Happy Thanksgiving!

But like we're showing up to work and yeah, not that the house doesn't feel like work, but this is like cool, Well it feels Fisher Price in comparison, doesn't it right? Like your your Fisher Price microphone and headphones that you have in my house compared to like where the I Heart Radio there's a gold microphone and they have a real microphone and real headphone. You guys, I'm not a baby anymore. So we're in Los Angeles right now. We wanted to just have a quick little Thanksgiving episode.

It's going to be very short, but we just want to say hi. We will to run down a few things, have a few laughs, and then have you all go on your way, because we know you guys are busy this Thanksgiving season. But in l A though, Kristen, you had some things you wanted to discuss. L A Jenna's here. L A Jenna drives like a bat out of hell, and I'm confused where my friend is. Have you never seen her drive? Like, have you ever really ridden with? That's what I think it's actually going on. Is that

what's happening. It was weird that you even wanted to drive, first of all, because I'm not used to that and you and then all of a sudden, I felt like I was on a really bad after school special, like I had been kidnapped, and I was being flipped around in the backseat like she's been like shuffled to and from and I'm like, what is happening? I mean, if you had a plow on the front of that suburban, there was about three cars that would have just been

scooted to the side. She's a wild driver, Listen. I am a very defensive like I I like to take control, you know what I mean, Like, I'm not gonna know you aren't. I'm very safe though, Well that gets that one, Oh my god, we almost got a wreck. Well, like I said, I said, mine is that one moment where I was three times that was like did you see the front at that point, I was like, I need to focus on my phone and my safety and make

sure my will is updated. I was just making sure that like when I die, Eastern gets my stereo, you know, listen. But I did have one little oopsie and I go it was like that moment I go my bad, I go, Mobby no. But honestly, I mean, I'm not like y'all, I'm a I'm a safe driver, especially when my kids are in the car. But when I'm here, I know how to drive in l A. Like, if you're not aggressive, you're not going to get out in the lane. You don't like Eastern, Hannah. You guys know you know he

has known I'm talking about. You have to be aggressive because if not, you will not go awhere. Yeah, you'll get eating a lot, just like when every little Midwestern girl comes to Los Angeles, you will get eaten live in l A. Yeah. Well I don't know this because I was Jenna. She's like, like, move okay, this like you confuse how even a suburban became so small and had such a tight turn radius, Like I never it was very close call. But thanksgiving an episode, I am

grateful for my health and safety. Actually a great driver. Thank you. I really do appreciate you taught me how to drive in l A. I mean, I'm still a lot more conservative than you are driving. But it's hard when like five cars going yellow. Yeah, Nashville doesn't do that. And also like in the canyons and stuff like when you're timid going like yes, you have to go slow ISSU around the corners. But if not, like again, you just gotta like own it. You're owning it. You gotta

own your car and be safe. I'm safe drivers out there, I will say, though, it is very scary thinking about talking about driving. But don't they say that crashes usually happen the night before Thanksgiving. Yeah, it's the biggest bart night of the year, right, So instead of that, just stay home, don't drive, or a good and Uber Uber is a good choice. Uber is a good choice. Um. So, yes, we're in l A. I was supposed to I'm going. I'm going. Let's let's share our plans. I'm going to

Thanksgiving for I'm going to Michigan for Thanksgiving. I was supposed to be in Michigan the full week, but I booked an audition. I can't say I don't think I can say what it's for you. I don't do that. So, um, things have been changing of when I am all right, i gotta drop the kids off in Michigan and I'm gonna go to Chicago to film something. You said it like a girl. So I'm gonna film something in Chicago the day before Thanksgiving and then I have a flight

from Thanksgiving to Michigan on Thanksgiving Day. Yeah okay, so but I'm like thinking the positive, right because I'm going to go back to gratefulness because Thanksgiving, I'm grateful that I have. You know, I booked a job, Like how cool is that? Right? And it's a little bit different than normal jobs for you huge, It's gonna be so much fun. I'm uh so, yeah, that's what my Thanksgiving plans are keeping. I actually am leaving California and going

straight to Michigan. Hey, and on Thanksgiving Day. I've come up with the term this year. I call it unhosting. I talked about it. Um. Unhosting is the act of honoring oneself and not hosting a bunch of ungrateful people at a bed and breakfast that is actually your home over the hall of Day. So I'm unhosting this year, and we are flying. I'm flying into Michigan, which part again in Michigan and ourbor area. I'm googling how far away we're gonna be from each other. Nothing can keep

us apart. Gramer And if you drive like you did in l A, you'd be there in five minutes. When's the last time you didn't host? It's been a while, right, eight years? Maybe? Yeah? I tried. I tried to cancel Thanksgiving a few years back. I had a newborn, and I had a toddler, and I had a husband on the road. And then, um, it lasted like a day and then it got reinstated. We all remember my favorite We're only gonna be fifty nine minutes apart from each other. Oh,

it's doable. Wait can you can we can we hang? Oh my god, come over and watch the movie because my movie premieres the day after Thanksgiving. We fly out that day. Never mind, but Tuesday or Wednesday, if you know, we'll play day. I'm going to be in Chicago, but my kids will be there. I'll go see Jolly and Jay's. Um, Hey, can we make unhosting a trend? Hashtag unhost that's kind of a cool thing. You never hosted. You've never hosted.

