Live from the Scrub Carpet with Giuliana and Bill Rancic

Giulinana Rancic is the ultimate Modern Woman and an ICON from E! Red Carpets, and she’s made it to the O.R. with her husband Bill Rancic to share everything about their relationship and their new podcast!

Bill and Giuliana aim to find the answers to the questions that keep us up at night, from adult ADHD to “why is my **** green?”

Plus, Giuliana shares some memories from her favorite interviews from the Red Carpet and her favorites may SHOCK you!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scrubbing In with Becca Tilly and Tanya Red and iHeartRadio
and two time People's Choice Award winning podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hello everybody, we are scrubbing in.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
We have some special guests today.

Speaker 4 (00:17):
Very special guests because they just announced that they are
doing a podcast together. But you all know them for many,
many different reasons.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yeah, you know Juliana from E News Red Carpet Interviews.
She interviewed every celebrity known to man, especially during that era.

Speaker 4 (00:35):
She is like goals, Like I am obsessed with Juliana
Ransick and her husband Bill.

Speaker 5 (00:40):
They are entrepreneurs. They do so much.

Speaker 4 (00:42):
They had a reality television show together and now they
have a podcast, Bill and Juliana the podcast, and.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
We thought, why not have the new podcasters come on
for our podcast. So everyone please welcome Juliana and Bill Ransick.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
That was like our motto is if not, if.

Speaker 5 (01:06):
Not not you, it's not you.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
You're not talking for yourself.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
I always say that too. You have to be your
biggest fan, yes, and your biggest cheerleader.

Speaker 5 (01:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
It's so lovely to see all.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
I'm holding your dog in my last how it feels
I feel very immediately connected.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Isn't he the greatest he's wonderful.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
So he is our fourth dog, way five now, and
he was a foster that we rescued from a shelter
actually in Los Angeles Carson Shelter, which is a high
kill shelter, and so we rescued him as a foster
and then we ended up adopting him after like five
seconds of him being in our lives, and we rescued
him as a medical senior dog. So he has three legs,

(01:45):
he gets some health stuff, and he's a senior. We
think he's like thirteen or so. And he's the greatest
is he not the greatest? He's lovely, he sleeps a
long time, and he's just the best. And so I'm
really into rescue you and we just love his name
is Leonardo d poodle.

Speaker 5 (02:03):
With that name, that's like what, no, oh, you changed it?

Speaker 1 (02:06):
We changed it. So interestingly enough, when a dog goes
into the shelter system, most of the time they change
their names to give them like a fresh start, and
a lot of dogs they don't have the history of
so they kind of named them themselves. Do you know
what they named him?

Speaker 5 (02:18):
What?

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Haha?

Speaker 3 (02:21):
I know that's so mean, like tripod or something.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
I know because a lot of people refer to and
so they didn't hah. And I was like, So a
volunteer sent me a video because she knew I was
in too rescue, and she said, I know you're doing
a large transport like a flight of rescue dogs from

(02:45):
l A to the Midwest tomorrow. Would you ever want
this dog you just came here. And I was like absolutely,
And so we ended up fostering.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Him, So you just like go. And then Bill knows
that a new dog a two.

Speaker 6 (02:57):
Day deal, and I'm like, okay, two days and then
he was seven months ago.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, Bill was really you were really really like you
loved him from the beginning. Though, Bill very early on
was like I understand, Like why you want to keep him?
He's a great look, how can you not? Yeah, yeah,
he's the cutest. So I love that you're bonding with him.
I think you might need to go no way, but
I can find you one. I can find you an

(03:23):
amazing rescue.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
My dog is very much an only child.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
So but I could foster and see how it goes,
but I just know i'd have a I'd be a
foster fail every time.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
So but y'all have so much going on You're you're oh,
go ahead.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
No, there's just like so much to get to And
I'm so happy that you guys have a podcast because
I feel like I lived so much life with you,
Like it's so crazy. I was like looking back at
the timeline of everything and I just feel like we
we got so much from you publicly for such a
long period of time and then you just like went away.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah, and now you're back and we're back.

Speaker 7 (03:59):
We left because of our son. You know, we didn't
want to have him on a reality TV show, right
right right.

Speaker 6 (04:03):
I think it was kind of the catalyst for us,
you know, retiring from the Juliana.

Speaker 5 (04:07):
What age was he when you kind of too Yeah.

Speaker 7 (04:10):
We did his first birthday on the show.

Speaker 6 (04:11):
We did a few other things, and then it's like,
I don't know if he's gonna want us showing him
being potty trained, Yeah, stuff like that.

Speaker 7 (04:18):
That wasn't fair to him. And then we went back
to Chicago full time.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yeah, and I'll tell you, like it was interesting. We
did eight seasons of our reality show, Juliana and Bell,
and when we were talking about the next season with
the producers that it was so much of it was
like Duke centric on our son, Like so much of
it was like is Duke going to potty train? As
Bill said, like is gonna are you gonna go tour schools?
We'd love to follow that action. And we were like, eh,

(04:44):
it was just too much. And you know, it's one
thing for us to open up about our lives, which
we did, like we talked about my breast cancer journey,
our infertility journey, nothing was off limits. But as soon
as it came to like our little you know, our baby,
it was a different story. And so we yeah, stopped
doing that. And then we at the same time, we
were opening restaurants. Yeah, and then I had a clothing

(05:07):
line on Home Shopping Network that was like getting you know,
more busy, and so we really focused on that. So
we've always like you know, done a couple of TV
things here and there, but mostly focused more on like
the entrepreneurial business things for a few years there.

Speaker 5 (05:23):
I mean, it never ends.

Speaker 7 (05:24):
This is our latest baby.

Speaker 6 (05:26):
So we got Leo, we got Duke, and then we
have Mamada Pandi's Italian food products. So we've got four
different dried pastas, we have four sauces, so we have
a Palmo yeah, her mom's just But we have a rabbiata,
we have a vodka sauce and a bowlonnaise. We have
frozen foods now we have frozen lasagna, frozen meatballs, I mean,

(05:46):
which are now at Target.

Speaker 7 (05:48):
And then what else we have olive oils and salamis.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
My god.

Speaker 5 (05:53):
Entrepreneur, I mean that is.

Speaker 7 (05:55):
She's become a good entrepreneur years.

Speaker 6 (05:57):
She's definitely blossomed and really taken on that entrepreneurial spirit.

Speaker 7 (06:02):
But I think so.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
Much of it is like, you know, I always have
a lot of ideas, Like I always have ideas, and
my big thing is I never feel like any idea
is too big, Like I've never been that person. I
feel like I have like no limitations on myself at all.
Like I feel like I could do anything, and I
think anyone can. That's how I feel about anyone. Like
when someone asks me, a friend calls me, or someone

(06:25):
calls for business advice, I'm like, why wouldn't you be
able to do that? Of course you're going to do it.
Let's figure this out. And that's how I think. And
so you know, we have a lot of ideas, but
the ones that actually go someplace, like the restaurants, you know,
like that was a big idea. Getting into the restaurant
business fifteen years ago or sixteen years ago was crazy,
but it has proved to be, you know, very successful.

(06:47):
We have nine now and it's been great. But the
mom oft to pandelon that's my mom's cooking, like that
came naturally from the restaurants because my mom's signature pasta
is like the most popular dish on the me you
and so we were like why not jar jar or
sauce and so it's always.

Speaker 7 (07:05):
Like, well, but we took it took us about two years.

