November 8, 2024 • 35 mins
Trey and Brian snuggle up with America’s favorite grandma and star of the long running CBS hit comedy Young Sheldon - award winning actress and super Good Human Annie Potts.
Annie Potts is a beloved, award-winning actor known for her iconic roles such as Meemaw in Young Sheldon, Mary Jo Shively in Designing Women, Janine Melnitz in Ghostbusters, and the voice of Bo Peep in the Toy Story film series. She is also the founder of The Heart Channels which pours hope and love into communities and supports those in need, lovingly - and immediately. Neighbor to neighbor, heart to heart.
Brian Phelps is an American radio personality, actor, and comedian best known for co-hosting the nationally and globally syndicated Mark & Brian Morning Show in Los Angeles for 25 years. As the co-lead of his own television series, with multiple roles in movies, and a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Phelps is also an inductee in the Radio Hall of Fame.
Trey Callaway is an American film and TV writer and producer who wrote the hit movie I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, and has produced successful TV series like CSI:NY, Supernatural, Rush Hour, Revolution, The Messengers, APB, Station 19 and 9-1-1 LONE STAR. He is also a Professor at USC.
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Annie Potts is a beloved, award-winning actor known for her iconic roles such as Meemaw in Young Sheldon, Mary Jo Shively in Designing Women, Janine Melnitz in Ghostbusters, and the voice of Bo Peep in the Toy Story film series. She is also the founder of The Heart Channels which pours hope and love into communities and supports those in need, lovingly - and immediately. Neighbor to neighbor, heart to heart.
Brian Phelps is an American radio personality, actor, and comedian best known for co-hosting the nationally and globally syndicated Mark & Brian Morning Show in Los Angeles for 25 years. As the co-lead of his own television series, with multiple roles in movies, and a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Phelps is also an inductee in the Radio Hall of Fame.
Trey Callaway is an American film and TV writer and producer who wrote the hit movie I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, and has produced successful TV series like CSI:NY, Supernatural, Rush Hour, Revolution, The Messengers, APB, Station 19 and 9-1-1 LONE STAR. He is also a Professor at USC.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Confolio Bridles.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm sorry, Confolia Brooks one more time.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
I don't know what you're saying here, Briles. No, he
cannot be good humans.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Be good humans. Be good humans, or we will think
you sucked.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Thank good.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Humans, or we will thank you suck.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Everybody. Thank you for joining us on the Be Good
Humans Podcast. That is Trey. I am Brian, and we've
got a great show for you today.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Indeed we do. You know why, because we are going
to talk about some of the most important og good
humans in our lives. Brian, you know who I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Grandparents.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Grandparents. Grandparents are like the formative examples of good humans,
and I want to hear about your grandparents.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Well, I've said on past shows how lucky I've been,
you know, to have great grandparents at one time. I'll
repeat myself, but I had two grandma's, two grandpas, a
great grandma, two great grandmas, and a great grandpa. Unbelievable,
and that was up until I was a teenager. Yeah,
my family married early, but yeah, I love them. I
(01:29):
love my grandma's so I missed them so very very much.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Were they both Grandma. Is that what you called both
of them? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Grandma, Yeah yeah, Grandma Phelps and Grandma's names, But I
honestly do I miss them. I was very, very fortunate
to have great grandparents, loving grandparents and spend a lot
of time with my grandparents because both my mom and
dad worked long, long hours.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
So they were there.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Oh yeah, And every Friday, I still remember, Mom and
Dad would pull up in front of one of my
grandparents' houses and and I don't even think they slowed down.
They just pushed us out of the car and we
got to spend the night with with one of our
grandma and grandpa's because I found out obviously later on
when I grew a little older, that they were just
(02:13):
having some romantic time. They would check into a motel
like the Best Western or something, and they would have
they would have a knight.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Hey, mom and dad gotta do what Mom and dad
gotta do.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Have a nice bottle of answers.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I get out exactly. But meanwhile, you're with your grandparents.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
And I'll never forget Grandma Phelps. She had used to
have this little red pocket knife, okay, and she it
was like on the key chain and she hook it
to her purse, and I I was six years old,
and to a boy who watches his dad and his
and his grandfather mainly whittle and do all these things
with this, I wanted that he wouldn't. It was Brian's size, Yeah,
(02:51):
of course read it was like a little it was.
It was you know, you folded it up. I wanted
that so bad. So finally one day she's sitting on
the couch with her pocket knife, cleaning her fingernails, and
I thought, now's as good time as any. I said, Grandma,
can I have that? And my grandma says, we never
forget this. She goes when I'm done with it, and
(03:16):
I went, great, taking to myself, great, all right, do
two more nails. She's almost done, and I get this
pocket knife. Oh my god, oh my god. She finished
cleaning her nails and she hooks it back up on
her purse, back on her purse. She didn't like, here
you go. She put it back on her purse. So
I said, Gray, I thought, I thought you were when
(03:37):
you're you're gonna get I told you when I'm done
with it.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
So now I'm staring at her. She's watching TV or
doing whatever she was doing. The purse is over here
and it's got the knife on it, and she's not musing,
come on, sure when I'm done with it. So parents
picked me up later that afternoon and we're driving back
feteen mile drive to Cambridge and and my mom said, so,
how how was grandma? How is you guys? Have a
(04:05):
good time?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Grandma lied to me and I told her the whole story. Now, uh,
my parents, imagine this, Your six year old son wants
to know when he's going to get this knife. But
the grandma has told me when I'm done with it.
How are they going to tell me that What she
meant was when she dies, I'll get the knife.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
So they had to be a very y, delicate, delicate.
There come a time.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
It's going to be a while, we hope before you
get that knighte Wow, my grandma felt.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
She sounds amazing. My grandparents. My my paternal grandfather died
very young in World War Two, when my dad was
just a kid. My maternal grandfather died when I was
a kid. But his wife, my grandmother, Alice, I think
I mentioned her before, really important person in my life
because she made me feel important for the first time.
(05:02):
That was really a special relationship I had with her.
But get this, Brian, I am blessed to tell you
that not only is my paternal grandma still with us,
but today today, Brian, is actually my grandma Helen's ninety
eighth birthday.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Where is she right now?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
She is in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Okay, we have to
should we call her? Yeah, okay, we're gonna call Brian.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
We're gonna make a call for the first time.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
All right, here we go. We're gonna we're gonna call
my grandma Helen.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Do I call her Grandma Helen?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Or let me lead? Okay, Hi, Grandma? Can you hear me?
