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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to your Diary episode. Here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm a bit of a nomad, so these episodes come
to from wherever I'm living or traveling to at the time,
so I'll share with you what's going on in my world.
From book tours, animal encounters, delish meals, nature adventures, health discoveries,
to swimming in Hidden Byron Bay Beaches. Come with me
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as I share my adventures with you.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Hello from Los Angeles on Thanksgiving Day. I know a
lot of people are Aussies that listen to this, and
we don't really celebrate Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
It's definitely an American thing.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I'm going to go out and say, having been here
last year for Thanksgiving and Christmas, I would say in America,
Thanksgiving is a bigger holiday than Chrissy. Chrisy is kind
of like chill and mallow definitely in La anyway, whereas
Thanksgiving is like every like it is just everyone's like
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happy Thanksgiving, happy, like it's just a huge thing and
like all like it's a whole. The way it works
here is usually it's a lunch or early dinner and
it's like turkey and all the sides like baked yams,
which are kind of like sweet potatoes but candied, and
then all the different pies. You know, you've got pumpkin pie,
pecan pie, apple crumble pie. It's a whole thing. And
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they do this other thing with sweet potato and melted
marshmallows on top of it. Never had it, just seen it,
and like all the Brussels, all that kind of thing,
which to an assie is going to.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Sound reasonably christmasy. I imagine sands pudding.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Americans don't get Christmas pudding at all, or fruit mince
pies at all. Can't wait to have one of them
in mouths. My dad and I love a fruit mince pie. Anyway,
I digress. So today is Thanksgiving, and this is the
first time where I think I mentioned last week. Boss
and I are on like little health reset detox and
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just kind of like really want to like wear forty now,
and we're like if this, we just want to feel great,
you know what I mean, and just like really value
our health and movement and nourishment. And so we're on
a full month reset right now. And so it just
so turned out that we've had a lot of friendsgivings
hangs over the last week, the week, this last week
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has been literally friendsgiving hang, Friendsgiving hang, Friendsgiving hang, which
is essentially Thanksgiving with friends but not family. And the
actual day itself is super mallow for Boss and I,
which I'm actually really pumped about. So after I've finished
recording this, I'm going to go to a yoga class.
But everything has kind of shut like traded Joe's was
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shut on Thanksgiving Day. The I just Google mapped the
road to get to yoga. It's half the distance because
everyone's away. It's a full blown holiday. I must admit
being in La over and Thanksgiving and all this holiday
period last year because a lot of people leave LA
for this time of the year. The roads are so good,
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like just so easy to get around.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
It's half the time.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
It's just a handy thing to know if you're ever
in California or Los Angeles during the holiday season. That said,
because everyone's away, if you're here is like an actor amuso,
a writer, a director, not much work's getting done. There's
still submissions going online like where you self submit, but
it's all nothing is shooting until well and truly after
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the holidays. So it'll kick back again, so it'll pick
up again. I reckon Monday Tuesday. So Tuesday's the second
of December, and it'll go gangbusters from them and from
then until about Chrissy and then all shut again and
then very different to Australia. Australia shuts from like I
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would say mid December, kind of like that eighteen nineteenth
of December. Things really wind down in Australia, I find,
and then it stays shut or it stays kind of
like quiet, I would say, until like mid Jam whereas
here early Jan you're off to the races because you've.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Got Golden Globes.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
As the eleventh Jan you've got Sundance Festival, twenty second
Agen like it's award season, so it starts to like
pick up pretty quick anyway.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
I digress, I digress.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Okay, So we've had lots of social stuff, but we've
just kept it really healthy. And in America they're mad
for a saltza. I hope I'm saying that right, like
just earth flavored mineral water. So that's kind of been like,
because you want to have something to drink that's not booze,
and so that's what we've been doing. We've given all
hypoos away, like whiskeys and fun stuff we're like not,
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we're in full health mode. Also, I think as well,
because we know we're going to be celebrating a lot
with our families and friends over Christy in New Year,
we're just kind of like, well, that's all waiting for us.
We may as well feel really good in the lead
up to that and you know, really vital and look
after ourselves and yeah, all the things. Also, I'm sure
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you've heard other actors or creatives that live abroad. When
you come back to Strow, you do a lot of
your medical stuff. So we're both booked in for like
dental doctor check up, full blood panels, skin checks, all
the things. So I also love doing that with like knowing, hey,
like I've really like like honored my health. I don't know,
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maybe that's a weird psychological thing that I do. Anyway,
I do agree. So Monday's episode, you had the beautiful
Hugh Sheridan on the pod. He's got a new Christmas
album out called The Merry Est It's Unreal. I played
your little snippet from it last week's pod Diary, and
then this Monday coming out is a filmed episode that
I did with the Boss of Cheno and that is
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our wrap up of the year. Now. The pot isn't
going anywhere. It's totally we're not taking a hiatus or break.
But what I do around Christmas time is we've got
a few favorite episodes, Owen Teal being one of them
and Dennis Walter being the other, and they're both Christmas episodes,
so they'll get re released around Chrissy time just because
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they're so festive and fun to listen to and inspiring,
and they've both got wonderful baritone voices. I think I
know Dennis is definitely baritone is Oh no, I don't
think he is anyway. My point is great voices, and
so they'll come out on your Monday Epps after this
yearly wrap up. So you yearly wrap up this week
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and then you got two Chrissy Epps. And then I'm
recording in Australia. I've got a big recording day studio
as soon as I get into Australia, which I'm really
excited about, a little nervous because it's a full slate now,
but that's exciting. When I say full, I'm just waiting
for a few people to lock in and then it
will be a big day of record, but that's cool.
