Valerie Milano

On this episode, Sheena, welcomes journalist, Valerie Milano, editor of “The Hollywood Times”.

Episode Transcript

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And now I'm coming to you alot only. I'm a KGr Digital podcasting

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Hi, and welcome to the SenaMetal Experience on KGRE Digital Broadcasting Network.
I'm your host, Sheena Metal.I'm a psychic medium, I'm an energetic
healer. I'm an interfaith minister.I'm a twenty nine year talk radio host
in Los Angeles and beyond. I'ma creative and a performing artist and a
paranormal survivor. And I come toyou live from my home in southern California

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every Friday at three o'clock Pacific time. This show is about spirituality. It's
about creativity. It's about humanity.It's about passion. It's about service.
It's about becoming and then maintaining beingyour best you in this big, beautiful
world, and then most importantly,encouraging others to do the same. And

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it may be my show every week, it is the Sena Metal Experience,
after all, but it is alwaysand undoubtedly your experience. My guest today
is a wonderfully talented journalist. Sheis the editor of the Hollywood Times and
has been for many, many years. She's a wonderful humanitarian who's involved in

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a slew of philanthropic projects and avery good friend to me and I just
adore her. Please, welcome tothe show. The wonderful Valerie Milano is
here. How are you, myfriend? Oh, I couldn't be better.
Thank you, Sheena, Thank youfor having me with you. I'm
so glad to have you here.I always enjoy my time with you,
and you and I have sat onmusic panels and pr panels for what like

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twenty years together. Yes, justover the last couple of years we've sort
of crossed into that friend place,which I love. And it's always nice
when someone moves inside of your oniona little bit more and and becomes a
better friend. And the more Iget to know you, the more I
like you. You have this justreally beautiful, generous heart, and I

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find that to be, you know, rarer than I wished it was in
humanity. What a sweetheart you are. So, you said the onion,
So we're going to peel back thoselayers. Is that what you're doing?
You think I had a thread wantso explained it to me that your life
is like an onion, and differentpeople are in different layers, and sometimes

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somebody's really close to the center.And then they're out a little bit and
people come and go. And Ialways thought that was such a beautiful analogy
of your your heart as the onion, right, because then you don't feel
like there's either two choices you're inor you're out, because it doesn't always
work that way. Sometimes people driftaway for a while and then they drift
back. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, you stay so busy. You know.

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I always want you with me whenthere's an event and you lately you
haven't been able to be there,and it's like, wait, she no,
she is not here. I know, and I'm the same way.
I always want you to be withme, and I always want to put
like a little gang together so we'realways together. But I promise you I
will be I will be more accessible, and I will I will do more

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of that. Interestingly enough, Ihave realized that I went through like a
medical thing in September, and Irealize that I think I hadn't been feeling
well for a long time. Mynatural design is just to like push it
down and keep going, and Ido that emotionally and I do it physically.
So when I finally had to stopbecause my stomach was literally exploding and

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take care of myself. Now Ifeel the difference, and I have like
so much energy. I want todo everything on top of you know,
the ninety seven shows that I'm doing, and believe it or not, I'm
starting three extra shows in Danuary.Oh my goodness, whoa that will bring
my total up to seven a week. I don't know how you do it.

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I love it. I love everyminute. How do you do it?
Because I see I'm I'm like,I feel that way about you.
I look at your page on Facebookor on YouTube or on Instagram, and
I think this person is like atfour events every single night. I know,
well, you know, it's justit's what I love. It's what
I love. I love meeting people. I love you know, being social.

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I just, you know, itbecomes like this whole desire, like
can I do more? I thinkso? And I could get my eight
hour sleep? Yeah yeah. Andpeople I say do you sleep, and
I'm like, I actually sick?Great sleep pretty good? Well I think
I sleep. I learned from myself. So if I have to get up

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at six in the morning and thengo put myself back to for a couple
hours later, I can do it. But I think that there seems to
be enough time for everything. Idon't spend a lot of time fretting.
I think a lot of people spenda lot of their time fretting. And
I don't spend a lot of timeworried about what other people are doing.
I think a lot of people spendtime on that. I think I'm just

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more focused on how can I getinvolved with what other people are doing,
and how can I get other peoplethe notoriety and the attention that they deserve,
because you know, there's so manypeople out there doing things right.
And you do that same thing withHollywood Times, Yes, very much,

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very much. I mean I tryto go to as many events as I
can, but you know, Ialways like to share, to share it
with with the writers and the photographers, and you know, I want to
mentor them and to you know,especially the interns, and be on the
red carpet with them and teach thembecause they need to. They need to

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learn, and they want to learn, and they they love to learn,
and we need to we need tocontinue to pass that down to the to
the youngs. Absolutely, so,how many folks do you have, I
want to say on staff, buthow many folks write for Hollywood Times.
Well, I'd say ten that areYeah, that's a lot. That's a

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lot, and they they really reallyenjoy it. And I'm very lucky.
We just you know, they justhad the La Press Club Awards, and
I'm very proud of one of ourwriters that just got that just won the
Music Critic Award, the second place, John Labbott, and he was just
so thrilled that he got he gotthat award and from the Hollywood Time,

