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Holiday Spirit BONUS with Cameron Mathison · I Choose Me with Jennie Garth

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to I Choose Me with Jenny Garl. Hello, everyone,
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  Speaker 1: welcome back to I Choose Me. I'm so grateful to
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  Speaker 1: call Cameron Matheson a true friend. So I hope you
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  Speaker 1: enjoy this bonus episode filled with behind the scene antics
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  Speaker 1: from our holiday movie sets. We laughed, we ate our
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  Speaker 1: weight and sugar cookies and well, you'll just have to listen.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk to you because Christmas movies, the
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  Speaker 1: time has come. It's coming. Well, no longer a season,
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  Speaker 1: it's an annual. It's like a whole year.
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  Speaker 2: You get it was it sort of like kind of
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  Speaker 2: goes up, but Christmas kind of comes down a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: then kind of goes in this July like and then
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  Speaker 2: it kind of just and then starting around fall, it's
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  Speaker 2: just you're all in.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. You know, once you start watching the Christmas movies,
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  Speaker 1: if you just type in Christmas movies to like a
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  Speaker 1: little searchy thing on your on your TV, there's so
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  Speaker 1: many options there are.
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  Speaker 2: There's more and more. I mean, I think I think
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  Speaker 2: obviously Hallmark Movies back in the day created this like
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  Speaker 2: budding whole genre like Netflix and Amazon now and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: obviously great American Family has taking it and going through
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  Speaker 2: like the amazing movies over there, and then there's Lifetime,
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  Speaker 2: and like Christmas movies are everywhere now. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, people live for them. And we had so much
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  Speaker 1: fun working together doing a Christmas movie together. Yes, so
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  Speaker 1: I thought we would do a little rapid fire, let's
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  Speaker 1: do it Christmas movie. Okay, Mistletoe Memories. This is what
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  Speaker 1: we've been titled Mistletoe Memories with Cameron. Okay, so I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna ask you some quick this or that or short
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  Speaker 1: answer prompts. Okay, okay, answer fast, no overthinking. Okay, who
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  Speaker 1: was more in the holiday spirit on our set?
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  Speaker 2: You're me me. I don't know I did, because I
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  Speaker 2: just I was not a judgment on you. No, but
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  Speaker 2: I just feel like I'm like I've sort of like
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  Speaker 2: bouncing around mister Christmas all. I don't know, I just
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  Speaker 2: kind of like it's sort of annoying.
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  Speaker 1: You're always like filming yourself on the set.
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  Speaker 2: With them, You're right, Yeah, so that's for sure, Like
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  Speaker 2: I'm definitely like, hey, everybody were on sets, like you know,
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  Speaker 2: like it's it's not you know, I'm a bit of
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  Speaker 2: a parody with that.
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  Speaker 1: Did you ever break into song while filming a Christmas
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  Speaker 1: movie or what is your favorite Christmas song?
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  Speaker 2: My favorite Christmas song is Felice Novedad. I can't stop
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  Speaker 2: singing and I think it's so catchy. She yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: so fun. It's so so fun. But I have a
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  Speaker 2: soft spot in my heart for Oh Come only Faithful
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  Speaker 2: because my mom was convinced, for some reason that I
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  Speaker 2: never knew why, that that was my favorite Christmas carol.
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  Speaker 2: So whenever it came on, my mom was like, Cameron, oh,
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  Speaker 2: come on, and I was always like yeah, Mom, like
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  Speaker 2: what are we doing? Like it was always very confusing,
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  Speaker 2: but I went along with it because she was convinced
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  Speaker 2: it was my favorite, So now it's my favorite.
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  Speaker 1: What about that?
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  Speaker 2: Do you like?
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  Speaker 1: Oh Christmas Tree, that's a nice one. Yeah, I like that.
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  Speaker 2: I like that one. I like not to so many
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  Speaker 2: good ones. I like what's the Mariah Carry one?
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  Speaker 1: All I want for Christmas is how do.
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  Speaker 2: You not love that? Song? Like? That is a literal
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  Speaker 2: NonStop crowd please. Of course I could remember the name.
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  Speaker 1: October right the day after Halloween is when Christmas begins
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  Speaker 1: for us, and we just listen to NonStop Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: That's the best, the best. And then when do you
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  Speaker 2: shut the christ Is it like on the twenty six
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  Speaker 2: no more Christmas? Or is it like after New Year? Now?
