May 6, 2025 • 56 mins
We know you love them, and we know we love them so we are diving into another weekend at another CON, and the Stori’s just keep getting better.
From flight delays and lunches with legends and then more flight delays, there are almost too many stories to fit into this pod. It seems like we are on a CONstant Tour. Tori ran into her old friend William Shatner and gave a bartender, who was flirting with her, some advice on how to approach someone properly. This episode has it all: fan stories, Captain Kirk, flirting, travel woes, and pickles - yes, pickles. So dive in, and watch out for whiplash, because these stories take some sharp turns.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Miss Spelling with Tory Spelling and iHeartRadio podcast. Okay, you guys,
welcome to another Tory story. So I was just at
another convention. My TV hubby and boy Bessy, Brian, Austin
Green and I were there and I feel like I'm like, oh,
(00:29):
you know what, they don't want to hear about another convention.
We've talked about it. The stories just keep happening, you
guys that when there's too much goodness of funny things
that happen. I got to talk about a con again.
I feel like this and Brian and I have more
coming up. In fact, we're going our next convention is
in Palm Springs. I feel like that's going to be
(00:51):
a great story. So I feel like how we have
many like versions of the show, like it's misspell but
then we have Tory stories and then we have bow talks.
I kind of feel we need like kind of a
convention one because they're not stopping. We're going on the
(01:15):
road to these conventions all summer long. Oh yeah, got
Niagara Falls coming up? What would that be? I'm good
with puns. I would say I'm typically good with puns,
but at this point I have been traveling and working
since Thursday, and I don't even know what day it is, like,
(01:38):
it has not stopped. I literally got back last night
two connections east coast to get to Huntsville, Alabama, and
it was we're talking delays. You guys know, I don't
like flying getting better, getting better, but there's no direct
flight there. So you got multiple connections, delays in Dallas,
(01:59):
delay like four hour delays, crazy storms. And then I
think I got home. We're there. We got home with
two in the morning last night, and.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Here we are, yep, here we are.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
You know why, because the stories are just too good
and we're professionals. We you just got to keep going.
You just got to keep going. What would be a
fun pun for our convention stories? Both our brains are
a little fried right now. We literally have not stopped working, traveling,
(02:36):
or slept in four days. Four days, yeah, and not
for any like like we've been for four days and
not for any fun reasons.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
We'll have to work on the pun.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Oh god, you know, I want to come up with
it on the spot. Matt myself right now.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Miss Unconventional, I think we did that already.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
We've done that. But if it's its own like little.
It's not an episode like it's very many one because
we have we're going to continue to have conn stories
because you've booked me through like next year on so
many of them. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
And I always tell Torry when she's like, I can't
believe I have another convention this week and or we
have to get up at the crack of dawn. I
have to remind her. Me too. Lucky me, I get
to go with.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Her, and then I love to remind her. But it's
my face that is on camera right now for our
social clips. Oh and that's where I think I'd like
to start with your face. Okay, God, I love a
good segue. Okay, So Ruthanne and I travel at this convention.
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Keep in mind, I am grateful for these conventions like
I have. I come back with the fullest heart, so
much love, so much energy. I'm a people person, you
guys know. I like to talk. It's so amazing to
meet these people and see what a part of their
lives you have been in the effect you've had, and
(04:09):
just waile to connect. For me, like even just as
a human, I get human connection and I get to
hear stories and meet great amazing people. So it's great.
And you know, the kids are always like, oh my god,
you're gone for another weekend. And I'm like, you know,
I'm this is how I provide for my family at
this point, you know, it's one of my jobs. But anyway,
(04:33):
so we have to do a connecting flight. We apply
out of lax which is hell in itself, Miss Burbank.
But we get there, we have to go to Dallas
and do a connecting flight. And because of the storms,
and Ruth Anne tells me, because I have not flown
(04:54):
through Dallas before that Dallas is notorious for delays. That
airport it wasn't even an airport. It was like it
was the biggest thing I have ever seen in my
lifetime so far.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
It's like it's own city.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
That's exactly what it is. Oh, it's like the Truman show.
Oh my god, in an airport. Ooh should we do that?
Added to my list ideas that'd be a good TV show. Okay.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Anyway, anyway, if you get laid over there long enough,
you might have to live there, because that's how long
the delays are.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I'd rather get laid and not layover, but yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
That's possible.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Anything can happen in the mecca that is the Dallas Airport. No,
so we landed. We had a delay four hours, you guys,
because there was crazy storms happening. And then oh, so
Brian is not on our flight, but he's in Dallas,
he's landed and he's taking another flight to Huntsville, Alabama.
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And so I'm panicked. And this is how well Brian
knows me, like I say to him, and ruth Ann
knows me well and she didn't even know this. I
was panicked because I'm like, Brian and I aren't on
the same flight. And she's like, he puts it the headphones.
He's listening to music and stuff the whole time, like
it's not even like you're gonna be talking. And I
(06:19):
was like okay, okay. And so Brian's like where are you.
You're not on my flight and I was like, yeah,
I'm on a different flight. And I go I'm freaking out.
I only like to fly with you. And he's like
he texts me and he's like why because you feel
safer knowing that both of us are on that flight,
(06:41):
Like crying face, crying face knowing me. Well, then I'm like, okay,
in my irrational flying fear, like if Brian and I
are on the same flight, like that's that flight won't
go down basically, like and you know, I've talked about
my fears before of like if there's the celebrity on
the flight and babies, I'm like, okay, this flight will
(07:04):
be okay. Like it's irrational, I know, but anyway, I
loved that Brian knew my irrational fear in that, and
I was like, duh, yeah, that's exactly it. Anyway, So
we get to Dallas and Brian's like, oh, I'm getting
on this flight and it was earlier and didn't have
a delay, and I said to Ruthanne, Oh my god,
(07:26):
can we get on that flight? And she was like,
we can try. Well, there was nobody to change the ticket,
so we couldn't go online, we couldn't call, so we
decide to just run and we have to run. And
when I'm thinking, okay, we have to run to get
to Brian's gate, I'm like, okay, it'll be like a couple.
(07:47):
Like I don't know, what are those things you get on.
It's not an escalator goes flat, moving walkway. If you're
going to stand still go to the right. If you're
going to walk, please let people buy and go on
the left left. It's a courtesy. I always stand still
on it. It's my mee time. Anyway, I'm not a runner,
(08:07):
as you guys know, but we did because I was like,
I feel safe for being on the second floor with Brian,
so you know, I'm going to actually bolt, and we ran.
But what we didn't.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Realize is that the airport is a city, and even
though it's the same airline, Dallas is the hub for American,
So American is in every terminal, not just one. So
you could be changing flights from one terminal to another
and still be on American, which is right.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Exactly what was.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Happening, Well, I mean you'll say this didn't happen, but
this happened. You did look down and you didn't have
your glasses on. You were squinting, and I said, what
terminal is it in? And you said it's in B.
But she misread it and it was an E.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Well you do know how tiny the print is. For
some reason, it's a cruel joke the airlines play on you.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
But yes, that is true. It is true.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I Miss I was like, oh my god, it's e
and you were like, okay, and do'll we find So
we're running, we're running, and then we see that we
have to go on a train. It takes you to
a different terminal. And so I'm running and I'm like,
I'm I'm on a mission. Now I'm going to get
on that flight with Brian Austin Green, like David and
Donna are flying together. It's irrational. It's in my mind.
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And once I put my mind to something, I make
it happen. So I'm like, it's happening.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
So I mean, even so you're still behind me and
I'm in front of you, and I'm on the escalator
going up.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
She's walking up the stairs and you are.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Not walking on the escalator. You were standing still as
you do. And I got to the platform and I'm
walking ahead, and so she's walking ahead out and you're
not there.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
She's walking ahead. But what happened is that by walking ahead,
and I hope you learned your lesson. I saw the
skylink and I saw it opened up and it said
get on here, and it's taken you to eat. And
she was probably squinting even though she was ahead and
didn't see that and kept walking. I jumped on that.
(10:23):
I jumped on that skylink and it wasn't until I
got on there that I realized, oh my god, what
if ruth Ann doesn't get on? And I panic because
now I am alone and I've never been on a skylink,
and I'm like, what is this thing? So I say,
oh my god, wait my friend, I don't think she
(10:44):
got on, and these two men are like, oh, she'll
make it. There's one that comes every two minutes. So
I was like, no, I'm scared of being alone. I
didn't say that. So I bulked to the thing because
I'm like, I'm going to get off, and I see
ruth Anne come back around, like what And literally right
as I go to get off, it closes and I'm
(11:04):
pressed up against the glass. We have proof. Ruthan, while
she was laughing her ass off, ran up and took pictures.
And I'm pressed up against the glass.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Like no, there was Torri's little face squitshed up against
the glass as the skylink pulled away from the platform,
and I was a little panicked.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
That can't be sanitary either, And I didn't give two books.
I was just I full mouth pressed up against that glass, panicked.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Yeah, And I was like, oh no, because I don't
really trust toy to navigate an airport fire.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Or navigate anywhere. I have the worst sense of direction
and time, you guys. So anyway, she he texted me
and she's like, I'm right behind you. I'm getting on
the next one. Wait there at the next station, right,
So I did. I did, and then she got there
and we ran and we ran. I'd like to say
(12:13):
we found Brian. We found him on his gate on
his earlier flight that wasn't delayed with the three Lawrence
brothers and uh yeah, they were there, probably every other
celebrity and we were on this like random later flight
and we get there. That's directed of me, duh me
(12:38):
passive aggressive what But we wouldn't have these stories if
we had got on the earlier flight.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
So I do believe there are no coincidences. I do
believe in signs and yeah, so this is what happened.
Brian's like, oh, you made it, and I was like yeah,
and I was like, we're going to change her ticket
and they were like, you have to wait for someone
at the gate. So we wait, we wait. No one
ever came to that gate, and then they were boarding
(13:12):
and there was nothing left, so uh, Brian had to
go and he even like texted me, He's like, did
you get on the flight, and like nope, but our
flight is four hours delayed. So see in Huntsville. Oh man,
So we have time to kill a lot of time.
So we go to what is it called what is
(13:34):
it called?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Well? First? Oh, we.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
First, we try to go to the American Lounge because
we always seem to forget whether or not if you're
flying first class they'll just let you in.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
The answer is no, but she forgets what I told her,
I doubt they will let us in.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
And that was quite a long ways away.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
But we had four hours, so we figured, okay, let's
give back to try and at the same time, we're
talking about maybe just staying in Dallas overnight because it's
already so late.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Oh my god. So I am now and you know me,
you guys, I am a positive person. I don't really
get in bad moods. I'm now in a mood and
I'm like, I'm exhausted, I have been traveling all day.