Speaker 6 (07:07):
I just want to It wasn't that easy because we
wanted it to be very clean. We wanted to be
the highest end. The yeah sugar added tomatoes. You don't
see the skins of the tomatoes. Like we really kind
of made it more of a small batch type and
people it just took off. I mean now we're in
over three thousand stores Kroger Ralph's here in La Harris,

(07:29):
Teeter on the East coast around these you name it,
I mean Target. So it's like people want high quality stuff.
So I'm glad we took our time and really did it.
The slow way rather than just kind of rush it out.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
Yeah, can I starting.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
I've heard I've heard nightmare stories about starting a restaurant
and opening a restaurant and how it is so time
consuming and you are you have to be there basically
twenty four to seven or have someone who's running it right.
And what was the success because you said you have
nine now, so obviously you found the magic and like
making it happen, But what was how did you do that?

Speaker 6 (08:05):
I think it's about the people, you know. And we
found some really good partners. Their family had been in
the restaurant business for fifty plus years and now they
were the next generation of restaurant tours. And we through
Greg Olsen, who was a NFL broadcaster who was a
Chicago Bear eighteen years ago, and we were out to
dinner and Juliana was explaining to them that we're going

(08:26):
to open an Italian restaurant and we had envisioned this
little thirty seat red checker tablecloth joint where we couldn't
lose too much money because I didn't.

Speaker 7 (08:35):
Want to do it. Yeah, and I'm literally in the
background telling.

Speaker 6 (08:38):
You we're not We're not doing this like this is
like you said, it's the dumbest investment you could make.
And then he said, well you should meet my friends
r J and Jared Melman and their family has been
in the restaurant business because they want to open up
an Italian restaurant. And we met and we kind of
court at each other for about a year, and then
the first RPM was born, which stands for Ransick plus Melman,

(08:58):
which is the two families.

Speaker 7 (09:00):
And that was it.

Speaker 6 (09:01):
And you know, the first restaurant is fifteen thousand square
feet with you know, a couple hundred employees. And I
was like, oh my god, I put so much money
into this. I thought it was going to, you know,
just be a disaster. And it took off. And now
we have nine and we have twelve hundred you know,
team members and the RPM family and it's we hire
the best, you know, we hire really good people.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
I think it's interesting, like when we first started, so
much of the focuses on food, right, like you have
to make sure you make the best food and people
love your food. But what I started noticing, it's funny
back then, I think fifteen years ago, was Twitter was
everything was on Twitter for all the kids out there
exp with Twitter, but Twitter, which was so huge, right,
and that was before Instagram. I remember people would tweet

(09:42):
me all the time, like in the same sentence it
always said, I tried our piment time and the food's amazing,
and so is the service. I love the food and
the service. I love the food, and my server was amazing.
It was really interesting. I went back to the team.
I'm like, I have to be honest with you guys.
As much as I hear how great the food is,
the service is just right up there with the food.
And I think people feel like if they're going to

(10:04):
go out and spend money and like it's expensive going
out to eat, you want not only great food, but
you want to be treated like a rock star, you
know what I mean. And you want that server to
be like amazing and like really great informative but not pushy.
It's like, so we really work so hard on having
this incredible team that makes everyone feel really welcome and

(10:24):
just makes you feel like you have like an incredible night.

Speaker 5 (10:28):
Service is everything to me, right, everything?

Speaker 3 (10:30):
Oh yeah, I agree.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
I think it's a big deal. And so when we started,
it was kind of this crazy tree.

Speaker 7 (10:35):
Do you remember how that you make them feel?

Speaker 5 (10:37):
That's how I pick hotels that I stay at service.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
But I remember, so it was you know, it was
so amazing, and then Bill and I yeah, and then
it just led one led to another. We opened Rpmattalion
was first, and there was RPM Steak, RPMC Food and
so they've become.

Speaker 6 (10:53):
In Vegas, DC, working Land in Chicago. This is the
this is the project we're really excited about because it's
home cooking. You know, it's it's the closest thing you're
going to get to home cooked sauce.

Speaker 4 (11:08):
Right, but busy, but not too busy to launch a
new podcast. I know, Okay, I have so many questions
about the podcast because one anytime I say, like the
two of you, I always say Juliana and Bill ran sick.

Speaker 5 (11:20):
But the podcast is Bill and Juliana Ran.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
Thank you.

Speaker 7 (11:25):
People know I did applaud them for the decision, So
this is technically.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Right, that makes sense.

Speaker 5 (11:36):
Actually okay, it.

Speaker 7 (11:37):
Doesn't, it really does. But but they the iHeart people
and their brilliant team.

Speaker 6 (11:43):
As you guys know, they said it needs to be
Bill and Juliana because when people go to google it,
if they if they google Julian and Bill, all the
eight seasons of Juliana and Bill will pop up and
the podcast will get buried to the bottom.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
That makes sense.

Speaker 5 (11:56):
This does make sense, but I listen.

Speaker 7 (11:58):
I think it was a right decision. You need to
change it up.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
But you're right, Tanya, thank you so much for bringing
that up. So naturally, I was like, all right, guys,
so should we call it Juleanna Bill, like the podcast
Jennen Bill, this John Bill. And they're like, actually, we
have something to tell you. I was like, what's that, Like,
it's Bill and Juliana. I was like, excuse me.

Speaker 7 (12:19):
I was like, but you know everyone.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
And I said, are you.

Speaker 7 (12:29):
So literally?

Speaker 1 (12:30):
I was like, this can't happen. And so then they
brought up that point about searching it and I was like, yeah,
that's actually a really good point.

Speaker 7 (12:38):
But it was fine.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
I didn't mind either way. I honestly was thinking about
it more is a business woman like you, Tanya, thank
you so much, And I thought, you know, we've done.

Speaker 4 (12:45):
Weird bran totally brand equity, relational equity. But I do
like also that it's just called it's just your names.
And then the podcast that you come up with some
like right sticky yes.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
Medical professionals.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
It gets very confused when I tell them the name.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
Of us scrubbing and was taken. So but it's chic, like.

Speaker 4 (13:11):
At the title of your podcast is like chic, and
they's just like what it is.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
It is what it is, and I will be honest
with you for so long, I mean I remember going
way back to like remember we met with a company
way back years and years ago about doing a podcast
and which was going to be Westward one, okay, and
it was going.

Speaker 7 (13:30):
To be and there was another company we couldn't make it.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
There were a couple oh that, yeah, there were a
couple so years ago, and it was always going to
be like celebrity oriented because I was doing my carpet
and e news or it was going to be like
business and we just never you know once, I mean,
I've worked at you for twenty years. You know, I
did that for twenty years, and so I was like,
if I ever did a podcast, like, I don't think

(13:53):
that that's what I would want to keep on doing
because I've done it for so long.

Speaker 5 (13:56):
Like interesting, we couldn't.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
Come up with new ideas of what to do a
podcast on. And you know how it happened is I
got my first colonoscopy this year, and at two in
the morning, I woke up. I had to set an
alarm because I could not finish the liquid that prep
they gave you.

Speaker 5 (14:11):
No, my husband has got one, Yeah did he? How
was the prep for him?

Speaker 1 (14:15):
That liquid? He didn't mind drinking that stuff.

Speaker 5 (14:18):
He's just like a beast.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
He's one in a million. Okay, most people hate drinking
me stuff. So at two in the morning, I had
to set an alarm because I couldn't finish it, and like,
you have to finish it before your colnosophy otherwise it's like,
oh my gosh, right, like you're going to ruin everything
you can't go. So two in the morning, I'm like,
I literally can't have another sip. I'm canceling my appointment.
But before I did, I went online and I searched

(14:40):
do I have to finish my colonoscopy prep? And finally, like,
I see a note on like a chat room from
like a nurse. It says I've been a colonoscopy nurse
for twenty five years and dot dot dot, and she
answered the question, which was basically like if you're healthy,
if you've never gotten one before and you have a
little liquid left, you're fine sort of thing, and that

(15:00):
made me feel so much better. And I went and
got it and I was fine. And that afternoon I
said to Bill, oh my gosh, you know, we should
do a podcast on just answering these random questions that
people have at like two in the morning. So like
even when we interview a celebrity, like we interviewed Sebastian Manuscaco,
it's instead of just like Sebastian Maniscaco's our guest today,
we're going to talk about his life and his career,

(15:22):
We're going to tackle a question people have with Sebastian Maniscotto.
So the question was do you stay at your in
laws house or a hotel?