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Oh yeah, I can hear you.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Well, Grandma, I'm calling to say happy birthday with my
dear friend Brian. We are in the middle of our
podcast and we are so excited that today is your
ninety eighth birthday.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
I'm so excited to hear from you and Brian. Well, uh,
it's good. Good day, said about your partner.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Oh, well, thank you for that. Do I call her
Grandma or Grama Helen?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Grandma? Grandma said? Okay, if he calls you Grandma, call
her grandma.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
It'd be my honor to call you, grandma. Grandma, what
what sort of a grandson was was Trade? Because he
he sings your praises all the time.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Well, Trade's always been a fun kid. Yeah, he could
think of more things to get into. Brent, we had
to get up early if we could keep up with him. Well,
I'll tell you, he's something to be proud of. And
it's just your both.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Well, that feeling is completely mutual, Grandma. So Grandma is
ninety eight today. As I said, that's nineteen twenty six.
And just to sort of give it the proper historical context,
when my grandma was born, the United States was celebrating
its Sesqui centennial. That's the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary.
The first trans atlantic phone call was made in nineteen
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twenty six. Queen Elizabeth, Fidel Castro, and Marilyn Monroe were
all born the same year as my grandma. The amazing
Gertrude Etterly was the first woman who successfully swam across
the English Channel. Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth was the first
baseball player to hit three home runs during a World
(07:23):
Series game. Winnie the Pooh was published the same year
that my grandma was born. Grandma you are keeping some
quite historic company, but you are completely historic in my
life and in your endless reservoirs of love that you
gave to me and my sister and everyone in our family.
And I am just so delighted to have you on
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this podcast.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
And I'm just delighted try to be with you.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
We are putting up a picture of you on the screen,
and a couple of things stand out. Number one, and
I'm not just saying this. I would say it even
if you weren't, but I'm telling you you are gorgeous.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yes, she's a beautiful woman.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
And number two, we apparently have the same hairstylists, because
that's about what my hair looks like, and it looks
much better on you.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I was just gonna say she wears it much better. Yes,
But Grandma, how are you celebrating today? I hope you're
going to be blowing out some candles at some point where.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Your dad is here and brought a beautiful lemon cake
and all kinds of gifts, and he loved you, and
so he wanted to be here and to listen to
our conversation.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Well, he's a good boy, and you're a great.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Mom's real loud now, honey, because my telephone's not a
good one.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Well, not to worry. We don't want to keep you
too long because I know you've got lots of celebrating
to do. But we just I just wanted to call.
We both wanted to call, wish you a very happy
birthday and tell you how much I love you. You
are one of the most important people in my life
and always have been and always will be.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
I feel the same way. Tree.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Well, happy birthday, happy happy, happy, happy birthday, many many, many,
many more. And today's your day, so go do something wild.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Up my heels exactly this morning. And I've been so
blessed and thankful to have you enkindled in my life
and to see you successful, and not only your work
but your personal life.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
And his children, Grandma, his children, all three of them
are so incredible.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yeah, you've got you're.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
About to live and see the alpha the maica to it,
you know, yes, right vice letters in the Greek alphabet.
So God, it's been good to me. Now I can
see the children, great children, all grown up, successful like
their parents.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
And not just your not not just your grandchildren, but
you've got great great grandchildren, four of them.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Well, that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Ah, okay, well fantastic, we'll get my story. Well, no,
not at all, Grandma. We love you very much. Happy
happy birthday. We're gonna let you go now so you
can open those presents. Please give dad a big hug
for me, but especially give yourself a big hug. We
love you. Happy, happy birthday.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Pray.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
I love you with all my heart. And and you've
been a blessing since day one and all the excitement
I'm looking for you, looking for you that nine months,
and I'm just glad you enjoy your friends and I
believe your good program's gonna make it well.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
It's like you said, it's just a blessing that that
I know him and you. You've done a good job
as a grandma. He again sings you your praises. All Right,
we got to stop this before I start crying. All right, Grandma,
I'm getting choked up too. Happy birthday, Grandma.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
We'll talk to you later, Okay, thank you, thank you,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Alrighty wow, Okay, So that's my ninety eight year old
grandma Helen.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
And first of all, when she said, could you speak
up because my phone's not too good. Uh, what kind
of grandson are you buy?
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Here?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
A new phone?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Terrible? What the heck exactly? I'm just I look, I'm
I'm Obviously we were both blessed to have these incredibly
close relationships with grandparents, but you know, not everybody always
has that right, and sometimes for complex emotional reasons, sometimes
just geographical distance makes it hard. But when we come back,
my friends, we are going to do this. I s yes,
(11:43):
we are going to do the very best we can
to make up for anybody who maybe doesn't have as
close a relationship with their grandparents, because we are going
to have the great privilege of introducing you to someone
who is not only a loving grandparent in real life,
but has all also played one of the most beloved
grandparents in television history.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Let me wait a minute. Wamite does this character she plays?
Does the character's name rhyme with seesaw.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
It might ah rhyme with he it might.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I know who you're talking about. I just gonna tell him, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
No stick around. We'll be right back here.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
A bigger.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
We will take you.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Suck.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Dear, good humans. It is in absolute honor and privilege
right now to welcome to our show. One of the
very best humans on the planet. This is a Kentucky girl.
She got her bf A in theater from Stevens College, Missouri.
She's also a visiting professor dedicated board member. She basically
took everything she learned Brian m mixed it with this
(13:08):
god given talent she was born with, then proceeded to
make the whole world fall in love with her through
some unforgettably iconic characters. We're talking about Iona in Pretty
and Pink, or Mary Joe Shively in Designing Women, Janine
Melnitz in the Ghostbusters franchise. She is the voice of
(13:31):
bo Peep in the Toy Story Movies. Not to mention
all kinds of Emmy and Screen Actors Guild nominated roles
in shows like Love and War, any Day Now, Chicago
med Scandal, Law and Order, SVU, Gray's Anatomy, two and
a Half Men. She has been I had incredible stage
roles on Broadway, Off Broadway and Just in case any
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of you have been living under a rock. For the
past seven seasons, she has played one of the most
beloved characters on the long running hit CBS sitcom Young
Sheldon that's right, Brian, Yes, me Ma is here.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Unfortunately we have we've run out of time because her
accolades were so link, we have no time to talk
to her.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
But we're just done so many what we're gonna please
join us in welcoming the one and only Annie Potts.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Yay, pleasure, my guys, Hi, thank you for pleasure to
be here.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Well, it's a pleasure just to be on a show
called Be Good Humans. I'm I'm so gladter.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Well you you you are absolutely among the best of them,
and we are delighted to have you.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
So.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
So we're talking about grandparents today Annie, and uh, and
so that makes me want to ask first, like how
close were you with your grandparents? Did you have a
close relationship with them? Not everybody does.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
My my father's parents, they lived far away, so we
didn't see them often. And uh, but and my grandfather,
my maternal grandfather, died when I was young. And uh,
I was, Uh, I was pretty close to my maternal grandmother.
