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Candice Guardino On Italian Family Chaos, Turning Life Into Comedy, One Woman Shows, and Finding Her Voice · Cats & Pudding with Jennifer Dilandro

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  Speaker 1: Ged ready Staaten Island.
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  Speaker 1: Visit Fairyhawks dot com now to log in your seats.
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  Speaker 1: This is the Cats in Footing Podcast, a melting pot
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  Speaker 1: of footing. And now here's Jen.
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  Speaker 3: Good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to this week's episode of
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  Speaker 3: Kats and Pudding and today. Oh my god, I have
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  Speaker 3: such a great guest. I love her. I love her podcasts.
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  Speaker 3: She has a new special coming out soon and I'm
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  Speaker 3: so excited that she's here to talk about it. Miss
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  Speaker 3: Candas Gordina is saying it right. I'm always Sordino.
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  Speaker 4: I said it right now, you said it, kidding me.
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  Speaker 4: I love it. I like what you say it.
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  Speaker 3: Cordino, just put the hand in I have to put
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  Speaker 3: the hands in it because we're Italian, of course, are
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  Speaker 3: you all Italian?
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  Speaker 4: I am one hundred percent Italian? What type of Italian? Well,
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  Speaker 4: I'm Sicilian and Nomali done me too, So.
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  Speaker 3: We could break your w ankles and keep you a
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  Speaker 3: nice exactly, play the food, right.
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  Speaker 4: We smile and stabut We're very good. We got the
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  Speaker 4: best of both worlds. True. Oh my god, I love
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  Speaker 4: how that you hear a person. So I thank you,
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  Speaker 4: thank you for having me. This is so fun. Well,
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  Speaker 4: I'm glad you hear. So tell us, tell us how
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  Speaker 4: this all got started?
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  Speaker 5: Oh gosh, absolutely, Well, I grew up in an Italian
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  Speaker 5: American household. Uh, and everyone, everyone who comes and sees
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  Speaker 5: me but perform, always says to me like, how do
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  Speaker 5: you get your material?
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  Speaker 4: And I'm like, well, first of all, don't we all
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  Speaker 4: pull from how we grew up?
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  Speaker 5: So I literally all of my material is just me
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  Speaker 5: sitting in my mother's kitchen and just hearing the stories.
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  Speaker 5: And I kind of was that kid that like wrote
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  Speaker 5: everything down. So I knew, you know, early on that
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  Speaker 5: performing was my thing. I did competitive dance as a
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  Speaker 5: kid and growing up in Staten Island, and I did
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  Speaker 5: theater at Wagner College, did a lot of tours, national tours,
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  Speaker 5: off Broadway shows, and I was like, I know I'm
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  Speaker 5: gonna do theater. Yeah, and I know I'm funny, but
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, I don't think I'm a stand up comedian.
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  Speaker 4: That didn't feel right. I don't want to like poke
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  Speaker 4: fun at anybody. That's not my thing.
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  Speaker 5: But I knew I wanted to create like a theatrical
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  Speaker 5: experience when you walked into the theater. So when you
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  Speaker 5: come and see me, you literally get I say, like
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  Speaker 5: a full meal. I tell you stories, I impersonate all
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  Speaker 5: the family members. I sing because I have a theatrical background,
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  Speaker 5: and I combined it all and I started doing it
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  Speaker 5: about oh my gosh, I want to say almost it's
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  Speaker 5: ten years of a journey. And what I mean by
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  Speaker 5: that is from start of figuring out like Okay, I'm
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  Speaker 5: gonna kind of mold myself and feel my avenue out right,
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  Speaker 5: Like my avenue was not always clear because it's like
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  Speaker 5: what are you used stand up comedy?
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  Speaker 4: Are you a theater girl?
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  Speaker 5: Like what are you?
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  Speaker 4: Are you a singer? At you? What are you right?
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  Speaker 4: Because you know, people they want to like they want
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  Speaker 4: to put you in a box. Yeah, And I didn't
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  Speaker 4: have a box and that was such a thing for me.
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  Speaker 4: And you notice that too on social media.
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  Speaker 3: If you change and go off reil to something that
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  Speaker 3: they used to seeing you do, they get pissed off,
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  Speaker 3: and then what is that I got will get sold
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  Speaker 3: because they get attached to you in one way, and
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  Speaker 3: then if you do something else they don't Like I
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  Speaker 3: got that.
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  Speaker 5: Recently, I had a bunch of people commenting on a
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  Speaker 5: post that I did, and they were because I actually
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  Speaker 5: an article of mine just dropped today on the Huffington
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  Speaker 5: Post where I talk about endometriosis because I do have it,
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  Speaker 5: and I had a couple of people respond immediately being like,
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  Speaker 5: we want your funny Italian mom.
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  Speaker 4: Imitate your mother. It's funny, and I'm like, I love that,
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  Speaker 4: but also, this is real, something's happened, and we share
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  Speaker 4: stories and we're all storytellers. So yeah, I get that
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  Speaker 4: for sure.