Speaker 5 (15:30):
And so right, doesn't he say with that.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
No, not anymore? So he is he doesn't stay at
the in laws anymore except for like very special occasions
and exceptions. But the point is, so we just thought,
you know, let's do so it's everything from like the

(15:53):
most searched questions. We actually did research, like what are
the most search questions online? And one of them, surprisingly
if you type in why is my like why is
my could be anything right, like why is my boyfriend
of jerk? Or why is my Why is my dog
sleeping all day?

Speaker 2 (16:08):
Do you know?

Speaker 7 (16:09):
I think he loves you?

Speaker 6 (16:11):
A couple of months, we'll be back in August.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
One of the most searched questions when you do why
is my like, one of the top three that comes
up is why is my poop green? So we're taking
that question.

Speaker 3 (16:23):
On who are you bringing that to?

Speaker 7 (16:25):
Celebrity?

Speaker 5 (16:29):
Celebrity gets that.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
Jem of a question.

Speaker 7 (16:32):
It's really well known doctor from Northwestern doctor. Yeah, yeah, he's.

Speaker 3 (16:36):
Gonna google that. I've googled that, especially kids.

Speaker 6 (16:41):
Because if he I think it's tricks or lucky charms.
It turns the Krispy treats that too, Huh.

Speaker 7 (16:46):
It is interesting.

Speaker 5 (16:48):
Are you eating rice Krispy trees?

Speaker 3 (16:50):
She's like regularly does pretty damn good.

Speaker 1 (16:55):
So we brought in, funny enough, our colonoscopy doctor who
did both of our and asko be separately, although that
would be fun to do together, but anyways, you'd have
to focus on one or the other. But anyway, we
brought him on and the question was why is my
poop green? And so therefore, like if someone's searching that,
hopefully they'll be like, Okay, there's so many articles, but

(17:16):
like maybe I could listen to a podcast about that,
you know, and it makes it a little more interesting.
And so while we were talking to him, you guys,
tell me if you've ever thought of this? Ready, guess
what question came up in my mind that I think
a lot of people can relate to. But maybe you'll
think I'm crazy. Are you ready? It's very embarrassing.

Speaker 5 (17:30):
I'm scared.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
Okay, So when we were talking about why is my
poop green? Not my poop but people's poop? Yeah, yeah,
all of a sudden i'm talking to him, I'm like,
oh my god, I have a question about my bowels
that I've wanted to ask someone. Tell me if this
happens to you. Do you ever walk into TJ Max
or Home Goods? Oh, this is and Noble and have
to run to the bathroom because you have to go

(17:51):
number two?

Speaker 2 (17:55):
So yeah, friends that have it's specifically Barnes and Noble,
TJ Max and Home Goods.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
Yes, there's something. Did you get a name?

Speaker 7 (18:06):
But you got to watches?

Speaker 1 (18:09):
Well, airplanes is a different sort of.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
Because that does like the pressure actually I think does
have a physical.

Speaker 7 (18:17):
As No.

Speaker 5 (18:19):
No, this is so.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
No, no, no, this is different than the phenomenon from teaching.

Speaker 7 (18:26):
You're nervous about flying.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
So what I was going to say is when I
go on an airplane, it's different, like it's nervous. But
so I mean, I'll tell you so the TJ Max one,
the reason he said that this happens is, oh my god,
and none of.

Speaker 6 (18:40):
These people are going to have to tune in the
millions of people listening to the show.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
How about this. It has to do funny enough. A
lot of people think it's the smell of the books
at Barnes and Noble, or smell of coffee, but it's not.
It's actually your state of mind changes.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
Because you're relaxed.

Speaker 5 (19:00):
There.

Speaker 4 (19:01):
You couldn't get me relaxed enough to go to go
number two in any public bathroom. Yeah, I can't do
major anxiety.

Speaker 1 (19:10):
Went home instead it all day.

Speaker 5 (19:13):
If I'm not home for five days, I will hold
her for five days.

Speaker 6 (19:16):
I have no I held it on an eight hour
flight one like I'm not going now so bad.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
Always i feel like I'm like, I also am I
going to do?

Speaker 8 (19:27):
I had to do it once and then it's a
whole thing. I sat down in my thing and I'm like,
I'm gonna get you know, I didn't the inside of
the toilet. I'm like, oh, I'm gonna I'm gonna have herpes.

Speaker 4 (19:42):
That I can't even got my my like work office
one are every day that's like my second.

Speaker 5 (19:48):
Home every day every day.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
I can't go here.

Speaker 5 (19:51):
No, a lot of people don't have problems going here.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
That's why she does it.

Speaker 7 (19:57):
I forget it.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
It.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
I like had a designated stall. I knew exactly, and
I didn't even go down.

Speaker 5 (20:01):
To my tress room bath rooms.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
Oh, I don't care.

Speaker 4 (20:05):
I liked doing it if it was private, if it
was like I knew, nobody could like be around me.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
But I think she's worried about it. I said, I
don't think you're worried about it. You didn't.

Speaker 7 (20:14):
You don't even take.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
The extra thirty seconds to go to the dressing room.
I would just go right in the news. You haven't.

Speaker 6 (20:19):
You're able to do number two? Like I like to
take my time and like I'm gonna scroll And I
used to when I was younger, to have magazines, adult magazines, but.

Speaker 7 (20:33):
Like horror magazine.

Speaker 6 (20:35):
Four.

Speaker 7 (20:36):
Yeah, but she she can. I'm like, wait, you you
went pooped that quick? It's it's increditing fast, like lightning fast.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
But can I tell you something. First of all, I
would never scroll on this because I feel like someone's
watching me. I feel like the camera is somehow going
to or I feel like I'm gonna go live accidentally.
I've done that before, which.

Speaker 5 (20:54):
Is fear I've never heard before.

Speaker 7 (20:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
No, these are all things though we're gonna be tackling
on the podcast.

Speaker 3 (21:19):
Going back to the colonoscopy.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
Yeah, I love this.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
No, because I have seen this is actually more of
a getting into more serious thing. Okay, getting a I've
seen so many people talk about doing that younger and
younger and encouraging people to get checked.

Speaker 3 (21:35):
What was the was.

Speaker 7 (21:36):
It just We've got a whole episode on it right now.

Speaker 6 (21:39):
He's saying it should be at forty five because there
was forty what it was fifty, So I didn't get
mind till fifty.

Speaker 7 (21:46):
You got yours at fifty.

Speaker 6 (21:48):
But now he's saying that they're recommending it at forty
but maybe maybe or forty five. I'm sorry, maybe now
it's forty. But it's just preventive. You know, the sooner
you can catch it, the better off you are, you know,
And I think when you do a kolonoscopy. It's going
to tell you these polyps. You look for these polyps
and those are pre cancers. So you're really ahead of
the game versus some of the other options out there

(22:09):
where you've already gotten it once you know the stuff
where you send it in and all that's still great.
Those are all great options. Blood, So we go really deep.
The episode is called talking Shit.

Speaker 5 (22:23):
How many episodes do you have so far? Like have you?

Speaker 1 (22:28):
We interviewed doctor Amen, who I'm obsessed with, you guys love.

Speaker 7 (22:31):
Doctor Amin's a very famous neurologist.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
Oh my god, you guys, He's the one. He's like
all over Instagram. So he's just amazing and he does books.