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She didn't live far away, and she was she was
quite a character.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
I Uh, she was.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
I didn't want to say she wasn't nice.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
She was. She was kind of rough.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
She wasn't She wasn't like sit on my lap and
let me read your book or anything.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yeah, she was. She was funny, had a little edge
to her.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
She had a little bit of edge to her. But
she did later on in life, after my grandfather died,
she and she'd never worked in her life, but she
had a friend a did and she became a dorm
mother at West during Kentucky University, and so she had,
you know, she had like two hundred and fifty girls.
And I used to go stay with her on weekends
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because it was really fun. I'd walk the halls and
drop into rooms and hang out with the college girls.
And they thought she was awesome. And I mean they
just taught. They were like, oh my god, your grandmother.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Is I was like wow.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
So it was it was interesting that she had I mean,
and this was like in the nineteen sixties, so not
a lot of women worked outside the home grandmothers. And
that she had this whole other life where all these
young women just adored her was very interesting to me.
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And we got we got friendly after that. We had
a different kind of thing. She took me, she took
me under her funny little wings, and I never I
never forgot it.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
That's lovely. That's lovely. Okay, So what about when when
you had kids, What was that like the transition of
seeing your parents become grandparents.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Well, I'm the youngest of my siblings, so they were
you know, they had already experienced that. And but they
lived in Palm Springs then, and so they were pretty close.
I used to go out every weekend with my first son,
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and is just wonderful. And I my parents divorced after
forty years of marriage because that was enough. But my
dad was around and he was very very close to
all my sons and just adored They adored each other.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
And now, oh, Andy, you're you're a grandparent yourself. First
of all, what do they call you? Your grandchildren? And
what do you love most about being a grandparent?
Speaker 4 (18:11):
I love everything about it.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Are you one of those that like, here's some money,
here's the everything you need? Uh, I can spoil you.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Well, there's still little there there there. I have one
who's two and one who's three, So they're really tiny,
so they're not you know, stealing money out of my
wallet yet. But but I would left them and I
wouldn't say anything about yes, But I mean one of
the wonderful things, uh, is that you you pretty much
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get to see that the work you've put in on
your own children, you see that reflected in the way
they talk to and and and and handle their children,
the way they they rock them, the way they pet
them on their or whatever, and you can go.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Wow, it's just it's like a deja vous moment.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Totally, and it just it's like, you know, Cupid dark
to the heard time, that kind of love, and it's
just it's wonderful. I have to say, both of my
sons who have the babies are wonderful fathers, and I
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love I love seeing them in that role.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Let me ask my partner if I may, are you
looking for your kids? Are now all you know getting
I have three twenty somethings, yeah, twenty somethings. So are
you looking forward to being a grandfather?
Speaker 2 (19:42):
I really am.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yeah, I think you'd be a great granddad.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I really am. My My daughter has two dogs. She
loves dogs passionately, and she and her boyfriend have two dogs,
and she's she's fond of calling them my granddogs, right,
and I so sort of I love dogs too, so
I sort of play into that. But but secretly, there's
a part of me that's like, I can't wait till
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we're not just talking about dogs here.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Oh yeah, I can see you in that role.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
I think it'll be fun. But for the reasons that
Annie is getting to which I hadn't really thought about,
which is like, oh yeah, you do start to see
all the hard work you put in as a parent.
You start to see that, you know, blossom in its
own way for the next generation, and that love keeps
on given.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
I love that and Annie, if we may, I talked
to a little chowbiz here what personality traits and well,
first of all the ant or the grandparent you're talking
about where all your friends love her, But you were like, rude,
is there any of her in your character?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Mem Oh, oh yes, okay, great, yes, because there's it.
Well it's a she's kind of an amalgam, but there's yes.
I drew heavily from the women in my family for her.
I didn't have to look far.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Well, just for the maybe just for the maybe two
or three people who have in the world who haven't
seen it. Young Sheldon's was this successful spinoff prequel to
the hit series Big Bang Theory, Uh and Uh it's
it's it's all you know about this child prodigy who's
grown up with his family in this fictional East Texas town.
But but Annie plays this iconic role as Constance Connie Tucker,
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who is much more you know, lovingly known as mema
brilliant but she is like the fun, loving, sarcastic, beating
heart at the center of the show. So you're saying
that's informed by a lot of a lot of different women,
get I gather, yes.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Yes, uh, and you know my my mother in part,
my grandmother, my sister.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Uh. But uh.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Interestingly, people have said, well, do your grandchildren call you mem?
It's like, how weird would that be?
Speaker 6 (21:59):
I mean, it's weird enough if you're watching a Pixar
cartoon and the doll has your grandmother's voice, right right, right? Wow?
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Like what that's weird?
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Yeah, I would think you would make that off limits
if it wasn't already.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Is there any anything you've learned from me, Ma, and
you know, developing and being that character that has influenced
in the way you grandparent?
Speaker 4 (22:26):
What's what's been interesting to me is that because we
started that seven years ago, I didn't have grandchildren, and
the children on the show who were my who played
my grandchildren were little, they were just they were eight
years old when we started, and they're very loving children.
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And people used to say, well, what's it like working
with children. It's like they sit on my lap and
play with my hair and my rings and kiss me
and hug me and tell me they loved me all day.
I have never had that with any other actor. You know,
It's like holy and they still they still come and
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sit in my lap and kiss me and hug me
and tell me they love me. And uh so I
got to I got I got to practice, uh with
the most loving starter set of children, and uh I
just saw him a couple of days ago.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
And that's that's beautiful. That's rare, as you as you
say in this business. But also I think it's a
rare portrayal of a grandparent that you that you played
so beautifully for all those years. Annie, because for all
of her spiciness, right, there's a real undercurrent of patience
in love in Memo's character and passion, especially when it
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comes to Sheldon, because she's sort of had this steadfast
belief that even if she doesn't always understand him, he's
eventually going to find his way, which is that level
of support that I got from my grandparents sounds like
you got from you.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
You can't get that with every actress, no matter how
good she is. You have to be a certain you
have something inside you, and Annie absolutely does.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
And really captured beautifully any that sort of prototypical love
that bonds so many people so closely with their grandparents.