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  Speaker 5: But this experience has been great so far, touring and
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  Speaker 5: getting it out there, and but like putting myself not
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  Speaker 5: in a box was something I had to push against
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  Speaker 5: and sort of stay true and be like, this is
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  Speaker 5: what I do, This is what I do, this is
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  Speaker 5: what I do, and.
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  Speaker 4: Keep telling myself it's Okay, it's okay.
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  Speaker 5: Not everyone's gonna like it, but it's been it's been
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  Speaker 5: a journey and I love it.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 4: It's just you and the show just me. It does
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  Speaker 4: a woman. It doesn't feel like it feels like your
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  Speaker 4: multiple personalities.
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  Speaker 5: I just did a show in South Carolina and a
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  Speaker 5: bunch of people came up to me afterwards and they
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  Speaker 5: were like, so, your mom, and they're talking to me
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  Speaker 5: about and your dad and your grandmother and I'm like, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 5: And some woman behind her was like, where are they
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  Speaker 5: they were on stage with her, and I was like, no,
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  Speaker 5: it's just me.
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  Speaker 4: You know. It's the idea of you should.
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  Speaker 5: You know Whoopy Goldberg and Lily Tomlin, those old school
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  Speaker 5: you know, one woman theatrical entertainment hours. That to me
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  Speaker 5: was how I always wanted to model myself as So
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  Speaker 5: if you come and watch me and you're like, oh
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  Speaker 5: my god, I forgot it's Candice, then I did my job.
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  Speaker 4: Cara Burnette too, Carol Burnett. Of course.
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  Speaker 5: It's it's the storytelling aspect of, you know, putting yourself
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  Speaker 5: in other people's shoes and becoming those people. And what
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  Speaker 5: better people to become than your family.
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  Speaker 3: And your family it's so true for me. Who is
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  Speaker 3: your favorite that you like to become.
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  Speaker 4: I'd say my grandmother.
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  Speaker 5: And the reason why is because, like she's not your
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  Speaker 5: stereotypical like Italian grandmother. We always like here, people talk
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  Speaker 5: about them and they're always like, oh, she's cranking out
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  Speaker 5: Asanna's in the basement, and she's got a house dress,
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  Speaker 5: she's got spike heels. But my grandma, excuse me, she's
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  Speaker 5: got like one of those orthentedic shoes. But my grandmother
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  Speaker 5: had the spike heels. Yes, my grandmother had sexy black
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  Speaker 5: dress like that.
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  Speaker 4: Was my grandmother.
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  Speaker 3: My grandmother was not the typical Yes, my mother's mother
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  Speaker 3: was not the typical Italian mother.
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  Speaker 4: But my father's mother was the off the boat like
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  Speaker 4: Ellis Island. Yes, the double chin.
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  Speaker 3: She looked like one hundred and ten when she was fifty,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like the whole thing. Yeah, we're black till
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  Speaker 3: the day she died. But our grandma, now I never
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  Speaker 3: knew that grandmother. The only grandmother I knew was my
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  Speaker 3: fashion designer grandmother before her time. Yes, she worked for
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  Speaker 3: Henry Bendall Oli Cassini. Yeah, so like she works with
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  Speaker 3: Liz Claiborne and Liz Claiborne just started in the seventies.
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  Speaker 3: So she was this person that like, this is my grandmother,
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  Speaker 3: but she's still cooked. Yes, still the Italian grandmother's Sunday dinners,
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  Speaker 3: you know, was still the same way.
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  Speaker 4: But yet she was this other person.
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  Speaker 3: So it's like so, but it's it's I didn't have
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  Speaker 3: the typical Italian grandma like you had.
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  Speaker 4: Either, did I? Like, I truly had one child my mother,
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  Speaker 4: but I all had five of us.
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  Speaker 5: This, oh my god, this was my grandmother. She only
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  Speaker 5: had my father.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, she didn't have a husband. I mean she had
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  Speaker 4: the husband.
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  Speaker 5: She left them, you know, she got a divorce, which
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  Speaker 5: was like, you know, the Catholic Church wanted to kill
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  Speaker 5: her for it. They did, and she was like, screw you.
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  Speaker 5: But she was like, I'm telling you. The spike heels,
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  Speaker 5: the sexy dresses. She had a facelift at sixty five,
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  Speaker 5: when like that wasn't a thing to do, you know.
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  Speaker 5: And I remember that and it was so impressionable on
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  Speaker 5: me that imitating her on stage is so much fun
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  Speaker 5: because it was always a cigarette.
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  Speaker 4: That's always a scratchy voice.
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  Speaker 5: And it had this intense sexuality about her that I
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  Speaker 5: didn't see from anyone else.
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  Speaker 4: So it was really cool. Yeah, that's cool, that's the character.
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  Speaker 4: I love that.
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  Speaker 3: So if I was interviewing her right now, and what
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  Speaker 3: was your grandma's name.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Franny, Franny. I had a Loretta. My grandma was Loretta.
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  Speaker 4: Love it Loretta. So if I said to Franny, how do.
