: B you can represent exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so your dad and that was your production.
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  Speaker 3: Oh go ahead ahead.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, I'm saying I put on cowboy boots, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I'm in a costume or something.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well you got to try them because actually I'm
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  Speaker 2: wearing summer right now. They're very comfortable. That's what's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Thing litle amazing thing as we say here. Yeah. No, Well,
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad you had fun. I hope you come back
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  Speaker 2: sometime hopefully. Another South By South was with your next
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  Speaker 2: big film that you're going.
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  Speaker 3: To do this love to Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So this was produced by your your all's production company.
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  Speaker 2: So you work with your dad, your brother and you.
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  Speaker 2: So what's it like to be the the woman in
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  Speaker 2: that in a production company? Because do you feel like,
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  Speaker 2: is there what's the balance there is it? Did they
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  Speaker 2: listen to you respectfully or do you lead the charge
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  Speaker 2: or what's does that?
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  Speaker 1: Of course they do, Yeah, we are. We're all pretty equal,
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  Speaker 1: equal voices in it. I think, Uh it's great to
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  Speaker 1: have my perspective being a woman. Uh. And but they're
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  Speaker 1: they're they're pretty, they're sensitive people and uh they understand
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  Speaker 1: you know, they're very they're deep thinkers.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I think that we we all contribute. I Uh, I
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  Speaker 1: will definitely put in my two cents and or tell
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  Speaker 1: them you know you're wrong if I if if the
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  Speaker 1: if it calls for something like that. It's been interesting
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  Speaker 1: and having a kid working and doing that because because
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  Speaker 1: I feel like he's also my project, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: and I want to I want to create the space
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  Speaker 1: for for both things, and and Jake and my dad
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  Speaker 1: have been very supportive of that, which has been so nice.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's really that's great to hear. I love I
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  Speaker 3: love knowing that, you know, and that it can take
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of the demand off a little bit
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  Speaker 3: for you to be in the motherhood role. But I
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  Speaker 3: have a question about that because we've talked a little
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  Speaker 3: bit about, you know, you're the Broadway play and also
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  Speaker 3: you doing films. What has gobsmacked you about being on
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  Speaker 3: New mom Like?
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Like what's that one thing? Like? You know, Monica
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  Speaker 3: she has two boys. I have two girls. But I
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  Speaker 3: can just veer. I mean, I can remember back to
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  Speaker 3: a couple tender moments that I was like, oh, this
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  Speaker 3: is so good.
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  Speaker 1: Mmm gosh, there's so many.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, is it a sweaty little head right here
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  Speaker 3: or is it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: It was last night. I was putting him to bed
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  Speaker 1: and he he says, you know, he says, cuddle, cuddle,
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  Speaker 1: And I now he's he used to fit right here. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and now he sits on my lap and his head's
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  Speaker 1: up here and and I and I sniff it, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: I just I I it, you know, it's yeah, just
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  Speaker 1: every phase has been so incredible and rich. Yeah, saying
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  Speaker 1: I am amazed at how I will. I will do
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  Speaker 1: anything for him and I I would go to the
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  Speaker 1: ends of the earth for him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And that someone described being a mother to me, which
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  Speaker 1: I relate to, is that I love him so much
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  Speaker 1: I could scream.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like a ferocity in it. Yeah, the amount
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  Speaker 1: of love I feel for him, that's amazing.
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  Speaker 3: I love that you share that. My children are twenty
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  Speaker 3: three and nineteen, and they're both girls, and I was
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  Speaker 3: picking one up at the airport the other day and
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  Speaker 3: I do this to both of them. She's like, I
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  Speaker 3: was like, I can't wait to nuzzle my nose into
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  Speaker 3: those curls. And she goes and I was like, one
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  Speaker 3: day you'll understand. She goes, well, it's weird. And I
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  Speaker 3: hope that one day I do understand, because I have
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: had I'm understanding it. But I know what you mean
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  Speaker 3: by that, and I just wanted to know what, like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, lit you up.
