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Republican Congressman Joe Walsh. Triggers
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all my daddy issues, as you know. He
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triggers me too. Right. And
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2:01
week, he admitted that he used to be
2:03
a divisive asshole and he said asshole And
2:05
then I fell even deeper in love with
2:07
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2:09
is rejected his former assholiness And has come
2:11
to the light on Donald Trump. Yes, and
2:13
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there, it's Julia Louise Rifas You may know
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me from my podcast called wiser than me
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where I talked to older women and get
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their wisdom from the front lines I
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was amazed by how many people told me
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our show made them look forward to getting
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older Which is why I'm here to talk
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about season two of the show Sally
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feels Billy Jean King Beverly Johnson I
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know Carton Bonnie Ray This is in
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the field all hell old
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women wiser than me season two is
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out now from lemon auto media Oh
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Yeah, I Don't
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know Hey, Stephanie
3:53
Miller. I mean this it's great to be
3:56
with you and I have been a fan
3:58
of yours from afar Oh,
4:01
well, I was going to say, I think when you called
4:03
yourself a divisive poll on Nicole Wallace
4:05
Catholic is when I finally fell hopelessly.
4:09
There's nothing that makes a woman hotter than
4:12
a man admitting he was wrong. And
4:14
I just have to say, well, then
4:16
and you actually said, I should
4:18
be extremely hot, Stephanie, because that's
4:20
all I've been doing for six
4:22
years. I know for
4:24
people that don't know, tell
4:26
us what, because we just, we are literally
4:29
at like, oh, the rapist isn't going to
4:31
pick the puppy killer now for vice
4:33
president in your party. I hate
4:36
what has happened to my dad's party, to
4:38
your party. It
4:40
became an authoritarian embracing cult.
4:44
I know that sounds kind of trite by now,
4:46
but I started saying it four
4:48
or five years ago when I left the party. It's
4:51
it's stuff. It's not about ideas. It's
4:53
all about homage to this man, because
4:56
the base of my former party
4:58
is really pissed off. And
5:01
this man said, I will go after the
5:03
people you hate. And they've
5:05
clung to him and they've never let go. How
5:07
much of it showed? We've mentioned this before about people
5:09
just don't want to be wrong. They want to don't
5:12
want to feel like they've been conned. They don't want
5:14
to feel like they lost. And Donald
5:16
Trump plays to all of that, I guess, doesn't
5:18
he? Yeah, that's a
5:20
big part of it. Look, again, you know,
5:22
my history. I come from the cult. I'm
5:24
a reformed MAGA gang banger. But
5:27
I still engage with these folks every day
5:29
because they used to be my friends and
5:31
my supporters and my radio talk show listeners.
5:34
I lost them all. Yeah, you did call
5:36
the C word almost as much as I
5:38
do, Joe. Oh, my God.
5:40
You and I share that stuff. My God.
5:44
I'm a traitor. I mean, when you
5:46
lose when you leave your family, you
5:48
become a traitor. Many of them
5:50
do have a hard time admitting they're wrong. But
5:53
we underestimate how
5:55
strongly these folks still believe
5:57
in what he is. Okay,
6:01
I just cuz I can't he is
6:03
so despicable showed that I just I can't
6:05
I have to I can't help but think
6:07
you were Despicable you support him. I just
6:09
don't I We are what 88
6:12
felonies in I I
6:14
don't even know what thing to focus on anymore We're
6:16
in the first of you know four
6:19
trials, right? You
6:21
just you tweeted democracy dies
6:23
when you check out. Oh, they're both bad
6:25
choices tough stay in the game Vote then
6:27
pick up a history book democracy needs you
6:29
I mean really democracy is
6:31
the only issue but I also you know
6:33
I also take issue Joe with the whole
6:35
book, you know lesser of two evils We
6:38
always play this audio of Lindsey Graham crying
6:40
Joe crying Back when he
6:42
was Lindsey Graham about how God has never made
6:45
a better man than Joe Biden My
6:48
if I could bring one person back
6:50
to life Stephanie It would be John
6:52
McCain because John McCain would whack Lindsey
6:54
Graham upside the head every damn day
6:57
What a disgrace he is but like all of
6:59
my former colleagues Look
7:02
we Nothing should
7:04
matter more than the preservation of
7:06
our democracy because this man would
7:08
do away with it But
7:11
Stephanie look to his base and I
7:13
hear this every day and I've heard
7:15
it for six years They've
7:18
given up on democracy like they want
7:20
a certain America back They don't believe
7:22
the democratic process can get it back
7:24
for him. So they want they tell
7:27
me every day They want a dictator
7:29
a strongman to do it for them.