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  Speaker 3: You feel about doing these shows when you're when your
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  Speaker 3: granddaughter was in person, what would she say to me?
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  Speaker 4: So Frannie would take a drag.
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  Speaker 6: She'd be like, she's perfection, perfection, nobody else does it. Better,
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  Speaker 6: screw all these people, if they could do it, better,
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  Speaker 6: get your ass up there.
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  Speaker 4: Let me see you try it. Idea, I love it.
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  Speaker 4: You have that.
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  Speaker 5: Actually she would say that when I was a kid too,
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  Speaker 5: she'd be like, ask.
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  Speaker 4: These people, tell them to get up, Let's see if
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  Speaker 4: they can do it. She always she'd always give you encouragement.
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  Speaker 3: That was like my grandmother too, And she always said,
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  Speaker 3: always have your row money, don't depend on her man.
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  Speaker 4: Yes all the time, even though she was married to
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  Speaker 4: my grandfather for seventy one years. I hear you.
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  Speaker 3: They they met in day Campshire. We said I love
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  Speaker 3: it and then yeah, but they were together toy. They
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  Speaker 3: died they stayed together. It was so cute, so cute.
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  Speaker 3: They were so but he worshiped.
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  Speaker 4: Her and one of role models for you to love
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  Speaker 4: it right. But she was a narcissist. Oh boy, Frannie
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  Speaker 4: was too ancissist, very hard. Yes, always held you to
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  Speaker 4: a high standard. I'm sure saw me too.
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  Speaker 3: You know she said she thought you were fat, and
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  Speaker 3: you were fat. She was telling you, Yeah, I just
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  Speaker 3: got beaten. Yeah it doesn't fit. That don't fit none.
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  Speaker 3: You can't wear that.
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  Speaker 5: I laughed because I grew up in that kind of household,
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  Speaker 5: even from my dad, which I think today, you know
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  Speaker 5: people say like Italian.
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  Speaker 4: Dad's very daughters, right, a lot of I.
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  Speaker 5: Have a lot of friends that were like, oh, no,
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  Speaker 5: I'm the princess, and I'm like wait, and mine never
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  Speaker 5: had that. I was the first, I'm the first daughter.
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  Speaker 5: My dad owned an or a body shop, coursetory from
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  Speaker 5: Yankee Stadium. He was like, oh, learn how to you know,
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  Speaker 5: change the tire? Oh, get down, let's There was no prince.
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  Speaker 4: It was none of that. So I didn't grow up
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  Speaker 4: with that feeling of got to.
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  Speaker 3: Get married to get out of the house. Yes, she
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  Speaker 3: had to be home at ten o'clock when she was
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  Speaker 3: twenty one. Then always she got out was getting married.
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  Speaker 4: That was it. That's how she got out.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, my parents were strict, but they were very much.
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  Speaker 5: Nothing was like you said, nothing was your amazing. No, no,
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  Speaker 5: nothing was amazing. You're all right, get to work like
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  Speaker 5: that was the energy they gave you.
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  Speaker 4: The they told you could do anything. But they did.
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  Speaker 3: They did tell you about your and yoursyncrasies and your fult.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, you know, when I'm on tour, I'll come off
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  Speaker 5: stage and I'll be in a different city. You know,
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  Speaker 5: you're a little out of your elements in a different city.
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  Speaker 5: If my dad comes or if he visits, because you
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  Speaker 5: know he's gotta come, he's gonna you know, he's gonna
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  Speaker 5: do with and he helps, and he'll be the first
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  Speaker 5: one to be like great. So the second part, yeah
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  Speaker 5: ship And I'm like thanks Dad.
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  Speaker 4: Like you're just saying this is great, it's great.
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  Speaker 3: Tell you flat out flat out to my first podcast.
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  Speaker 3: I instead of them saying how wonderful I did on
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  Speaker 3: my first podcast, I got critiqued from my brother's insists.
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  Speaker 3: My brother insists that, well, why did you say that?
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  Speaker 3: What do you mean by I'm not saying it was
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  Speaker 3: a joke.
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  Speaker 4: It was a joke. Why did I say that? That's
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  Speaker 4: not right? What I know, dude, If you don't like
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  Speaker 4: what I'm saying, I don't watch it. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: what to tell you.
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  Speaker 5: Please, I feel you. I posted a video the other
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  Speaker 5: day and my sister goes.
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  Speaker 4: Was that about me? I was like, no, Well, first
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  Speaker 4: of all, why don't you. I didn't even say your name,
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  Speaker 4: And I am take my sister on the show. I
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  Speaker 4: impersonate her, and.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like she must like it would not like
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  Speaker 5: it's it's twofold. She'll sit there and she be like,
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  Speaker 5: I'm the best part of the show.
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  Speaker 4: When it dropped on Amazon, the oldest. I'm the oldest
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  Speaker 4: and she's the younger one.
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  Speaker 5: So when she when it dropped on Amazon and the
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  Speaker 5: news came out, and it was like it should be
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  Speaker 5: this big exciting thing because I've been working really hard
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  Speaker 5: for this or whatever, and she called.
