April 8, 2020 • 54 mins
Maria Menounos and husband and business partner, Kevin Undergaro, are helping everybody #WinTheWait when it comes to the coronavirus. Between Maria's new podcast #BetterTogether, and the money they're helping to raise for Bethenny Frankel's BStrong organization, they're providing medical supplies to health care workers and hospitals in need, and bringing hope, information, and education to everyone coping with this pandemic. Maria shares how her early preparation affected their home, family, and their After Buzz business, and how they're now focused on assisting those who aren't as fortunate as they are. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Ola, peeps, it is La La.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Kent with Randall.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
And we are back at it again in our kitchen quarantine.
So we had a pretty here's the thing about.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
This, it is forcing us to get creative.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Randall and I went and rented a forty two foot
RV double pop out r V.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
When we first took it out, we went to Joshua Tree.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
But we were on our way to Arizona, or on
our way.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
To Arizona, and we got into Joshua Tree. We're in
the RV.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
We're like messing around whatever. The pop out suddenly won't
work for the master bedroom.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
We look at each other. We probably got there at.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
What five thirty dinner time.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
We were hauling ass back to La by seven thirty.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah, we were back in La.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
We looked at each other.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
We were like, well, let's at least like make the
hot dogs we brought. So we made our hot dogs,
We made dinner. We made dinner.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
It was nice, it was fun.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
But we looked at each other and we're like, we're
in a dusty RV park. All the national parks are closed.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
There's diagna.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
We went to a co or Koa Koa.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
It was night.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
People were nice, there, We've had some interesting beating were nice.
But but the thing about it was we.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Didn't it didn't feel like an adventure.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
It felt like we were like in Palm Springs almost,
but on a dusty road.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
So we didn't like that.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
We no, we didn't like that.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
So we drive, We drive back to La. We sleep
in our bed. The next morning, we wake up, we
drive back to get We switched out the RB, we
switch out the RV to a bigger, more badass.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
One, and we were really really inspired when we got
in that baby.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I looked at it. I was like, Okay, we're ready.
This is legit.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
And instead of going really really far, we were like,
let's break ourselves in.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
So we hauled asked to Malibu, hold on, hold on.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Let me back it up. You're making it look like
we're just hobnobbing around La.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Let me we are hob noomin around to eight.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I know, but babe, we were gonna go to Piswell
Beach was like a two and a half hour drive
and they didn't have like an ocean view for us,
and and we said, and what we said was is
if we're going to do this, like we at least
want to look at the ocean, says, we can't swim
in them because they're all closed. We can't be in
a national park, they're all closed. And so we found
we found a Malibu RV park.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And honestly, Babe, don't you agree it was like a
gem in the rough. It was spectacular, Dude.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
We had beach front. I mean, we parked that bitch,
and we were.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Like totally we thought we were like.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I felt like I was like Beyonce, like I was
touring and I found like an epic spot to just
park my whip.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
That's a nice way to put it. I think that
we had like a thirty million dollar view.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I swear we did have a thirty million dollar view.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
You and I remember, and we invited your mom and
her friend and they came out. We cooked spaghetti, spaghetti,
We had pasta.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
We had some vegetables.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, I had some vegetables.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
You have vegetables.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I watch you did not partake.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I know, but I told you TOMORROW'M gonna start working
out with.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
You, okay, okay, and ingesting vegetables.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
And I'll eat vegetables next week. You can ask how
much vegetables. Remember on trying to change a little bit.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Okay, Oka, wait, but on, let's go back from seconds.
So we did that.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
But can I tell you what my favorite part of
this whole thing was. Tell me after they left, it
was nighttime. We closed up our little whip, we turned
out the lights. We had DVDs because there's no cable,
so we put Blacklist in and you and.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I that show is so good.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
I know it's not only so good, but then you
and I we had cuddle time. Yeah, I'm gonna admit this,
and we could hear the waves crashing all night. It
was a perfect night.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
It was. And then we woke up and they made
us move.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
So that was a whole production and even better, I
feel like they.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Moved us from North Malibu to like like the where
all the rich people are in Malibus.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I feel like we got upgraded. We got an upgrade.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah, I felt like I was Jamie Kennedy in as wanted.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
That's a good one. Okay, So then we got moved.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Then you said the fish looked like they were dying
at home, so you and your mom went to go
get algaees.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
So before I went and did that, So what do
we do?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
You guys, these these people that have these fucking RV's.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
It's like a it's like a culture.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Oh, it's a whole different world. I mean, by the way,
what about the ones who bring listen baby? I found
something out. So Laala thought that the RV people next
to us, she thought they lived there permanently. But I
did research there. They're not permanent. Those people they bring
their own grass, their own fences, their own pottery, and
they create a little yard next to their RVs.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
These are professional art you guys.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
This one r had like this little white picket fence
and these like beautiful flower pots.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
And the fire grass, the fake fire.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Pit, fake fire pit, and then it or not a
fake fire pit, a fake like they had a fake
fire like it looked like real flames. And then they
had a fire pit where they would like sit around
at night. And then they had a sign that said
the beach is my happy place, like what they would
put like what someone would put out side of their
beach house.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
It's really, honestly, I want to say saying, we're not
even making fun of anybody.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
It really is a different world that we've never seen before.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
No, but you should see these people.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
They like are they've got like their jeep parked perfectly,
They're like whipping in.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Their freaking I want to tell you story.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
It's the craziest thing.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Right when you left, RV pulled it next to me
within fifteen minutes, I'm being serious, all hooked up, but
not only just all hooked up bikes, games, dark boards.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I mean it was like professional O. These people really
know how to do it.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
And I think if you really are v around the country,
you must get really good at knowing what to bring.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
But we didn't know. Let's tell everybody, because you're looking
at me like, I'm like, oh, you should have screwed up.
We were.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
It was National lampoons. We we were hot mess. We
like looked in the cupboard. We didn't get anything that
was like okay to eat, Like, we didn't secure anything.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
How many how many days do you think it would
have been before we died of starvation and water with a.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Lot of I only allowed us to get to Malibu.
I was like, we can't trust.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Us, not really.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
We need a little bit more practice, or we need
at least one person who knows what the hell they're doing.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
I think we need to hire an RV packer shopper,
right y. Yeah, stock us up and they say, you
guys are good for seven days go journey, but but you.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Have to man, I did get good at hooking.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
The electrical up, the water everything else. It's like, I
don't cook in a kitchen that's fully stocked to my house,
so like, how am I supposed.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
To do it in an RV.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah, we need some assistance with the shopping for Yeah,
but we had fun.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I had the best time ever I did.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I really like.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
I think we took it for granted a little bit
because it was so just perfect and we were like,
I think we're a little overwhelmed.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Today it was Today was a well when you.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Wake up and there's no coffee or breakfast, it's kind
of a buzzkill. You're like looking at the ocean and
you're like, damn, I would really love some pancakes coffee.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Go back there and have another sleep, but we'll bring coffee, just.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Like something to wake up and like I.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Like or like cook eggs in the morning.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
You know what's crazy, though, is I used to do
that stuff as a little kid, but instead of an RV,
we would like my dad and my mom had a
houseboat and it was like the exact same type of thing.
But professionals, dude, I remember that you had to do.
Oh my god, we had the car, we had the speedboat.
It was packed with all our food. The second we
got there, whipped the boat down on fashion.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Right now, she's like moving and waving our hands around
like a professional.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Really, they really had it done.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Oh, they knew exactly, And we had the three families
that would come with us, and everyone was just on.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
But in the time that your dad, your dad was
very specific.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Well he was like me, yeah, like very oh yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
He knew like the one was going on a trip
with your dad.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
With we had I mean, people brought the games, and
we had an ice cream maker that one of the
families would pack, and like we had all this stuff
like tonight we're having tacos and this and that.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Like oh, they planned out for each everything.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Each family would have a day like today, I'm doing breakfast, lunch,
and dinner.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Tomorrow you're doing breakfast, or they'd flip flop. They just
knew exactly what they were.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Doing and I want to do next. So the next
time we go on the camper, why don't you cry.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Randall, I'm a little angry with you because you made
me kind of bougie.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Fuck, so there's no coming back from this.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
My mom looks at me and she's like, why are
you acting like you have no idea like how to
make a bed.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Or do laundry, And I'm like, I had to do
it in a while.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I tell you something.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
I bust your balls a lot about not being as domesticated,
But can I tell you something.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I love you the way you are.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Well, I know how to be domesticated the way you will.
But when you have Isabelle up in this house and
she's making like five star meals all the time, and.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
She's like, no, la la, sit down, I'll make your bed.
I'll do this, it's like, oh, that's kind of nice.
They get a little comfortable, you know.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
And then when you expect me to go on in
our V trip, I'm like, what what's happening?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
So why don't we just bring Isabelle the next time
we go on our V trip?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Can I tell you so Isabelle.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Isabelle is our house manager from Guatemala, And I'll tell
you one thing about this woman. She calls me the
queen of the house, and I tell her, girl, you
are the queen of this house. Isabelle is my ride
or die. The other day she got her final paper
where it's uh to her last interview before she becomes
a US citizen, and she and I sat in the
(09:46):
kitchen and cried, and I was like, you deserve to
be in this country just as much as I do.
Without you in this house, like this house.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Would not function nice.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I said it to her and our housekeeper, Yoanna, which
Joanna does not speak any English, but she's so sweet,
and so Isabelle was translating, and they then we all
started crying. I was like, that's so grateful for you guys.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I just slep my mind. It was just such a
beautiful moment.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
You didn't tell me any of this, No.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Dude, those are the queens of this castle, that's for sure.
They make this household run flawlessly so that I don't
lose my mind, and the fact that they even give
a shit, like those are my girls right there.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
And I want to tell you that every morning, I
know what I call when I can't get a Lalla
on the phone at like ten forty five because I'm
at the office. I need to talk to her I
call Isabella's but like, mister, she's sleeping, And I said,
but I'm bringing coffee up to right now. I'm like, okay,
don't don't wake her up, give her the coffee, then
call me. It's like, okay, I know, trust me, I.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Know what to do. Yeah, yeah, we've got a system going.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
That's my girl right there.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I think I think you've got to show me how
to cook cook. You kind to show me.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
I don't even know what you need to teach me
how to cook some coffee for you while why well,
I was trying to make coffee. I would love that you.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Like me to make you coffee in the month, totally fine.
Will you show me tonight?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah, it's so easy.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
People are gonna be busted.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
We only have a cure egg. So it's like pop.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
See you pop the pot in, it comes out, you
put a little creamer.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I'm good to go. You don't even have to do
anything because.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I think that the last two weeks of no quarantine.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
I'm not going to blame everything on this, but I
feel like, you know, coffee in the morning not good.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
It's not a good sit.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I can never be in that.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
RV with you without coffee because you're a huge coffee person.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I'm a huge coffee person.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
It's a caffeine so oh.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
No, that that gets my day going.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
It gets my m moving so that I can move
forward in life with a free gut.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
It's like this just gets everything popping in the morning.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I love this. I love this.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
All right, Well, let's just pivot here and talk about
our next guest.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I love all these things that you're saying. You're like,
let's switch gears, let's pivot.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
You are Andy Cohen. It's the craziest thing as we start.
It's a huge cof I mean.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
By the way, Andy Cohen is a badass, and I
give him so much respect for you.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Can I tell you only without you being mad? Randall
gets jealous sometimes, but Andy Cohen is like so sexy.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Okay, that one I'm gonna let go because.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I know because he's no threat to you.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Okay, but well, tell wait, tell me what I said
the other day?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
What'd you say where you went to Palm Springs? Wait?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
What did you call me from?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Oh my god, this was so funny, you guys, So
I go to Palm Springs.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
First of all, I want to say something My girl
gets jealous too, just in her own way but not
but different. And we have a very trust Uh this
is just it's just a trust relationship. But sometimes as
a guy, my girl thinks that like everything, she just
doesn't think sometimes like women don't think the way guys do.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
So go ahead, tell me what you did.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
My writer die and myself Madison, she's my lady of
honor at my wedding. Okay, So we decide to go
to Palm Springs now like shit is getting real with
the COVID and we you know, she was planning on
going there for her birthday anyway, but she was meeting
some of her guy friends that she knows from New York.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
They were all flying in and they had a house.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Well, Randall and I usually stay at Lakina Resort, and
so I got us a room. Madison and I a
room there until thank you, Randall's pouring me diet coke
and a wine glass.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
This is epic.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I was really putting in time right now.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
This is my liddy lit time.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Anyway, So Madison and I are going to stay at
Lakinta resort until her friends get there.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Right, So me think you.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Right, Me thinking economically, to save to save money. I
was like, rand Madison's friends have a house, Like to
save you money, all stay at their house for four
days until you get here, and then we'll check back
into Lakina. Randall wanted to know who these guys are,
what do they do for a living, How did you
meet them?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
How old are they?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Okay, the conversation and so.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
No, we had a really great conversation. It was very productive.
