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April 2, 2024 37 mins

Amy and T.J. are in Los Angeles at the iHeartRadio Music Awards with all the details. 

From Beyoncé to Timberlake, from the yellow carpet to backstage encounters, you don’t want to miss a thing.  

And then, in the middle of it all, they are surprised by two unexpected celebrity guests.

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hey, that phone's Welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ.
Coming you to you from a different location per usual,
Not in Mittel Manhattan at the iHeart Studios this time,
but instead I am sitting next to, as we speak,
a very lovely dressed Amy Robot. There are sparkles in

(00:24):
that dress you're wearing. Yes, there's a lovely backdrop with
lovely greenery and lighting. There's soft music playing.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Do tell oh, we are at the Roosevelt Hotel in
Los Angeles, in Hollywood, because we just came back from
Why are you looking at me like that?

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Because I had a whole mood going. I had a
whole thing going.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Is that well, we guys in a game show. Yes, sorry,
this is the price is right?

Speaker 2 (00:51):
I know. So we just got back from the iHeart
Music Awards, just walked across the street and I had
a blast.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
It was so much on You had a blast.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Oh, of course I had a blast. But this was
a journey started for us on Sunday.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
We flew out here.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
And this is something we haven't had in a while.
You and I were talking about we haven't had any
downtime or off time, and being in a plane for
five plus hours was kind of a nice getaway.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yes, coming out to LA in the first place, it was.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
And so we had a very early start because we
had to get one of the first flights out to
get to La in time to watch March Madness.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Let's just be honest, Why don't we just say because
I had an emergency.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
I had to watch two games, specific games. Thank god
it was just two. So we had to race from
the airport to the hotel.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
We literally threw our bags in our room, did we not,
and then ran off the door.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Oftentimes people, oh, I think really, literally is one of
the most overused words in language.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
However, she used it accurately exactly.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
We tossed through the bags and then ran to the
nearest sports bar so we could catch the games. I
say all of this to say we had We were excited,
we were going to be in La.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
We didn't have kids to think about, a worry about.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
We just got to kind of have Yes, we're working,
but we got to have some much needed alone time.
So we were going to go out to dinner when
we got back to the hotel room, and we had
a whole night planned and at six point thirty we okay, fine,
but six thirty pm we came back to regroup. I
put that in air quotes, but no one can see
me to regroup. We fell asleep and then we woke

(02:39):
up at twelve thirty as in midnight thirty and realized
that we missed the entire night and we were wide awake.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
So that was a bit of a problem.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
So we turned on in Citius three duh at twelve
thirty to two thirty. Yeah, and then I think we
did fall back asleep from two thirty to four thirty.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
At that point, if it's four o'clock on the East coast,
you were awake. I'm awake, so my body clock was there.
So yes, we watched a couple of movies and then what.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
Did you say to me? Run?

Speaker 5 (03:10):
You ready to run?

Speaker 4 (03:11):
And I was like, give me a sec per usual,
But anyway, we ran.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Had a beautiful day and actually are still pretty wide
away given that wacky, weird sleep situation we had going on.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, and we felt great today, got a great run
and on the Walk of Fame.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
But the event tonight it was a yellow carpet at
the iHeart Awards. Again, we appreciate the invitation coming out
of course, people know. This is iHeart podcast. We've been
in business with them now in a partnership for the
past it was six months plus or so, so it's
great to get invited to things like this. And I
guess the evening started. We had to do a red

(03:49):
carpet walk. The carpet, however, was yellow yellow. Yes, they
gave us a heads up about that, and you appreciated
it because to you, the first thing you thought about
was my dress color.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
Yes, I didn't know a yellow carpet.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
There are certain colors that might clash that you could
wear with a red carpet, but not with a yellow car.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
With clashes with a yellow car. I don't want to.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
Point anyone out who might have worn these colors.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
But yeah, very good right there.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
But I just I made a choice to have a
muted kind of pastel just to not compete with the
bright yellow. So I went with a mint green bodice dress.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
It's a lace bodice lace. Yeah, it's no, you got
bodice right, That was good.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
You'll know what that means lace bodice. Yes, boy, girl
knows what I say. Bodice. That's not correct.

