June 10, 2024 • 55 mins
In a special episode of Let's Be Clear, Shannen answers some of your DM's!! You've been asking fun and lighthearted questions about her likes (and dislikes)...so these are a few of Shannen's favorite things!From her favorite drug store buy, to the TV show that lulls her to sleep at night, and the dessert she says you HAVE TO TRY!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is Let's be Clear with Shannon Doherty. Hi, welcome
to Let's be Clear with Shannon Doherty. All right, so guys,
normally I talk about, you know, either my career, past, present,
maybe future, or I talk about things that really resonate
with me personally, for instance, cancer, divorce, relationships, ex boyfriends,
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you name it. We kind of cover it, and certainly
we have a lot more to cover, and we will,
especially getting into the coming weeks, probably have a lot
of new updates for everyone. But today I wanted to
try something a little different, and I also wanted to,
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you know, make sure that sometimes there's episodes that are
uplifting and just informative random questions that people ask me. Yes,
we do Q and a's, but people have specifically asked
me like what are my favorite things to do? My
favorite TV shows, et cetera, et cetera. So I'm going
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to start with some of these questions and then I'll probably,
as I always do, go off on a little bit
of a tangent. So here we are what TV show
do you love? But you are embarrassed to admit? That's
a hard one for me because I don't really have
any problem admitting things you know, like if I watch
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a reality show, I'm not embarrassed by it. I got
to tell you, my mom and I are big family
feud people, and we love, you know, answering before anybody
presses the buzzer hopefully we love the last bit where
you know, you go and you give like five answers.
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So family feud. But I'm not really embarrassed that I
like family feud. I love watching Family Feud, and like
People Puzzler and some of those. I just think that
they're cool. And also I like keeping my brain very active,
especially because I do have mets in my brain. I'm
always worried and because I had brain surgeries you guys
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know in January two thousand and twenty three. I really
like to constantly keep my brain going and challenging and
doing puzzles and stuff of that nature. So for me,
I show like People Puzzler or Family Feud doesn't seem
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like something I would worry about admitting, or that I'm
embarrassed to admit. I got to say I've probably watched
Sex in the City. I don't know how many times.
It's so soothing to me. I put it on at
night and I'm now up to season I don't even
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know what, but I literally watch it over and over
and over again because it's just one of those shows.
It's like Seinfeld to me that I can relax to
and I don't have to overthink things. In general, I
have TV shows that I love, but I'm not you know,
they're nothing embarrassing. Succession was one of my favorite shows,
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and The Veil, I think now is one of my
favorite shows. So not embarrassed to admit things. For sure,
I'm not a real Housewives person. The only time I
got into that was the year that a friend of mine,
Diana Jenkins, was on and I watched it for her.
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And I've never been a big bachelor person. I know
that's everybody's guilty pleasure, not mine. What movie could you
see over and over again and never get tired of? Ooh?
Pride and Prejudice Joe Wright was the director. Kiera Knightley.
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I have seen that movie so many times. It's ridiculous.
I absolutely love it. And Stepbrothers. Oh, whenever I need
to laugh, I watch step Brothers. It's one of the
funniest movies I've ever seen. And I always look at
people and go, did we just become best friends. So
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there's that too. Do you like to bargain shop, and
so what's your favorite store. I do like to bargain shop.
I do a lot of bargain shopping for home stuff.
I think I've mentioned to you guys that like one
of my things that I love to do is in
tier design. I if I was uber wealthy, I would
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just buy houses and flip them and flip them and
flow them just for the opportunity to decorate them and
do interior design. And I just find that so many
people la New York, Miami all over the world, but
particularly in those big, huge cities, they spend a fortune
on furniture and on making it seem lived in or whatever,
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and because they go to all these high end stores
and you really don't have to. Antique shopping is one
of my favorite things. Bargains shopping. I love that. As
far as clothes go, you know, I used to be
a big vintage girl. I am not so much so anymore.
There's still a couple of vintage stores I will go
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to as far as clothing goes, but it's just so
I can get a really good deal on like a
Chanel skirt or something of that nature. But for the
most part, when it comes to clothing, I do a
lot of my shopping online. Now there's you know, Netta
Portee and my Teresa and places like that where I
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can buy high end and there's no problem with sending
it back if it doesn't fit or whatever. But and
T shirts. They now make so many cool vintage T
shirts that you can buy online as well. So a
lot of my personal clothing is online. But definitely for
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design and for house I do the majority of that.
I mean, yes, I go to stores. I always bargainshop
you guys like I always negotiate. I don't care if
it's a high end store or not. I'm always like,
you want what for this? No, I actually think it
should be priced at this. Here's what I'll give you.
I'm forever doing that, just because the markup and stores
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is so huge. But you know, I also really like
to go to smaller stores. I don't like big, huge
chain stores. I think that. But COVID was a real issue,
and it took out so many of our mom and
pop stores, and we people went out of business. They
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lost their jobs, they lost they lost homes, they lost
because their business had to close. So many restaurants, stores,
all of that that I really have a big thing
about supporting those stores. Those stores I don't really negotiate
with as much because I want them to succeed. But
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you know, there's always a little room for negotiation. I think,
all right, let's see, so what's my favorite store. There's
just too many of them. There's a place called Dandelion
and something which is on Abbot, Kenney and Venice for
like knick knacks and some pieces of furniture and rugs,
which I love. There's Big Daddy's Antiques, which I'm obsessed with.
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There's you know, there's huge sort of markets. They're not
called markets, they're not called festivals, they're whatever they're called.
Like the one in Roundtop in Texas is one where
you go and it's all these different sort of antique
dealers or just dealers in general that have all these
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little different stands. And I love going to places like
that to just find something really unique. I'm gonta find gifts,
and I'll buy gifts way ahead of time for Christmas
or for somebody's birthday. If I see something that resonates
with me that I know that they're gonna like, I
love doing that. I do have a big shoe fetish.
I'm a shoe slut, you guys. I love shoes. Unfortunately,
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I really like high end shoes, either like tennis shoes
or high end shoes new in between. What is something
that you have to have in your fridge or pantry
no matter what Canada dry ginger ail. I'm obsessed with
Canada dry ginger all. I don't know why it's clean
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and I like the taste, but specifically Canada Dry. I
always have Gatorade on hand because when I did chemo
back in twenty sixteen, I was so dehydrated and they
were having to do ivs on me constantly, and I
couldn't eat and I was throwing up all the time.
And I found that if I did gatorade in ice
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cube trays and froze it, that I could tolerate sucking
on an ice cube that was a Gatorade ice cube
and it would hydrate me enough give me the electrolytes
that I needed. So I always keep it close by
just in case I'm sick or or you know, just dehydrated.
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I always have the little cut oranges. I keep them
in the refrigerator because I like them really cold, so
I always have those. As far as something kind of unhealthy,
I always keep milk and cereal because sometimes late at
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night I get really hungry and I'm too lazy sometimes
to cook dinner, and I love a bowl of cereal.
I just think it's fantastic. Actually, that's what I've had
for two nights in a row for dinner lately. I've
been a little lazy this week. All Right, What is
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something you like to splurge on because it's worth it. Shoes?
I really really like to splurge on shoes. Good quality
shoes means that I don't have foot issues, They're not
pinching my feet, they fit well, they're cable, so I'm
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big on that. I'm sort of big on skincare in
the sense of that I love trying new products all
the time. I'm a fan of that, but it doesn't
always mean that I'm going to choose something expensive. I've
been using Seravey, which you get at a drug store,
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on my lines, and I've noticed a difference. But then
I have a product, a moisturizer that's in my opinion, overpriced,
but it works. So skincare, I like to splurge on shoes.
I like to splurge on. I like to splurge on
my mom. I like spoiling her a lot, and she
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in turn likes to spoil me as well. And I
splurge on dinners. I do like a really good dinner.
And obviously I splurge on wine because I do enjoy
my wine. And I think some people would say that
I splurge on my house, which is true, But to me,
that's not a splurge. Right to me, that's an investment.
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I know that whatever I put into the home, I'm
going to be able to sell the house for so
much more than I bought it for. So that's always
that's not a splurge. That's just a healthy investment. All right,
Let's keep going all the places that you've traveled in
the world. Is there one country you would consider moving to? Italy?
