and Maria Menounos and Kevin Undergaro

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Speaker 1: Ola, peeps, it is La La.

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Speaker 2: Kent with Randall.

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Speaker 3: And we are back at it again in our kitchen quarantine. So we had a pretty here's the thing about.

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Speaker 1: This, it is forcing us to get creative.

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Speaker 3: Randall and I went and rented a forty two foot RV double pop out r V.

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Speaker 1: When we first took it out, we went to Joshua Tree.

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Speaker 2: But we were on our way to Arizona, or on our way.

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Speaker 1: To Arizona, and we got into Joshua Tree. We're in the RV.

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Speaker 3: We're like messing around whatever. The pop out suddenly won't work for the master bedroom.

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Speaker 1: We look at each other. We probably got there at.

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Speaker 2: What five thirty dinner time.

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Speaker 3: We were hauling ass back to La by seven thirty.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we were back in La.

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Speaker 1: We looked at each other.

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Speaker 3: 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.

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Speaker 1: It was nice, it was fun.

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Speaker 4: But we looked at each other and we're like, we're in a dusty RV park. All the national parks are closed.

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Speaker 2: There's diagna.

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Speaker 3: We went to a co or Koa Koa.

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Speaker 2: It was night.

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Speaker 4: People were nice, there, We've had some interesting beating were nice. But but the thing about it was we.

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Speaker 2: Didn't it didn't feel like an adventure.

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Speaker 4: It felt like we were like in Palm Springs almost, but on a dusty road.

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Speaker 2: So we didn't like that.

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Speaker 1: We no, we didn't like that.

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Speaker 3: 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.

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Speaker 4: One, and we were really really inspired when we got in that baby.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: I looked at it. I was like, Okay, we're ready. This is legit.

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Speaker 3: And instead of going really really far, we were like, let's break ourselves in.

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Speaker 1: So we hauled asked to Malibu, hold on, hold on.

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Speaker 2: Let me back it up. You're making it look like we're just hobnobbing around La.

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Speaker 1: Let me we are hob noomin around to eight.

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Speaker 4: 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.

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Speaker 2: And honestly, Babe, don't you agree it was like a gem in the rough. It was spectacular, Dude.

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Speaker 3: We had beach front. I mean, we parked that bitch, and we were.

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Speaker 2: Like totally we thought we were like.

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Speaker 3: I felt like I was like Beyonce, like I was touring and I found like an epic spot to just park my whip.

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Speaker 4: That's a nice way to put it. I think that we had like a thirty million dollar view.

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Speaker 1: I swear we did have a thirty million dollar view.

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Speaker 4: You and I remember, and we invited your mom and her friend and they came out. We cooked spaghetti, spaghetti, We had pasta.

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Speaker 2: We had some vegetables.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I had some vegetables.

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Speaker 2: You have vegetables.

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Speaker 1: I watch you did not partake.

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Speaker 2: I know, but I told you TOMORROW'M gonna start working out with.

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Speaker 1: You, okay, okay, and ingesting vegetables.

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Speaker 4: And I'll eat vegetables next week. You can ask how much vegetables. Remember on trying to change a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Oka, wait, but on, let's go back from seconds. So we did that.

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Speaker 4: 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.

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Speaker 1: I that show is so good.

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Speaker 4: 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.

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Speaker 2: It was. And then we woke up and they made us move.

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Speaker 1: So that was a whole production and even better, I feel like they.

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Speaker 4: Moved us from North Malibu to like like the where all the rich people are in Malibus.

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Speaker 2: I feel like we got upgraded. We got an upgrade.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I felt like I was Jamie Kennedy in as wanted.

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Speaker 2: That's a good one. Okay, So then we got moved.

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Speaker 4: Then you said the fish looked like they were dying at home, so you and your mom went to go get algaees.

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Speaker 1: So before I went and did that, So what do we do?

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Speaker 3: You guys, these these people that have these fucking RV's.

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Speaker 1: It's like a it's like a culture.

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Speaker 4: 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.

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Speaker 2: These are professional art you guys.

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Speaker 3: This one r had like this little white picket fence and these like beautiful flower pots.

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Speaker 2: And the fire grass, the fake fire.