I was like, Babe, I mean, did you to tell
me why why you're asking all these questions for me?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
It's like four years in.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
He put a ring on it, like that's what it is,
and he goes, Babe, I'm just feeling really insecure.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
And I was like, oh, I was it Puerto Rico.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yes, but I love that you said that because then
I knew what to do with that. I was like, Okay,
I won't stay there, yeh, I'll keep the hotel room.
I just want to save you money, says he goes,
I will fucking buy that hotel before I let you
go stay at that fucking guy's house.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
And then Madison was in the card. She goes, I
like it very honest. I respect that. Okay, we're staying
at the hotel.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
So we stayed at the hotel for two weeks.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Yeah almost Yeah, ten days, two weeks racked up a
hefty bill, but it.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Was significantly less than buying the hotel.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yeah, you did save me money buying. That's all.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
By the way, that was a great trip, except when
I got to the hotel, I got a little under
the weather.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Your mom and I both got sick.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
What we thought COVID nineteen we did.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
You didn't get it, No, I didn't get it.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
But during that time, y'all, I thought you did have it.
So we were all staying hunkered down under one roof. Yes, quarantine,
but let's.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Talk about just real quick. Not to elaborate, but I
mean along, but I got there. Your mom got a
sore throat. I got a sore throat Friday.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yeah, woke up.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Saturday, had a horrible sore throat and just felt very tired, right,
and so out of safety for everybody, I drove to
La I got a test.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
I went to our house.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
I hunkered into the bedroom and I stayed there until
the test came back, which came back negative, you know,
thank god. But yeah, we were all concerned because I
mean to get sick right now, and how it is
scary have those symptoms, you know.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
But on the bright side, besides you not having it,
the bright side of this, you guys, is me having
to just sit around and hang out with the people
that I love the most, you know, minus my little brother.
I wish he was here, but I'm like living the dream.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I want to just pivot here to get ready for
our guests.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Should we tell them? Who are you? Let's tell him?
Who are our guested?
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Don't you tell them? Because it's a friend of both
of ours and we love her.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Yes, So we have the stunning and talented Maria Manunos
joining us today via phone obvi because we're quarantine to
af We're so excited we cannot wait to bring her on.
So let us dial her up. We're going to take
a short break. We'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
And we are.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Back, and we have one of my most favorite human
beings ever on the line with.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Us, Maria Manunas. Both damn welcome, Maria.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Hi have me and keV here.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
We got the couple, my favorite couple, the couple that
works together stays together.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
That's right, I know, no changes here. We're stuck together.
All day, every day anyway.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I know, that's exactly what I was telling rand I
was like, for me, nothing has changed as far as
like just being around you twenty four to seven.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
I gotta say, you know, first of all, it's like
come full circle because what I love is I have
You know, when I was first interviewed on any podcast,
on any show ever, it was yours, Marie, I was petrified.
You and Kevin made me feel calm, and you're like,
you guys, you're such a natural.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
You have fun. It was good. It was great.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
And then Lala and I came together and we're like,
we should try this, and here we are and now
we got.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
You guys, it's been our saving grace during this time,
isn't it cool?
Speaker 5 (17:28):
I feel like my podcast has been my saving grace,
my sanity hour through this whole thing, because you can't
check your phone, you can't listen to the news, you
can't get enveloped by all of the negativity, and so yeah,
it's a really nice thing to have.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
It is, And so tell us we want to hear,
we want to hear about it all. How are you
guys dealing with being stuck indoors, not being able to
you know, socialize, which your business is based on bringing
in people to be on your podcast.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Like, how are you guys dealing with all this?
Speaker 5 (18:01):
We're dealing with it pretty well.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
You know.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
I was very ahead on this because I'm a nerd
and I was watching what was going. I was watching
what was coming, and I kept saying, guys, this is
going to be bad, this is going to be bad,
and everybody would laugh at me, and especially my dad.
And I remember being at our Friday meeting at after Buzz,
(18:25):
and I remember saying to everybody and our staff, I said,
we need to let everyone know that we are taking
every measure possible. We're doing multiple cleanings a day. I
want our hosts who are coming in to feel safe.
And this was four days before any company was thinking
like that. I go, I can't believe these major restaurant chains,
(18:47):
no one's putting precautionary measures into let us feel safe,
because I stopped patronizing places well before the lockdown.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Oh wow.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
And so I remember one of my staff members saying,
nothing's going to happen. It's fine. I go, guys, we
are cleaning every hour on the hour, every door knob,
every surface, everything.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
What month was this? Were you doing this in February?
Speaker 5 (19:08):
This was gosh, probably four weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Oh wow.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
And I was really ahead of it. I had been
having my housekeeper shopping ahead way before anybody even thought
about it.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
You're one of the toilet paper hoarders, are your.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Ridden hoard But I though, I just saw what was coming.
And I have a really good instinct, and I'm very
I've definitely got some you know, abilities to see ahead.
And I said, I feel this, and I feel like
it's going to get bad and we need to prepare.
So I started preparing, making sure we had enough supplies
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in the house to survive. We have to take care
of my mom, who was stage hor brain cancer. My
dad is chef one diabetic. Oh, we have an entire
staff that lives on another property of ours, and I
wanted to make sure that we were all safe. I
made sure we got medications for two months on. Everybody. Wow,
And everyone again was still laughing at me.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Maria, Can I tell you wait? Can I tell you something?
Speaker 4 (20:10):
First of all, this is the greatest thing I've ever heard,
because we should have been doing this shit, because you know,
we're scrambling and taking a step further, I'm the opposite
of you. I mean, Laala will tell you. I was
in Puerto Rico directing my first movie.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
I know, I was horrified, and I was horrified.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Wait wait, and here's the crazy thing. The beaches are open,
people are drinking Pina claudas. I'm living in complete denial,
and I'm calling Laala going no.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
He keeps asking me like, La La, why are you
freaking out? Why are you so high strung.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
I'm like, you have no idea, what's going on now?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
And that was on the March thirteenth.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
I was saying that because we were still filming and
nothing was going and she's like, Babe, you're living in denial.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I go, you're all crazy. And then all of a.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Sudden, literally two days later, he's like, babe, they're shutting
down the hotel. I have to come back from Puerto
Rico tonight.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
It was it was no, And here's the crazy thing.
Me and my cast, you guys, my cast call me Andy.
They you know, we were all in that spirit of like,
we want to finish the movie. And it was like
once they shut down the city and we went into
that quarantine thing, which none of us had experienced. We
started to freak out, and we got on the plane
flew back and it was like we didn't know what
to expect. We get to LA and I'm like, oh
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my god, like this has been going on for weeks
before we've even seen it, So we were behind the
eight ball.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
So now so I respect people like you now, Maria,
like I should have been doing, say, Randall, you being
a good director.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
You were so immersed, yes.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
That I understand why you didn't understand what was happening.
And I had to tell friends who weren't watching the news.
I said, guys, get ready, and people had no idea.
So I was definitely I was two weeks ahead almost
of everybody.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
You're Randolin to defend you and your case, like you know,
as a filmmaker, you don't get those shots. Guess what,
chances are very good you're never getting those shots.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Correct, Kevins I think, and I think, Kevin, I think
you get it, like you know you're you and me
and all of this on this are are come from
a business where we know how hard it is to
get a moment like that, and here it is.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Here's what's crazy.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
I mean, I'm six days in the shooting on the
highest high I'm back to my creative roots, and all
of a sudden, the world was falling apart. I mean,
what is going on?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Is this?
Speaker 4 (22:20):
I mean, it just didn't seem real, you know. And
I remember I remember being on the plane with the
cast and they were all looking at me, like two
hours ago we were filming and now we're in the
air going home. It was that surreal. You couldn't process it.
It was one of those moments. So I'm glad we
got out at the time we're supposed to get out
and we're safe and all that stuff, but it was
it was heartbreaking, Lalla.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
And I'll just give you two other little Tidboots bits.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
The friday before we shut down, I got hit with
my call from my girl calling me and me in tears.
I couldn't even walk to the set for an hour
because she was breaking the news to me that we
had to shut our wedding down.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
And I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, so this was
like a first is the wedding.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
And she's like and I said, Babe, I don't even
think I can go back to the set, and she's like, no, no, no,
You're gonna pull it together.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
You're gonna shake this off.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
We're gonna get married on another day and you're gonna
go back to work. And I was like, it took
me a couple hours.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
And did I do remember?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Because you get your you guys know you you plan
a wedding date in that date somehow like you become
obsessed with it. Yeah, and we were holding on pretty
tight to that date.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
It was it was rough, but good for you.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Another good leader. I have a good job.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Yeah, she pulled, she pulled the ripcord for She said, babe,
no one's going to show up on our wedding. We
gotta we gotta protect ourselves now, and we call the property.
They played ball with us and we were able to
make you know.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
That is the one great thing is during this everybody
has been very very kind. Like I mean, I've been
getting emails that are like, by the way, like your
AMEX bill, we don't expect payment because we know you
probably don't have a job right now.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Well, guys, I want to ask you a couple a
big question because you have a huge business with after
Buzz TV. I mean a giggantic operation with tons of employees.
I don't even know the number, but it's I know,
it's huge. It's a big business. How do you now
go to broadcasting with all your live shows, with all
of your.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Podcasts, with all your stuff? How do you survive? And
what have you done? And have you thrived in this
time and.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Been able to make changes because a lot of people
have had to shut down completely?
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Well, I will say so. Within twenty four hours of
me putting cards on every surface and table viewing station
at after Buzz for anybody who doesn't know what after
Buzz is, we are a broadcast network that produces after
shows for almost every TV show out there. So we
are global and we produce one hundred and fifty plus
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hours of programming a week. We over for four hundred hosts,
every size, race, ethnicity, age, background, and it's a major operation.
We have six high definition studios.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Old Mike, you're a studio.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
I mean you're literally a studio where every studio has
shut down. How do you use I wouldn't even know.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
What to do.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Okay, So within twenty four hours of me putting note
cards on every viewing station saying we are cleaning furiously,
I looked at I looked at our our one of
our employees, and I said, we need a plan immediately
to be able to broadcast from everyone's homes because we're
going to be quarantined any minute. We are going to
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go on lockdown. And everyone looked at me like I
was nuts. I said, guys, we are going to be
locked down. We need to at least start testing this.
So instantly I thought of Zoom and I said, let's
do some tests with Zoom. I set up some tests
with them where we looked at how it could be done.
Our head guy, Steven Lemieux, was amazing. He created our
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logo to put you know, on top of there, and
we were very quickly that all of our hosts could
continue hosting these after shows from their homes.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
We created a.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
Grid so we would know who had access to what,
because you know a lot of people don't have TVs
at home. We had the viewing stations at after Buzz
our studios, and so we figured out who had HBO,
who had showtime, who had you know, broadcast TV. We
created the after shows from there. Within twenty four hours,
we were up live. We didn't miss a beat because
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Saturdays were off, so by Sunday we were live and
we were producing one hundred and thirty five hours of programming.
We set up an engineer station in the house where
our staff lives, so they were going to be quarantined together.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Anyway, Oh my god, this is insane, this is right.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
So we set up stations where they could produce their
show from their computers.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
And that was it.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
And we have not missed a beat and it's been
really amazing and at testament to our stuff and our
hosts who are so excited to bring this content to
people who need it right now, who a little entertainment.
We have hosts that are hosting with their dogs and
making it cute and fun and it's been amazing.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
So, like, during this time, have you noticed that viewership
has gone up? Because again, like we don't have and
you totally don't have to answer this, but like for me,
I even notice on my social media that things are
getting more views than usual because I feel like everybody's
just stuck.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
Definitely, views have definitely gone up, and I think because
people now are stuck at home to watch this stuff.