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I would love to move to Italy. I would love
to move to Africa for like six months to a
year and work at a sanctuary. There's an elephant sanctuary.
There's a lot of sanctuaries there. I would love to
do that as well. My problem always is the same,
I'm not going anywhere without my dog. Not long term.
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I'll go do conventions for a weekend, or I'll go
in a trip here and there for you know, four
days or a week, but I don't I don't like
leaving my dog long periods of time, especially because she's
a lot older now and I think she's thirteen or fourteen,
and she doesn't walk as well. She's just got a
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few issues, and I would hate to be out of
town when my dog needs to be a rushed to
the hospital because I'm yes, she loves my mom and
my friends, but she's even when she's being loved one
by them, she's always looking at me. I'm her safety net,
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just like she's my safety net, And so I really
want to be here. I would have to buy a
seat for her and fly her. Africa is way too far,
so I don't think that's happening anytime soon, but maybe Italy.
A couple of us have been talking about going there
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for a week and a half or so and learning
how to make homemade pasta really well and pizza do.
Even though I really like my pizza do, I know
it can be a lot better, and I'm going to
learn that from the knowness. So that's something that I've
been wanting to do. What's your favorite thing to do
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on a Sunday morning. Absolutely nothing. I think my brain
is constantly going, and I'm usually on my computer every
day going through the latest clinical trials, any breakthrough with cancer.
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I'm always reaching out to new doctors that I hear
about and having conversations with them. I think I'm seeking
answers for my own health, but also for everybody with
cancer for their health. So therefore I spend so much
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time doing that, and it can be incredibly draining because
as you're going through all that research, you're also seeing yourself,
Oh my god, is this what I have? Is this
what I have? Is like all these new symptoms is
And that can be incredibly taxing and heavy and a
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lot of stress weighing you down. So Sundays I like
to wake up in the morning, I fix myself a
coffee and I'll play like a little game on my iPad,
whether it's a jigsaw puzzle or or crosswords, whatever it is,
in order to get my brain to start going. But
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really I like it to be very, very very quiet.
In general. I like things to be quiet. I'm not
somebody who blasts music only when my friends are over.
I'm not someone who turns on the TV immediately. I
like it like this right now, right It's very quiet
in my house, and I enjoy that. It gives me
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time to reflect and to sort of settle into my day,
and then my Sunday usually continues. I love to garden.
I have an amazing organic garden that I built and
I love tenning to it. And now I've just started
a whole like rose garden, and I love experimenting with
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putting different things next to vegetables. So yes, obviously I
have the merrygolds and the mint to drive away insects
and all of that. But I had read this article
that tested tomatoes and there was a tomato plant, well
two they both grew very very very well, but the
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one that was next to the rose bush where they
almost intertwined essentially, the tomato tasted different. It tasted a
little bit sweeter, it took on more of the tones
of a rose. And so I loved doing stuff like that.
I love just experimenting and figuring out the best way
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to grow the natural products to use. Stuff that you
can combine in the house, banana peels and water for
fertilizing tomatoes or roses or whatever. So that's always a
very good Sunday for me, as well as going bargain hunting.
That's great. Taking a drive to santy Nez, which is
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one of my favorite places. It's about an hour and
a half from where I live, and going and spending
time at Return to Freedom which is up in santin As,
and they take in a lot of the wild mustangs
that the BLM has rounded up and putting corals, and
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then eventually those horses end up at a kilpin and
get sold for slaughter unless people go and buy them,
Like all Seated in the barn is an amazing organization
along with Return to Freedom. So I love going to
Return to Freedom and just hanging out with Netta, who's
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the head of it, and walking the grounds or driving
the ATV type thing and seeing the horses left alone
and hanging out and their bands and their dynamic and
taking photos of them. There's one right there behind me
that I took and that's a voute you know, wild
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horse that was at Return of Freedom that let me
get semi close to it. Those are my relaxing Sundays
or even Saturdays, really Okay, So that was answering trouble
of where I would move to, and I'm saying Italy
for sure. I just there is something about Italy that
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I The food, the people, everything about it inspires me.
The architecture, the history. You can transport yourself to a
different day and age and imagine a totally different life,
and I love that. But you can learn so much
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and learn so much about art and people, and the
people that are happy and kind and just they take
you in. It's Italy to me is the warmest, biggest
hug you can possibly get. And it's not one of
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the only places. As I said, Africa would be really interesting.
I learned a lot when I went to Africa and
it definitely changed me as a person. But if I
had moved somewhere it would it would it would be Italy.
I think an island would drive me crazy. I remember
I did a show called north Shore and I had
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to go live in Hawaii, which sounds like the best
thing in the world, and it really was. I was
surfing every single day. It was phenomenal. But after a
while I got island fever and I was having a
fly home constantly just to sort of settle myself and
then go back and film some more. So I'm not
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sure I would pick an island. Saint Barts is probably
my favorite island, but I don't think I could. I
actually know I could not live there. So that's the
moving we address Sunday morning. What's your favorite fast food restaurant? None.
I don't like fast food. It doesn't mean I don't
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have it. On occasion. I sometimes get very rushed and
I have to I get really hungry, and when I'm
that hungry, and my blood sugar dips, and when my
blood sugar dips, I become a little testy. So I
have pulled into fast food restaurants. I used to eat
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a lot of fast food when I was in my twenties,
but I think now the only ones I'll really pull
into is like a Windy's, and that's drive through. But
I also consider like Habit Burger or this dand kind
of fast food, and I will go to those on occasion.
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I love Sharkis, but for the most part, I would
rather eat at home because I know that my food
is without chemicals, without antibiotics, without I know that my
food is none of the stuff that Bill Gates likes
to tamper with so you know, I won't buy fruit
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with appeal on it. That's horrifying to me. Everything that's
in appeal is like if you actually read what's in it,
you will probably avoid a Bill Gates product for the
rest of your life. Along with you know, taking away
jobs from our farmers, which I don't approve of. Everything
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is very bad. So when I make my food at
home or certain restaurants that I know very well and
I know where they buy from, I just feel healthier.
And when I go to a fast food restaurant or
I'm serve something that is monsantos or whatever, I end
up feeling a little. It's almost like you feel bloated
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and overfull, Whereas if I'm cooking for myself or at
an organic restaurant, none of that happens. And what's crazy
is that people think that the organic is so much
more expensive, and it's really not. It's knowing where to
get the organic and really shopping it out. And if
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you do shop it out, you'll find that it ends
up being the same price to a certain degree, and
certainly it saves you. In Doctor Bill Slater, what's your
favorite designer? Ah Come on I have too many. I
really do have too many. I mean I can go
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from like low end to high end. On designers. I
obviously already mentioned Chanel, which I love, and why sel
I love Victoria Beckham. I'm a big fan of There's
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just so many good designers, and I really admire the
designers that years ago said no for that are making
an attempt at being sustainable. I really appreciate that. I
also love free people and little stores, and by the way,
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I love going to like Marshals sometimes and TJ Max.
It's amazing what you can find at those stores. So designers,
there's just that's such a broad question. I just like
my clothes to be comfortable at the end of the
day and classic. I'm not someone who likes to show
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a lot of TNA. Am I allowed to say that.
I don't need low cut. I don't need, you know,
my butt hanging out of a skirt. I'm too old
for it. And I also think leaving something to the
imagination is way sexier. So it's not necessarily about a designer.
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It's about what fits me properly. To me, there's nothing
like a beautiful pair of trousers and a nice sweater. Yeah,
it's dressing with confidence and with comfort and not dressing
as if I want every single eye on me, whether
it's a good eye or a bad eye. And there's
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a lot of high end and low end designers that
do that really well. Costs is a store. I don't
know if it's outside of LA I know it's online
cos that I order online from all the time. I
love it. And their clothes are affordable but classy. And
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so there you go. Which holiday do you like to
go all out for?
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Oh, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas. I, as you guys know,
in the middle of a divorce and my Christmases were
not great because.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
My husband was not into Christmas. Christmas was apparently, as
I was told, not a big deal in his family,
and to my family, Christmas was a huge deal. I
mean a the religious aspect of Christmas was a big
deal to us, as we're Christians. But it's the joy.