Speaker 4 (04:40):
I have to say, well, it's a lace bodice.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Just to be clear, it's a bodie. It just happens
to be lace. Yes, all right, yes, okay, there are
four in the room.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
They're all looking at you like yes, ok that's correct,
and then you yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:53):
So we had fun getting glammed up, right, you had a.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
Blast getting glammed up. So this is so funny, I Heart.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
They were very sweet because I'm actually not used to
this now these days, having anyone who does my hair
or my.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
Makeup and so.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
But they scheduled TJ for a thirty minute session for
his glam team.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
How did that go?

Speaker 3 (05:16):
I canceled? You canceled for me? Actually yeah, TJ says he.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
Doesn't need a glam team.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
You know when you're born that way.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
No, no, no, no, but I you, I'd love you are
very familiar with me and my affinity for makeup, yes,
but not in anything. But it was funny. They had
me booked something and Emma. We want to give love
to Emma from London.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
It's amazing. Okay.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
We met her when we first started our partnership with iHeart.
She was did your hair and makeup today? And she
has you on fire. You told to do something?

Speaker 3 (05:45):
What with your hair.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
I just said, do whatever you want with my hair.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
I didn't care.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
I was like, you know what, someone else is doing it,
so I'm so happy, So whatever you want.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
You would not have done this on your own. No,
it looks great. You got to get everything work.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
And it's a little rock and roll.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
It's a little bit more edgy and I typically would be.
But she is amazing, So yes, thank you, Emma. And
she was doing so many folks, so she squeezed me
in at the end. We squeezed into the red carpet,
but oh, sorry, the yellow carpet. But just in time
to see one of our new best friends.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Oh, I was going back even before that best friend.
Two before we got into the pictures, and we were
standing and waiting, right somebody who offers you some jewelry?

Speaker 3 (06:32):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yes, toy spelling, So she's great. So Tory was waiting
in line with us. But she had had a fashion
emergency earlier, and so I don't know how it happened,
but somehow the.

Speaker 4 (06:42):
Dress she was supposed to wear it got misplaced.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
So some of her reps came running into the room saying,
does anyone have a dress that toys spelling can borrow,
by the way, who could fit, Like, I don't think
Tory Spelling could fit into any one of our dresses
because she's, yeah, she is an amazing rock and body, and.

Speaker 4 (07:01):
So I was like, good luck with that.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
But she somehow found a pair of pants from someone
and a top from her daughter, and she made it
all work. And she was blinged out with really cool
jewelry and yes, I realized I had none, so she
was offering me some of her rings.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
It was very sweet.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
She was like, hey, look, I know what it's like
to be without. So that was all happening behind the scenes.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
One of those surreal moments.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
I am standing on a carpet, a yellow carpet, red carpet,
waiting to go have my picture taken with you, talking
to Tory Spelling right and talking about exchanging jewelry.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Oh my gosh, s please nine O, two and zero.
When I was coming up, she was like everything, So, yes,
that would have been I would have been geeking out
a million times over if I had seen that in
my high school and college days.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (07:46):
So she was very sweets, like, please take whatever you want.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
But you know, everyone has little fashion emergencies in the end,
and I just decided I was going with a a
very clean look.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
The song's jewelry clean, very basic. Actually, did you have
a wardrobe emergency of any kind? No, No, I didn't.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
It was just that I realized that I didn't think
out my jewelry situation.

Speaker 4 (08:11):
But it's fine.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
Wow, I don't think I did either.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
Yeah, well, you were trying to look for jewelry at
the very end. We were actually going to jewelry stories
at the last minute.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
For you, you want to call really Marshall's the jewelry store.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
That is true.

Speaker 4 (08:24):
So before we hit the red carpet we ran.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
We first looked up when Marshall's was open, which was
at nine thirty eight, if anyone wants to know, on
Hollywood Boulevard Marshalls is open.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
We were thinking that maybe because TJ.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Max sometimes has jewelry in the cases that actually is
really nice fourteen care gold like legit great jewelry, I
thought Marshalls might have it as well.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
They did not. But you were looking for a jeweled
but jewels really fun to people that I'm looking for.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
A jeweled either tie clip or would you call a
man's brooch?

Speaker 4 (09:07):
You're looking what was it?

Speaker 3 (09:10):
God? You were looking for a man's brooch.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
You say it like that, Yes, I was looking for
him dassel tee.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
No, it's a lapel pin. It's a lapel.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
Didn't you want somethling on it? Which is called what
in your world be dazzled? Okay? Yes? No, what word
did you use?