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you know, coming from the HollywoodTimes La Press Club Award for that and
so yay for John. That's sonice. How are you now? Since
COVID is there as much as therewas before? Because before COVID, I
think sometimes I want to four orfive things in a night. I would
do radio get off, and Iwould hit three or four five different red
carpets parties. But then COVID kindof changed me and I realized like I

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hadn't ever had much of a life, Like I was always running from thing
to thing, the thing, thething. Wells, look look at us
right now, I mean in zoomand you know your particular you know,
uh interview, what what is whatis your what is this called that we're
on right? Now I call ita web TV talk show. That's what

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I call it, because it's likea talk show, except we're virtual.
So yes, so we're not I'mnot in your studio. We you know,
I signed in like this, soyou see that this is one example
of that we're not in the sameroom. Yeah, you know, so
that's one. And so you know, there used to be the Television Critics

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Association. It would be at theBeverly Hilton, or would be at the
you know, the Carlton are differentplaces. So now we're just all zooming,
you know. So that's the differencefor me. You know, so
a lot of those things happen nowvia zoom. Yeah. Yeah, still
there still are they? Still arethey? They say that they're going to

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get back together. But for me, I feel like a lot of like
a lot of the networks have founda way that this is costing them a
lot less money, even these peopletogether, not having to spend the money
on the hotels, not having tospend the money on the catering, you
know, and all that I'm bringingthe celebrities, you know, the talent
in and the producers in to meetthe journalists to do the Q and as

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we're just on our computers and doingit. Yeah are you know, they
haven't started back yet in the hotels. I think a lot of it is
the is the like you said,it's the cost. I remember thinking when
when I was watching a news channelright after what right in the throes of
COVID, and you know, atthat time, even the pundits were coming

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in from their homes. But Iremember them interviewing you know, senators and
congressmen, and they're all like intheir kitchens and their offices, and I
thought, you know, I betthis is never going to come back because
a very dear friend of mine isone of the founders of the Harvey Milk
Foundation, and you know, hiswhole life used to be they flim me
to Washington for this, they flimme to New York for this, and

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you know, to do all thesedifferent shows. And I remember thinking,
Wow, they're saving a lot ofmoney, not having to fly people all
over the country anymore for a fiveminute interview and or having to pay one
of those like hubs right where yougo. I've done I've done shows around
the country like that. You goto a place that just does like what

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we used to call via satellite.Back in the old days, they bumped
you into wherever. But now theycan just say, hey, you know
what, here, here's the code. Put your phone in landscape and try
to have decent lighting and speak upand we'll in ten minutes. And I
think, if for nothing else,it's like people working at home right for
nothing else. It's amazing how howgreed motivates humans think they're gonna save some

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money suddenly it's okay. But it'sbeen wonderful for me because it's afforded me
the opportunity to do a show likethis, and like my streaming cable show
where I answer psychic questions and havepeople on from all over the country.
And I couldn't have done that before. You know, so I'm not I'm
I'm thrilled by it. I usemy office now as my studio. It's

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interesting. This is because this iswhere I grew up. Right, I'm
at my mom's desk, which Ithink is wonderful doing all my shows.
And as I remodel the house,I'm going to build a studio that's like
a real studio that I do everythingin. And I love it. It's
it's nice to be here and andbe settled, and there's enough things we
go out for, right, there'senough going on outside of the house,

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absolutely all our social stuff, youknow. But yeah, you're right.
We don't have to report to anoffice. We can stay home. We
can work on our computers, wecan. It's just we don't have to
drive, we don't have to park, we don't have to buy gas,
all those things. It's just it'swonderful. Save us the money. It's
fantastic. How long have you beendoing Hollywood Time. I've had it for

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about fifteen years. I got reallylucky that I was able to get that
name, that domain name. Yeah, it's an amazing name. It was
a it was a studio in Hollywoodon Bronson and Sunset that an old boss
of mind gave me the domain name. And wow, how lucky. Yeah.

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I think it's a better name thanthe Hollywood Reporter, the Hollywood Time.
I can't believe you got that.That's so wonderful. It's wonderful.
And what do you love about?What's what motivates you to continue to do
it? Because it's hard work?Right? Oh boy? Yeah, it's
it's it's constant. I mean,you know when the business changed, when

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a lot of the you know,it was a lot less hard copy magazines.
It was so expensive to produce thosemagazines, and everybody started going online.
I mean there's a few, there'sa few still out there hard copies.
But you know, all my colleaguessaid, Valerie, you know every

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publicist in town, you know,why don't you just start your own,
you know, online magazine. Andthey were right. I mean, I
get how many pitches a day inmy email AE hundred or more? Right,
And it's like, so I said, you know, I just found
a whole bunch of writers that said, yeah, you know, you've got

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a great reputation. Come, youknow, let me work for you.
And and it's just worked out sowell in the last fifteen years. That
so beautiful. We stay so busy. It's a beautiful thing between fashion and
and radio and TV and movies andit's just reviews all that stuff. It's

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just been a whirlwind of entertainment news. I can't ask for more. So
beautiful. I love that. Andyou are naturally like in your personality from
being around you, you're naturally abuilder of community, right, I mean,
you just you. I mean somepeople talk about networking like it's a