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  Speaker 4: Me and goes, so are you like famous? Now do
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  Speaker 4: I have to worry about this? And I'm like you,
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  Speaker 4: what do you mean? What do you have to worry about?
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  Speaker 4: Like it was just the reaction of like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: little sister energy, how many of there are it's just
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  Speaker 4: the two of us, two of y'all. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: As my father said to me the other day, he's like,
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  Speaker 5: we stopped it two And I said what I said,
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  Speaker 5: damn curious why did you?
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  Speaker 4: Cause you were perfect? What you would think? I was like,
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  Speaker 4: why'd you stop it too? He goes, you're kidding me.
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  Speaker 4: It's a million dollars a kid to raise a kid today?
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  Speaker 4: So he was too expensive. Sent me over the edge.
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  Speaker 4: I have one. I have a literally literally a little
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  Speaker 4: one and a half year old, and I'm.
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  Speaker 5: Like, this is tough right now, right now, I.
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  Speaker 4: Know how old if you don't want to be asking
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  Speaker 4: how old am I? Yeah, just turn forty? Oh bless
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  Speaker 4: you in forty Yeah having another baby? Having a baby, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: No, no, no, well it was a seven year journey.
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  Speaker 5: So being in your forties having a toddler.
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  Speaker 4: It's a lot. It's a lot. It's a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I had my first to twenty one and then my
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  Speaker 3: last one at thirty five. Oh, doing a big, a
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  Speaker 3: big difference. See, I don't have no reference.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't have a child at twenty one, but we tried,
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  Speaker 5: and I was like thirty four.
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  Speaker 4: When we tried.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, eight nine year journeys have IVF oh I had
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  Speaker 5: twelve failed rounds of IVF I had oh gosh, I
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  Speaker 5: had thirteen or fourteen failed iuis. I had two endometriosis
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  Speaker 5: surgeries seven five. I mean I went through the gamut
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  Speaker 5: also too, to discover it wasn't so much. After a while,
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  Speaker 5: the journey turned into not about getting pregnant, not about
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  Speaker 5: a baby. It turned into what's going on with my body?
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  Speaker 4: Right? What's my health? How did you feel like the
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  Speaker 4: when you calmed down you got pregnant?
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  Speaker 5: In some aspect, yes, my calming down were Italian. I
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  Speaker 5: don't necessarily calm down how to come and by the way,
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  Speaker 5: you know when someone says, do you calmed down?
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  Speaker 3: The last calm down?
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  Speaker 5: So I didn't have like the moment of like I'm calm,
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  Speaker 5: but I did have the fuck.
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  Speaker 4: It, I'm done.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry, you can edit that out. I did have the
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  Speaker 5: I'm done, and I was like, I'm done. I'm probably
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  Speaker 5: gonna adopt. I had the adoption papers and.
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  Speaker 4: My husband was the one who went, let's just wait
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  Speaker 4: another month. I said, he's nuts.
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  Speaker 5: I'm done.
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  Speaker 4: I'm done with the surgeries, all the needles, the drugs,
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  Speaker 4: all of it. I'm done. And then about two months
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  Speaker 4: later I got pre say that's what always happens.
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  Speaker 3: I was a labor and a delivery nurse first before
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  Speaker 3: I became I'm adopted now, but I was, and I
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  Speaker 3: could tell you that I seen it so many times
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  Speaker 3: with women that once they calmed down and they didn't
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  Speaker 3: think about it.
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  Speaker 4: So much and put so much pressure, all of a
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  Speaker 4: sudden I got pregnant. It just you know, it's one.
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  Speaker 4: It's honestly, I swear to God. It's mystical, and I
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  Speaker 4: think it's when God.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't want to bring religion into it, but
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  Speaker 3: I am going to bring religion into it. God, if
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  Speaker 3: you want you to get pregnant, He's gonna get get pregnant. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's a mystical thing.
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  Speaker 4: It is. And you know what's funny, I messed with it.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like it doesn't come to pass.
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  Speaker 5: And I think my journey was a little bit messing
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  Speaker 5: with it in the sense of I was searching and searching.
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  Speaker 5: I did every mystical healer thing possible. The shaman, the
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  Speaker 5: psych gets to it. Because you're searching, You're like, what,
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  Speaker 5: because you see this thing, You're like, I saw this
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  Speaker 5: vision I was supposed to be a mom at thirty five, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: not forty something, Like all of a sudden, here I
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  Speaker 5: am with this toddler. Like I didn't think that. I
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  Speaker 5: didn't think that was me.
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  Speaker 4: But now that it is, it's almost sort of perfect.
• 13:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, because I said to my husband the other day,
• 13:43
  Speaker 5: I was like, I don't think we would have been that.
• 13:45
  Speaker 4: We weren't the right parents at thirty two. We just weren't.
• 13:48
  Speaker 5: So now here we are and we're like, you know,
• 13:50
  Speaker 5: getting up off the floor and I'm like, oh, my back.