Speaker 4 (09:41):
I said dazzled? I said a dazzle jewels jewel?

Speaker 3 (09:45):
Yes, see same different, but yes, we go to Marshalls
at nine thirty a m. Looking this is all true.

Speaker 4 (09:58):
It's funny because it's true.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
Okay, yes, but will you say it out loud? Now awful?
You know you say it out loud.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
TJ Amy Robot went to Marshalls on Hollywood Boulevard at
nine looking for open Jesus. Okay, that's mad. Okay, when
you say it that way, it.

Speaker 4 (10:22):
Sounds oh man, Yes, our secret is out.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
Okay, Yes, but you know this is shocking. We didn't
find one. What do your point? And you're right? A
lot of people TJ. Max different. It's we learned. They
have a jewelry case. Sometimes there's a security guard.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
Even there are keys in ball things are locked up
and Marshalls, however, there is a carousel that says Jewelry
fourteen ninety nine on it. That's a true story as well.
We we left fairly fairly soon after riting.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
In Marshall, and then we went to Pandora to try
and see if but.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
They are sort and they were closed.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
So when you see the pictures of us from the
iHeart Awards and you look closely at TJ and say, wow,
he looks nice, but he's missing something. It was a
bejeweled lapel pin.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
And you won't you will notice there's not a lapel pen.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
No, no, but you know what next time and you
could go maybe somewhere, maybe.

Speaker 4 (11:19):
Go to TJ Max next time, beforehand, beforehand.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
I'll do it ahead of time.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
All right, We get through pictures, we get yes to
what you were saying a second ago, down to our
new best.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
Friend Gavin Rossdale. You were very excited to see.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
It was very exciting. Hopefully if any of you all
listened to the podcast. If you haven't, just look back
a few episodes. Gavin was on the show just a
few weeks ago and he was amazing. We became new
best friends, and as it turns out, it seems like
we continue to have therapy sessions with people that we
don't intend to, but we did have one with Gavin, so.

Speaker 3 (11:51):
It was funny.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
Just a few weeks have passed, we see him and
it's almost like there's a connection that went deeper than
just an interview, because we had a therapy session with Gavin.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
So it was great to see him and his new girl.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
Yes, he talked about her on our podcast. She was there.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
She was great, she was gorgeous.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
Time with her, Yeah, she was great. She was great.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
But it was it was it was an energy and
a warmth and just we did. We looked like there
was a reunion of friends. I hadn't seen each other
in a long, long time, but it was. It was
great to see him on the carpet and the fans
were great as we were. You and I have both
covered a lot at the Adobe Theater before, yes, some
oscars there, and to walk through there now and not
be going to work or having to do an interview.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
We walked through this throng of fans and folks wanting.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
To take our pictures and give us high five. We
stopped a lot and this lot I've never had gotten
the chance to do that walk before.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Oh my gosh, it was the closest we'll ever get
to doing that walk. But yes, we've always been on
the other side of it. So it was really cool
to be on the inside walk up those famous steps
that you see the celebrities walk up on the oscars.
But we got to walk up there and was not
lost on me. I was taking it all in. And
we got into the theater and you got to see
an old friend. Well, we got to see an old

(13:04):
friend who ended up presenting later in the awards, Nissi
nash I hope we.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
Get to tell that story later because we haven't even
totally fully to Nissi.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
We need to get her on the podcast.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
We will, we will, we will, But Nissi was it's okay,
well we'll say it here and hopefully we'll tell the
story later. But Nissi played an integral part and she
didn't even realize she did in our story, our story
being me and Robes. So it was good to see
her put her arms around her again and.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
She just lights. She always just likes the place up
with her smile.

Speaker 4 (13:34):
It was very fun to see her.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
So yeah, we got to also see well, maybe you
said it was a highlight for.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
You, the highlight of my night, Flavor Flavor. Yes, he
had the big time piece on.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
We got it going, but Flavor Flavor look obviously iconic
and hip hop. But I've never met the brother I've
never met.