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dirty word. And I think they'rethinking of the kind of networking where somebody
only networks to get something. Right, I'm going to network because I want
something. I'm going to get somestuff for me. I'm going to make
influential friends. But I think networkingis a beautiful thing when it's community building,
when you're really trying to you know, you go to see somebody's independent

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film, and then you spread awarenessand then you hook that person up with
somebody else, and then you justbuild this beautiful net of people around you.
And you have done that, andI think that that's what we all
should be doing. Yes, yes, you know, I do too.
And I'm so lucky to have somany friends. And you know, I
have no enemies, I hope notanyway, any enemies. I know of

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none. I would tell you noton the show, but I would tell
you, but I know of none. I think everybody loves you, thank
you well. I love everybody prettymuch. So it's a beautiful world out
there. Is it hard sometimes withthe folks that pitch you and you have
to tell them no because you justdon't have the time to do everything.

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That's always been hard for me.Yeah, it's it's really true. I
mean, these film festivals are comingout of the woodwork, and you know
they want to pitch you, youknow, to review, especially short films.
You know, they want to pitchyou. And then it's like,
okay, you're going to pitch me, but and I would love to see
your film, but I really wantto do a review. But if you

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can't give me a talent. Andwith the strike, you know, that
was tough. You can't talk toyour talent, you can't talk to your
writers because you got the two strikesgoing on. So I've got like this
list of mine along that I'm waitingto still talk to, you know,
interview those those people. And they'regoing, oh, well, that movie's

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too old now, and it's like, god, you know, I've been
waiting for a year, so yougot to move on to the next.
And so it makes it really hardbecause now I kind of don't want to
work with those publicists anymore because youknow, it's still I would like to
talk to those those individuals that we'reworking with that film, because who knows,

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you know, that film still mightcome to something. You know,
it's still may bee popular in thefuture. And I've spent the time to
write the article and watch the film, let me still talk to your you
know, the talent. They justsay, oh, no, we're done
with that. It's like, well, because they're not getting paid by that

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person anymore. So now I'm goingoff in a tangent vow. Here we
go. So I think that sometimesthat's the hardest thing I've had publicists when
I so when I first started workingat my last radio affiliate, it was
two thousand and nine, and thatwas when we were coming around to the

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idea of internet radio, but weweren't quite there yet, and I had
publicists tell me, look, thisis exactly what my client wants to do,
but I'm going to tell her nobecause I don't believe in internet radio.
And I think those people must bejust banging their head against the wall
now because now everything's become virtual prettymuch right. When publicists make choices that

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are not good for their clients,I don't understand that. I don't understand
why you would hold your client backor tell your client not to do something.
It's not like your client is,you know, a tailor swift and
there's like a million things every dayshe's being offered I mean people that pitch
us are usually people that legitimately canuse the publicity, right, so a

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lot of the publicists holding them back, and you know, and then I
think, basically it's just once they'renot getting paid for the campaign anymore,
they don't want to help you.And I think that's not you know,
that's I'm not a fan of that. No, you're right, you know,
and I've never even really thought ofit that way. They're not getting
paid by that person anymore, bythat client. That's sad. That makes

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me so sad. That's not whatit's about. Like, if somebody gives
you thousands of dollars for a campaign, and two weeks after it's over,
someone approaches them and wants to dosomething, isn't it worth throwing them in
that direction? I mean, you'vemade all that money already. I don't
know. I think I think differentlythan a lot of people. And I
learned that working full time in theentertainment world, and then when I moved

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into the spiritual world, I thought, oh, all these people will think
just like me. No, it'sthe same thing. I think that there
are two kinds of people in theworld. There are people who are all
about themselves, and there are peoplewho are all about the world. And
when you're all about the world,then you're thinking, okay, well that
might not be my client anymore,but it would still be nice if they

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got this thing. I'll just letthem know, or I'll send them an
email and say, hey, ifyou're interested, here's this person's contact information.
Oh, she know. That's amazing. I'd love to hear you say
that, because they should be.They should be desiring that is what they
should because really, I mean,yeah, the strike, they didn't they
didn't deserve that strike. And no, it's whoa. That is so sweet

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for you to say. I'm gonnamention that to those publishers. Help need
help, they need their stuff.Yeah, it's it's yeah. Because when
I was doing talk radio full timeat my last affiliate, I did ten
six seventeen hours a week, soI did a lot of seventeen interviews a

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week, and there were I workwith so many publicists and it always made
me sad when there was such anagenda and look, I have a publicist.
I did at the time. Manyof my friends are publicists. I
work as a music publicist for manyyears. In my twenties. I understand
that the goal is to get stuffand that the goal is to get the

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clients to renew, Like, Itotally get it. But if you're only
doing things for the for the meansto the end, right, then that's
the energy that's going to come backto you and I don't her. I
for one, don't want that energyto come back. I want people to
know that they can text me andask me, Hey, would you give
me the email for a Valerie Milanobecause I want to picture something. Okay,