What's happening Randall, which would be interesting. What your take
is going to be is when the content starts running
out and that's why they're going to need people like
you guys and us to keep creating original content. Granted,
some going to have the production level of like Better
(27:52):
call Saul, but for real, I heard that Walking Dead
has the finale shot but does not have the resources
to edit the finale, so they have to make it
a special later. So it's going to be interesting when
the new stuff runs out.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
You're you're right, Kevin, You're right. That's actually a really
good point.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
And you know, we face this in the last recession,
nothing of this scale. But I feel like like when
the guilds have gone on strike, you know, and content
gets backed up and then they run out of content.
I feel like there is going to be a thirst,
a desperation for new content, and I think people like
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us who provide that are going to be, you know,
in a place where they're just gonna be so thirsty
for content because this the world has never seen. I
mean one thing, sometimes the content will get shut down,
whether guild or something like that, but we never had
them theater shut down.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I mean, this is this is unheard of.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
Now, this is yeah, this is back to the depression.
You guys, like, it's it ends global. We were globally
connected one hundred years ago. So yeah, this is like
nothing any of us have ever experienced.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
I agree.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Let me let me ask you guys a question you
and now tell us about this. Am I confused? Maria
the show that Lala and I have both been on
as guests, and Kevin, you now have a show called
Better Together Daily?
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Is that?
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Is that what it's called? And tell us about that?
And how is it different?
Speaker 2 (29:18):
You know? Is it? Just explain it to us and
tell us what it's.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
Yeah, of course, so Better Together was born from my
serious XM radio show. I was doing that daily, and
I really wanted to move to podcast again, and and
most of that was because I had so many epiphanies
after I had brain surgery. You know, you know, my
mom and I both had brain teamers within eight months
of each other. It changed me completely, and so I
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started quickly to realize that I was a little lonely
in my perspective on life. I knew social media was
you know, was you know what it was? I I
knew that materials meant nothing anymore. I knew at what
really mattered in life was our health and the well
being of our family and friends. And that bond and
(30:08):
that love that we have with each other that you
can't take anything else with you and none of it matters,
and I would find myself really lonely, and so I
created better together. Because I was on a spiritual journey,
I wanted to really explore so many other things, and
I wanted to still get better at everything, health, wellness, spirituality, finances, everything,
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and I'm a big learner. So I started doing that
every Monday, and it was my way of tapping into
the greatest minds, the greatest healers, the greatest experts, so
that not only could I get answers to things that
I needed and help I wanted, but so that everyone
who's on that same journey with me didn't feel lonely
and could get better with us. So I was doing
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it every Monday. And then when this all happened, Kevin
looked at me and he goes, Maria, time, You've got
to be the light right now for people, because everyone's
going to need this. Everyone's so louting to know how
to handle their finances right now. We did an amazing
episode with Aj Gupta, who is featured all over Tony
Robbins's book Money Master, the game, and I've changed my
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whole life because of him financially, and so we were
able to talk to people who have credit card debt
and say, listen, you know you can get a zero
percent loan, switch it over, save that money and interest
every month, Or if you have a mortgage, you can
refinance at a lower rate right now, helping people in
a critical time. But then all the way down to
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you know, relationships and how to survive being with your
significant other twenty four to seven when you're not used
to it, like we are obviously bringing in spiritual gurus
who are telling us that this is an awakening that
we all needed. But this was the awakening I had
after surgery, and now everyone's being forced into it. Whether
(31:59):
they're going to accept it, whether they're going to lean
into it, I don't know. Yeah, but that's what I'm
doing every day with my show, and providing a sane,
safe space where we have light, where we can talk
about what we're afraid of and what we're worried about,
but also turn it into something positive and figure out,
as Trevor Moad said, how to win the weight And
(32:20):
right now I think we all need to be winning
the weight we have to wait, we have no choice.
How do we win the weight?
Speaker 2 (32:27):
I actually love that that.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
I mean, that's like right up my alley.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
You're you're the person that's bringing hope to so many
people at this time and beyond this time. I mean
so many people. Just the world that we live in.
It's so hard to find the light on many days.
And I you know how much I love you Maria
and Kevin so like.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
You talking about this.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Yeah, you guys, the content they produce is for humansane.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
This stuff you guys produces, by the way, is you
make your guests feel so good. I am was never
somebody ever saw myself do anything like this. I came
in the first time, and you guys made me feel
like I've been doing it for twenty years.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
I think that's your.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
Gift that you're able to take any kind of person,
when it's the biggest star in the world, or the
biggest guru or or religious person, whatever it is, you
get out of them and you make them relatable so
people can can feel connected. And I think that's really neat.
I can't wait to listen to the show now.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
It's gonna be you guys the next here's why I
see it, Randall. And the next three to six months
is the health crisis, and really it's about protecting the elderly,
and mainly the elderly, and the people who have compromised
immune systems mainly correct. Then after that, I think it's
going to be an economic catastrophe, and then that's going
to affect people with dependents, people with mortgages, and people
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living week to week, which is already affecting them now.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Correct.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
I feel like millennials, if you're a millennial, go home,
be with your parents, take care of mom and dad
right now, circle of wagons when you come out, and
when this ends, we'll job for them than ever. And
I do believe student loans will probably be reduced or forgiven.
But the next it's going to be health first, and
then it's going to be economic crisis, probably for like
two years Randall.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
And like and I agree with you, Kevin.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
I think that where we're heading economically, once we get
through the health issues and people are out of that
part of it, I think we're going to have to
embrace the world because it's going to be real scary
for a lot of people, and the world I don't
want to go anywhere. I just want to take a
quick break and I want to come right back because
I could talk to you guys for years. So we're
going to be right back in a minute.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
We are back.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
We have two very special guests.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
We have Maria and Kevin, the Dynamic Power couple business
team and husband and wife and friends of ours, and
we've been having the best time talking with you guys.
I just want to just ask you guys some thing
because I heard a rumor, and I'm.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Sure it's true.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
The rumors don't start during quarantine or don't stop during
correct they never say they still fly.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
But I did hear a rumor that you guys were
on the front lines not only doing what you do
every day running this big business that you run, but
you guys help raise money for thousands of mass to
help at hospitals. That just fill us in because we're
just obviously you know, I'm a little late to the
dance here, so I'm just starting to do any money.
So tell me what you did so I could feel
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really stupid after this.
Speaker 6 (35:31):
So because of my journey, I think, you know, with
her her mom's tumor in hers she's gotten so into
into the medical field and has probably been counseling.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
She's I don't know, probably two or three hundred.
Speaker 6 (35:44):
Patients from all over the world with different ailments, especially cancer,
asking her for help. And because she's learned so much
of it, well, it's led us to have relationships with
all the people in the medical field. And what Maria
came to discover was that our people in the medical field,
guys around the country, do not have the tools they
need to protect themselves to fight this. And she discovered that,
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you know, we lose them as for this line of defense.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
We're fun. Oh it's over. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (36:13):
It was when Kevin was at the hospital with my mom.
She had to go get her next round of chemo
treatments and stuff in the hospital, and I was on
speaker because Kevin's the one who forages, so we've made
it so that he's the only one who goes into
the outside world and I stay home and my dad
stayed home. And so when I was there on the
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phone with them, he was live in person. The doctor.
I said to him at the end of the car,
I said, doctor Rudnick, do you have a mask on?
And he said no, and I said, yeah, I thought, so,
you didn't sound muffled, and he goes, well, we don't
have any. He goes, the few that we have we
save were at risk patients. And I hung up the
phone and I was so furious, and I was first
(36:56):
I cried, then I got mad. And then I saw
Bethany Frank on Instagram was creating these things called Corona kits,
and they had masks and they had hand sanitizer and
all this stuff. So I called her and I said,
where are you getting these masks? I want to raise
money to get our healthcare workers' masks. I'm like, this
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is disgusting that my doctors are in jeopardy right now.
And she said, well, I have like ten thousand right now.
Maybe I should just be pivoting and moving them out
of the kits and I'm going to start moving them
to hospitals. So she is a gangster. She started shifting instantly.
I said, let's do an episode of my podcast Better Together,
designed specifically to raise money for this. So we did
(37:38):
the call outs, we raised some money. I connected her
with this guy, Grant Verstandeg He's the founder of rally Health,
and then from there she was soaring. She just kept
texting me, I love you, I love you. Granted is amazing.
He's killing it.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
God, this is amazing.
Speaker 5 (37:52):
So we decided that I couldn't pick just one institution
in LA because they've all been great to us. So
we picked yesterday. In fact, the shipments went, we had
five thousand and ninety five masks to UCLA Cedars and
Children's Hospital LA along with she added surgical masks to
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all of them. But like, listen, this was like I
did very little. Bethany is a force to be reckoned with.
She just is relentless. She's been talking to every governor.
She is seeing corruption within organizations that are supposed to
be helping getting the job done. And she deserves an
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award when this is done.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
She did the same thing when the hurricane hit Puerto Rico.
She's like, she's just someone who not only has her
Skinny Girl brand, but she is someone who's out there
helping people on a regular basis, no matter what it is.
Speaker 5 (38:57):
Yeah, when that other hurricane, I think it was Puerto
Rico hit, I was recovering from surgery and I remember
seeing her do this, and so I reached out to
her and I said, please let me help, and so
I started connecting her that time as well, and so
it was the first thing she mentioned on my podcast.
She's like, I want everybody to know Maria was the
first one to come.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Oh my god, the two of you together, Yeah, you
guys save the world.
Speaker 4 (39:22):
You guys are like tornadoes in the best way. I mean, clearly, Listen, Marie,
you One thing I know about you is you're the
most humble human in the world. And you know, I
know you don't take credit for most things you do.
But the fact that you called her up and the
two of you together did this is is just unreal.
And I mean, where can we will tell us where
we can involved Lala and I because.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
We want to make a don and our listeners.
Speaker 5 (39:46):
Guys, every dollar counts, like even if you only have
one thousand dollars, even if you only have five dollars.
I guess a lot of celebrities were gun shy at
first when we were reaching out, because everybody was instantly
terrified of what if and what's happening. And then you
start seeing the Ryan Reynolds and the Blake Lively's and
the Drew Breeses and everybody, and then everyone started going
(40:08):
from there, but it was hard initially to raise money,
but everything counts. Three or four dollars will buy an
N ninety five math right now for a healthcare worker.
And I'm telling you they still don't forget have them
Torrence Hospital. I was talking to them yesterday. The CEO
they're suffering usc Kech does not have mouth. They're suffering,
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and so donate to be Strong. You go to Bethany
Frankel on social media, click on the link for Bestrong,
or go to bstrong dot com. And she devotes every
time directly to the cause, and she also funds it
herself when she needs to, so there are very few organizations.
I've always had a really hard time with donating to organizations.
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I just go rogue and I do my own thing.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
And I'm similar to you, Maria. I like to kind
of do my own.
Speaker 5 (40:57):
It's hard because it goes to infrastructure and you know it,
and it goes to fancy balls and dinners and some nonsense.
This is direct to the people. So if you donate
to be Strong, the money will go to people who
need it. She's shifted and now been getting has Matt suits.
She got a million has Matt Suits out what it's crazy.
I mean, think about it. FEMA sent California ventilators, and
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Gavin Newsom, the governor, had to go on TV and say, yes,
we got them, but they're all busted and we had
to send them to Silicon Valley to fix them.
Speaker 4 (41:28):
Come on, come on, well, I want to say, right
here on this call. When I get off this call,
I'm donating five thousand dollars to be strong because you're
a rock star.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
I'll notch that, rand I will not share five k.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
All right now, you'll even I'm gonna hold it to it.
Speaker 5 (41:45):
She looks by the way, she'll see whether your name
is on there.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
No.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
No, If there's one thing we do and we donate
to a car, call.
Speaker 4 (41:52):
Bethany that we are giving five thousand dollars each, we
will give it total ten thousand dollars. Way she yah, yep, yep,
We're gonna come on, this is this is the least
we can do. I mean, these these healthcare providers, the
doctors and nurses. I'm watching them on the front lines,
no sleep, twenty hour shifts, thirty hour shifts and risking
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their lives to save people who are need.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
Come on, these are the.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
Heroes of the the least we can do.
Speaker 5 (42:21):
Legit, guys. I just retweeted a video of a nurse
hysterically crying and she was like, I had to quit
my job because they put me in a COVID nineteen
unit without a mask, and I have a family I
have to protect, and she has to quit her job.
We don't want nurses dying. We don't need them in fear.