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  Speaker 1: Hard stop at twenty six?
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  Speaker 2: When does the tree come down?
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  Speaker 1: Twenty yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so yeah good.
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  Speaker 1: I like to like, I like to preserve that time
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  Speaker 1: so it's special. Yeah, like, don't want to bleed it
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  Speaker 1: into the rest of the way.
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  Speaker 2: I agree, I agree, I can. I usually start decorating
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  Speaker 2: around Thanksgiving and then and then shut it down pretty quick.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, gotta shut it down.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Which Christmas tree would you definitely steal off the dessert table?
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  Speaker 2: First?
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  Speaker 1: Cookies? Fudge, fruitcake?
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  Speaker 2: What cookies?
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  Speaker 1: You're a cookie guy?
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  Speaker 2: Sure? Cooker?
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  Speaker 1: Oh with ice? Kind?
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  Speaker 2: Just the one? I don't know. But my mom used
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  Speaker 2: to make sugar cookies and now I'm making them with
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  Speaker 2: my kids, and they're just I'm addicted to my eat
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  Speaker 2: the dough. It's it's a problem, sugar cookies. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when you eat the dough that has the
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  Speaker 1: eggs in it, you're just it's not great. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well we find that out. I told you about
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  Speaker 2: my gut, right, Yeah, we know how we got there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I love to make Christmas things, so it makes
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  Speaker 1: me happy to know that you make Christmas cookies with
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  Speaker 1: your kids, do you like roll it out and all
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  Speaker 1: of it with all the different colors.
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  Speaker 2: We have one day of making the dough and we
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  Speaker 2: put the dough in overnight and then once it's cold,
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  Speaker 2: you kind of roll it out and then you have
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  Speaker 2: a whole like lineup with the kind of cut they
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  Speaker 2: get to choose, and then we decorate them and bake them.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of cooking, you, somebody said, oh, Cameron, soup, what
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  Speaker 1: you you have a soup.
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  Speaker 2: That people are I have? I mean I made a
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  Speaker 2: soup on Instagram, but I mean I don't think I
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  Speaker 2: didn't know it was.
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  Speaker 1: A thing somebody. I know it was really good.
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  Speaker 2: It was really good at like bone broth and sweet
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  Speaker 2: potatoes and a little bit of wild caught fish and
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  Speaker 2: it was like, wow, it came together.
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  Speaker 1: I can't eat any of that. What could you make me?
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  Speaker 2: Tell me what you can eat? And why can't? Because
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  Speaker 2: you are you vegetarian? Vegan? You're vegan, so so no
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  Speaker 2: that Yeah, well you can get vegetable broth okay with
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  Speaker 2: sweet potatoes, and we could do some veg like other veggies,
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  Speaker 2: like some broccoli frozen broccoli in there, and then some
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  Speaker 2: some tofas for some protein or maybe some chickpeas or
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  Speaker 2: something like that. Okay, is that protein? I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: gotta work on that. It's a new one for me.
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  Speaker 1: So I appreciated if you would come up with some
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  Speaker 1: vegan options for me.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, you got it is. I made some peanut butter
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  Speaker 2: protein balls that are vega. Those are vegans.
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  Speaker 1: Those are good.
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  Speaker 2: They were really good.
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  Speaker 1: I need some posting for the vegans.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all of that stuff I ma is not vegan.
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  Speaker 1: No, you're like way protein you eat that.
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  Speaker 2: I do eat weeg protein, but it's a it's a
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  Speaker 2: it's a very good way protein.
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  Speaker 1: I want to ask your protein.
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  Speaker 2: But I also eat pee protein.
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  Speaker 1: You don't eat dairy, do you?
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  Speaker 2: I et a little bit of dairy.
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  Speaker 1: It's okay for you.
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  Speaker 2: Greek yogurt does all right for me. But I do
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  Speaker 2: only have like I don't have like milk and cheese
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  Speaker 2: and stuff like that. I'll have some goat cheese.
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  Speaker 1: These goat cheese dairy.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it just it has a difference. It's not as
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  Speaker 2: inflammatory as cow dairy.
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  Speaker 1: Right, But why can they call it dairy if it's
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  Speaker 1: from a goat.