Speaker 3 (13:59):
You were and.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
You saw it happen, and then he said it. He
got up from where he was we were standing with NISI
and worked his way down to come put his arms
around me. Now, you and I have talked about this
a lot to where we are. We went through a
phase in our life not too long ago where we
had our heads down thinking everybody hates us and or
it's looking at us funny, just in shame into a

(14:23):
certain degree, and it's been taking us a while to
get our heads back up high and to have someone
like that or anybody, But then to have him make
the effort and have the words he had for me tonight,
to embrace us the way he did. It absolutely was
a highlight.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
Went and that was really cool. I loved seeing it.
It was awesome.

Speaker 4 (14:42):
Yeah, that was a moment. There were so many moments
when we first sat down.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
I actually had to send this to my girls because
JT justin timberly coming out singing my new favorite song
that I have had on repeat NonStop.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
I mean, but he did it in a way we
hadn't heard before.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
That was I think his guitars are selfish.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
It was so so good and then broke out into
song and dancing and just man, I was impressed that
it was really cool. I felt really honored to be
there to witness that it.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
Is wildly talented and he is done my longevity. He
keeps putting them out. He can still put out his
and still sounds sounds like that and after all these years,
that was fun.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
So many amazing performances, I have to say. Also, I
was taking some texts from family members who were watching
along while we were in this studio, actually in the
amazing Adobey Theater watching it all happen. But how cool
was it to see Meryl Streep introduce Jennifer Hudson who

(15:55):
introduced Share, like to have those three powerhouses on the
stage to hear Share and Jennifer Hudson do a duet
of her. I mean, it was it was a pinch
me moment for I was blown away being able to
witness that.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Seeing Meryl Street walk up on the stage, Yeah, that
woman is just special. And to think she's standing next
to Share. Those are those are I don't even know
if icon is the right word, but that's it, that
those are iconic women who've had iconic careers. And that
line about shares se d year seven decade decades has

(16:34):
a number one hit in seven decades. I don't yeah
anyone ever, can anybody do that? That's unbelievable.

Speaker 4 (16:40):
She is the only one here in the United States.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
And to have Share and like Yes and Meryll having
the same kind of track record, and to keep going
to still be influencers and to be inspirational for like
my daughters, I mean, look up to both of those women.
So it was really remarkable to see them on the stage.
That Jennifer Hudson singing Holy Moy, that was remarkable. Also

(17:03):
performance his wait jelly Roll, Can we talk about that?

Speaker 3 (17:07):
Seems like you're about to Well, you.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
Were making fun of me because I was supposed to
be preparing for this podcast and I was downloading his
music because the second I walked outside of the theater,
I'm like, I gotta listen to everything this dude is
put out.

Speaker 4 (17:18):
It was so good, so powerful.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
The song is one thing save me.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
A lot of people know, but he I can't remember
what other award show it was that he got so
much attention for his thing. I think it was a startry.
He was a country award show. But when he gets
on a mic, he is He's always speaking from the heart.
We saw some people's Sometimes people want to do rehearse
their speeches or there is not as personal. He just

(17:46):
starts talking and it is just flowing from his heart.
And his acceptance speech tonight was another one that people
will be downloading and talking about for the next several days, weeks, months,
and even years.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
Wait, so it's so funny we've been talking about the
night and we've not really even well, maybe we buried
the lead. Beyonce was at the Dolbe Theater there tonight,
which was remarkable to see her.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
It was so cool.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
Anytime we were in the same room with Beyonce, it's
something to tell everyone else about.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
That's it.

Speaker 4 (18:19):
I mean that I was there and she was there,
and we were in the.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
Same room and it was really cool, and it doesn't matter.
That's that's how I tell the story. Yes, I was
at the iHeart Radio Awards with Beyond, and I leave
it there. Yes, same room, she was there, I was
there enough set. We were there usual imagination, right, we
could have been mingling, we could have been or I
could have been on road seventy seven and she was

(18:44):
up front.

Speaker 4 (18:45):
It doesn't matter, No, it really doesn't.

Speaker 3 (18:47):
But yeah, well she's doing with that album now. I
haven't had a chance to go through the whole thing,
have you.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
No, because I can't get her song out of my head.
It isn't a constant loop.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
If you're sticking with the one. Well, that's the.

Speaker 4 (18:57):
One that we've been playing over and over and over.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
But I haven't had a chance to listen to the
whole thing. But obviously, and that other moment you talk
about Maryland share on.