You must have heard that from fans over the years.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
You know, I have, and I.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Still. I do this thing called cameo. You know, we're
because I.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Have I have a charity which we are definitely going
to talk about.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
Oh good.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
But you know, people on cameo, they can request for
you to give a pep talk or a happy Birthday
greeting to their loved ones, and most often it's for
their children, and often it is for kids who are
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on the spectrum or you know, and they're like, we know,
you'll understand, could you say? And I just I'm so
grateful that because of a role that I've played, that
I'm trusted to charity those messages that it's the gravy
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on top of a lovely feast. Sure, and I'm so
happy to do it and all the money that I
get from telling people I love them and Happy Birthday
goes right into the charity. So it's a nice circular thing.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Well, we definitely want to talk about that charity now,
because Annie, you've always been one of those actors who
people just feel is real, like, no matter what role
you're playing, your heart's in the right place. So it
really comes as no surprise that you are also behind
this truly beautiful charity called the Heart Channels. Can can
you tell us more about the Heart Channels?
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Yes, I know you're Years ago, I was down We've
been going to the same little island in the Caribbean
for thirty years, and I met a little boy on
the beach and I was about to go for a
swim and he pointed he wanted my goggles, and I said, yeah, sure,
and then he took my hand and pulled me into
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the ocean with him. He wanted to play. And it
didn't take but a minute for me to realize that
he didn't have any language. And his mother came down
and was swimming with us, and I said, what's going
on with your boy? And she said she didn't know.
She'd never gotten a diagnosis. He was eight years old
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at that time, and I thought, oh my god, And
so I thought, what can I do to help? And
I tried to look on the island and see if
and there really wasn't much help for him, and I
reached out to friends, and then I wrote a little
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book about him to be sold on the island for
proceeds to go to him and the one little place
on the island that was helping children with special needs.
And anyway, he just turned eighteen and graduated from high
school in England, where we helped to get him there,
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where the UK has totally supported him and his family,
and his sister is in the university and wants to
be a doctor, and his mother went back to school
and you know, it's it's the anyway.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I'm just so proud of them, and we're proud of you.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Well, I've had great fortune in my life and I
wanted to pass it along, and I've found how good
it feels to be helping people. And I now have
this this I've been in the business of doing that
for long enough. Two. I mean, it's the most meaningful
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thing aside from being a mother and a grandmother. Now
it's it's it's everything and so a couple of my
girlfriends and I started this this thing. So when people
and it's mostly single mothers that we help, who you know,
a lot of times if they have to move or
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something and to get into a new place, they need
a first, last, and security deposit and if they don't
have that, they end up sleeping in their car under
an overpass. And sometimes if we if we can just
bridge the gap between that, so that that's a lot
of what we do. We're also helping uh, several Aghany
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families who you know worked for the US in Afghanistan
and then got to come here.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
It's an amazing organization, Annie, I mean Heart Channels, as
they describe themselves, this is an organization where neighbor to neighbor,
heart to heart, one hundred percent of your donations go
directly to people who need it. Like Annie said, this
is single mothers, this is college Funds for Dreamers.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Helping refugee families resettle in the US. Exactly aims for
those who help others.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
That's right, that's right. And it's just devoted to education,
quality of life, health and well being and an amazing
organization that you've put together. And so if people want
to learn more about heart Channels. How can they do that?
How can they get involved? How can they help support
your cause?
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Well, they can go you know, on our website, Theheart
Channels dot org and check it out. I would love
inquiries and it would be fantastic if because you know,
there's always more and more need and we we welcome donation.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Okay, absolutely, So that's the Heart Channels dot org. We're
going to post a link to that on our website
as well. Be Good Humans Podcast dot com.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Any Uh, you've been so kind to join us today.
And we know you don't have your wig or anything,
but do you think me Ma has any grammarly advice
for for Trey and I?
Speaker 4 (30:25):
I would just says that's all. It's easy, it's so
easy to help and it's.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
So yes, it is, that's that's the thing. It's also
because sometimes it kind of feels selfish because it makes
you feel so good, you know, to do something that
like like the eight year old you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
I mean, just if you want to feel good about yourself,
do something selfless.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Yes, yes, well here's something uh that's not selfless, because
I would be remiss if I didn't share this with
you okay, and we can if we can edit it out,
if it if we don't uh think it's appropriate. But Annie,
I I've always had a crush on you, as as
millions of people have. Yes, for many of the reasons
we've talked about today, but I think it all began
(31:13):
with you as a spokesman for pop Secret popcorn. I have,
my god, I have never ever seen anyone eat popcorn
more sexy. You just sexy, sexy, sexy sex.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
I often refer to those commercials as popcorn. I've never
seen anything quite so sexy.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
I mean, I mean you, Oh my god, your your
comic timing, you're you're, you're acting chops great. But then
all of a sudden, I'm seeing you as a sex symbol.
I mean, and I have to this day, and you're
gorgeous as you sit there, And to this day, I've
always had a crush on you because of a popcorn commercial.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Well, listen makes ways to make a living, right, Annie.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
It was a good gig, and it was it was
written for me by a girlfriend that I went to
college with. Really yeah, she thought of it and wrote
it directly for me. It was all double on time.
And then the conservative organization that owned that popcorn found
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them a little too See. After three years, they literally
replaced me with a clown.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Yeah, by the way, that's after three years of selling
a ship ton of popcorn.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
I'm sure, yes, yes, I could have sold some more though.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
Oh yeah, I loved it.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
When I saw the first one, I was, you know, entralled,
crush on big crush on any Then they made a
second one and I'm calling all my guy friends who
all had the same crush on you. And then it
continued and I couldn't wait for the next one to
come out.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Amazing. But then again, no surprise, because you were amazing. Annie.
We cannot thank you for taking the time to chat
with us today. Again, go visit the Heart Channels dot
org to get more information on that incredible charity. But
also just keep your eyes posted because you never know
where any's gonna pop up next. But thank you, thank you,
thank you for taking the time and your busy day
to talk to us.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Thanks Zanny, thank you, guys.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
We will thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Suck welcome back. First of all, okay, in a minute,
when I said big crush with good reason, And secondly,
she really showed a lot of people listen. Just listen
to this podcast and all podcasts, but we're also you know,
on camera, and our guests are on camera, and go
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to YouTube and you know, put in Be Good Humans
podcast and you'll see this episode. Because I want to
bring attention to the fact that she is. I've always
found her to be just as yeah, you know, question
I'm acting she I mean, that's hard to do. And
her timing and she showed her timing in this and
I don't know if if you kind of notice this,
(34:11):
but every time she had a punchline, yeah, she would
lean towards the camera and kind of get a little
bit louder. Oh God, I crackt me. Uh that is
And this is just a laptop camera and she's still
working the camera.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
That's a skilled professional right there. Brilliant without question. So
an absolute pleasure to have her and an absolute pleasure
to have you guys. Again. Please go check out our
website where we will drop that link for the Heart
Channels dot org. Our website is Begod Humans podcast dot com.
