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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to I Choose Me with Jenny Girl. Hey, everyone,
welcome to I Choose Me. Today.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
We've got a quick little holiday bonus inspired by Ross
matthews hilarious book name Drop. So we've thought it would
be fun to play our own fast, festive name drop
game from childhood traditions to unforgettable celebrity moments and of
course rossippies he swears by. Let's jump right in name
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drop fun. Okay, quick fire holiday bonus with Ross Matthewska,
what is ready?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Are you ready?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
I'm ready? Hello?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Ho one holiday tradition you did as a kid that
you've brought into your adult life.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Go. That would be Nana's potatoes. And it was my
favorite thing as a kid. Okay, it is so trashy
and so delicious. Okay, ready, Obrian potatoes frogs. I'm gonna
give you the recipe right now, and everyone, this is
a roscipe. You guys, listen up, take notes. Okay, So
one bag, frozen O'Brien potato hash brown things, the square
ones got it square one's eye. And if you want
to do the peppers and onion ones, do that? Go creasy?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
What about the shredded ones?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
You can do that. I don't care. Do it go nuts.
I've made this, don't I've made it with the cauliflower before.
You want to be healthier too, Oh so put that
in a casserole dish. Then mix two cups of grated
sharp shuddar cheese with like basically a bagg of cheddar
cheese and a whole bagule bag essentially, and then a tuba.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Wait, what's happening.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
It's like two cups of each, but essentially it works
out to the like the tub of sour cream, the
bag of cheddar cheese, two cups each. Mix it. It's
calm down, I'm really it's good. It's near that sinning
just hearing about it. Go ahead, you smear that on
top of the frozen potatoes. Then are you ready for this?
Two cups of corn flakes in a bowl mixed with
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like uh some melted butter, mix, mix mixics mix, Spread
that on top of it, bake it in the oven
three seventy five for like an hour, and you are welcome.
I bring that everywhere, to every holiday. I bring that.
It is the best thing ever. Good Lord, I want
that in my mouth, in my belly, right okay, I'll
make it for you if I'm ever with you on holiday.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
The corn flakes really sent me over the edge, though.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Okay, on days like we're having right now in the
holiday season, when calories don't count. What's your dream Starbucks order?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Oh my god? So okay, oh god, get it, get
it all that you want. Okay. I'm much more of
a salty person than a sweet. But if I'm going
to do it, I would do some sort of salted caramel,
like I would do frozen. I like an ice beverage.
I don't care. You know that movie Alive when it's
like so cold they're eating each other. I'd still ask
for a prappuccino there, Like I like a cold beverage,
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So I would. I would do some sort of salted
caramel something, just where they do the kramel on the
side of the cup on the inside so you see it. Yeah,
I would do that.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Oh, and then you get to scrape the edges with
the straw and get it all out.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I would put it on the ground and lick it
into a corner like a dog.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Bold Oh, so you can really get some leverage. Yeah,
I like that favorite teacher. What was it that they
taught you or how do they make you feel?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I had great teachers. Kathy Clark Smith was a She
was actually a like a substitute teacher. She was like
a student teacher, but later in life she went to
school to become one. And she thought I was fabulous
at a time when I could have easily gone the
other way. And I remember like she would ask me
my opinion on things, which I thought was interesting. And
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then when I was like the lead of the school play.
Of course you probably know, there's still Tony buzz for
my performance as Henry Higgins and my Fair Lady, and
she showed up in a like a thrist store ball
gown to watch me perform, and I just felt like
I was the most popular boy in school.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Oh, that's so special when someone sees you.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Are you watching? Wait?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Sorry, I'm totally going off, but are you watching the
show where they don't see each other and then they
get married?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Was blind? Of course every episode?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Okay, did you watch the end?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Wait? Are you talking about Love is Blind? Or Married
at First Sight?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
No?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Love is Blind? I like them both, But okay, I
watch Love is Blind? Okay, do I see at the end? Continue?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Did you see at the end Edwards Edwin. Edwin's teacher
came back.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
That yeah, was the most the ways that she just
like held him and reassured them that he was a
worthy human.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
That was your Kathy Joan Smith.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Is that her name? Kathy Clark Smith.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Kathy Clark Smith. That was Kathy.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
By the way, I'm still Facebook friends with Kathy Clark
Smith and she's doing great. She looks great.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
I love that for Kathy.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Kathy.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Good things happen to good people.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
I'm gonna send this to Kathy Clarkslyss She's going to
be screaming.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Okay, name drop a relative, grandparent, uncle, aunt, somebody in
your family who has made a significant impact on your
life and why.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Okay, I'll pick my uncle John who he and my
aunt Jill, So both of them, John and Jill were
just here visiting. And when I was in high school,
like later in high school and wanted to go to college,
I mean, we had no money, and he bought me
a ticket to go to a visit to the college,
you know, to like go there and meet with them.
And that's how I got all these scholarships. And it
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was because he bought me probably a two hundred dollar
ticket from Seattle to la that that happened, and you
think about like just a little gesture like that, and
twohunjo is not nothing, but it's something we couldn't have afforded.
And the fact that he did that and that twohund
dollars impact in my life so much is I don't know.
It's just indicative of how large even little impacts it
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little gestures can be on people's lives. So Uncle John
and Antil, A lot.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Of celebrities have come through your life, whether on red
carpets or on the couch on the show. Who was
one person that wore something so amazing that you've never
forgotten it?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Who wore something?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yes, who wore something that like you were like a gasp?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I can you know? Miley Cyrus sat next to me.