Speaker 3 (19:07):
Stage, Beyonce and Stevie Wonder. Yeah, wait, yes, Stevie Wonder
coming back introduce. Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
Yes, it was an amazing night that the have all
of those powerhouses. They're together, honoring each other. Pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (19:24):
There was one more we're missing, is there? It is Ris?

Speaker 1 (19:27):
It was hosting apparently, yes, but became almost the artist
of the night with his performance of hits that had
when when t Paine.

Speaker 4 (19:36):
Oh my god ran out.

Speaker 3 (19:38):
All I do is win.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
I have some video of you. You were dancing in
your seat. We were in the seated section.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
Okay, it was a bummer Okay, no, no, no, is it
the seated section?

Speaker 3 (19:52):
People don't want to stand up? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (19:53):
And then when I did stand up, I actually someone
told me to sit down.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
I remember that. Yeah, I felt bad. Okay, so it
was when chair was up.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
What's the proper etiquette? Somebody tell me what is the
proper etiquette? If you're in the first row of a
section and music is playing, a concert essentially is going on.
Do you stay in your seat until the people behind
you stand up or should they understand that? Yes, I
stood up because of the concert and I am briven.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
So and by the way, in this situation, everyone in
front of us was standing, so you kind of wanted
you got swept up in the in.

Speaker 4 (20:28):
The motion of standing up and dancing.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
So I assumed, for clarity, there they were. We were
to elevate it, so even the people standing up were
not blocking our view.

Speaker 4 (20:38):
That's true.

Speaker 3 (20:38):
Okay, So that's there. But I don't know what the
people behind me are doing.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
So I see everyone else in front of me stand up,
and I want to stand up, and I'm dancing, and
I don't realize that no one followed behind us, and
so yeah, I ended up sitting down because I didn't
want to block someone's view. But I always kind of
felt like if people in the front kind of like
a standing ovation stand up, you stand up, it just
kind of is like a wave, you just follow it.

Speaker 4 (21:04):
But no one followed us, so then we had to
sit down.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
So then we had to dance while we were seated.

Speaker 3 (21:10):
We were being considered.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
Yes, I wanted to stand up, yes, and I know
you did too, did yeah?

Speaker 3 (21:16):
Especially yeah, ran out, pain, ran out. It was amazing,
I do what? And then Luda goes.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
Through hit after hit that we've been jumping up and
down to for decades.

Speaker 4 (21:28):
It was fun, it was and you know what was cool.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Look, most people, I'm obviously aware of how cool it
was to be there, But every time we've come to
this theater or even to this town for any kind
of an award show, we are typically working. And we
actually got to through work, just spectate, just be entertained,

(21:50):
just get to watch. That was the first time, and
it was amazing to be able to just kind of
take it in and not have to work, And that
was a really special moment and just to see how
incredibly talented and amazing all these folks are to come together.
And it was cool because it's a different setup. You're
not seeing who wins. There's not some big build up.

(22:11):
It's just folks are being honored. They've already been chosen
by the listeners, by iHeart, and it was just great
to see people being celebrated who deserved it.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
You're I don't know, did you feel any kind of
way walking back into this theater.

Speaker 3 (22:27):
Oh? Really, it's We've been here for a countless oscars.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
And I've never actually been inside. I've been outside, I've
been beneath the steps. So yeah, it was really cool
to be able to see it all from a different,
vantish point. And someone else we saw on stage, someone
we spoke to earlier that you are going to get
to hear from a little later this week. A j

(22:52):
McClain from the Backstreet Boys. He was there with Lance.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
Bass, Alexander Jane.

Speaker 4 (22:58):
That's true, that's true. We're going to hear where about that.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
James McClain is what he goes by now, the artist
formerly known as AJ.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
Well, he still is AJ when it comes to the
Backstreet Boys. But yes, they were on stage. It was
great to see them, but we got to catch up
with Alex. You're correct, Alex James, and he has a
really really powerful story to tell and some exciting news
to talk about as well.