While you're there, tell us about the be Good Humans
in your life. Tell us about any pointers you have
(34:45):
on being a good human. Follow us on the socials,
am I forgetting anything else?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
YouTube you can.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Well YouTube is Yes, definitely like us and subscribe if
you do, go and you should go and check out
Annie in her cool glasses. Not to mention the pop
Secret ad. We'll see how that fits in there as well.
But exactly on that note, we should wrap this up
right now. Thank you very much for joining us and
(35:11):
do us a favor. Be be the human humans.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Be good humans, Be good humans. Be good humans, or
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Speaker 2 (35:24):
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Control your books. I don't know what control yous.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
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cannot be good humans.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
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you sucked.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Thank good.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Humans, or we will thank you suck.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Everybody. Thank you for joining us on the Be Good
Humans Podcast. That is Trey. I am Brian, and we've
got a great show for you today.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Indeed we do. You know why, because we are going
to talk about some of the most important og good
humans in our lives. Brian, you know who I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Grandparents.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Grandparents. Grandparents are like the formative examples of good humans,
and I want to hear about your grandparents.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Well, I've said on past shows how lucky I've been,
you know, to have great grandparents at one time. I'll
repeat myself, but I had two grandma's, two grandpas, a
great grandma, two great grandmas, and a great grandpa. Unbelievable,
and that was up until I was a teenager. Yeah,
my family married early, but yeah, I love them. I
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love my grandma's so I missed them so very very much.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Were they both Grandma. Is that what you called both
of them? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Grandma, Yeah yeah, Grandma Phelps and Grandma's names, But I
honestly do I miss them. I was very, very fortunate
to have great grandparents, loving grandparents and spend a lot
of time with my grandparents because both my mom and
dad worked long, long hours.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
So they were there.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Oh yeah, And every Friday, I still remember, Mom and
Dad would pull up in front of one of my
grandparents' houses and and I don't even think they slowed down.
They just pushed us out of the car and we
got to spend the night with with one of our
grandma and grandpa's because I found out obviously later on
when I grew a little older, that they were just
(02:13):
having some romantic time. They would check into a motel
like the Best Western or something, and they would have
they would have a knight.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Hey, mom and dad gotta do what Mom and dad
gotta do.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Have a nice bottle of answers.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I get out exactly. But meanwhile, you're with your grandparents.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
And I'll never forget Grandma Phelps. She had used to
have this little red pocket knife, okay, and she it
was like on the key chain and she hook it
to her purse, and I I was six years old,
and to a boy who watches his dad and his
and his grandfather mainly whittle and do all these things
with this, I wanted that he wouldn't. It was Brian's size, Yeah,
(02:51):
of course read it was like a little it was.
It was you know, you folded it up. I wanted
that so bad. So finally one day she's sitting on
the couch with her pocket knife, cleaning her fingernails, and
I thought, now's as good time as any. I said, Grandma,
can I have that? And my grandma says, we never
forget this. She goes when I'm done with it, and
(03:16):
I went, great, taking to myself, great, all right, do
two more nails. She's almost done, and I get this
pocket knife. Oh my god, oh my god. She finished
cleaning her nails and she hooks it back up on
her purse, back on her purse. She didn't like, here
you go. She put it back on her purse. So
I said, Gray, I thought, I thought you were when
(03:37):
you're you're gonna get I told you when I'm done
with it.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
So now I'm staring at her. She's watching TV or
doing whatever she was doing. The purse is over here
and it's got the knife on it, and she's not musing,
come on, sure when I'm done with it. So parents
picked me up later that afternoon and we're driving back
feteen mile drive to Cambridge and and my mom said, so,
how how was grandma? How is you guys? Have a
(04:05):
good time?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Grandma lied to me and I told her the whole story. Now, uh,
my parents, imagine this, Your six year old son wants
to know when he's going to get this knife. But
the grandma has told me when I'm done with it.
How are they going to tell me that What she
meant was when she dies, I'll get the knife.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
So they had to be a very y, delicate, delicate.
There come a time.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
It's going to be a while, we hope before you
get that knighte Wow, my grandma felt.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
She sounds amazing. My grandparents. My my paternal grandfather died
very young in World War Two, when my dad was
just a kid. My maternal grandfather died when I was
a kid. But his wife, my grandmother, Alice, I think
I mentioned her before, really important person in my life
because she made me feel important for the first time.
(05:02):
That was really a special relationship I had with her.
But get this, Brian, I am blessed to tell you
that not only is my paternal grandma still with us,
but today today, Brian, is actually my grandma Helen's ninety
eighth birthday.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Where is she right now?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
She is in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Okay, we have to
should we call her? Yeah, okay, we're gonna call Brian.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
We're gonna make a call for the first time.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
All right, here we go. We're gonna we're gonna call
my grandma Helen.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Do I call her Grandma Helen?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Or let me lead? Okay, Hi, Grandma? Can you hear me?
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Oh yeah, I can hear you.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Well, Grandma, I'm calling to say happy birthday with my
dear friend Brian. We are in the middle of our
podcast and we are so excited that today is your
ninety eighth birthday.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
I'm so excited to hear from you and Brian. Well, uh,
it's good. Good day, said about your partner.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Oh, well, thank you for that. Do I call her
Grandma or Grama Helen?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Grandma? Grandma said? Okay, if he calls you Grandma, call
her grandma.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
It'd be my honor to call you, grandma. Grandma, what
what sort of a grandson was was Trade? Because he
he sings your praises all the time.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Well, Trade's always been a fun kid. Yeah, he could
think of more things to get into. Brent, we had
to get up early if we could keep up with him. Well,
I'll tell you, he's something to be proud of. And
it's just your both.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Well, that feeling is completely mutual, Grandma. So Grandma is
ninety eight today. As I said, that's nineteen twenty six.
And just to sort of give it the proper historical context,
when my grandma was born, the United States was celebrating
its Sesqui centennial. That's the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary.
The first trans atlantic phone call was made in nineteen
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twenty six. Queen Elizabeth, Fidel Castro, and Marilyn Monroe were
all born the same year as my grandma. The amazing
Gertrude Etterly was the first woman who successfully swam across
the English Channel. Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth was the first
baseball player to hit three home runs during a World
(07:23):
Series game. Winnie the Pooh was published the same year
that my grandma was born. Grandma you are keeping some
quite historic company, but you are completely historic in my
life and in your endless reservoirs of love that you
gave to me and my sister and everyone in our family.