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  Speaker 2: That's the heart of the mom. Now there's also challenges too,
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  Speaker 2: as we know all through going through how he's too
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  Speaker 2: now hold is he now?
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  Speaker 1: He's going to be two in July.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well we're we're experienced moms here, so if you
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  Speaker 2: have any questions here for the moms Club, we've been
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  Speaker 2: We've been known to pine occasionally to help you through
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  Speaker 2: we you had to go through the whole sleep deprivation
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  Speaker 2: part by yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Oh god, yeah, I uh yeah. The thing that I'm
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  Speaker 1: most anxious about coming up is he's going to start preschool,
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  Speaker 1: so I I am already crying. Yeah, uh, And I
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  Speaker 1: just I want him to to be happy. So it's
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  Speaker 1: and I'm excited for him and nervous and all of
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  Speaker 1: the things and don't want to let him go, and
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  Speaker 1: also want him to just be independent, you know, learn
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  Speaker 1: his independence, learn to be social and all of that.
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  Speaker 2: So have you ever thought we talked earlier about having
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  Speaker 2: famous parents, have you ever thought about for him what
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  Speaker 2: it's like to be raised with famous grandparents and a
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  Speaker 2: famous mom? And then have you thought about like do
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  Speaker 2: you try to keep him very private or what's your
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  Speaker 2: Do you have a plan for that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, I wouldn't want to. I don't. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to like post about him or anything. When I
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  Speaker 1: was growing up that was I'm I'm very lucky. I
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  Speaker 1: think that Uh, there wasn't social media when I was
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  Speaker 1: growing up because if if we ever got photographed, I
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  Speaker 1: felt I really hated it. As a kid, I hated being,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: you know, scene with my parents in it. It didn't
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: happen all the time, but once in a while it
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: would show up, like in a People magazine or something
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: like that, and I just felt like it was an
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: a bit intrusive, uh being being the self conscious kid
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: growing up that didn't I didn't want eyes on me
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: in that way. Uh So I think that, But at
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: the same time, the landscape has changed where there are
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: way more famous people now or people in who could
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: be recognized, I think because of social media, because of
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: a different kind.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Of like influencer ors and things.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, being online. I mean even you guys having a
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: podcast and you know you, it's like there's there's different,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: uh methods of putting yourself out there. Whereas I think,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: you know, my when my parents were on Cheers and Taxi,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: there were like three or four channels to watch, so
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: that meant people anyone who had a TV, like a
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: third of those people were watching them. And uh so
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: they were the height of when they were in the
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: height of their fame, it was, it was, it was,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: it was pretty big. I would say, uh, many people
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: knew who they were, and uh I think that, Uh yeah,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: I haven't really thought about how he's going to navigate that,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: but I think having navigated it myself, I can be
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: helpful and you know, respectful of what hit what he
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: wants when he's able to tell me what he wants.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: But until he's able to tell me what he wants,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: I'm going to.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: So far it's just a cuddle. But as vocabulary increases,
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: he will share more.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yes, exactly.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: So. Now, as a as a working mom and as
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: a mom, what do you have advice to share with
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: other moms in the situation, you know, working and with
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: small children, what would you what advice would you give them?
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: I don't know I need the advice.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Well, ladies out there, if you have advice, please d
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: m us and we will share it with her. We're
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: all in this together.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Yes, that's that's wonderful. I mean, I I do think
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: that part of it is taking advantage of the friendships
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: I have and the people in my life who are
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: experienced and have been through this before and have advice
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: and you know, have compassion for what it's like, because
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: I think before I was a mom, I could I
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: could intellectualize and and think about what it would be like.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: But the experience of it is just a very it's
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: it's just different than I could imagine.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: That's why we have the Mom's Club because we Julie
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: and I became friends because our children went to school together,
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: and so we made friends with a group of moms
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: and we could support each other. So you're right, we could.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: We can empathize with each other's situation in ways that
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: other people in our lives couldn't, and so that's what
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: made it so wonderful. So do you have are you now?