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Speaker 3: 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.

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Speaker 4: It's really, honestly, I want to say saying, we're not even making fun of anybody.

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Speaker 2: It really is a different world that we've never seen before.

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Speaker 1: No, but you should see these people.

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Speaker 3: They like are they've got like their jeep parked perfectly, They're like whipping in.

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Speaker 2: Their freaking I want to tell you story.

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Speaker 1: It's the craziest thing.

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Speaker 4: 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.

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Speaker 2: I mean it was like professional O. These people really know how to do it.

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Speaker 4: And I think if you really are v around the country, you must get really good at knowing what to bring.

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Speaker 2: 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.

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Speaker 3: 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.

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Speaker 4: How many how many days do you think it would have been before we died of starvation and water with a.

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Speaker 3: Lot of I only allowed us to get to Malibu. I was like, we can't trust.

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Speaker 1: Us, not really.

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Speaker 3: We need a little bit more practice, or we need at least one person who knows what the hell they're doing.

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Speaker 4: 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.

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Speaker 2: Have to man, I did get good at hooking.

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Speaker 3: 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.

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Speaker 1: To do it in an RV.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we need some assistance with the shopping for Yeah, but we had fun.

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Speaker 1: I had the best time ever I did.

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Speaker 2: I really like.

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Speaker 4: 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.

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Speaker 2: Today it was Today was a well when you.

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Speaker 3: 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.

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Speaker 2: Go back there and have another sleep, but we'll bring coffee, just.

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Speaker 1: Like something to wake up and like I.

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Speaker 2: Like or like cook eggs in the morning.

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Speaker 3: 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.

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Speaker 4: Right now, she's like moving and waving our hands around like a professional.

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Speaker 2: Really, they really had it done.

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Speaker 3: Oh, they knew exactly, And we had the three families that would come with us, and everyone was just on.

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Speaker 2: But in the time that your dad, your dad was very specific.

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Speaker 1: Well he was like me, yeah, like very oh yeah, yeah, so.

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Speaker 2: He knew like the one was going on a trip with your dad.

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Speaker 3: 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.

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Speaker 2: Like oh, they planned out for each everything.

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Speaker 3: Each family would have a day like today, I'm doing breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow you're doing breakfast, or they'd flip flop. They just knew exactly what they were.

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Speaker 2: Doing and I want to do next. So the next time we go on the camper, why don't you cry.

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Speaker 3: Randall, I'm a little angry with you because you made me kind of bougie.

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Speaker 2: Fuck, so there's no coming back from this.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: My mom looks at me and she's like, why are you acting like you have no idea like how to make a bed.

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Speaker 1: Or do laundry, And I'm like, I had to do it in a while.

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Speaker 2: I tell you something.

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Speaker 4: I bust your balls a lot about not being as domesticated, But can I tell you something.

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Speaker 2: I love you the way you are.

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Speaker 3: 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.

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Speaker 1: 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.

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Speaker 3: And then when you expect me to go on in our V trip, I'm like, what what's happening?

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Speaker 2: So why don't we just bring Isabelle the next time we go on our V trip?

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Speaker 1: Can I tell you so Isabelle.

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Speaker 3: 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 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.

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Speaker 1: Would not function nice.

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Speaker 3: 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.

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Speaker 1: I just slep my mind. It was just such a beautiful moment.

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Speaker 2: You didn't tell me any of this, No.

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Speaker 3: 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.

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Speaker 4: 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.

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Speaker 2: Know what to do. Yeah, yeah, we've got a system going.

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Speaker 1: That's my girl right there.

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Speaker 2: I think I think you've got to show me how to cook cook. You kind to show me.

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Speaker 1: 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.

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Speaker 2: Like me to make you coffee in the month, totally fine. Will you show me tonight?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so easy.

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Speaker 2: People are gonna be busted.

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Speaker 1: We only have a cure egg. So it's like pop.

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Speaker 3: See you pop the pot in, it comes out, you put a little creamer.

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Speaker 1: I'm good to go. You don't even have to do anything because.

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Speaker 2: I think that the last two weeks of no quarantine.

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Speaker 4: I'm not going to blame everything on this, but I feel like, you know, coffee in the morning not good.