They're having to write wills on the fly because they're
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afraid they're going to die, and the gangster ones are
still going in and they are just hoping for the best.
Oh my god, this is a disaster of epic proportions.
How dare we in this century, in twenty twenty allow
the people who take care of us to be jeff
the way they are. It's absolutely disgusting. And I'm sorry.
(43:05):
I'm not a genius, but I knew what was coming,
and so other people should have known to and actions
should have been taken.
Speaker 6 (43:11):
Well, I think we can all Monday Morning quarterback, But
I understand the philosophy randal of you don't want economic
collapse either, because that's going to lead to even greater problems.
So you roll the dice and hope you can keep
the economy going. And you know what, it just didn't
pay off. So now we just have to do.
Speaker 4 (43:30):
And by the way, because I was just moved to
tears there and so is Lalla, I just want to
say something. I don't think in a hundred years since
the Spanish flew, I think exactly that Kevin. I think
the government thought they're going to roll the dice. This
will be some small situation that we'll catch, they'll fix,
they'll it won't it won't blow up. But every hundred
years something like this happens and it just nobody saw coming.
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And I agree Maria. You know in the United States
of America should be better, but of course.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
They should protect their people. And like Maia said, at
this day and time.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
We should be the ability to be better, right.
Speaker 4 (44:07):
But if the government can't do it, then people like you, Maria,
and Kevin and and Beth Andy Franklin all the other
people out.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
There and you guys and US and US and US.
Speaker 4 (44:16):
But you know, and I you know, Lala, and I uh,
you know, just did our podcast today was with a
COVID survivor, a guy that we became friends with, and
he's forty years old with no underlying health issues. He
did five days in intensive care at the hospital, fighting
for his life. He's out now, and I wanted people
to hear from him. You know, like, this is affecting everybody, young, old,
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healthy or nonhealthy. This will change your life. It has
changed everybody's life already. But we want to protect and
save and be and keep people as healthy as we can.
And I just feel like we all have this obligation.
Speaker 5 (44:54):
But I also think I also think, guys, like, here's
the thing. I agree with the tech the economy, because
you're protecting people in general when you do that. But
when you see that something could be coming, and this
is just for the future, you need to protect the downside.
You need to go into action and say this could
be coming. Why don't we arm our hospitals, arm our
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governor is prepare everybody for the worst. When we have
a hurricane coming, we start to prepare.
Speaker 6 (45:23):
Never happened in our lifetime. You hear Randall said it
was one hundred years ago, the Spanish flu. And the
only reason they called it the Spanish flu. Do you
know why, guys, because Spain was the only place to
admit that they had a flu everyone else did what
we did today. Everyone denied it because they didn't want
the economy to collapse. We have not seen this in
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our lifetime.
Speaker 2 (45:47):
Now, one hundred and ten years ago or something. It
was like one hundred and ten years ago.
Speaker 4 (45:50):
And I agree with you, Kevin, like this is that
one thing going to the other side.
Speaker 2 (45:54):
We need to learn from this.
Speaker 4 (45:55):
When we get through it, so that one hundred years
from now or two hundred years now, if this ever
happens again, and it will happen again, I'm sure at
some point that we're prepared and that people like Maria
and and and and and we just don't we're better prepared,
like the hospitals and doctors and nurses, and I'll just say,
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you know, this is a time of uncertainty, but at
the same time, it's a time for the human spirit.
And that's what this is an example of for me.
That's why I'm that's the that's the upside of this
for me.
Speaker 1 (46:27):
You have to have an upside.
Speaker 6 (46:29):
Yeah, it's gonna know, there's gonna be a huge reset,
which we totally needed as a culture. And you guys
know that we're getting you know, and furthermore, you know
that remember Randall, do you remember your great grandparents or
the depression survivors, how they had kids food in their
basement forever. That's gonna be all of us now, like
we're going to carry this with us. We'll all be
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kind of you know, at least in our life lifetimes,
we'll all be prepared after this.
Speaker 5 (46:52):
One other thing. One other thing that people can do
that are listening to this, because you guys are obviously
crushing it with your podcast and have so many listeners,
is if you are in an affected area, send you
the local hospital some cookies or some treats, or some
snacks or flowers. Well you can't do flowers anymore, but
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send them food, send them some soup, send them something
so that they know they have something there. And if
you are an attorney and you can share your services
right now with doctors and nurses, call up the CEO
of a hospital and say, I would love to extend
my services to these doctors and nurses who are panicking
right now. There are so many things that we can
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all do. We can share our gifts, our talents, our
skills with them right now because they need it most.
The first responder is the EMTs, the fire departments send
food to them.
Speaker 4 (47:47):
Wait, Kevin Murray, you guys saying like we could just
get in the car, drop off a bag of groceries
or a bag of this, or some hot food or
some hot lunch, and that that helps.
Speaker 2 (47:57):
Like everything at this point helps.
Speaker 5 (47:58):
You're saying anything, everything helps, I think, Kevin. What Kevin
said is a good point is you can support the
local economy by ordering food and having it delivered to
the hospitals. And you could just say this is for
you know, the staff here at this hospital that needs
it most, and you know, whatever.
Speaker 2 (48:16):
Idea, it's a great idea.
Speaker 7 (48:17):
There's one of the people are doing, you, guys, is
for some of the local businesses if you want to
support them by gift cards. A lot of them are
selling gift cards for when the smoke clears, you can
go out and use them. But all these like little things.
Because I'm telling you, I don't wave this is wave one.
Wave two is to see it's one thing to be sick,
but to be.
Speaker 6 (48:36):
Impoverish and sick, you guys, I don't really want to
see that.
Speaker 2 (48:39):
Oh my god. Yeah, that's yeah. And you're right, Kevin.
Speaker 4 (48:42):
It's it's so smart of you because you know, you're
you're saying, Okay, we're going to get through the health
part of this.
Speaker 2 (48:48):
It's going to be brutal, and we're in it now.
Speaker 1 (48:50):
But we have to be prepared for prepared for wave too.
We are healthy.
Speaker 4 (48:54):
When people are on the street losing their homes, losing
their businesses, you know, we've we've got to also be
ready for that.
Speaker 2 (49:00):
And that's next. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (49:02):
And here's the thing, guys, we haven't even started. I'm
telling you, it is going to be such a pain
that we don't even know how to fucking handle.
Speaker 2 (49:12):
Well.
Speaker 5 (49:12):
It is going to be a very deep beating to
see the people around you dropping the way that this
is going to hit. And I hope that in California
what they're saying is true, that we did the social distancing,
and also because we're so spread out, it won't hit
as hard. I'm praying, But everybody has to stay in
In New York. It's going to be brutal. It already
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is brutal because they're so close. It's such tight quarters
for everybody.
Speaker 2 (49:38):
New York is unreal.
Speaker 4 (49:39):
I've seen the pictures, the body bags and the refrigerated
trucks that they're using on the side of the street and.
Speaker 5 (49:44):
We've just begun, guys, We've just begun, So stay in.
Speaker 6 (49:50):
And I think the other thing too, is for people
who have children out there, you know, you can look
at this as as a really bad thing to expose
them to, or you can look at this as an
opportunity to teach them about life and have them, you know,
now do yours and be you know, understand that they
have to be part of this team and this kind
of team effort like they did back in the depression,
(50:11):
rand like they did those other times. Like it's about saying, hey,
like I have friends who's the kids are kind of
trampling them, and then I have other friends that are
the stronger parents were like, hey, you're going to do
dishes now, and you're gonna help set the table, and
you're gonna like, we're gonna not work together to make
the better of this.
Speaker 4 (50:29):
So I want I want to I want to just
say one last thing on that, Kevin, You're one hundred
percent right Laala. You know who's a step mom to
two little girls. We have had to change our whole world.
I mean, we're all home and and at first it
was not easy everybody was overwhelmed. Everybody's on top of
each other. But I think we've just started to get
in our groove with school first, reading, quality time and
(50:51):
and and growing up time. Laala and I both have
have sat the girls down and said, nobody's going to
be acting like an animal in this house. We're all
gonna learn be together. We're going to play games where
I mean, I played more Uno. What's that other game?
You got me playing?
Speaker 1 (51:05):
Rummy Cue?
Speaker 4 (51:06):
Rummy cue, more Rummy cue, more coloring. So anyway, I
think Kevin, your words are right on the money. People
have to come together as families. They have to spend
quality time and and take the best from this.
Speaker 3 (51:18):
Right And before we let you guys go enjoy the
rest of your quarantine day, I want to tell you
thank you so much for joining us. I mean, you
you shed so much light on this and I'm really
really grateful for what you guys are doing not only
for entertainment purposes, but what really matters in this world.
Speaker 1 (51:36):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (51:37):
And and you made us both cry Maria Heaven, so
thank you for that too.
Speaker 6 (51:42):
Oh guys, you know what, Let's have a Let's have
a facetimed cocktail were.
Speaker 2 (51:47):
At some point you pick it, you pick it.
Speaker 6 (51:49):
A lot of friends are doing that now they're having
zoom cocktail parties.
Speaker 2 (51:53):
Guys, let's do Thursday.
Speaker 4 (51:55):
Let's do a Thursday night six pm zoom cocktails.
Speaker 2 (51:58):
Tomorrow. I'm in tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (52:00):
Guess what I'm fee It's so weird. I'm free.
Speaker 1 (52:05):
I love it. You guys are the best.
Speaker 5 (52:07):
Get something with me now. I'm totally wide open. Actually,
it's so weird.
Speaker 2 (52:11):
Maria, I have that same problem. I'm pretty free tomorrow
as well.
Speaker 5 (52:14):
Okay, so we'll do our cocktail party and one last thing.
If you guys want to know more afterbustv dot com
and if you want to tune into my show, it's
every day at eleven am Pacific time on Apple podcasts, YouTube,
and Facebook. It's called Better Together.
Speaker 4 (52:32):
Better Together. Everybody. Everybody's got to tune in. We're going
to tune in because I need it, we need it, and.
Speaker 5 (52:38):
Most importantly, donate to be strong. I can't wait to text.
Speaker 4 (52:41):
Bethany Tex Bethany, text Bethany that we're sending money. So
and everybody who listens to us, please, like Maria said,
one dollar, two dollars, five dollars.
Speaker 1 (52:50):
Whatever, whatever you can donate.
Speaker 5 (52:52):
Yeah, because guess what what you're hearing on the news
about masks getting there from the government. You just can't wait.
Let there be extra who cares, right, Let there be
extra because I hear a lot of people the government's
supposed to the government's supposed to do a lot, but
guess what, they're also overwhelmed. There's a lot going on.
And this isn't to knock them, but sometimes you got
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to be a leader yourself, and you got to get
what has to get done done, whether it's your job
or not.
Speaker 1 (53:19):
A men, Maria and.
Speaker 2 (53:22):
You are a powerhouse.
Speaker 4 (53:23):
And Kevin you are as well and your friends and
family and we are grateful to know you and we
love you.
Speaker 5 (53:29):
Thank you, so love you guys too, and we can't
wait for your wedding. It's going to be bigger and oh.
Speaker 1 (53:34):
We love you. Bye you guys.
Speaker 2 (53:36):
Thanks guys, all right, they heard it?
Speaker 3 (53:40):
Oh my god, that was Every time I talk to
Maria and Kevin though, I feel inspired.
Speaker 1 (53:46):
I feel like, you know what, They're right, We can
be leaders.
Speaker 3 (53:49):
You may think that you're such a small fish in
a large pond.
Speaker 1 (53:53):
That's just a box that we put ourselves in. We
can definitely do this as a community.
Speaker 4 (53:59):
And when she says donate five bucks, she means it.
Five dollars means something. So everybody listening doesn't matter how
much money you have or how little money you have.
Hopefully if you have five dollars, it means more to you.
Speaker 2 (54:12):
You know what.
Speaker 4 (54:12):
It is law, and this has been something I've struggled
with my whole life. Early on when I was younger,
is like, it's the effort. Okay, I'm gonna take the
phone out, I'm gonna register and that you know what,
just do it this time for five bucks, two bucks,
three bucks, or ten bucks, wherever you can afford. We
all have to do it right now so we can
get through this thing. So we have more doctors, because
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God forbid, it's a loved one of yours, or a
friend or a family member, whatever, you're gonna want that
doctor there to take care of your family.
Speaker 2 (54:40):
So we're inspired. We want everybody to be inspired and be.
Speaker 1 (54:44):
Safe, to be safe.