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: He's not in I guess when you get to preschool
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: is when you're gonna meet other moms. But do you
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: have a group of moms right now?
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: She's about to be at a whole bunch of best
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you're.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: All new friends are just waiting for the other. But
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: do you have a circle now that can that that
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: support you?
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, I have my my core group of friends
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: who I knew before I was I haven't. I've met
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: a few. I've made a few new friends, I would
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: say through Carmine, But uh, I would say, I still
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: rely heavily on my you know, the OG's, and luckily
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: I have I have. I have amazing friends who most
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: a lot of them have been through this already, have
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: had kids or have kids are having kids. So I
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: feel really lucky to have.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, your whole world is about to explode. I have
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: my twenty three year old is wants to be an actress,
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: lives in La You know, it can be a little
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: bit lonely in this big city where it takes you
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: an hour to get anywhere to meet someone or do something,
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: so it limits you. But I told her, I was like,
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: you haven't even begun to meet the people who are
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: gonna probably love you the most in your life. I mean,
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: you'll always have the ogs. But when you start to
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: meet moms with kids, and yeah, you really start to bond.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: So I'm excited for you.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, me too, thank you. Yeah, and who knows
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: you might be the team mom, and the soccer team,
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: the baseball team. You've got a whole bunch of fun
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: experiences waiting for you right there.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: So well, see, I'm just never very sporty, but Carmine,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: he loves to throw a ball.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Well then you'll adapt. Trust me. I wasn't either, but
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: I became. I use my legal skills to become the
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: team mom and the baseball lord.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: Did she ever?
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: I sure did, writing a screenplay about it. Actually, Well,
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: we have a group of moms out there, our zoomer moms,
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: and they have questions for you. So welcome zoomer moms.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Mom's Club. Ladies. Let me introduce each
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: one of you. Tell us a little bit about yourself,
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: and do you have a question for Lucy Britney. Welcome
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: to the Mom's Club.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Hey, y'all, Hey.
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: Bringing a little textas a little y'all to thee love it.
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: My name is Brittany Washington. I am in marketing and
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: advertising here in Dallas, Texas. Just moved here three years
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: ago from California, the La lifestyle. So I am very
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: very well aware of something you have brought up earlier
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: about bringing up, you know, being raised by someone in
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: the entertainment industry like myself. I have been, so I
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: I know kind of like how it feels sometimes of
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: like trying to separate yourself and make yourself your own
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: and your and bring and stand out on your own.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: And so my main question to you, and I this
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: is going to be more on the marketing advertising side,
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: because I have been watching a little bit of I'm
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: getting more into acting to myself, want to get into acting,
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: follow my dad's trails a little bit. And but I'm
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: I'm all about marketing because I'm a millennial. I'm all
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: about social media and I'm all about advertising. You mentioned
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: something earlier about social media and how I obviously you
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: know then with your father and and and in that timeframe,
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: obviously the media wasn't as big and and someone as
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: in marketing. That made me curious with your show drag.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, it's a.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: Show right drag into film.
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: Thank you for correcting me.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: That's a drag.
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  Speaker 5: How are you and your team approaching promotion and outreach
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: and what roles do you actually see how social media
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: can play a role with that, with the fact that
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: it is one of the biggest media.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Outlets today, and what's like.
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: Your ultimate goal for the film as well?
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Well? We are hoping to release it in theaters, which
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: I think we're going to be able to And I
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: I could probably use your advice because I'm actually not
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: that that savvy in the social media world. I'm not
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: on TikTok. I'm on Instagram, but I barely post. I
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: should do it more and I think that, but that's
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: the way that people get their in for and so
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: it's very important that we are active on you know,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: on those platforms. On YouTube, is that.
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: Every conversation when you create, is that a conversation and
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: is someone actively you know, implement And I'm asking that
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: because heines. I don't know if you've heard, but TikTok
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: is now doing their own media with doing shorts, short
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: media's and with social media, I feel that, you know,
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: it's a great opportunity because that is the number one
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: platform like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok are the number one platforms.