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not no, she's my friend andyou don't know her, and you
know, I mean it just tome, it's not it's And it was
very heartbreaking for me because when peoplecome to my radio show or one of
my video shows, one of mytop shows, they become my friends.
Yeah all of them. Not everybodybecomes my bff, but I consider everyone
to be part of my radio TVfamily, and a lot of those people

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do become my BFF. And thenthe publicists would get upset, like,
well, how come I went toher birthday party and I saw you there,
And I'm like, because we doradio show, we become family.
I mean, I guess I'm justone of those weird people that I have
like a puppy personality. I justwant everyone to be family, and I
don't understand why people have some weirdisms. You know, I didn't want

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everybody to be family. I won'tjust stay friends with everybody. Yeah yeah,
funny one's mad at that one,and then you can't talk to this
one. And it's like, Ican't keep track of that. I'm just
I'm a puppy. I want everyoneto pet my head. I can't.
I want to come up to youand like to everybody. So it's,
uh, I find that that's hard, you know. Oh well, you
know I don't work with this publicistor any clients of this publicist. You

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can't have on your show if you'regonna have my I'm like, wow,
this is a lot to keep trackof right now. Yeah, for sure.
Sure, I don't understand why wecan't all, as human beings,
just let that go and just dowhat we can to help as many artists
as we can. There's enough moneyto go around, you got that,

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right? I think that, youknow, that's that's a thing that and
that carries over into my personal lifetoo. I mean, I'm always looking
to add more members to my tribe, you know, become better friends with
people, find new people that Iclick with. I mean, I think
that's why we're on the earth,right, I mean, why why do

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you think you're on the earth?Is this now here comes an existential question
for you? Why do you thinkyou're on the earth? And why do
you think we're all as humans onthe earth to be the best person that
we can to help as many peopleas we can. You know, it's
it's that's what it's all about.It's what life is all about. Yeah,

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I completely agree with you one hundredthat's why we are here, and
you do such a great job withthat. Are you ever exhausted? Are
you ever like I just want toclose my door and not see anybody for
a week. Not really. Imean, if I've had a really really
bad bad day, I'll just talkto the person that I love the most

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and just say I need a vacation. Come on, let's go and just
want more exciting, more doing.Let's go. That's right, and that'll
last a day and then I'm fine. Then I go back again. Now,
when you travel, is it mostlywork related? And even if it

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isn't, does some Hollywood Times windup coming into it or do you like
to keep your vacations completely separate?No, I mean I can't. I
can't ever leave the Hollywood Times.I just it's I mean, I've got
one gal that is my right arm, and she's amazing, but one person
can't do my job. You knowthat I need twelve. But it's you

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know, you know how it is. How many people do you have to
help you? Can you go ona vacation and find somebody to be Sheena
Emory, my engineer and producer.Yes, somebody else can be Sheena while
I'm on vacation. I have maybea handful of wonderful people that help me.

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That is a new thing. Itused to just be me for many,
many years until a couple of wonderfulpeople convinced me I didn't have to
do this alone. And I don'tknow what I would do without them.
But yeah, no, I prettymuch. I like to stay hands on,
So I booked my own clients andI deal directly with people. Maybe

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someday I'll meet someone who I thinkwould it would be okay to have that
job and treat people in the sameway, But I haven't yet. It
hasn't been the right person. Inow have my wonderful engineering producer, Emory,
who handles a lot of my technicalstuff, which is brilliant. I
have a wonderful friend who is mymusic collaborator and we write songs together,

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so I trust him for that.He helps me with a lot of computery
type things. So it's very hardfor me to bother people. First of
all, I don't want to askpeople like, hey, can you get
involved in my thing? Some peopleare so good at that, but I'm
not. And also it's hard forme to trust people with all of these
other people that I deal with thatI love, and all my sweet clients

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and my viewers and listeners, andI want to make sure they're being treated
in the right way. And sowhen I take I don't know the last
time I took a vacation that wasn'tfor work. I'm hang on, I'm
going to try to think. Well, I have to tell you the last
time I took a vacation that wasn'tfor work. I went to Montana to

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spend Christmas with my ex's family.But I think going to Montana when it's
twenty below who spend time with yourin laws is basically not a vacation.
I can't remember the last time Ijust went and didn't work. But even
if I went because I was threatenedto, like I'm gonna throw the cat

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in the car and we're just gonnago someplace and stay in an airbnb for
a month that I'm gonna write.But do you see how the end of
that was, I'm gonna write.I, yes, that's work. I
enjoyable work, maybe, But yeah, I just don't know that I was
put on this earth to not bein service. I just think I'm a

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creature of service, and I alwayswant to be in service. Now,
if I was traveling with someone andit was very important to them that I
have done that and not worked,but usually when I traveled, there's some
kind of a work thing or somekind of a or I wind up at
a party and everybody wants to talkto me about work. I finally resigned

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myself to the fact now that I'mpretty much just going to do readings for
friends at parties because it seems likeI always wind up doing it anyhow.
They might as well stick me undera canopy somewhere and I do it for
real, So yeah, I guessI'm very much about maybe sometimes your life
is just this incarnation of my lifeis about service. That's very kind of