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  Speaker 2: I can't answer that. You're right because it's a dairy cow. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's not a dairy goat.
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  Speaker 1: So I eat goat cheese and don't feel bad because
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  Speaker 1: goats love giving you their milk.
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  Speaker 2: Right, yeah, it's not. I guess technically I gotta do
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  Speaker 2: some on that, like being recorded. How I answer this,
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  Speaker 2: I gotta be careful.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, who were the ugliest Christmas costumes? Seriously? Do you
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  Speaker 1: always like your Christmas movie wardrobe?
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  Speaker 2: Do I always like it? Definitely? Not for sure?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, the turtlenecks have you worn in
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  Speaker 1: Christmas movie?
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  Speaker 2: Can I be honest? I don't mind a good turtleneck.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I think I'm seeing you intlens.
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  Speaker 2: I don't mind a good turtle neck. Not everybody agrees
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  Speaker 2: with me, like, I definitely got some. I got some
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  Speaker 2: flak for wearing some of my turtle necks, but I
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  Speaker 2: like them. I like a big sort of question. And really,
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  Speaker 2: the things that I don't necessarily jive with with wardrobe
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  Speaker 2: or often you know, ill fitting things, things that are
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  Speaker 2: just kind of you know, boxy, or don't look like
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  Speaker 2: it's just not like what I would wear. And I
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  Speaker 2: love what I play like an outdoorsy kind of guy
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  Speaker 2: because then you're wearing like sweaters and coats and like
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  Speaker 2: you know, jeans and boots and that that's kind of
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  Speaker 2: more my vibe versus you know, being proper and suits
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  Speaker 2: and dress and like dress shirts and tucked in like
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  Speaker 2: tucked in dress shirts into your jeans is not my
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  Speaker 2: like mine.
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  Speaker 1: You're not talked in. I always like, I think about
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  Speaker 1: you going into your wardrobe fitting is not in a
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  Speaker 1: weird way that sounded crazy, but like I think about
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  Speaker 1: what it must be like for a man to go
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  Speaker 1: into a room full of women, usually or gay men
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  Speaker 1: usually just generally, and they are like Cameron's coming in
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  Speaker 1: at one thirty, everybody get excited.
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  Speaker 2: I have to say that I make sure that everybody's
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  Speaker 2: because I want those things to be quick. I do
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  Speaker 2: not want to leave and go into the other room
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  Speaker 2: and change and come back. I'm like, listen, you guys
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  Speaker 2: comfortable with what change right here?
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  Speaker 1: And usually are they like I'm really not comfortable.
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  Speaker 2: They've never said that. They've always said that they were comfortable,
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  Speaker 2: and I change right. I mean, I don't care, Like
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  Speaker 2: I mean, everybody's seen everything on me anyway, Like I'm like, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I have my underwear on, but.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I have no problem just getting maked in
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  Speaker 1: front of strangers either.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like we've been through it.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's wrong with us.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, Yeah, there probably is. I have no
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  Speaker 2: blinds on my windows that like, you know, like I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: like it is what it is man, you know, like
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  Speaker 2: I just let my Instagram like it's all air.
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  Speaker 1: Have a good look. I love it. Okay, if you
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  Speaker 1: were a Christmas decoration, would you Oh, I'm gonna ask
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  Speaker 1: myself this question. If Cameron were a Christmas decoration, would
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  Speaker 1: he be a candy cone, a snow globe, or a nutcracker?
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  Speaker 1: What do you think I'm gonna say.
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  Speaker 2: I think you're going to probably say a snow globe.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, you're so wrong.
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  Speaker 2: A nutcracker.
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  Speaker 1: You're definitely a nutcracker, am I. I look at you
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  Speaker 1: and I see nutcracker?
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  Speaker 2: You do? Can you elaborate? Like? How how how do we? Hell?
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  Speaker 1: Do you have the stature?
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Of the nutcracker?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? I see it.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like you like you if I put something
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  Speaker 1: in your hole. This is getting me, like you crack it,
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  Speaker 1: You'll crack it.
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  Speaker 2: Got you. I love how you said hole and you
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  Speaker 2: pointed in my chest, like.
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  Speaker 1: There's no hole. The nutcracker puts it there, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah he does?
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  Speaker 1: Or does it put it between his neat?