I'm a terrified flyer. Like it doesn't it's not good
to my nervous system. Emotionally, it's like I'm leaving my kids.
(14:28):
It's been a long day. And I was like, you
know what I said, you know, I'm at the point
like it's eight something now, like maybe we just like
stay at the airport hotel and we catch the first
flight in the morning, because the convention itself didn't start
that day on Friday till four o'clock. So Rudan says,
(14:48):
I have a friend who has an amazing house here.
She'll give us the code, which I I was like,
I don't know. Anyway, I text Brian and I'm like,
I think we might and he was like fuck no, no,
he said, you get on that next flight. He goes,
do not. You're gonna be miserable.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Do not.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
This is funny, he said, do not stay a night,
just get there. You can go to sleep, you can
sleep in, you could have breakfast. You could go to
the gym. And I was like, who do you think
you're talking to and he's like, oh right, He's like
I forgot. He goes, well, you can sleep in. You
(15:29):
could have a diet doctor pepper in the morning. You
could avoid water at all costs, and you could watch
people and laugh as they walk in and out of
the gym. I go, ah, there's my best friend, good boy,
good for knowing me, and he goes, yeah, it felt
better writing it that way. Yeah, anyway, we make the law, We.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Make the long haul to the American Lounge, only to
be declined, and then I look up and see if
there's any other lounges.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
I'm just gonna mind you though you had a choice.
They said, there's two lounges near where your your gate
is that you can go to, and she has American Express.
There was one you could buy for like it was
like ninety nine dollars a person, No, no, no, is
that writer sixty nine dollars. I just loved the number
(16:20):
sixty nine. Okay, it was ninety nine. And or there's
one that you could buy with your American Express for
nine dollars.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
No, it was free.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
It ended up being free. But this is what the
woman told us. And she was like, they're both right here,
and you said we should save money. Let's you know,
it's just, you know, it's just a lounge. We should
go to the one that's nine dollars, which did end
up being free, but it also costs you your sanity
(16:54):
going to that lounge because we got there.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Okay, fair, good good good. Being with you though always
cost me myself. It doesn't matter where I go.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Twenty five years and we're still going though, go on, no,
you go on? Okay, no, literally, we've known each other
twenty five years. I was being literal. And so we
get to the lounge and we're checking in, giving our
passes so they can scan them and say, yes, yes,
(17:24):
say let's go to the lounge. Oh god, I love
this one. And the woman says to her, oh, is
it a mother daughter trip?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Yeah, And they.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Were referring to me as the mother in case anybody
had any confusion about that.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
So once again standing behind Ruth Anne and she's doing
all the talking and I'm just behind her and so
oh yeah, it's no missing any any who are they
talking to? They are talking to her. I'm just in
the background. Oh is this a mother daughter trip? And
I froze because if you all remember, if you haven't,
(18:07):
you should go back and listen to that episode. Make
sure you download listen give us five stars. We love you.
When we went to another convention and we were packing
like we went to the front and the luggage they
were weighing it. The woman at that airport had said,
is this your daughter? Right?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Yep, yep?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
That would be united at the Burbank airport, and I
was horrified and I ran out the door and immediately
got botox.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
So I was feeling a little better about myself on
this trip. Once again, be looked a great.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
She by the way, your botox looks great, very natural.
You looked refreshed. You even said your husband was like, oh,
you just looked fresh, liked. She didn't even know you
bout anything done. She was looking good, by the way.
So I now panic because I'm like.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Panic in between laughing maniacally.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yes, uh huh so uh So the last time this happened,
I was just like, oh my god, I'm going to
shut up and just we got to get on that flight. Well,
now we have four hours to kill so I'm going
to jump in on this this time. Now it's happened
two times, and I say, oh, we're friends. I go,
we're actually only nine years apart THEYD care so I
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was like trying to say, like, there's no way she
could have had me. So anyway, we get into the
lounge and I was like, are you okay? As I'm laughing,
She's like, no, I just spent three thousand dollars on
my face. Like I was feeling good, and this happens again.
I was like, oh my god, I said, well, and
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then I tried to make excuses. I'm like, you know what,
I tried to make it about me me. I don't
dress my age. I'm the bad one. I'm in the
inappropriate I'm dressed like a teenager, which everyone gives me
shit about, even though I like dressing like this. I'm
standing behind you, I have sunglasses on, I'm dressed like
(20:15):
a skater girl, and you're doing all the talking. So
I was trying to give her all the reasons why
they might have assumed it was a mother and her daughter.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
She was decided the next trip, I'm wearing my hair
up and pigtails. I'm gonna be having I'll have a
lollipop in my hand and a stuffed animal in my arm.
And then let's see if they think I'm your mother
or what did you say?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
No, They'll think that i'm baby Jane.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Yeah, whatever happened to baby Jane? That just that just
sounds that sounds like some creepy fetish I don't know, but.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Everybody in the lounge got in on it and made comments, and.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Well, because she had to tell everybody in the lounge,
and we, you know us, we make friends with everybody
where before we go. So we're talking and telling. Anyway,
third times the charm comedy happens in three So I'm
really sorry, my friend, but I think it's probably gonna
happen one more time.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
One more time. But we'll say that for a little
bit later. So we make friends with everybody in the lounge.
We say oah, goodbyes, we give you a five star review,
and we go to our gate.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
So as she's so divisive sometimes, so as we're walking
like no, no, no, no, no, we've checked our tickets. We're walking
through that little like time yea ramp. Sorry, I don't
know flying terms. I hate flying onto the plane, she goes,
(21:54):
I have a little bit of bad news.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
In between laughing hysteria and practically being in my pants.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
And I was like, oh god, you know what, I
go bad news for me. I'm used to his sister
every day like what I'm flappable tory spelling like whatever,
what is it now? And I go is it? I go? Wait,
let me know how bad is it. I'm thinking she's
gonna tell me like the convention's canceled, like or so,
(22:24):
I don't know what she's gonna tell me. But but
she said, uh, I hope you like who you're sitting
next to on the plane. I'm like, oh my god.
So being a scared flyer, it's not like I'm look
at me having to defend myself, like I don't have
to be in first class, I don't have to be
(22:45):
with a friend, but I don't.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
We're usually seated together, that's but on this particular flight,
it wasn't available, so I had put us like behind
each other, assuming someone would switch. But I had forgotten
about it until we were getting on the plane, and
it just seemed and listen hilarious to me in that moment.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Okay, here here's the thing. And I told Dean this
for twenty years and he still never listened. I am
way better at handling things if you're tell me up front.
I don't like surprises. I hate surprises that plummets me worse.
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I like knowing everything up front, and I'll bitch about
it whatever, and then I'll move on and we'll deal
with it. But yeah, anyway, So we get on the
flight and she says, don't worry, I'll ask the person
because I always get nervous, like I'm sorry, I don't
want you know me. So I'm sorry, I'm sorry for
my existence. I don't want to ask you to move.
(23:47):
So we get on. Were the last people the board
of course, final call, and there's only two rows in
first class because you booked us on this tiny plane.
Another thing, I'm like, my choice.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
I decided we would fly on the tiniest plain possible.
So I decide, all right, there's two guys I can ask,
one sitting in the front, one sitting behind, and I'm
going to go for the guy behind who has his
head down. And I tapped him on the shoulder and said.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Excuse me, sir, would you.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Terribly mind switching seats till my friend and I could
sit together?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
And then Tory says, yes, I'm terrified.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Right, I pipe in and tell the truth. I'm a
terrified flyer. Over explaining myself always I'm a terrified flyer.
Would be so grateful and because you guys, it's true,
like I'm getting better, I'm working on my fear of flying.
But in the past like I I will clutch you,
i will scream, i will bruise your arms because I'm
(24:48):
holding on so tight, nails, digging into you, crying on
your shoulder. It's not pretty, Like you don't want to
be that human sitting next to me and that alone.
I've explained in the past, people are like, cool, I'm up,
I'll switch. But anyway, this gentleman was very accommodating. He
looked at me and said, oh, of course, no problem,
(25:08):
no problem. Got up. So he goes and sits right
in front of us. We take our seats, and then
ruth Anne goes, oh my god, do you know who
that is? And I was so scared and in the
moment and not looking. I don't know. So at this
point all I have anything to base anything on is
looking at his luscious curls long hair because I'm looking
(25:33):
at his head. He's in front of me, and she
texts me, it's weird al yankiffing.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
I couldn't say it because I was laughing too, so
I had a texting yeah, because I was laughing in him.
But it was just so absurd of all the people
in the world. Because we are big fans, actually weird
al Yankvich and.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
He's very nice, huge legend, legend, icon legend. So but
in my tory brain, I'm like, oh, well, screw Brian,
I'm on a flight with weird al Nothing's happening to
this flight. I'm good, I'm solid. But I text my
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kids and my son Liam is like a huge sick
fan of weird Awl, Like he loves old school stuff
and he's just like and I said, weird Alice sitting
in front of me, and he said, no way, no way.
And he said, oh my gosh, Mom, I know you
hate doing this, but would you ask him for a photo.
And I was like, oh my gosh, I said, I'll try, baby,
(26:40):
But I knew in my head. I was like, I'm
too scared. I'm too scared. It's weird al Yo, like
he's a legend. Anyway. Yeah, So that flight, I got
to say, in the history of my flights, was one
of the scariest flights I've ever been off.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
It was rough. Admit, that was a rough light.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
I mean we went through a thunderstorm, we went the
plane was dropping and there's lights and here's the thing.
God bless them, they got us there safely, but when
the pilot when you land and they're like ding and
everyone gets up to leave, and he comes out of
the cockpit and he goes, phew.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
That was a bad one, right, It's not my irrational fear.