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It's hanging lights outside, It's going and finding that perfect
Christmas tree and deciding whether you want it flocked or
not flocked, and the how intricate I can get with
putting the lights on the Christmas tree and hanging stock
and if you're having guests over, buying stockings and getting
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their names on them, which sometimes I do with just
the you know glue that glitters in different colors, simple
things making decorations, but making all the food, making desserts,
and planning a Christmas Eve or Christmas big dinner, inviting
your friends over. To me, there is nothing like it.
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I find that almost everybody's attitude is going to be
really good Christmas, even Christmas, and they're nice and full.
Their bellies, you know, have been filled up by the food.
Buying presents for people, whether it be a present for
five dollars or a present for one hundred dollars, it
doesn't it's the fact that I've already bought it way
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ahead because of my bargain hunting thing and going to
you know, different stores. So when I see something, going
back to that, when I see something that strikes me
being a particular person, I just go ahead and buy it,
and I keep it in a closet so that that
becomes their birthday or their Christmas present. And I love
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seeing people unwrap their Christmas present and them knowing that
it's so specific to them, that I know them that well,
that I knew one hundred percent something that they would want,
that they've been coveting, or something to me just makes
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me feel good. It's kind of this goes back to
this is going slightly off topic, but not really. It
goes back to My mom has this thing of where
when somebody registers right when they're having a baby or
they're getting married, she doesn't like to buy off the registry.
She likes to get them something that she feels. And
I'm different when somebody registers. I'm like, if they register,
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this is what they need. I'm not going off of
the register and registry. So that is when I buy
presents for Christmas. It's because I've given so much thought
into that person and I know exactly as if they've registered,
I know exactly what they need in their house. Maybe
they want to pust a machine, maybe they're looking for
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an antique face. Whatever it is, I know that they
really need it, and when I find it, I buy it.
So Christmas, yeah, I just I love decorating. And this
last year was a really good Christmas where I got
to do a lot of that, and like Holly was
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here and my friend Mike was here, and we put
up the tree, it's just fun. It just it's festive
and it it I don't know. It makes me smile
a lot. So definitely, definitely definitely Christmas. What is my
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favorite dessert? Every dessert? Oh god, So I actually make
one of my favorite desserts, which is a panacotta. I'm
not going to tell you what's in it because I
made it up and it's really delicious. But I also
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do with the panacotta, I do this sort of BlackBerry
I guess the technical term would be gooli and that's
one of my favorite desserts. My friend Christy, who owns
Christie's Cafe, makes the best trace liches cake I've ever had.
That's one of my favorites. I love. There's this dessert
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that comes in a little glass jar and it's Copa
de aura is the name of it. It's like a
crispy bottom, dark chocolate milk, chocolate, white chocolate cream. Oh
my god, this dessert is so amazing. And what's crazy
is I used to not be a dessert person at all,
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and now I love dessert and maybe and I know
dessert's really bad when you have cancer because it's sugar.
So I try not to eat dessert that often. But
there's also moments in your life where I think it's
okay to spoil yourself, whether it's great for you or not.
I know that this happened with my dad a lot
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when he was really sick, and there was always a
discussion about his diet. But towards the end, when you
knew things were pretty bad, there were moments where it
was like, no, let him have shrimp scampy, let him
have his favorite foods. Yes, not every day, but you
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also want quality of life to be great, particularly when
you're dying, particularly when you have a terminal disease. Everybody
should try to go for quality of life because you
never know how long you're going to be on this
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earth for before we pass on to a better place.
But so I will. I will spoil myself with desserts sometimes.
And oh, how can I forget one of my other
favorite desserts, well, two other favorites is so I told
you guys already about my love of ginger ale, but
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I love taking vanilla ice cream and with ginger ale
over the vanilla ice cream, it is delicious. It's like
the best float ever. I like it better than root beer,
and I also like doing the same thing with orange sherbet.
There you go. Do you have a favorite rom com?
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Dy one would take me forever to think about. I
love rum coms because it also brings up a lot
of warmth, like in your heart. It brings up a
lot of warmth, and I like movies like that. I
also like really serious movies. But for the most part,
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especially since being diagnosed with cancer, I find that all
I want to do is watch stuff that makes me
laugh because the rest of life is so hard and
you're constantly worried that to be able to turn your
brain off for an hour and a half to two
hours and just laugh is incredibly important, and laughter is
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the best medicine, right, so I do. There's just too
many rom coms out there. I obviously love Sandra Bullock.
There's just people that are funny without even trying. And
I'm going to think about that one, like if there's
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a specific one, and I'll name it, But it's not,
you know, like step Brothers and Pride and Prejudice come
to mind immediately, but so does Godfather too, by the way,
I've watched that twenty one times, I think. But a
rom com I would really have to think that through.
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Like I know offhand the Sandra Bullock Ryan Reynolds one,
I think it was called The Proposal. I loved that movie.
What is your favorite musical actacy and concert? Well, I
am the biggest Youtwo fan in the world, and I've
had the pleasure of meeting the Edge a couple of times. Now.
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I've seen so many of their concerts and then the
latest one was its fhear in Las Vegas, and I
was just blown away. I think my mouth was hanging
open the entire time. It was so phenomenal. Jim Dolan,
who owns Madison Square Garden, was essential and putting on
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the spear and he did a fabulous job, so did
everybody involved. So that was the last concert I think
I went to, but I would go to any concert
of theirs. I really want to go see Chris Stapleton.
I haven't seen him in concert yet, and I love
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Chris Stapleton. And the other person I desperately desperately want
to see in concert is Pink. I love her. I
love everything about her, her personality, her voice, her songwriting,
her messages, and I've seen obviously some of it on TV,
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but it just looks like an amazing time. Other than that,
I have grown to really really like my space and
I don't like to be crowded. Like, what was so
amazing about seeing you too, it sphear was I was
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in Jim Dolan's suite there, and so there was a
lot of space and you could get up from your
seat and go grab There was like this amazing display
of food and drinks and everything else. So I didn't
feel like people were close to me and breathing on me.
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I you know, don't ever want to get somebody else's
cold or somebody else's whatever. I'm very I'm much more
aware of that stuff now, So those kind of venues
are great for me to go to the rest now,
I don't think it would have to be somebody that
I really really really really love in order to want
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to go. Do you have a favorite TV or movie villain? God,
I mean Heath Ledger is a joker? Is Like, That's
just what popped into my brain. How phenomenal is he?
What's your favorite thing to receive in the mail? In
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the mail not delivered to the house, right, so in
the mail because I don't get anything to my house
and in the mail probably when I, like, late at night,
get an itch and I order something off off of site,
Amazon or whatever. It's really exciting when it finally comes
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because you have to try it on and see if
it fits. And I ordered a bathing suit recently from
a bathing suit company and it finally came and I
tried it on and I was like, oh my god,
it actually fits and it's flattering. That's really fun. Other
than that, I don't I don't love mail. Wouldn't it
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be funny, you guys if I said, oh, I love
to get bills in the mail. Nobody likes bills. And
what kills me is that there's even such a thing
as mail for bills. I don't understand that. I have
this conversation with companies all the time where they're like, oh, hey,
it's been a week and you haven't paid our invoice.
I'm like, well, yeah, because there's no like click to pay,
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and they're like, no, you'll have to send in a track.
I'm like, what, like what century are we living in?
Like why do we have to go back to the
dark ages? Which is silly of me, I know, but
I'm like, I don't even have a stamp in my
house and to go to a post office what a
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in the butt? So getting mail is a little odd
to me unless it's something that you specifically ordered. But
are you guys happy I didn't say that I love
to get bills in the mail. Nobody really likes that,
do they. Maybe that's where my dislike of mail has
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come in. I do really like to get checks in
the mail. That's fun. When I get certain checks and
I see on the outside who they're from, and I
know it's money, I get very excited. That's the mail
I open immediately. Everything else kind of doesn't get open.
To be honest, what's your favorite compliment? I have a couple.