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you. That really is. Iwas at that party, and that was
very kind of you. I lovedit because I loved it. They loved
it. We loved it. Welove the party. Yeah, I got
a lot out of it. Youwere a party. I have a meeting.
I'm sorry you were to talk ofthat party. Oh well, thank
you. It's wonderful. What youdid was amazing. When I love people

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and they say, hey, it'smy party. Would you do readings,
I'm like, of course, Idon't know. I know you're probably like
this too, but but I wouldlike lay down on a railroad track for
a friend. I just talked aboutthis at the beginning of my streaming cable
show, where I do readings forpeople that I take right before this.
I'm very much about having a littlemessage at the beginning of every show,

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and today's was really about holding closethose that are your inner circle, right,
those that are in the middle ofyour onion. I would do like
anything for my friends, and soI think friends are so amazing and we're
all so lucky to have every singleone and so somebody says to me,

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hey, can you have me withthis? Can you have that? The
answer is always yes. Last,I have my best friend who literally keeps
old people alive. I mean,she has neighbors she takes care of and
she's walking their dogs and she's changingtheir diapers. She said, would you
mind going by sprouts and giving mesome gelato? And I'm like, I'm
on my way because the one that'sfifteen minutes away, I'm like, I

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don't care if it's the one that'san hour. We're in fifteen minutes away,
I'm getting your gelatto. You justkind of have to. That's why
we're here, right, We're hereto do nice things for people, and
and and there's so I see frommy clients and my and people that watch
my shows that there's so many lonelypeople. And it makes me feel so

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grateful for every friend I have,including you, my friend. When I
see you somewhere, did oh,thank you. But if you live so
far, it's hard. But nowI'm coming out to Long Beached area that
your Orange County Ish area so muchthat yeah, together more often, and
I can come up more often tooand see you. I can be a

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big girl, and get in thecar and come see you and we can
make some time, because I thinkthat's important. Just we should just make
some time where we just like hangout and kick it and just do nothing,
okay, and and get caught up, because it always seems whenever we're
hanging out, somebody always comes andjoins us. And then a talk shop
exactly. Yeah, I know.Act we've had many a dinner you have

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another person there, very true.What do you want to do with Hollywood
Times? And also what do youwant to do in general? Like what
are you excited about. I'm nota big like New Year's resolution person because
I think it puts a lot ofpressure on you. But what would you
what is what's something like really funor exciting you'd like to do next year

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in the next few years to addto your toolkit of what you do.
Well, you know, none ofus are getting any younger. And I
think my dream for it would bewhen I heard that l news was kind
of taken a back seat, youknow, I I would have loved to
have and I you know, andalso there's a new magazine called, I

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don't know how new, It's calledAspiring Magazine. Okay, those two entities
I would love to pitch to seeif we can go in together. My
dream would be to sell the magazine, to tell you the truth. But
to stay on, it's just takingup, like we said earlier, so

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much time, and I need abreak. I would love somebody to run
it. I would love to sortof take a back seat, but to
stay on. I just don't wantto run it anymore. I want to
continue to write, which is mylove. I would love to still have
some fingers in the pot, butnot run it, but still see it

(30:33):
succeed. That's my goal. Great, that's great. And what about your
video channel because that's relatively new,right, the Hollywood Times video channel,
the US channel. Yeah, Ireally enjoyed it, loved it. That's
become my favorite part is doing thoseonline interviews. I just you know,

(30:56):
talking to different parts of the world, you know, and talking to different
directors and producers and talent from allover the world. I'm just I've just
I love to interview now so much. Now so good. I love doing
It's one of my interviews that I'vedone because you're You're so great and it's
fun to make that connection, likeyou talking to somebody and writing about them

(31:18):
is great, but there's something aboutmaking that real time person to person connection.
Yeah, and you really talk abouttheir passion and their love and their
service and their creativity and why theydo what they do. I mean,
that's so awesome. It's it's it'sso fun. I really do. I
really enjoyed interviewing. I don't liketo do long interviews personally, but just

(31:44):
getting down, you know, totheir passion and that prod that particular project
that they're that they're promoting. It'sjust so fun to hear their passion about
that project. And so yeah,I mean, I I love toy as
you know, and I you know, I'd love to do that with the
person that I want to do thatwith and not have to be bombarded with

(32:09):
with work, you know. Sothat's that's what I'm That's what I want
to do. And there is anew year coming very fast, and they
seem to keep coming faster and fasterif don't. So, if you've gotten
a lot of those two publications thatyou mentioned earlier, would you want to

(32:30):
would you want to like work inan editorial capacity with them or merge them
in with Hollywood Times or what issort of ever they would like to see.
I mean, I don't know.I haven't talked to Diane a lot
about it. I haven't talked toCynthia Hudson, who runs an aspiring magazine.
She's out in Boston. I mean, I don't know that publication.
I'll have to get to. Ihave to get familiar with that. She's

(32:52):
an amazing woman and she's real easyto get to know, and it's a
beautiful hard copy magazine you should checkout. Yeah, she's she's great and
yeah, so just that really,because I don't want to see, you
know, I don't want to seethe Hollywood Times go away, and it's

(33:12):
not anywhere near that. But we'rejust getting better and better every day.
I just, uh, you know, like I said, as me and
Judy Shields, and we just wereevery day working, working, working,
and with all these great writers,and just uh, one day we all
need a little break. What wouldyou do with that break, sweetheart?