He goes, phew oh. And then he turns to the
flight attend and he goes, yeah, that's storm. That was
a bad one we went through. So I'm like, oh
my god. Even he was like, I don't know if
we're gonna be okay. And then he goes she says something, oh,
(27:49):
well we made it.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Or or she said that was a great landing.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Great landing, and he goes through, any landing is a
great landing. And you know what, I was like, Dann.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Straight, yeh wow, we are right.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Anyway, we made it. We went went to sleep. We
got in literally by the time we got to the hotel,
it was like what three in the morning.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
But we're like, hey, weird all can do this, we
can do this. Yeah, So we go to sleep. The
convention the next day we get there. Refresh my memory.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
What happened on Friday, Well, what happened on Friday was
weet up with Brian to go to the convention. And
lo and behold, he's broken his towel and he is
having a very hard time getting around.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
And yes, and then on the way to the convention,
I see my friend Rose McGowan, because Rose McGowan and
Holly Marie Combes we kind of are all doing the
same circle and doing these conventions. And I see Rose
(29:03):
and she's in a boot and she's on like a
knee scooter. I'm like, what happened? And she tells me
this horrific story that happened, and I'm not going to
tell it right because I was like, oh my god,
Oh my god, what is happening? But basically, you know,
she broke.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Her foot, she pulled all the.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Ligaments and and yeah, she was on an I was like, wow,
but you made it here, and good for you. So
we got we got Rose on a knee scooter with
a boot broken. We got Brian with a broken toe
who's like limping but like still walking. And he's such
a dude, like, you know, he wouldn't like I was like,
(29:49):
let's get in an uber when we were going to
like dinners and stuff or you know, and he's like,
I'm okay, I'm just going slower I'm like, oh, it's
such a man like not to be like I got this,
I got this, like because you know, they don't want
to be like, okay, I'll take it easy. So he
was a trooper. Rose was a trooper. And then Saturday,
(30:12):
Jamie Presley comes in. She's doing a whole they got
everyone from my name is Earl there, very cool, and
she comes in and when she gets there, she breaks
her foot at the airport. At the airport coming in,
Jamie has broken her foot. It was like an old injury,
(30:32):
hairline fracture. And now at the airport she had a
Dallas connection and was trying to get through fast and
like make that connection at the Mecca City and yeah,
and broke rebroke it but like bad. And again I'm like,
oh my god, my friends are all troopers, like super troopers.
(30:57):
So anyway, she has a boot on two. She had
the boot on two, so you have boots galore, except
the boy who refuses to do it. So he's and.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
She's suffering through it, suffering.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
So we leave our table during the convention to get
photos taken.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
And it's Brian and Tory and myself and.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
We're walking really slow because we know how you know,
we're hanging back for Brian.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
They assigned an escort, a volunteer escort, to take you
to your next event. And at first I'm thinking the
guy we're walking with us is walking.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
He's walking in front of us with Brian and RUTHI Harry.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
We're like, oh, that's very respectful that he's going so slow.
And then I took take another look and I.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Say, actually he's badly limping as well, so he's either
imitating Brian, which I highly doubt, or he too has
an injury and.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Need to find out. When we get to the panel,
he says to me, I've met you before, and I said,
oh my god, I'm so sorry. Where did we meet?
And he said, in twenty nineteen, you were doing BH
nine oh two and zero and at Century City Mall.
They had like a fashion institute and we had like
your clothes from the show and your design, your costume
(32:15):
designer Mandy Lyin was there, and you and Jenny and
I think Gabrielle, yeah, all the girls. And he said
there was massive security because there was so many people
like kind of bum rushing you. And I came up
and wanted to get a photo with you as you
were leaving, and he said, I still have the photo
because all security swarmed in to keep me away, and
(32:40):
you said, no, no, no, I'm fine, I'll take a
photo with him. And the photo is kind of me
kind of leaning in and you could see the security
in the background, just like coming for this guy, and
I took the picture quickly. They rushed me on. I
thought it was okay. I haven't seen him since. Apparently
(33:01):
they like tackled him. They thought he was like doing
something to me. Wasn't. He was just a fan there
at the time, like tackled him and he's had an injury.
And I was like, oh my god. So literally, this.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
This unfortunate limp he has was caused by Tory.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Oh take it back, take it back. Oh my god,
that's the headline. Uh listen, it was. It was not
directly caused by me, but it Yeah. Anyway, we hugged
it out. I said, I'm so sorry. He's like, well,
you didn't do it, you weren't responsible. He was so nice.
I said, you know what the least I could do
was let's do a proper picture without a security guard
(33:42):
in the background about to tack you. So we took
some really good pictures. Anyway, I got to see my
old friend, not old, well, I mean he's older. I
got to see William Shatner lunch with us. We had
lunch with William Shatner, Me and Brian, Ruth and Tracy, Brian,
Samandrain and Bill and that man. And again, if you
(34:07):
have not heard that episode with William Shatner, we go,
we go where no one has ever gone before. So
he told me. And that is the infamous episode where
I inform William Shatner that you should do an enema
before anal sex. And he had never heard that women.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Do that, so he appreciated the info.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Yeah, he really did. But that man has I thought
I had a good memory. He's how old ninety two
ninety threety three, I think, and one of the best memories,
I mean, one of the most intelligent, witty, quick men
I have ever met in my life.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Human, handsome.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
I'm still handsome, so I said to him. So, if
you haven't listened to that episode, mister William Shatner, you
got to listen to it. It's amazing on misspelling podcasts.
But I said to him, Oh my god, my friend.
And he's like, how are you? As we go over
and we hug and give him a kiss, and I'm like, oh,
(35:11):
I missed you. Oh my god, I love you. And
then I said I still owe you pickles and he said, yes,
you do. You never sent me those pickles. So in
the episode, I randomly because I was like, you know what,
everyone has asked William Shatner everything in his career, so
I kind of was like freestyling, freestyling podcast version. That's
(35:36):
a new thing. And I was like, I'm gonna go
rogue and whatever comes to mind in this moment with him,
I'm just gonna ask. In the day before, I had
just made homeweede pickles, like the DIY version, so and
I'm obsessed with pickles. So, you know, we're in the
middle of talking about his career and everything. I look
at him and I say do you like pickles? And
(35:58):
he goes, I do I love pickles? And then he goes,
oh my god, that reminds me of a funny story
that I don't think I've ever shared with anyone. And
he talks about this whole pickle story of when he
was eighteen and working as a counsel and this whole
thing and pickle barrel, which he proceeds to tell Brian
(36:19):
and ruth Anna Tracy. But yeah, so god, I got
to get him those pickles. I got to make pickles
and give it.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
To him, all right.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Speaking of handsome men, Yes, let's talk about that bartender
you met.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Oh my gosh, you guys in different cities. Apparently bartenders
have a thing for me. So here I am again.
If you remember an episode if you haven't listened to it,
with my best friend Jess, we went to Kansas City
for an immersive whole experience with our friend Darren Bausman,
(37:02):
who does the creator Saw and Everything. And there was
a bartender at the bar that we were like kind
of flirting, and I was just it was kind of
like made me feel good about myself that someone was
like actually interested in me. And anyway, he ended up
being twenty four years old, ended up telling us that
(37:24):
didn't know who I was, but he was definitely flirting
with me, and I was feeling all good until he
told me his mom because is two years younger than me.
I mean, he said it nicely, but when he found
out who I was, he was like, oh, my mom
knows who you are, she watched your show, and I
was like, oh, and he is like all these siblings,
how was your mom? And he's like, oh, what do
(37:44):
you say, My mom's forty nine or something or forty eight.
I'm like, how fuck my life? Anyway, So that was
then listened to that episode. It's really great. But here
I am again at the bar and we'd had a
long day, so we were just sitting there and we
had food and I randomly got spinach arta choke dip
(38:08):
and slan because that's what everyone orders for dinner when
in Huntsville, Bama's so random. Anyway, we have some drinks
and this one is different than the last bartender. So
this one is he has his hair and like a
man bun, and he's kind of alternative and cool and
(38:28):
like dark sense of humor. Totally my jam. But unlike
the other one, who I felt like I was flirting
with him and then he then it reciprocated, this one
was like all him on me and he just kept
like winking at me and like I'm like, okay, this guy,
this guy's flirting with me. He's into me. So I
(38:52):
say at this point it's Brian had gone to bed
and it was Tracy brand'smander and Ruth Anne. I said, you, guys,
I got to go to the bathroom. So I go
to the bathroom and then I go outside. There's like
a little area to go outside, go outside, and I'm
literally about to FaceTime my kids to say good night.
And asked me about to FaceTime my kids. I hear hi,
(39:15):
and I'm like, okay. I turn around and he's come
out and he's come outside and I'm sitting on the
stoop there and he's like, oh, how are you? And
he said, oh no, he said hi, and then he
said I heard your famous, and I, being me in
an adorable way, said ew, well, that's not the way
(39:38):
to lead. And he was like, no, I don't know
who you are, but I heard your famous. And I
was like, I don't know whatever. I'm like, that's weird.
So we end up talking very nice, cool guy. Really
I liked him, and I was just like the way
I liked the other bartender. I didn't feel it for
(39:58):
this one.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
Well wait, but you're missing an important part.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
By the time he came out to tell me, I
hear your famous and pick up on me, he had
let down his hair. Now I raise boys who make choices,
and they all have long hair. I love a good
head of hair, like longish kind of hair is my thing,
but I don't mean long like it was like long.
(40:24):
We call him Fabio now minus the goose blood hitting
him in the face on the roller coaster that I
had to tell Tracy and ruth Ann and Brian about,
and they didn't know that story. I'm like, you guys
never heard that horrific story of Fabio on the roller
coaster and the goose hit him in the face and
died and there's blood everywhere. So they had this story. Ever,
(40:46):
but I digress. So he had like shaken his locks out,
and I'm sitting on the stoop and he's standing above me,
and he must have thought like he would come out
with this long hair and I'd be like ooh, and
I was like ooo. But anyway, very good looking guy, though,
very nice guy. Again, this one wasn't twenty four, but
(41:06):
I was like, how old are you? And he's like
twenty eight, and I'm like, gosh, I'm like these young
ones like me for some reason. But you know what,
And Brian pointed this out when I told him the story.
This guy was really confident for a guy in his twenties,
especially dealing with someone that he had just found out
was like famous or something and an older woman like he.
(41:30):
He goes right into uh, there's a famous arts and
crafts fair here this weekend, and I said, oh, I
heard about that, and he said, I'd like to take
you tomorrow night. And he said, I'll buy you a ticket,
I'll come pick you up. I have the day off.
And I was like, okay, so very confident, like ballsy,
(41:52):
like wow, good, you know what? Good for him? Of course,
I was like, oh, well, you know, I don't know.