Oh I don't like hoasting? Well, I mean I know you wouldn't cook, but like you probably have, like you could cater. Well I've hosted and had them like the family come in and cook. Yeah, but I just don't love it. It's not my thing. I feel you. I'd rather go to someone else's house. And we have out a town relative so they come in and they stay for like days. We don't have that all our families in town. So tell me why you don't. So you don't like hosting because you have to cook. I just

I like my own space. And if they could come in and I could host them for a dinner and send them on their way with like a little pie tin of leftovers, it would be bliss for me. But instead it's two days before, two days after breakfast, lunch, dinner. It's just and I've always had little kids, right teeny's But calf for you? Is it? I think they wouldn't stay?

So what is it? Well, the problem is is they do stay, you know, like I want to be somewhere when I can where I can leave, eve when I'm ready to leave, like if I'm done, I want to go right, you know, but they're through your house. It's like, all right, guys, and all to go. I love hosting. You're definitely you're a great I don't like to cook, but I like to host. Yeah, I like to cook. I actually like to host. I just would like everyone to leave. I don't like hashtags. We're going to the

Lions game on Thanksgiving. We're going to lose. Well, that's not missed that they're playing the Bills by rest in Peace. Thanksgiving, we're going skiing oh unhosting again. I don't host. Yeah, it's like I haven't on hosting since do that and nine. I actually decided because the family dynamic was so weird around Thanksgiving and figuring in all our family was there, Like a couple of years ago, we were like, let's just go away for Thanksgiving every year. It's kind of nice.

I think it's fun too for you, though, Cat, because like, since you and Nick are back together, it's like you you guys love going on vacations together. So I think it's just gonna be because I knew that was something that would like you would miss, like the family vacation. So I think, um, it's cool that y'all are having like this moment too. Yeah, well, and it's in the season. It's the last vacation we took was this same vacation. Yeah, we went skiing at Keystone. It was actually his idea

that he's like, let's go back to Keystone. Cute. Yeah, so that'll be good. And we had a great vacation. Then, I know we've always vacation his hand, yeah, held his hand for the person put his hand to wear. It was like she touched my hand. But that's so sad. We went to the first great separate what's a sex life like? Oh my gosh, listen, I proloded on my Instagram page. Let's just on a side note. Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, my movie with Mario Lopez Stepping into

the Holiday is premiering on Lifetime. Uh so it's a cute little movie. You'll give it a little watch A c slater and Janet Grammer is appropriate. Jolie's in it, and she's gonna she's gonna watch it, but I'll watch it with the kids. But yeah, hunt, it's Lifetime Christmas movie. Can I interview you on your own podcast? Sure? What's a c slater like? In real life. So I feel bad that he's stuck there for me, but he just

always will be there. I feel bad because I say it to Like even when I was on Access this past week, I was like, I was nervous as it is. It's a c slater forever, you know. So it's like I was so nervous to to act with them. But um, he's great, Like he's he's like Kramer. He calls me Kramer. I like it, Cramer, Like what what's But he's a great He's a great guy and I um had fun working with him and it was really cool because we shot at in Columbia, Tennessee, so close ish to home,

And um, do you kiss him? In the movie? There's always a lifetime kiss? I was always counting on. I don't think we've talked about this. How did I not ask you're away the kiss? Yeah? But usually she will tell me, like I ask her. That's true. You always ask is this person to get kisser? But I feel like it's weird to to say, like if someone's a good, good kisser when they're like married. Yeah, I agree with that. Well that's fair, that's fair. I didn't did you think

about that? Three kids. He's married, and she's amazing. She's also in the movie Courtney Lopez. She's beautiful in the movie, and so yeah, so I it's like, but I think, I don't know, can you separate that and also go like a kiss is a kiss right, like and and honestly, in those lifetime movies, it's not like you're like passionately. You have to have some kind of connection. Like Mario

and I for sure had like a good connection. I think it was out of respect that, like, you know, he's we're both parents and like, um, but like there's only one lifetime. I want to say that there's one. There's one two movies that I did that I didn't have connection, like when I kissed the person I want to name it. In one it wasn't Mario. Yeah, I still want to name it because I don't want to like hurt feelings. But it might have not been there

for them either. But it's hard because you have like act. Yeah, I'm like, to me, it's like a business kiss. So I like to know if it's real. Even in One Tree Hill with like Steve and I'm like rolling around like you know, uh, in like in bed with him and it's like two seconds later we're done kissing. It's like, all right, what do you have for lunch today? You know, like the Caesar salad or because it's not supposed to be the moment. It needs to be like that connection.