(33:38):
Would have on my ass off.I want to go to Bali, Bali.
I want to go to you know, I want to go back to
Tahiti. I want to lay itin the sun and read books. I
mean, I found that I can'teven read a book anymore, because I'm
reading press releases all day, andI'm reading books that I have to review
and reading reading for work. Youknow, I can't read to enjoy,

(34:04):
you know, just to you know, I just yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah. And I want to write. I want to do all the
stuff that I don't have time forbecause every day is so much going to
the next show and the next thingand the next thing. And I think,
if I'm going to write these books, I'm going to have to take
myself out and take myself somewhere wherei'm isolating a little bit to do it.

(34:29):
You got that, right, Youhave to You can't be under your
roof there, you can't write.I would love it, because my house
is, you know, at thebeach, and it's like its own little
spiritual sanctuary. But I know ifI'm here, I'm going to be like,
oh, I got to go toWalmart and I got to go see
this person, and then I gotto do I got to do this laundry,

(34:49):
and I've got to organize this cabinet. And what's not going to get
done is the book's not going toget written. Yep, you're right,
You're right. And I'm always wearingmy darn phone. You know, I've
got one of those bandoliers. Andmy friend says, why do you have
to wear that damn phone all thetime. It's like, because my phone's
going off and if I don't wearit, I'm not gonna be able to

(35:10):
find it, you know. Butthat means you're on duty all the time.
What is your uh? What isa bandolier? Oh? You know,
you see me wear it all thetime. It's like a strap.
It's like a purse that your phonefits into and you can take a picture,
then you let it go, andthen you can answer it, and
then you let it go. Youdon't have to sit it down somewhere where

(35:30):
you're looking for it all the time. Oh, I did not know.
I thought it was just a littlepurse. No, it's just it's a
phone case that you don't have topull it out. It's just the case
has this strap. It's all aboutthe little grammets and the gramets sit on
the strap. Yeah. And it'sthe only company that makes someone believe me.

(35:54):
I don't have stock in the company, but it's which I did.
I love so many people about it, and I bought so many for my
sisters. You know, yeah,no, yeah, you have to have
with you all the time, right, I mean, you're I'm always checking
it, and I don't have aproblem with it, but I do see

(36:15):
that it A lot of my timeis answering text message because I answer everybody's
everybody's messages. I can't not.And I work with a couple of YouTubers
that do paranormal investigation and these girlshave like five hundred thousand YouTube followers.
Actually, I'm doing three three threethree taping free shows with them tonight.

(36:35):
And every time they're like, you'recrazy to give out your phone and burn,
I'm like, I know, butI get like four thousand text messages.
But you know, it's it spreadsthe word, right, and it
makes more connections and more connections equala bright a broader reach of the messages
I'm trying to convey. And soyeah, I'll sit at my friends one

(36:59):
night and she cooks and I'll answerfour thousand text messages. Holy crab,
that's a lot today. This isthis is my second of six today.
I don't know if I'm crazy orjust irish. I don't know what it
is, but but I really justthink when you love what you do,
and I see this with you whereyou're always somewhere and I'm exhausted looking,

(37:22):
but I know how much you lovewhat you do. And I wonder,
like when you was thinking about thisthe other night, because I saw you
were you were. You were downhere last week for a party, and
then the next day you were downhere, and then that night you were
somewhere, and then the next nightyou were somewhere. I'm like, does
she ever just close her door andsay I'm not tonight, not tonight,

(37:45):
can't tonight. Unfortunately I did hadto be Catherine Gray's movie. I just
wasn't feeling good. And Catherine hasthis new movie out, show her the
money and it's winning awards right andleft, and I just wasn't feeling good.
You know Catherine Gray, right,I don't know her personally, but
I know of her. Yeah.Yeah, that movie is when an Awards

(38:07):
and she's a vellary. You haveto come see it on the big screen,
and of all times, I couldn'tget there, and oh my god,
it just killed me. So Iknow, yeah me too. If
I have to let somebody down,I feel the same way. It was,
Yeah, tough on yep. Yeah, no, what about when?
But what about when you're out inthe desert now? Is that your time

(38:30):
or do you get that's my time. I have a new friend here and
we're going to spend some time andI have but I have parties here and
I have events here, and we'regonna do it all because there's so much
going on out there now. Yeah, there's a lot going on and you
know a lot of it. Youknow, it's my philanthropy stuff that I
work with, So I'm doing thatas well. And you know, cor

(38:54):
Day's coming out here. She's gota gig out here and she always stays
here and you know, so I'mgonna be doing that with them. And
okay, and that's part that's partof this week while you're out there.
Yeah. Yeah, I'm staying aweek out here. So it's a lot
of play, but it's a lotof rest. It's so quiet and the
sun is so beautiful and the poolis eighty eighty nine degrees. Yeah.