7:31
That's scary stuff. Yeah. Yeah
7:35
It's just but it is interesting that Colin
7:37
you just talked about decency that I just
7:39
I really do feel like here We are
7:41
Joe like have we at long
7:44
last no decency in this country? I mean, I
7:46
hate to say it but Kristi Noem cruelty
7:49
has become Not a
7:51
you know a bug but a feature
7:53
of the Republican Party. You can go
7:55
with candidate after candidate in the Republican
7:57
Party Amen
8:00
Stephanie, when I was a Republican congressman,
8:02
and especially when I was a right-wing
8:04
radio talk show host, man,
8:06
the crueler you were, the better. The
8:09
meaner you were, the nastier you
8:12
were, your ratings went up. We
8:14
were all incentivized to feed
8:16
our audience the right in
8:18
America, that stuff. I
8:20
just couldn't take it anymore, but it works.
8:23
And let's be honest, the radio talk show
8:25
host is already the lowest form of life.
8:28
No. It doesn't
8:30
really matter. By the way, this is
8:32
why I love you. I love radio.
8:34
I miss radio. When I oppose Trump
8:37
publicly, I lost my show. Radio
8:39
to me is like so intimate, and you're
8:42
so good at it, so keep it up.
8:44
Thank you, honey. No, but we've
8:46
had this conversation a million times. You know this to be
8:48
true, Joe, that people have said if you would go back to your
8:50
dad's Republican
8:53
roots, you'd get 500 stations
8:55
tomorrow and be a multimillionaire. And
8:57
I'm like, I couldn't do it.
8:59
I couldn't do it. You had syndicators tell you that. Oh,
9:01
yeah. I mean, you know, it
9:04
is, but that's what's so frustrating on
9:06
our side, is that you just, I
9:08
can't, I'm like you. My
9:11
democracy is more important to me. I mean, I
9:13
look forward to the day I go back to
9:15
hating you, Joe Walsh. Do you know what I'm
9:17
saying? We fight about actual issues, but you are
9:19
wrong about everything else, except- Well, I
9:22
was wrong about plenty, and I say
9:25
often how I haven't changed. I've always
9:27
been kind of a tea party libertarian,
9:29
but Stephanie, I can't lie. I woke
9:31
up on a lot of the cultural
9:33
issues. I was at JAGOF six
9:35
years ago if you'd have said Black Lives Matter
9:38
to me. Now I understand
9:40
what that means because I spoke to
9:42
Black Americans. I used to go crazy with the
9:44
64 different genders because my
9:46
audience wanted to hear that crap. But
9:50
again, so I've woken up on a lot of
9:52
the cultural issues, but my
9:54
right flank, they still
9:56
get off on that stuff, which
9:59
is why they're fed. Well you personally because
10:01
you fell in love with a lesbian radio host. I
10:04
am in love with you. Yes. Oh
10:06
my god. So were you were you visited by
10:08
three ghosts? Seriously, what happened to you? Stephanie,
10:14
people ask me all the time
10:16
what finally changed. It really was
10:18
his election in
10:20
16. When he became president and
10:22
I finally started to pay attention
10:24
to him, I'd go home every
10:26
night from my radio show and I'd ask
10:28
my wife, my god, do I sound even
10:31
a little bit like that? Yeah. He
10:33
woke me up. Yeah, yeah. Oh
10:36
look at you, you're woke. Probably
10:39
woke. Um,
10:42
you know, we just got talking about what's going
10:44
on in college campuses, Joe, and I thought, you
10:47
know, the other thing, first
10:49
of all, I might be too old to understand it.
10:51
I understood Vietnam, it was our war. We were sending
10:53
a lot of American kids to die unnecessarily. This
10:56
isn't our war. I feel like Biden
10:58
is doing the best he can in a
11:00
horribly difficult situation. I don't understand what Jewish
11:03
kids have to do with Netanyahu's policies or
11:05
Muslim kids have to do with Hamas. Do you know
11:08
what I, and so I sort of am at
11:10
a loss and I do think there's a
11:12
lot of, as you know, outside agitators that,
11:15
you know, Republicans now want to rush in
11:17
to be able to say, you know, we
11:20
stand with Israel and condemn this or that.