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And then yeah, after SIDS we're going to head to
Malbow's because that's where our fan's from. I got dad
for Father's Day tickets to see Christmas Carols. We're so
excited to see that together in Malps. And then yeah,
it's Christy Chrissy time. So I've got a big pod
plan and day in SIDS and then I think it'll
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just be back to you and me Friday Diaries. Everything
stays the same for you. I feel like I'm waffling
about it, which Matt would be. He can hear me.
I'm sure he's going to agree. But what I'm trying
to say is you've still got your Monday long Form,
your Wednesday hot seat and your Friday Diary. It will
continue throughout the holidays. So if you're, you know, in
that weird time that feels like limbo between Christmas and
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New Year and on a beach walk and want to
listen to a pod that is still running, feel see
Failing will still be running, and the diaries will be
coming from all over Australia, depending on where we are
and who we're hanging with. So I hope you enjoy
that and we're really excited to have a little Australian
or adventure. It's been a while since we've been back,
so that's exciting. And last Christmas we spent here, so
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last Christy, last Thanksgiving. In fact, this time last year,
Dad would have just left. So he came to America
for a four month and I remember he left the
day before Thanksgiving and it's Thanksgiving today, so we had it.
We talk Dad to New York, to Josh Woodry, I
talk him to all the Christy stuff like Rodeo lights
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the grove so fun. Okay, Okay, what else do I
have to tell you? I've got a little list of
things here.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
We are watching a show called Jackal with Eddie Redmains,
so good, love it. He's a sniper, really cool but
like sniper cool not to say, but you know, what
I'm trying to say is like he's got a real
cool vibe.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
So he does like what would you call him?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
What would you call Eddie Redmain's role in Jackal?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (09:06):
He's an assassin and he gets paid like twenty million
dollars vibes and lives in like then he's got this
like Spanish mansion that he has like he kind of
has a double life thing going on. Anyway, the stakes
are getting high. It's getting real good. We've got I
think two episodes left, and then I'm going to start
a new show that is research for an actor I'll
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been doing in Sydney.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
So we're really excited about that too.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
And that's a bit Western vibes, which, as you know,
we love the wild Western.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
We love all that.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Western Americana, you know, Oregon Trail, all that vibe.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Okay, what else to tell you?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Okay, I've gone through all my notes and I feel like, oh,
actually no, I did want to say one thing. This
is from last week, so I don't know if I
don't believe I've mentioned to you.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
But I caught up with a director friend in the
past week.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
And I was kind of like, I wish I like
I had this thing. I'm such a like a type personality,
and I was like, I wish I booked a acting
gig by the end of the year.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
And he was like chill, like all, He's like, you're ready.
He's like, you've.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Done a decade of acting training, you're taking all the
right meetings, you're networking, da.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Da da da.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
He's like all you need is one domino to fall.
And he's like, and then when that one domino falls,
you're gonna have that momentum. And it was really nice
to kind of like hear that from someone that, in
my eyes, is one hundred percent doing it doing the
thing they love really like working all the time. And
he was like, that's all you need and I was like, yeah,
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it's just having that one. And it happened when I
worked in morning TV as a nutritionist, like it was
just one person. And then with Lucy, she's amazing, and
she said yes to putting me on morning TV and
everything grew from that, like all it just on the spot.
They booked me from this one segment that were like
can you come back every week? And that was like
where the books came from, and more morning TV and
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speaking gigs and traveling and filming. So I've lived that
experience of waiting for that first domino to fall.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I have to trust it now, and so it's it now.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I feel like a little bit clearer about like, Okay,
well I'm doing everything in my power, right, all I
need to do is wait for the one domino to fall,
do you know what I mean? And also the pod
is like epic and I'm obsessed with it. I love
it and thank you for listening, because it obviously wildn't
exist without you. So I've got all this epic stuff
that I just love to do that I get to do.
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So I'm just now sitting in this space with the
acting as of trusting the process, staying really clear and
confident and knowing that I've done the work and we'll
continue to do the work. So that's my vibes on
all stuff acting. And this morning I got up really early,
and you can in America, you can self submit, and
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I self submitted for some really fun stuff. So an
FBI agent a nurse, I was like, this could be fun,
so we will say I will keep you post it
because I figure because it's holiday time, a lot of
people leave LA and not available, and so it's probably
a really good time to self submit because you're on
the ground here anyway, that's my thinking behind that, you know.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Also, so.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Monday ZEP will be a wrap up and then it
would be all things Christmasy. Also, I do want to say,
if you're ever in La over Christmas time, it kind
of feels like not a Christmasy city. But you've just
got to go and like hunt out the Christmasy places.
I'm going to convince Boss in the next week or
so to have a date with me at this place
called Americana, which is very similar to the Grove, and
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the Grove was off the chain amazing, so Christmas vibes vibe,
so I'm excited to take both there. So I'll report
back next week. But there's a lot of cool stuff
you can kind of like hunt around and figure out.
Apparently there's an amazing lights nighttime light Christmas lights in Burbank,
and we went out for dinner last night with our
buds or went to their place, and we noticed there's
quite a lot of Christmas lights popping out, which is cute.
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And also obviously Halloween goes off it's chain here as well.
But yeah, we're starting to see like you just got
to find the good Christmasy stuff or like the festive stuff,
and then it does feel really Christmasy. And I feel
like after Thanksgiving because like everyone's still got pumpkins and
stuff out now because it's Thanksgiving, and that's like I
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feel like a key ingredient or hero ingredient, like pumpkin
pie of course so good. At Air one they have
pumpkin pie cheesecake.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
You know.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
We haven't been having it of course because we're off
the sugars, but we had our fair share before our
detos and it was got great all right.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
That's me Gang.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Make a love from La La Land on Thanksgiving Thursday,
big love, go out and do the stuff you love.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Bye,