We're working late. I don't want her his feelings, so
I'm like, I don't know, we're working late. Was Henry
working till? I said oh? And I can't lie? And
I said, oh, the convention is at eight, and he goes, oh,
that's perfect timing. I'll pick you up at nine. And
(42:13):
I was like, you know what. I gave him my
cell and I said text me. I said, brag. Got
to tell you, I'm not sure these conventions are exhausting
and I'm not sure what we're gonna do. But and
he said, okay, okay, I'll hit you up tomorrow and
I was like, oh, showing his age. Hit me up, Yeah,
hit me up. Anyway, we go to bed and I
(42:34):
did text my best friend Jess and I was like,
so I got another bartender and she was like, oh
my god, tell me everything. And I was like no, no, no,
I'm like no, no, no, this one. But she even said,
she goes, wait, I like this guy. She goes, first
of all, I can't get past the fact that I
invite you to an arts and crafts fair in Alabama.
But I'll let that one go. She was like, that's
(42:57):
really gutsy. I'm like, yeah, that's what Brian said. Anyway,
So the next day back at the convention, I had
told him it ends at eight, and I'm at my
table and at tables and conventions, if you've ever met
me some celebrities, it's fine, sit behind the table with
all their pictures and you come to the table and
(43:20):
they're nice and they interact and sign for you. Brian
and I and I really eat the more. Like Brian
and I like travel and do all this stuff together,
even though I pretty much always knew it, Like Brian
and I are the same human. And I'm proud to
say that because I'm his TV wife and gosh, you know,
one of the greatest loves of my life in whatever
form that is. But I'm proud to say, like we
(43:43):
are the same human. He's the male form, I'm the
female form. Yep, Donn and David forever. It's real. But anyway,
we both don't ever sit down the entire time. I'm
talking like if it goes ten hours, like, we don't
ever sit We stand and on our table and we
go right up to our everyone in our lines, and
(44:03):
we're just we are both huggers and we go write in,
we introduce ourselves, ask their name, we hug them, we
talk to them. At previous conventions, people have said, like,
people are getting bummed because they're waiting in such long lines.
You got to go quicker, and Brian and I are
both like, you know what, No, this is like a
moment for people, and we love people. We're going to
(44:26):
give as much time as they need. And they want
to tell us stories, we want to talk to them.
It's only fair, so you know, and it's what we enjoy.
So anyway, I'm in front of my table. I've just
you know, signed something. I turned back around to OCD
organize my pictures weird. And ruth Anne, who is sitting
(44:49):
behind the table because she handles the money and everything,
she says behind you now, she claims she said, because
I I heard behind me, and I was like, oh
my god. I panicked, and I was like, who, what's
behind me? I have no idea. It reminds me of
(45:10):
city slickers where like do you remember that where he
says something and then he's like, he's right behind me,
isn't he? Oh my god, Billy Crystal says something and
he's right anyway.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
But I did say I said, bartender behind you. Maybe
that wasn't descriptive enough. I was trying to be efficient.
Speaker 1 (45:33):
And why five kids. My hearing at this point is
so not good and so all I heard is and
I can't see barely anymore. I mean I can, but
it's just like my eyes aren't as good as they
used to. I used to be able to read lips
like a mother. But but all I heard is behind you,
and I'm like, huh, frozen. I like swirl around quickly,
(45:58):
like what's happening? And yep, it's the bartender and he's there,
hair down and he's got like very like cool kind
of almost like seventies vibes, like hipster, I don't kind
of festival hotel in his shirts and buttoned all the
(46:18):
way to like down his chest. He's got some gold
chains on. I did like his off white slides, the
brand off white with socks. That's what everyone wears. You
and Tracy kept obsessing and Brian about the slides with
the socks. That is a fashion statement these days. I'm
not defending him. And he's wearing something around his neck
(46:42):
and he holds it up and he goes, I bought
a day pass and I'm like, yay, and he is.
He is holding a cocktail and Ruth Anne when you say, I.
Speaker 2 (46:55):
Said, oh, are you working tonight?
Speaker 3 (46:57):
And he says, no, I am drinking tonight and he
holds up his cup and unfortunately for him, a couple
of the staff members saw that and he was immediately
shuffled off the convention.
Speaker 1 (47:11):
Floor because you can't drink there. Yes, so, but he
didn't know. And then they said, is this man harassing you?
I'm like, no, don't kick him out. I'm like, at
my age, it's so flattering to anyone to be interested
in me, I said, I said, it's a it's a
boy and he's wait what was that line? Uh, this
(47:33):
is just a girl asking a boy to love notting
Hill anyway, Julia Roberts, Sorry, anyway, he did. I was like, don't, don't,
don't make him leave. Like, I was like, I don't
want to go out with this guy. But he asked
me out. But it's so flattering that he's flirting with
me and he's twenty eight and he's cute. Mine is
long hair. Anyway, Yeah, he was amusing.
Speaker 2 (47:56):
I will give him.
Speaker 1 (47:57):
He did text me later and say you're still doing
a right and I feel bad at ghosted him. I
did I should text him.
Speaker 2 (48:08):
No, you really should not. You should lose the phone
number and move on. That is what you should do.
Leave it in the past.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
Yeah, but I just don't want to feel bad about himself.
There's no closure there for him.
Speaker 3 (48:19):
Okay, Moving along, The convention was a success.
Speaker 2 (48:24):
You guys did a great panel.
Speaker 1 (48:26):
Oh my gosh, the panel. For one second, I got
to say, we went to Alabama not knowing what to expect,
and Huntsville is beautiful. They have one they have the biggest,
they have the space camp there. They have so many
like it's so many professionals and doctors and some of
(48:47):
the best like medical things like it's it's really and
beautiful architecture, great food, and the kindest people. Oh my,
And everyone kept saying, you got to find yourself is
the Southern what is say, Southern charm, Southern hospitality? You
got to find yourself a Southern man. And I was like, maybe,
(49:07):
but oh my god, the fried creen tomatoes were so
good there. Oh the hush puppies, Oh god, it was insane. Anyway,
the panel, we do panels all the time, and it
was me and Brian and usually the panels are very
light and like, what are your favorite memories, what's your
(49:28):
favorite show? Your character? Uh, this is the first time
during a panel that people could in the audience have
a mic and ask questions. And this is the first
time that And this had happened to me all day
while I was there. Someone said, Tori, I know you've
personally gone through a lot and just want to say
(49:49):
we're proud of you. And I had gotten that from
women all day long, and it meant a lot, because
I guess, I guess at times, I doubt myself at
times and sometimes I'll be like, you know, the press
has such a way of turning everything into like, you know,
life fallowed apart, like broke home, like they've been such
(50:11):
horrible things because a nice story doesn't sell, you know.
And I sometimes read the press and it's like, God,
do people just perceive me as a hot mess, Like
I'm a single mom going through it. Stuff has happened,
but I'm a fighter like I and people are like,
get a job, people say, I'm like, I have fifty try.
(50:32):
I'm scrambling to provide for my family as a single mom.
I don't have help. I don't have like I am.
I'm working through stuff, and I'm working through it a
lot of the emotional stuff and things that have happened
through you know, trauma and stuff personally and emotionally, like
I'm working through it as I go, you know, and
(50:56):
and not not missing a beat because it's fight or flight.
But my kids are my everything, and I keep going.
But that's who I am, and no matter if my
life fell apart or didn't fall apart, I'm always going
to keep going. And it was a nice reminder that
there are people humans. It's not just this stuff we
(51:17):
read online that people can hide behind. And it was
nice to be reminded the humans and men even said it,
and especially women and moms, and they're just like this woman,
this woman had three kids and she was there and
she said, I know what you've been through. I read
it and she said, I'm proud of you. And she's like,
(51:38):
you just keep going. She's like, you got this, and
she hugged me and she prayed for me while she
hugged me and said this beautiful prayer and I said
thank you. And she's like, I'm going to put you
at the top of my prayer list every night. I said,
oh my god, no, I'm not worthy. Just put me
like number five or something whatever. No. I was like, no,
oh my gosh, and she said, no, you're on it.
(51:59):
She's like, because I believe in you, and it's going
to be okay. You're going to get through everything and
elevate and be even better. And anyway, in this panel,
people start saying that and they said, we've been through
a lot and you're a warrior. You know you keep going.
And I just I had a moment, you know me,
I don't crack easy where I spoke to my truth
(52:22):
and I acknowledge that Brian, since he was right next
to me. He's been so instrumental in being that person
to lean on in my rock through a lot of
stuff and believing in me when I didn't think I
could believe in myself. And I realize that I don't
have a big I have a big outer circle. I
(52:44):
don't have a big. Small circle is my inner circle.
It's very small. But everyone that's in that believes in
me and has been there for me. And it makes
you realize in life, who's there for you for the
right reason, who's not? And those are the people that
really kind of were there for you. I mean, you
(53:04):
gotta no one can save you. You know you got to.
You gotta step up and do it for yourself. But
I did. I started crying at the panel, and I
spoke my truth of my why, and I acknowledged in
my tory way that everyone goes through stuff and people's
lives fall apart, and what you know is what's happened
(53:25):
to me is very might look very different than what's
happened to someone else. I might be an LA girl
and going through stuff and publicly and I'm an actress
and a podcaster, but that doesn't minimize what the person
here all the way here across the country, and Alabama
(53:46):
is going through and we're connecting. I'm connecting with women
daily on struggles and things and trauma and getting past
that and the effect it has on you, and and
you realize how none of them like, we're all just humans.
We're all just human on a human level. And we
(54:08):
might be in different places going through different things, and
we might be doing it on different levels, in different
places of life or professions, but at the heart of it,
we are all human beings. And it was so nice
to connect with people and know that. And I don't know.
(54:31):
I just turned to Brian and I said I love you,
and he said I love you too. And he's been
a really great friend. I'm very grateful for him. So
there was a reason Donna and David forever. Literally he
stuck with me in this lifetime. Poor guy. Anyway, Okay,
we saw a lot of great people, met a lot
of great people. But then I was like, oh my gosh,
(54:52):
we're dan. The convention's ending, and I liam really wanted
to picture with weird al and I'm terrified. I'm scared
to say anything, and so all ruth Anne went and asked,
and he was so nice.
Speaker 2 (55:10):
He couldn't have been nicer.
Speaker 1 (55:11):
He got up from his table, came behind the curtains
because there's a green room kind of backstage, and came
over and took a picture and I said, thank you
so much. My son eighteen, huge fan, so your a
legend and took a picture and I was like, wow,
that is full circle. Until we were flying home to
(55:34):
connecting flights through Dallas again delayed another four hours. Oh yeah,
delayed another four hours. We get on our final leg,
our final connection back to LA and guess who's on it?