11:22
And these are the, this is
11:24
a party of Charlottesville. This is a party that
11:26
routinely has Nazi flags show up at their rallies,
11:28
right? You know, very fine people
11:31
on both sides. I
11:33
am, I'm very pro-Israel. Look, Stephanie, this is
11:35
a bad issue for Biden. It's a bad
11:37
issue for Democrats because I believe, and you
11:39
and I could have a fun conversation about
11:41
this, for a lot
11:43
of different reasons, Republicans are very
11:45
pro-Israel. But this issue divides the
11:48
Democratic coalition, plain and simple. There's
11:51
pervasive anti-Semitism on the left
11:53
that the country's being exposed
11:55
to. Stephanie, I don't think
11:57
most of these student protesters
12:00
are protesting because they want to cease fire.
12:02
I think a lot of them in their
12:04
mind, they just oppose Israel. They think Israel
12:06
is bad. And that's a
12:09
problem with Biden because he's right in
12:11
the middle of it. Netanyahu has a lot to
12:13
do with that though, Joe. I mean that's what, you
12:15
know, I guess you were, oh somebody tweeted, you retweeted,
12:17
all of us together are confronting the shocking reality
12:19
the group of Yale students has declared the center
12:21
of Yale off-limits to those who's not sure their
12:24
political views, particularly since their intent and effect is
12:26
to rid parts of Yale of Zionist Jews, among
12:28
others. And you said protest, sure, but you can't
12:30
be allowed to block off a piece of campus
12:33
from everyone who doesn't share your views. And
12:36
you just also said news flash the world Jews
12:38
aren't going where Israel isn't going anywhere, deal with
12:40
it. You probably have
12:43
heard me say my dad was a Nuremberg prosecutor.
12:46
But you know, I just,
12:49
this part, Donald Trump, Joe, and
12:51
the Republican Party, I'm sorry, they
12:53
are anti-Semitic and anti-Islamic. Whatever side
12:55
of this issue you're on from
12:57
any point of view, this is
12:59
not your party. They
13:02
are the Muslim ban party, they are
13:04
the party that Nazis gravitate to. I
13:07
mean, it is just, as someone was
13:09
saying, this is like there's not a basket
13:11
big enough for the deplorables in the
13:13
informal party. They are, Stephanie, my former
13:15
party is the party of intolerance, plain
13:17
and simple, keep everybody out. The
13:20
reason Trump won is because when he came down
13:22
that escalator in 2015, and
13:25
he said I'm going to build a wall and keep
13:27
brown and black people out, the
13:29
Republican establishment went crazy, like this is
13:31
horrible. But I went on my radio
13:33
show that night and every Republican person
13:36
out there loved it because
13:38
they wanted that. I
13:40
agree with all you're saying about the Republicans,
13:43
I really do. This particular
13:45
Israel issue though is a problem
13:47
for the Democrats because they really
13:50
are generally divided on how
13:52
we should relate to Israel. And I
13:54
think 20 years ago, Biden could have
13:56
addressed it. I just don't know if
13:58
he can right now. I
14:00
don't know. And it
14:03
scares the crap out of me
14:05
because Donald Trump is evil. He's
14:07
anti-democracy. And Stephanie, if the damn
14:09
election is held tomorrow, he beats
14:11
Biden electorally. And that
14:13
scares the piss out of me. You're
14:16
also a potty mouth, which is why I love
14:18
you. You actually called yourself a device last
14:20
week, and I love that about you. But,
14:25
you know, I mean, Joe, I think that's
14:27
the thing is you and I long to get back to where
14:29
we're actually talking about real issues,
14:31
you know. And it's just there's
14:33
such a huge, like, fight against disinformation.
14:36
I mean, we're not even we're
14:38
not even dealing with one set of facts as
14:40
Americans anymore. What do we do about that? So
14:42
here's the deal. I I'm older than
14:44
you. I'm an old. Oh,
14:46
now you're really trying to get in my pants. I
14:51
mean, man, we are starting some. I
14:55
I will in my lifetime, I could never, ever
14:57
run as a Republican again. I think it's done.