Speaker 3 (54:45):
Thank you guys so much for listening, and we will
catch you next week
Ola, peeps, it is La La.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Kent with Randall.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
And we are back at it again in our kitchen quarantine.
So we had a pretty here's the thing about.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
This, it is forcing us to get creative.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Randall and I went and rented a forty two foot
RV double pop out r V.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
When we first took it out, we went to Joshua Tree.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
But we were on our way to Arizona, or on
our way.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
To Arizona, and we got into Joshua Tree. We're in
the RV.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
We're like messing around whatever. The pop out suddenly won't
work for the master bedroom.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
We look at each other. We probably got there at.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
What five thirty dinner time.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
We were hauling ass back to La by seven thirty.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah, we were back in La.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
We looked at each other.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
We were like, well, let's at least like make the
hot dogs we brought. So we made our hot dogs,
We made dinner. We made dinner.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
It was nice, it was fun.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
But we looked at each other and we're like, we're
in a dusty RV park. All the national parks are closed.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
There's diagna.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
We went to a co or Koa Koa.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
It was night.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
People were nice, there, We've had some interesting beating were nice.
But but the thing about it was we.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Didn't it didn't feel like an adventure.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
It felt like we were like in Palm Springs almost,
but on a dusty road.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
So we didn't like that.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
We no, we didn't like that.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
So we drive, We drive back to La. We sleep
in our bed. The next morning, we wake up, we
drive back to get We switched out the RB, we
switch out the RV to a bigger, more badass.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
One, and we were really really inspired when we got
in that baby.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I looked at it. I was like, Okay, we're ready.
This is legit.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
And instead of going really really far, we were like,
let's break ourselves in.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
So we hauled asked to Malibu, hold on, hold on.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Let me back it up. You're making it look like
we're just hobnobbing around La.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Let me we are hob noomin around to eight.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I know, but babe, we were gonna go to Piswell
Beach was like a two and a half hour drive
and they didn't have like an ocean view for us,
and and we said, and what we said was is
if we're going to do this, like we at least
want to look at the ocean, says, we can't swim
in them because they're all closed. We can't be in
a national park, they're all closed. And so we found
we found a Malibu RV park.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And honestly, Babe, don't you agree it was like a
gem in the rough. It was spectacular, Dude.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
We had beach front. I mean, we parked that bitch,
and we were.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Like totally we thought we were like.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I felt like I was like Beyonce, like I was
touring and I found like an epic spot to just
park my whip.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
That's a nice way to put it. I think that
we had like a thirty million dollar view.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I swear we did have a thirty million dollar view.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
You and I remember, and we invited your mom and
her friend and they came out. We cooked spaghetti, spaghetti,
We had pasta.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
We had some vegetables.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, I had some vegetables.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
You have vegetables.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I watch you did not partake.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I know, but I told you TOMORROW'M gonna start working
out with.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
You, okay, okay, and ingesting vegetables.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
And I'll eat vegetables next week. You can ask how
much vegetables. Remember on trying to change a little bit.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Okay, Oka, wait, but on, let's go back from seconds.
So we did that.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
But can I tell you what my favorite part of
this whole thing was. Tell me after they left, it
was nighttime. We closed up our little whip, we turned
out the lights. We had DVDs because there's no cable,
so we put Blacklist in and you and.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I that show is so good.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
I know it's not only so good, but then you
and I we had cuddle time. Yeah, I'm gonna admit this,
and we could hear the waves crashing all night. It
was a perfect night.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
It was. And then we woke up and they made
us move.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
So that was a whole production and even better, I
feel like they.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Moved us from North Malibu to like like the where
all the rich people are in Malibus.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I feel like we got upgraded. We got an upgrade.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah, I felt like I was Jamie Kennedy in as wanted.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
That's a good one. Okay, So then we got moved.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Then you said the fish looked like they were dying
at home, so you and your mom went to go
get algaees.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
So before I went and did that, So what do
we do?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
You guys, these these people that have these fucking RV's.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
It's like a it's like a culture.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Oh, it's a whole different world. I mean, by the way,
what about the ones who bring listen baby? I found
something out. So Laala thought that the RV people next
to us, she thought they lived there permanently. But I
did research there. They're not permanent. Those people they bring
their own grass, their own fences, their own pottery, and
they create a little yard next to their RVs.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
These are professional art you guys.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
This one r had like this little white picket fence
and these like beautiful flower pots.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
And the fire grass, the fake fire.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Pit, fake fire pit, and then it or not a
fake fire pit, a fake like they had a fake
fire like it looked like real flames. And then they
had a fire pit where they would like sit around
at night. And then they had a sign that said
the beach is my happy place, like what they would
put like what someone would put out side of their
beach house.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
It's really, honestly, I want to say saying, we're not
even making fun of anybody.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
It really is a different world that we've never seen before.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
No, but you should see these people.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
They like are they've got like their jeep parked perfectly,
They're like whipping in.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Their freaking I want to tell you story.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
It's the craziest thing.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Right when you left, RV pulled it next to me
within fifteen minutes, I'm being serious, all hooked up, but
not only just all hooked up bikes, games, dark boards.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I mean it was like professional O. These people really
know how to do it.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
And I think if you really are v around the country,
you must get really good at knowing what to bring.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
But we didn't know. Let's tell everybody, because you're looking
at me like, I'm like, oh, you should have screwed up.
We were.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
It was National lampoons. We we were hot mess. We
like looked in the cupboard. We didn't get anything that
was like okay to eat, Like, we didn't secure anything.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
How many how many days do you think it would
have been before we died of starvation and water with a.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Lot of I only allowed us to get to Malibu.
I was like, we can't trust.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Us, not really.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
We need a little bit more practice, or we need
at least one person who knows what the hell they're doing.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
I think we need to hire an RV packer shopper,
right y. Yeah, stock us up and they say, you
guys are good for seven days go journey, but but you.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Have to man, I did get good at hooking.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
The electrical up, the water everything else. It's like, I
don't cook in a kitchen that's fully stocked to my house,
so like, how am I supposed.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
To do it in an RV.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah, we need some assistance with the shopping for Yeah,
but we had fun.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
I had the best time ever I did.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I really like.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
I think we took it for granted a little bit
because it was so just perfect and we were like,
I think we're a little overwhelmed.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Today it was Today was a well when you.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Wake up and there's no coffee or breakfast, it's kind
of a buzzkill. You're like looking at the ocean and
you're like, damn, I would really love some pancakes coffee.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Go back there and have another sleep, but we'll bring coffee, just.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Like something to wake up and like I.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Like or like cook eggs in the morning.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
You know what's crazy, though, is I used to do
that stuff as a little kid, but instead of an RV,
we would like my dad and my mom had a
houseboat and it was like the exact same type of thing.
But professionals, dude, I remember that you had to do.
Oh my god, we had the car, we had the speedboat.
It was packed with all our food. The second we
got there, whipped the boat down on fashion.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Right now, she's like moving and waving our hands around
like a professional.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Really, they really had it done.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Oh, they knew exactly, And we had the three families
that would come with us, and everyone was just on.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
But in the time that your dad, your dad was
very specific.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Well he was like me, yeah, like very oh yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
He knew like the one was going on a trip
with your dad.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
With we had I mean, people brought the games, and
we had an ice cream maker that one of the
families would pack, and like we had all this stuff
like tonight we're having tacos and this and that.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Like oh, they planned out for each everything.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Each family would have a day like today, I'm doing breakfast, lunch,
and dinner.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Tomorrow you're doing breakfast, or they'd flip flop. They just
knew exactly what they were.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Doing and I want to do next. So the next
time we go on the camper, why don't you cry.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Randall, I'm a little angry with you because you made
me kind of bougie.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Fuck, so there's no coming back from this.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
My mom looks at me and she's like, why are
you acting like you have no idea like how to
make a bed.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Or do laundry, And I'm like, I had to do
it in a while.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I tell you something.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
I bust your balls a lot about not being as domesticated,
But can I tell you something.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I love you the way you are.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Well, I know how to be domesticated the way you will.
But when you have Isabelle up in this house and
she's making like five star meals all the time, and.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
She's like, no, la la, sit down, I'll make your bed.
I'll do this, it's like, oh, that's kind of nice.
They get a little comfortable, you know.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
And then when you expect me to go on in
our V trip, I'm like, what what's happening?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
So why don't we just bring Isabelle the next time
we go on our V trip?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Can I tell you so Isabelle.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Isabelle is our house manager from Guatemala, And I'll tell
you one thing about this woman. She calls me the
queen of the house, and I tell her, girl, you
are the queen of this house. Isabelle is my ride
or die. The other day she got her final paper
where it's uh to her last interview before she becomes
a US citizen, and she and I sat in the
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kitchen and cried, and I was like, you deserve to
be in this country just as much as I do.
Without you in this house, like this house.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Would not function nice.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I said it to her and our housekeeper, Yoanna, which
Joanna does not speak any English, but she's so sweet,
and so Isabelle was translating, and they then we all
started crying. I was like, that's so grateful for you guys.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I just slep my mind. It was just such a
beautiful moment.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
You didn't tell me any of this, No.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Dude, those are the queens of this castle, that's for sure.
They make this household run flawlessly so that I don't
lose my mind, and the fact that they even give
a shit, like those are my girls right there.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
And I want to tell you that every morning, I
know what I call when I can't get a Lalla
on the phone at like ten forty five because I'm
at the office. I need to talk to her I
call Isabella's but like, mister, she's sleeping, And I said,
but I'm bringing coffee up to right now. I'm like, okay,
don't don't wake her up, give her the coffee, then
call me. It's like, okay, I know, trust me, I.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Know what to do. Yeah, yeah, we've got a system going.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
That's my girl right there.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
I think I think you've got to show me how
to cook cook. You kind to show me.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
I don't even know what you need to teach me
how to cook some coffee for you while why well,
I was trying to make coffee. I would love that you.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Like me to make you coffee in the month, totally fine.
Will you show me tonight?
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah, it's so easy.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
People are gonna be busted.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
We only have a cure egg. So it's like pop.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
See you pop the pot in, it comes out, you
put a little creamer.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I'm good to go. You don't even have to do
anything because.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I think that the last two weeks of no quarantine.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
I'm not going to blame everything on this, but I
feel like, you know, coffee in the morning not good.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
It's not a good sit.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I can never be in that.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
RV with you without coffee because you're a huge coffee person.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I'm a huge coffee person.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
It's a caffeine so oh.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
No, that that gets my day going.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
It gets my m moving so that I can move
forward in life with a free gut.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
You know.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
It's like this just gets everything popping in the morning.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I love this. I love this.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
All right, Well, let's just pivot here and talk about
our next guest.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I love all these things that you're saying. You're like,
let's switch gears, let's pivot.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
You are Andy Cohen. It's the craziest thing as we start.
It's a huge cof I mean.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
By the way, Andy Cohen is a badass, and I
give him so much respect for you.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Can I tell you only without you being mad? Randall
gets jealous sometimes, but Andy Cohen is like so sexy.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Okay, that one I'm gonna let go because.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I know because he's no threat to you.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Okay, but well, tell wait, tell me what I said
the other day?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
What'd you say where you went to Palm Springs? Wait?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
What did you call me from?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Oh my god, this was so funny, you guys, So
I go to Palm Springs.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
First of all, I want to say something My girl
gets jealous too, just in her own way but not
but different. And we have a very trust Uh this
is just it's just a trust relationship. But sometimes as
a guy, my girl thinks that like everything, she just
doesn't think sometimes like women don't think the way guys do.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
So go ahead, tell me what you did.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
My writer die and myself Madison, she's my lady of
honor at my wedding. Okay, So we decide to go
to Palm Springs now like shit is getting real with
the COVID and we you know, she was planning on
going there for her birthday anyway, but she was meeting
some of her guy friends that she knows from New York.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
They were all flying in and they had a house.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Well, Randall and I usually stay at Lakina Resort, and
so I got us a room. Madison and I a
room there until thank you, Randall's pouring me diet coke
and a wine glass.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
This is epic.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I was really putting in time right now.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
This is my liddy lit time.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Anyway, So Madison and I are going to stay at
Lakinta resort until her friends get there.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Right, So me think you.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Right, Me thinking economically, to save to save money. I
was like, rand Madison's friends have a house, Like to
save you money, all stay at their house for four
days until you get here, and then we'll check back
into Lakina. Randall wanted to know who these guys are,
what do they do for a living, How did you
meet them?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
How old are they?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Okay, the conversation and so.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
No, we had a really great conversation. It was very productive.