Weird al Now that's full circle.
Speaker 2 (55:49):
Wait, but back to the lounge.
Speaker 1 (55:52):
Yes, we went back to the lounge and a very
nice man next to her said, you remind me of
my mother. Third times the term there's comedy in three's.
I forgot about that. Yep, it happened. Oh so you're good.
From now on, you might just get referred to as
my grandmother.
Miss Spelling with Tory Spelling and iHeartRadio podcast. Okay, you guys,
welcome to another Tory story. So I was just at
another convention. My TV hubby and boy Bessy, Brian, Austin
Green and I were there and I feel like I'm like, oh,
(00:29):
you know what, they don't want to hear about another convention.
We've talked about it. The stories just keep happening, you
guys that when there's too much goodness of funny things
that happen. I got to talk about a con again.
I feel like this and Brian and I have more
coming up. In fact, we're going our next convention is
in Palm Springs. I feel like that's going to be
(00:51):
a great story. So I feel like how we have
many like versions of the show, like it's misspell but
then we have Tory stories and then we have bow talks.
I kind of feel we need like kind of a
convention one because they're not stopping. We're going on the
(01:15):
road to these conventions all summer long. Oh yeah, got
Niagara Falls coming up? What would that be? I'm good
with puns. I would say I'm typically good with puns,
but at this point I have been traveling and working
since Thursday, and I don't even know what day it is, like,
(01:38):
it has not stopped. I literally got back last night
two connections east coast to get to Huntsville, Alabama, and
it was we're talking delays. You guys know, I don't
like flying getting better, getting better, but there's no direct
flight there. So you got multiple connections, delays in Dallas,
(01:59):
delay like four hour delays, crazy storms. And then I
think I got home. We're there. We got home with
two in the morning last night, and.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Here we are, yep, here we are.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
You know why, because the stories are just too good
and we're professionals. We you just got to keep going.
You just got to keep going. What would be a
fun pun for our convention stories? Both our brains are
a little fried right now. We literally have not stopped working, traveling,
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or slept in four days. Four days, yeah, and not
for any like like we've been for four days and
not for any fun reasons.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
We'll have to work on the pun.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Oh god, you know, I want to come up with
it on the spot. Matt myself right now.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Miss Unconventional, I think we did that already.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
We've done that. But if it's its own like little.
It's not an episode like it's very many one because
we have we're going to continue to have conn stories
because you've booked me through like next year on so
many of them. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
And I always tell Torry when she's like, I can't
believe I have another convention this week and or we
have to get up at the crack of dawn. I
have to remind her. Me too. Lucky me, I get
to go with.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Her, and then I love to remind her. But it's
my face that is on camera right now for our
social clips. Oh and that's where I think I'd like
to start with your face. Okay, God, I love a
good segue. Okay, So Ruthanne and I travel at this convention.
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Keep in mind, I am grateful for these conventions like
I have. I come back with the fullest heart, so
much love, so much energy. I'm a people person, you
guys know. I like to talk. It's so amazing to
meet these people and see what a part of their
lives you have been in the effect you've had, and
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just waile to connect. For me, like even just as
a human, I get human connection and I get to
hear stories and meet great amazing people. So it's great.
And you know, the kids are always like, oh my god,
you're gone for another weekend. And I'm like, you know,
I'm this is how I provide for my family at
this point, you know, it's one of my jobs. But anyway,
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so we have to do a connecting flight. We apply
out of lax which is hell in itself, Miss Burbank.
But we get there, we have to go to Dallas
and do a connecting flight. And because of the storms,
and Ruth Anne tells me, because I have not flown
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through Dallas before that Dallas is notorious for delays. That
airport it wasn't even an airport. It was like it
was the biggest thing I have ever seen in my
lifetime so far.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
It's like it's own city.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
That's exactly what it is. Oh, it's like the Truman show.
Oh my god, in an airport. Ooh should we do that?
Added to my list ideas that'd be a good TV show. Okay.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Anyway, anyway, if you get laid over there long enough,
you might have to live there, because that's how long
the delays are.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I'd rather get laid and not layover, but yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
That's possible.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Anything can happen in the mecca that is the Dallas Airport. No,
so we landed. We had a delay four hours, you guys,
because there was crazy storms happening. And then oh, so
Brian is not on our flight, but he's in Dallas,
he's landed and he's taking another flight to Huntsville, Alabama.
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And so I'm panicked. And this is how well Brian
knows me, like I say to him, and ruth Ann
knows me well and she didn't even know this. I
was panicked because I'm like, Brian and I aren't on
the same flight. And she's like, he puts it the headphones.
He's listening to music and stuff the whole time, like
it's not even like you're gonna be talking. And I
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was like okay, okay. And so Brian's like where are you.
You're not on my flight and I was like, yeah,
I'm on a different flight. And I go I'm freaking out.
I only like to fly with you. And he's like
he texts me and he's like why because you feel
safer knowing that both of us are on that flight,
(06:41):
Like crying face, crying face knowing me. Well, then I'm like, okay,
in my irrational flying fear, like if Brian and I
are on the same flight, like that's that flight won't
go down basically, like and you know, I've talked about
my fears before of like if there's the celebrity on
the flight and babies, I'm like, okay, this flight will
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be okay. Like it's irrational, I know, but anyway, I
loved that Brian knew my irrational fear in that, and
I was like, duh, yeah, that's exactly it. Anyway, So
we get to Dallas and Brian's like, oh, I'm getting
on this flight and it was earlier and didn't have
a delay, and I said to Ruthanne, Oh my god,
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can we get on that flight? And she was like,
we can try. Well, there was nobody to change the ticket,
so we couldn't go online, we couldn't call, so we
decide to just run and we have to run. And
when I'm thinking, okay, we have to run to get
to Brian's gate, I'm like, okay, it'll be like a couple.
(07:47):
Like I don't know, what are those things you get on.
It's not an escalator goes flat, moving walkway. If you're
going to stand still go to the right. If you're
going to walk, please let people buy and go on
the left left. It's a courtesy. I always stand still
on it. It's my mee time. Anyway, I'm not a runner,
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as you guys know, but we did because I was like,
I feel safe for being on the second floor with Brian,
so you know, I'm going to actually bolt, and we ran.
But what we didn't.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Realize is that the airport is a city, and even
though it's the same airline, Dallas is the hub for American,
So American is in every terminal, not just one. So
you could be changing flights from one terminal to another
and still be on American, which is right.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Exactly what was.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Happening, Well, I mean you'll say this didn't happen, but
this happened. You did look down and you didn't have
your glasses on. You were squinting, and I said, what
terminal is it in? And you said it's in B.
But she misread it and it was an E.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Well you do know how tiny the print is. For
some reason, it's a cruel joke the airlines play on you.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
But yes, that is true. It is true.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I Miss I was like, oh my god, it's e
and you were like, okay, and do'll we find So
we're running, we're running, and then we see that we
have to go on a train. It takes you to
a different terminal. And so I'm running and I'm like,
I'm I'm on a mission. Now I'm going to get
on that flight with Brian Austin Green, like David and
Donna are flying together. It's irrational. It's in my mind.
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And once I put my mind to something, I make
it happen. So I'm like, it's happening.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
So I mean, even so you're still behind me and
I'm in front of you, and I'm on the escalator
going up.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
She's walking up the stairs and you are.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Not walking on the escalator. You were standing still as
you do. And I got to the platform and I'm
walking ahead, and so she's walking ahead out and you're
not there.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
She's walking ahead. But what happened is that by walking ahead,
and I hope you learned your lesson. I saw the
skylink and I saw it opened up and it said
get on here, and it's taken you to eat. And
she was probably squinting even though she was ahead and
didn't see that and kept walking. I jumped on that.
(10:23):
I jumped on that skylink and it wasn't until I
got on there that I realized, oh my god, what
if ruth Ann doesn't get on? And I panic because
now I am alone and I've never been on a skylink,
and I'm like, what is this thing? So I say,
oh my god, wait my friend, I don't think she
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got on, and these two men are like, oh, she'll
make it. There's one that comes every two minutes. So
I was like, no, I'm scared of being alone. I
didn't say that. So I bulked to the thing because
I'm like, I'm going to get off, and I see
ruth Anne come back around, like what And literally right
as I go to get off, it closes and I'm
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pressed up against the glass. We have proof. Ruthan, while
she was laughing her ass off, ran up and took pictures.
And I'm pressed up against the glass.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Like no, there was Torri's little face squitshed up against
the glass as the skylink pulled away from the platform,
and I was a little panicked.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
That can't be sanitary either, And I didn't give two books.
I was just I full mouth pressed up against that glass, panicked.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Yeah, And I was like, oh no, because I don't
really trust toy to navigate an airport fire.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Or navigate anywhere. I have the worst sense of direction
and time, you guys. So anyway, she he texted me
and she's like, I'm right behind you. I'm getting on
the next one. Wait there at the next station, right,
So I did. I did, and then she got there
and we ran and we ran. I'd like to say
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we found Brian. We found him on his gate on
his earlier flight that wasn't delayed with the three Lawrence
brothers and uh yeah, they were there, probably every other
celebrity and we were on this like random later flight
and we get there. That's directed of me, duh me
(12:38):
passive aggressive what But we wouldn't have these stories if
we had got on the earlier flight.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
So I do believe there are no coincidences. I do
believe in signs and yeah, so this is what happened.
Brian's like, oh, you made it, and I was like yeah,
and I was like, we're going to change her ticket
and they were like, you have to wait for someone
at the gate. So we wait, we wait. No one
ever came to that gate, and then they were boarding
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and there was nothing left, so uh, Brian had to
go and he even like texted me, He's like, did
you get on the flight, and like nope, but our
flight is four hours delayed. So see in Huntsville. Oh man,
So we have time to kill a lot of time.
So we go to what is it called what is
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it called?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Well? First? Oh, we.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
First, we try to go to the American Lounge because
we always seem to forget whether or not if you're
flying first class they'll just let you in.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
The answer is no, but she forgets what I told her,
I doubt they will let us in.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
And that was quite a long ways away.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
But we had four hours, so we figured, okay, let's
give back to try and at the same time, we're
talking about maybe just staying in Dallas overnight because it's
already so late.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Oh my god. So I am now and you know me,
you guys, I am a positive person. I don't really
get in bad moods. I'm now in a mood and
I'm like, I'm exhausted, I have been traveling all day.