14:59
I think that party is on this train track
15:01
and it's never getting off. I'd
15:04
have an easier time becoming a very
15:06
conservative Democrat. We need to get back
15:08
to the issues, but that party won't. I think
15:11
maybe in the next couple of elections,
15:14
you may see a viable new
15:16
center right party. Yeah. And
15:18
then I'll hate you again. But there's
15:20
something about handsome former Republican congressman that
15:23
triggered my daddy issues. And
15:25
I didn't yell David Jolley's name out once during this
15:27
interview. There
15:33
you go. But
15:35
I say it over and over. I'm joking about,
15:37
you know, my dad was the vice presidential candidate.
15:39
Guess how many puppies he shot in the face,
15:41
Joe? Zero. Zero. I mean,
15:43
we don't know. Stephanie, we
15:45
don't know if that's going to hurt her
15:47
chances to be Trump. I mean, yeah, I
15:49
mean that. Yeah. And we've already bonded. Well,
15:52
first of all, you have two beautiful labs.
15:54
And then I said I have two little
15:56
sheets of Yorkies and you said those aren't even done. And
15:58
then I hated you again. They are dogs. I
16:06
mean but it is a bipartisan issue you know I
16:08
mean I'll never forget I told a story right
16:10
Chris that Shawn when my beloved
16:12
Saint Bernard died many years ago quite
16:14
subtly Shawn Hannity wrote to me
16:17
and said I'm you know because he's a big dog
16:19
person too and he wrote and said I'm so sorry
16:21
and whatever and he said can I buy you another
16:23
dog and then I went and I'm
16:26
a liberal I don't buy dogs I rescue them
16:28
all I hate you but that was nice but it was
16:30
nice. It was nice. It was nice.
16:32
It was nice. It's an idiot
16:35
but yeah think about that. I mean
16:37
that but Stephanie think about this I
16:39
got elected with Kristi Noem I got
16:41
to know her pretty well she's no
16:43
dummy think about what went
16:45
through her head when she wrote that in
16:47
her book she believed that
16:49
would help her with the base
16:51
of her party. Thank you. That
16:54
she bragged about it that she thinks it's a good site.
16:57
That someone was there an editor going it's
16:59
real good what you did tell the story about the rabbits again
17:02
you boiled I mean oh
17:04
no I don't yeah go ahead. No
17:07
I Steph I just here's my problem
17:09
though it this
17:12
election is too close yeah and
17:14
none of Trump's trials mean anything
17:16
him sitting his big fat ass
17:18
in court every day doesn't mean
17:20
anything somehow we all
17:22
have to this lovely coalition of
17:25
you and I tea party
17:27
guys and good decent progressives got
17:29
to come together and and carry
17:31
Biden across the finish line and
17:33
listen people like Michael Steele at least
17:36
they're honest he has told me he is the scorpion
17:38
that is going to sting me when we get to the
17:40
other side of the river oh
17:42
he's a big puppy he won't by the
17:45
way I will protect you Michael
17:49
Steele that mean man he
17:53
is my dad with RNC chair too so I got so
17:56
many daddy issues going on you have no idea. Joe
18:00
Walsh, thanks for coming on. I've been wanting
18:02
to get you on forever. And thanks for
18:04
just caring about, you know, just country over
18:06
party, about democracy, about decency, as Colin Jost
18:08
would say, right? You rock,
18:11
Stephanie. No, you rock, Joe Walsh. And you
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when they would, when they would cut them during
21:00
the, and they'd say something, pector, and he's
21:02
like, here it comes, here it comes. And
21:04
it never happened. I
21:07
think it's different than what actually I'm dreading,
21:09
dreading the chiron, the pecker chiron underneath
21:11
him. Okay. All right.
21:14
Let me just say, you're the smartest,
21:16
prettiest, funniest girl in the world. You
21:18
were, you were always the one that
21:20
guessed everything on. I've got a secret experiences
21:22
of my life. Getting to work with both of
21:24
you guys. I've said it just over and over. I, you're
21:28
not only so smart, so funny, but so
21:30
nice, both of you. And, and I just
21:32
was, I always talk about you and John
21:35
and Stella and hair and makeup. And I've
21:37
got a secret cause you were the best
21:39
funniest parents. I remember you guys doing Jerry
21:41
Lewis to Stella together. And I, can
21:43
I, I'm going to lay it. I'm going to lay in
21:46
something right now that I could
21:48
probably only lay in on this show and be
21:50
that as it may. That
21:53
kid you're talking about is now a
21:55
handsome young man. Oh, okay. I
21:57
did not know. How
22:01
old? How old is he? He's
22:03
25 years old. Oh god
22:05
we're old. And he's a
22:07
writer and everything
22:10
else. Wow. The
22:14
comedy and the weirdness lay in
22:16
is always there. As
22:18
we know, gender doesn't matter. Being
22:22
able to do a crossword in pen does.