Speaker 4 (23:25):
That's all coming up. He was so much fun.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
He wasn't just he was forty five forty six now,
so he's he's been through a lot, and he's been
very open about his journey, his sobriety journey, and so
it was It's a cool conversation hopefully you all will
listen to later. But that was a very fun part
of this trip in this day was to be able
to sit down with somebody like him I've been a
fan of for so long and have that type of
conversation after both of us now we've been through all

(23:51):
three of us, I just say, but all of us
have been through all kinds of life, and that was
a highlight.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
Of the day as well.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
It is it is always fun to talk to people
who have really hard earned wisdom to share, and he
has so much of that.

Speaker 4 (24:06):
So we're excited to share that with all of you.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
That'll be coming up later this week.

Speaker 6 (24:21):
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(24:44):
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Speaker 3 (24:49):
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Speaker 6 (24:50):
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Misspelling is ready to reveal what's real and what's fake
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Speaker 4 (25:02):
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Speaker 1 (25:17):
We told you all were here at the Roosevelt Hotel room.
They have a set up for us. We can record
a podcast and somebody's knocking on the door. I'm so
curious to know wool it is. And that was whispering,
so I don't know if there's a mystery guest, I
can bring Rose speaking around the corner.

Speaker 3 (25:32):
Now I'm getting nervous. Actually, so.

Speaker 4 (25:36):
It's Amy sugar Oh, it's all, it's yes, It's yes.
Amy Sugarman is going to bring a surprise guest right now.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
She's a big Boss over at the Big Boss.

Speaker 4 (25:46):
And she just asked if she can bring in a guest.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
Is she seriously for the podcast? Oh my god, you
know what the guest is? Oh my god, Okay.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
We don't even know. We're going to be surprised. This
is a fun segment. Surprise Amy and TJ.

Speaker 3 (25:58):
We're gonna make ours with the guest, though I don't know.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
Ten minutes we have ten minutes for our car, So
I don't know who the surprise is.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
But it seems to be getting.

Speaker 4 (26:08):
Louder and louder.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
We know who the guest is. You think we do?
We think we good?

Speaker 2 (26:20):
Not?

Speaker 3 (26:20):
We just cannot we.

Speaker 5 (26:23):
Can't shake up.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
We can't shake up.

Speaker 3 (26:31):
Well, hello, how are you DearS? How'd you enjoy the show? Well?

Speaker 5 (26:35):
If Amy hadn't been standing up in front of us
the whole time, it would have been fast.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
There.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
Oh my goodness, show.

Speaker 2 (26:47):
We were just acknowledging that I was standing for some
of the segments and I was told to sit down politely,
but you know, sit down?

Speaker 3 (26:56):
Could that have been you all?

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (26:57):
Why don't you introduce yourselves please, now that you've joined.

Speaker 5 (27:00):
Us Kathy from the Golden Bachelor season, from our new podcast,
Golden Hour, and from the Golden Bachelor.

Speaker 3 (27:09):
So this this is how how new is the podcast?

Speaker 5 (27:12):
Our first one just came out?

Speaker 1 (27:14):
Okay, so so the promote the podcast, you crash other podcasts.

Speaker 5 (27:21):
It's working for us, how's it working for you?

Speaker 3 (27:23):
You know what? This is probably going to be a
hit for us.

Speaker 5 (27:27):
And so let me just be clear.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
It's go to Bachelor Happy Hour and then.

Speaker 5 (27:33):
Go to the Golden Hour because we're golden.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
Did you all do Happy Hour tonight.

Speaker 5 (27:42):
Tonight, this morning, this afternoon? Ladies?

Speaker 7 (27:47):
Then you just get a drink and you're not left
back in.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
So it's been a happy day, not just a happy hour.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
It's a happy morning turns a very happy evening.

Speaker 5 (27:56):
We're all we're all like Yankee sitting here, you know that.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
Oh yes we're not from We're not like we're all
East coasts coasters.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
Yes, yes we are. You will tell me true. How
bad was it with the with us up and down
to the music.

Speaker 4 (28:10):
And standing too much?

Speaker 5 (28:12):
I wanted to stand up and she kept telling me.
Susan kept saying sit down, sit on, like I'm sorry.
When you're at a concert, you stand up, thank you.

Speaker 3 (28:19):
That's what I was trying to do. I wanted to dance,
yes the whole time.

Speaker 5 (28:25):
Well, if you don't want to stay up, sit at
home and listen to the radio.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
I M.

Speaker 3 (28:31):
On your tush.

Speaker 5 (28:32):
You were jamming. That's not the same.