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  Speaker 2: That's true. But here's the so I guess I went
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  Speaker 2: a different direction with nutcracker. I just thought about like
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  Speaker 2: cracking nuts. But I guess you're right, like the nutcrackers
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  Speaker 2: like a soldier. I see what you're saying. See what
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  Speaker 2: I just saw, like snowglobe because you shake me up
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  Speaker 2: and I'm happy, and I like I try to, like,
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  Speaker 2: I just feel like I bounce around life like a
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  Speaker 2: bit of a snow glow.
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  Speaker 1: Me too, I feel that way too. And Linda, when
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  Speaker 1: the snow gets.
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  Speaker 2: Shaky, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's like, dude, you gotta go
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  Speaker 2: to class meditat and it's just like, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good feeling. Okay. Funniest blooper moment while filming
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  Speaker 1: a holiday scene. I'm the worst at answering questions.
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  Speaker 2: Like this, by the way, the funniest out of all. Gosh,
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  Speaker 2: that's a tricky one. Terrible at like, yeah, remembering those
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  Speaker 2: because we have lots of them.
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  Speaker 1: We have talked all the day long.
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  Speaker 2: All day long, but then you got to think of
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  Speaker 2: them like it's almost like you gotta make notes, like
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  Speaker 2: when it happens, you were right down to put it
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  Speaker 2: into like a note file on your phone.
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  Speaker 1: Funny thing happened today, Leoh, you're right, I need to
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  Speaker 1: do that. We're just like even a voice memo to yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wait. There was a behind the scenes moment on
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  Speaker 2: our very first Christmas movie where we had like a
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  Speaker 2: leg off, like we showed each other have a there's
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  Speaker 2: a photo of us standing next to each other.
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  Speaker 1: Our legs and we have our pants pulled down.
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  Speaker 2: Yes we do. And and you won that. Like I
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  Speaker 2: was like, man, I gotta get I gotta do more
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  Speaker 2: squats and legs that area. Yeah, you're fit, like they
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  Speaker 2: look great. I was like, I get my now. I
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  Speaker 2: had leg day this morning. I was crushing squats this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Good for you. And and you chase the dog down
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  Speaker 1: Silver Lake Boulevard.
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  Speaker 2: Or whatever, muscle and my flip flops cramps like holding
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  Speaker 2: him on as you that's not easy to do. I can.
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  Speaker 1: I can kind of imagine it.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, it was definitely people if they had their phones.
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  Speaker 2: It was a comedy routine. I didn't feel like that.
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  Speaker 1: I pray to see someone capture that and puts it
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  Speaker 1: up for you.
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  Speaker 2: And also I didn't handle it like I was. Like,
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't grace under pressure like I was. You know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean, you were panicky if he got run over. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: so people like in case someone, Yeah, my dog ran
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  Speaker 2: down the street and he's one hundred pund my dog,
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  Speaker 2: my foster and he literally looked like he was on
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  Speaker 2: the mission to go eat humans. Like that's what it
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  Speaker 2: looked like. He's like, I'm coming to eat you. And
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  Speaker 2: I was nervous that I was.
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  Speaker 1: Really okay, if I saw your dog coming, your foster
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  Speaker 1: dog coming at me, I would lay down and pee
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  Speaker 1: my pants just right there on the ground.
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  Speaker 2: You'd lay down first, then pe yep, I'd just be
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  Speaker 2: like and he would love it. He'd come and like
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  Speaker 2: probably he's very friendly. He just looks like he's a monster.
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  Speaker 2: I call him a monster.
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  Speaker 1: He's like a big monster.
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  Speaker 2: He's a huge monster.
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  Speaker 1: I love it so much. Okay, so while we're in
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  Speaker 1: the rapid fire Q and A, we're empty nesters. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: well you're really an empty nester.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: My middle daughter moved back in with me. But we
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  Speaker 1: don't have to think about our kids or what they
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  Speaker 1: want all the time. I mean we do, but on
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  Speaker 1: a daily basis, our lives are a lot different. So
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  Speaker 1: would you choose if you had to choose between set
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  Speaker 1: sweet and savory a snack that you would have, what
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  Speaker 1: would you choose? Like, do you ever sit down? Do you,
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  Speaker 1: Cameron Matheson ever sit down with a bag of Fritos?