22:28
I seriously wonder what it would be like. You were
22:30
the funniest parents. You seriously both at the same time
22:32
were like hey hey lady look over here.
22:34
And I was like oh
22:37
my god. I don't know
22:39
and it's you know of course horrible
22:41
John died. 20.
22:47
I remember when this was all Orange Grove. As far as the
22:49
eye could see. You never start to say like
22:51
20 something but you say 19. Like
22:55
something goes what happened in 19? 19
22:58
in 100? Did you just become
23:00
Lillian Gish? Okay she did. I
23:06
just but I have to say I know it's just
23:08
because the news cycles are so horrible and you
23:11
know rapists running for president and puppy killers
23:13
and I I just have
23:15
to say. When I heard the puppy killer thing I
23:18
thought of you and like
23:21
how your head must explode. I just remember
23:23
you like dogs. Yeah oh god well a
23:25
lot of a lot of dog lovers in
23:27
this guy. Yeah who knew it's wildly unpopular shooting
23:29
puppies in the face. Who hates
23:31
her enough to
23:33
say that's cool put that in. I know
23:37
I shouldn't check in with any no publisher no
23:40
editor. No nobody went. You
23:42
might want to. Yeah leave
23:44
that out. I'm sorry. Okay anyway. This
23:46
is not my TED talk. But anyway
23:48
I just I just I don't know
23:50
why there's so many stories about you and John and
23:52
just stick in my head but you were just
23:56
dealing with loss. The way you talked about it
23:58
was just so moving. I just I think you
24:00
talked about laying in bed with Stella.
24:02
Do you remember that story? And can you tell
24:05
the story? She lifted her hands up. Oh
24:08
my God. Are you going with, you're going
24:10
back to that? Yeah. Yeah.
24:13
That was a, that was a crazy moment
24:15
of, I
24:18
think a kid trying to wrap their
24:21
head around developmentally what, what death is.
24:24
And you and I still can't probably wrap
24:26
our heads around. But for a
24:28
child, it was just like drop them as like
24:32
heaven. And I was really like
24:34
laying in religion or anything, but you
24:36
definitely know atheists in
24:39
a foxhole or when your husband
24:41
dies, they're trying to explain it to your five
24:43
year old. Yeah. When we said
24:45
daddy went to heaven, she was just like drop him. And
24:47
you said, what are you doing? And I'm just telling God
24:49
to drop him, give him back. And that, and that
24:51
doesn't work at church. Yeah. Oh
24:54
well. It doesn't work. So
24:57
in, in lieu of magical
24:59
thinking, I went
25:01
to my nerdy practical
25:04
science thinking. And the
25:06
minute I heard, which I did not hear here
25:09
on the night that he passed away, you
25:12
know, cause he died from a
25:14
misdiagnosed aortic dissection treated for
25:16
a heart attack, which is kind of, it's not
25:18
kind of the opposite. It's in your chest. That's
25:20
about all it has in common. Like
25:23
a heart attack is a block
25:25
in your heart. So
25:27
if you treat someone for a block in their
25:29
heart, but they're actually dying from a tear in
25:32
their aorta, everything you do for
25:34
it, right? And
25:36
it's very, very, very common for
25:38
aortic dissection to be treated
25:40
as other things. God forbid you are, you
25:42
know, the paint, you come in with chest
25:44
pain and you are darker
25:46
than a paper bag, drug seeking.
25:49
Or it's all in your head. Is this a rough
25:51
period this way? No, no, no, Amy, I haven't, I
25:54
haven't heard it all. I haven't talked about this is
25:56
40 years ago. I haven't talked about my dad a
25:58
lot, but you know, my dad had... just lost
26:00
vision in the right eye a couple times, you
26:02
know, that's the sign of, you know, possibly a
26:05
stroke, a, you know, blockage. So he
26:07
went in for an angiogram, which is just the
26:09
test. It was like right after I graduated USC,
26:11
he went in for the test, the angiogram, and they
26:14
hit a clot going in. It sprayed clots all over
26:16
his body, caused a stroke
26:18
and a coma and then death. And
26:20
I mean, we always suspected a
26:22
medical mistake. Yeah, they, John
26:25
died during the angiogram because
26:28
the angiogram is where they're
26:30
looking for your heart attack that they've diagnosed.