Speaker 3 (28:34):
Was the highlight there.

Speaker 5 (28:37):
I don't know. Green Day. I sent my son. He
loved Green Day. I sent him the picture. He said,
You're so lucky. I don't know. Can I just say,
how about Katie Perry.

Speaker 3 (28:48):
I I heard you guys.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
You were like, she you look so good, Like I
could hear you guys, No, but she did.

Speaker 4 (28:56):
I mean she had a basically a bikini on with it.

Speaker 5 (28:59):
When I go up, I'm going to look like Katy Perry.
It was.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
I could hear the rolling commentary. It was very fun. Yes,
it was great. I was agreeing with you. I was like, yeah,
they're right.

Speaker 5 (29:11):
Yeah, So I have to be honest. I did attack
you people at the bar I did. I came up
and said, I know you're not supposed to do this
in l A, but I just had to tell you
too how much I admire you and I think you're
inspiring to people out there. And here we are now
best of friends, crashing your podcast.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
Why are you not supposed to that in l A?

Speaker 7 (29:36):
L A bands don't approach people when you're in LA
except for us, of course.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
Do you know what I said?

Speaker 2 (29:44):
I said, you're never ever bothering me if you have
something kind to say, so thank you, like we appreciate that.

Speaker 5 (29:50):
And may I say, you are more beautiful in person
and you are handsome, Thank you great?

Speaker 3 (29:56):
Look here much we appreciate.

Speaker 5 (29:58):
And now now that we've been nice, can you find
us guys like?

Speaker 3 (30:02):
Yes, this is what.

Speaker 5 (30:07):
It's a question, straight up, it's a question begging. Do
you see me in my hands and knees.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
I'm not begging. You did lead with that.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
After we met, Thanks Jack, he says your name and say, hey,
where's where's your dad?

Speaker 5 (30:23):
And now let me ask you again, where is your dad?
Your uncle, your great uncle Fred? Where is it next door?
Your papa? Where are they? I will track you down
on the Upper West Side I believe you.

Speaker 4 (30:43):
So, how's the podcast coming? How y'all feeling about it?

Speaker 5 (30:46):
Great?

Speaker 2 (30:47):
Yes a minute, Yeah, I can see you're very entertaining
and you're not shy.

Speaker 7 (30:52):
That is degree we agree to disagree.

Speaker 5 (30:54):
Wait have you ever been described as shy? Ever? Can
I just say I have always been the loudest person
in the room until I met Susan.

Speaker 7 (31:05):
You should me my cousin, Donna.

Speaker 4 (31:07):
You wait, so what are you looking for in a man?

Speaker 3 (31:11):
Me? Yeah, you know, my boy?

Speaker 6 (31:16):
Sit down?

Speaker 5 (31:17):
Well, I mean TJ. You're taking so don't worry. You're good. Honestly,
I was married for forty six years, so I'm looking
I don't want to raise kids and I don't want
to raise another man, so you know I've done that.
I'm living for a guy who wants to have fun
and adventures and travel and just who wants to share
this last chapter of my life. What about you? What

(31:39):
are you looking tall?

Speaker 7 (31:41):
He could be gray instead of dark now, but somebody
with a sense of humor and enjoys life like I'm
about being positive. It's not over come live with me.

Speaker 5 (31:54):
Oh, we're gonna go down this road again with me physically.
Just live you know the time see, we're not asking
for much? Are we asking for a while?

Speaker 3 (32:02):
I don't think so at all. I don't think so.

Speaker 5 (32:04):
Where does the line form?

Speaker 1 (32:08):
We can look outside, it might be a line forman
I mean, we've been.

Speaker 5 (32:12):
In the airports, We've like had signs on our back.
I mean it's just not working.

Speaker 7 (32:17):
I tell you, I was on every dating site notes
man prior to being on the show. After coming off
the show, I don't care to go back on them.
Oh wow, if you know I'm good for somebody, you know.
I won't quote myself yet again. Kathy's sick of it,
but I'm going to do it. I used to believe

(32:38):
I was a woman that needed a man. Now I
know I'm a woman that a man needs.

Speaker 5 (32:44):
Yeah, I like, can we get a rock and a chisel?
I'm want to pound that in. I just want you know,
I'm going to put that over your tombstone.