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: And with the algorithm. I just heard her girl yesterday,
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: who's a new country singer out here, and she just
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: said that she said she literally with she'll take snippets
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: of her songs and she puts it on rotation five
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: hundred times a day.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: And people ask her.
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: Don't you think that's annoying, but she said no, because
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: everywhere the algorithm catches. So I'm just just curious on
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: the movie side of you know, like yourself getting into
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: that area what's the goal with with drag You know,
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: what is it? Because we know that it plays such
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: a big part.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, Well, we are going to have someone in
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: charge of marketing and when it when it gets released,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: their goal is for it to for people to actually
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: go to the theater and see it, so which is
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: hard nowadays because people don't go to the movies as
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: as much. Uh, but I think the goal would be
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: too uh entice people to who I mean, it's and
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: it's a genre movie, so we're probably going to target
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: the people who like that genre and entice them to
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: come out to the theater and have the experience. So
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: the idea is just for people to see the movie.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: I want people to see the movie and and have
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: a good time watching it. I think that, uh, it's
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: it's going to it's an experience watching the movie, and
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: I think that the more people together watching it, the
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: more fun it could be. So I hope, I hope
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: that we can get butts and seats.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: I'm in trading for sure, horror and a comedy at
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: the same time.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: It is interesting.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Hannah, welcome to the Mom's Club. Tell us a
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: little bit about yourself and do you have a question
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: for Lucy and hello ladies.
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: I'm Hannah. I am in southern California. I own my
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: own marketing and branding agency, so it's very much a
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: marketing and branding day. I work in entertainment, in sports,
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: and you know, not only you know. I think one
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: of the most amazing things that you have, Lucy is
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: the gift of legacy that you're building for your your
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: whole family. How do you how do you balance that?
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: Because in hearing it, you've got such an amazing career
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: that you're moving forward with the film and the production side,
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: but you also have I just can hear the love
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: in your your your voice on the legacy that your
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: parents have brought. And it's not even about celebrity or stardom.
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: It's just all of the pull up moments from finding
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: the donuts on the set, you know, as a kid,
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: not not caring about who the who the people are
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: that are around you. It's just having that childlike moment.
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: How do you how are you creating and do you
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: have that sort of are you walking towards a legacy
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: in a purpose fuiled way from both the business side
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: and just those experiential you know, those those fun child
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: moments that that you had that you're now passing down
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: to your child.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah. To be honest, I've never really thought about it
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: legacy wise, but I now that you say it, I
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: do you think it's going to be? It's cool, uh
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: that you know we're keeping it in the family business.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: I Uh, I feel I feel lucky that I can
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: do that, and I feel that the reason I'm doing
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: it is because I love those little moments, those the
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: experiences that I've had and uh, my my parents were
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: just amazing role models and taught me so much about
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: about the craft, about acting, but also about being a
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: parent and uh, caring for your family as well as
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: caring for your career. So I hope, I hope that
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: I can I can accomplish that as well.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, very cool.
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: And I know that when and like every parent has
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: a moment where they just don't expect something right and
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: that they learn from it. What's been the funniest Because
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: you come from a very funny family, what's what the
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: funniest thing that you've learned as being a mother?
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: The funniest thing is, I don't know. I think that
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: he surprises me in the way that he repeats what
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: I say now I will be I don't know what
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: was the word I used. I was talking to my
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: husband and I said something symbolizes and I just heard
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: him go symbolizes, and I was I was like, that's
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: coming out of your mouth? Do you What is What
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: is amazing is that What is funny to me is
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: to hear a little, tiny human pick up on what
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: I would call more adult language and it's it's adorable
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: and really very funny.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: I wish I was saying symbol license instead of the
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: he's very smart if it's not yet too.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: Janine, welcome to the Mom's Club. Tell us a little
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: bit about yourself and do you have a question for Lucy.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: Hi.