Speaker 5 (22:39):
Yeah, I think I know who you're talking.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
He's amazing. And so we had brain scans done in
his clinic, which is not just like oh, pop in
and brain scan, like it's a whole thing. And it
was crazy. So he looked at both of our brains.

Speaker 6 (22:54):
We're very competitive, and she has a better brain.

Speaker 7 (22:58):
I've got a better call.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
It was beautiful.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
There you go, son, Bread.

Speaker 4 (23:07):
I'm so curious as to like, why you wanted to
go so far from the celebrity stuff because I feel
like you.

Speaker 5 (23:12):
Did it for twenty years, like you do. You don't
have that itch anymore.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
No, you know what it is. I think that I
here's the thing you have to know, Like I think
in life, it's like timing, you know. And for me,
I loved and I was so into what I was
doing for so long. Yeah, and I just think like
it's nice to just do something different, you know what
I mean.

Speaker 4 (23:34):
Like Queen of the Red Car, like not even the
Queen like like because the Queen has like princesses and
like people that come after like you were it, Like
that was it, you know what I mean, Like you
were that moment. And I just feel like ever since
you left, like it's never been the same.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
You're so sweet.

Speaker 7 (23:51):
I read that a lot. I realized it's a totally
like I don't watch anymore and the.

Speaker 4 (23:55):
Show is like gone away, come back, one away, come back.

Speaker 5 (23:59):
And you can't.

Speaker 4 (24:00):
It's just like there was a moment in time. I
think it was a lot in part to you. I
think Ryan had a lot to do with it. I
also think it was that moment in time.

Speaker 7 (24:09):
Were the dream magic.

Speaker 4 (24:10):
It was like magic in a bottle. But it's just
great time yeah, and I just feel like you shaped
like so many women's lives, I know, even for me,
Like I was always like I remember when I got
to do I didn't do a carpet with you, but
I was like doing one of the shows while you
were doing the carpet and I was like wow, Like
I can't believe I'm on the same.

Speaker 5 (24:29):
Like time period is you do you know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (24:33):
Like for so many women, and like you just are
that person and like you, I don't know, there's something
in me that like I just want you to not
like go back to it, but like I don't know.

Speaker 6 (24:46):
We're gonna have celebrities on. Don't worry, We'll get into it,
but it's we're gonna also pivot tackle.

Speaker 7 (24:52):
You know.

Speaker 6 (24:53):
There's so much bad information out there totally, and I
fallen prey to it. Like I scrolled up when I'm
on a flight on Instagram, Like I bought the Groons
vitamins that they're all these celebrities are still luny.

Speaker 7 (25:04):
I get a monthly shiftment. You know.

Speaker 6 (25:06):
I got hooked into these zin's right because they said
it's going to prevent Alzheimer's and dementia.

Speaker 7 (25:11):
So I started sampling with these zins.

Speaker 5 (25:13):
Well, isn't that tobacco?

Speaker 1 (25:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (25:16):
I never never had nicotine in my life, never smoked,
And I'm watching all these guys talk about nicotine prevents
Alzheimer's and dementia.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
The way, I don't do it anymore.

Speaker 6 (25:28):
I tried it for a few weeks and I started
with one and I'm like, look two, and then I
find out it's more addictive than heroin, like the stuff.

Speaker 7 (25:37):
So I was able to nip it right away.

Speaker 6 (25:39):
But I bought into the lie or I don't know
if it's a lie, but according to doctor, and.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
You bought into like the marketing of it or like, like.

Speaker 7 (25:48):
The thought of getting Alzheimer's or dementious scares me.

Speaker 4 (25:51):
Also, I feel like you can, like you can do
research and kind of not fabricate the outcome. But if
you can do research and get whatever outcome.

Speaker 7 (25:59):
You can sew the number one hundred percent.

Speaker 5 (26:01):
So like the stuff you're seeing is like real, but
like is it real?

Speaker 1 (26:04):
But I think, to Bill's point, I know exactly.

Speaker 7 (26:08):
Floating around out there, it feels.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
Like there's so much that people are seeing. Imagine, like
you know, if you're young, right and you're seeing this
stuff and you're like, wait, what, I didn't know this
about this vitamin or this, and you're just going to
kind of believe the first thing you see. So we
want to be able to like take whatever people are
buzzing about on Instagram or social media or just in
you know the world, and like bring in an expert

(26:31):
to talk about that. So that's what we did. Like
doctor Amon came in for that episode about nicotine and
he was like, no, like, do not listen to that,
And he's explained why. So it was just interesting. You know,
it's like just getting the right information out.

Speaker 4 (26:43):
Will you guys ever get go into relationships stuff? Because
you've been married now for twenty years. That's amazing.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
Share, I know it's crazy, right you like me? You
know what's so crazy is, Yeah, we met. I interviewed Bill.

Speaker 5 (26:56):
I'll never forget it. I'm like so invested in you guys.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
I remember it when I Interyeah, I interviewed him. He'd
won The Apprentice. The first season of The Apprentice, the
you know show, which was like the two biggest shows
at that time. They were really like the first of
their kind. It was Survivor on CBS, Apprentice on NBC
and they were huge. When Bill won The Apprentice the
first season, it was a live finale and in New
York and twenty five thirty million people watched that like

(27:24):
that to get those numbers, it's like impossible these days.
Reality it wasn't exist. So it was like the heyday
of that kind of competition reality show, and so everyone
was watching. I had just become anchor on E News
and so I got well. I begged for the job
to go interview Bill because I had a crush on him,
and I watched him.

Speaker 5 (27:42):
It was like, do you remember this? No, Oh my gosh,
I commented.

Speaker 1 (27:46):
To you, and so that's us. Can you believe that
that guy is that crazy? That's me interviewing him? And
if you the crazy thing is in the interview. I
were literally flirting the entire time, and I'm like, Bill,
w want and a girl ded it done? And He's like, Oh,
I'm holding out for you and maybe we should get married.

Speaker 5 (28:06):
Ye interviewed, I'm not even kidding you.

Speaker 4 (28:09):
I because of your love story, I thought that I
was gonna like fall in with any any single guy
I interviewed for the Morning show, like.

Speaker 5 (28:16):
Tim Tebow, went Powell. It's gonna happen to me too,
the way it happened to Juliana. Yeah, didn't happen that way.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
It was so crazy, And so I interviewed Bill and.

Speaker 7 (28:28):
Then pul would have been a good one.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
Yeah, well she's married now.

Speaker 7 (28:32):
Very high.

Speaker 6 (28:35):
That dude ha is yoked. I saw him in the
locker room in Mexico.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
Yeah, he is just.

Speaker 7 (28:42):
Freaking jacked, and so I feel like a frail little
You look good.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
So I interviewed Bill and then yeah, we got engaged
ten months later, and then we've been married almost twenty years.
So we got married two thousand and seven, so it's
almost twenty twenty seven. So but we've been together now
y years this month. But what's so crazy is that, Yeah,
I mean we just hit it off, and so Bill
was doing The Apprentice, I was anchoring on E and

(29:10):
yeah we've been together ever since. So relationship stuff, definitely
we'll talk about.

Speaker 6 (29:14):
Yeah, we're gonna have Jason and Lauren Kennedy on. Hopefully
we'll get Adam and Bahadi on. I just talked to keep.

Speaker 7 (29:20):
Out there, but will get him on.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
But I think a big thing is for us is yeah,
we're like I think we've been married long enough that
we're like happy to talk about anything, but like even
one thing is I noticed there's like a friend group
I have in Chicago, and I noticed that like one
got divorced and then the next one got divorced and
the next one. So like when I came up with
this episode, I'm like, let's do an episode on is
divorce contagious? Like suddenly like when one thing gets the

(29:45):
worces next one. So to answer your question like relationship
and anything like sleep divorce, like Bill and I don't
always sleep in the same bed, and you don't well.