But if there's not to be able to like be like, all right, we're not in love anymore, we're in love action not in love anymore, does it make it hard to like actually work with them though, if there's not that connection there. Oh yeah, I was gonna said I would make the whole movie hard. I would feel like, yeah, um,

I wonder if I could know. Because there's this guy one of my girlfriends was on a TV show with and she was playing the wife of someone, and like he was just not great at all, and so she was just like She's like, how am I supposed to play his wife? But I mean that's when you just have to act, you know. Um, A lot of us have played wife and we don't know. I don't know. It feels like I can nail it. No, I mean it's true. So but I mean, yeah, he wasn't He

wasn't a bad kisser. I'll say that, Okay, good A C. Slater forever. But he was great. Now I would like to be in a movie with My guy was Mark Paul uh every Zach with this giant phone. It's like literally like the size of my were you screech rest in peace? But that guy wasn't told me what screech was. He died. I know, I said rest in peace first, but it doesn't make what he said to me any bad. What happened. We interviewed him when I was on air in Michigan on our morning show, and he was a

dirt bag christ in piece again. I mean, I hope you settled all of your things when you got up there. But he was so wildly inappropriate with me. We were doing a breakfast, like a live on air breakfast. He was doing the local comedy club. So he came in and he started. I mean, I was like twenty, you know, baby Kristen and just likesent, and he was screeched, and I was just so happy to be in his present. You're happy. I was happy. I couldn't even happier. You

didn't even believe you're here. That was the interview, and yeah, he I spilled. There was some sort of like pancake batter. We were making pancakes, doing it all in the studio. It was really fun, you know, it sounded cool on air, and something happened where the pancake batter like spilled or

it was on. Then he goes he made some inappropriate comment about licking the better no no batter, right, and I'm twenty, and I'm like, now, looking back, it's like a hashtag me too, movement, movement moment, you know, Oh man, I mean, I was just so taken back. I didn't know, and I'm very rarely at a loss for words, as I'm sure everyone is well aware, but I didn't know what to say wildly inappropriate. I was super uncomfortable. I was young. I'm in there, my little station polo, my

logo on. You know, I'm just trying to make the best of it. And your screech and now all of a sudden, you're a dirt bag. No hard for me, And I think he was just being funny. It's hard when inappropriate. But he was like a comedian at the time, and you know they get raunchy and like, right, it's like sagg it would say, like raunchy stuff, but we love but like he would never say that, but then I was always like, is Bob really raunchy or is he just not have a dust buster in his hand?

Like it's like, we grew up with him being Danny Tanner, so when he said anything that was like a little we were like, oh, that's really racy. But really, I mean, you definitely got a little raunchy on. Yeah. Yeah, but he wouldn't have most comedians do verbally assaulted me about pancake better. No, No, he wouldn't have that. No, that's tough when you meet someone that you know again because growing up watching this show, I mean, it's an iconic show.

You meet them, you're excited to meet them. It's just like if I did the movie with Mario and he was a dirt bag or something, I would have been heartbroken. Also, I would have been so upset, Like I've met someone in the music world where I was a ginormous fan of and they were not nice, and I was like, God, I wish I never met you. Yeah, tricky, because it's like, now that's what I think of when I think of

your songs as opposed to high school Janna singing. Oh. So I was thinking a lot of different thoughts in our brains. So that's why, you know, I was like bummed about that. But you know, um, that's tough. I hate to say that even because he's not alive, so it feels but it's still memory and you're still my truth. Great, Um, but yeah, in conclusion, watch the show, watch the movie. Um, little Jolie has a little party of super cute all right, before we get off of this Thanksgiving episode, what is

a one mm hmmm. Two things you're grateful for and one thing the turkey can take when he leaves. The turkey can take himself because I don't eat meat. Yeah, turkey list, Turkey list, and you're an impossible turkey. I am. Actually that should be my new handle on Instagram. Ali, everybody, I'm Tyler Florence and I'm Wells Adams were the hosts of the new podcast Two Dudes in the Kitchen. You might be asking yourself, why do these guys have a podcast? Because we love food. You and I have known each

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good in the neighborhood. Man, We're here for you. Listen to Two Dudes in the Kitchen on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts. Two things I'm grateful for and two things and one thing the turkey can take. I really mean this when I say this. It's not because we're here, but this is what I'm grateful for. And not get emotional. Oh gravy, I feel like a person one episode one we did, didn't we so emotional, But I just miss like being myself.