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Speaker 1: It's not a good sit.

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Speaker 2: I can never be in that.

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Speaker 4: RV with you without coffee because you're a huge coffee person.

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Speaker 1: I'm a huge coffee person.

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Speaker 2: It's a caffeine so oh.

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Speaker 1: No, that that gets my day going.

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Speaker 3: It gets my m moving so that I can move forward in life with a free gut.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 1: It's like this just gets everything popping in the morning.

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Speaker 2: I love this. I love this.

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Speaker 4: All right, Well, let's just pivot here and talk about our next guest.

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Speaker 1: I love all these things that you're saying. You're like, let's switch gears, let's pivot.

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Speaker 3: You are Andy Cohen. It's the craziest thing as we start. It's a huge cof I mean.

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Speaker 2: By the way, Andy Cohen is a badass, and I give him so much respect for you.

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Speaker 3: Can I tell you only without you being mad? Randall gets jealous sometimes, but Andy Cohen is like so sexy.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that one I'm gonna let go because.

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Speaker 1: I know because he's no threat to you.

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Speaker 2: Okay, but well, tell wait, tell me what I said the other day?

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Speaker 1: What'd you say where you went to Palm Springs? Wait?

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Speaker 2: What did you call me from?

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, this was so funny, you guys, So I go to Palm Springs.

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Speaker 4: 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.

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Speaker 2: So go ahead, tell me what you did.

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Speaker 3: 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.

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Speaker 1: They were all flying in and they had a house.

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Speaker 3: 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.

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Speaker 1: This is epic.

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Speaker 2: I was really putting in time right now.

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Speaker 1: This is my liddy lit time.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, So Madison and I are going to stay at Lakinta resort until her friends get there.

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Speaker 1: Right, So me think you.

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Speaker 3: 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?

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Speaker 1: How old are they?

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Speaker 2: Okay, the conversation and so.

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Speaker 3: 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?

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Speaker 1: It's like four years in.

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Speaker 3: He put a ring on it, like that's what it is, and he goes, Babe, I'm just feeling really insecure.

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Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, I was it Puerto Rico.

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Speaker 3: 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.

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Speaker 2: And then Madison was in the card. She goes, I like it very honest. I respect that. Okay, we're staying at the hotel.

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Speaker 1: So we stayed at the hotel for two weeks.

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Speaker 3: Yeah almost Yeah, ten days, two weeks racked up a hefty bill, but it.

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Speaker 1: Was significantly less than buying the hotel.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you did save me money buying. That's all.

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Speaker 4: By the way, that was a great trip, except when I got to the hotel, I got a little under the weather.

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Speaker 2: Your mom and I both got sick.

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Speaker 3: What we thought COVID nineteen we did.

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Speaker 1: You didn't get it, No, I didn't get it.

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Speaker 3: 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.

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Speaker 4: 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.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, woke up.

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Speaker 4: 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.

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Speaker 2: I went to our house.

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Speaker 4: 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.

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Speaker 3: 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.

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Speaker 2: I want to just pivot here to get ready for our guests.

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Speaker 1: Should we tell them? Who are you? Let's tell him? Who are our guested?

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Speaker 2: Don't you tell them? Because it's a friend of both of ours and we love her.

00:16:04
Speaker 3: 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.

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Speaker 1: And we are.

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Speaker 3: Back, and we have one of my most favorite human beings ever on the line with.

00:16:32
Speaker 2: Us, Maria Manunas. Both damn welcome, Maria.

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Speaker 5: Hi have me and keV here.

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Speaker 3: We got the couple, my favorite couple, the couple that works together stays together.

00:16:47
Speaker 5: That's right, I know, no changes here. We're stuck together. All day, every day anyway.

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Speaker 3: 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.

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Speaker 4: 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.

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Speaker 2: You have fun. It was good. It was great.

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Speaker 4: And then Lala and I came together and we're like, we should try this, and here we are and now we got.

00:17:24
Speaker 3: You guys, it's been our saving grace during this time, isn't it cool?

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Speaker 5: 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.

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Speaker 3: 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.

00:17:58
Speaker 1: Like, how are you guys dealing with all this?