• 13:52
  Speaker 4: Hurts, and he's like, yeah, this is raw.
• 13:55
  Speaker 5: I'm like, and I have a big toddler, Like he's
• 13:59
  Speaker 5: my husband six', five so my son is a big.
• 14:02
  Speaker 4: Kid so it's, like you, know Picking i'm a big.
• 14:05
  Speaker 4: Kid i'm, like oh my, god my back And i'm
• 14:06
  Speaker 4: a short. Human so it's a. Lot are you gonna
• 14:09
  Speaker 4: have another one any? THING i don't. KNOW i Think
• 14:11
  Speaker 4: i'm okay right. Now it's a. Lot it's also to
• 14:14
  Speaker 4: THE i wasn't a very, elegant lovely pregnant. Woman, Yeah
• 14:17
  Speaker 4: LIKE i gave.
• 14:18
  Speaker 5: Birth to a nine pound baby And i'm five to, one,
• 14:22
  Speaker 5: yeah two on a big, day and it's like that's
• 14:24
  Speaker 5: a big. Baby so my mom, Jokes she's, like the
• 14:27
  Speaker 5: second one is usually the bigger, one And i'm, like,
• 14:30
  Speaker 5: well what do you Think i'm gonna push out a
• 14:31
  Speaker 5: ten pound.
• 14:32
  Speaker 4: Baby i'm good AND i didn't get.
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: Anything it's easier for the second to the first one
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: paves a, WIFE i, know.
• 14:40
  Speaker 4: BUT i don't know fast, THOUGH i don't.
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: Know the third one just walks out the, wall just walks.
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: Out they're, like, hey we're coming, out and my.
• 14:46
  Speaker 5: One cousin has four. Kids i'm, like what. Happened she's,
• 14:48
  Speaker 5: like oh, god the fourth one just opened a door and.
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: That's, Like i'm. Here that's what. Happens it's so, true
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: the first to the to the the third. One, YEAH
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: i don't. Know this was a little.
• 14:57
  Speaker 5: Crazy and motherhood's, bananas the hormones that they the. BREAST
• 15:01
  Speaker 5: i was, like so it's a. LOT i give anyone
• 15:03
  Speaker 5: credit who even.
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: Goes down to show the hottest job still the hardest.
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: Job it's so hard and balancing it. All it is.
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: Insane it is so are you working all the? Time,
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: YEAH i tour a.
• 15:14
  Speaker 5: LOT i Luckily i'm not every day, performing So i'm
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: once every two, weeks So i'm in and out of.
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: Town baby comes with us every now and. Then we
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: just came back From florida a month. Ago he was with.
• 15:27
  Speaker 5: Us we had to stop At disney because you, know we're,
• 15:29
  Speaker 5: there but it Was it's fun having. Him BUT i have,
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: to you, know pick and. Choose but for, sure it's
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: not every Minute i'm. Performing but If i'm not, Performing
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: i'm usually. WRITING i do a lot of writing FOR
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: tv and. Film so that's been a blessing because you
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: can write from, home right AND i have home, office
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: so that's. Good And grandma comes over and can handle the,
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: baby so that's. Fun that's.
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: Fun, Yeah so what have what kind of shows do
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: you write?
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: For?
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: All, like have you written any shows that have been ON?
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: Tv i've punched up a lot of scripts that have
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: been ON, tv BUT i don't necessarily know if you
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: know anything That i've written, personally because as in the
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: and i'd say In hollywood is a lot of you sold,
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: it which is, great and.
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: Then they shelve it and you're, like, WELL i don't
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: know if this is going to get.
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: Made So i'm still waiting for hopefully two things that
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: maybe we'll get. Made AND i have a few projects
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: in development That i'm excited. About so hopefully that all
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: they'll come to. Fruition, yeah it's it's been an exciting.
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: Journey but any background on them, Yet, YEAH i can
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: give you.
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: ONE i do going back since we were on the grandmother,
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: Kick i'll go back to my. Grandmother she did have
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: some journals THAT i found from the. Fifties, WOW i,
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: know revealed some amazing things about her crazy past That
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: i'm now putting into hopefully some sort of either film
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: OR tv show That i'm in conversations. With So i'm
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: really excited about.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: That that's.
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: Amazing and her, journey for someone who you, know grew
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: up in the fifties and sixties was. Crazy she Dated Frank,
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: Sinatra she had a crazy, background being a single woman
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: trying to fight for her life to stay. Alive so
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: it's a really interesting journey that she who would ever
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: know she documented. It but it was even funnier is my.
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: Parents my father obviously it's his. Mother he had no. Idea,
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: oh whatever's in the? Attic they had a. LEAK i
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: had to go clean the attic and HERE i find all.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: This i'm, like you, guys could nobody threw it? Out?
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: True i'm, like you got gold up. Here i'm, like
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: what we got in this? Box you? Know and they
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: didn't even. Know And dad was, like oh, yeah when she,
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: died we put in a. Box i'm, like oh my.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: God so now it's been.