So this makes me feel like myself, Like studio, you guys l a all of it, like even when we're just in your house, just like being a person and plugging in and not just feeling like a mom and a wife. My husband has a very successful career and he does a lot of big things, and I have just tabled a lot of what I've wanted to do for a long time to be able to be a stay at home mom in homeschool and make sure that

we have front front porch parties for him. And this is like wildly good for me, and I just feel like a person. I love that. Yeah, it's good. That's good. And I yeah, it's fun to see you shine too, And I think that's a good thing for you know you guys listening. It's if there's something that brings you to you to tap more into that and to follow that. Yeah, Catherine,

it's funny. Mine's kind of the opposite. Actually, don't enjoy that. Actually, she's like, I quit and while we're here, I'm getting no in the sense that I've always work work, work, work, work, I'm kind of in like a place in my life where it's like I'm ready to like be home more and like set more boundaries, I think as the kids have gotten older, like I just want to be there more,

you know. And it's like, so not that I'm talking about this specifically, but like you've been home so much, like now you want to get out and you want to and I'm in a place where I mean, you have you know, and it's I'm in a place where like I was hardly ever home, right, you know, and so now it's like working from home and all that. It's like made me realize that, like that's important. You

also have really cool kids. Yeah, they are pretty cool, and they're getting older and yeah, I can imagine there are a lot of fun yeah, like all the stuff they do. And I'm thankful that I have the job that I do and where I'm at in my life, like I am there in the like you prioritize your kids, Janna. So it's like I get to prioritize my kids too, because you know, we still work, but it's like we're there in the afternoon, like we make sure we're there

to get our kids. That's why this has been such a blessing, I think, because it's always going to be mom first, so it's not like it can fit right in. Yeah. Yeah, what's the turkey taken? Oh, turkey is taking And I want y'all do this around your Thanksgiving table because you have to do what you're thinking first. Okay, we'll come back to you. Um, hurry and stress. I just I want it out. It's hard. Feel that it's good. It's hard. I want to go on. Ye, it's a different life. Yeah,

embrace it. Yeah, took five, but I'm getting there, like, okay, slow, calm and only things that are good for me. Yeah, what about you? That's it. And the turkey takes itself. Turkey out it. Um, so I will say, what the turkey is taking is myself doubt. That's right, the church said. Amen. I feel like in the last month I've done things. Um oh no, it's my turn. Um good, there's a double crime. I've I don't bet on myself a lot and um, I feel like I've taken a lot of

chances the last month. I'm you know, taking that one movie role that on myself with that and I took you know, I passed up on a movie role that was a lot of money for a role that literally was like two grand, just because I wanted to prove to myself I could play something different. And the bet, you know, paid off and I made huge fans and

I'm going to do more movies movies with them. And then even like the audition that I ended up getting, I was so stressed that day, Poor Catherine, I'm gonna have to show the bloopers because I was like, I can't do this, and I was just like, when you actually believe in yourself and you bet on yourself, like you will win. So I think taking I want to get rid of like the self doubt. That's what the

Turkey's gonna take. And then UM, on today's episode of Wine Down, I'm going to say that I am grateful

for where I'm at co parenting right now. My ex has been really great with um helping me with the schedule and just understanding kind of my emotions around the holiday and and working with me to be like all right, hey, like when can you know maybe you can come over to see the kids this day and knowing it to be long, and I just like I there's so many times where I think our experience is really tough in

our marriage. But now I can, like, I want to give moments when it is good to say like they're you know, I'm great full that we can have moments that are kind and um, we can have empathy towards each other when travel and work and holidays come together. I predicted this a little though. Do you remember I said I felt like you guys will always be friend.

I felt like you were better for I think it goes in waves, and I think she had some stuff and I'm not saying you're brading each other's hair at this one, but there's a lot of things never mind. But anyways, so I'm just I I like to I just want to at least call it something positive because stems, I feel like it's just like, you know, always on the next So I'm trying to go for looking on the positive. We just talked about it in a good way,

in a very positive way. So I had told her about everything changing, because you know, Karl had to tell him we were changing our flight. And I was like actually a herder on the phone today with Mike, and I was so impressed with how y'all handled that. I mean, I didn't really hear his words, but it seemed like he was really receptive, and it was just I was impressed and I was telling her that yeah, cool, yeah, maybe I'll yeah anyway, but yeah, that's actually a really

big deal. Baby steps. Um. So, I think the moral of all of this is step into who you are, believe in yourself, and look at the positive even when things can be hard and tough and difficult. And um, on another note, we are so thankful for you guys for listening to this podcast. We would not be here if you didn't listen. And um, we hope that you have an amazing Thanksgiving and let that turkey leave with any negative thoughts and doubts and an unhosted if you

need to, unhost if you need to. We love you, guys, Love you. Thanksgiving.