26:33
I'm going to get now. Now the
26:35
TED talk. Thanks for coming.
26:39
What is the
26:43
chest pain and they just go for it. John
26:45
didn't have an x-ray, which is not
26:47
the gold standard, but there's, you do see it.
26:50
You actually don't see the aorta being aneurysmal or
26:52
big. You see everything else moving out of the
26:54
way. It's called the, I call
26:57
it the glorious signum because I try to
26:59
remember the medius signum, whatever it's called, the
27:01
stuff in there. We have to have the
27:03
mnemonic devices for the ADHD of us. And
27:07
no that, no echo, no nothing. It's
27:10
like a little bit overweight. 50,
27:12
he was about to turn 55 the next week, walks
27:15
in and they go chest pain, heart attack,
27:18
boom. That's how it
27:20
happens. A lot of times angiogram they
27:22
were doing, right? You go up
27:24
through the groin, through the aorta
27:26
to put the dye, look
27:28
in the heart. And sadly,
27:32
I mean, they showed that at the trial, Valentine's
27:35
Day. So that was great on 2008. Amy,
27:38
we went through the same thing where one doctor's
27:41
like, well, in retrospect, maybe we should have gone
27:43
in a different way. Like what are you saying?
27:45
Oops, sorry. We killed your dad.
27:47
Yeah. So, you know, we all thought
27:49
like we maybe should do a lawsuit to prevent
27:51
other families from going through this. And my mom didn't want to,
27:53
she didn't want to look like, you know, she was trying to
27:55
make money off of, off of it. But
27:57
I mean, it is heartbreaking. I got so
27:59
much. crap and
28:02
yet it
28:04
brought so much attention to it. Yeah. And
28:07
people were in the end because I know honestly
28:09
I don't think I'd be look
28:11
I'm wearing pigtails. I still think I'm a kid.
28:13
I'm an idiot. But the 20 years that have
28:16
gone by and it's not like in a blink
28:18
of an eye. It's like every day I talk
28:20
about John. I've set myself up. Yeah. Yeah.
28:23
Every day I talk about John. Every day
28:25
I talk to people. I
28:27
have hundreds and hundreds of like
28:29
families. But you're helping.
28:31
You're helping so many people. I mean
28:33
that's the thing. It's just I
28:36
know it's your pain but you've turned it into...
28:38
It is weird but it... Yes.
28:42
I'm just... and
28:44
so much
28:47
awareness has come out of it and research. I
28:49
mean we make
28:51
money to fund research. Millions of
28:53
dollars worth of research. And there's
28:55
even a... there's John... we didn't even
28:58
say. I was going to say... I was going to say... I was going to
29:00
say... Yes. John Ritter Foundation. You're doing
29:02
an evening of the Heart Fundraiser May 9th at the
29:04
Sunset Room here in LA. You can go to... Oh
29:06
yeah. JohnRitter foundation.org.
29:09
And we've linked to it on all of your social media
29:12
and all that. Amy, talk a little more about what the
29:14
John Ritter Foundation is and what it does.
29:16
The John Ritter Foundation immediately
29:19
started after he died and
29:21
people were like started like sending in
29:23
lieu of flowers here's 50 bucks, 100
29:26
bucks. And the first tranche of it
29:28
went to... that's the word and it
29:30
is but I have to act like
29:32
I don't know because if I get something else wrong it
29:34
makes sense. What? Wow. USC
29:37
Theatre Company. I didn't know you
29:39
know theatre program which was great. And
29:42
then in the intervening months
29:45
somebody... there was like a lady
29:47
going oh my husband died. Check out
29:50
at Law's Drugstore in Brentwood. And
29:52
it's like my husband had the same thing erected
29:54
to section. I'm like oh so sorry. It's like no keys
29:56
in the car. He's waiting to put me up after my shift. I'm like you
29:58
can win. I
30:00
mean, I was not, I didn't know anything
30:03
about it. And so, you know,
30:06
deep Google research, which I do not
30:08
recommend, and I did just to
30:10
see what was not there. And I
30:12
thought, how do we put like the real information
30:15
there? And it's very highly genetic. And
30:18
the woman who was doing the above
30:20
the title kind of genetic research in this,
30:23
I reached out to her and so
30:25
then 2010, there was the John Ritter
30:27
research program in aortic and vascular diseases,
30:29
which is genetic research done in Houston.