(39:20):
Yeah, that's the hard part aboutthe beach is heating your pool because man,
it's always freezing at night. Yeah, the night times for sure,
But that's what the chikuzzi's for.Oh, well, the chacuzi. That's
a whole other thing. Yeah,yeah, that's the jacuzzi is coming.
Because right now I have the jacuzzithat's a task to the pool and that's
okay. But you need a bigjacuzzi too, you need two jacuzzis.

(39:43):
So it's after I get the wholebackyard resurfaced, then I'm gonna get the
like a jacuzzi the size of aseven forty seven that takes up half my
yard, you kid, And thenit shouldn't be all pool and jacuzzi.
And that's it. I've never andthis is my thing. It's crazy.
I'll take my crazy thing. Soyou know, I think when you remodel,

(40:04):
there should be one thing that youdo that's just your indulgent thing.
And for mine, I want toget a giant jacuzzi tub for two in
the master bath with a TV mountainin front of me and a fireplace next
to me. That's perfect. That'smy thing. And my nephew teases me
about it all the time. He'slike, oh, why are you gonna

(40:25):
get that? You're just gonna laythere in front of your big fireplace.
And I'm like, yes, I'mgoing to lay there in front of my
big fireplace. Plus, clients loveit when I take their calls in the
hot tub because of the spiritual conduitof water. Yes, so I've taken
many a client in a hot tuband why not? Oh yeah yeah,

(40:50):
medicinale absolutely, my friend. SoI love that you want to get involved
with some other entities and and growand I I think that's so exciting.
And I'm sure you know we canget you hooked up with one of those.
I don't know the other one,but I can I can get you
hooked up to talk to Diane aboutit. I love it. I love
it, and we're excited to getyou the information about our new radio show.

(41:16):
You're probably gonna be the first personto have it. All. That's
great. I know there's some secretstuff i'm hearing going on, so great
secret stuff. Yeah, it's interestingyou're talking about. I'm a big believer
in destiny and this is a showthat I tried to get going twice with

(41:37):
two different people that I have always, always always wanted to do, and
one day out of the blue,Diane called me and pitched it to me,
like the exact show I've always wantedto do. She's like, you
know what I want to do.I want to do this, this,
this, and this, and Ithink it should be with you. And
I'm like, this is the showI've always wanted to do. Isn't that

(41:59):
great? How Sometimes it doesn't haveto be so hard, right, right,
Sometimes it can just work out theway it's supposed to work out.
Yeah, And it's it's hard tocollaborate with people because you have to you
have to find the right person.Do you like to collaborate? I mean,
is that a thing do you like? Absolutely? Yeah, I don't

(42:22):
get much of a chance to doit, but absolutely I would. I
can't wait to hear more about youguys. You know idea, Yeah,
it's all about helping people. That'sthe thing that I love. I love
being in service and I love otherpeople that are in service, and I
love the idea that we're both goingto use our emotional and spiritual skill sets

(42:47):
and I guess intellectual skill sets inorder to help people from two different angles
to sort of double the healing,because I think there's so much of the
world and so many people in theworld that need healing and they're just looking
for like a safe place to goand get it right beautiful. Yeah,

(43:09):
they are, yeah, all thetime. That's super important to me.
What are you getting excited about whenyou're covering so many different films and you
know, music and theater and allthe different things. What are you excited
about right now? Like, whatdo you where do you feel we're really

(43:30):
doing it right and going in theright direction as far as the art that's
coming out, well, well rightnow as we know, the awards are
all coming up. So what Ireally enjoy is that I just lived through
so many short film festivals and there'sso many of them that are nominated for

(43:54):
these short films you know, tobe for winners, and I've seen so
many, and there's so many greatones international films, and I've never you
know, I was mostly really involvedwith television more so than films. That

(44:15):
I've interviewed so many of the animatedand children's films that it just excited me
that there's such so many good ones, I mean, really really really good
ones that are out there that Idon't know how these judges pig It just

(44:39):
boggles my mind. So, youknow, and you know, as we
say, you know, every yeargoes by so fast, and that these
awards are right around the corner,you know that. It's just exciting to
know that we get because I've seenthem all pretty much. Sure, I
want to see the turnout. Yeah, that's wonderful. And do you go.

(45:01):
You have a lot of film festivals, right, yeah, well you
know, luckily again you get tosee them online so you don't have to
go. Sorry, but it's thetruth. I mean, you can.
You can't sit there through you know, all these movies at these theaters and
you get to watch them and thenyou get to zoom the interviews. It's

(45:21):
just bam bam bam. It's somuch easier. I missed the popcorn,
but oh I love the pop lovepopcorn. Yeah, I love that.
You know. It's funny. Iworked at movie theaters. I started when
I was sixteen, and I woundup working in corporate. So I was
in theaters from sixteen to twenty four. When I moved to La Is when

(45:42):
I stopped, and people would alwaystell me you're gonna get sick of popcorn.
And you know what, I thinkI love popcorn more now because now
it's not just delicious, but itall says all those memories of my of
my young years, you know whatI mean. It's true and the smell
and oh yeah, everything. SometimesI take myself, like on a Sunday

(46:04):
afternoon, I take myself to amovie just by myself. It's like my
time. Yeah, it's nice tojust be in a nice, dark,
quiet theater and let something talk tome. So I'm not talking. And
that's a good one. That's agood one. Smart. Do you go
see a lot of films when you'renot working? Is it? I don't.