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So I think my favorite compliment is when somebody comments
on my intelligence, because my brain is what I'm the
most proud of in this vessel. My my brain is
the thing I'm them was proud of. And then the
second compliment that I love the most is I call
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it a compliment, is when somebody tells me how much
I've helped them go through cancer with a loved one
or go through cancer themselves. Because helping anybody that's sick,
anybody that's struggling in any way, shape or form, is.
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It's validation and it makes you feel good. It makes
you feel like you're here for a purpose, and that's
really important to me. I love the Charmed fans that
talk all the time about how that show got them
through really difficult times and helped them build better relationships
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with their parents and find sort of a family that
accepted them, which is other Charms fans. And recently somebody
was talking to me about nine oh two and oh
and they said, wow, nine oh oh really opened up
conversations with my parents when I was a teenager of
certain issues that were not discussed. So those are those
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are huge, huge, huge compliments to me. And here's my
all time favorite. You're a good daughter. That's my favorite.
Uh what's your favorite time of day? And why I
don't really have a favorite time of day. I think
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every time of day that I wake up and I'm
still breathing is a gift. So if that's seven o'clock
in the morning, if that's midnight, it doesn't matter. I
just any second that I'm awake and breathe and it's
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not painful or it's not filled with stress is my favorite.
And beautiful, my favorite accent. There's so many that are beautiful. Obviously,
because I love Italy so much. An Italian accent it's
just so sexy and so lyrical, and I don't know,
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you can write poems about an Italian accent. But there's
also African accents that are beautiful, in Indian accents that
are beautiful. I think it's not about the accent, right,
I think it's about when you meet somebody with an
accent from a different culture, from anything, and you learn
different words, different quirks, different meanings of things, and you
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get to speak to them and really dove into their culture.
I love all of that. It's I mean, obviously a
British accent is very sexy as well, but I think
all accents are beautiful. Like when I was in Japan,
that was you know, that accent was gorgeous. That language
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is gorgeous, And it's an appreciation for going outside of
your own box and experiencing something else, which is why
I really love to travel. Who is your favorite comedian?
David Chappelle. Dave Chappelle is my favorite comedian. I absolutely
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absolutely love him. He I think his comedy is thought provoking.
And I realized that some of you may be upset
hearing Dave Chappelle because he has ruffled a lot of
feathers and not apologized for certain things. And what I
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learned from that is not necessarily that I agreed with
it or didn't agree with it, but that he stood
by his beliefs or he stood by what his comedy
act was about. And comedy is a way to explore
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different thoughts and to turn hot topics into I think,
bigger and deeper conversations, to be honest, like for me,
that's what it does. And he does that, and he
does it without flinching, and that is incredibly admirable because
I still find that I don't do that, and I
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wish I had his courage and his bravery. I also
absolutely love Chris Rock. He's genius. They both are genius.
There's so many comedians out there, like Ricky Charves is ough.
So those are the three that I desperately want to
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want to meet. Brickis jar Vas. Everything he does for
animals and how he calls out humans, you're still left
like laughing. But again, it's thought provoking, and that's these
three men specifically are thought provoking comedians and their comedy
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is incredibly intelligent. It's not silly. It's not like calling
yourself a whore. It's not any of that stuff. It's
just intelligent comedy. And so those are my absolute three favorites.
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What is your favorite way to pamper yourself? I don't.
You don't really have one, because honestly, I get a
little itchy, Like just sitting around, even getting my hair done,
I'm always looking at my watch, going Okay, how long
is this going to take? I think if I had
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to pick out of just the pamper stuff, it would
probably be a massage and maybe a facial But even
then I find that after a while, I'm like, okay,
when are we done? I need to get up, I
need to leave. There are certain things that I call pampering,
like when I got micro pigmentation on my eyebrows. To me,
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that was definitely a pamper situation, and it's still one
of the best things that I ever did. But I don't.
I don't. I don't think I pamper myself, Like I
can't even even pedicure as bug me. I get them
on occasion, more than on occasion, but I get them.
I never get manicures, which is why my fingernails always
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look broken because often they are. And I can't stand
the smell of nail polish on my hands because I
feel like I can almost taste it in my food afterwards,
like once it's on, I can almost taste it in
my food. So I'm not big on manicures pedicures. It's
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just because you want pretty feet. But if I could
have really beautiful feet without a pedicure, I would do
it all day long. I don't. Lately, I've had some
aches and pains, and my mom has been pampering me
show like massage my feet as we're watching family food,
And that is amazing because you can always pull away,
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you can always stop, You can always be like, okay,
I'm pampered enough, thank you very much. But I don't
know I mean pampering. There's so many different different definitions
of pampering to me, taking the day off, ignoring the
divorce attorney's emails, ignoring the you know iheart's emails, and
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ignoring responsibilities, being like, oh, I'll pay my guest bill
tomorrow instead of today, even though it's due. I think
that pampering to me is taking those days and saying, hey,
I really need to unwind. I really need to unplug,
and I'm going to do that by literally ignoring everything
today and I'm going to jump in my car with
my dog. I'm going to listen to some music or
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no music, and I'm going to take a drive to
Sannynez or to the beach or whatever, and read a book,
play with horses, ride horses. That is That is pampering myself.
Literally taking an entire day and finishing a book. Starting
in finishing a book in one day is a big
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pamper because I'm tuning out the rest of the world.
I'm tuning out all of the noise, and that is
pampering for me. So those are some of my favorite things.
I hope I don't know. I hope you guys pamper yourselves.
I hope you take the time to unplug every once
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in a while, because I think that if you don't unplug,
there's no way to be even. You know, I think
your equilibrium is always a little off if you don't
reset it. In order to reset it, I think you
have to unplug. Whether it's for thirty minutes, listening to
meditation tape or watching your favorite program, whatever, it's important.
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Whether you have children, no children, high stress job, no job.
I just think there's so much noise in the world
right now. There's so much noise, and it's really stressful,
really stressful. There's everybody's got an opinion. Everybody wants to
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argue about Biden or Trump, or Israel or Hamas, about protests,
no protest, there's it's tumultuous right now, and understandably so.
And believe me, I have very very strong opinions about that.
And you know, if ever there comes a time when
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I'm you know, definite on my timeline, You'll probably hear
all of my opinions because I'll have nothing to lose
at that point. For now, I have to maintain peace
for myself. But I just find that there's it's constantly
coming at all of us again, whether it be political
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stuff or whether it be if you're an animal lover
and you're watching dogs being you denies all the time
because you know, the mayor of La Karen Bass is
doing a really shit job. Like she's probably the worst
mayor ever for there's an opinion for you, cancel me
if you want, but she's a horrible, horrible, horrible mare
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in every respect, not just with dogs and dealing with
the homeless. Anything that she said complete, she's done nothing.
And for me, because I love animals, that's incredibly stressful.
And when I go on Instagram, there's a gazillion dogs
that are about to be killed just in LA shelters
alone because of because her lack of doing anything about it.
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And when I get that every day, it's like I
get a lot of anxiety and my stomach starts hurting
and I get stressed. And it's the same with you know,
the horses that are a for slaughter and trying to
raise money really quickly. There's pressure of just engaging and
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trying to make sure that you're doing the right thing
for everyone and putting out the right message and connecting
with people and fulfilling your purpose. And that's for all
of us, right, that's not just for me. So we
all get inundated every single day by the noise in
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this world and in particular this country, but really the world,
and so find that time to unplug again. It can
only it can be just thirty minutes, but you got
to we all have to center ourselves because if we
center ourselves, I think we're able to hear better. I
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think that when somebody has a different political agenda than
you do, I think if you're centered, you're able to
hear why they feel that way. And we have free will, right,
that's some people should have free will, but we do.
God gave us free will, and so everybody has a
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right to their opinion. Sometimes how it's expressed it's not okay.
But what's not okay is not hearing somebody else at
all and not taking into consideration something else. And I
think it's very hard to hear clearly when you're not centered.
So I'm going to log off now and probably go
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center myself. But I hope you all find that time
when you're done with work, the kids are in bed,
you've taken your meds, whatever it is, that thirty minutes
to just unplug and hear your own thoughts loud and clear,
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connect with your own thoughts, quiet them, and center yourself
so that you can wake up or continue your day
in a much more like relaxed, accepting manner. That's what
I wish for all of you and for myself as well.