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  Speaker 2: Not Fridos. That's not gonna be my thing. It wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be free doos. It would be like just regular salted,
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  Speaker 2: good quality chips that have like avocada oil or you know,
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  Speaker 2: like you know, so I'll.
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  Speaker 1: Have this is me right now, Sorry, but I'll.
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  Speaker 2: Have like a bag of chips, but as healthy as
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  Speaker 2: you can get them. Even though chips aren't great never.
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  Speaker 1: Never anything bad goes in you.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, that's not great. I had a huge, like
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  Speaker 2: bucket of movie popcorn yesterday on my birthday. You did, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I watched Weapons with my son and I popcorn, and
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  Speaker 2: I had a little bag or a box of peanut
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  Speaker 2: m and ms.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah with that.
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  Speaker 2: This is how my this I had. Also, I had
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  Speaker 2: chicken skewers with it because it was an ipech so
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  Speaker 2: I needed to balance them with some protein, which, by
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  Speaker 2: the way, I mean it's just stupid, but it just
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  Speaker 2: made me feel better.
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  Speaker 1: I love that you go to a movie theater where
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  Speaker 1: you can get chicken skewers.
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  Speaker 2: Well yeah, like the rest of America, LA, but there's
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  Speaker 2: a place called IPIC that serves you food in the theater.
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  Speaker 2: And it was my birthday. We wanted to like kind
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  Speaker 2: of you know.
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  Speaker 1: It's a special occasion. Yeah, okay, good, I'm glad. I
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  Speaker 1: just I was like, I don't think he sits down
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  Speaker 1: and eats.
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  Speaker 2: Peano and M and m's and a big vat with butter,
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  Speaker 2: with butter, with butter.
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  Speaker 1: Real butter or fake butter? Like what do you know?
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  Speaker 2: What do use that?
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  Speaker 1: I I don't it tasted like real butter, but I
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  Speaker 1: mean you haven't had butter in a while, that's true.
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  Speaker 1: Anything probably put on there real butter. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: I need to see that. That's so good because I
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  Speaker 1: just couldn't imagine it. Okay, city or small town vacation.
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  Speaker 1: I know who you're going to go with this, because
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  Speaker 1: where do you go next? Like, what's your vacation?
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  Speaker 2: Small town? I mean I'm going to help my daughter
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  Speaker 2: move into her college place in Paris, so obviously big
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  Speaker 2: city and I'll enjoy it, and I love it, and
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  Speaker 2: I love the big cities, but when I have a choice, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: small tow. I took my kids to Oregon and it's
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: just a random, like little cabin in the woods and
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: we went to the like. I just love quiet, small
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  Speaker 2: town nature. I love it. I went camping on the
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: weekend just by myself with my rescue monster and just yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it was great. Just you went camping in La just
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  Speaker 2: an hour from here, up in Angela's right above were
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  Speaker 2: basically where you live. It was I do people know
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  Speaker 2: how close you were to the fires? Have you talked
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: about that? I mean you were like literally, I mean
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  Speaker 2: clearly you were evacuated, but okay, goodness that everybody here
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: was okay and like you got you were right adjacent
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  Speaker 2: by the way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I have survivor guilt. I had it really strongly
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  Speaker 1: when it was all going down. But it's it's like
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  Speaker 1: being someone who didn't lose their house, or someone who
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  Speaker 1: who doesn't live here and has no idea what it's like.
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  Speaker 1: What should someone a friend say to someone that's in
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  Speaker 1: your position who's lost their house? How should I like,
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  Speaker 1: Because I don't want to make you think about bad things,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, like what's the protocol.