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Speaker 5: We're dealing with it pretty well.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 5: 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, 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, no one's putting precautionary measures into let us feel safe, because I stopped patronizing places well before the lockdown.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow.

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Speaker 5: 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.

00:19:05
Speaker 2: What month was this? Were you doing this in February?

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Speaker 5: This was gosh, probably four weeks ago.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow.

00:19:14
Speaker 5: And I was really ahead of it. I had been having my housekeeper shopping ahead way before anybody even thought about it.

00:19:22
Speaker 3: You're one of the toilet paper hoarders, are your.

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Speaker 5: 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 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.

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Speaker 2: Maria, Can I tell you wait? Can I tell you something?

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Speaker 4: 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.

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Speaker 5: I know, I was horrified, and I was horrified.

00:20:25
Speaker 4: 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.

00:20:32
Speaker 3: He keeps asking me like, La La, why are you freaking out? Why are you so high strung.

00:20:37
Speaker 1: I'm like, you have no idea, what's going on now?

00:20:41
Speaker 2: And that was on the March thirteenth.

00:20:43
Speaker 4: I was saying that because we were still filming and nothing was going and she's like, Babe, you're living in denial.

00:20:49
Speaker 2: I go, you're all crazy. And then all of a.

00:20:51
Speaker 3: Sudden, literally two days later, he's like, babe, they're shutting down the hotel. I have to come back from Puerto Rico tonight.

00:20:57
Speaker 4: 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 my god, like this has been going on for weeks before we've even seen it, So we were behind the eight ball.

00:21:24
Speaker 3: So now so I respect people like you now, Maria, like I should have been doing, say, Randall, you being a good director.

00:21:31
Speaker 2: You were so immersed, yes.

00:21:33
Speaker 5: 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.

00:21:49
Speaker 6: 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.

00:21:58
Speaker 4: 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.

00:22:09
Speaker 2: Here's what's crazy.

00:22:10
Speaker 4: 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?

00:22:19
Speaker 2: Is this?

00:22:20
Speaker 4: 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.

00:22:41
Speaker 2: And I'll just give you two other little Tidboots bits.

00:22:44
Speaker 4: 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.

00:22:56
Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, so this was like a first is the wedding.

00:23:01
Speaker 4: 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.

00:23:06
Speaker 2: You're gonna shake this off.

00:23:08
Speaker 4: 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.

00:23:13
Speaker 1: And did I do remember?

00:23:15
Speaker 3: 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.

00:23:27
Speaker 2: It was it was rough, but good for you.

00:23:30
Speaker 5: Another good leader. I have a good job.

00:23:32
Speaker 4: 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.

00:23:45
Speaker 3: 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.

00:24:01
Speaker 6: Yeah.

00:24:02
Speaker 4: 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.

00:24:19
Speaker 2: Podcasts, with all your stuff? How do you survive? And what have you done? And have you thrived in this time and.

00:24:26
Speaker 4: Been able to make changes because a lot of people have had to shut down completely?

00:24:31
Speaker 6: Yeah?

00:24:32
Speaker 5: 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 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.

00:25:07
Speaker 2: Old Mike, you're a studio.

00:25:08
Speaker 4: I mean you're literally a studio where every studio has shut down. How do you use I wouldn't even know.

00:25:14
Speaker 2: What to do.

00:25:14
Speaker 5: 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 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 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.

00:26:06
Speaker 2: We created a.

00:26:07
Speaker 5: 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 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.

00:26:43
Speaker 2: Anyway, Oh my god, this is insane, this is right.

00:26:47
Speaker 5: So we set up stations where they could produce their show from their computers.

00:26:54
Speaker 6: And that was it.

00:26:56
Speaker 5: 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.

00:27:14
Speaker 1: Wow.

00:27:14
Speaker 3: 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.

00:27:32
Speaker 6: 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 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.

00:28:06
Speaker 2: You're you're right, Kevin, You're right. That's actually a really good point.

00:28:08
Speaker 4: 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 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.

00:28:44
Speaker 2: I mean, this is this is unheard of.

00:28:47
Speaker 6: 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.

00:28:59
Speaker 2: I agree.

00:29:01
Speaker 4: 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?

00:29:14
Speaker 2: Is that?