And I am just so delighted to have you on
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this podcast.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
And I'm just delighted try to be with you.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
We are putting up a picture of you on the screen,
and a couple of things stand out. Number one, and
I'm not just saying this. I would say it even
if you weren't, but I'm telling you you are gorgeous.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yes, she's a beautiful woman.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
And number two, we apparently have the same hairstylists, because
that's about what my hair looks like, and it looks
much better on you.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I was just gonna say she wears it much better. Yes,
But Grandma, how are you celebrating today? I hope you're
going to be blowing out some candles at some point where.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Your dad is here and brought a beautiful lemon cake
and all kinds of gifts, and he loved you, and
so he wanted to be here and to listen to
our conversation.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Well, he's a good boy, and you're a great.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Mom's real loud now, honey, because my telephone's not a
good one.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Well, not to worry. We don't want to keep you
too long because I know you've got lots of celebrating
to do. But we just I just wanted to call.
We both wanted to call, wish you a very happy
birthday and tell you how much I love you. You
are one of the most important people in my life
and always have been and always will be.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
I feel the same way. Tree.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Well, happy birthday, happy happy, happy, happy birthday, many many, many,
many more. And today's your day, so go do something wild.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Up my heels exactly this morning. And I've been so
blessed and thankful to have you enkindled in my life
and to see you successful, and not only your work
but your personal life.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
And his children, Grandma, his children, all three of them
are so incredible.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yeah, you've got you're.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
About to live and see the alpha the maica to it,
you know, yes, right vice letters in the Greek alphabet.
So God, it's been good to me. Now I can
see the children, great children, all grown up, successful like
their parents.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
And not just your not not just your grandchildren, but
you've got great great grandchildren, four of them.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Well, that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Ah, okay, well fantastic, we'll get my story. Well, no,
not at all, Grandma. We love you very much. Happy
happy birthday. We're gonna let you go now so you
can open those presents. Please give dad a big hug
for me, but especially give yourself a big hug. We
love you. Happy, happy birthday.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Pray.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
I love you with all my heart. And and you've
been a blessing since day one and all the excitement
I'm looking for you, looking for you that nine months,
and I'm just glad you enjoy your friends and I
believe your good program's gonna make it well.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
It's like you said, it's just a blessing that that
I know him and you. You've done a good job
as a grandma. He again sings you your praises. All Right,
we got to stop this before I start crying. All right, Grandma,
I'm getting choked up too. Happy birthday, Grandma.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
We'll talk to you later, Okay, thank you, thank you,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Alrighty wow, Okay, So that's my ninety eight year old
grandma Helen.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
And first of all, when she said, could you speak
up because my phone's not too good. Uh, what kind
of grandson are you buy?
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Here?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
A new phone?
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Terrible? What the heck exactly? I'm just I look, I'm
I'm Obviously we were both blessed to have these incredibly
close relationships with grandparents, but you know, not everybody always
has that right, and sometimes for complex emotional reasons, sometimes
just geographical distance makes it hard. But when we come back,
my friends, we are going to do this. I s yes,
(11:43):
we are going to do the very best we can
to make up for anybody who maybe doesn't have as
close a relationship with their grandparents, because we are going
to have the great privilege of introducing you to someone
who is not only a loving grandparent in real life,
but has all also played one of the most beloved
grandparents in television history.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Let me wait a minute. Wamite does this character she plays?
Does the character's name rhyme with seesaw.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
It might ah rhyme with he it might.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I know who you're talking about. I just gonna tell him, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
No stick around. We'll be right back here.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
A bigger.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
We will take you.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Suck.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Dear, good humans. It is in absolute honor and privilege
right now to welcome to our show. One of the
very best humans on the planet. This is a Kentucky girl.
She got her bf A in theater from Stevens College, Missouri.
She's also a visiting professor dedicated board member. She basically
took everything she learned Brian m mixed it with this
(13:08):
god given talent she was born with, then proceeded to
make the whole world fall in love with her through
some unforgettably iconic characters. We're talking about Iona in Pretty
and Pink, or Mary Joe Shively in Designing Women, Janine
Melnitz in the Ghostbusters franchise. She is the voice of
(13:31):
bo Peep in the Toy Story Movies. Not to mention
all kinds of Emmy and Screen Actors Guild nominated roles
in shows like Love and War, any Day Now, Chicago
med Scandal, Law and Order, SVU, Gray's Anatomy, two and
a Half Men. She has been I had incredible stage
roles on Broadway, Off Broadway and Just in case any
(13:55):
of you have been living under a rock. For the
past seven seasons, she has played one of the most
beloved characters on the long running hit CBS sitcom Young
Sheldon that's right, Brian, Yes, me Ma is here.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Unfortunately we have we've run out of time because her
accolades were so link, we have no time to talk
to her.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
But we're just done so many what we're gonna please
join us in welcoming the one and only Annie Potts.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Yay, pleasure, my guys, Hi, thank you for pleasure to
be here.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Well, it's a pleasure just to be on a show
called Be Good Humans. I'm I'm so gladter.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Well you you you are absolutely among the best of them,
and we are delighted to have you.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
So.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
So we're talking about grandparents today Annie, and uh, and
so that makes me want to ask first, like how
close were you with your grandparents? Did you have a
close relationship with them? Not everybody does.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
My my father's parents, they lived far away, so we
didn't see them often. And uh, but and my grandfather,
my maternal grandfather, died when I was young. And uh,
I was, Uh, I was pretty close to my maternal grandmother.
(15:19):
She didn't live far away, and she was she was
quite a character.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
I Uh, she was.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
I didn't want to say she wasn't nice.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
She was. She was kind of rough.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
She wasn't She wasn't like sit on my lap and
let me read your book or anything.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yeah, she was. She was funny, had a little edge
to her.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
She had a little bit of edge to her. But
she did later on in life, after my grandfather died,
she and she'd never worked in her life, but she
had a friend a did and she became a dorm
mother at West during Kentucky University, and so she had,
you know, she had like two hundred and fifty girls.
And I used to go stay with her on weekends
(16:10):
because it was really fun. I'd walk the halls and
drop into rooms and hang out with the college girls.
And they thought she was awesome. And I mean they
just taught. They were like, oh my god, your grandmother.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Is I was like wow.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
So it was it was interesting that she had I mean,
and this was like in the nineteen sixties, so not
a lot of women worked outside the home grandmothers. And
that she had this whole other life where all these
young women just adored her was very interesting to me.