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: I am Janine and I live in Austin, Texas, so
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: there's several of us here and I'm the mother of
• 35:32
  Speaker 6: two beautiful daughters. I am a former elementary teacher now
• 35:38
  Speaker 6: in my third post teaching career and it really enjoyed
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: being on today, so thank you for that. I do
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: have a question going back to your experience working on stage.
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: Is it my understanding that you may have at some
• 35:59
  Speaker 6: point or maybe you do now stay connected with the
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: ensemble studios, theater are you familiar.
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: With what I'm talking?
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: So I was learning a bit about that group and
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: there's so many people that have notoriety and you're in
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: the column there, so is your dad. And I was wondering,
• 36:22
  Speaker 6: since this is a nonprofit based membership into the theater,
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: or if you could share a little about about what
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: that is and what impact it's had on you and
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: maybe how others within that theater group have impacted you.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, thank you for that question. The Ensemble Studio
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Theater is a nonprofit theater in New York and it's
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: been around since I think the sixties. I came upon
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: it because sort of randomly, I was cast in one
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: of their main stage productions. It was my first professional
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: theater job. It's where I got my equity card, and
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: it became a home for me. I was, you know,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: I was twenty two and trying to figure out what
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: who I was as an actor and who my people were.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: And they Ensemble Studio Theater really supports young voices and
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: emerging talent. So I started to go. I came around
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: a lot and they did a lot of development of
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: plays and it taught me. It taught me what workshopping
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: was taught me, you know, the sense of like theater community.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: And I am still very close with a lot of
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: the people I met there, and a lot of those
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: people have gone on to do amazing things. And yeah,
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: I feel like it was a really important place for me,
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: and I'm deeply grateful for all the experiences I've had there.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: I think that like as a as an actor, it
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: can it can be lonely or isolating as you are
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: trying to get out there and you know, a lot
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: of the time you get rejected. And to have a
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: sense a place that you feel like you can go to,
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: you can see people, you know, you can watch other
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: work and get advice because there's everyone else here is
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: going through the same thing. To have that is just
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: so wonderful. Uh. And and theater to me, uh brings
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: that sort of community, uh, which is why I love
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: it so much. Uh. And I'm I'm I'm always you know,
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: I'm always following them. Uh. They're always doing new stuff
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: and and great amazing playwrights and and actors are coming
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: out of there, uh, you know, every year. So it's
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: a it's like a hub of wonderful people. And I
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: would I would go back there. That's the other thing
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: is that they they support a lot of young voices,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: but they also are a place for very seasoned actors
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: and writers and people who have been there since, who've
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: been members since the sixties still come back there, and
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: so there's a wide range of ages of people and
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: experiences that you can connect with, which I think is
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: also really important to feel like you have you can
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: hear the experiences of an older generation and learn from them.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's great. Well, thank you. Thank you to all
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: your zuber moms for joining us today. They've all asked
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: wonderful questions. As always, if you want to be a
• 40:25
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• 40:28
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• 40:35
  Speaker 2: be like these lovely ladies today who joined us. Thank
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: you Lucy so much for being on this show. It's
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: been really wonderful. Tell us where can our audience find
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: you on TV? What's your next project?
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: What are you?
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: What are what do we look for?
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Well, look for drag that's gonna I think it's gonna
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: come out probably in uh the fall, okay, so look
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: for that. And yeah, I'm on Instagram. You can follow me.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: I don't post a lot, but you know, I appreciate
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: the follow and I'm currently just trying to drum up
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: more stuff. So hopefully you'll be seeing more of me
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: and as a producer and an actor.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: Wonderful, well you will. Well, definitely check out what Lucy's
• 41:25
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  Speaker 2: times it goes by so fast and and you learn
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  Speaker 2: a less. Yeah, they're all wonderful and it's like moms
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: at all stages of their momhood and it's always very cool. Well,
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: let's remind our audience what our motto is because is
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: extremely important. I feel that more this week than ever.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: Trust me, ladies, I'm living it right now. It is
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: If you don't laugh, sometimes you.
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: Are going to cry.
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: Don't cry, Ladies, laugh, have a great time and we'll
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: see you next time inside the Mom's Club.