I was like, Babe, I mean, did you to tell
me why why you're asking all these questions for me?
Speaker 1 (14:02):
It's like four years in.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
He put a ring on it, like that's what it is,
and he goes, Babe, I'm just feeling really insecure.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
And I was like, oh, I was it Puerto Rico.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yes, but I love that you said that because then
I knew what to do with that. I was like, Okay,
I won't stay there, yeh, I'll keep the hotel room.
I just want to save you money, says he goes,
I will fucking buy that hotel before I let you
go stay at that fucking guy's house.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
And then Madison was in the card. She goes, I
like it very honest. I respect that. Okay, we're staying
at the hotel.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
So we stayed at the hotel for two weeks.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Yeah almost Yeah, ten days, two weeks racked up a
hefty bill, but it.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Was significantly less than buying the hotel.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yeah, you did save me money buying. That's all.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
By the way, that was a great trip, except when
I got to the hotel, I got a little under
the weather.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Your mom and I both got sick.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
What we thought COVID nineteen we did.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
You didn't get it, No, I didn't get it.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
But during that time, y'all, I thought you did have it.
So we were all staying hunkered down under one roof. Yes, quarantine,
but let's.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Talk about just real quick. Not to elaborate, but I
mean along, but I got there. Your mom got a
sore throat. I got a sore throat Friday.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yeah, woke up.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Saturday, had a horrible sore throat and just felt very tired, right,
and so out of safety for everybody, I drove to
La I got a test.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
I went to our house.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
I hunkered into the bedroom and I stayed there until
the test came back, which came back negative, you know,
thank god. But yeah, we were all concerned because I
mean to get sick right now, and how it is
scary have those symptoms, you know.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
But on the bright side, besides you not having it,
the bright side of this, you guys, is me having
to just sit around and hang out with the people
that I love the most, you know, minus my little brother.
I wish he was here, but I'm like living the dream.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I want to just pivot here to get ready for
our guests.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Should we tell them? Who are you? Let's tell him?
Who are our guested?
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Don't you tell them? Because it's a friend of both
of ours and we love her.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Yes, So we have the stunning and talented Maria Manunos
joining us today via phone obvi because we're quarantine to
af We're so excited we cannot wait to bring her on.
So let us dial her up. We're going to take
a short break. We'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
And we are.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Back, and we have one of my most favorite human
beings ever on the line with.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Us, Maria Manunas. Both damn welcome, Maria.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Hi have me and keV here.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
We got the couple, my favorite couple, the couple that
works together stays together.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
That's right, I know, no changes here. We're stuck together.
All day, every day anyway.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I know, that's exactly what I was telling rand I
was like, for me, nothing has changed as far as
like just being around you twenty four to seven.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
I gotta say, you know, first of all, it's like
come full circle because what I love is I have
You know, when I was first interviewed on any podcast,
on any show ever, it was yours, Marie, I was petrified.
You and Kevin made me feel calm, and you're like,
you guys, you're such a natural.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
You have fun. It was good. It was great.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
And then Lala and I came together and we're like,
we should try this, and here we are and now
we got.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
You guys, it's been our saving grace during this time,
isn't it cool?
Speaker 5 (17:28):
I feel like my podcast has been my saving grace,
my sanity hour through this whole thing, because you can't
check your phone, you can't listen to the news, you
can't get enveloped by all of the negativity, and so yeah,
it's a really nice thing to have.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
It is, And so tell us we want to hear,
we want to hear about it all. How are you
guys dealing with being stuck indoors, not being able to
you know, socialize, which your business is based on bringing
in people to be on your podcast.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Like, how are you guys dealing with all this?
Speaker 5 (18:01):
We're dealing with it pretty well.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
You know.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
I was very ahead on this because I'm a nerd
and I was watching what was going. I was watching
what was coming, and I kept saying, guys, this is
going to be bad, this is going to be bad,
and everybody would laugh at me, and especially my dad.
And I remember being at our Friday meeting at after Buzz,
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and I remember saying to everybody and our staff, I said,
we need to let everyone know that we are taking
every measure possible. We're doing multiple cleanings a day. I
want our hosts who are coming in to feel safe.
And this was four days before any company was thinking
like that. I go, I can't believe these major restaurant chains,
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no one's putting precautionary measures into let us feel safe,
because I stopped patronizing places well before the lockdown.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Oh wow.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
And so I remember one of my staff members saying,
nothing's going to happen. It's fine. I go, guys, we
are cleaning every hour on the hour, every door knob,
every surface, everything.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
What month was this? Were you doing this in February?
Speaker 5 (19:08):
This was gosh, probably four weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Oh wow.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
And I was really ahead of it. I had been
having my housekeeper shopping ahead way before anybody even thought
about it.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
You're one of the toilet paper hoarders, are your.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
Ridden hoard But I though, I just saw what was coming.
And I have a really good instinct, and I'm very
I've definitely got some you know, abilities to see ahead.
And I said, I feel this, and I feel like
it's going to get bad and we need to prepare.
So I started preparing, making sure we had enough supplies
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in the house to survive. We have to take care
of my mom, who was stage hor brain cancer. My
dad is chef one diabetic. Oh, we have an entire
staff that lives on another property of ours, and I
wanted to make sure that we were all safe. I
made sure we got medications for two months on. Everybody. Wow,
And everyone again was still laughing at me.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Maria, Can I tell you wait? Can I tell you something?
Speaker 4 (20:10):
First of all, this is the greatest thing I've ever heard,
because we should have been doing this shit, because you know,
we're scrambling and taking a step further, I'm the opposite
of you. I mean, Laala will tell you. I was
in Puerto Rico directing my first movie.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
I know, I was horrified, and I was horrified.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Wait wait, and here's the crazy thing. The beaches are open,
people are drinking Pina claudas. I'm living in complete denial,
and I'm calling Laala going no.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
He keeps asking me like, La La, why are you
freaking out? Why are you so high strung.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
I'm like, you have no idea, what's going on now?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
And that was on the March thirteenth.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
I was saying that because we were still filming and
nothing was going and she's like, Babe, you're living in denial.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I go, you're all crazy. And then all of a.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Sudden, literally two days later, he's like, babe, they're shutting
down the hotel. I have to come back from Puerto
Rico tonight.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
It was it was no, And here's the crazy thing.
Me and my cast, you guys, my cast call me Andy.
They you know, we were all in that spirit of like,
we want to finish the movie. And it was like
once they shut down the city and we went into
that quarantine thing, which none of us had experienced. We
started to freak out, and we got on the plane
flew back and it was like we didn't know what
to expect. We get to LA and I'm like, oh
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my god, like this has been going on for weeks
before we've even seen it, So we were behind the
eight ball.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
So now so I respect people like you now, Maria,
like I should have been doing, say, Randall, you being
a good director.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
You were so immersed, yes.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
That I understand why you didn't understand what was happening.
And I had to tell friends who weren't watching the news.
I said, guys, get ready, and people had no idea.
So I was definitely I was two weeks ahead almost
of everybody.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
You're Randolin to defend you and your case, like you know,
as a filmmaker, you don't get those shots. Guess what,
chances are very good you're never getting those shots.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Correct, Kevins I think, and I think, Kevin, I think
you get it, like you know you're you and me
and all of this on this are are come from
a business where we know how hard it is to
get a moment like that, and here it is.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Here's what's crazy.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
I mean, I'm six days in the shooting on the
highest high I'm back to my creative roots, and all
of a sudden, the world was falling apart. I mean,
what is going on?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Is this?
Speaker 4 (22:20):
I mean, it just didn't seem real, you know. And
I remember I remember being on the plane with the
cast and they were all looking at me, like two
hours ago we were filming and now we're in the
air going home. It was that surreal. You couldn't process it.
It was one of those moments. So I'm glad we
got out at the time we're supposed to get out
and we're safe and all that stuff, but it was
it was heartbreaking, Lalla.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
And I'll just give you two other little Tidboots bits.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
The friday before we shut down, I got hit with
my call from my girl calling me and me in tears.
I couldn't even walk to the set for an hour
because she was breaking the news to me that we
had to shut our wedding down.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
And I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, so this was
like a first is the wedding.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
And she's like and I said, Babe, I don't even
think I can go back to the set, and she's like, no, no, no,
You're gonna pull it together.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
You're gonna shake this off.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
We're gonna get married on another day and you're gonna
go back to work. And I was like, it took
me a couple hours.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
And did I do remember?
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Because you get your you guys know you you plan
a wedding date in that date somehow like you become
obsessed with it. Yeah, and we were holding on pretty
tight to that date.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
It was it was rough, but good for you.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Another good leader. I have a good job.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Yeah, she pulled, she pulled the ripcord for She said, babe,
no one's going to show up on our wedding. We
gotta we gotta protect ourselves now, and we call the property.
They played ball with us and we were able to
make you know.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
That is the one great thing is during this everybody
has been very very kind. Like I mean, I've been
getting emails that are like, by the way, like your
AMEX bill, we don't expect payment because we know you
probably don't have a job right now.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Well, guys, I want to ask you a couple a
big question because you have a huge business with after
Buzz TV. I mean a giggantic operation with tons of employees.
I don't even know the number, but it's I know,
it's huge. It's a big business. How do you now
go to broadcasting with all your live shows, with all
of your.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Podcasts, with all your stuff? How do you survive? And
what have you done? And have you thrived in this
time and.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Been able to make changes because a lot of people
have had to shut down completely?
Speaker 6 (24:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Well, I will say so. Within twenty four hours of
me putting cards on every surface and table viewing station
at after Buzz for anybody who doesn't know what after
Buzz is, we are a broadcast network that produces after
shows for almost every TV show out there. So we
are global and we produce one hundred and fifty plus
(24:54):
hours of programming a week. We over for four hundred hosts,
every size, race, ethnicity, age, background, and it's a major operation.
We have six high definition studios.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Old Mike, you're a studio.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
I mean you're literally a studio where every studio has
shut down. How do you use I wouldn't even know.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
What to do.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Okay, So within twenty four hours of me putting note
cards on every viewing station saying we are cleaning furiously,
I looked at I looked at our our one of
our employees, and I said, we need a plan immediately
to be able to broadcast from everyone's homes because we're
going to be quarantined any minute. We are going to
(25:35):
go on lockdown. And everyone looked at me like I
was nuts. I said, guys, we are going to be
locked down. We need to at least start testing this.
So instantly I thought of Zoom and I said, let's
do some tests with Zoom. I set up some tests
with them where we looked at how it could be done.
Our head guy, Steven Lemieux, was amazing. He created our
(25:57):
logo to put you know, on top of there, and
we were very quickly that all of our hosts could
continue hosting these after shows from their homes.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
We created a.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
Grid so we would know who had access to what,
because you know a lot of people don't have TVs
at home. We had the viewing stations at after Buzz
our studios, and so we figured out who had HBO,
who had showtime, who had you know, broadcast TV. We
created the after shows from there. Within twenty four hours,
we were up live. We didn't miss a beat because
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Saturdays were off, so by Sunday we were live and
we were producing one hundred and thirty five hours of programming.
We set up an engineer station in the house where
our staff lives, so they were going to be quarantined together.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Anyway, Oh my god, this is insane, this is right.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
So we set up stations where they could produce their
show from their computers.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
And that was it.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
And we have not missed a beat and it's been
really amazing and at testament to our stuff and our
hosts who are so excited to bring this content to
people who need it right now, who a little entertainment.
We have hosts that are hosting with their dogs and
making it cute and fun and it's been amazing.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
So, like, during this time, have you noticed that viewership
has gone up? Because again, like we don't have and
you totally don't have to answer this, but like for me,
I even notice on my social media that things are
getting more views than usual because I feel like everybody's
just stuck.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
Definitely, views have definitely gone up, and I think because
people now are stuck at home to watch this stuff.
What's happening Randall, which would be interesting. What your take
is going to be is when the content starts running
out and that's why they're going to need people like
you guys and us to keep creating original content. Granted,
some going to have the production level of like Better
(27:52):
call Saul, but for real, I heard that Walking Dead
has the finale shot but does not have the resources
to edit the finale, so they have to make it
a special later. So it's going to be interesting when
the new stuff runs out.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
You're you're right, Kevin, You're right. That's actually a really
good point.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
And you know, we face this in the last recession,
nothing of this scale. But I feel like like when
the guilds have gone on strike, you know, and content
gets backed up and then they run out of content.