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: It's been kind of exciting exploring and developing All how
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: does your dad.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: Feel about using, this using your grandmother's.
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: Life he's, funny you, know he didn't know his father very.
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: WELL i never knew my, grandfather so he was the.
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: Type he's the type of person to be, like you,
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: know what can if it's supposed to.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: Be, told you tell. It so he's very okay with.
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: IT a lot of it is really dark about my,
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: grandfather BUT i didn't know. Him he didn't know, him
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: and he, goes if that's the, truth and then we
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: got to tell. It so my dad's pretty good with.
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: IT i get critiques WHEN i perform. Him he's, like
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: that's not HOW i say, things that's not WHAT i.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: Do but you, know it's how you, perceive he, said
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: that's what you have to tell them.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: Say maybe that's not.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: How everybody has their own perception and their own, truth,
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: Right it's. TRUE i SAW i was watching a movie
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: in the, line and there was this GREAT i DO i.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: DO i do production, too AND i also, write AND
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: i sing, too AND i ACT.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: I do, IT i do it. TOO i love. It
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: SO i was watching this movie that.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: Night there was a great line and it was there
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: was somebody they was talking. About it was their father's,
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: funeral and and they were talking about how they were
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: at their father's funeral and there was this, uh pickled,
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: salmon and they were, LIKE I. A i kept thinking
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: was HOW i hated why father hated pickle? Salmon and
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: why was it? There and then she, said but you know,
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: what somebody else might have the perception.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: That they loved.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: It SO i kind of thought about that and, said
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: you know, what that's such and that's such a great
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: way of putting things because people have their own way
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: of remembering certain, people so you that's how you perceive.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: Them that's such a good, point, Right.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: That's how your memories are going to be different because
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: that's how you received it right hundred.
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: Percent AND i think that's WHY i fell in love with,
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: writing because also, TOO i never wanted to forget, anything
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: like everything we grew up, with every STORY i, HEARD
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: i never wanted to forget, it BUT i Think i'm
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: of course interpreting it through my, aunts. Right, SO i,
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: mean my grandmother was this incredible, woman but she did
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: suffer from dementia later later in life and started to.
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: Forget AND i remember witnessing that AND i had this
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: moment EARLY i must have been eighteen or so WHERE
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: i was, Like.
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: I'm not gonna forget, anything SO i started writing everything.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: DOWN i still feel like that. Today i'm, like not
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: gonna forget.
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: THAT i buy my parents those grandparent books that say, like,
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: right tell us your story that they push On, facebook
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: Those etsy books that are like The, Journal and my mom's,
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: Like i'm not writing. It i'm like, Please she's LIKE
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: i don't. Care can you tell She i'm gonna? Record,
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: nah she ain't get. It record you can, Record you
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: can do all these. Things they are not gonna it's
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: gonna be. Me that's gonna be gonna be me that does.
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: It but it's, true there's some element of LIKE i
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: don't want to, forget and it's through our eyes how
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: we see.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: It so, yes you're you're one hundred percent it's so.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: True how through through our? Eyes now do you? Also?
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: So so you tour all over the. Country.
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, WOW i haven't Done canada Or australia, yet But
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: i've been getting some, requests so maybe maybe i'll hit
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: that that. AVENUE i haven't done it, yet But i've
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: been all over The United, states which is.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: Great love.
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: It AND i can't tell your family's family every like
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: CITY i go, to every STATE i go, TO i
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: always have this little inkling before going out Where i'm, like, oh,
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: crap are they gonna get? It are they gonna understand my?
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: Family and then of a SUDDEN i get out there
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: and Then i'm, like oh my, god you don't have
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: to Be. Italian, no people are rolling because it's.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: Family it's. Family it doesn't.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Matter like if somebody was talking to somebody's a person
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: from The south that was talking about, there they're they're,
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: granny they or, whatever we would think it's funny because
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: we would put it into our our own. Thing oh my,
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: god Maybe david there from The. South but yet, yeah
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: my grandma could be.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: A pain in the s. Too so it's so. True
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: you kill you still relate to. It it's so. True
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: and that's the because it's a multi generational relating.
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: To me right And i'm such A oh, God i'm
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: such a fan of multi generational because that's that's our.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: Household well That's. Italian that's so, true, Right but there's a, lot.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: But there is a lot out Of there are a
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: lot of cultures that are like, one you, know AND
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: i think people surrounded by family and religion and certain.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: Things called them. Together you're gonna see that multi.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Generational you see, That and that's WHERE i think bonds all.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: Humans if they WRITE i love, IT i think it's
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: a friend of. Mine it.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: Does she's a comedian and she. Does she's she's From,
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: india and when you talk when she talks about, her
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: you know how the parents are on the grandparents and
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: they try to marry her off and all this, stuff
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: and it's so just it's so funny because even though
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: like maybe our parents but we kind of did the same.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: Thing it was kind of like.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Even though they didn't like like give us an arranged,
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: marriage they was kind of an arranged marriage because they
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: make you meet the person.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: That they kind of want you to. Marry so it's
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: kind of like the.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: Same it's the same, thing, right they kind of push it.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: That that tony that you got to marry, him a nice,
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: family like not to have them over For sunday, dinner, right,
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: True so you, know but when you have that, relation
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: the multi, GENERATIONAL i think that most people can relate to,
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: it which is.