Speaker 7 (29:54):
Because she has four dogs in the bed with her.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
Five Oh that doesn't go in the sure zeus doesn't.

Speaker 7 (29:59):
Go dogs in the bed, I'm afraid. And they're all little.
You can roll over, roll over and kill one of
these dogs.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
Like that's not why you don't do it because you
don't want to be because Muffin wakes you.

Speaker 7 (30:09):
Up to want to be.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
Pause at you.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
Small dogs weirdly take up a lot of rooms more
than you think.

Speaker 7 (30:14):
No, it's a great.

Speaker 6 (30:15):
What's weird to me though, is like she makes me
take my shoes off in the house.

Speaker 7 (30:19):
But these dogs who are out and about.

Speaker 6 (30:22):
Walking all over the city of Chicago can sleep in
bed with her.

Speaker 7 (30:25):
It's like it's not clean.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
I wipe their paws. It's still.

Speaker 5 (30:30):
Does work. I do the same.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
Oh my god, I wipe their pause and so like. Yeah,
so that even like sleep divorce.

Speaker 7 (30:37):
That's the reason we occasionally have sleep divorce.

Speaker 6 (30:40):
It's more than a case probably, And I like to
watch what I want to watch.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Okay, you know what, when you've been together so long
and you're like so secure in your marriage, it's okay,
you know what I mean, Like a lot of stuff
that you didn't used to do, you'll see you start
to do and it's okay.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
You know.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
But Bill and I are very very I don't know,
we're best friends. I mean, it's like I feel like
I just met you.

Speaker 7 (31:06):
I can't believe it's been twenty yeh. It's crazy.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
It's so crazy.

Speaker 7 (31:10):
We're so we're kids. I just looked at that video.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
So young was it.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
I can't even imagine Letting choosing to have the reality
show when they came to y'all, because how how long
had y'all been married when.

Speaker 6 (31:23):
They filmed our wedding? Yeah, we were the executive producers
of it though. Oh so we had Yeah, we did.

Speaker 7 (31:28):
You know, we had some control on it a little bit.

Speaker 3 (31:30):
I mean not really like letting.

Speaker 7 (31:32):
It wasn't like they just came in and stayed for
a month, right schedule. Yeah, we kind of.

Speaker 6 (31:37):
It was not it wasn't like The Bachelor or Apprentice
where you're living with cameras and everything, or Survivor.

Speaker 4 (31:47):
It was you know, we had men of Survivor so
much a lot of just wondering, like letting the letting
cameras into your life and documenting, you know.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
The the good, the bad, the real, all the things.

Speaker 6 (31:58):
Well, I think if we said we're going to do it,
we want to make it real and authentic. And that
was something we stuck with. Like people can smell when
it's not authentic, you know, like I can spot it
a mile away when I watched some of these shows.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
Yeah, but y'all survived, That's what I'm saying. Your relation
survived it. And then having and especially I guess it
was kind of before the craze of social media and
TikTok and people making a video about every single thing
that said or done or you know, so there was
that element.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
Of you escaped that part of it.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
But was there any hesitation doing a podcast and letting
people back into your relationship at all?

Speaker 1 (32:37):
I mean, I'll tell you, I will be honest with you.
We definitely had issues during the reality show, like how
could you not reading?

Speaker 7 (32:45):
So Bill?

Speaker 1 (32:46):
Like, I think I was much more open because I
was doing e every day and Bill had done a
huge reality show. But I think when we did our
reality like we would definitely like it was there was
tension because what like things we would decide to open
up on. Maybe he didn't feel like so comfortable at
the beginning and things like that. But like even when

(33:06):
we would do our interviews, remember so you know, the producers,
they would take Bill separately and they'd be like, Okay,
so Bill, you know today, here's what we're going to
talk about. And they would be asking him questions in
his interview and they'd be like, so Juliana said that
you said this to her after you guys had dinner

(33:27):
that night, and Bill's like, she told you that? And
I was like, the producers would coming and then Bill's like,
why are you telling them so? But our thing, you know,
we always had to I'm like, Bill, it's a reality show,
Like you can't just not you can't leave that stuff out,
so we have to like stick together. But it was
definitely hard.

Speaker 7 (33:47):
I mean, you could watch with your kids, you know.

Speaker 6 (33:50):
Yeah, we weren't flipping over tables at Christenings and you
know things like that.

Speaker 5 (33:55):
It was very wholesome.

Speaker 6 (33:55):
It was a wholesome show. Like you said, we tackled
a lot of really important issues. And even to this day,
I walk through an airport and someone will say, you know,
thank you. My family now knows what we're experiencing with
infertility because of your show. My wife got a mammogram
because she watched the Juhn Bill Show. And we haven't
done that show in ten years. Yeah, and still the
state people remember it.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
It still airs.

Speaker 7 (34:17):
Yeah, I guess it's still still on Amazon.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
Right, no YouTube, YouTube.

Speaker 7 (34:21):
Idea, We don't get a Nickel show.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
Yeah. I still get residuals from random things like I
had one line in the movie Fantastic four, a rise
of the Surfer or is it the Silver Surfer?

Speaker 2 (34:34):
Right?

Speaker 1 (34:36):
Yeah? Is that right?

Speaker 3 (34:36):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (34:38):
And I literally said one line, Oh my god, I
have a funny story about that. By the way, I
said one line, you know, just Scalba, Yeah movie, Okay.
I had one line. They flew me to Canada for it.
I was, you know, hosting E and they were like, oh,
we need a reporter. I'm like great, So I go
up there. I get hired to do this. I'm so excited.
They like paid me and everything. I still get residuals.
They're like they're like four dollars and twenty cents. But
I'm like this is amazing, Like this is great. I'm

(34:59):
still twenty years later. But the funny thing is when
they sent me to do that movie, I was so
excited and like they had a trailer for me. I'm like, wow,
this is like a big deal. Like I thought it
was only like a line, like I'm getting a lot
of like love here. So they had like everything for me.
I go out there. They're like Juliane, are you ready?
And then there's like a million extras. It's like a

(35:20):
whole huge set and all this stuff. I'm like, yeah,
I'm ready, and I'm holding my mic You're gonna die
and they're like action, background, action, and I'm like and
I'm just standing there looking at the camera and I'm like,
I'm sorry, where's the prompter. Where's the prompter? I'm on
a movie set and they go cut and the doctor's

(35:40):
like I'm sorry what And I go, oh, where's the prompter?
Isn't there a prompt? I don't know my lines? They
were like, you don't didn't memorize the lines and it
was like lines about characters and stuff like I don't
And I was like, I have no idea. They're like,
and like, all this stuff's budgeted like to the minute, right,
so it's not like I just go back and like

(36:01):
memorize it and come back. So I was like, oh
my god, of course. And they were like, you're acting
like you don't have a prompter. I was like, oh
my god.

Speaker 7 (36:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
And so anyway, I had to go off to the
side and I was like shaking. I was like, oh
my Mike. I called my agent. They were like, you've
got to be kidding that you didn't memorize the lines
on a major motion.

Speaker 5 (36:19):
Fail on her part or there whoever?

Speaker 4 (36:21):
Your agent, Yeah, they should tell you, like, no, you're
used to working with the prompter every day, like you
know you're gonna have to memorize your lines, and.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
You know what, it was major fail. I was like
I cannot But anyway, long story short, thank god, I
have like a pretty good memory, so I went off
and like had to memorize it. But yeah, so to
this day, they still send me checks for like almost
blowing that whole shoe. I've already got some so much money.
And I'm telling you, it was like I had to
say like character's names, so I didn't know any of it,

(36:49):
and so I have to go off and I'm like,
can you guys read me the lines like in between
I'm talking, I think they had to read the lines
to me. But that was my story there. But but anyway,
with the reality sho, I think that it was great.
We were really were really proud of the show.