So thank you for listening to a sort of random
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assassas
This is Let's be Clear with Shannon Doherty. Hi, welcome
to Let's be Clear with Shannon Doherty. All right, so guys,
normally I talk about, you know, either my career, past, present,
maybe future, or I talk about things that really resonate
with me personally, for instance, cancer, divorce, relationships, ex boyfriends,
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you name it. We kind of cover it, and certainly
we have a lot more to cover, and we will,
especially getting into the coming weeks, probably have a lot
of new updates for everyone. But today I wanted to
try something a little different, and I also wanted to,
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you know, make sure that sometimes there's episodes that are
uplifting and just informative random questions that people ask me. Yes,
we do Q and a's, but people have specifically asked
me like what are my favorite things to do? My
favorite TV shows, et cetera, et cetera. So I'm going
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to start with some of these questions and then I'll probably,
as I always do, go off on a little bit
of a tangent. So here we are what TV show
do you love? But you are embarrassed to admit? That's
a hard one for me because I don't really have
any problem admitting things you know, like if I watch
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a reality show, I'm not embarrassed by it. I got
to tell you, my mom and I are big family
feud people, and we love, you know, answering before anybody
presses the buzzer hopefully we love the last bit where
you know, you go and you give like five answers.
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So family feud. But I'm not really embarrassed that I
like family feud. I love watching Family Feud, and like
People Puzzler and some of those. I just think that
they're cool. And also I like keeping my brain very active,
especially because I do have mets in my brain. I'm
always worried and because I had brain surgeries you guys
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know in January two thousand and twenty three. I really
like to constantly keep my brain going and challenging and
doing puzzles and stuff of that nature. So for me,
I show like People Puzzler or Family Feud doesn't seem
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like something I would worry about admitting, or that I'm
embarrassed to admit. I got to say I've probably watched
Sex in the City. I don't know how many times.
It's so soothing to me. I put it on at
night and I'm now up to season I don't even
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know what, but I literally watch it over and over
and over again because it's just one of those shows.
It's like Seinfeld to me that I can relax to
and I don't have to overthink things. In general, I
have TV shows that I love, but I'm not you know,
they're nothing embarrassing. Succession was one of my favorite shows,
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and The Veil, I think now is one of my
favorite shows. So not embarrassed to admit things. For sure,
I'm not a real Housewives person. The only time I
got into that was the year that a friend of mine,
Diana Jenkins, was on and I watched it for her.
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And I've never been a big bachelor person. I know
that's everybody's guilty pleasure, not mine. What movie could you
see over and over again and never get tired of? Ooh?
Pride and Prejudice Joe Wright was the director. Kiera Knightley.
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I have seen that movie so many times. It's ridiculous.
I absolutely love it. And Stepbrothers. Oh, whenever I need
to laugh, I watch step Brothers. It's one of the
funniest movies I've ever seen. And I always look at
people and go, did we just become best friends. So
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there's that too. Do you like to bargain shop, and
so what's your favorite store. I do like to bargain shop.
I do a lot of bargain shopping for home stuff.
I think I've mentioned to you guys that like one
of my things that I love to do is in
tier design. I if I was uber wealthy, I would
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just buy houses and flip them and flip them and
flow them just for the opportunity to decorate them and
do interior design. And I just find that so many
people la New York, Miami all over the world, but
particularly in those big, huge cities, they spend a fortune
on furniture and on making it seem lived in or whatever,
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and because they go to all these high end stores
and you really don't have to. Antique shopping is one
of my favorite things. Bargains shopping. I love that. As
far as clothes go, you know, I used to be
a big vintage girl. I am not so much so anymore.
There's still a couple of vintage stores I will go
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to as far as clothing goes, but it's just so
I can get a really good deal on like a
Chanel skirt or something of that nature. But for the
most part, when it comes to clothing, I do a
lot of my shopping online. Now there's you know, Netta
Portee and my Teresa and places like that where I
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can buy high end and there's no problem with sending
it back if it doesn't fit or whatever. But and
T shirts. They now make so many cool vintage T
shirts that you can buy online as well. So a
lot of my personal clothing is online. But definitely for
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design and for house I do the majority of that.
I mean, yes, I go to stores. I always bargainshop
you guys like I always negotiate. I don't care if
it's a high end store or not. I'm always like,
you want what for this? No, I actually think it
should be priced at this. Here's what I'll give you.
I'm forever doing that, just because the markup and stores
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is so huge. But you know, I also really like
to go to smaller stores. I don't like big, huge
chain stores. I think that. But COVID was a real issue,
and it took out so many of our mom and
pop stores, and we people went out of business. They
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lost their jobs, they lost they lost homes, they lost
because their business had to close. So many restaurants, stores,
all of that that I really have a big thing
about supporting those stores. Those stores I don't really negotiate
with as much because I want them to succeed. But
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you know, there's always a little room for negotiation. I think,
all right, let's see, so what's my favorite store. There's
just too many of them. There's a place called Dandelion
and something which is on Abbot, Kenney and Venice for
like knick knacks and some pieces of furniture and rugs,
which I love. There's Big Daddy's Antiques, which I'm obsessed with.
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There's you know, there's huge sort of markets. They're not
called markets, they're not called festivals, they're whatever they're called.
Like the one in Roundtop in Texas is one where
you go and it's all these different sort of antique
dealers or just dealers in general that have all these
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little different stands. And I love going to places like
that to just find something really unique. I'm gonta find gifts,
and I'll buy gifts way ahead of time for Christmas
or for somebody's birthday. If I see something that resonates
with me that I know that they're gonna like, I
love doing that. I do have a big shoe fetish.
I'm a shoe slut, you guys. I love shoes. Unfortunately,
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I really like high end shoes, either like tennis shoes
or high end shoes new in between. What is something
that you have to have in your fridge or pantry
no matter what Canada dry ginger ail. I'm obsessed with
Canada dry ginger all. I don't know why it's clean
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and I like the taste, but specifically Canada Dry. I
always have Gatorade on hand because when I did chemo
back in twenty sixteen, I was so dehydrated and they
were having to do ivs on me constantly, and I
couldn't eat and I was throwing up all the time.
And I found that if I did gatorade in ice
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cube trays and froze it, that I could tolerate sucking
on an ice cube that was a Gatorade ice cube
and it would hydrate me enough give me the electrolytes
that I needed. So I always keep it close by
just in case I'm sick or or you know, just dehydrated.
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I always have the little cut oranges. I keep them
in the refrigerator because I like them really cold, so
I always have those. As far as something kind of unhealthy,
I always keep milk and cereal because sometimes late at
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night I get really hungry and I'm too lazy sometimes
to cook dinner, and I love a bowl of cereal.
I just think it's fantastic. Actually, that's what I've had
for two nights in a row for dinner lately. I've
been a little lazy this week. All Right, What is
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something you like to splurge on because it's worth it. Shoes?
I really really like to splurge on shoes. Good quality
shoes means that I don't have foot issues, They're not
pinching my feet, they fit well, they're cable, so I'm
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big on that. I'm sort of big on skincare in
the sense of that I love trying new products all
the time. I'm a fan of that, but it doesn't
always mean that I'm going to choose something expensive. I've
been using Seravey, which you get at a drug store,
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on my lines, and I've noticed a difference. But then
I have a product, a moisturizer that's in my opinion, overpriced,
but it works. So skincare, I like to splurge on shoes.
I like to splurge on. I like to splurge on
my mom. I like spoiling her a lot, and she
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in turn likes to spoil me as well. And I
splurge on dinners. I do like a really good dinner.
And obviously I splurge on wine because I do enjoy
my wine. And I think some people would say that
I splurge on my house, which is true, But to me,
that's not a splurge. Right to me, that's an investment.
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I know that whatever I put into the home, I'm
going to be able to sell the house for so
much more than I bought it for. So that's always
that's not a splurge. That's just a healthy investment. All right,
Let's keep going all the places that you've traveled in
the world. Is there one country you would consider moving to? Italy?
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I would love to move to Italy. I would love
to move to Africa for like six months to a
year and work at a sanctuary. There's an elephant sanctuary.