(16:51):
And we got we got friendly after that. We had
a different kind of thing. She took me, she took
me under her funny little wings, and I never I
never forgot it.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
That's lovely. That's lovely. Okay, So what about when when
you had kids, What was that like the transition of
seeing your parents become grandparents.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Well, I'm the youngest of my siblings, so they were
you know, they had already experienced that. And but they
lived in Palm Springs then, and so they were pretty close.
I used to go out every weekend with my first son,
(17:37):
and is just wonderful. And I my parents divorced after
forty years of marriage because that was enough. But my
dad was around and he was very very close to
all my sons and just adored They adored each other.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
And now, oh, Andy, you're you're a grandparent yourself. First
of all, what do they call you? Your grandchildren? And
what do you love most about being a grandparent?
Speaker 4 (18:11):
I love everything about it.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Are you one of those that like, here's some money,
here's the everything you need? Uh, I can spoil you.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
Well, there's still little there there there. I have one
who's two and one who's three, So they're really tiny,
so they're not you know, stealing money out of my
wallet yet. But but I would left them and I
wouldn't say anything about yes, But I mean one of
the wonderful things, uh, is that you you pretty much
(18:43):
get to see that the work you've put in on
your own children, you see that reflected in the way
they talk to and and and and handle their children,
the way they they rock them, the way they pet
them on their or whatever, and you can go.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Wow, it's just it's like a deja vous moment.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Totally, and it just it's like, you know, Cupid dark
to the heard time, that kind of love, and it's
just it's wonderful. I have to say, both of my
sons who have the babies are wonderful fathers, and I
(19:26):
love I love seeing them in that role.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Let me ask my partner if I may, are you
looking for your kids? Are now all you know getting
I have three twenty somethings, yeah, twenty somethings. So are
you looking forward to being a grandfather?
Speaker 2 (19:42):
I really am.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yeah, I think you'd be a great granddad.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I really am. My My daughter has two dogs. She
loves dogs passionately, and she and her boyfriend have two dogs,
and she's she's fond of calling them my granddogs, right,
and I so sort of I love dogs too, so
I sort of play into that. But but secretly, there's
a part of me that's like, I can't wait till
(20:06):
we're not just talking about dogs here.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Oh yeah, I can see you in that role.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
I think it'll be fun. But for the reasons that
Annie is getting to which I hadn't really thought about,
which is like, oh yeah, you do start to see
all the hard work you put in as a parent.
You start to see that, you know, blossom in its
own way for the next generation, and that love keeps
on given.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
I love that and Annie, if we may, I talked
to a little chowbiz here what personality traits and well,
first of all the ant or the grandparent you're talking
about where all your friends love her, But you were like, rude,
is there any of her in your character?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Mem Oh, oh yes, okay, great, yes, because there's it.
Well it's a she's kind of an amalgam, but there's yes.
I drew heavily from the women in my family for her.
I didn't have to look far.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Well, just for the maybe just for the maybe two
or three people who have in the world who haven't
seen it. Young Sheldon's was this successful spinoff prequel to
the hit series Big Bang Theory, Uh and Uh it's
it's it's all you know about this child prodigy who's
grown up with his family in this fictional East Texas town.
But but Annie plays this iconic role as Constance Connie Tucker,
(21:23):
who is much more you know, lovingly known as mema
brilliant but she is like the fun, loving, sarcastic, beating
heart at the center of the show. So you're saying
that's informed by a lot of a lot of different women,
get I gather, yes.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Yes, uh, and you know my my mother in part,
my grandmother, my sister.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Uh. But uh.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Interestingly, people have said, well, do your grandchildren call you mem?
It's like, how weird would that be?
Speaker 6 (21:59):
I mean, it's weird enough if you're watching a Pixar
cartoon and the doll has your grandmother's voice, right right, right? Wow?
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Like what that's weird?
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Yeah, I would think you would make that off limits
if it wasn't already.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Is there any anything you've learned from me, Ma, and
you know, developing and being that character that has influenced
in the way you grandparent?
Speaker 4 (22:26):
What's what's been interesting to me is that because we
started that seven years ago, I didn't have grandchildren, and
the children on the show who were my who played
my grandchildren were little, they were just they were eight
years old when we started, and they're very loving children.
(22:47):
And people used to say, well, what's it like working
with children. It's like they sit on my lap and
play with my hair and my rings and kiss me
and hug me and tell me they loved me all day.
I have never had that with any other actor. You know,
It's like holy and they still they still come and
(23:09):
sit in my lap and kiss me and hug me
and tell me they love me. And uh so I
got to I got I got to practice, uh with
the most loving starter set of children, and uh I
just saw him a couple of days ago.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
And that's that's beautiful. That's rare, as you as you
say in this business. But also I think it's a
rare portrayal of a grandparent that you that you played
so beautifully for all those years. Annie, because for all
of her spiciness, right, there's a real undercurrent of patience
in love in Memo's character and passion, especially when it
(23:49):
comes to Sheldon, because she's sort of had this steadfast
belief that even if she doesn't always understand him, he's
eventually going to find his way, which is that level
of support that I got from my grandparents sounds like
you got from you.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
You can't get that with every actress, no matter how
good she is. You have to be a certain you
have something inside you, and Annie absolutely does.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
And really captured beautifully any that sort of prototypical love
that bonds so many people so closely with their grandparents.
You must have heard that from fans over the years.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
You know, I have, and I.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Still. I do this thing called cameo. You know, we're
because I.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Have I have a charity which we are definitely going
to talk about.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
Oh good.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
But you know, people on cameo, they can request for
you to give a pep talk or a happy Birthday
greeting to their loved ones, and most often it's for
their children, and often it is for kids who are
(24:57):
on the spectrum or you know, and they're like, we know,
you'll understand, could you say? And I just I'm so
grateful that because of a role that I've played, that
I'm trusted to charity those messages that it's the gravy
(25:20):
on top of a lovely feast. Sure, and I'm so
happy to do it and all the money that I
get from telling people I love them and Happy Birthday
goes right into the charity. So it's a nice circular thing.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Well, we definitely want to talk about that charity now,
because Annie, you've always been one of those actors who
people just feel is real, like, no matter what role
you're playing, your heart's in the right place. So it
really comes as no surprise that you are also behind
this truly beautiful charity called the Heart Channels. Can can
you tell us more about the Heart Channels?
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Yes, I know you're Years ago, I was down We've
been going to the same little island in the Caribbean
for thirty years, and I met a little boy on
the beach and I was about to go for a
swim and he pointed he wanted my goggles, and I said, yeah, sure,
and then he took my hand and pulled me into
(26:18):
the ocean with him. He wanted to play. And it
didn't take but a minute for me to realize that
he didn't have any language. And his mother came down
and was swimming with us, and I said, what's going
on with your boy? And she said she didn't know.