I love her. She sat next to me on drag
Race And have you done You've done drag Race? Right? Yeah?
So you know there it's like kind of a long day.
You're there for maybe eight ten hours. It's just long,
so you get to really converse. And she was wearing
a dress that had it was made out of records
and it would looked so imagine sitting in a dress
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made out of records for right, yeah, and it was
so like and she was had to be so uncomfortable
it's cold in there, and she just didn't complain. And
I remember reading all the record it was made from
real records, all the records that they were, and so
I was like, one, it was Miley, and then two
I wanted to look at the dress and read it,
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and I was concerned about her, but it almost looked
like pervy that I was like looking so hard at her.
So it was like this constant battle not to freak
out Miley Cyrus. But on that show in particular, people
wear looks that are instantly I from the queens to
the guests, and so that I think that's one of them.
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It should be on the Smithsonian.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, she's got some crazy good style. Okay, it is
the holidays. I need some I need one more recipe.
I need a sweet one. Now.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I know you like savory, but give me a sweet one.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Okay, okay, but it's still going to be salty. So okay, Okay,
this is not it's a Rossby in essence about trying
to crack the coat and make them healthy. This isn't healthy.
So but I'm going to give you how raw seats dessert.
There's this place called Quality Italian on fifty eighth and
six that I love in New York. It's a great
restaurant and they do this like as everyone else is
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getting cheesecake and all this stuff, They'll bring me just
a scoop of really great vanilla ice cream drizzle with
a little olive oil and then big chunky flakes of
sea salt on top of it. That is per because
it's not overly sweet. There's that you know, salt, What
it does to a sweet thing. It's so good. That's
what I would do.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Oh my god, I love salting sweet things.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Ross.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Have you ever had watermelon with salt? Or like a
blood orange with salt on it?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
That's how my dad used to eat it. He would
cut it and have to just pour salt on it
and then like scoop it out.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Yeah, me too, It's weird.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Do you ever dip a French friend in that ice
cream with olive oil?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Now there's a line, Jenny Garth, I'm not going to
CRUs it. Okay, did you ever get a frosty? I
understand it, Yes I have. I don't like that. I
like fries and ketchup okay, or tartar sauce. I would do.
I love a tartar sauce. That's an underrated You're.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Really not a sweet guy.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
No, I mean you are a sweet eye.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
But yeah, what's one thing you learned from j leno?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Oh, show up on time? Be nice. Everyone gets home
to dinner on time. That's good professionalism. Perhaps exactly Okay,
same question for Drew. That's one thing, if you could
narrow it down to one thing. Drew teaches me so much.
Drew's We're very different, very different. I'm much more I'm
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much more structured, I think, and or maybe I am.
She's magic. She talks about the camera. She literally calls
the camera a butterfly net that captures life's moments. That's
how she thinks of like a film camera or the
camera in the studio, and that's how she approaches the show.
If you think about it, when you were shooting the show,
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she doesn't know where camera one is or camera two,
and she doesn't care. I know where camera one is
and camera two is and what camera I'm on and
who's cutting to next, Like I'm very hyper aware of
that stuff, and she just wants this authentic thing that's captured,
and that's her approach to everything. There's nothing that's not authentic.
I could fake it. I can like smile through some
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pain and get to commercial break and then go cry
in a corner and come back and get back to work.
She's not that, and I'm so envious of that, Like,
why do I put that pressure on myself that I
have to be that when what really people are seeking
out is authenticity and Drew is is just authentic through
and through, and that is not only something I envy,
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but something I am working to emulate.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Okay, what is.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
One funny on air red carpet oopsies that you can
laugh about? Now?
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Oh, I called Dame Elizabeth t Taylor day Medna once
on accident. Oh no, they told me to call her
Dame Elizabeth, and I was in my head, I was like, oh,
like day Medna. And then I walked in and there
was a dog barking, and I didn't know I was
going to interview her. There's like thirty seconds I had
to prep you know, like literally, they said, oh, come here,
Elizabeth Taylor, and I told you I wouldn't be interviewing her,
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which made more sense like I shouldn't. And then they said,
like Dame Elizabeth, like Dame Edna. So I walked in,
she was like not what I sured? It was different,
and it just came I go, Dame Edna, it's a
bit Taylor like that.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Did she notice?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Yeah? Yeah, we all did. And then what I love
about myself is that rather than like edit that out
for the tonight show, I aired it, paused it and
did a voice or that said I just called her
Dame Edna. Listened back, and then we played it back
in slow motion so good, just to embarrass myself further,
but you know it, Dame ed No that I wish
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I could have met her now because she loved gay men.
I know a lot of men who like Martin Lawrence
Billard is a friend of mine. He's this brilliant designer
and he knew her and like would hang like they
knew each other, and she was fabulous, And I just
feel like I would have loved her and she would
have loved me for reals if I could have been
my real self.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Oh my god, okay named her up eminems are skittles, yes, okay, good, good,
that's it. You've passed all the name drop tests.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Well, I had to taste the rainbow at the end,
you know. Thank you for saving that for me.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
You're welcome. I love you so much.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Happy Holidays to you and your fam and Audrey you too.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
I've been looking forward to this, you know, for for
a long time, and thank you for being just exactly
and even better than what I pictured.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Thank you, I love you.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I love you too.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Bye.