There's a lot of sanctuaries there. I would love to
do that as well. My problem always is the same,
I'm not going anywhere without my dog. Not long term.
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I'll go do conventions for a weekend, or I'll go
in a trip here and there for you know, four
days or a week, but I don't I don't like
leaving my dog long periods of time, especially because she's
a lot older now and I think she's thirteen or fourteen,
and she doesn't walk as well. She's just got a
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few issues, and I would hate to be out of
town when my dog needs to be a rushed to
the hospital because I'm yes, she loves my mom and
my friends, but she's even when she's being loved one
by them, she's always looking at me. I'm her safety net,
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just like she's my safety net, And so I really
want to be here. I would have to buy a
seat for her and fly her. Africa is way too far,
so I don't think that's happening anytime soon, but maybe Italy.
A couple of us have been talking about going there
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for a week and a half or so and learning
how to make homemade pasta really well and pizza do.
Even though I really like my pizza do, I know
it can be a lot better, and I'm going to
learn that from the knowness. So that's something that I've
been wanting to do. What's your favorite thing to do
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on a Sunday morning. Absolutely nothing. I think my brain
is constantly going, and I'm usually on my computer every
day going through the latest clinical trials, any breakthrough with cancer.
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I'm always reaching out to new doctors that I hear
about and having conversations with them. I think I'm seeking
answers for my own health, but also for everybody with
cancer for their health. So therefore I spend so much
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time doing that, and it can be incredibly draining because
as you're going through all that research, you're also seeing yourself,
Oh my god, is this what I have? Is this
what I have? Is like all these new symptoms is
And that can be incredibly taxing and heavy and a
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lot of stress weighing you down. So Sundays I like
to wake up in the morning, I fix myself a
coffee and I'll play like a little game on my iPad,
whether it's a jigsaw puzzle or or crosswords, whatever it is,
in order to get my brain to start going. But
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really I like it to be very, very very quiet.
In general. I like things to be quiet. I'm not
somebody who blasts music only when my friends are over.
I'm not someone who turns on the TV immediately. I
like it like this right now, right It's very quiet
in my house, and I enjoy that. It gives me
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time to reflect and to sort of settle into my day,
and then my Sunday usually continues. I love to garden.
I have an amazing organic garden that I built and
I love tenning to it. And now I've just started
a whole like rose garden, and I love experimenting with
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putting different things next to vegetables. So yes, obviously I
have the merrygolds and the mint to drive away insects
and all of that. But I had read this article
that tested tomatoes and there was a tomato plant, well
two they both grew very very very well, but the
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one that was next to the rose bush where they
almost intertwined essentially, the tomato tasted different. It tasted a
little bit sweeter, it took on more of the tones
of a rose. And so I loved doing stuff like that.
I love just experimenting and figuring out the best way
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to grow the natural products to use. Stuff that you
can combine in the house, banana peels and water for
fertilizing tomatoes or roses or whatever. So that's always a
very good Sunday for me, as well as going bargain hunting.
That's great. Taking a drive to santy Nez, which is
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one of my favorite places. It's about an hour and
a half from where I live, and going and spending
time at Return to Freedom which is up in santin As,
and they take in a lot of the wild mustangs
that the BLM has rounded up and putting corals, and
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then eventually those horses end up at a kilpin and
get sold for slaughter unless people go and buy them,
Like all Seated in the barn is an amazing organization
along with Return to Freedom. So I love going to
Return to Freedom and just hanging out with Netta, who's
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the head of it, and walking the grounds or driving
the ATV type thing and seeing the horses left alone
and hanging out and their bands and their dynamic and
taking photos of them. There's one right there behind me
that I took and that's a voute you know, wild
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horse that was at Return of Freedom that let me
get semi close to it. Those are my relaxing Sundays
or even Saturdays, really Okay, So that was answering trouble
of where I would move to, and I'm saying Italy
for sure. I just there is something about Italy that
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I The food, the people, everything about it inspires me.
The architecture, the history. You can transport yourself to a
different day and age and imagine a totally different life,
and I love that. But you can learn so much
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and learn so much about art and people, and the
people that are happy and kind and just they take
you in. It's Italy to me is the warmest, biggest
hug you can possibly get. And it's not one of
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the only places. As I said, Africa would be really interesting.
I learned a lot when I went to Africa and
it definitely changed me as a person. But if I
had moved somewhere it would it would it would be Italy.
I think an island would drive me crazy. I remember
I did a show called north Shore and I had
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to go live in Hawaii, which sounds like the best
thing in the world, and it really was. I was
surfing every single day. It was phenomenal. But after a
while I got island fever and I was having a
fly home constantly just to sort of settle myself and
then go back and film some more. So I'm not
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sure I would pick an island. Saint Barts is probably
my favorite island, but I don't think I could. I
actually know I could not live there. So that's the
moving we address Sunday morning. What's your favorite fast food restaurant? None.
I don't like fast food. It doesn't mean I don't
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have it. On occasion. I sometimes get very rushed and
I have to I get really hungry, and when I'm
that hungry, and my blood sugar dips, and when my
blood sugar dips, I become a little testy. So I
have pulled into fast food restaurants. I used to eat
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a lot of fast food when I was in my twenties,
but I think now the only ones I'll really pull
into is like a Windy's, and that's drive through. But
I also consider like Habit Burger or this dand kind
of fast food, and I will go to those on occasion.
(21:57):
I love Sharkis, but for the most part, I would
rather eat at home because I know that my food
is without chemicals, without antibiotics, without I know that my
food is none of the stuff that Bill Gates likes
to tamper with so you know, I won't buy fruit
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with appeal on it. That's horrifying to me. Everything that's
in appeal is like if you actually read what's in it,
you will probably avoid a Bill Gates product for the
rest of your life. Along with you know, taking away
jobs from our farmers, which I don't approve of. Everything
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is very bad. So when I make my food at
home or certain restaurants that I know very well and
I know where they buy from, I just feel healthier.
And when I go to a fast food restaurant or
I'm serve something that is monsantos or whatever, I end
up feeling a little. It's almost like you feel bloated
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and overfull, Whereas if I'm cooking for myself or at
an organic restaurant, none of that happens. And what's crazy
is that people think that the organic is so much
more expensive, and it's really not. It's knowing where to
get the organic and really shopping it out. And if
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you do shop it out, you'll find that it ends
up being the same price to a certain degree, and
certainly it saves you. In Doctor Bill Slater, what's your
favorite designer? Ah Come on I have too many. I
really do have too many. I mean I can go
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from like low end to high end. On designers. I
obviously already mentioned Chanel, which I love, and why sel
I love Victoria Beckham. I'm a big fan of There's
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just so many good designers, and I really admire the
designers that years ago said no for that are making
an attempt at being sustainable. I really appreciate that. I
also love free people and little stores, and by the way,
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I love going to like Marshals sometimes and TJ Max.
It's amazing what you can find at those stores. So designers,
there's just that's such a broad question. I just like
my clothes to be comfortable at the end of the
day and classic. I'm not someone who likes to show
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a lot of TNA. Am I allowed to say that.
I don't need low cut. I don't need, you know,
my butt hanging out of a skirt. I'm too old
for it. And I also think leaving something to the
imagination is way sexier. So it's not necessarily about a designer.
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It's about what fits me properly. To me, there's nothing
like a beautiful pair of trousers and a nice sweater. Yeah,
it's dressing with confidence and with comfort and not dressing
as if I want every single eye on me, whether
it's a good eye or a bad eye. And there's
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a lot of high end and low end designers that
do that really well. Costs is a store. I don't
know if it's outside of LA I know it's online
cos that I order online from all the time. I
love it. And their clothes are affordable but classy. And
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so there you go. Which holiday do you like to
go all out for?
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Oh, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas. I, as you guys know,
in the middle of a divorce and my Christmases were
not great because.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
My husband was not into Christmas. Christmas was apparently, as
I was told, not a big deal in his family,
and to my family, Christmas was a huge deal. I
mean a the religious aspect of Christmas was a big
deal to us, as we're Christians. But it's the joy.