30:32
Fantastic. So we have moved
30:34
the bar or whatever the F people
30:36
say. But every time,
30:39
you know, you and I talk about John,
30:41
it's John. It's not a new ordic. By
30:43
the way, since you brought up USC theater, you
30:45
know that I have a very esteemed degree in drama
30:48
from USC. And if can I
30:50
tell you how many times I had to sit through a John
30:52
Blankenship story about how great John Ritter was? So
30:56
I was already pretty supposed to not like him. Through
30:59
a John Ritter story, hearing how great
31:01
Blankenship was. I
31:04
hear one more effing. And then he
31:07
could not have been, I just remember how generous of spirit
31:09
he was. He was so sweet to me when he
31:11
came and did. I've got a secret. He was really,
31:13
you know, I hear something crazy. It's not crazy. Of
31:16
all the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It
31:19
was interesting because John was most absolutely
31:23
turned on by if I was
31:26
good at something, if I was smart. You
31:28
know what I mean? When I was quick,
31:30
when I was, and he said one time
31:32
to me early on, I'm talking problem child
31:34
one time, like 90. Well,
31:37
I remember. As far as the eye could
31:39
see, orange rose, whatever. And
31:42
he said at one point, oh, you're
31:44
the funniest woman I know. And I'm
31:46
like, that's sexist. I'm
31:49
like, why do I have to be the, you
31:51
know what I mean? And I said,
31:53
I want to be the funniest person, you know, don't think
31:55
of me as a woman. And he's like, that could be
31:57
tough. But it's.
32:00
made me so happy on that show because
32:02
in real time there was a lot of
32:04
improv going on there. Yeah. Yeah.
32:06
Oh my god you were so hilarious and but I
32:08
just remember he was so he was
32:11
so sweet and complimentary to me in a way
32:13
not in that Hollywood bolt kind of way in
32:15
a way that where you're like oh my god
32:17
it was not just John Ritter that said that
32:19
but the you know just that he was so
32:21
generous of heart and spirit as you know. And
32:23
he became just absolute torrid
32:25
lovers with Jim Jake Bullock you
32:27
know that. Yes well we all
32:30
did. Yeah we've all been.
32:32
Right. We've all done Jim Jake Bullock once. Oh
32:36
my god can I tell you I you know I
32:38
have so much insomnia. I watched some movie with John
32:41
Ritter and Connie Celica from I don't know 19. Last
32:44
fling. 37. The last fling.
32:46
It was fantastic. Wow
32:49
it was 1937 the first copies. It was
32:51
the first copies. Connie said
32:53
it's because boy found it like
32:55
this. Glenn
32:58
Close actually dubbed her.
33:00
That's what we call Glenn Close but
33:02
no cigar. Yes. Oh my god I didn't
33:05
even turn around. You're the funniest
33:07
woman ever. You're the funniest woman
33:09
ever. John Ritter was
33:12
right. johnritterfoundation.org Amy
33:14
Asbeck. Yes we love you. What's that? What's
33:16
that? That's John's dad Tex
33:18
Ritter. Who
33:20
probably died of an aortic dissection. John's brother
33:22
had an aortic aneurysm in the exact same
33:25
place as John's but got it treated. Oh wow.
33:27
You were doing such good work. I
33:29
miss you. We love you so much.
33:32
Come back anytime all right. Tell Jodi I
33:34
said hi. Hi. She
33:39
knows another funny redhead. Yeah. Oh
33:42
I'm not a redhead Stephanie. Neither am I. We
33:45
established this. I know I
33:47
shared a dressing room with
33:49
you. Okay. Wow. That was a beave joke.
33:51
Okay. Did I tell you my joke? No.
33:54
What does a woman in pantyhose and Brooklyn
33:56
have in common? What? Bapush,
34:01
yay! Alright
34:03
goodnight Amy, I think. Thank you
34:05
Amy. And honestly God, good luck.
34:08
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Oh
34:16
I shared a dressing room with you. Ha ha ha ha ha
34:18
ha ha. That was a
34:20
beave joke. Okay love you. Did I tell
34:22
you my joke? No. What
34:25
does a woman in pantyhose and Brooklyn have
34:27
in common? What? Bapush,
34:29
get an apple! Bapush, yay!
34:33
Alright, goodnight Amy, I think.
34:35
Thank you Amy. And
34:37
honestly God, good luck. Ha ha ha ha ha ha
34:39
ha ha.
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