00:29:14
Speaker 4: Is that what it's called? And tell us about that? And how is it different?

00:29:18
Speaker 2: You know? Is it? Just explain it to us and tell us what it's.

00:29:21
Speaker 5: 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 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 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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?

00:32:27
Speaker 2: I actually love that that.

00:32:28
Speaker 1: I mean, that's like right up my alley.

00:32:30
Speaker 3: 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.

00:32:48
Speaker 2: You talking about this.

00:32:49
Speaker 3: Yeah, you guys, the content they produce is for humansane.

00:32:53
Speaker 4: 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.

00:33:05
Speaker 2: I think that's your.

00:33:06
Speaker 4: 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.

00:33:26
Speaker 7: Thank you.

00:33:26
Speaker 6: 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 living week to week, which is already affecting them now.

00:33:52
Speaker 2: Correct.

00:33:53
Speaker 6: 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.

00:34:13
Speaker 2: And like and I agree with you, Kevin.

00:34:16
Speaker 4: 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.

00:34:40
Speaker 2: We are back.

00:34:42
Speaker 1: We have two very special guests.

00:34:45
Speaker 2: Yep.

00:34:45
Speaker 4: 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.

00:35:02
Speaker 2: Sure it's true.

00:35:03
Speaker 3: The rumors don't start during quarantine or don't stop during correct they never say they still fly.

00:35:08
Speaker 4: 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 really stupid after this.

00:35:31
Speaker 6: 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.

00:35:42
Speaker 2: She's I don't know, probably two or three hundred.

00:35:44
Speaker 6: 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, you know, we lose them as for this line of defense.

00:36:11
Speaker 2: We're fun. Oh it's over. Yeah.

00:36:13
Speaker 5: 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 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 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 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 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.

00:37:51
Speaker 2: God, this is amazing.

00:37:52
Speaker 5: 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 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 award when this is done.

00:38:39
Speaker 2: Wow.

00:38:40
Speaker 3: 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.

00:38:57
Speaker 5: 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.

00:39:17
Speaker 3: Oh my god, the two of you together, Yeah, you guys save the world.

00:39:22
Speaker 4: 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.

00:39:44
Speaker 1: We want to make a don and our listeners.

00:39:46
Speaker 5: 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 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, 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. I just go rogue and I do my own thing.

00:40:55
Speaker 2: And I'm similar to you, Maria. I like to kind of do my own.

00:40:57
Speaker 5: 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 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.

00:41:28
Speaker 4: 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.

00:41:39
Speaker 1: I'll notch that, rand I will not share five k.

00:41:41
Speaker 2: All right now, you'll even I'm gonna hold it to it.

00:41:45
Speaker 5: She looks by the way, she'll see whether your name is on there.

00:41:48
Speaker 2: No.

00:41:49
Speaker 1: No, If there's one thing we do and we donate to a car, call.

00:41:52
Speaker 4: 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 their lives to save people who are need.

00:42:17
Speaker 2: Come on, these are the.

00:42:19
Speaker 1: Heroes of the the least we can do.

00:42:21
Speaker 5: 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 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. 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.

00:43:11
Speaker 6: 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.

00:43:30
Speaker 4: 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. And I agree Maria. You know in the United States of America should be better, but of course.

00:44:00
Speaker 3: They should protect their people. And like Maia said, at this day and time.

00:44:04
Speaker 1: We should be the ability to be better, right.

00:44:07
Speaker 4: 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.

00:44:13
Speaker 2: There and you guys and US and US and US.

00:44:16
Speaker 4: 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, 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.

00:44:54
Speaker 5: 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 governor is prepare everybody for the worst. When we have a hurricane coming, we start to prepare.

00:45:23
Speaker 6: 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 our lifetime.

00:45:47
Speaker 2: Now, one hundred and ten years ago or something. It was like one hundred and ten years ago.

00:45:50
Speaker 4: And I agree with you, Kevin, like this is that one thing going to the other side.

00:45:54
Speaker 2: We need to learn from this.

00:45:55
Speaker 4: 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, 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.

00:46:27
Speaker 1: You have to have an upside.

00:46:29
Speaker 6: 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 kind of you know, at least in our life lifetimes, we'll all be prepared after this.