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It's hanging lights outside, It's going and finding that perfect
Christmas tree and deciding whether you want it flocked or
not flocked, and the how intricate I can get with
putting the lights on the Christmas tree and hanging stock
and if you're having guests over, buying stockings and getting
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their names on them, which sometimes I do with just
the you know glue that glitters in different colors, simple
things making decorations, but making all the food, making desserts,
and planning a Christmas Eve or Christmas big dinner, inviting
your friends over. To me, there is nothing like it.
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I find that almost everybody's attitude is going to be
really good Christmas, even Christmas, and they're nice and full.
Their bellies, you know, have been filled up by the food.
Buying presents for people, whether it be a present for
five dollars or a present for one hundred dollars, it
doesn't it's the fact that I've already bought it way
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ahead because of my bargain hunting thing and going to
you know, different stores. So when I see something, going
back to that, when I see something that strikes me
being a particular person, I just go ahead and buy it,
and I keep it in a closet so that that
becomes their birthday or their Christmas present. And I love
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seeing people unwrap their Christmas present and them knowing that
it's so specific to them, that I know them that well,
that I knew one hundred percent something that they would want,
that they've been coveting, or something to me just makes
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me feel good. It's kind of this goes back to
this is going slightly off topic, but not really. It
goes back to My mom has this thing of where
when somebody registers right when they're having a baby or
they're getting married, she doesn't like to buy off the registry.
She likes to get them something that she feels. And
I'm different when somebody registers. I'm like, if they register,
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this is what they need. I'm not going off of
the register and registry. So that is when I buy
presents for Christmas. It's because I've given so much thought
into that person and I know exactly as if they've registered,
I know exactly what they need in their house. Maybe
they want to pust a machine, maybe they're looking for
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an antique face. Whatever it is, I know that they
really need it, and when I find it, I buy it.
So Christmas, yeah, I just I love decorating. And this
last year was a really good Christmas where I got
to do a lot of that, and like Holly was
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here and my friend Mike was here, and we put
up the tree, it's just fun. It just it's festive
and it it I don't know. It makes me smile
a lot. So definitely, definitely definitely Christmas. What is my
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favorite dessert? Every dessert? Oh god, So I actually make
one of my favorite desserts, which is a panacotta. I'm
not going to tell you what's in it because I
made it up and it's really delicious. But I also
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do with the panacotta, I do this sort of BlackBerry
I guess the technical term would be gooli and that's
one of my favorite desserts. My friend Christy, who owns
Christie's Cafe, makes the best trace liches cake I've ever had.
That's one of my favorites. I love. There's this dessert
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that comes in a little glass jar and it's Copa
de aura is the name of it. It's like a
crispy bottom, dark chocolate milk, chocolate, white chocolate cream. Oh
my god, this dessert is so amazing. And what's crazy
is I used to not be a dessert person at all,
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and now I love dessert and maybe and I know
dessert's really bad when you have cancer because it's sugar.
So I try not to eat dessert that often. But
there's also moments in your life where I think it's
okay to spoil yourself, whether it's great for you or not.
I know that this happened with my dad a lot
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when he was really sick, and there was always a
discussion about his diet. But towards the end, when you
knew things were pretty bad, there were moments where it
was like, no, let him have shrimp scampy, let him
have his favorite foods. Yes, not every day, but you
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also want quality of life to be great, particularly when
you're dying, particularly when you have a terminal disease. Everybody
should try to go for quality of life because you
never know how long you're going to be on this
(32:21):
earth for before we pass on to a better place.
But so I will. I will spoil myself with desserts sometimes.
And oh, how can I forget one of my other
favorite desserts, well, two other favorites is so I told
you guys already about my love of ginger ale, but
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I love taking vanilla ice cream and with ginger ale
over the vanilla ice cream, it is delicious. It's like
the best float ever. I like it better than root beer,
and I also like doing the same thing with orange sherbet.
There you go. Do you have a favorite rom com?
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Dy one would take me forever to think about. I
love rum coms because it also brings up a lot
of warmth, like in your heart. It brings up a
lot of warmth, and I like movies like that. I
also like really serious movies. But for the most part,
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especially since being diagnosed with cancer, I find that all
I want to do is watch stuff that makes me
laugh because the rest of life is so hard and
you're constantly worried that to be able to turn your
brain off for an hour and a half to two
hours and just laugh is incredibly important, and laughter is
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the best medicine, right, so I do. There's just too
many rom coms out there. I obviously love Sandra Bullock.
There's just people that are funny without even trying. And
I'm going to think about that one, like if there's
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a specific one, and I'll name it, But it's not,
you know, like step Brothers and Pride and Prejudice come
to mind immediately, but so does Godfather too, by the way,
I've watched that twenty one times, I think. But a
rom com I would really have to think that through.
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Like I know offhand the Sandra Bullock Ryan Reynolds one,
I think it was called The Proposal. I loved that movie.
What is your favorite musical actacy and concert? Well, I
am the biggest Youtwo fan in the world, and I've
had the pleasure of meeting the Edge a couple of times. Now.
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I've seen so many of their concerts and then the
latest one was its fhear in Las Vegas, and I
was just blown away. I think my mouth was hanging
open the entire time. It was so phenomenal. Jim Dolan,
who owns Madison Square Garden, was essential and putting on
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the spear and he did a fabulous job, so did
everybody involved. So that was the last concert I think
I went to, but I would go to any concert
of theirs. I really want to go see Chris Stapleton.
I haven't seen him in concert yet, and I love
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Chris Stapleton. And the other person I desperately desperately want
to see in concert is Pink. I love her. I
love everything about her, her personality, her voice, her songwriting,
her messages, and I've seen obviously some of it on TV,
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but it just looks like an amazing time. Other than that,
I have grown to really really like my space and
I don't like to be crowded. Like, what was so
amazing about seeing you too, it sphear was I was
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in Jim Dolan's suite there, and so there was a
lot of space and you could get up from your
seat and go grab There was like this amazing display
of food and drinks and everything else. So I didn't
feel like people were close to me and breathing on me.
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I you know, don't ever want to get somebody else's
cold or somebody else's whatever. I'm very I'm much more
aware of that stuff now, So those kind of venues
are great for me to go to the rest now,
I don't think it would have to be somebody that
I really really really really love in order to want
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to go. Do you have a favorite TV or movie villain? God,
I mean Heath Ledger is a joker? Is Like, That's
just what popped into my brain. How phenomenal is he?
What's your favorite thing to receive in the mail? In
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the mail not delivered to the house, right, so in
the mail because I don't get anything to my house
and in the mail probably when I, like, late at night,
get an itch and I order something off off of site,
Amazon or whatever. It's really exciting when it finally comes
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because you have to try it on and see if
it fits. And I ordered a bathing suit recently from
a bathing suit company and it finally came and I
tried it on and I was like, oh my god,
it actually fits and it's flattering. That's really fun. Other
than that, I don't I don't love mail. Wouldn't it
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be funny, you guys if I said, oh, I love
to get bills in the mail. Nobody likes bills. And
what kills me is that there's even such a thing
as mail for bills. I don't understand that. I have
this conversation with companies all the time where they're like, oh, hey,
it's been a week and you haven't paid our invoice.
I'm like, well, yeah, because there's no like click to pay,
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and they're like, no, you'll have to send in a track.
I'm like, what, like what century are we living in?
Like why do we have to go back to the
dark ages? Which is silly of me, I know, but
I'm like, I don't even have a stamp in my
house and to go to a post office what a
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in the butt? So getting mail is a little odd
to me unless it's something that you specifically ordered. But
are you guys happy I didn't say that I love
to get bills in the mail. Nobody really likes that,
do they. Maybe that's where my dislike of mail has
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come in. I do really like to get checks in
the mail. That's fun. When I get certain checks and
I see on the outside who they're from, and I
know it's money, I get very excited. That's the mail
I open immediately. Everything else kind of doesn't get open.
To be honest, what's your favorite compliment? I have a couple.
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So I think my favorite compliment is when somebody comments
on my intelligence, because my brain is what I'm the
most proud of in this vessel. My my brain is
the thing I'm them was proud of. And then the
second compliment that I love the most is I call
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it a compliment, is when somebody tells me how much
I've helped them go through cancer with a loved one
or go through cancer themselves. Because helping anybody that's sick,
anybody that's struggling in any way, shape or form, is.