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: Good AND i feel Love. Italians people Love.
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: ITALIANS i mean either you are An, italian you know An,
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: italian you want to be An. ITALIAN i always got
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: that AND i still kind of get. That And i'm
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: so proud of Being. ITALIAN i mean we. Should we
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: should all be proud of what we've come. From AND
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: i say that often When i'm on. Stage it is like,
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: listen you don't have to like What i'm, saying but
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: it's What i'm from and it's what i want to,
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: express And i'm excited to connect to anyone in the.
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: Audience it's about human. Connection and my biggest thing with
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: the show is that there's usually an eight year, old
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: an eighty year, old an eighteen year, old one hundred
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: and eight year, old like what any age bracket can
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: sit in the audience and watch the show and enjoy.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: It i'm not, overly you, know, sexual or anything that's
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: so like oh my, god that you can't enjoy the.
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: Show AND i got a lot of flat from that in,
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: beginning especially with bookers and. Stuff they were, like you
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: need to be more, controversial you would book, more you
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: would book, More And i'm, like, yeah but that's not
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: who's WHO i.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: AM i don't want to be controversial just to be
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: why SO i sell more.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: TICKETS i wouldn't be real.
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: Right, Exactly and LIKE i don't get up on there
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: and like pick audience members out and rank on.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Them.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: Right if, ANYTHING i make fun of. Myself it's just
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: HOW i. AM i don't never want to make anyone feel.
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: BAD i always want to make the audience feel good
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: and feel like they've been on a journey and like
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: feel like we've just sort of all had this experience.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: Together so, YEAH i got black in the, beginning BUT
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: i was, like you know, what this is WHO i.
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: Am take it or leave. It i'd love to see
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: one of your. Shows oh, gosh are? You one's the next?
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: One In New york On New, jersey So, Eaven. FLORIDA
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: i go so, good we.
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: Do, ACTUALLY i am doing a fundraiser for my college
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: In december of twenty twenty, six so the end of
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: this year In Staten, Island so we'll be doing a
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: big show there THAT i think that's the Next New.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: YORK i have some In connecticut coming. Up Rhode. Island
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: number we'll say that at the, end you'll give them some.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: Deates oh my, god. TOTALLY i have a lot of
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: friends In Rhode, island so, oh have them come. O we? Love,
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: YES i will call it islands that.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Great.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: OH i Love Rhode. ISLAND i. DO i keep. Saying.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: Oh my husband keep, saying he's, like so we're going
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: to retire, here, Right i'm, LIKE i, know it's so.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: NICE i love.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: It Rhode island's. Great it's really. Night it's a night
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: and there's a Big italian community.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: There. Huge, yeah and they're so.
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: Sweet every Time i've ever, GONE i, Mean i'm. LUCKY
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: i get up on stage ninety percent of the TIME
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: i show sold, out Which i'm.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: Grateful i'm so.
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: Grateful there's PEOPLE i still joke about it That i'm,
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: like you came to see someone not famous like?
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: That really you know it's, okay.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: But but you know, what it's because they correlate To
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: that's why they come and see.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: You, yeah that's. Right, yeah it's the love of. IT
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: i love doing.
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: THAT i love that people can relate to any, story
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: any story THAT i.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: Tell so what's diff now with your? Podcast what is
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: your podcast? About oh my, GOD i Have, WELL i
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: know what it's. About i'm watching tell them it's, yeah
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: So i'm.
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: Too, actually the one PODCAST i have is with my Friend.
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: Sarah sarah AND I Sarah. Shreiber she's A wwe. Correspondent
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: we have been friends for twenty years and we love to.
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: Yhack it's always SAY i just want to chat at
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: chat all the all day.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: Long it's called Don't. Start but we do love to
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: support people who literally are just making a difference in this.
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: World Uh so we have a bunch of amazing guests
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: on you need to come on our. Show Oh i'd
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: love to whatever you, Want we'll get you on and
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: we chitchat and just talk and support and we just
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: have a good. Time so it's something we've been really
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: wanting to. Do Uh so we do, that and THEN
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: i have another one that's about to, launch which is
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: a companion podcast based off of the. Special So i'm
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: gonna be sitting with special. GUESTS i Have Lorraine brocco coming, On,
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: Psychomedium John edward coming, on and we just sit and
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: chat about stories that are in the special and how
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: it relates to them and their stories growing. Up it's
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: a lot of. Fun i'm really. Excited that drops the
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: end Of may in.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: That's awesome and where and the show is On. Amazon
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: it's on, now.
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: So, yeah you can go On, Amazon APPLE. Tv it's
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: under A Candice Gardino italian bread and you will find it.
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: EVERYWHERE i think it drops on YouTube the In. May,
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: yeah In may and drops in.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: YouTube you gotta Get catherine on the show.