00:46:52
Speaker 5: 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 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 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.

00:47:47
Speaker 4: 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.

00:47:57
Speaker 2: Like everything at this point helps.

00:47:58
Speaker 5: 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.

00:48:16
Speaker 2: Idea, it's a great idea.

00:48:17
Speaker 7: 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.

00:48:36
Speaker 6: Impoverish and sick, you guys, I don't really want to see that.

00:48:39
Speaker 2: Oh my god. Yeah, that's yeah. And you're right, Kevin.

00:48:42
Speaker 4: 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.

00:48:48
Speaker 2: It's going to be brutal, and we're in it now.

00:48:50
Speaker 1: But we have to be prepared for prepared for wave too. We are healthy.

00:48:54
Speaker 4: 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.

00:49:00
Speaker 2: And that's next. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:49:02
Speaker 5: 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.

00:49:12
Speaker 2: Well.

00:49:12
Speaker 5: 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 is brutal because they're so close. It's such tight quarters for everybody.

00:49:38
Speaker 2: New York is unreal.

00:49:39
Speaker 4: I've seen the pictures, the body bags and the refrigerated trucks that they're using on the side of the street and.

00:49:44
Speaker 5: We've just begun, guys, We've just begun, So stay in.

00:49:50
Speaker 6: 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, 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.

00:50:29
Speaker 4: 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 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?

00:51:05
Speaker 1: Rummy Cue?

00:51:06
Speaker 4: 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.

00:51:18
Speaker 3: 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.

00:51:36
Speaker 1: Thank you so much.

00:51:37
Speaker 4: And and you made us both cry Maria Heaven, so thank you for that too.

00:51:42
Speaker 6: Oh guys, you know what, Let's have a Let's have a facetimed cocktail were.

00:51:47
Speaker 2: At some point you pick it, you pick it.

00:51:49
Speaker 6: A lot of friends are doing that now they're having zoom cocktail parties.

00:51:53
Speaker 2: Guys, let's do Thursday.

00:51:55
Speaker 4: Let's do a Thursday night six pm zoom cocktails.

00:51:58
Speaker 2: Tomorrow. I'm in tomorrow.

00:52:00
Speaker 5: Guess what I'm fee It's so weird. I'm free.

00:52:05
Speaker 1: I love it. You guys are the best.

00:52:07
Speaker 5: Get something with me now. I'm totally wide open. Actually, it's so weird.

00:52:11
Speaker 2: Maria, I have that same problem. I'm pretty free tomorrow as well.

00:52:14
Speaker 5: 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.

00:52:32
Speaker 4: Better Together. Everybody. Everybody's got to tune in. We're going to tune in because I need it, we need it, and.

00:52:38
Speaker 5: Most importantly, donate to be strong. I can't wait to text.

00:52:41
Speaker 4: 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.

00:52:50
Speaker 1: Whatever, whatever you can donate.

00:52:52
Speaker 5: 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 to be a leader yourself, and you got to get what has to get done done, whether it's your job or not.

00:53:19
Speaker 1: A men, Maria and.

00:53:22
Speaker 2: You are a powerhouse.

00:53:23
Speaker 4: And Kevin you are as well and your friends and family and we are grateful to know you and we love you.

00:53:29
Speaker 5: Thank you, so love you guys too, and we can't wait for your wedding. It's going to be bigger and oh.

00:53:34
Speaker 1: We love you. Bye you guys.

00:53:36
Speaker 2: Thanks guys, all right, they heard it?

00:53:40
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that was Every time I talk to Maria and Kevin though, I feel inspired.

00:53:46
Speaker 1: I feel like, you know what, They're right, We can be leaders.

00:53:49
Speaker 3: You may think that you're such a small fish in a large pond.

00:53:53
Speaker 1: That's just a box that we put ourselves in. We can definitely do this as a community.

00:53:59
Speaker 4: 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.

00:54:12
Speaker 2: You know what.

00:54:12
Speaker 4: 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 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.

00:54:40
Speaker 2: So we're inspired. We want everybody to be inspired and be.

00:54:44
Speaker 1: Safe, to be safe.

00:54:45
Speaker 3: Thank you guys so much for listening, and we will catch you next week