I'm a terrified flyer. Like it doesn't it's not good
to my nervous system. Emotionally, it's like I'm leaving my kids.
(14:28):
It's been a long day. And I was like, you
know what I said, you know, I'm at the point
like it's eight something now, like maybe we just like
stay at the airport hotel and we catch the first
flight in the morning, because the convention itself didn't start
that day on Friday till four o'clock. So Rudan says,
(14:48):
I have a friend who has an amazing house here.
She'll give us the code, which I I was like,
I don't know. Anyway, I text Brian and I'm like,
I think we might and he was like fuck no, no,
he said, you get on that next flight. He goes,
do not. You're gonna be miserable.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Do not.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
This is funny, he said, do not stay a night,
just get there. You can go to sleep, you can
sleep in, you could have breakfast. You could go to
the gym. And I was like, who do you think
you're talking to and he's like, oh right, He's like
I forgot. He goes, well, you can sleep in. You
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could have a diet doctor pepper in the morning. You
could avoid water at all costs, and you could watch
people and laugh as they walk in and out of
the gym. I go, ah, there's my best friend, good boy,
good for knowing me, and he goes, yeah, it felt
better writing it that way. Yeah, anyway, we make the law, We.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Make the long haul to the American Lounge, only to
be declined, and then I look up and see if
there's any other lounges.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
I'm just gonna mind you though you had a choice.
They said, there's two lounges near where your your gate
is that you can go to, and she has American Express.
There was one you could buy for like it was
like ninety nine dollars a person, No, no, no, is
that writer sixty nine dollars. I just loved the number
(16:20):
sixty nine. Okay, it was ninety nine. And or there's
one that you could buy with your American Express for
nine dollars.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
No, it was free.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
It ended up being free. But this is what the
woman told us. And she was like, they're both right here,
and you said we should save money. Let's you know,
it's just, you know, it's just a lounge. We should
go to the one that's nine dollars, which did end
up being free, but it also costs you your sanity
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going to that lounge because we got there.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Okay, fair, good good good. Being with you though always
cost me myself. It doesn't matter where I go.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Twenty five years and we're still going though, go on, no,
you go on? Okay, no, literally, we've known each other
twenty five years. I was being literal. And so we
get to the lounge and we're checking in, giving our
passes so they can scan them and say, yes, yes,
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say let's go to the lounge. Oh god, I love
this one. And the woman says to her, oh, is
it a mother daughter trip?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Yeah, And they.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Were referring to me as the mother in case anybody
had any confusion about that.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
So once again standing behind Ruth Anne and she's doing
all the talking and I'm just behind her and so
oh yeah, it's no missing any any who are they
talking to? They are talking to her. I'm just in
the background. Oh is this a mother daughter trip? And
I froze because if you all remember, if you haven't,
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you should go back and listen to that episode. Make
sure you download listen give us five stars. We love you.
When we went to another convention and we were packing
like we went to the front and the luggage they
were weighing it. The woman at that airport had said,
is this your daughter? Right?
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Yep, yep?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
That would be united at the Burbank airport, and I
was horrified and I ran out the door and immediately
got botox.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
So I was feeling a little better about myself on
this trip. Once again, be looked a great.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
She by the way, your botox looks great, very natural.
You looked refreshed. You even said your husband was like, oh,
you just looked fresh, liked. She didn't even know you
bout anything done. She was looking good, by the way.
So I now panic because I'm like.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Panic in between laughing maniacally.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yes, uh huh so uh So the last time this happened,
I was just like, oh my god, I'm going to
shut up and just we got to get on that flight. Well,
now we have four hours to kill so I'm going
to jump in on this this time. Now it's happened
two times, and I say, oh, we're friends. I go,
we're actually only nine years apart THEYD care so I
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was like trying to say, like, there's no way she
could have had me. So anyway, we get into the
lounge and I was like, are you okay? As I'm laughing,
She's like, no, I just spent three thousand dollars on
my face. Like I was feeling good, and this happens again.
I was like, oh my god, I said, well, and
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then I tried to make excuses. I'm like, you know what,
I tried to make it about me me. I don't
dress my age. I'm the bad one. I'm in the
inappropriate I'm dressed like a teenager, which everyone gives me
shit about, even though I like dressing like this. I'm
standing behind you, I have sunglasses on, I'm dressed like
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a skater girl, and you're doing all the talking. So
I was trying to give her all the reasons why
they might have assumed it was a mother and her daughter.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
She was decided the next trip, I'm wearing my hair
up and pigtails. I'm gonna be having I'll have a
lollipop in my hand and a stuffed animal in my arm.
And then let's see if they think I'm your mother
or what did you say?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
No, They'll think that i'm baby Jane.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Yeah, whatever happened to baby Jane? That just that just
sounds that sounds like some creepy fetish I don't know, but.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Everybody in the lounge got in on it and made comments, and.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Well, because she had to tell everybody in the lounge,
and we, you know us, we make friends with everybody
where before we go. So we're talking and telling. Anyway,
third times the charm comedy happens in three So I'm
really sorry, my friend, but I think it's probably gonna
happen one more time.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
One more time. But we'll say that for a little
bit later. So we make friends with everybody in the lounge.
We say oah, goodbyes, we give you a five star review,
and we go to our gate.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
So as she's so divisive sometimes, so as we're walking
like no, no, no, no, no, we've checked our tickets. We're walking
through that little like time yea ramp. Sorry, I don't
know flying terms. I hate flying onto the plane, she goes,
(21:54):
I have a little bit of bad news.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
In between laughing hysteria and practically being in my pants.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
And I was like, oh god, you know what, I
go bad news for me. I'm used to his sister
every day like what I'm flappable tory spelling like whatever,
what is it now? And I go is it? I go? Wait,
let me know how bad is it. I'm thinking she's
gonna tell me like the convention's canceled, like or so,
(22:24):
I don't know what she's gonna tell me. But but
she said, uh, I hope you like who you're sitting
next to on the plane. I'm like, oh my god.
So being a scared flyer, it's not like I'm look
at me having to defend myself, like I don't have
to be in first class, I don't have to be
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with a friend, but I don't.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
We're usually seated together, that's but on this particular flight,
it wasn't available, so I had put us like behind
each other, assuming someone would switch. But I had forgotten
about it until we were getting on the plane, and
it just seemed and listen hilarious to me in that moment.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Okay, here here's the thing. And I told Dean this
for twenty years and he still never listened. I am
way better at handling things if you're tell me up front.
I don't like surprises. I hate surprises that plummets me worse.
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I like knowing everything up front, and I'll bitch about
it whatever, and then I'll move on and we'll deal
with it. But yeah, anyway, So we get on the
flight and she says, don't worry, I'll ask the person
because I always get nervous, like I'm sorry, I don't
want you know me. So I'm sorry, I'm sorry for
my existence. I don't want to ask you to move.
(23:47):
So we get on. Were the last people the board
of course, final call, and there's only two rows in
first class because you booked us on this tiny plane.
Another thing, I'm like, my choice.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
I decided we would fly on the tiniest plain possible.
So I decide, all right, there's two guys I can ask,
one sitting in the front, one sitting behind, and I'm
going to go for the guy behind who has his
head down. And I tapped him on the shoulder and said.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Excuse me, sir, would you.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Terribly mind switching seats till my friend and I could
sit together?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
And then Tory says, yes, I'm terrified.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Right, I pipe in and tell the truth. I'm a
terrified flyer. Over explaining myself always I'm a terrified flyer.
Would be so grateful and because you guys, it's true,
like I'm getting better, I'm working on my fear of flying.
But in the past like I I will clutch you,
i will scream, i will bruise your arms because I'm
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holding on so tight, nails, digging into you, crying on
your shoulder. It's not pretty, Like you don't want to
be that human sitting next to me and that alone.
I've explained in the past, people are like, cool, I'm up,
I'll switch. But anyway, this gentleman was very accommodating. He
looked at me and said, oh, of course, no problem,
(25:08):
no problem. Got up. So he goes and sits right
in front of us. We take our seats, and then
ruth Anne goes, oh my god, do you know who
that is? And I was so scared and in the
moment and not looking. I don't know. So at this
point all I have anything to base anything on is
looking at his luscious curls long hair because I'm looking
(25:33):
at his head. He's in front of me, and she
texts me, it's weird al yankiffing.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
I couldn't say it because I was laughing too, so
I had a texting yeah, because I was laughing in him.
But it was just so absurd of all the people
in the world. Because we are big fans, actually weird
al Yankvich and.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
He's very nice, huge legend, legend, icon legend. So but
in my tory brain, I'm like, oh, well, screw Brian,
I'm on a flight with weird al Nothing's happening to
this flight. I'm good, I'm solid. But I text my
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kids and my son Liam is like a huge sick
fan of weird Awl, Like he loves old school stuff
and he's just like and I said, weird Alice sitting
in front of me, and he said, no way, no way.
And he said, oh my gosh, Mom, I know you
hate doing this, but would you ask him for a photo.
And I was like, oh my gosh, I said, I'll try, baby,
(26:40):
But I knew in my head. I was like, I'm
too scared. I'm too scared. It's weird al Yo, like
he's a legend. Anyway. Yeah, So that flight, I got
to say, in the history of my flights, was one
of the scariest flights I've ever been off.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
It was rough. Admit, that was a rough light.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
I mean we went through a thunderstorm, we went the
plane was dropping and there's lights and here's the thing.
God bless them, they got us there safely, but when
the pilot when you land and they're like ding and
everyone gets up to leave, and he comes out of
the cockpit and he goes, phew.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
That was a bad one, right, It's not my irrational fear.