Speaker 5 (37:04):
You know, it is excellent.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
I do feel like you were y'all story about infertility
was the first. When I think about talking about that publicly,
I feel like you were one of the first people
who was in your position with the amount of fans
and followers you had to openly speak about that.

Speaker 4 (37:21):
I can't even believe you did that because I'm like
trying as whatever I'm trying right now, and I'm like,
it's so crazy just even talking about that.

Speaker 5 (37:30):
Yeah, not even like the next.

Speaker 4 (37:32):
Step, because there's so it's like if I have one
more person, tell me just to get drunk and have
sex one more time.

Speaker 5 (37:38):
I'm like literally gonna like, yeah, have some sex. I'm like,
I'm going to punch you in yes. So I'm like,
I'm sure you got so much unsolicited advice.

Speaker 7 (37:47):
I mean, fifteen years ago was talked about. It was real.
It was it was like some shame, you know.

Speaker 5 (37:53):
There's still shames I can't even imagine.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was crazy. But that I don't know,
I just that was the thing. We just felt like
it was we had agreed to do this show. He
had come to us and said, you know, we want
to film your wedding in Italy, and then that led
to like, hey, a lot of people watch that special.
Would you ever do a reality show? And we were like,
only if it's positive, you know, because we're not we
don't have like drama, like I mean, you know, and

(38:17):
more than the regular person, and so we're not going
to fake anything. And they were like great, whatever, and
so yeah, and we're shooting the show, and the reality
was we weren't like we were having all this, you know,
all these issues trying up a baby, and so we're like,
are we going to open up about this, you know,
are we going to tell the producers? And so we did,
and I'm so glad we did because to this day,

(38:39):
I mean, people still tell us and people will still
come to me about like, hey, I'm thinking about getting
a surrogate, Like what do you think of that? You know,
And it's like because I had to We had to
get a stag as I was going through breast cancer
treatment because I was diagnosed with breast cancer. So just
opening up about all of it. Though looking back, it
was definitely hard during the time, you know, because it's
like you're living it, like all day long talking about it.

(39:01):
But at the same time it was it's so rewarding
because people got something from it, you know, and that
was exciting. So that's I think in a way, that's
why the podcast is an evolution of the show because
it's not like in our home, but it's still us
being able to like give people information.

Speaker 4 (39:18):
Yeah, it's still you guys are able to be yourselves. Also,
it's like not as invasive.

Speaker 7 (39:24):
Right correct.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
Yeah, although I feel like we're really like we didn't
talk about our like Colin's before and now we're talking
about and pooping number two.

Speaker 3 (39:33):
These are helpful to the people. You're doing this more
than people, Yeah, but I.

Speaker 1 (39:39):
Do feel like we're almost saying more.

Speaker 7 (39:42):
Yeah, it's weird. Yeah, that's pretty personally weird.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
Thing about it being a microphone in your face and
not a I mean we have cameras, but like not
a camera though.

Speaker 7 (39:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
Like sometimes we have a conversation and and then they
post a clip from the podcas and I'm like, oh, yeah,
we talked about that.

Speaker 5 (40:03):
Yeah, or like my husband will see it and he'd like,
you said that on the podcast.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
I'm like, yeah, I was so so.

Speaker 5 (40:07):
I'm so sorry. I didn't realized I was a secret.

Speaker 2 (40:10):
Sorry exactly how I My mind is blown that Duke
is fourteen, I know because he's six, And I'm like.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
He's six, isn't that crazy?

Speaker 7 (40:19):
Crazy?

Speaker 1 (40:20):
He's taller than me. He didn't want to go to today.
He's freaking out. Right before we came in here, listening
to Duke, we were in the other room and he's like,
I am not going. He's like, take away my phone
for a month, Like he's giving his full teenage punishments,
like I don't have to go on a big trip,
take away my phone for a but the and We're like,
he's such a good negotiator, our son. He's a master

(40:42):
manipulating negotiator, like hustles a time. He's a hustler, Like,
you've never seen anyone negotiate like this child in your life.
And even our adult friends were like, somehow Duke just
convinced me to like buy some I'm like, what is
he convinced you to do? But he's like relentless cann.

Speaker 7 (40:58):
Me to buy a car once and I literally woke
up the next time.

Speaker 6 (41:00):
I'm like, what did I do? I would want this car?
The guy just grinded me and grinding me. I'm like,
I've just tapped out. I'm like, I'm going, and I
went and bought the car, and I literally woke up
the next day with tremendous remorse. He does how the
hell did this happen?

Speaker 1 (41:14):
He does PowerPoint presentations. But what's so crazy is that
Bill sold the car and made money on it. So
that's good. So Duke is very good at like.

Speaker 7 (41:22):
I said, we're putting.

Speaker 6 (41:24):
We shipped it away for the winter for storage because
in the winter in Chicago you can't drive his car.
So I shipped it and put it in storage, and
then I sold it without telling him, but then he.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
Was happy because he knew Bill was bummed about buying it.
And then he's like, see, Dad, I told you you'd
make money, that it would go up in value. We
were always like cars go down in value, but Duke
is very yes. So before we came in, he's like,
I'm like, dude, you're going to lose your phone for
two weeks. He's like, make it a month. I'm like, well,
how was this.

Speaker 5 (41:54):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (41:55):
But guess what, he didn't go to tutoring because we're
not there. It did go to tutoring. Now he is
getting his phone taken away. Well, let's see if you want.
But my point is he is yeah, he's like very
he said that, or you said.

Speaker 7 (42:10):
That with this voice thingy, please answer my call.

Speaker 1 (42:16):
Anyway, He's just like this little man. He's hilarious. But yes,
he's so grown up. And he's now like half an
inch taller than me, and it's weird when your kid
gets taller than you. It's a little bit weird.

Speaker 7 (42:27):
He's in eleven men's shoes smell because he.

Speaker 6 (42:32):
Wears them without socks, and I was like, I put
on my sneakers and I'm in a meeting the other
day and like, oh my, that's me. My shoes smelled
so bad. And I'm in this meeting and it was
because he wears them without socks and sweat.

Speaker 1 (42:45):
He does.

Speaker 7 (42:46):
And my.

Speaker 6 (42:49):
People, I'm sitting in this room, tight room, and there's
that horrible smell and it's me and I'm like, oh
my god.

Speaker 3 (42:56):
Who came to this meeting smell?

Speaker 7 (42:57):
Yeah? I thought it was.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
I don't know why he wears your shoes, because he
is an amazing shoe collection. He loves shoes.

Speaker 2 (43:18):
So I mean, I'm thinking y'all describing him. I'm thinking
about your your comment earlier about you feel like you
can do anything and there's no stopping you. And then
I'm thinking about your mind and creating all these businesses,
and I'm like, of course your child is going to
be negotiating.

Speaker 7 (43:34):
Yes, that's what people say.

Speaker 1 (43:36):
They're like, he's the apple doesn't fall far from the
tree in terms of like he's very business minded. He's
always trying to come up with some business.

Speaker 8 (43:44):
He's not.

Speaker 1 (43:45):
Yeah it is, it's great, it's very good.

Speaker 7 (43:46):
No, he likes I mean, he better make a lot
of money when.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
He wants his birthday, like most kids want like Pokemon
his age or like you know whatever. He's like, Mom,
I want to take you. Can you like, can we
drive somewhere? I'm like, where do you want to go? Target? No.
He pulls up to a French like bakery and I'm like, oh,
are we getting like dessert? What do we do? We
walk in he wanted a tin of caviar. Five caviar.