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  Speaker 2: That's a very sweet question because I think even the
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  Speaker 2: fact that you're asking the question is like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: all people need to kind of feel and hear, like
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  Speaker 2: you know that the lost thing. So, first of all,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, I can't really speak for everybody that
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  Speaker 2: lost their homes in the fire, but like, I'm so
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  Speaker 2: happy when I see a house standing when I drive
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  Speaker 2: through my neighborhood. My neighbor saved his house. I've never
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  Speaker 2: mentioned this, going to my pool and filling up, took
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  Speaker 2: my ladder that was in my backyard, thank goodness, it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't in my in my shad or whatever. Took my ladder,
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  Speaker 2: put it outside, and you bucket by bucket from my
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  Speaker 2: pool and put out the fire on his house. All
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: night as the area of different areas sparked up as
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  Speaker 2: houses were I love that. I love when I see
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  Speaker 2: houses stay in and survive and like the originals, like
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  Speaker 2: this is a beautiful, beautiful, thank thank goodness. So first
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  Speaker 2: of all, we say that, like I say that, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure others do too, like for people that have
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  Speaker 2: survivor guilt, like I love that these houses survive, like
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  Speaker 2: thank God, that's like some of these beautiful homes survived.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: But that also I'll only say, like, what's a little
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: tricky to hear when people say when they find out
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  Speaker 2: that that you lost your house, Like and I say
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  Speaker 2: this with gentleness and understanding that it's tough to know
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: exactly what to say. But when people say things like, well,
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: thank goodness, you're all right, you know, like, well think
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: you know you're gonna renovate. What do you like when they,
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: of course, thank goodness that we're okay, then we survived.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: Of course, it minimized, like it minimizes the fact that
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  Speaker 2: well we've talked about this, but that we lost everything.
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  Speaker 2: Every single piece of our evidence of existence was gone,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, and that's a big deal. And of
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  Speaker 2: course we're grateful. There's lots to be grateful for, but
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  Speaker 2: we don't need to be reminded of that in that moment,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Like in that moment, it's just like, hey man,
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  Speaker 2: I'm so sorry I for you're lost. That's all. That's
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: just like a nice simple thing. You know, if it's
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: authentic to people to say that, I would say that
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  Speaker 2: that's just something simple like that is all we need
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  Speaker 2: to hear, Like you don't need to fix it. You
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: don't need to tell us what we should be grateful for.
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  Speaker 2: We don't need to tell us that we should be
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: happy that we survived it, because we know that for sure.
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  Speaker 2: I hope we all know it. And also to remember
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: that everybody has a different relationship with their home. Like
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: people rent. People have stuff at their mom's house in Kansas,
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: oh in storage or in storage or maybe it's their
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: second out whatever, like every you know, people house flip
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: and they don't have a lot of attachment, and they
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: sell their furniture when they move places like everybody, or
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: some people have lived there their whole lives and their
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: children have grown up there and they don't know anything else,
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: and every single piece of their possessions we're in that house.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: And some people renovated every corner and picked tiles and
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: spent years making the house exactly what it was and
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: meaningful to them and their kids. Said four days before
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: it burned down, Layla said, I want to raise my
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: kids in this house. So it's like, you know, it's different,
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: and it's like people don't know that, but you don't know,
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: you don't know, and so people can be kind of
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: short and assume because their relationship with where they live
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: feels different to them than yours does with you. And
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: that's okay, but I don't know. I would gently say
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: to try to be sensitive to know that you.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, are you going to rebuild?
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: The plan is to try to rebuild. Yeah, that's the plan.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of challenges with that. And one of
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: our unique challenges is obviously Vanessa owns half the house,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: and so half the insurance money is she deserves goes
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: to her, and so that leaves half of everything and
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: the insurance. Doesn't you know, we're already losing between one
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: and two million on the insurance and the rebuild, the
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: value and stuff. So that's a lot of money already,
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: and then half of it goes to her. So it's
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: like there's things to big things to consider it.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: But then who would stay there? Who would live in
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: the house that you rebuild?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I guess in theory I would, and the
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: kids would spend half of their summers there or whatever.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: I have an idea for you. Make your man cave,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: your house, that's your main house, right exactly the way
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: you want it, Okay, just for you. I love Jim,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: your kitchen goes like all the things your scale that
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: gives you your body index. I know you have one
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: of those. I do, and then do do two little
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: cottages like if you you know, small guest housey little
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: thing for the kids when they come home.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I like this idea.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: I like this idea a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited for you. I'm so excited for you. What's
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: what's happening because after this kind of you know, time
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: in your life when everything falls apart, you got nowhere
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  Speaker 1: to go but back up and put the pieces back together,
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  Speaker 1: and you get to do it however you want.
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  Speaker 2: That that's so exciting, it really is.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for coming on over, and thank you for.
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  Speaker 2: All the beautiful things you said, like it really means
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  Speaker 2: a lot.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to I Choose Me with Jenny Garlan