He goes, phew oh. And then he turns to the
flight attend and he goes, yeah, that's storm. That was
a bad one we went through. So I'm like, oh
my god. Even he was like, I don't know if
we're gonna be okay. And then he goes she says something, oh,
(27:49):
well we made it.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Or or she said that was a great landing.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Great landing, and he goes through, any landing is a
great landing. And you know what, I was like, Dann.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Straight, yeh wow, we are right.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Anyway, we made it. We went went to sleep. We
got in literally by the time we got to the hotel,
it was like what three in the morning.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
But we're like, hey, weird all can do this, we
can do this. Yeah, So we go to sleep. The
convention the next day we get there. Refresh my memory.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
What happened on Friday, Well, what happened on Friday was
weet up with Brian to go to the convention. And
lo and behold, he's broken his towel and he is
having a very hard time getting around.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
And yes, and then on the way to the convention,
I see my friend Rose McGowan, because Rose McGowan and
Holly Marie Combes we kind of are all doing the
same circle and doing these conventions. And I see Rose
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and she's in a boot and she's on like a
knee scooter. I'm like, what happened? And she tells me
this horrific story that happened, and I'm not going to
tell it right because I was like, oh my god,
Oh my god, what is happening? But basically, you know,
she broke.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Her foot, she pulled all the.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Ligaments and and yeah, she was on an I was like, wow,
but you made it here, and good for you. So
we got we got Rose on a knee scooter with
a boot broken. We got Brian with a broken toe
who's like limping but like still walking. And he's such
a dude, like, you know, he wouldn't like I was like,
(29:49):
let's get in an uber when we were going to
like dinners and stuff or you know, and he's like,
I'm okay, I'm just going slower I'm like, oh, it's
such a man like not to be like I got this,
I got this, like because you know, they don't want
to be like, okay, I'll take it easy. So he
was a trooper. Rose was a trooper. And then Saturday,
(30:12):
Jamie Presley comes in. She's doing a whole they got
everyone from my name is Earl there, very cool, and
she comes in and when she gets there, she breaks
her foot at the airport. At the airport coming in,
Jamie has broken her foot. It was like an old injury,
(30:32):
hairline fracture. And now at the airport she had a
Dallas connection and was trying to get through fast and
like make that connection at the Mecca City and yeah,
and broke rebroke it but like bad. And again I'm like,
oh my god, my friends are all troopers, like super troopers.
(30:57):
So anyway, she has a boot on two. She had
the boot on two, so you have boots galore, except
the boy who refuses to do it. So he's and.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
She's suffering through it, suffering.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
So we leave our table during the convention to get
photos taken.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
And it's Brian and Tory and myself and.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
We're walking really slow because we know how you know,
we're hanging back for Brian.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
They assigned an escort, a volunteer escort, to take you
to your next event. And at first I'm thinking the
guy we're walking with us is walking.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
He's walking in front of us with Brian and RUTHI Harry.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
We're like, oh, that's very respectful that he's going so slow.
And then I took take another look and I.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Say, actually he's badly limping as well, so he's either
imitating Brian, which I highly doubt, or he too has
an injury and.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Need to find out. When we get to the panel,
he says to me, I've met you before, and I said,
oh my god, I'm so sorry. Where did we meet?
And he said, in twenty nineteen, you were doing BH
nine oh two and zero and at Century City Mall.
They had like a fashion institute and we had like
your clothes from the show and your design, your costume
(32:15):
designer Mandy Lyin was there, and you and Jenny and
I think Gabrielle, yeah, all the girls. And he said
there was massive security because there was so many people
like kind of bum rushing you. And I came up
and wanted to get a photo with you as you
were leaving, and he said, I still have the photo
because all security swarmed in to keep me away, and
(32:40):
you said, no, no, no, I'm fine, I'll take a
photo with him. And the photo is kind of me
kind of leaning in and you could see the security
in the background, just like coming for this guy, and
I took the picture quickly. They rushed me on. I
thought it was okay. I haven't seen him since. Apparently
(33:01):
they like tackled him. They thought he was like doing
something to me. Wasn't. He was just a fan there
at the time, like tackled him and he's had an injury.
And I was like, oh my god. So literally, this.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
This unfortunate limp he has was caused by Tory.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Oh take it back, take it back. Oh my god,
that's the headline. Uh listen, it was. It was not
directly caused by me, but it Yeah. Anyway, we hugged
it out. I said, I'm so sorry. He's like, well,
you didn't do it, you weren't responsible. He was so nice.
I said, you know what the least I could do
was let's do a proper picture without a security guard
(33:42):
in the background about to tack you. So we took
some really good pictures. Anyway, I got to see my
old friend, not old, well, I mean he's older. I
got to see William Shatner lunch with us. We had
lunch with William Shatner, Me and Brian, Ruth and Tracy, Brian,
Samandrain and Bill and that man. And again, if you
(34:07):
have not heard that episode with William Shatner, we go,
we go where no one has ever gone before. So
he told me. And that is the infamous episode where
I inform William Shatner that you should do an enema
before anal sex. And he had never heard that women.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Do that, so he appreciated the info.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Yeah, he really did. But that man has I thought
I had a good memory. He's how old ninety two
ninety threety three, I think, and one of the best memories,
I mean, one of the most intelligent, witty, quick men
I have ever met in my life.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Human, handsome.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
I'm still handsome, so I said to him. So, if
you haven't listened to that episode, mister William Shatner, you
got to listen to it. It's amazing on misspelling podcasts.
But I said to him, Oh my god, my friend.
And he's like, how are you? As we go over
and we hug and give him a kiss, and I'm like, oh,
(35:11):
I missed you. Oh my god, I love you. And
then I said I still owe you pickles and he said, yes,
you do. You never sent me those pickles. So in
the episode, I randomly because I was like, you know what,
everyone has asked William Shatner everything in his career, so
I kind of was like freestyling, freestyling podcast version. That's
(35:36):
a new thing. And I was like, I'm gonna go
rogue and whatever comes to mind in this moment with him,
I'm just gonna ask. In the day before, I had
just made homeweede pickles, like the DIY version, so and
I'm obsessed with pickles. So, you know, we're in the
middle of talking about his career and everything. I look
at him and I say do you like pickles? And
(35:58):
he goes, I do I love pickles? And then he goes,
oh my god, that reminds me of a funny story
that I don't think I've ever shared with anyone. And
he talks about this whole pickle story of when he
was eighteen and working as a counsel and this whole
thing and pickle barrel, which he proceeds to tell Brian
(36:19):
and ruth Anna Tracy. But yeah, so god, I got
to get him those pickles. I got to make pickles
and give it.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
To him, all right.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Speaking of handsome men, Yes, let's talk about that bartender
you met.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Oh my gosh, you guys in different cities. Apparently bartenders
have a thing for me. So here I am again.
If you remember an episode if you haven't listened to it,
with my best friend Jess, we went to Kansas City
for an immersive whole experience with our friend Darren Bausman,
(37:02):
who does the creator Saw and Everything. And there was
a bartender at the bar that we were like kind
of flirting, and I was just it was kind of
like made me feel good about myself that someone was
like actually interested in me. And anyway, he ended up
being twenty four years old, ended up telling us that
(37:24):
didn't know who I was, but he was definitely flirting
with me, and I was feeling all good until he
told me his mom because is two years younger than me.
I mean, he said it nicely, but when he found
out who I was, he was like, oh, my mom
knows who you are, she watched your show, and I
was like, oh, and he is like all these siblings,
how was your mom? And he's like, oh, what do
(37:44):
you say, My mom's forty nine or something or forty eight.
I'm like, how fuck my life? Anyway, So that was
then listened to that episode. It's really great. But here
I am again at the bar and we'd had a
long day, so we were just sitting there and we
had food and I randomly got spinach arta choke dip
(38:08):
and slan because that's what everyone orders for dinner when
in Huntsville, Bama's so random. Anyway, we have some drinks
and this one is different than the last bartender. So
this one is he has his hair and like a
man bun, and he's kind of alternative and cool and
(38:28):
like dark sense of humor. Totally my jam. But unlike
the other one, who I felt like I was flirting
with him and then he then it reciprocated, this one
was like all him on me and he just kept
like winking at me and like I'm like, okay, this guy,
this guy's flirting with me. He's into me. So I
(38:52):
say at this point it's Brian had gone to bed
and it was Tracy brand'smander and Ruth Anne. I said, you, guys,
I got to go to the bathroom. So I go
to the bathroom and then I go outside. There's like
a little area to go outside, go outside, and I'm
literally about to FaceTime my kids to say good night.
And asked me about to FaceTime my kids. I hear hi,
(39:15):
and I'm like, okay. I turn around and he's come
out and he's come outside and I'm sitting on the
stoop there and he's like, oh, how are you? And
he said, oh no, he said hi, and then he
said I heard your famous, and I, being me in
an adorable way, said ew, well, that's not the way
(39:38):
to lead. And he was like, no, I don't know
who you are, but I heard your famous. And I
was like, I don't know whatever. I'm like, that's weird.
So we end up talking very nice, cool guy. Really
I liked him, and I was just like the way
I liked the other bartender. I didn't feel it for
(39:58):
this one.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
Well wait, but you're missing an important part.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
By the time he came out to tell me, I
hear your famous and pick up on me, he had
let down his hair. Now I raise boys who make choices,
and they all have long hair. I love a good
head of hair, like longish kind of hair is my thing,
but I don't mean long like it was like long.
(40:24):
We call him Fabio now minus the goose blood hitting
him in the face on the roller coaster that I
had to tell Tracy and ruth Ann and Brian about,
and they didn't know that story. I'm like, you guys
never heard that horrific story of Fabio on the roller
coaster and the goose hit him in the face and
died and there's blood everywhere. So they had this story. Ever,
(40:46):
but I digress. So he had like shaken his locks out,
and I'm sitting on the stoop and he's standing above me,
and he must have thought like he would come out
with this long hair and I'd be like ooh, and
I was like ooo. But anyway, very good looking guy, though,
very nice guy. Again, this one wasn't twenty four, but
(41:06):
I was like, how old are you? And he's like
twenty eight, and I'm like, gosh, I'm like these young
ones like me for some reason. But you know what,
And Brian pointed this out when I told him the story.
This guy was really confident for a guy in his twenties,
especially dealing with someone that he had just found out
was like famous or something and an older woman like he.
(41:30):
He goes right into uh, there's a famous arts and
crafts fair here this weekend, and I said, oh, I
heard about that, and he said, I'd like to take
you tomorrow night. And he said, I'll buy you a ticket,
I'll come pick you up. I have the day off.
And I was like, okay, so very confident, like ballsy,
(41:52):
like wow, good, you know what? Good for him? Of course,
I was like, oh, well, you know, I don't know.
We're working late. I don't want her his feelings, so
I'm like, I don't know, we're working late. Was Henry
working till? I said oh? And I can't lie? And
I said, oh, the convention is at eight, and he goes, oh,
that's perfect timing. I'll pick you up at nine. And
(42:13):
I was like, you know what. I gave him my
cell and I said text me. I said, brag. Got
to tell you, I'm not sure these conventions are exhausting
and I'm not sure what we're gonna do. But and
he said, okay, okay, I'll hit you up tomorrow and
I was like, oh, showing his age. Hit me up, Yeah,
hit me up. Anyway, we go to bed and I
(42:34):
did text my best friend Jess and I was like,
so I got another bartender and she was like, oh
my god, tell me everything. And I was like no, no, no,
I'm like no, no, no, this one. But she even said,
she goes, wait, I like this guy. She goes, first
of all, I can't get past the fact that I
invite you to an arts and crafts fair in Alabama.