(44:18):
I mean, what the heck this is not I go no,
and let me tell you why. I was like, duke a,
I'm not spending five French I don't. We don't need caviar,
Like for what is this? Yeah, And he somehow got
it in his head he wants this fancy caviar to go.
I wonder why.

Speaker 6 (44:34):
Well, he goes into all the RPMs and he goes
into the kitchen and he hangs out with the chefs
and they're like try this, dude, try that, and like
he's eating snow beef. You know this this Japanese wagoo
snow beef where it's up in the mountains, and it's
like this rare type of cot Like I don't even
so these chefs are.

Speaker 5 (44:52):
Really your fault. It's really at the end of the
Day Chefs.

Speaker 3 (44:58):
Collection. He's trying.

Speaker 5 (45:02):
We have to wrap.

Speaker 4 (45:03):
They they've got to go before you guys go. Okay,
obviously we're gonna Bill. It's hard to say. Bill and
Juliana thank you podcast. Everybody, make sure you listen to it,
check it out, give them some love. But before you go,
I did want to get your take on I'm sure
you've seen all this with like influencers on the Red Carpet,
our influencers interview.

Speaker 5 (45:22):
Have you seen any of this discourse?

Speaker 1 (45:24):
What's going on?

Speaker 5 (45:24):
Oh my god?

Speaker 4 (45:26):
There you know there was this No, there's a lot
we're not just named names, but like they have a
lot of influencers that they put on like the Red
Carpet to do interviews, and they're not the most prepared,
so the interviews get kind of awkward, they go south,
and so there's this whole like debate of like should
influencers should we bring back real journalists?

Speaker 5 (45:45):
And that's kind of like the big thing.

Speaker 6 (45:47):
Is, can I say if somebody that's in the background
she prepared for every Red Carpet, like like Mike Tyson
going in the ring, like studied, I would quiz her,
like you really could watch and that's and it showed
and these people think you can just show up.

Speaker 7 (46:01):
And it's not that simple, right, she worked, studied a job.

Speaker 1 (46:06):
It's a job, it is. I have to be honest, though,
I think, like, you know, not everyone's the same, right,
even when we were journalists on the red carpet, right,
we all had very different styles. So I think it's
like not so much about is it an influencer versus
a journalist. I just think it's about, as Bill said,
like is the person prepared? Like I'm all for that,

(46:26):
I really am. And I think that you know, it's
really about like people being in the moment. Like so
if this if it's an influencer, and they're really good
at like being in the moment. They love pop culture,
you know what I mean, Like they understand it, they
know who they're interviewing, they know what. Like For me,
I think so much as yes, I was prepared, but

(46:47):
I was also I used to always see interviews. Sometimes
I would prepare it by being a little unprepared. And
what I mean by that is like if you're so
prepared you're just looking at your notes. That's worse in
a way. You have to notice like oh this person's
shoes are like mismatched, so let's talk about that, or
being perceptive, or.

Speaker 7 (47:07):
They've got ten carrots of diamonds on their hands, yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:10):
Exactly, yeah right, or like, oh my gosh, this person
that I'm interviewing, I see behind them, like they're here
with their mom, Like I let's bring the mom in.
So it's just more about honestly, it's just more about
people who just like love this so much. Like when
I was doing Red Carpet for twenty years, like that
was all I was doing day and day out, was
watching movies, TV shows, listening to the music, like so

(47:31):
I could interview anyone and I was like, what's up?
Because I just felt like I could talk to you
about anything because I knew all your stuff. So I
think that like it's not so much journalists first influencer.
I honestly think it's just about the person's personality.

Speaker 4 (47:48):
It's so true, right, And because I'm like, it's not
I think some of these influencers that they were just
not prepared and you can just tell. And I think
it's just like more of a character thing versus like
influencer versus journalists.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
Yeah, because you get it. I mean I think, you
know e for so long, like we were all very
like prepared, and I think because we were like in
it all day. Yeah, you know, even with Ryan, you
know what I mean, Like you're interviewing these people constantly,
so when you would see them, there was like a
natural rapport.

Speaker 5 (48:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:14):
And so I think it's not about influencer journalists. It's
about if you're kind of put on a red carpet
and you don't like know these people yet, it's always
it can be awkward.

Speaker 4 (48:23):
But I think the red carpet has become less of
what it used to be. I feel like people do
not prepare when they go to do interviews journalists or
it's like a lot there's a lot of people lately.

Speaker 1 (48:33):
Yeah, I think, how would you not I would never
dream of not prepared.

Speaker 6 (48:36):
I think I think the red carpet is not what
it once was, just as far as people's interests and
if you look at the readings, right, because it's such
a fragmented business now there's so many people to know
between all the platforms and all the different shows and podcasts, like,
it's not it used to be a very small demographic

(48:57):
and now it's it's YouTubers and I mean these YouTube
are incredible.

Speaker 7 (49:04):
Beast is a billionaire these and you.

Speaker 1 (49:07):
Guys know, like when we were doing Red Carpet. At
the height of Red Carpet, it was, you know, we
didn't have social media the way we have to, right,
so you had to wait to see what a celebrity
was going to say or or someone was wearing. And
now before the Red Carpet even starts, every the celebrities
are posting their looks, they're posting what they had eight
that day, what they did that day, who they're coming with.

(49:29):
So like the urgency of tuning in live to watch
isn't there like it used to be so, And that's
definitely an Instagram thing, right. I think Instagram changed the
Red Carpet game and so because now every celebrity is
on Instagram and showing their lives, so it's just not
I think it's just a different day and age. You know,
things have just changed.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
And I think if you didn't know the glory days
of that, you don't realize how much you how much
we miss it because it was so exciting to see what.

Speaker 3 (49:58):
Someone was wearing and respected.

Speaker 2 (50:01):
It was I respected, but not and also not getting
to hear about them because we didn't know what they
were doing, whereas now we know you can actually ask
questions about what they did yesterday.

Speaker 1 (50:13):
You know that's it. I really think it's it. I
really don't. Yeah, I really think that's what's happened. So
it's like, what is like the new way to do
red carpet?

Speaker 7 (50:22):
Right?

Speaker 1 (50:22):
What is the like new interesting way to do it?
The modern way? So that's like, I think, whatever one.

Speaker 2 (50:46):
When you off the top of your head, because I
feel like you interviewed everybody multiple times, the famous of
the famous. Did you have anyone off the top of
your head where you look back and you're like I
loved every time I got to interview them, or I
can answer dreaded every time.

Speaker 7 (51:00):
Very few clear.

Speaker 1 (51:02):
George Clooney, like he just I always said, like the
bigger the star in a way, the more they would
understand like the game right, Like they would just give
you a great interview. And it was almost half the
reason why they were so famous is because they just knew,
like give them what they want, give us what we want.
Like when I want to red carpet and I'm interviewing you,

(51:24):
I'm not interviewing you because of the questions I want
to ask. I'm interviewing you for like all these people.
And you know, there was a time when He's red
carpet was in one hundred and forty countries, so we
were broadcast all around the world. People all around the
world would tune in, right, And so it's like when
I held that microphone, I always thought about that when
that light came on, all my nerves would go away,

(51:46):
and I was like, you're going to ask questions for
everyone watching around the world, like, and it might that's
why they weren't all so like serious. They were like fun. Yeah,
I always just had fun, tried to have fun. But
Clooney always like came ready to give not me, but
through me his audience, like when the fans what they wanted.
So he was like charming and cute and fun. So

(52:08):
George Cleary for sure was always fun.

Speaker 7 (52:11):
Sandra Bullock Love she was a big fan of The
Bill or the Julianna Bill Show.