(46:24):
I swear, I don't even rememberthe last time up into a theater.
I'm bad. I mean. Plus, we don't for some reason,
we don't get invited to a lotof premieres. For some reason, I
don't. I don't know why thatis. But okay, is that just
a thing that invite crash the premieres? Yeah, I don't know. We
just don't get invited to premiers,Okay with me? It is. I

(46:49):
mean, we get red carpets.We mostly get red carpets for like a
lot of events, for instance,if they're fundraisers things like that where there's
a lot of celebrities showing up,a lot of fashion shows su Wong,
a lot of stuff like that.But not premieres. Yeah, what about

(47:14):
red carpets, because you do redcarpets, and is it hard to be
there? Are you competing for theother press people on the carpet? Do
you have to just kind of,you know, get out there and become
a type a person and get theanswers or do you have to have a
camera person with you? I mean, is it I've been on the other

(47:37):
side of a red carpet, butI've never actually been on a red carpet
as an interviewer. It's tough,you know, they make it really tough.
And I don't understand why they setit up like this where they just
like squeeze you in between each otherwhere Yeah, you have to have nowadays
a cameraman, photographer or a reporterand a social media person. So how

(48:02):
are you going to have like fourpeople per entity between, you know?
And why they can't spread it outunless they're being cheap on the step and
repeat size, you know, it'sjust silly. I mean the other night
we were at the Hollywood Christmas Paradeand we were covering the Hollywood Christmas Parade.
They had a huge step and repeatbut they put everybody they squeezed everybody

(48:28):
in like one area, and Ijust tell the publicists. I said,
can we move to the end there'snobody at the end, and we did.
She said sure, and we justmoved at the end, and I
was like, we can breathe nowwe're not hot. We can breathe.
We don't have to we can hear, you know, because otherwise you're hearing
other reporters talking doing their interviews andyou can't hear yourself. It's like,

(48:55):
why not set up right? Theyshould have me organizing it. Whatever isn't
the Hollywood Christmas Parade magic? Imean it's still going and it's part about
it. Yeah, it still feelslike I watch it every year. I
mean even sometimes when it's dumb,I still watch it because it's It's just

(49:20):
reminds me of when we used tocelebrate and make such a big deal about
things like that. I'm sad thatnow it's like where is it at?
Where can I find it? Ithink it's now on KTLA again CW network.
Yeah, yeah, it's December thirteen. I believe it's on the CW.
They have it, you know.I think now l Ron Hubbard people

(49:43):
put it on. They pay forit. Oh, so yeah, that's
where they have the red carpet isright outside the main celebrity center, right
there near Librea, and they,I mean there's a lot of unknowns.
Paula Abdul was there this year,the village people only the main guy,

(50:07):
uh was there. And then theyhad a bunch of band members that are
new band members and it's always Ericet Strata and Laura Mackenzie are the hosts.
Montell Williams as a host and thenjust like a lot of soap opera
people that you never heard of.You know, it's all good. But

(50:30):
it's all good. It used tobe it was you know, it was
all that. Now it's all good. It get the kids in the Christmas
spirit. Yeah, that's awesome.I love that. But anything with the
Christmas spirit. And I was happyand I'm in right, and I love
parades. I'm a weird person wholikes I did too. Yeah, the

(50:50):
marching bands, sure, yeah,I mean it's all it's important that Hollow.
It's so important that uh, Hollywoodcelebrate Hollywood sometimes because we're so busy
telling the stories for the world thatwho tells our stories? Right? Yeah,
Christmas is important, really important.You're You're so wonderful, my friend.

(51:13):
Will you do this again with me? I would love it? Yes,
I love you, I love youexperience. Oh I'm so glad.
Where can people find you online?Hunty? The Hollywood Times dot Today is
our website and The Hollywood Times Officialis our YouTube channel. The Hollywood Dot

(51:37):
Times is our Instagram. So please, beautiful, thank you so much for
having me. It was so muchfun. Thank you for being here,
sweetie, and thank you so muchfor for being a part of my life
because you're very special to me.Did a love you? Love you,
baby. Keep doing the good stuff, keep doing the good work. You're
the best too. If you missedany of the information on Valerie can go

(52:00):
to my website sinametalspiritual dot com.Feel free to ask anything that you want.
I would love that about any anyinformation about my guests. I'm happy
to pass her website onto you getto know her because she's wonderful. Also,
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(52:21):
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I will answer you until I seeyou next time. Seek peace, live

(52:44):
and love, Lead with kindness,embrace unity. Always work to raise your
vibration and know that you are loveand you are loved. Thank you so
much to my guest Valerie Milano andthe Hollywood Times. Thank you to KGr
A Digital Broadcast Network and my programdirector Bell Forte. Thank you to my
engineer and producer Emory. He isthe wind beneath my wings and I'll see

(53:07):
you next time, way back nextFriday at three o'clock Pacific time on k
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and I'll see you next time.Huge love