She'd never gotten a diagnosis. He was eight years old
(26:39):
at that time, and I thought, oh my god, And
so I thought, what can I do to help? And
I tried to look on the island and see if
and there really wasn't much help for him, and I
reached out to friends, and then I wrote a little
(26:59):
book about him to be sold on the island for
proceeds to go to him and the one little place
on the island that was helping children with special needs.
And anyway, he just turned eighteen and graduated from high
school in England, where we helped to get him there,
(27:23):
where the UK has totally supported him and his family,
and his sister is in the university and wants to
be a doctor, and his mother went back to school
and you know, it's it's the anyway.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I'm just so proud of them, and we're proud of you.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Well, I've had great fortune in my life and I
wanted to pass it along, and I've found how good
it feels to be helping people. And I now have
this this I've been in the business of doing that
for long enough. Two. I mean, it's the most meaningful
(28:03):
thing aside from being a mother and a grandmother. Now
it's it's it's everything and so a couple of my
girlfriends and I started this this thing. So when people
and it's mostly single mothers that we help, who you know,
a lot of times if they have to move or
(28:27):
something and to get into a new place, they need
a first, last, and security deposit and if they don't
have that, they end up sleeping in their car under
an overpass. And sometimes if we if we can just
bridge the gap between that, so that that's a lot
of what we do. We're also helping uh, several Aghany
(28:52):
families who you know worked for the US in Afghanistan
and then got to come here.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
It's an amazing organization, Annie, I mean Heart Channels, as
they describe themselves, this is an organization where neighbor to neighbor,
heart to heart, one hundred percent of your donations go
directly to people who need it. Like Annie said, this
is single mothers, this is college Funds for Dreamers.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Helping refugee families resettle in the US. Exactly aims for
those who help others.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
That's right, that's right. And it's just devoted to education,
quality of life, health and well being and an amazing
organization that you've put together. And so if people want
to learn more about heart Channels. How can they do that?
How can they get involved? How can they help support
your cause?
Speaker 4 (29:38):
Well, they can go you know, on our website, Theheart
Channels dot org and check it out. I would love
inquiries and it would be fantastic if because you know,
there's always more and more need and we we welcome donation.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Okay, absolutely, So that's the Heart Channels dot org. We're
going to post a link to that on our website
as well. Be Good Humans Podcast dot com.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Any Uh, you've been so kind to join us today.
And we know you don't have your wig or anything,
but do you think me Ma has any grammarly advice
for for Trey and I?
Speaker 4 (30:25):
I would just says that's all. It's easy, it's so
easy to help and it's.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
So yes, it is, that's that's the thing. It's also
because sometimes it kind of feels selfish because it makes
you feel so good, you know, to do something that
like like the eight year old you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
I mean, just if you want to feel good about yourself,
do something selfless.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Yes, yes, well here's something uh that's not selfless, because
I would be remiss if I didn't share this with
you okay, and we can if we can edit it out,
if it if we don't uh think it's appropriate. But Annie,
I I've always had a crush on you, as as
millions of people have. Yes, for many of the reasons
we've talked about today, but I think it all began
(31:13):
with you as a spokesman for pop Secret popcorn. I have,
my god, I have never ever seen anyone eat popcorn
more sexy. You just sexy, sexy, sexy sex.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
I often refer to those commercials as popcorn. I've never
seen anything quite so sexy.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
I mean, I mean you, Oh my god, your your
comic timing, you're you're, you're acting chops great. But then
all of a sudden, I'm seeing you as a sex symbol.
I mean, and I have to this day, and you're
gorgeous as you sit there, And to this day, I've
always had a crush on you because of a popcorn commercial.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Well, listen makes ways to make a living, right, Annie.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
It was a good gig, and it was it was
written for me by a girlfriend that I went to
college with. Really yeah, she thought of it and wrote
it directly for me. It was all double on time.
And then the conservative organization that owned that popcorn found
(32:22):
them a little too See. After three years, they literally
replaced me with a clown.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Yeah, by the way, that's after three years of selling
a ship ton of popcorn.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
I'm sure, yes, yes, I could have sold some more though.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
Oh yeah, I loved it.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
When I saw the first one, I was, you know, entralled,
crush on big crush on any Then they made a
second one and I'm calling all my guy friends who
all had the same crush on you. And then it
continued and I couldn't wait for the next one to
come out.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Amazing. But then again, no surprise, because you were amazing. Annie.
We cannot thank you for taking the time to chat
with us today. Again, go visit the Heart Channels dot
org to get more information on that incredible charity. But
also just keep your eyes posted because you never know
where any's gonna pop up next. But thank you, thank you,
thank you for taking the time and your busy day
to talk to us.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Thanks Zanny, thank you, guys.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
We will thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Suck welcome back. First of all, okay, in a minute,
when I said big crush with good reason, And secondly,
she really showed a lot of people listen. Just listen
to this podcast and all podcasts, but we're also you know,
on camera, and our guests are on camera, and go
(33:48):
to YouTube and you know, put in Be Good Humans
podcast and you'll see this episode. Because I want to
bring attention to the fact that she is. I've always
found her to be just as yeah, you know, question
I'm acting she I mean, that's hard to do. And
her timing and she showed her timing in this and
I don't know if if you kind of notice this,
(34:11):
but every time she had a punchline, yeah, she would
lean towards the camera and kind of get a little
bit louder. Oh God, I crackt me. Uh that is
And this is just a laptop camera and she's still
working the camera.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
That's a skilled professional right there. Brilliant without question. So
an absolute pleasure to have her and an absolute pleasure
to have you guys. Again. Please go check out our
website where we will drop that link for the Heart
Channels dot org. Our website is Begod Humans podcast dot com.
While you're there, tell us about the be Good Humans
in your life. Tell us about any pointers you have
(34:45):
on being a good human. Follow us on the socials,
am I forgetting anything else?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
YouTube you can.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Well YouTube is Yes, definitely like us and subscribe if
you do, go and you should go and check out
Annie in her cool glasses. Not to mention the pop
Secret ad. We'll see how that fits in there as well.
But exactly on that note, we should wrap this up
right now. Thank you very much for joining us and
(35:11):
do us a favor. Be be the human humans.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Be good humans, Be good humans. Be good humans, or
we will thank you sucked.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Be Good Humans is executive produced by Brian Phelps, Trey Callaway,
and Grant Anderson, with associate producers Sean Fitzgerald and Clementine Callaway,
and partnership with straw Hut Media. Please like, follow, and subscribe,
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