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: Too oh my, god we gotta Get. Catherine she's, busy
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: but we'll get.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: It, yeah we'll get To we'll. Help i'll get a,
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: Few i'll help come with. Us, yeah she would love.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: That she would love to do. It i'm. Sure.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah what is your Favorite so your?
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: Podcast what is your favorite thing to? Do but put
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: them in? Order like? What oh, gosh the first THING
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: i really like to. Do it sounds.
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: CRAZY i really just like to be with PEOPLE i.
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: Love that's the first THING i love to do. Always
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: so IF i can collaborate with people THAT i like
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: and THEN i love that are, Enjoyable oh it's even.
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: Better life's too. Short life's too. Short not to work
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: with people you don't. Love that's that's.
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: Sure i've been you, Know i've been through. It so
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: it's like you want to work with people you. Love
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: so that's the first THING i always seek to. Do
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: performing will always be the first love Because i've been
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: doing it Since I'm oh, Gosh i've been dancing on
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: stage Since i'm like four years, old AND i just,
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: knew you, know somewhere and turning. Sixteen THEN i was,
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: like all, right this is it for. Me clearly not
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: going to be a science. Teacher i'm failing every single.
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: Subject Saint joseph by The sea kept me in BECAUSE
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: i was just a nice, kid like they should have
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: kicked me.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: Out it was. Tear My italian Teacher i'll never forget
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: came and saw do you Speak, No i'm.
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: Terrible oh my, GOD i know My italian teacher in high.
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: SCHOOL i was failing so, bad but she was, like,
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: listen you're a good. Kid come to my. House i'll
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: chew to.
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: YOU i got special.
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: Tutoring still, failed still, Failed and then at the end
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: of the year there was a school, play the school.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: Musical it was on forty Second. Street oh my, GOD
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: i said to Her i'm in, it and she, said,
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: Well i'm gonna come see you if you're even remotely.
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: Good she said to, Me i'm Gonna i'm gonna pass.
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: You she, said BECAUSE i just need to, know like
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: what else good for?
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: This BECAUSE i got to Pass italian graduate it was so.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: Bad so she came and saw the.
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: Show was it was actually my senior, year AND i
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: remember she came up to me after the show and she,
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: said not only AM i going to pass, you she,
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: Say i'm going to write you the best recommendation for
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: any musical theater school you want to go.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: TO i, said thank you so. Much she, goes because
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: here is the, thing this is the only thing you can.
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: Do she, Goes you're a Phenomenal she, Goes you'll never
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: do anything in the.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: ACADEMICS i, said not cant it WAS i just couldn't do.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: It that coming from The italian teacher giving you the real, deal,
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: Right She's.
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: CORDATO i loved. You she was such a good, teacher
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: but MAN i was a horrible. Student so, yeah right
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: then and, THERE i performing was my first. Love but
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: you're a good, writer, though AND i love to. WRITE i.
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: DO i have a book coming out next, year all
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: a bunch of comedic. ESSAYS i JUST i love.
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: WRITING i write film scripts all the, time get, sold
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: don't get, made but you, know maybe one day someone
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: will make them be really. Nice BUT i do think
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: that storytelling is just another. Version writing is just another
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: version of. Storytelling performing is another. Singing i'd love you.
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: Know so you have all these different, facets SO i
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: kind of love them all in some. Aspects it just
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: depends on you, know everyone's career sort of has this
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: thing where it's evan, flows like you have these moments
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: of Like i'm on this journey and which it's right,
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: now it's this sort of comedic theatrical journey of a
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: special And i'm. Writing Maybe i'll go back To. BROADWAY
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: i don't. Know we'll see a couple of, years ten,
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: years so we'll.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: SEE i love. THAT i love so tell everybody where
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: they can find.
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: You oh, Yes so you can find me At candasgardino dot.
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: Com you can find me On instagram At Kandas. Guardino
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: you can just Google Candas guardena and you'll find all
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: my tour, dates My instagram and all that fun.
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: Stuff and give us a couple of dates for your
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: tour so we can see if.
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: Anybody so let's See may, Eighth i'll be In, Riverhead New.
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: York then we Have june, THIRTEENTH i will be In,
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: POTSDOWN pa At Soul. Jos then we Got Rhode, Island.
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: Connecticut we Have chicago In october and then Some New
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: york dates In.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: December. Nice all, Right.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: Well i'm gonna be to one or a couple of.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: Them we can get to see. You gotta get me
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: there and on the.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: Podcast, yes, Well i'm so happy you came in. Today
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: thank you for having. Me this was so much. Fun
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: this was so.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: Fun oh my, GOD i HOPE i hope to get
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: you back on again and hear how everything has gone
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: over the LAST i like excited to revisit people in a.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: Year oh, yeah my guests every, year to see what
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: goes on with.
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: Them we'll do when the book comes, out we'll do it.
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: All i'm so.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: Excited it was so nice to have you, On. JENNIFER
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  Speaker 3: i loved, it so happy with you. Everybody thank you
• 30:04
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