I feel like there is going to be a thirst,
a desperation for new content, and I think people like
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us who provide that are going to be, you know,
in a place where they're just gonna be so thirsty
for content because this the world has never seen. I
mean one thing, sometimes the content will get shut down,
whether guild or something like that, but we never had
them theater shut down.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I mean, this is this is unheard of.
Speaker 6 (28:47):
Now, this is yeah, this is back to the depression.
You guys, like, it's it ends global. We were globally
connected one hundred years ago. So yeah, this is like
nothing any of us have ever experienced.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
I agree.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Let me let me ask you guys a question you
and now tell us about this. Am I confused? Maria
the show that Lala and I have both been on
as guests, and Kevin, you now have a show called
Better Together Daily?
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Is that?
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Is that what it's called? And tell us about that?
And how is it different?
Speaker 2 (29:18):
You know? Is it? Just explain it to us and
tell us what it's.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
Yeah, of course, so Better Together was born from my
serious XM radio show. I was doing that daily, and
I really wanted to move to podcast again, and and
most of that was because I had so many epiphanies
after I had brain surgery. You know, you know, my
mom and I both had brain teamers within eight months
of each other. It changed me completely, and so I
(29:44):
started quickly to realize that I was a little lonely
in my perspective on life. I knew social media was
you know, was you know what it was? I I
knew that materials meant nothing anymore. I knew at what
really mattered in life was our health and the well
being of our family and friends. And that bond and
(30:08):
that love that we have with each other that you
can't take anything else with you and none of it matters,
and I would find myself really lonely, and so I
created better together. Because I was on a spiritual journey,
I wanted to really explore so many other things, and
I wanted to still get better at everything, health, wellness, spirituality, finances, everything,
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and I'm a big learner. So I started doing that
every Monday, and it was my way of tapping into
the greatest minds, the greatest healers, the greatest experts, so
that not only could I get answers to things that
I needed and help I wanted, but so that everyone
who's on that same journey with me didn't feel lonely
and could get better with us. So I was doing
(30:55):
it every Monday. And then when this all happened, Kevin
looked at me and he goes, Maria, time, You've got
to be the light right now for people, because everyone's
going to need this. Everyone's so louting to know how
to handle their finances right now. We did an amazing
episode with Aj Gupta, who is featured all over Tony
Robbins's book Money Master, the game, and I've changed my
(31:17):
whole life because of him financially, and so we were
able to talk to people who have credit card debt
and say, listen, you know you can get a zero
percent loan, switch it over, save that money and interest
every month, Or if you have a mortgage, you can
refinance at a lower rate right now, helping people in
a critical time. But then all the way down to
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you know, relationships and how to survive being with your
significant other twenty four to seven when you're not used
to it, like we are obviously bringing in spiritual gurus
who are telling us that this is an awakening that
we all needed. But this was the awakening I had
after surgery, and now everyone's being forced into it. Whether
(31:59):
they're going to accept it, whether they're going to lean
into it, I don't know. Yeah, but that's what I'm
doing every day with my show, and providing a sane,
safe space where we have light, where we can talk
about what we're afraid of and what we're worried about,
but also turn it into something positive and figure out,
as Trevor Moad said, how to win the weight And
(32:20):
right now I think we all need to be winning
the weight we have to wait, we have no choice.
How do we win the weight?
Speaker 2 (32:27):
I actually love that that.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
I mean, that's like right up my alley.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
You're you're the person that's bringing hope to so many
people at this time and beyond this time. I mean
so many people. Just the world that we live in.
It's so hard to find the light on many days.
And I you know how much I love you Maria
and Kevin so like.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
You talking about this.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Yeah, you guys, the content they produce is for humansane.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
This stuff you guys produces, by the way, is you
make your guests feel so good. I am was never
somebody ever saw myself do anything like this. I came
in the first time, and you guys made me feel
like I've been doing it for twenty years.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
I think that's your.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
Gift that you're able to take any kind of person,
when it's the biggest star in the world, or the
biggest guru or or religious person, whatever it is, you
get out of them and you make them relatable so
people can can feel connected. And I think that's really neat.
I can't wait to listen to the show now.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (33:26):
It's gonna be you guys the next here's why I
see it, Randall. And the next three to six months
is the health crisis, and really it's about protecting the elderly,
and mainly the elderly, and the people who have compromised
immune systems mainly correct. Then after that, I think it's
going to be an economic catastrophe, and then that's going
to affect people with dependents, people with mortgages, and people
(33:49):
living week to week, which is already affecting them now.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Correct.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
I feel like millennials, if you're a millennial, go home,
be with your parents, take care of mom and dad
right now, circle of wagons when you come out, and
when this ends, we'll job for them than ever. And
I do believe student loans will probably be reduced or forgiven.
But the next it's going to be health first, and
then it's going to be economic crisis, probably for like
two years Randall.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
And like and I agree with you, Kevin.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
I think that where we're heading economically, once we get
through the health issues and people are out of that
part of it, I think we're going to have to
embrace the world because it's going to be real scary
for a lot of people, and the world I don't
want to go anywhere. I just want to take a
quick break and I want to come right back because
I could talk to you guys for years. So we're
going to be right back in a minute.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
We are back.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
We have two very special guests.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
We have Maria and Kevin, the Dynamic Power couple business
team and husband and wife and friends of ours, and
we've been having the best time talking with you guys.
I just want to just ask you guys some thing
because I heard a rumor, and I'm.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
Sure it's true.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
The rumors don't start during quarantine or don't stop during
correct they never say they still fly.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
But I did hear a rumor that you guys were
on the front lines not only doing what you do
every day running this big business that you run, but
you guys help raise money for thousands of mass to
help at hospitals. That just fill us in because we're
just obviously you know, I'm a little late to the
dance here, so I'm just starting to do any money.
So tell me what you did so I could feel
(35:29):
really stupid after this.
Speaker 6 (35:31):
So because of my journey, I think, you know, with
her her mom's tumor in hers she's gotten so into
into the medical field and has probably been counseling.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
She's I don't know, probably two or three hundred.
Speaker 6 (35:44):
Patients from all over the world with different ailments, especially cancer,
asking her for help. And because she's learned so much
of it, well, it's led us to have relationships with
all the people in the medical field. And what Maria
came to discover was that our people in the medical field,
guys around the country, do not have the tools they
need to protect themselves to fight this. And she discovered that,
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you know, we lose them as for this line of defense.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
We're fun. Oh it's over. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (36:13):
It was when Kevin was at the hospital with my mom.
She had to go get her next round of chemo
treatments and stuff in the hospital, and I was on
speaker because Kevin's the one who forages, so we've made
it so that he's the only one who goes into
the outside world and I stay home and my dad
stayed home. And so when I was there on the
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phone with them, he was live in person. The doctor.
I said to him at the end of the car,
I said, doctor Rudnick, do you have a mask on?
And he said no, and I said, yeah, I thought, so,
you didn't sound muffled, and he goes, well, we don't
have any. He goes, the few that we have we
save were at risk patients. And I hung up the
phone and I was so furious, and I was first
(36:56):
I cried, then I got mad. And then I saw
Bethany Frank on Instagram was creating these things called Corona kits,
and they had masks and they had hand sanitizer and
all this stuff. So I called her and I said,
where are you getting these masks? I want to raise
money to get our healthcare workers' masks. I'm like, this
(37:16):
is disgusting that my doctors are in jeopardy right now.
And she said, well, I have like ten thousand right now.
Maybe I should just be pivoting and moving them out
of the kits and I'm going to start moving them
to hospitals. So she is a gangster. She started shifting instantly.
I said, let's do an episode of my podcast Better Together,
designed specifically to raise money for this. So we did
(37:38):
the call outs, we raised some money. I connected her
with this guy, Grant Verstandeg He's the founder of rally Health,
and then from there she was soaring. She just kept
texting me, I love you, I love you. Granted is amazing.
He's killing it.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
God, this is amazing.
Speaker 5 (37:52):
So we decided that I couldn't pick just one institution
in LA because they've all been great to us. So
we picked yesterday. In fact, the shipments went, we had
five thousand and ninety five masks to UCLA Cedars and
Children's Hospital LA along with she added surgical masks to
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all of them. But like, listen, this was like I
did very little. Bethany is a force to be reckoned with.
She just is relentless. She's been talking to every governor.
She is seeing corruption within organizations that are supposed to
be helping getting the job done. And she deserves an
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award when this is done.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
She did the same thing when the hurricane hit Puerto Rico.
She's like, she's just someone who not only has her
Skinny Girl brand, but she is someone who's out there
helping people on a regular basis, no matter what it is.
Speaker 5 (38:57):
Yeah, when that other hurricane, I think it was Puerto
Rico hit, I was recovering from surgery and I remember
seeing her do this, and so I reached out to
her and I said, please let me help, and so
I started connecting her that time as well, and so
it was the first thing she mentioned on my podcast.
She's like, I want everybody to know Maria was the
first one to come.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Oh my god, the two of you together, Yeah, you
guys save the world.
Speaker 4 (39:22):
You guys are like tornadoes in the best way. I mean, clearly, Listen, Marie,
you One thing I know about you is you're the
most humble human in the world. And you know, I
know you don't take credit for most things you do.
But the fact that you called her up and the
two of you together did this is is just unreal.
And I mean, where can we will tell us where
we can involved Lala and I because.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
We want to make a don and our listeners.
Speaker 5 (39:46):
Guys, every dollar counts, like even if you only have
one thousand dollars, even if you only have five dollars.
I guess a lot of celebrities were gun shy at
first when we were reaching out, because everybody was instantly
terrified of what if and what's happening. And then you
start seeing the Ryan Reynolds and the Blake Lively's and
the Drew Breeses and everybody, and then everyone started going
(40:08):
from there, but it was hard initially to raise money,
but everything counts. Three or four dollars will buy an
N ninety five math right now for a healthcare worker.
And I'm telling you they still don't forget have them
Torrence Hospital. I was talking to them yesterday. The CEO
they're suffering usc Kech does not have mouth. They're suffering,
(40:30):
and so donate to be Strong. You go to Bethany
Frankel on social media, click on the link for Bestrong,
or go to bstrong dot com. And she devotes every
time directly to the cause, and she also funds it
herself when she needs to, so there are very few organizations.
I've always had a really hard time with donating to organizations.
(40:53):
I just go rogue and I do my own thing.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
And I'm similar to you, Maria. I like to kind
of do my own.
Speaker 5 (40:57):
It's hard because it goes to infrastructure and you know it,
and it goes to fancy balls and dinners and some nonsense.
This is direct to the people. So if you donate
to be Strong, the money will go to people who
need it. She's shifted and now been getting has Matt suits.
She got a million has Matt Suits out what it's crazy.
I mean, think about it. FEMA sent California ventilators, and
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Gavin Newsom, the governor, had to go on TV and say, yes,
we got them, but they're all busted and we had
to send them to Silicon Valley to fix them.
Speaker 4 (41:28):
Come on, come on, well, I want to say, right
here on this call. When I get off this call,
I'm donating five thousand dollars to be strong because you're
a rock star.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
I'll notch that, rand I will not share five k.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
All right now, you'll even I'm gonna hold it to it.
Speaker 5 (41:45):
She looks by the way, she'll see whether your name
is on there.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
No.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
No, If there's one thing we do and we donate
to a car, call.
Speaker 4 (41:52):
Bethany that we are giving five thousand dollars each, we
will give it total ten thousand dollars. Way she yah, yep, yep,
We're gonna come on, this is this is the least
we can do. I mean, these these healthcare providers, the
doctors and nurses. I'm watching them on the front lines,
no sleep, twenty hour shifts, thirty hour shifts and risking
(42:14):
their lives to save people who are need.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
Come on, these are the.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
Heroes of the the least we can do.
Speaker 5 (42:21):
Legit, guys. I just retweeted a video of a nurse
hysterically crying and she was like, I had to quit
my job because they put me in a COVID nineteen
unit without a mask, and I have a family I
have to protect, and she has to quit her job.
We don't want nurses dying. We don't need them in fear.
They're having to write wills on the fly because they're
(42:43):
afraid they're going to die, and the gangster ones are
still going in and they are just hoping for the best.
Oh my god, this is a disaster of epic proportions.
How dare we in this century, in twenty twenty allow
the people who take care of us to be jeff
the way they are. It's absolutely disgusting. And I'm sorry.