Speaker 7 (32:53):
I don't have that. No, no, no, And.

Speaker 5 (32:55):
See I don't need a man either, But I just
you know, we're we're we're different for our age. We
have a lot of energy and we want to have
a lot of fun. And that's hard to find because
my thing, which I've said a million times, said Susan
sick of but I'm gonna say it anyway. Is I'm
tired of used to guys. I used to guy is
a guy who used to play tennis, he used to swim,

(33:17):
he used to ski, he used to do anything, and
now he sits on the sofa. I don't want to
used to guy.

Speaker 4 (33:24):
I love that. I love that, and you know what
you want and he's out there, DJ y No.

Speaker 3 (33:30):
In all seriousness.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
Now, I know we've been joking around a little bit here,
but when you flat out ask you all what you're
looking for in a man, you'll had very clear, concise,
sharp answers. You'll know exactly what you want. You're not
asking for too much. So that'll be the only serious thing.
We can go back to our bullshit now. I just
want to get.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
That out of the way. So now we're gonna go
back and giving each other hell. I think I think
you need younger men for.

Speaker 5 (33:56):
Sure, right, So wait, before we get back to the bulls,
can I just say men don't date older women my son,
my son when they're below fifty. Yeah, they do, and
my age riding the neck of time, men want younger.

(34:17):
I'm being honest at my age. They you know, if
a guy is you know, cashing his Social Security check
and counting the pennies and and is sitting as he
used to guy. But if you get a guy that
has some energy, I'm being serious, a guy that has
energy that wants to do stuff. He doesn't want me,

(34:39):
foolish guy that he is. He wants a fifty year old.

Speaker 7 (34:43):
But it's arm candy, it's it's what they're going through,
what men are going through, so they.

Speaker 5 (34:47):
Want it makes them feel younger.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
I don't know.

Speaker 7 (34:50):
I'm not a man, but we see that. That's what
we're observing. Okay, we're assuming this to be true, which
is one of my rules that I hate to assume.
But that's exactly what we're doing. Why should we think
about it now?

Speaker 3 (35:05):
He she knows me already. I love that.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
What do you think I was about to go down
a rabbit hole with you there? Because is it the
like most guys your age can't keep up with you.

Speaker 5 (35:17):
That's correct, that's correct, But I.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
Would argue there are guys who are ten and twenty
years younger than you can't keep up with you.

Speaker 5 (35:25):
That's probably true as well.

Speaker 3 (35:27):
So when those got I mean, what mean you go.

Speaker 5 (35:29):
For a teenager.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
I mean, I mean, I mean that young.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
But I see the difficulty, the difficulty you speak of,
and it almost sounds impossible.

Speaker 3 (35:44):
No one, no, I say, no, let me know he
So you just see the word and you get canceled.
That's what we do now. You don't hear anything else
in the fighting words teaching.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
I said, it's sounds almost impossible. Can everybody vouch for
what I said? Yes, it sounds almost what a challenge
super lining. The silver line is you are who you are.
I saw you. You are going to attract exactly what
you want if you just keep doing what you're doing.
You are a ball of absolute energy like I can't.

(36:22):
I can barely keep up with you all at the
events you came and said hello to us over at
the bar, like, who is that lady?

Speaker 3 (36:32):
We gotta know that is who you are.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
Keep doing that, you're gonna attract exactly what you need
and everybody else who can't roll with that. You don't
even have to go on the dating site. You don't
need to talk to friends. They're gonna fall by the
wayside because they're gonna be so turned off by the
woman that you are, because they can't keep up, So
keep doing you things.

Speaker 3 (36:53):
Don't change the thing.

Speaker 5 (36:55):
Okay, I feel like I should thank him.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
Therapy, appointment, No, we just hate. That's just you are.

Speaker 5 (37:06):
Is this your way of saying, you have no no
one in your stable that you can send my way.
That's what he's saying.

Speaker 3 (37:12):
To dream the impossible.

Speaker 5 (37:15):
He's saying. Where we leave, he's gonna be singing, I'm impossible.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
I'm saying, nobody in my circle that is worthy, is
what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (37:25):
That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (37:27):
You know what, this guy.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
Hold on to this guy. Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
We're talking to you plenty of folks. I hope you
enjoyed this surprise.

Speaker 5 (37:41):
Thanks for utting us crash
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