Speaker 1 (52:16):
Yeah, she was walked off of stage. She came backstage
for your Live on E and I think it was
a golden globe. She was like holding a golden globe
and she literally like walks up I'm like, Sandralla, congratulations,
like she's coming into our room to do an interviews.
Be goes, oh my god. I loved the Juliana Bill show.
I was like, wait what And she went into a
whole thing because I loved to run a Beth and
watch Juliana Bill. And literally I was like, this is

(52:38):
a woman who never had to say that, and she knows.
She knows by saying that that, like she's making my
life right, like she's making my career dreams come true.
And it was like such an intentional, like little gift
she gave, Like it was cool.

Speaker 4 (52:52):
She was still signing for you too, like yeah, like
you got I love the show.

Speaker 5 (52:56):
You should all watch it too.

Speaker 1 (52:57):
Yeah, you know, And like for her to have that
just she was cool enough to do that.

Speaker 7 (53:02):
Lady, the girl's girl, Lady.

Speaker 6 (53:04):
Whenever she was on the red carpet, she would mention
the RPM restaurants because she would come in.

Speaker 5 (53:08):
She's a foodie.

Speaker 7 (53:09):
She made me sit and have dinner with and.

Speaker 6 (53:17):
She was so nice and I sat and had dinner
with her and they were like, let's call Juliana and
She's like Shela thought it was some drunk girl from
the restaurant, like, hey, how someone wants to say hi.

Speaker 7 (53:28):
She's like no, no, no, no, no no no. I was like,
who's the back in the heyday? People were like can
we call her? And she's like Stephanie, Stephanie.

Speaker 6 (53:38):
It was so like major, but she would promote our restaurants.

Speaker 7 (53:42):
She could get I love it.

Speaker 1 (53:43):
I remember I was walking off the stage I just hosted.
I used to host the Miss USA and Miss Universe
pageants for like a stretch of time and I was
canic off. Oh my god, dream come true. I was
walking off stage. The show had just ended. I mean
we were live. It was like Miss Universe. Can you imagine?
I think Olivia Colpole won that I did it well.
She definitely won. When I Yeah Universe, when Lady Gaga call,

(54:09):
when Lady Gaga was on the call, I think it
was the Olivia cople one. So literally like the broadcast
is over, Oh my gosh, We're like celebrate. I'm walking
off the stage. The phone rings, it's Bill and I
think it's Bill calling to say like congratulations. I watched
Miss University did.

Speaker 7 (54:22):
A great job.

Speaker 1 (54:23):
And I'm r. Pimian and so a girl. I have
a you know woman don't want to talk to you.
I'm like what, I'm like, I just finished Miss Universe.

Speaker 7 (54:31):
Could it be you're gonna want to talk to them?

Speaker 1 (54:33):
And she's like, Juliana, I'm like, it's like it's Stephanie.
I'm like, and I just knew immediately. I'm like, Hi, you.

Speaker 5 (54:39):
Knew i'd be like I did.

Speaker 1 (54:42):
And it was that she was like, I'm here with
your lovely husband and I'm having a beautiful She is
the nicest person. She was always so lovely to me
on the red carpet, and that's what I mean, like
the big stars that were just like incredible, and she
just yeah, I just loved her. And and once again
always I think she like and I don't know this

(55:03):
for sure, but I feel like she like knew in
her head, like you know, like this is a gift
to you, you know What's just like she's such a nice person.
And so I think those are like three that come
to my for sure.

Speaker 3 (55:16):
Ye, Sandra is her number done. She's obsessed.

Speaker 5 (55:26):
Those are major.

Speaker 1 (55:28):
So it was a great time and I don't know,
I wish we could like come back to that time again,
you know, where you could have those like amazing moments I.

Speaker 4 (55:36):
Know, but I think also and now it's because like
there's like you're saying, the bigger, the star, the they
would use you to like get to their fans, like
they wouldn't like you know what I mean, But now
there's so much on if you ask the wrong question
and they get offended and no, like the big ones,

(55:56):
the big ones, they can they can take it and
they all just like spin it and I'll say whatever
they want, do you know what I mean?

Speaker 5 (56:01):
They're not gonna do that, and you make.

Speaker 1 (56:03):
It's a different time.

Speaker 7 (56:04):
It is definitely have an idea. Why don't we have
you guys on our show and we'll continue this question.

Speaker 6 (56:13):
You guys, sorry when you come on our show. I
want to know what you think of the mam and
to Pandy food. So please go home and try it.

Speaker 1 (56:20):
I will.

Speaker 4 (56:20):
My husband's like a big food yeah, I mean, he's
very into cooking right now.

Speaker 1 (56:26):
Dot com ok Iant, can I tell you something Ralph
here and we gave you hats too. I hope you like. Yes,
I mean, and we have other colors.

Speaker 7 (56:32):
Get a hat because it's a Chicago thing.

Speaker 5 (56:34):
I am glued for you though, so I will not
partake in the pasta but I'll have.

Speaker 3 (56:39):
Cut ma.

Speaker 1 (56:43):
Wait, can I say something to do?

Speaker 2 (56:44):
You know?

Speaker 1 (56:44):
It would be a great episode with the two on
our show? Would be about so many people are interested
in starting a podcast and like how do you break
in in the history of and you guys were why.

Speaker 7 (56:55):
Are you laughing? People starting podcasts?

Speaker 2 (57:00):
Know?

Speaker 4 (57:01):
To me, there there could there could be not enough podcasts.
I really feel more podcasts the better. Like our listeners
are tried, they are sticking with us and they'll go
with other things, but they're there.

Speaker 1 (57:12):
There's enough time, there's nothing but time. But wouldn't that
be a cute episode. Don't you feel like people want
to do I.

Speaker 5 (57:19):
Would love to do a podcast. I just feel like
I don't know if we'd have.

Speaker 2 (57:22):
Like Donia doesn't take our podcast. She thinks that she
we had guests last week and she goes, oh, like basically,
why why did y'all choose to be on our podcast?

Speaker 3 (57:31):
Like Dona we have been.

Speaker 5 (57:34):
And James Lafferty and they had no other.

Speaker 1 (57:36):
Podcast award winning, win a lot of awards.

Speaker 5 (57:41):
We want to People's Choice, the word.

Speaker 1 (57:42):
Wow, they're huge.

Speaker 7 (57:43):
We got to get in on this race.

Speaker 8 (57:45):
I know.

Speaker 1 (57:45):
But they were the o G. So that's what I'm saying,
I think that want to such a good episode because
you could talk about like how like when did they
notice they made it, how does it work? Like? I
think people are so interested in the business side of it.

Speaker 5 (57:59):
That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (58:00):
We love to come on your podcast. We'd love to come.

Speaker 1 (58:03):
I have to come on your podcast where you rescue
a dog and we do a whole episode about your restaurant,
dog to Chicago.

Speaker 7 (58:08):
We'll take you out to one of the We'll do it.

Speaker 4 (58:10):
Your podcast in Chicago rest Yeah, live from our PM.

Speaker 3 (58:16):
Yeah, there we go.

Speaker 7 (58:17):
So well.

Speaker 2 (58:17):
Thank you guys, Thank you so much for shaking the time.

Speaker 3 (58:21):
Thank you for letting me hold your precious dogs.

Speaker 2 (58:23):
And congratulations on all the things, the restaurants, the podcast, thank.

Speaker 1 (58:31):
The marriage.

Speaker 5 (58:34):
Sixty yeah, and all this strong willed child.

Speaker 7 (58:39):
You have no idea.

Speaker 4 (58:41):
Please listen Bill and Juliana the podcast. It's available now.
Show them some love and we love you guys.

Speaker 1 (58:47):
Thank you guys, Thank you guys.