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It's validation and it makes you feel good. It makes
you feel like you're here for a purpose, and that's
really important to me. I love the Charmed fans that
talk all the time about how that show got them
through really difficult times and helped them build better relationships
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with their parents and find sort of a family that
accepted them, which is other Charms fans. And recently somebody
was talking to me about nine oh two and oh
and they said, wow, nine oh oh really opened up
conversations with my parents when I was a teenager of
certain issues that were not discussed. So those are those
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are huge, huge, huge compliments to me. And here's my
all time favorite. You're a good daughter. That's my favorite.
Uh what's your favorite time of day? And why I
don't really have a favorite time of day. I think
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every time of day that I wake up and I'm
still breathing is a gift. So if that's seven o'clock
in the morning, if that's midnight, it doesn't matter. I
just any second that I'm awake and breathe and it's
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not painful or it's not filled with stress is my favorite.
And beautiful, my favorite accent. There's so many that are beautiful. Obviously,
because I love Italy so much. An Italian accent it's
just so sexy and so lyrical, and I don't know,
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you can write poems about an Italian accent. But there's
also African accents that are beautiful, in Indian accents that
are beautiful. I think it's not about the accent, right,
I think it's about when you meet somebody with an
accent from a different culture, from anything, and you learn
different words, different quirks, different meanings of things, and you
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get to speak to them and really dove into their culture.
I love all of that. It's I mean, obviously a
British accent is very sexy as well, but I think
all accents are beautiful. Like when I was in Japan,
that was you know, that accent was gorgeous. That language
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is gorgeous, And it's an appreciation for going outside of
your own box and experiencing something else, which is why
I really love to travel. Who is your favorite comedian?
David Chappelle. Dave Chappelle is my favorite comedian. I absolutely
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absolutely love him. He I think his comedy is thought provoking.
And I realized that some of you may be upset
hearing Dave Chappelle because he has ruffled a lot of
feathers and not apologized for certain things. And what I
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learned from that is not necessarily that I agreed with
it or didn't agree with it, but that he stood
by his beliefs or he stood by what his comedy
act was about. And comedy is a way to explore
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different thoughts and to turn hot topics into I think,
bigger and deeper conversations, to be honest, like for me,
that's what it does. And he does that, and he
does it without flinching, and that is incredibly admirable because
I still find that I don't do that, and I
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wish I had his courage and his bravery. I also
absolutely love Chris Rock. He's genius. They both are genius.
There's so many comedians out there, like Ricky Charves is ough.
So those are the three that I desperately want to
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want to meet. Brickis jar Vas. Everything he does for
animals and how he calls out humans, you're still left
like laughing. But again, it's thought provoking, and that's these
three men specifically are thought provoking comedians and their comedy
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is incredibly intelligent. It's not silly. It's not like calling
yourself a whore. It's not any of that stuff. It's
just intelligent comedy. And so those are my absolute three favorites.
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What is your favorite way to pamper yourself? I don't.
You don't really have one, because honestly, I get a
little itchy, Like just sitting around, even getting my hair done,
I'm always looking at my watch, going Okay, how long
is this going to take? I think if I had
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to pick out of just the pamper stuff, it would
probably be a massage and maybe a facial But even
then I find that after a while, I'm like, okay,
when are we done? I need to get up, I
need to leave. There are certain things that I call pampering,
like when I got micro pigmentation on my eyebrows. To me,
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that was definitely a pamper situation, and it's still one
of the best things that I ever did. But I don't.
I don't. I don't think I pamper myself, Like I
can't even even pedicure as bug me. I get them
on occasion, more than on occasion, but I get them.
I never get manicures, which is why my fingernails always
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look broken because often they are. And I can't stand
the smell of nail polish on my hands because I
feel like I can almost taste it in my food afterwards,
like once it's on, I can almost taste it in
my food. So I'm not big on manicures pedicures. It's
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just because you want pretty feet. But if I could
have really beautiful feet without a pedicure, I would do
it all day long. I don't. Lately, I've had some
aches and pains, and my mom has been pampering me
show like massage my feet as we're watching family food,
And that is amazing because you can always pull away,
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you can always stop, You can always be like, okay,
I'm pampered enough, thank you very much. But I don't
know I mean pampering. There's so many different different definitions
of pampering to me, taking the day off, ignoring the
divorce attorney's emails, ignoring the you know iheart's emails, and
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ignoring responsibilities, being like, oh, I'll pay my guest bill
tomorrow instead of today, even though it's due. I think
that pampering to me is taking those days and saying, hey,
I really need to unwind. I really need to unplug,
and I'm going to do that by literally ignoring everything
today and I'm going to jump in my car with
my dog. I'm going to listen to some music or
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no music, and I'm going to take a drive to
Sannynez or to the beach or whatever, and read a book,
play with horses, ride horses. That is That is pampering myself.
Literally taking an entire day and finishing a book. Starting
in finishing a book in one day is a big
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pamper because I'm tuning out the rest of the world.
I'm tuning out all of the noise, and that is
pampering for me. So those are some of my favorite things.
I hope I don't know. I hope you guys pamper yourselves.
I hope you take the time to unplug every once
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in a while, because I think that if you don't unplug,
there's no way to be even. You know, I think
your equilibrium is always a little off if you don't
reset it. In order to reset it, I think you
have to unplug. Whether it's for thirty minutes, listening to
meditation tape or watching your favorite program, whatever, it's important.
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Whether you have children, no children, high stress job, no job.
I just think there's so much noise in the world
right now. There's so much noise, and it's really stressful,
really stressful. There's everybody's got an opinion. Everybody wants to
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argue about Biden or Trump, or Israel or Hamas, about protests,
no protest, there's it's tumultuous right now, and understandably so.
And believe me, I have very very strong opinions about that.
And you know, if ever there comes a time when
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I'm you know, definite on my timeline, You'll probably hear
all of my opinions because I'll have nothing to lose
at that point. For now, I have to maintain peace
for myself. But I just find that there's it's constantly
coming at all of us again, whether it be political
(50:55):
stuff or whether it be if you're an animal lover
and you're watching dogs being you denies all the time
because you know, the mayor of La Karen Bass is
doing a really shit job. Like she's probably the worst
mayor ever for there's an opinion for you, cancel me
if you want, but she's a horrible, horrible, horrible mare
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in every respect, not just with dogs and dealing with
the homeless. Anything that she said complete, she's done nothing.
And for me, because I love animals, that's incredibly stressful.
And when I go on Instagram, there's a gazillion dogs
that are about to be killed just in LA shelters
alone because of because her lack of doing anything about it.
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And when I get that every day, it's like I
get a lot of anxiety and my stomach starts hurting
and I get stressed. And it's the same with you know,
the horses that are a for slaughter and trying to
raise money really quickly. There's pressure of just engaging and
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trying to make sure that you're doing the right thing
for everyone and putting out the right message and connecting
with people and fulfilling your purpose. And that's for all
of us, right, that's not just for me. So we
all get inundated every single day by the noise in
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this world and in particular this country, but really the world,
and so find that time to unplug again. It can
only it can be just thirty minutes, but you got
to we all have to center ourselves because if we
center ourselves, I think we're able to hear better. I
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think that when somebody has a different political agenda than
you do, I think if you're centered, you're able to
hear why they feel that way. And we have free will, right,
that's some people should have free will, but we do.
God gave us free will, and so everybody has a
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right to their opinion. Sometimes how it's expressed it's not okay.
But what's not okay is not hearing somebody else at
all and not taking into consideration something else. And I
think it's very hard to hear clearly when you're not centered.
So I'm going to log off now and probably go
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center myself. But I hope you all find that time
when you're done with work, the kids are in bed,
you've taken your meds, whatever it is, that thirty minutes
to just unplug and hear your own thoughts loud and clear,
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connect with your own thoughts, quiet them, and center yourself
so that you can wake up or continue your day
in a much more like relaxed, accepting manner. That's what
I wish for all of you and for myself as well.
So thank you for listening to a sort of random
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