(43:05):
I'm not a genius, but I knew what was coming,
and so other people should have known to and actions
should have been taken.
Speaker 6 (43:11):
Well, I think we can all Monday Morning quarterback, But
I understand the philosophy randal of you don't want economic
collapse either, because that's going to lead to even greater problems.
So you roll the dice and hope you can keep
the economy going. And you know what, it just didn't
pay off. So now we just have to do.
Speaker 4 (43:30):
And by the way, because I was just moved to
tears there and so is Lalla, I just want to
say something. I don't think in a hundred years since
the Spanish flew, I think exactly that Kevin. I think
the government thought they're going to roll the dice. This
will be some small situation that we'll catch, they'll fix,
they'll it won't it won't blow up. But every hundred
years something like this happens and it just nobody saw coming.
(43:55):
And I agree Maria. You know in the United States
of America should be better, but of course.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
They should protect their people. And like Maia said, at
this day and time.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
We should be the ability to be better, right.
Speaker 4 (44:07):
But if the government can't do it, then people like you, Maria,
and Kevin and and Beth Andy Franklin all the other
people out.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
There and you guys and US and US and US.
Speaker 4 (44:16):
But you know, and I you know, Lala, and I uh,
you know, just did our podcast today was with a
COVID survivor, a guy that we became friends with, and
he's forty years old with no underlying health issues. He
did five days in intensive care at the hospital, fighting
for his life. He's out now, and I wanted people
to hear from him. You know, like, this is affecting everybody, young, old,
(44:41):
healthy or nonhealthy. This will change your life. It has
changed everybody's life already. But we want to protect and
save and be and keep people as healthy as we can.
And I just feel like we all have this obligation.
Speaker 5 (44:54):
But I also think I also think, guys, like, here's
the thing. I agree with the tech the economy, because
you're protecting people in general when you do that. But
when you see that something could be coming, and this
is just for the future, you need to protect the downside.
You need to go into action and say this could
be coming. Why don't we arm our hospitals, arm our
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governor is prepare everybody for the worst. When we have
a hurricane coming, we start to prepare.
Speaker 6 (45:23):
Never happened in our lifetime. You hear Randall said it
was one hundred years ago, the Spanish flu. And the
only reason they called it the Spanish flu. Do you
know why, guys, because Spain was the only place to
admit that they had a flu everyone else did what
we did today. Everyone denied it because they didn't want
the economy to collapse. We have not seen this in
(45:46):
our lifetime.
Speaker 2 (45:47):
Now, one hundred and ten years ago or something. It
was like one hundred and ten years ago.
Speaker 4 (45:50):
And I agree with you, Kevin, like this is that
one thing going to the other side.
Speaker 2 (45:54):
We need to learn from this.
Speaker 4 (45:55):
When we get through it, so that one hundred years
from now or two hundred years now, if this ever
happens again, and it will happen again, I'm sure at
some point that we're prepared and that people like Maria
and and and and and we just don't we're better prepared,
like the hospitals and doctors and nurses, and I'll just say,
(46:16):
you know, this is a time of uncertainty, but at
the same time, it's a time for the human spirit.
And that's what this is an example of for me.
That's why I'm that's the that's the upside of this
for me.
Speaker 1 (46:27):
You have to have an upside.
Speaker 6 (46:29):
Yeah, it's gonna know, there's gonna be a huge reset,
which we totally needed as a culture. And you guys
know that we're getting you know, and furthermore, you know
that remember Randall, do you remember your great grandparents or
the depression survivors, how they had kids food in their
basement forever. That's gonna be all of us now, like
we're going to carry this with us. We'll all be
(46:49):
kind of you know, at least in our life lifetimes,
we'll all be prepared after this.
Speaker 5 (46:52):
One other thing. One other thing that people can do
that are listening to this, because you guys are obviously
crushing it with your podcast and have so many listeners,
is if you are in an affected area, send you
the local hospital some cookies or some treats, or some
snacks or flowers. Well you can't do flowers anymore, but
(47:15):
send them food, send them some soup, send them something
so that they know they have something there. And if
you are an attorney and you can share your services
right now with doctors and nurses, call up the CEO
of a hospital and say, I would love to extend
my services to these doctors and nurses who are panicking
right now. There are so many things that we can
(47:36):
all do. We can share our gifts, our talents, our
skills with them right now because they need it most.
The first responder is the EMTs, the fire departments send
food to them.
Speaker 4 (47:47):
Wait, Kevin Murray, you guys saying like we could just
get in the car, drop off a bag of groceries
or a bag of this, or some hot food or
some hot lunch, and that that helps.
Speaker 2 (47:57):
Like everything at this point helps.
Speaker 5 (47:58):
You're saying anything, everything helps, I think, Kevin. What Kevin
said is a good point is you can support the
local economy by ordering food and having it delivered to
the hospitals. And you could just say this is for
you know, the staff here at this hospital that needs
it most, and you know, whatever.
Speaker 2 (48:16):
Idea, it's a great idea.
Speaker 7 (48:17):
There's one of the people are doing, you, guys, is
for some of the local businesses if you want to
support them by gift cards. A lot of them are
selling gift cards for when the smoke clears, you can
go out and use them. But all these like little things.
Because I'm telling you, I don't wave this is wave one.
Wave two is to see it's one thing to be sick,
but to be.
Speaker 6 (48:36):
Impoverish and sick, you guys, I don't really want to
see that.
Speaker 2 (48:39):
Oh my god. Yeah, that's yeah. And you're right, Kevin.
Speaker 4 (48:42):
It's it's so smart of you because you know, you're
you're saying, Okay, we're going to get through the health
part of this.
Speaker 2 (48:48):
It's going to be brutal, and we're in it now.
Speaker 1 (48:50):
But we have to be prepared for prepared for wave too.
We are healthy.
Speaker 4 (48:54):
When people are on the street losing their homes, losing
their businesses, you know, we've we've got to also be
ready for that.
Speaker 2 (49:00):
And that's next. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (49:02):
And here's the thing, guys, we haven't even started. I'm
telling you, it is going to be such a pain
that we don't even know how to fucking handle.
Speaker 2 (49:12):
Well.
Speaker 5 (49:12):
It is going to be a very deep beating to
see the people around you dropping the way that this
is going to hit. And I hope that in California
what they're saying is true, that we did the social distancing,
and also because we're so spread out, it won't hit
as hard. I'm praying, But everybody has to stay in
In New York. It's going to be brutal. It already
(49:34):
is brutal because they're so close. It's such tight quarters
for everybody.
Speaker 2 (49:38):
New York is unreal.
Speaker 4 (49:39):
I've seen the pictures, the body bags and the refrigerated
trucks that they're using on the side of the street and.
Speaker 5 (49:44):
We've just begun, guys, We've just begun, So stay in.
Speaker 6 (49:50):
And I think the other thing too, is for people
who have children out there, you know, you can look
at this as as a really bad thing to expose
them to, or you can look at this as an
opportunity to teach them about life and have them, you know,
now do yours and be you know, understand that they
have to be part of this team and this kind
of team effort like they did back in the depression,
(50:11):
rand like they did those other times. Like it's about saying, hey,
like I have friends who's the kids are kind of
trampling them, and then I have other friends that are
the stronger parents were like, hey, you're going to do
dishes now, and you're gonna help set the table, and
you're gonna like, we're gonna not work together to make
the better of this.
Speaker 4 (50:29):
So I want I want to I want to just
say one last thing on that, Kevin, You're one hundred
percent right Laala. You know who's a step mom to
two little girls. We have had to change our whole world.
I mean, we're all home and and at first it
was not easy everybody was overwhelmed. Everybody's on top of
each other. But I think we've just started to get
in our groove with school first, reading, quality time and
(50:51):
and and growing up time. Laala and I both have
have sat the girls down and said, nobody's going to
be acting like an animal in this house. We're all
gonna learn be together. We're going to play games where
I mean, I played more Uno. What's that other game?
You got me playing?
Speaker 1 (51:05):
Rummy Cue?
Speaker 4 (51:06):
Rummy cue, more Rummy cue, more coloring. So anyway, I
think Kevin, your words are right on the money. People
have to come together as families. They have to spend
quality time and and take the best from this.
Speaker 3 (51:18):
Right And before we let you guys go enjoy the
rest of your quarantine day, I want to tell you
thank you so much for joining us. I mean, you
you shed so much light on this and I'm really
really grateful for what you guys are doing not only
for entertainment purposes, but what really matters in this world.
Speaker 1 (51:36):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (51:37):
And and you made us both cry Maria Heaven, so
thank you for that too.
Speaker 6 (51:42):
Oh guys, you know what, Let's have a Let's have
a facetimed cocktail were.
Speaker 2 (51:47):
At some point you pick it, you pick it.
Speaker 6 (51:49):
A lot of friends are doing that now they're having
zoom cocktail parties.
Speaker 2 (51:53):
Guys, let's do Thursday.
Speaker 4 (51:55):
Let's do a Thursday night six pm zoom cocktails.
Speaker 2 (51:58):
Tomorrow. I'm in tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (52:00):
Guess what I'm fee It's so weird. I'm free.
Speaker 1 (52:05):
I love it. You guys are the best.
Speaker 5 (52:07):
Get something with me now. I'm totally wide open. Actually,
it's so weird.
Speaker 2 (52:11):
Maria, I have that same problem. I'm pretty free tomorrow
as well.
Speaker 5 (52:14):
Okay, so we'll do our cocktail party and one last thing.
If you guys want to know more afterbustv dot com
and if you want to tune into my show, it's
every day at eleven am Pacific time on Apple podcasts, YouTube,
and Facebook. It's called Better Together.
Speaker 4 (52:32):
Better Together. Everybody. Everybody's got to tune in. We're going
to tune in because I need it, we need it, and.
Speaker 5 (52:38):
Most importantly, donate to be strong. I can't wait to text.
Speaker 4 (52:41):
Bethany Tex Bethany, text Bethany that we're sending money. So
and everybody who listens to us, please, like Maria said,
one dollar, two dollars, five dollars.
Speaker 1 (52:50):
Whatever, whatever you can donate.
Speaker 5 (52:52):
Yeah, because guess what what you're hearing on the news
about masks getting there from the government. You just can't wait.
Let there be extra who cares, right, Let there be
extra because I hear a lot of people the government's
supposed to the government's supposed to do a lot, but
guess what, they're also overwhelmed. There's a lot going on.
And this isn't to knock them, but sometimes you got
(53:13):
to be a leader yourself, and you got to get
what has to get done done, whether it's your job
or not.
Speaker 1 (53:19):
A men, Maria and.
Speaker 2 (53:22):
You are a powerhouse.
Speaker 4 (53:23):
And Kevin you are as well and your friends and
family and we are grateful to know you and we
love you.
Speaker 5 (53:29):
Thank you, so love you guys too, and we can't
wait for your wedding. It's going to be bigger and oh.
Speaker 1 (53:34):
We love you. Bye you guys.
Speaker 2 (53:36):
Thanks guys, all right, they heard it?
Speaker 3 (53:40):
Oh my god, that was Every time I talk to
Maria and Kevin though, I feel inspired.
Speaker 1 (53:46):
I feel like, you know what, They're right, We can
be leaders.
Speaker 3 (53:49):
You may think that you're such a small fish in
a large pond.
Speaker 1 (53:53):
That's just a box that we put ourselves in. We
can definitely do this as a community.
Speaker 4 (53:59):
And when she says donate five bucks, she means it.
Five dollars means something. So everybody listening doesn't matter how
much money you have or how little money you have.
Hopefully if you have five dollars, it means more to you.
Speaker 2 (54:12):
You know what.
Speaker 4 (54:12):
It is law, and this has been something I've struggled
with my whole life. Early on when I was younger,
is like, it's the effort. Okay, I'm gonna take the
phone out, I'm gonna register and that you know what,
just do it this time for five bucks, two bucks,
three bucks, or ten bucks, wherever you can afford. We
all have to do it right now so we can
get through this thing. So we have more doctors, because
(54:34):
God forbid, it's a loved one of yours, or a
friend or a family member, whatever, you're gonna want that
doctor there to take care of your family.
Speaker 2 (54:40):
So we're inspired. We want everybody to be inspired and be.
Speaker 1 (54:44):
Safe, to be safe.
Speaker 3 (54:45):
Thank you guys so much for listening, and we will
catch you next week
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