But I'll let that one go. She was like, that's
(42:57):
really gutsy. I'm like, yeah, that's what Brian said. Anyway,
So the next day back at the convention, I had
told him it ends at eight, and I'm at my
table and at tables and conventions, if you've ever met
me some celebrities, it's fine, sit behind the table with
all their pictures and you come to the table and
(43:20):
they're nice and they interact and sign for you. Brian
and I and I really eat the more. Like Brian
and I like travel and do all this stuff together,
even though I pretty much always knew it, Like Brian
and I are the same human. And I'm proud to
say that because I'm his TV wife and gosh, you know,
one of the greatest loves of my life in whatever
form that is. But I'm proud to say, like we
(43:43):
are the same human. He's the male form, I'm the
female form. Yep, Donn and David forever. It's real. But anyway,
we both don't ever sit down the entire time. I'm
talking like if it goes ten hours, like, we don't
ever sit We stand and on our table and we
go right up to our everyone in our lines, and
(44:03):
we're just we are both huggers and we go write in,
we introduce ourselves, ask their name, we hug them, we
talk to them. At previous conventions, people have said, like,
people are getting bummed because they're waiting in such long lines.
You got to go quicker, and Brian and I are
both like, you know what, No, this is like a
moment for people, and we love people. We're going to
(44:26):
give as much time as they need. And they want
to tell us stories, we want to talk to them.
It's only fair, so you know, and it's what we enjoy.
So anyway, I'm in front of my table. I've just
you know, signed something. I turned back around to OCD
organize my pictures weird. And ruth Anne, who is sitting
(44:49):
behind the table because she handles the money and everything,
she says behind you now, she claims she said, because
I I heard behind me, and I was like, oh
my god. I panicked, and I was like, who, what's
behind me? I have no idea. It reminds me of
(45:10):
city slickers where like do you remember that where he
says something and then he's like, he's right behind me,
isn't he? Oh my god, Billy Crystal says something and
he's right anyway.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
But I did say I said, bartender behind you. Maybe
that wasn't descriptive enough. I was trying to be efficient.
Speaker 1 (45:33):
And why five kids. My hearing at this point is
so not good and so all I heard is and
I can't see barely anymore. I mean I can, but
it's just like my eyes aren't as good as they
used to. I used to be able to read lips
like a mother. But but all I heard is behind you,
and I'm like, huh, frozen. I like swirl around quickly,
(45:58):
like what's happening? And yep, it's the bartender and he's there,
hair down and he's got like very like cool kind
of almost like seventies vibes, like hipster, I don't kind
of festival hotel in his shirts and buttoned all the
(46:18):
way to like down his chest. He's got some gold
chains on. I did like his off white slides, the
brand off white with socks. That's what everyone wears. You
and Tracy kept obsessing and Brian about the slides with
the socks. That is a fashion statement these days. I'm
not defending him. And he's wearing something around his neck
(46:42):
and he holds it up and he goes, I bought
a day pass and I'm like, yay, and he is.
He is holding a cocktail and Ruth Anne when you say, I.
Speaker 2 (46:55):
Said, oh, are you working tonight?
Speaker 3 (46:57):
And he says, no, I am drinking tonight and he
holds up his cup and unfortunately for him, a couple
of the staff members saw that and he was immediately
shuffled off the convention.
Speaker 1 (47:11):
Floor because you can't drink there. Yes, so, but he
didn't know. And then they said, is this man harassing you?
I'm like, no, don't kick him out. I'm like, at
my age, it's so flattering to anyone to be interested
in me, I said, I said, it's a it's a
boy and he's wait what was that line? Uh, this
(47:33):
is just a girl asking a boy to love notting
Hill anyway, Julia Roberts, Sorry, anyway, he did. I was like, don't, don't,
don't make him leave. Like, I was like, I don't
want to go out with this guy. But he asked
me out. But it's so flattering that he's flirting with
me and he's twenty eight and he's cute. Mine is
long hair. Anyway, Yeah, he was amusing.
Speaker 2 (47:56):
I will give him.
Speaker 1 (47:57):
He did text me later and say you're still doing
a right and I feel bad at ghosted him. I
did I should text him.
Speaker 2 (48:08):
No, you really should not. You should lose the phone
number and move on. That is what you should do.
Leave it in the past.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
Yeah, but I just don't want to feel bad about himself.
There's no closure there for him.
Speaker 3 (48:19):
Okay, Moving along, The convention was a success.
Speaker 2 (48:24):
You guys did a great panel.
Speaker 1 (48:26):
Oh my gosh, the panel. For one second, I got
to say, we went to Alabama not knowing what to expect,
and Huntsville is beautiful. They have one they have the biggest,
they have the space camp there. They have so many
like it's so many professionals and doctors and some of
(48:47):
the best like medical things like it's it's really and
beautiful architecture, great food, and the kindest people. Oh my,
And everyone kept saying, you got to find yourself is
the Southern what is say, Southern charm, Southern hospitality? You
got to find yourself a Southern man. And I was like, maybe,
(49:07):
but oh my god, the fried creen tomatoes were so
good there. Oh the hush puppies, Oh god, it was insane. Anyway,
the panel, we do panels all the time, and it
was me and Brian and usually the panels are very
light and like, what are your favorite memories, what's your
(49:28):
favorite show? Your character? Uh, this is the first time
during a panel that people could in the audience have
a mic and ask questions. And this is the first
time that And this had happened to me all day
while I was there. Someone said, Tori, I know you've
personally gone through a lot and just want to say
(49:49):
we're proud of you. And I had gotten that from
women all day long, and it meant a lot, because
I guess, I guess at times, I doubt myself at
times and sometimes I'll be like, you know, the press
has such a way of turning everything into like, you know,
life fallowed apart, like broke home, like they've been such
(50:11):
horrible things because a nice story doesn't sell, you know.
And I sometimes read the press and it's like, God,
do people just perceive me as a hot mess, Like
I'm a single mom going through it. Stuff has happened,
but I'm a fighter like I and people are like,
get a job, people say, I'm like, I have fifty try.
(50:32):
I'm scrambling to provide for my family as a single mom.
I don't have help. I don't have like I am.
I'm working through stuff, and I'm working through it a
lot of the emotional stuff and things that have happened
through you know, trauma and stuff personally and emotionally, like
I'm working through it as I go, you know, and
(50:56):
and not not missing a beat because it's fight or flight.
But my kids are my everything, and I keep going.
But that's who I am, and no matter if my
life fell apart or didn't fall apart, I'm always going
to keep going. And it was a nice reminder that
there are people humans. It's not just this stuff we
(51:17):
read online that people can hide behind. And it was
nice to be reminded the humans and men even said it,
and especially women and moms, and they're just like this woman,
this woman had three kids and she was there and
she said, I know what you've been through. I read
it and she said, I'm proud of you. And she's like,
(51:38):
you just keep going. She's like, you got this, and
she hugged me and she prayed for me while she
hugged me and said this beautiful prayer and I said
thank you. And she's like, I'm going to put you
at the top of my prayer list every night. I said,
oh my god, no, I'm not worthy. Just put me
like number five or something whatever. No. I was like, no,
oh my gosh, and she said, no, you're on it.
(51:59):
She's like, because I believe in you, and it's going
to be okay. You're going to get through everything and
elevate and be even better. And anyway, in this panel,
people start saying that and they said, we've been through
a lot and you're a warrior. You know you keep going.
And I just I had a moment, you know me,
I don't crack easy where I spoke to my truth
(52:22):
and I acknowledge that Brian, since he was right next
to me. He's been so instrumental in being that person
to lean on in my rock through a lot of
stuff and believing in me when I didn't think I
could believe in myself. And I realize that I don't
have a big I have a big outer circle. I
(52:44):
don't have a big. Small circle is my inner circle.
It's very small. But everyone that's in that believes in
me and has been there for me. And it makes
you realize in life, who's there for you for the
right reason, who's not? And those are the people that
really kind of were there for you. I mean, you
(53:04):
gotta no one can save you. You know you got to.
You gotta step up and do it for yourself. But
I did. I started crying at the panel, and I
spoke my truth of my why, and I acknowledged in
my tory way that everyone goes through stuff and people's
lives fall apart, and what you know is what's happened
(53:25):
to me is very might look very different than what's
happened to someone else. I might be an LA girl
and going through stuff and publicly and I'm an actress
and a podcaster, but that doesn't minimize what the person
here all the way here across the country, and Alabama
(53:46):
is going through and we're connecting. I'm connecting with women
daily on struggles and things and trauma and getting past
that and the effect it has on you, and and
you realize how none of them like, we're all just humans.
We're all just human on a human level. And we
(54:08):
might be in different places going through different things, and
we might be doing it on different levels, in different
places of life or professions, but at the heart of it,
we are all human beings. And it was so nice
to connect with people and know that. And I don't know.
(54:31):
I just turned to Brian and I said I love you,
and he said I love you too. And he's been
a really great friend. I'm very grateful for him. So
there was a reason Donna and David forever. Literally he
stuck with me in this lifetime. Poor guy. Anyway, Okay,
we saw a lot of great people, met a lot
of great people. But then I was like, oh my gosh,
(54:52):
we're dan. The convention's ending, and I liam really wanted
to picture with weird al and I'm terrified. I'm scared
to say anything, and so all ruth Anne went and asked,
and he was so nice.
Speaker 2 (55:10):
He couldn't have been nicer.
Speaker 1 (55:11):
He got up from his table, came behind the curtains
because there's a green room kind of backstage, and came
over and took a picture and I said, thank you
so much. My son eighteen, huge fan, so your a
legend and took a picture and I was like, wow,
that is full circle. Until we were flying home to
(55:34):
connecting flights through Dallas again delayed another four hours. Oh yeah,
delayed another four hours. We get on our final leg,
our final connection back to LA and guess who's on it?
Weird al Now that's full circle.
Speaker 2 (55:49):
Wait, but back to the lounge.
Speaker 1 (55:52):
Yes, we went back to the lounge and a very
nice man next to her said, you remind me of
my mother. Third times the term there's comedy in three's.
I forgot about that. Yep, it happened. Oh so you're good.
From now on, you might just get referred to as
my grandmother.
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